00:00What is the question of the day, fellas?
00:03The question of the day, and let me explain it a little bit,
00:06what has sports on TV ruined?
00:09And the genesis of this one is the Astros are playing a doubleheader today.
00:13And it used to be, I know you and Seth remember this,
00:16they scheduled doubleheaders.
00:17Oh, yeah.
00:18I used to search them out because those were the games I really wanted to go to.
00:22You know, hey, doubleheader, you know, spend eight hours at the ballpark.
00:26As a kid, that was a marathon.
00:27It was awesome as a kid.
00:30So, yeah, it kind of got me thinking, man, I remember when I was just,
00:32I would love doubleheaders.
00:34And TV stepped in and said, no, no, no, no, no.
00:36We're spreading our inventory out over 162 days.
00:39That's right.
00:39About 159 or whatever it is.
00:42I love me a good doubleheader.
00:44For me, okay, so what is TV ruined?
00:46I would say one thing is a lot of the reason why we get these crappy start times
00:51on some of these games has to do with TV.
00:53I agree.
00:54Like the scheduling for the Lakers, and they've got to stagger everything
00:57because the games can't overlap.
00:59This is more like a technical one for me.
01:02This is literally like the technology of TV now has ruined it.
01:06Is it now that I'm streaming everything?
01:07And I got my phone here.
01:08And this is partially my fault.
01:09But I got my phone here.
01:10I got my iPad out.
01:11I find things out on those mechanisms before the TV feed catches up to my push notifications.
01:19Oh, yeah.
01:19Things get spoiled all the time with the way TV works these days.
01:23I don't like that.
01:24I don't know if this has been how it's been forever,
01:27and yet it makes me hate myself, I guess,
01:30is that a lot of times when I'm watching football on TV,
01:33I really, really wish I could see what's happening downfield.
01:35Like they don't show you the coverages.
01:38You can't tell who's open, who's not, what's going on.
01:41But then I have to admit to myself,
01:43there is something about the built-in drama that happens where you don't know what's going on,
01:48and you just see the quarterback scrambling.
01:50And it's a complete surprise when it does happen.
01:54So that when I see these alternate feeds where I can watch the All-22 as the game's going on,
01:59I still veer back towards the TV viewing experience.
02:01It's more exciting.
02:03Yep.
02:03Yep.
02:04That's a good one.
02:05I'll give you another one.
02:07And I won't name names,
02:08but this is obviously being done because the games are on TV.
02:13This is more of a local TV thing.
02:14Yeah.
02:14Is that when somebody from the team that's being broadcast comes in to part of the broadcast
02:22to pimp their bobbleheads and things like that,
02:26I'm like, can I just get play-by-play and color analyst and ways
02:29and not have this person interloping into my broadcast?
02:33When you really think about it, there are all...
02:34It doesn't ruin it, but it's just a little annoying.
02:37Maybe that's where I am with this one, a little annoying.
02:39You know, there are a lot of the ways you can go.
02:41I used to love listening to baseball and basketball on the radio.
02:45Oh, me too.
02:45Just on the radio.
02:46I would lie in bed because a lot of the ABA games and then NBA games when I was growing
02:51up
02:51were only on the radio.
02:53The road games, a lot of them were only on the radio.
02:54That's 100%.
02:55And I would listen, I would get in bed and have a transistor radio.
02:58Under your pillow.
02:59Listening to Terry Stenbridge calling the game.
03:01Yeah, man.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Go to sleep that way.
03:04Yeah.
03:05Can I get a transistor radio these days?
03:07If I go to Amazon, do they have transistor radios?
03:09They've got throwback everything.
03:10Yeah.
03:10It'll just cost you.
03:11That's all.
03:11Yeah, there's got to.
03:12It's okay.
03:13Oh, I guess, I think, I thought Androids, you could run your, you could actually use
03:18a radio.
03:18Really?
03:19No, no, no, no.
03:20I want the transistor radio with the antenna that I have to pull out like this and push
03:24back in.
03:25I want the real deal, man.
03:26The real McCoy.
03:27I think there are some Android phones where you can use it as an AM, FM radio and plug
03:31it in.
03:32Because I've seen Paul Galano use that at games, or at least he did for a while.
03:35Oh, yeah.
03:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:36So you can listen in real time.
03:38Yep.
03:38Because when you're watching on TV, there's always a delay, but you can listen to, you
03:42know, Mark and, uh, Mark and Andre in real time while you're at the game.
