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This is the best of outkick the coverage with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio.

We talked about miles of gear a little bit in that first segment.

We talked about Robert Manford as well.

And I think that there are some correlations between the stories just in that there are things out there that can't be proven.

On both sides, we don't know exactly.

I think it's hard to believe that if you're Rob Manford, you say something was a player's issue and then don't actually suspend said players.

What exactly is the deterrent from me cheating if it doesn't penalize me and him basically saying it hurt them.

Her name enough.

Not in this case.

If you if this is the integrity of your sport and you're the commissioner baseball for me, I haven't talked about this story basically at all on any opportunity that I've had behind a microphone since it broke today's really the first time I've ever touched on it.

Mainly because I've just kind of thought.

Okay, that's crazy, but I think that blood a lot of times is followed by its baseball.

You remember how much time was spent on virtually every sports radio show for weeks and weeks and weeks about to flake gate.

I don't think it's been that way here.

I mean, people weren't leading off with Manford even last night on a lot of shows that were leading off with Aaron Gordon being robbed in a dunk contest and a close all star game and how Adam silver has fixed the all star process in the NBA.

If this were football, we never hear the end of it.

I think the two things going against this story are one, it's baseball and two, it's a feckless move from the commissioner and a feckless press conference and a feckless sit down conversation with ravage where he didn't seem like he knew the drill.

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