Pablo Torre joins the show to talk PTFO! FIFA Club World Cup has a problem already! Did the Chicago Fire pass the Sox and Bears!? (Episode 1291 Hour 2)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Adam Silver talked about the NBA All-Star Game and guess what? The format has changed again! The game will be on NBC and next season the network has the Winter Olympics! (5:00) Our Thursday guest this week is Pablo Torre and he has joined the show! (27:00) FIFA is slashing prices for the Club World Cup already. Who could have seen this coming? Not even Messi could pull this many fans. Is it the stadium size? (38:00) The Chicago Fire have lapped the Bears and the White Sox for a new stadium! What!? How did this happen!? (46:00) The French Open is going on! Are you watching? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.5	Music Thank you. I'm David Sampson, and this is our two of today's show, June 5th, 2025.
1:13.5	I want to lead off with the NBA.
1:17.1	You know the finals.
1:18.2	We just talked about it.
1:19.1	The finals are tonight.
1:20.3	We're about 12 and a half hours, unless you're watching this on Draft King's Network,
1:24.3	in which case, it's about 9 o'clock right now, so we're under 12 hours
1:29.3	from tip-off of this much-anticipated small market finals.
1:35.0	We talked about Rob Manfred meeting the media at owners' meetings.
1:38.6	We know commissioners also meet the media during their jewel event.
1:43.6	Super Bowl. All-Star game, NBA finals, World Series.
1:51.5	Well, it is the NBA finals, therefore Adam Silver is going to talk. And guess what happened?
1:56.5	You knew I wasn't going to let this go. When we get a wait to see right, we focus on that.
2:02.0	When we get them wrong, we focus on it too because we have accountability, unlike the other
2:06.7	people in media, most of them. Way back on February 24th of this year, we told you that next
2:14.2	year's All-Star game is going to be USA versus the world. It just made too much
2:19.5	sense. What we learned yesterday is that way to see from 22425 was correct. Because Adam Silver
2:27.8	took the opportunity to tell people on FS1 yesterday, hey, we got to change that format again. And I'm here to tell you
2:37.2	it's going to be USA versus the world. What better opportunity. It's as though he listened to
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