This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

And on Wednesdays, it's MVSW time with our Good Buddy Greg Warshinsky from E-SPN. Hello, Greg.

Hello, how are you?

I am well.

We're going to start with the heavy that is Ivan Proveroff and dovetail into a couple of other things.

But I just had a conversation with Bain Pettinger of CAA Bain, as everybody knows, came out in 2020,

sharing his sexuality with everyone at the age of 33 and so we talked about you

know how this felt to him and what it meant to him and you know one of the things that

we saw last night and into today and continue to see is, you know,

disappointment and frustration and anger, rage, etc.

Some pretty vicious comment sections around social media as well.

How did you receive this last night?

Like there's a couple of things.

You can be angry, you can be disappointed, you can just sort of shake your head at the whole thing.

How did you greet this Proveroff news from last night?

I was very disappointed.

A very, very, very disappointed in how the Flyers decided to handle it.

Disappointed in John Tortorella,

who's an extraordinarily thoughtful guy

that I got to know a little bit,

working with him at ESPN, giving a little bit more oxygen to homophobia than maybe I'd like in his post-game statements

while obviously trying to be respectful of someone's religion.

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