The World Baseball Classic is here! How dumb is Profar? How worried are the Dodgers with Sasaki? (Episode 1421 Hour 1)

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1:23domination that's the nothing personal word of the day it is Wednesday March 4 2026 domination as in what team USA expects to do during the world baseball classics which gets underway this evening in Tokyo Japan domination as in what their offense look like in an exhibition game yesterday against the San Francisco Giants cruising if you can use that word to describe a 15 to 1 win over the Giants the world baseball classic comes on the heels of the Olympics in Milan Cortina and the excitement that surrounds the Winter Olympics with the showing of the United States specifically the hockey team both men's

2:28and women's going for gold toothless and happy making appearances either in DC or not at Rockefeller Plaza or not all the sudden team USA gets together and we see a couple of things happen first video is all over the internet cameras allowed of Aaron judge the captain of team USA giving a speech when team USA got together which just happened a couple days ago quick side note the way it works is players go to spring training with their MLB teams then they appear with their world baseball classic teams they play a few exhibition games and then so example the USA will play the Rockies today get on a plane go to Houston and all the sudden group play begins so it's not as though the teams have spent the entire team of spring training together so the team USA gets together Aaron

3:31judge stands up gives a speech and gets pilloried he's not a leader he doesn't give good speeches Michael Phelps was there giving speeches a quick note on speeches in general by players as much as I'd like to believe that life is the movies where you have one of these great motivational speeches that precedes teams getting on to the floor and all of a sudden performing win one for the Gipper yes of course there are coaches who really can get you going there are players who can get you going but the things that happen in a clubhouse before a big game or when a team's getting together before a big series they're not as ra ra as you would believe there's a lot of burping and farting and jocular behavior but Aaron judge was trying to get people in his clubhouse on

4:33team USA which is stacked by the by back to that in a second trying to just say hey let's meet the moment so it got me thinking what's the moment when Rob Manford asked Michael Hill to be the general manager of team USA there was a pretty clear directive be the GM and win the gold medal when it was decided that Mark Dorosa would be the manager he had been the manager prior I've been a part of an interview of Mark Dorosa's manager and he is extremely qualified really good in the clubhouse no reason why it can't be a big lead manager when Michael Hill and the commissioner's office approached American players to play for team USA it did not go according to reports swimmingly even though the team is stacked

5:35Aaron judge came on his team captain because it's complicated it's complicated mostly for pictures in some examples for position players and we've seen that complication manifest itself when Coco's team is providing the starting pitcher Nolan John McLean for the finals should the team USA get there in Miami in a couple weeks so Aaron judge is put on the team and you've got Cal Raleigh of course and Schwarber and Harper and Whitt it is top to bottom Bucston you could just go up and down the lineup and you realize that you can put together an all-star team with team USA players and so when they're asked to play the pitches this is really important for our country it's really important because we're wearing USA on the jersey this is patriotism

6:36you know we're in the middle the beginning of a war we're coming off the Olympic golds this is could be a prelude and pre-view to 2028 in Los Angeles do players view the gold with the W for the W World Baseball Classic as they do for the Olympics there are teams who have in the past Dominican Japan team USA there's always been the feeling around ownership and around executives and around players that there was some guilt associated with not accepting to play but it was really not a huge deal to accept and pictures were not all that interested in pitching and teams were not all that interested in allowing their pictures to pitch this year has been a complete change

7:38though the fighting as we documented on this show with scuba who is only gonna pitch in pool play against great Britain and only for a managed number of pitches the difference is that there is big business involved this year with the WBC when I was just in Tokyo there were billboards everywhere because Netflix has the broadcast rights and there was there was Otani there was Yamamoto there was huge huge commercial profile for the WBC around the city as a matter of fact when Australia plays Japan this week there are it sold out you cannot get a ticket it is the type of environment that you would expect from a team that's the defending champion and from a team that the pressure to win the world baseball classic on behalf of that country is something

8:40that would drive each row to like stomach pains anecdotally because it was that important to win for the US it's never been that way why now why is this the year when it's required for the team to win from the United States where they're favored to win where the players are all saying the right things about how it feels to have USA and the Jersey what is different is it where we are as a country right now no not in my mind is it because of what happened with the hockey team no not in my mind but those are really good tent pole arguments to have the reason why it feels different this year is that as we go into collective bargaining as these players think about the possibility of being asked to be on the Olympic team in 2028 as these players are wherever

