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00:09You can sympathize, you can relate with players.
00:11As someone myself who now is fortunate to be around the players
00:14whenever I'm at City Fuel now, on Fuel Reporting here for The Post,
00:18I love everything about it.
00:19But I also understand that while these people are human
00:21and the only difference between them and I is that they play,
00:23you know, a kid's sport for a living, they make a lot of money,
00:26is that that really is the only difference.
00:30So at the end of the day, there needs to be a level of accountability held
00:32when they are making absurd amount of money and doing things
00:37that so many people in their wildest dreams can never fathom the idea
00:40of becoming a reality just because, oh, you know, they're not in the best headspace
00:44that there is something along those lines.
00:45I can sympathize or empathize, whichever words best here,
00:49with people that go through their stretches throughout the year
00:52and have lack of success and they're trying to get out of ruts.
00:54But it also, in a way how Carl Sendoza hit that Mets locker room,
00:58it hits deaf ears pretty often when it's consistently bad
01:02and it's consistently bad with players that get paid, say, 5 or 10x,
01:07you know, versus what the product is.
01:09As has been the case with Steve Cohen as owner,
01:12it holds true with these players.
01:13There's been nothing even close, even remotely close,
01:16to a proper ROI and return on investment.
01:18Which I understand that people will hear some of that and say,
01:22well, Steve Cohen is a billionaire and he can withstand it.
01:26Nobody wants a bad...
01:27That's not the point.
01:28No, no, no.
01:29Nobody wants a bad ROI.
01:31The other point you made is, look,
01:34we understand that these professional athletes make a lot of money,
01:37but I do want to tie it back into labor
01:40because all of this is, I always say this in sports,
01:43it is still a job.
01:44And you or I can't look at this differently than any other job, right?
01:52And I say this to all the fans listening and watching.
01:56Whatever your job is, whatever you do,
01:59hopefully you love your job,
02:00whatever it is that you do for a living, right?
02:03You want to be in a work environment where you feel valued.
02:06You want to be in a work environment
02:08where you feel that you can be heard.
02:10You want to look towards leadership
02:12and believe that they can hold other people accountable
02:15because if they don't,
02:18you're not going to feel good about that.
02:19You know what you might say?
02:21Ah, Dex and Warty,
02:23I don't know if I want to work there anymore.
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