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00:00All right. Last night, the opening of Major League Baseball happened in San Francisco.
00:05One of those rare situations where it was kind of over before it started. I think that's fair
00:09to say. Second inning, 5-0. Yankees went up. They went on to win 7-0. And slight favorites here,
00:16I think, on the road. It's fair to say. Max Fried was great. Six and a third, two hits,
00:21one walk, four strikeouts. Logan Webb was hit early and often. Five innings pitched,
00:27nine hits, seven runs, six earned, one walk, seven strikeouts. Although he did strike out
00:33Aaron Judge quite a bit. In fact, Judge struck out four times yesterday. But story was the Yankees
00:38winning on opening night. Here's Aaron Boone on his pitcher, Max Fried, getting it done.
00:43Yeah. I mean, it's really a testament to just how good he is and how he can beat you in
00:47different
00:48ways. I thought in some ways it was a bit of a grind for him tonight, kind of in and
00:52out of
00:52rhythm a little bit. I thought settled in in the middle innings. It's just his arsenal is so vast
00:58that, you know, even when, you know, today was a little effectively wild, I'll call it, you know,
01:03and it just, it makes you have to account for a lot of things. You know, it didn't really have
01:07his cutter, but his four-seamer was really good tonight. So he kind of leaned on that, you know,
01:13but to, you know, not going any more than 90 with him tonight to give us six and a third
01:18after the
01:18way that first inning started was big. I mean, that's what an ace looks like when he's grinding,
01:26but what a tone he set for us. Does it just kind of boil down to them, you know,
01:30they put together a rally and one inning and you guys really didn't come up with much of anything?
01:36Yeah, they just started kind of ambushing. I don't know. I threw all the kind of the pitches
01:43I wanted to throw, not necessarily where I wanted to throw him, but yeah, you know, they did a good
01:48job. I did a bad job. Out of nowhere, a bad job for Logan Webb, who's been the ace of
01:55the Giants for
01:56years. Speaking of surprises, I got one from Sam, who's in the house today. Jackson Churio placed on
02:02the 10-day IL with a fractured hand. When did this happen? In the last spring game they played or
02:07something? World Baseball Classic? I have no idea. Jackson Churio, arguably, I don't know, what would you
02:11say? Second best, third best hitter on the Brewers. Now going to be out for at least 10 days. It's
02:16going to be longer than that with a fractured hand. That's months. Blake Perkins, pretty good
02:19player recalled from AAA, but he is not going to fill the void of Churio. Okay, tonight, let's get
02:24to the Sweet 16. We got some games to talk about here. We got Texas taking on Purdue. That game
02:31is 7-10
02:31Eastern. Iowa, Nebraska, 7-30 Eastern. Arizona, significant favorites over Arkansas. They are the one
02:41Arkansas, the four, and then Illinois takes on Houston at 10-05 Eastern. Of course, full slate
02:46of games tonight. We'll preview them on game time decisions later today. National Football League
02:53announced that the first game of the season, for the first time in history, I mean, we're doing a lot
02:57of first times in histories, right, with the streaming stuff. Rams and 49ers will square off
03:03Thursday in Melbourne. So that's the first time ever we're going to have that game start the season
03:09overseas. But don't forget, it's actually the second game of the season because Seattle plays
03:15on Wednesday night. So wild state of affairs for the National Football League. Wednesday night game,
03:22Thursday night game, and then, of course, Sunday. The NFL begins. We're months away from that,
03:26though. Got to get through the draft. Okay, the biggest game in the NBA last night goes to the
03:29Boston Celtics. They end the Thunder's 12-game winning streak in Boston. 119-109 was the final.
03:34Jalen Brown had 31 points in the game, and SGA had 33. But really, it was Jason Tatum coming
03:41through in a big way. 19 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists. He's been struggling lately, but he said
03:47after the game last night, starting to feel better.
03:50Me too, what did it feel like to be back in a high-level game like this?
03:55I mean, it felt good. More importantly, just kind of like bouncing back from last game as a team.
04:02I was starting yesterday. We had a really good practice, and we just kind of wanted to
04:09come out here and play better and compete. And, you know, we didn't start that way,
04:13but we responded, and, you know, we played really well towards it.
04:19I'm not too sure. The game definitely swung in their favor. Honestly speaking, I think we didn't
04:25start. The start was kind of like fool's gold. Like, we made some shots, and they missed some
04:30wide-open ones, and we had a, like, a 10-point lead, but it didn't, like, personally, it didn't feel
04:35like it. And then once, like, the game settled into it, it felt like they got where they wanted
04:42for the majority of the game, and against a good team, that's never the recipe.
04:48Shea Gildress-Alexander is still the favorite to win the MVP over on FanDuel. How about one of
04:52these sleeper teams in the East to go far? Would you take a shot on the Atlanta Hawks? They're
04:56playing great basketball this season and doing it even since they traded Trae Young. They beat the
05:00Pistons in overtime yesterday to snap Detroit's four-game winning streak. The final was 130-129.