9:40they are within their long-term contracts or in arbitration the business of Olympic gold is second place right now that's how high up it is compared to their regular contract which will be number one world baseball classic gold is not on the podium right now in terms of business for the players or for Major League Baseball but if the US wins and all of a sudden you are going into the Olympics in 28 and then World Baseball Classic in 2030 when you are going into new broadcast negotiations after 2028 what the WBC can provide to baseball is another tent pole of another arrow in the quiver for Noah to go out and negotiate a deal for the players they have noticed

10:44correctly so that Olympic gold has commercial value in a way world baseball classic gold simply doesn't have right now the world baseball classic was started when baseball was basically not going to be in the Olympics as we've discussed I was in the room I we were a part of the vote of how it all came to happen when the world baseball classic started an alternative and the possibility of making it into like FIFA's World Cup in soccer the possibility of showing the Olympic Committee what they're missing by not having baseball all of those things existed and now it's growing into this entity that's a revenue driving entity but not yet at the level locally in America that it would be if MLB were a part of the Olympics the difference of course is MLB owns the World Baseball Classic they would not own the broadcast rights for the Olympics however

11:47the halo effect the ripple effect that would create that would be created by having this be the start of a four year run that would include the Olympics that would include the next WBC and that would include the next broadcast set of agreements that makes this so critical so the US goes into it and I will say that they are favored they ought to be favored because they are highly incentivized do I predict they will win the tournament when I look at their starting pitching I've got some concerns now you've got schemes he has the ability to pitch a pool game and the quarter finals you got Logan Webb ready to go in the semi finals Nolan McLean in the finals is it enough to get through Japan I guess we'll wait to see not ready to make a prediction yet don't need to World Baseball Classic starts tonight

12:50it's worth watching the pool in Tokyo side note quick break in the action counting down the days until payday instacash for money lion can help you access up to $500 of your hard earned pay early there's no interest no credit check and no monthly fees so you can manage those in between expenses with less stress download the money lion app and link your qualifying bank account to see what you qualify for money lion make money easy instacash is subject to terms and eligibility requirements expedited delivery requires a turbo fee see money lion dot com in sports championships aren't one alone the one with the right people around you that's exactly what into a topo tax brings to taxes with topo tax expert full service match with a dedicated tax expert who handles your taxes from start to

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14:54i hear you're studying the art of conversation yes one of my favorite lines from LA story if you're not making any money and you are sixteen years old in the Dominican i get it try it do performance enhancing drugs that readily available and if you get get away with it and get signed you're good to go if you are a signed player like jurics and profar and you've got a 42 million dollar three-year deal and you've already been suspended for performance enhancing drugs please explain to me because i'd like to think that i'm relatively on top of it a modicum of intelligence that i can bring to you on a daily basis often on the air

15:54but i need answers i need to understand what is inside his head is the risk that he is trying to reward his next contract it can't be that it can't be jurics and profar was due to make 15 million dollars 15 million dollars and now it's gone but what happened yesterday is something that never should have happened and i don't mean profar and steroids we shouldn't have known about this this got leaked and let me explain the process you pee in a cup they test it it test positive they test it again it test positive they alert the player the agent the union

16:57that there's been a positive test not the team the player the agent the union get together and say should we appeal should we not appeal did you stick a needle in your daddy air tell me the truth all right we'll appeal it an appeal is heard by an independent arbitrator and then once the decision has been made whether there is an overturn of the alleged steroid use or an affirmation and then a suspension then the announcement and about an hour before the announcement the team gets called how do i know it happened to me that's how it works we don't hear about suspensions as a team and you don't hear about it as the public until the process has played out and the suspension is going to happen

17:59remember a player can accept the suspension without appealing or can appeal and then wait and the player gets to play during the appeal if you have a positive test during the regular season you get to play while you appeal and nobody knows the difference now you may not be playing well you may be totally distracted by what's going on in your life but the reality is you've tested positive and again and again and it's being appealed and then we'll get back to you and the team is just sitting there putting your name in the lineup like everything is butterflies and unicorns in this instance yesterday we got word of the suspension rumor suspension of pro far and yet we weren't positive whether or not there was going to be an appeal because pro far seemed to indicate by the way i'm going to appeal this well if he's going to appeal it that means that what's is he suspended

19:00without the appeal you have to have the appeal first and so what's happening is he will ask the union to file a grievance on this issue so the subtext is that something else is going on that there is some problem with the chain of custody of the sample if that sounds familiar it should yes i'm talking to you Ryan Braun do you remember that oh man that FedEx got opened up somebody replaced my pay or spilled it or didn't put it in the proper fridge and it was total horosaki but if you're asking the union to file a grievance as opposed to filing an appeal unless that has been misreported which i don't know that it has been i'm not independently obviously reporting that it's a grievance versus an appeal that's part of the process of a

