00:00As you could probably tell, I like a villain.
00:03And sports has a villain.
00:07It's the Dodgers.
00:10Everybody whining and crying.
00:13Scoobles now a member of the Dodgers.
00:15They get it done before the trading deadline.
00:18And now everyone is saying that the Dodgers are bad for Major League Baseball.
00:24And that there's no question going to be a work stoppage.
00:28Coming up in December.
00:30Because everything that is wrong with baseball, the Dodgers, they personify that.
00:35I think the Dodgers have taken advantage of every single thing that Major League Baseball is incompetent.
00:41People that ran that league going all the way back to Bud Selig is now coming to roost.
00:47Hey, guess what?
00:47The collateral damage that you set for all these teams to go local and localize these teams when it came
00:54to their television deals.
00:55Well, guess what?
00:56Spectrum and the Dodgers are running laps around Major League Baseball teams, including the Yankees, the Mets, the Phillies.
01:09Name a team that has one of these networks that give them money.
01:13And what are the Dodgers doing?
01:15They're taking full advantage of the loopholes that were created in Major League Baseball by its leadership.
01:23Don't get mad at the player.
01:25Get mad at the game.
01:27The people that set this up and set the Dodgers up when they got competent owners and they've got a
01:34competent president slash general manager and Andrew Friedman pulling the strings.
01:38This is what you're going to get.
01:40Look at the Mets.
01:42The Mets are the total opposite of the Dodgers.
01:46They actually spent more money going into the 26th season than what the Dodgers did.
01:53And look at the Mets where they are and then look at the Dodgers where they are spending the right
02:00money and making the right moves.
02:02Hey, let's not forget something.
02:04Do you know that the Dodgers have one of the top five minor league systems also in baseball?
02:11It's not just going out and pulling the Steinbrenner.
02:14And that is going out and spending money on the biggest names in baseball and bringing them to Los Angeles,
02:20which they do anyway.
02:21But Andrew Friedman buying a championship?
02:25The Yankees have been doing this since 1927.
02:28And now no longer are the Yankees doing this.
02:31It's the Dodgers.
02:32It's funny how people look at it now and they're looking at the Dodgers and saying that the Dodgers are
02:37bad for baseball.
02:39The Yankees have been doing this since they purchased Ruth's contract in 1923.
02:45Going out and buying players has been a mantra of the New York Yankees.
02:50Roger Maris, Reggie Jackson.
02:52Go down the list of some of the greatest players that have ever played in this game have been bought
02:57and brought into New York by the Yankees.
03:00Oh, now all of a sudden it's not the Yankees and it's the Dodgers.
03:04The Dodgers are bad for the game.
03:06The game right now is in chaos.
03:09You'd no longer have where we were kids.
03:12You know what?
03:13The game of the week on Saturdays where Kansas City and the Twins were perennial teams that would fight for
03:19a playoff spot.
03:20You have the haves and the have-nots.
03:22You have the little markets and the small markets.
03:25You know what's crazy in football?
03:26Green Bay is in market number 289.
03:31And it doesn't matter where the Green Bay Packers are.
03:34They get great ratings, massive revenue, and they share profit sharing.
03:40That's what makes that league great.
03:41The National Football League cares more about the bottom teams than they do about the top teams because you're only
03:48as strong as the weakest link in your league.
03:51That's why the National Football League has the draft set up the way it does.
03:55That's why the draft is set up to give all this and getting an opportunity for them to be able
04:02to look at Major League Baseball.
04:04Major League Baseball has got to change their game.
04:08Okay?
04:08They've got to change their game.
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