00:00We talked about it on Wednesday a little bit of what we, you know, the context of the World Series,
00:06the two teams that are going to be playing, but today it's all about the numbers and the stats
00:10and what's going to happen in the game, so please, the floor is yours, my friend.
00:15Well, baseball is so strange. Marcelino, Humberto, gente que nos escucha, que nos ve.
00:20Baseball is so strange that it's actually a round little thing comes inside a square box.
00:27Think about that. Now, it's up to us, as fans, as broadcasters, whatever,
00:33to fill those little corners with our own excitement.
00:37And like you said, the world, no, no, no, no, es que mira, no nada más de baseball se habla,
00:42se habla aquà de todo un poco.
00:44Y la serie mundial este año es bien especial, es very, very special.
00:49It hasn't happened since 1980, where two teams are looking for their very first World Series championship.
00:56Wait, the Brewers have never won a World Series?
00:58Never, never. The Brewers have been in the World Series just once.
01:01Back in 1982, they lost it to the St. Louis Cardinals.
01:05Something very special. Back then, the Brewers were in the American League.
01:10Now, they are in the National League.
01:12So, for the first time, they will be representing the National League.
01:16Now, in front of them, the Tampa Bay Rays or Devil Rays, third time.
01:22This is a franchise that was established back in 1998.
01:26This is the third time they're going to the World Series since.
01:30And they are also looking for their very first World Series championship.
01:35This is the edition number 122.
01:38This is the 122 World Series.
01:40They've been playing World Series since 1903.
01:42The first World Series was Boston against Pittsburgh.
01:45Back then, Humberto, you might remember this.
01:47Now that you're the oldest one of the three of us.
01:49But it was in 1903.
01:52Back then, the World Series was played win five out of nine.
01:56Now it's four out of seven.
01:58And back then, it was only National League and American League.
02:02The best team in the National League, the best team in the American League,
02:05they will face.
02:06Now, as we saw the last couple of weeks, playoffs and wild cards and more playoffs.
02:11Back then, the two best teams face each other.
02:14And what happens this season?
02:16The team with the most wins in the National League, the Brewers,
02:19is facing the team with the most wins in the American League, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
02:22So it's a true best and best.
02:25The best of the league.
02:26So the playoffs worked.
02:27The playoffs worked for once, they did.
02:30Now, hold on.
02:31A little bit of trivia.
02:32Who are the most famous players?
02:33Who are the legends of these teams?
02:35Because maybe, you know, for the casuals, we don't know the names of the players right now.
02:39But maybe there's some history that we can rely on.
02:42Tampa Bay, they're so young, it's hard to say who are their legends.
02:46Even though they do have one player that is in the Hall of Fame representing Tampa.
02:52Okay.
02:52Wade Boggs.
02:53Wade Boggs was famous with the Red Sox, with the Yankees.
02:56With Tampa, he only played like two, three seasons.
02:59The most famous moment, perhaps, since that, or not going into the World Series,
03:06was Wade Boggs hitting his 3,000 hit as a Tampa Bay Ray.
03:10He hit a home run.
03:11And when he hit that home run, that was a 3,000 hit for him.
03:14He went home plate.
03:15He kissed home plate.
03:16And he became a Hall of Famer dressed as Tampa Bay.
03:21That made the Hall of Fame change the rules.
03:23And now the Hall of Fame gives the player an option of who do you want to represent in the
03:29Hall of Fame.
03:29Because back then, like I said, Wade Boggs, a legend in Boston with the Red Sox.
03:33Wade Boggs, a legend with the Yankees because he won a couple of championships there.
03:38So, Wade Boggs made those rules change.
03:41When you talk about the Brewers, they do have a lot of players.
03:44Yes, the Brewers are a historical team.
03:46A lot of players.
03:47They've been there.
03:47Paul Molitor, Robin Young.
03:49Guys, they are in the Hall of Fame.
03:50So, you can say because of the length of years, the Brewers have a lot more legends than the Tampa
03:57Bay Rays.
03:57But when it comes down to cookies, none of them.
04:00Nobody has a cookie in the jar.
04:01Paul, we have a few minutes left.
04:03I wanted to get to a very important issue that's going to be coming up in baseball.
04:06They're probably going to be talking about it now.
04:08So, we've got the World Series coming up.
04:09But this summer is a very important collective bargaining agreement.
04:12So, can you talk to us a little bit and put that in context?
04:14The last time that there was an issue with a strike and a World Series wasn't played was, I believe,
04:181994.
04:191994.
04:19Okay, so what's going to happen this summer?
04:20Yeah, 1994, there was a strike.
04:23The players went on strike because they wanted more money.
04:26Now, the agreement ends on December 1st.
04:30Okay.
04:30That's when they are talking.
04:31They've been talking about it.
04:33The last agreement three years ago, at the last minute, they came together.
04:36They came to an agreement.
04:38So, we had baseball.
04:39There's a lot of little things, Humberto Amigos, because baseball is complex.
04:43The business of baseball, especially now with betting houses and with people being allowed to bet on baseball and the
04:51sponsorships, there's a lot of, not millions, but billions of dollars.
04:55There's franchises being sold for three, four billions.
04:59The Angels just recently over $3 billion.
05:02The Yankees are close to $10 billion.
05:03No, the Yankees, I mean, they're crazy.
05:05The Dodgers are crazy good because they have their own TV broadcast system.
05:10Right.
05:10So, that is part of the team.
05:12So, they don't split revenue among the teams in the MLB with the TV contracts the way they do in
05:16the NFL and NBA, right?
05:17They split some, but not everything.
05:20It's not equal.
05:21There's a percentage that you retain.
05:22Yeah, it's a percentage.
05:22And that's what the players want.
05:24The players want to, and I'm not going to mention any teams, but the teams that don't spend any money,
05:29the players want those teams to spend the money they're getting from their revenue share from the other owners.
05:36So, the owners with the big teams like, again, New York, LA, Chicago, they spend and spend and spend with
05:43no issues.
05:43But the teams with small markets, as they call them, like Pittsburgh, like Kansas City, like Milwaukee, like Tampa Bay,
05:50they don't spend a lot of money.