03:46I had bought a cheap one.
03:47$13.99 on Amazon.
03:48Whoa!
03:48Actual transistor radio.
03:51Yeah, but this is a tricky thing.
03:52When you buy the, so I bought a transistor, like a handheld AM, FM radio a while back,
03:56and it was like, it was a cheap one and it just wasn't loud enough.
03:59Oh.
04:00You got to remember, I sit next to Lopez and Pendergast.
04:02That's true.
04:03In the press box.
04:03That's true.
04:04That's like, yeah.
04:05Yeah, no, the old technology ain't going to outdecibel us.
04:08That's true.
04:09Shut up!
04:09That's true.
04:10I know.
04:11Poor Seth.
04:11People are hearing that right now.
04:13They're like, God, poor Seth.
04:16Did they have Bill Brown in the booth as a guest a few weeks ago on one of the TV
04:22broadcasts?
04:22Well, he's, I think he's got, does he have a book out?
04:24I'm fine with Bill Brown being in there.
04:25He's an actual full-play-by-play guy.
04:27That's the kind of guest announcer.
04:28It was awesome.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Because, and I'm almost positive it was Bill Brown.
04:32I just didn't hear them say his name, but it sounded like Bill Brown.
04:35And, um, because he was perfect.
04:36Yeah.
04:37He knew exactly when to stop talking.
04:38Yes.
04:39You know, like, and he was just, so like the broadcast, it just felt like a three-man booth.
04:42It was really cool.
04:43And this is why I won't name names.
04:44This is nothing against the people doing those things.
04:46They're just doing their job.
04:47It was Bill Worrell, actually.
04:48It was Worrell.
04:49Bill Worrell.
04:51Bill Worrell.
04:51Same thing.
04:51Wrong Bill.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Well, because Bill Worrell got named.
04:55They honored him, right?
04:56Yeah.
04:56I think he's going on that wall in the press box there.
04:58I remember it now.
04:59Yeah.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Yeah.
05:00And it was, so at first I was like, oh, that'd be interesting.
05:02Cause like, if it was Bill Brown, I would think, okay, yeah, he'll know exactly.
05:05Bill Worrell, obviously different sport that he spent the majority of his time on.
05:09Yeah.
05:09But he stepped into it seamlessly.
05:10Oh, he's, he's a pro.
05:12There was a little bit of action and he just, but you know what he did?
05:14It's not like he just cut himself off.
05:16He, he, uh, he, uh, finished his thought real quickly.
05:18Yeah.
05:19And then let, uh, and then laid back.
05:21Yeah.
05:21Yeah.
05:21No, Bill Worrell's the goat, man.
05:23He's awesome.
05:23Um, so yeah, no, it's nothing against the people in there pimping the, the bobble heads
05:27and the dollar dog nights.
05:28That's their job.
05:29I get that.
05:30It's the whole, it's the concept of the whole thing.
05:33It's, it's interloping into my broadcast.
05:35I don't want, I don't, you know, sometimes I want the chocolate dipped in the peanut butter
05:39and I stumble into a Reese's.
05:41Sometimes I just want chocolate, just chocolate.
05:43There's a lot of TV, like boondoggles that we have, including like the sideline interview
05:48and stuff that we did not have, uh, as much exposure to.
05:53That's right.
05:53Kind of takes away from the product in general.
05:55That's right.
05:56Um, all right, boys, we'll have a great show.
05:58Uh, looking forward to listening to it as I waltz around the neighborhood on my walk,
06:01Seth antibodies to you, my friend antibodies.
06:04And I don't know how you did it, but the, the karma that you just delivered to me with
06:07this pen, or I poked myself in the eye.
06:10I thought that as it was happening.
06:12Well played.
06:14Seth, if people missed it, Seth picked up a pen and hit himself in the eye with it.
06:20Poked myself right in the eye.
06:22And people think that he did that, but what they didn't see was me holding my hand out
06:25like Darth Vader, making his hand go up and poke him in the eye.
06:29Did you think the pen was heavier than it was?
06:31Yeah.
06:31How did it happen?
06:32I don't know.
06:33Sean, four hours ago, I thought today was Wednesday.
06:35That's true.
06:36That's a good point.
06:37Yeah.
06:37That's a good point.
06:38I'm me.
06:39Yeah.
06:40I know you guys meet you.
06:41How did this happen?
06:42Hippopotamus.
06:43Yeah.
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