Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin debate whether baseball fans should hate the Los Angeles Dodgers for buying up all the best players, argue over whether or not we can expect Daniel Jones to have a career renaissance with the Minnesota Vikings and debate whether Kyle Shanahan should be on the hot seat as the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast. |
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| 0:23.7 | You're listening to The Best of the Odd Couple with Chris Brousso and Rob Parker. |
| 0:32.5 | Blake Snell, they sign as a free agent. |
| 0:34.9 | We already know that Blake Snell played for Tampa Bay. Freeman was the GM down there. They got a relationship. Glassnell's with the Dodgers. And he was with the San Francisco Giants for one year. Signed really late. It was just a weird deal. He could opt out after one year. And he did. Yeah. And so now he's signed with the Dodgers four years. What is it? 182? Yep. 182. Five year deal. 182. Five years. Yeah. With also here, some deferred money and also a $52 million signing bonus. Man, you talk about somebody's signing bonus. What I hope to make him my whole life. Ain't that crazy? Yeah, but that's the kind of money that's out in baseball. People don't even understand it. It's big money. It's big money. What, four or five million people go through the Dodgers Stadium a year. So it's just a. And 70 million buy tickets every year in the United States. $70 million for baseball game. |
| 1:28.3 | It is huge. |
| 1:29.0 | It's one of those things. |
| 1:30.1 | We might not talk about it a lot, but it's definitely still thriving. |
| 1:34.3 | And clearly the Dodgers are thriving that they have enough money to keep buying players. |
| 1:38.7 | Last year spent almost a billion dollars. |
| 1:41.9 | Now you're spending another $182 million. So, I mean, it's just a bunch of |
| 1:46.0 | money being tossed around with the Dodgers. All right. This is a public service announcement |
| 1:51.4 | to MLB America. Oh, Lord. You should hate the Los Angeles Dodgers if you're a baseball fan. |
| 2:05.6 | Because you hated the New York Yankees when they were the evil empire. Everybody around baseball America cried like babies when George Steinbrenner had the big purse. |
| 2:13.6 | And he was spending the big bucks and he was signing people and making trades and whatever cost. |
| 2:21.3 | Don't let the Dodgers off the hook now that they're the new version of the evil empire. |
| 2:27.5 | So what they're on the West Coast. |
| 2:29.7 | Say what they're more laid back. |
| 2:32.1 | Last offseason they spent a billion dollars with a B for two players. |
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