00:00Has all of America, Randall, forgotten about baseball because we're glued to France playing
00:05Norway today? I don't think so. It's still America's favorite pass. I've been, I think,
00:10with Team USA losing yesterday. It'll bring some more eyes back to it. Cora out at Boston. It seems
00:15to be a real lack of patience here way early in the season. Were you surprised that Mendoza was
00:21out at the beleaguered men's? Not exactly. I mean, look, they have the largest payroll in baseball.
00:26They're over 10 games under 500. And so with that in mind, if you're paying over $300 million,
00:32that's important. They have the largest payroll in baseball. Bigger than the Dodgers? They have a
00:36bigger payroll than the Dodgers. Bigger than Mookie? Do you realize we've never gotten over Mookie?
00:41Listen, listen, I hear you. I hear you. But baseball does not have a salary cap right now. That's the
00:48what they're getting ready to negotiate in this next collective bargaining negotiations. And so
00:52with that in mind, billionaires can pay as much as they want. And when you are fronting a bill that
00:56is as big as what Steve Cohen is paying and you're not getting the results you want, there's going to
01:00be some changes that are happening. How about just around Major League Baseball? What's the feeling
01:04about the Mets? I mean, they got some players, presumably. I mean, I think the feeling is that
01:09like you can't buy a championship. But at the same time, you look at the Dodgers and you could say,
01:14you could say, well, what's the difference between the Mets and the Dodgers? And I think it's at the
01:18leadership level and the patience level and it's probably in the ball and the locker room as well.
01:22And so there's there's things from the infrastructure that I think need to be torn down and built back
01:27up from the top. We don't know who's taking over for Mendoza. Of course not. No, not yet. I'm sure
01:31that they will promote someone internally as, you know, someone who's going to fill in for the rest of
01:35the season. Andy Green, the team's senior VP for player development. But he's just an interim guy.
01:40I think so. There's a possibility at the end of the season that he could be long term. However,
01:44Steve Cohen has a lot of money and I think he could go and buy a manager that he wants
01:49so long
01:49as they can right the ship. All right. How's the World Cup? I mean, where are you going next?
01:54We are. We are so jealous of your life. He was in this arena when the Knicks won. Where is
01:59Randall
01:59going next? I will be at the England Panama game on Saturday, which will be my third World Cup match.
02:05I skipped out on the two this week. Need to get some rest. But that's next for me. And where's
02:09that?
02:09Who gets your tickets when you skip out? Oh, it's media tickets. It's media tickets.
02:13That question came up. I'm not paying for all these tickets. I have a very great employer.
02:18Is England diminished because of Scotland? If there wasn't Scotland, would England be better?
02:24England is perfectly fine. They're probably a top five team in the World Cup.
02:28Yeah, there you go. I'm going to watch it.
02:30Can I ask the question nobody wants to ask?
02:32Side, can I ask a sensitive question? It's probably deep. What do you think about the way
02:38they wiggle around in the field? Somebody steps on somebody and I'm sitting there.
02:43I'm like, get up. If you did that in hockey, if you did that with the Mets, you'd get the
02:49ball under your chin. Bob Gibson would have put the ball under your chin. Why did they
02:53do that?
02:54I think it's been, it actually hasn't been as bad this World Cup. In the last couple of
03:00World Cups, what they do is they flop. They try to draw penalties. They try to draw fouls
03:05so that they can get a penalty shot. And so there is a lot of flopping. But it's similar
03:09to what we see in basketball. No, it started in soccer. Now it's coming to basketball because
03:13of the international players. Those guys deserve Oscar performances. They're flopping.
03:18There is egregious flopping. But I'm glad the referees in this World Cup, to their credit,
03:22have said play on.
03:24Yeah, they have. And the reason England lost last game is the guy was whistle happy.
03:29It was like field hockey back at prep schools years ago. They've blown the whistle every two
03:33seconds. And if the refs let them play, they don't flop like this in the Premier League.
03:38No, no, not at all. But it's the World Cup and everything's on the line. So they're trying
03:42to get an easy shot.
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