Hey part of my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have old friend recurring guest Blake Bordles. We also have James Conner on the show, unbelievable story. If you don't know it, it's incredibly, you got a new memoir out about beating cancer and then getting to the NFL. We have baseball being fucked, we have NBA bubble, we have hot seat cool throne and guys on chicks, the return of the Mount Flushmore, the volley back of the Mount Flushmore, things that girls do, the guys hate, submitted by girls. Do you have any predictions for that one? Taking too long, getting ready. Wait, so it's things that girls do that guys, hey, don't like, said by girls. So it's fun and definitely not male listeners that submitted them. Okay, Hank has done a very deep screening process. Faking pregnancies. Yes. All right, before we get to all that,

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Okay, let's go Boy! Now in the streets there is violence And then a lot of snow will have to be done No people hang out or washing And then I can't play all on your songs Oh no, we're gonna rock it down too T-L-E, shake I venue And then we'll take it higher Oh, oh, we got rock it down to He let shake I've had you and then we'll take it higher We got a rock down to Shit's garbage my take Welcome to part of my take presented by the cash app go down little right now use code bar So you get $10 for free $10 the the ASPCA. Today is Wednesday, June 17th and baseball is fuck. Baseball is going to be back but it looks like Rob Manford got caught with his pants around his ankles and I've not seen an amazculation of a sitting commissioner like this. I think in my lifetime the way that the players are all going at his throat and saying like Trevor Bauer had a great threat on it on Twitter yesterday basically outlining exactly why Manfred changes stance from a hundred percent were playing the games to I don't know and basically what it comes down to is he doesn't want to announce that the league is coming back right now because they would have to pay the players for more money he's waiting until they can only get ready for a 50 game season. The owners, if you don't understand this situation, fuck the owners because the owners essentially are saying if we have to pay the players more than the 50 games that we want to play minimum, we are going to lose money and we don't want to lose money. And guess what? We said it before we said it again. The owners will be making money forever. If they had any kind of foresight, the idea here would be take a loss this season, but save the baseball season and dominate the rating. Dominate the ratings dominate. Like baseball should have been back a month ago. They should be basically saying here's our opportunity to recapture an audience when there are no sports. This is the long play. Lose some money this year, but keep baseball going. Have everyone triumph baseball and say, that is the sport that came back first. Hooray baseball. Instead, they're taking the short term approach, the dumb approach where they're saying, we don't want to play more than 50 games, because we don't want to pay the players, pro rated salary, which we agreed to. Therefore we're going to give bad faith negotiations all the way through and hope that the general public will buy this bullshit, which is why they're not. It is working, but this year it's not for whatever reason. I think it's a combination of social media. I think fans are significantly smarter than they were 20 years ago And I think more than anything if you read the room a little bit like Guess what guess who guess who isn't having like the best time right now billionaires beware of people of means Billionaires when when there's a pandemic and 40 million people are out of work Billionaires, let's just say we're not crying for them. So it has been an absolute clusterfuck.

They've ruined it every which way. We're still players. Goddamn desperate for sports right now that we're talking about Korean baseball. I'm part of my team. Yes. Okay. I'm becoming obsessed with top chef. I have nothing else to do at night. I'm desperate for, I'm waking up at three o'clock in the morning to watch Australian rugby League a sport that I don't really care about that much What because well now I'm a rugby union guy and it's in a sevens guy, okay, but I'm desperate for sports We are all desperate for sports and all you have to do is just put games on TV We'll watch them if they're on TV We will support people will come out of the woodwork people that haven't watched baseball in ten years We'll tune in to watch baseball this summer because we're star for sports and They are absolutely shitting down their own throats and they're getting exposed for it too like I can't remember Another time when well first of all credit to the players They've done a pretty good job of holding the line and I'm sure there are some players out there that would like to say

maybe hey let's make some concessions we want to play baseball we're already getting paid millions of dollars I'm sure that there are a couple players in the league that would want to go out and say that but nobody said it yet they're all kind of maintaining that line and when they're all unified like that it's very very tough for the owners to put any extra leverage on them whatsoever so i think we're all resigned to the fact that it's going to be fifty games

season

uh... which will result in an asterisk on whoever wins this World Series unless it's the Nationals of the Cubs or the Red Sox. So just be warned, we're getting way out ahead of that storyline right there. Yeah, Hank? And I think this Sunday's documentary really illustrated this fact even more, but they don't have a you know stero to come where they can like look past and be like, oh, this is great for the sport. That's not going to work this time. So when they come out of this year where everyone hates them, they're not going to have that like boom of sport that's going to bring fans back. Unless they let people do steroids again. But they can't to be sick because they can't pretend like they didn't know but what's going on? That ship is sailed the

I'm trying to find the tweet but essentially an agent summed it up perfectly. He was like the Miami-Marolins have basically pleaded that they were going broke for years and years and years, gave John Carlos Stanton an insane contract and then sold the team with multiple offers for a billion dollar profit. Yeah. So, crime a fucking river owners, get your shit together, take one for the team. The Marlins also had- Two baseball speakers. They had Marlins man and the Mermaid's lined up as seasoned ticket holders. So, that money. He's gonna make my own spare tire. He's gonna retire.

He's he's alluded to it. He's he's thrown it out there.

They might retire. And that's sad. So I have a fix.

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