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Buddy mine just texted me and said, don't forget baseball.

Keep the politics out of baseball, too.

Yes, amen.

Yes.

It's, oh, yeah, I did say Juliet. Not saying, thank you, Robert. I said Lake Juliet and I met Lake Sinclair earlier. In any of it, sorry. Yes. Keep the politics out of baseball. You know, interestingly enough, there was a study, what, three, four months ago that baseball viewership has gone back up,

and NBA viewership has declined as this perceived as more political.

The more political a sport is, the less viewers it gets.

And as NBA has gone full woke, its viewership has declined pretty dramatically around the country.

As an aside, as an aside,

I have substantive things to talk about.

It's my friend texting that got me distracted about politics and baseball.

Friends, we must discuss the national tragedy that is the USFL.

You may not even know what the USFL is.

That would be a football league that, as best I can gather, Fox and NBC subsidize in order to show some semblance of football while football is not on the air, which should show you and tell you how dominant the NFL is. In fact, what, in 2022, 89 of the top 100 most watched things on TV were sporting events.

No, no, no, it was 97.

And 89 of those were NFL games that shows you how dominant NFL is to culture,

the sport that has tried after the kneeling stuff to get out of politics.

The USFL is this, it's apparently football, but it's really bad football.

And I watched last night as the Pittsburgh mallers using the Pittsburgh Steelers colors and no relation to the Steelers, played the New Orleans

something.

And the New Orleans something was the home team and they played in a virtually empty stadium.

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