The MLB Lockout with Sports Econonist Andrew Zimbalist
Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast
NFL Business
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew |
| 0:03.5 | Brand. We're presented as always by Draft Kings, produced by Brian Neal, music producer, Sam |
| 0:09.6 | Brandt. I want to get to the business of baseball this podcast. We are in a lockout. Major |
| 0:15.9 | League Baseball has locked out its labor force. There are no transactions. No players can go to facilities. I know |
| 0:22.8 | it's offseason. I know people aren't paying attention to baseball, but from a business perspective, |
| 0:27.7 | this is big, where we have a labor work stoppage, even though it's off season, as we try to get |
| 0:33.1 | a new CBA. Now, I have some expertise in the business of baseball. I wanted to go to the best, |
| 0:39.4 | though. I went to Andrew Zimbolist, who is the economic professor from Smith College that has |
| 0:44.6 | written, as he did this morning in Sportico, for so many years on the business of baseball and |
| 0:50.2 | the economics of baseball. He's the perfect guest for this subject, and I'll have him on the |
| 0:55.0 | program in just a minute. First, I want to rant about something. It's the Antonio Brown fake |
| 1:00.1 | vaccination card. That's right. It was proven correct. Three weeks ago, we heard from an unpaid |
| 1:06.0 | chef, former chef of Antonio Brown, who didn't get his bill paid. He ratted out Brown. It was kind of a quiet |
| 1:12.0 | story. No one really, the bucks denied it. No one said anything. And of course, now we know. |
| 1:17.7 | He did use a fake vaccination card. It was used. And he got a three-game suspension from the NFL. |
| 1:24.3 | A couple things to note here. First, hell have no fury like an unpaid chef. |
| 1:30.1 | Brown is known for not paying vendors, not paying trainers, not paying agents, not paying lawyers. |
| 1:35.3 | In this case, not paying chefs. And we, which is concerning, would never know about this but for |
| 1:41.3 | the chef who got stiffed by Antonio Brown. Listen, people don't change. This is |
| 1:47.0 | behavior from Brown that is not surprising. He has stiffed people as we just talked about. He's |
| 1:52.7 | been alleged allegations of sexual assault. He has left people in his wake so many different times. |
| 1:59.6 | He has cut corners in so many different ways. |
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