Regional Nostalgia
The Domonique Foxworth Show
ESPN
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Off top, quite possibly the greatest baseball player of all time. |
| 0:04.8 | Babe Ruth played his final game in Yankee Stadium in front of only 2000 fans because the |
| 0:10.4 | team sucked and the fans wouldn't come out to support them. Play the music. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the Dominique Foxworth show. |
| 0:26.8 | What up Charlie? That's the perfect off top you found for me. I loved it. Yeah. I mean, |
| 0:32.1 | it was either that or telling the fans that Babe Ruth is black. They already know that. Yeah, it's true. |
| 0:36.6 | I mean, they're listening to this. They've heard that before. Anyway, the point or the reason |
| 0:40.3 | why I thought it was a great one is because it speaks to the fact that even in New York City with the best player ever, |
| 0:46.5 | people are not going to come out for his farewell game if the team sucks and the Oakland A's they did come out. |
| 0:52.7 | Their fans did come out to their game not to support the team, well to support the team, but not to support |
| 0:58.1 | John Fisher to owner. This team is getting about less than 10,000 fans on average all season. They got 27,000 |
| 1:05.2 | to come to this game only to chant for John Fisher the owner to sell the team. |
| 1:09.9 | The reason why they want to sell the team is because he's trying to move the Oakland A's out of Oakland. |
| 1:15.3 | He got $380 million promised to him by the Las Vegas legislature to build a stadium on the |
| 1:22.3 | strip. So he's trying to move the team to Vegas, which Oakland is familiar with because the raiders |
| 1:27.6 | also left them with the Vegas. So first of all, I think most people know where I'm going to end up |
| 1:33.0 | on this. But what I have a hard time with is the way that we protect and treat our professional |
| 1:41.8 | franchises. And by extension, the owners of these professional franchises, we treat them like they |
| 1:48.4 | are a class of business that is more exclusive than any other class of business. And at the same |
| 1:55.6 | time, it encourages them to behave in a way that I think ruins sports to some degree. And I don't |
| 2:02.3 | want to be hypocrite. I appreciate the capitalism that has seeped into sports to some degree because |
| 2:08.6 | that's what allows us to sit here and do this for money. That's what allow me to play sports for |
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