20:02p-e-d positive test but why is this different well pro far 33 years old heading into the last year of his deal if the appeal is upheld to the extent there's appeal the suspension happens he's missing a full year remember the players agreed to discipline for performance enhancing drugs half a year the first time one year the second time and a lifetime ban the third time the players agreed to this they all know we reiterated with the players at every level at every service time at every point in our organization this is what you're risking if you get caught not if you do it we say if you get caught i would never stand in front of a group of players and say you're risking suspension if you do it because i don't want to pretend that i'm as

21:04ahead of it as these players and the agents and the people who get together and have these players do things which in many case are needed to get through a season and we acknowledge that fact but i talk about getting caught for pro far two have been caught twice and there are not many players who are in this position it has been a system that has worked in terms of in theory deterrence but more likely in practice the realization that the juice is not worth squeeze at these higher levels as the money continues to get bigger how does this end well it ends with pro far totally screwing the braves if you're going to be out for the year let it happen early so the braves can reallocate the money right now the braves in terms of replacing pro far in the middle of the lineup he could have batted second maybe third we're talking a top of the lineup guy

22:05for a team that's expected to compete in October don't forget pro far was the one who had that great season in San Diego and then signed the free agent deal with lanta three years that guy my frustration on this topic is that i don't understand self sabotage in any other arena outside of my personal life i don't understand why a player at a certain salary would risk what they have so if you have an answer i'm all ears if pro far when he finally talks other than just saying he appeals has an answer i'm all ears panic that's how i feel right now if i'm Andrew Friedman the president the Dodgers i'm panicked i mean our team we have a problem we are totally screwed we've got the guy who was the bull pen ace

23:08just a few months ago the japanese pitcher rokeesizaki yeah remember that guy the one who didn't necessarily want a lot of attention wasn't sure we wanted to go and we said Dodgers Dodgers it's going to be the Dodgers and then he goes to the Dodgers and then he's hurt and doesn't pitch and then he's back for the postseason is this ringing about and then he's out of the bull pen everything's good and then he comes back and they're putting them back to being a starter which he is because the Dodgers do load management for starters so we'll see how many starts Sasaki gets well yesterday he got absolutely shelled again in his second spring training start and the Dodgers are in a full panic they may release Sasaki they're looking at him and saying you're not even worthy of being on our single aid team not i have never seen a bunch of people panic more and none of you are inside baseball yes it's true Sasaki gave up a grand slam

24:14yes it's true he could not record an out and then was pulled and then put back in the second ending which we'll talk about in a second all of that's true it's true that on his first outing of the season of spring training last week that Dave Roberts the manager said you know I thought he was over throwing I haven't seen that all spring it's probably just getting into live competition maybe a little too bullish on his fastball yada yada yada yapa yapa yapa when we sit at a spring training game and our starting ERA is 14 or an individual pitcher who is expected to be part of our rotation is absolutely horrible several things are going on behind the scenes with pitchers that can contribute to performance in spring training and actually sandy al contra came out and told you

25:15that he got shelled because he was working on a new pitch and that he wanted to try his sweeper and then he gave up a home run on a sweeper the majority of pitchers use spring training to get their arm ready and they are not going to show their sequencing or best stuff during spring training there is no reason to do that under any scenario we're not looking at box scores during spring training we are simply evaluating the readiness of the players that we had planned to be on the team and part of our team as they get ready for opening day which is only 21 days from today for the Yankees and Giants 22 days away for the other 28 teams so when the media meets with Dave Roberts after another shaky outing he has to say I don't think there are concerns

26:21there just has to be continued progression I want to make sure that you're hearing what he's saying because he is exactly telling you and it doesn't happen all the time he's exactly telling you what the truth is about Sasaki it's not and believe me we're dealing with things in that sport they that's a dollar that did not exist a quarter of a century go but the number of social media accounts the number of people who believe they're in the industry who could be a coach in the industry who are able to evaluate and point out frame by frame these content creators well his leg kick used to be this and now it's that his point was towed this way not that way he's loading up on his swing one second later he's doing a tow tap now he's not he's not getting his front leg down all of the stuff that you're all coming up with and putting it on video and try to say look is anyone paying attention to this