05:07Jalen Johnson had 27 points, and so did C.J. McCollum. A big effort win for the Hawks over the
05:14Pistons, says Quinn Snyder. Being up five at the end of regulation, and then there's a lot of times
05:21that when that happens and you go to overtime, you're a little defeated. And we talked about it,
05:28you know, in the huddle on the last play, just that in some ways, you know, being able to win
05:34a game on
05:34the defensive end. We've been really efficient in scoring down the stretch, but again, to, and I
05:42think we were pretty good tonight, but to get a stop to win the game was great. Obviously, you didn't
05:47like the way that we dug a hole in the first half, but to be able to have conversation at
05:52halftime and
05:53then come out and play the way we did, you know, in that third quarter, fourth quarter, again, is a
05:58credit to the guys. You know, obviously, we came up, you know, a point short, a bucket short, but
06:04most teams don't even get themselves in that position, right? Most guys, most teams don't have
06:08the fortitude to dig down, collect themselves, you know, pick themselves up off the mat, so to speak,
06:14and go out there and do what our guys did. So no moral victories, but proud of our guys' effort.
06:20Detroit's still in prime position in the East, especially if they get Cade Cunningham back for
06:24any position in the playoffs. Okay, the Heat trying to get out of the play-in game. It seems
06:28like every year they're trying to do this, and maybe they made some noise toward that. 120-103
06:34surprise win for Miami as they beat the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cats have been playing great.
06:38Tyler Hero, who has been hurt a lot this season, at 18 points for Miami. Norman Powell had 18 as
06:44well,
06:44but Eric Spolster knows they needed to snap that win streak.
06:48Definitely encouraging. We've been talking about our collective grit for 10 days,
06:52two weeks, you know, during this stretch. And, you know, games don't always go according
06:58to plan. They rarely do. So you're going to have to fight for it, you know, at some point.
07:02Did we like, you know, that third quarter? No, but the way we respond is the most important thing.
07:09You know, that in the Charlotte game just went the other way. You know, we've had some really good
07:17games in the last two weeks that we've dropped. This one, we were able to push through and secure
07:24the win.
07:26Timberwolves take care of the Rockets. 118-108. Julius Randle had the go-ahead jumper with 8.8
07:33seconds left. Also, the big scoring night of the season, and for Jamal Murray, was last night. He
07:39had 50 points as the Nuggets took care of the Mavericks. Meanwhile, we've got opening day baseball
07:44to talk about in just 15 minutes. We'll bring in George Kurtz to break down the games. Let me give
07:48you the latest headlines here, especially injury-wise. JP Crawford, Bryce Miller, starting
07:53the season on the IL for the Mariners. Hugh Darvish, going to miss the beginning of the season at least.
07:58He's on the restricted list, hasn't reported to the Padres. Jackson Holliday starts a rehab stint.
08:03He had that broken hamate bone. He'll be back soon. But the Blue Jays suffering three key injuries
08:08to start the season. Bieber, Ysavage, and Barrios, all supposed to start the season in their
08:13rotation. Instead, we'll start on the IL. All right, welcome back to Newswire here on Sports
08:18Grid. Simon Applebaum is with us for the podcast. Tomorrow will be televised, opening day starting
08:22in 30 minutes. How and where can you watch Major League Baseball games this season? Well,
08:26as you know, Simon, we found out one spot that we can watch was last night because Netflix
08:31broadcast the first game, or I should say streamed the first game of the season between the Giants and
08:35the Yankees. NBC is a spot. Apple is a spot. I mean, they're all over the map here. New regional,
08:41new streaming services here. And, you know, I think that, Simon, in the end, this will all
08:46get consolidated in the next couple of years. But for now, yeah, it's trying to figure out where
08:51you're going to watch your favorite team this year.
09:01A lot of Nick's reaction to how Netflix covered the game in terms of the visual coverage was good.
09:06The score bug was the one that's gotten all the attention on social media. Some like it. Some
09:10feel the typeface was way too small, even on a big, smart TV set. But the bottom line is,
09:14is that today and last night marks the beginning of a whole new era for baseball on television.
09:21And away is a throwback to the 1960s, 70s and 80s when NBC was king of baseball. You saw the
09:28Saturday afternoon game of the week with people like Kirk Gowding and Joe Graggiola and Tony
09:32Kubek on the call, the World Series, the All-Star game. And now the big news is that NBC is
09:37back
09:38along with Peacock. Today, they're going to have two games, including the Pittsburgh Mets game.
09:42It's starting at one o'clock. Matt Visigari is going to have the call. He did the call on Netflix
09:45last night. And with NBC's coverage and Peacock's coverage, what they're going to do is have either
09:51Matt or Jason Bonetti, who will do Sunday Night Baseball starting this Sunday. He will be joined by
09:56an analyst from each of the participating teams. For example, Al Leiter is going to be on the call.
10:02The former Mets player is going to be on the call, one of the two players for NBC's game.
10:07Also, Peacock is going to be launching a game of the day. So every day from now until the end
10:12of
10:12the regular season, you will see a game around 3, 4 o'clock on Peacock, which will be a game.
10:16In this case, it's going to be the Los Angeles Ladies with Mike Trout, Jose Otuve and the Houston
10:20Astros. That game will either have coverage provided by the LA station or by the Houston team.
