00:00Let's talk about the hydration breaks.
00:04Are these good things? Is this a bad thing?
00:06I understand players are on the table,
00:08but we've been playing without those breaks for a long time,
00:10and it seems just like a money grab to schedule some more commercial breaks.
00:14It definitely is, because even the players themselves have come out
00:18and say that it's not necessary.
00:20A player like Virgil van Dijk was out in an interview.
00:24These hydration breaks, they could be necessary and helpful,
00:28but only when you need it, right?
00:31Because we've seen that certain channels are playing commercials.
00:37Call them out, call them out.
00:38Fox is playing commercials during these hydration breaks,
00:42and then they end up going over, and the plays restart.
00:47So we are missing gameplay because of these ads,
00:50but then you got Telemundo where they'll do like a little border ad.
00:55A nail bar, that's right.
00:56Yeah, so you get to see the game still.
00:59Like, you know, sometimes you can see a little bit of drama happen or whatever.
01:03It's important to stay in the play, stay with the players,
01:06and see like the energy that they're having at this moment,
01:09because also this breaks a very, very particular moment.
01:13If a team has momentum,
01:15they're trying to score to tie the game or to run around,
01:20and then that might undo all the work that you've been doing for the last period of the game.
01:26I mean, I agree.
01:27I think they're really unnecessary.
01:29When it was COVID, that was one thing where obviously people needed it more.
01:33Or if it's, you know, drastic heat, that's...
01:39Then, like, in general, you're getting used to these players not running as much.
01:42You're getting them, you know, giving them breaks and stuff.
01:45What are we doing?
01:45I mean, this is a 45-minute game.
01:47You should be used to running the whole game, and then even more.
01:50So why are we giving these players so many breaks?
01:55It's plata.
01:56It's...
01:56El money talks, my friend.
01:59Now,
02:01que chistoso, no?
02:02Que we have hydration breaks.
02:04We're going to hydrate players.
02:05Well, FIFA has decided that people in the same stadiums
02:09with the same heat advisory, like in San Francisco this weekend,
02:13are allowed to bring one single bottle of water themselves.
02:17Otherwise, they have to buy the water in the stadium
02:21at prices that are incredibly marked up from what you buy outside.
02:25But here we go.
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02:37Alex Crespo,
02:38we were talking just right now
02:40of the importance of the hydration breaks
02:42for the safety of the players
02:44and how contrasting that is
02:46with the policy of FIFA
02:48just allowing one single
02:50una sola botellita de agua
02:52for the people attending the games.
02:56Please make it make sense to me.
02:59I mean,
03:00and because these hydration breaks
03:02are just a money grabber.
03:03You've seen it,
03:04that it's just for these commercials
03:06and that the players are even coming out
03:08and saying that they don't need it.
03:09So why even have them?
03:10And you know,
03:11it's just because,
03:12you know,
03:12companies like Powerade
03:14or, you know,
03:15Laze or whatever.
03:16It's just commercials
03:17that obviously want to,
03:18you know,
03:19make the most out of these opportunities
03:21because they know
03:22so many people are watching these games.
03:24I mean,
03:24I think over a while
03:25we're watching the opening ceremony game
03:27and it's just a sad truth
03:31that...
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