Three o'clock nice to have you with us. I want to get to the callers. We have red wing news.

Kenny called Steve Eiserman a liar and it was a compliment and we were lied to and we're happy about it. The wings are a dark course to make our

goal-tending dreams come true. We'll get to that momentarily. I want to read

something though and I want to expand upon what we were talking about to open the show RICO.

ESPAN had an expansive piece.

They talked to people kind of behind the curtain of the MLB television rights,

Kerfuffle. It's a total disaster. And basically all of the plans of all right maybe

you'll be without your team on TV for a while but they'll sort it out or out the door. It sounds like according to the

experts diamond sports cannot be a functioning business and this is headed to chaos and it's impacting not only

Tiger fans but 15 teams around baseball but think about now you have NBA teams

and NHL teams that are furious you can read all of this at ESPN.com. So here was the, I want to read something to you. And I want to just see where people are at with it. So from the ESP and dot com piece it says if Diamond emerged from

bankruptcy MLB would just maintain the pre-existing RSN deals which by

the way they'll never see again these pre-existing R.S.N deals are worth a lot of money.

Money that no one's really willing to pay for this sport on a local level.

So it's the type of revenue that will be difficult if not impossible to replicate elsewhere according to industry experts,

which is why Rob Manfred has stated a preference for teams to get paid through the life of the deals.

That's the ideal scenario, but one that is no longer feasible.

The worst case isn't that those contracts disappear,

but rather Diamond emerges but on unstable ground,

prompting more of the same uncertainty that clouded last off season. on unstable

our snot season, and if owners continue to cite unstable

RSN deals as an excuse for not spending,

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