10:27And that's something that's going to be very interesting to see how people like this new work of
10:31analysts. In addition, Peacock gets the Sunday afternoon leadoff on Sunday. They had it for
10:37the first year as offered. Then Roku picked it up. Now it's back on Peacock. Those are going to be
10:41a
10:41bunch of Labor Day games that NBC and Peacock will get. July 5th will be a big weekend for them
10:45too.
10:46And NBC and Peacock will also have the entire wild card playoff round. In addition, Apple TV is back on
10:52Friday nights. Fox and Fox Sports 1 are back with games on Friday and Saturdays. And of course, you also
10:58have, again, the situation with Netflix, which will have the Home Run Derby right before the
11:07All-Star game. And then they also have the Field of Dreams game, which will be taking place later in
11:12the season. So on the national level, it's a whole new situation. And on the regional level,
11:17it's also a whole new situation because with the demise of many of the regional sports networks
11:21between the East Coast and the West Coast, Major League Baseball is going to provide coverage
11:25of those teams that were impacted on smart TV sets, on local TV stations, and so forth. And this just
11:31in, DirecTV early this morning has agreed to take the coverage on a regional basis of all those teams
11:37that were impacted by the collapse of the various regional sports networks.
11:42And if Simon sounds confused, he's not. It's just a lot. It's a lot to absorb. I don't think anybody
11:48watching this previous five minutes or three minutes with Simon can understand it all. And I understand
11:52it, too. I'm part of it. So I totally get it. Okay. You know what? Let's move on to the
11:58new
11:59fronts here. I know that Yahoo made a very big announcement, and I don't want to minimize exactly
12:05what they said. Digital content, some innovations, but very specifically, they're jumping deeper into
12:09the digital game as well. Yes, they are because they have Yahoo Sports Network, and they're going to
12:15have 60 hours of original programming per week on Yahoo Sports Network, who's available on smart TV
12:21sets, devices, and multi-channel mega content bundles. There are two themes, by the way, that have been
12:26going on throughout this Upfronts week, which continues, by the way, late this afternoon with
12:30YouTube. One is expansion and personalization of sports hubs, whether it's a Samsung sports hub,
12:36Vizio sports hub. LG is going to be launching, with the World Cup, a playbook where you're not going to
12:42be able to get games. You'll be able to get stats. There'll be other interactive features. You'll be able
12:46to get recaps and highlights. Zumo, which is a smart TV set that's put together through Comcast and
12:52Charter. They're launching a sports hub that will also have interactive features. And one new wrinkle,
12:57let's say you're watching a program on another channel, and you want to find out when a game you
13:02want to see is on with your local team, whether it's baseball, basketball, football, etc. There will be,
13:07around the time that the team is about to play, you'll get an alert on your TV set. They'll say,
13:13hey, this game is starting. Go to Yumo Sports Zone and pick it up. The other thing that's
13:19interesting about these sports zones is that this could be the opening of the idea of perhaps this
13:25becoming, in time, a way to do sports betting, because these hubs are going to be more personalized.
13:31They're going to give you your team in your sport the way you want it. And so with the results
13:37of AI,
13:37artificial intelligence agents like Alexa Plus and Google Gemini and Microsoft's co-pilot,
13:44it may not be too long before these personalized sports hubs, depending on what TV set you use and
13:50what AI agent you may have available, that this could be the way to open up, again, the whole market
13:55of sports betting. The other big news is you're going to see a lot more YouTube and social media
13:59content creators create original content in the sports arena. Cam Newton, by the way, the former
14:04pro football player has just launched his own production company. He's working with Revolt,
14:08the network that used to be owned by Saundini Combs. Now it's away from him by another company,
14:13Offscript Worldwide. They had their new front yesterday. And Cam suggested he's going to be
14:19very much involved in terms of creating content for that network, mostly in the sports game. So
14:23a lot more sports programming, a lot more in terms of personalization of hubs. And maybe ultimately,
14:28we will see this become another vehicle for sports betting through television.
14:32You see that graphic there, a couple of hockey players there, Simon. I know what that's alluding
14:37to, which is our next story here, which is Scripps is essentially getting into their own fast channel,
14:43which makes sense because they took over some of the broadcast rights of some teams in the National
14:47Hockey League.
14:49That's absolutely right, Craig. And in fact, that network is already up and running. It started on
14:53Tuesday. It's Scripps Sports Network. It's 24-7. All of the major smart TV set makers and
14:59sports channel and multi-channel bundles are taking it. It's going to be Professional Women's
15:03Hockey League. It's going to be National Women's Soccer League. It's going to be other sports leagues.
15:08They will also replay the Friday Night Doubleheaders to the WNBA on Eye on Television. And also,
15:13there'll be original sports programming, including a new conversation or talk series hosted by the
15:17former ESPN Sports Center Ranker, Susie Colbert. So it's going to be a lot of women's sports,
15:21but there'll be other leagues as well. And in fact, Scripps had an upfront event at the
15:26Barclays Center last night to talk all about it.
15:29Simon, that's awesome. Great stuff. Enjoy baseball this week and some basketball. We'll
15:32talk again next week. Thanks again.
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