27:25dudes we've had it forever and this is not me telling you that I've had it I was the president of the team that wasn't my job I wasn't the baseball guy but our baseball guys back in 2000 all the way through 2017 every year they had all the video they had all the analysis they knew exactly what each of our players was doing they did not sit around on social media looking to see oh I need some coaching help here nor did they learn anything from anything written about by all the people who spend time writing about major league baseball and his players now I don't want to sound like a malcontent and I don't want to sound whole year than now because I'm not either but the reason why there are people inside organizations is that they're better than the people outside the organizations

28:27I'm sorry it's just true so when you hear Dave Roberts tell you there's no concerns he's echoing how the Dodgers feel David you're asking on law on nothing personal with David Samson YouTube channel where you subscribe keep subscribing tell your friends about our show why not we'll have fun on a on a every morning or three days a week hopefully getting back to four or five at some point here in the future but thank you for all of your support by the way and continuing to love our show and and engage with it but when Sasaki is getting ready we have goals for him to get ready we know exactly what we want from him for every start in spring training we've mapped out I always love the announcement of opening day pictures as though teams don't know until they announce it it's absolutely incorrect we know our opening day picture before spring training even starts

29:28absent that player getting injured that picture getting injured we know who's gonna start and we've lined up the pitching already it doesn't mean they're pitching every five days you can't do that exact math because sometimes we wouldn't do it that way sometimes we'd have pictures pitch in games outside of camera range like on back fields as they were getting ready for regular season so there's all sorts of things that are happening it again we are just it's our job it's what we are paid to do so when I watch Sasaki have what happened to him I just say to myself okay I'm ignoring that completely but MLB did make a concession that was asked for by baseball people and it happened several years ago and it's getting more attention now because more teams are using it so I just wanted you to be aware of it that in spring training you can take out a picture in the middle of an

30:32inning and then allow that picture to come back to start the next inning clean that's what happened with Sasaki yesterday they pulled him in the first inning when he couldn't get out of it and this pitch count was high they put him on the bench they finished the inning they go to bat and then when the Dodgers go back to the field Sasaki comes out and pitches another inning why why change that rule because what you protect against in spring training as you're progressing the pitcher's arm strength is you're protecting against that big pitch count inning due to ineffectiveness that really does bother a pitching coach and a GM far more than giving up 10 runs on 25 pitches giving up one run on 35 pitches is worse which is why spring training standings spring training wins losses all the stats none of it

31:35actually matters as much as we want you to believe it matters as much as we want you to believe we'd like to win the grapefruit league and we'd like to win the cactus league inside baseball front offices you if you asked koka right now 30 GMs hey what's our record today what's our spring training record the number of GMs who would get it zero the number of GMs who would tell you oh yeah I know the record it's six and three it's five and two it's eight and one zero would have it off the top of their head and that's they just were looking at the statute for the coming day where the PR department would have the record of the team that's how a relevant it is let's go to the review please koka they say you should learn something new every day like how you should only drink Yeager Meister at zero degrees Fahrenheit ice cold like those frozen cavemen they find which makes you

32:36wonder what would a caveman think of Yeager Meister well if you served it warm he'd probably throw it in your face say and storm off and nobody wants that so drink it cold or not at all Yeager Meister damn that's cold drink responsibly Yeager Meister Lecure 35% alcohol by volume imported by mass Yeager Meister US white planes New York Shalamei I'm reviewing Marty's Supreme I watched it I don't know how to avoid this I don't know how to avoid that when you build up your expectations to something all you're doing is sending yourself up for failure you're sending yourself up for disappointment I wanted Marty's Supreme to be the best movie I saw this year I was so excited for Shalamei and for Softy and for Gwyneth Paltrow just to watch this movie I'm a big fan of uncut gems I'm a big fan of anxiety when you live in sight anxiety why not watch it manifest it

33:37on screen no matter how difficult it is to watch you are seen this frenzy that almost makes your own brain slow down if you've got a speedy brain Marty's Supreme is not about a ping pong player okay I'll say it a different way Marty's Supreme is about ping pong the same way forest gump is about ping pong yes it's true there are phenomenal ping pong scenes do I care the Timothy Shalamei who I have loved since love the Cooper's by the way doesn't matter that he's on a failed Oscar campaign doesn't matter that he says he wants to be the best and that he's perceived as cocky because I love it and I've gone over his award speeches with you telling you how much I love a person that wants it badly that wants to be the best and is not ashamed of that that is a great quality not a good quality and certainly not a bad quality

34:39but Marty's Supreme did Shalamei practice ping pong rumors are he brought a ping pong table to different sets just as a quick aside if you want a ping pong table as an actor you can put that in the rider you don't have to schlep it on the top of your sedan from set to set you can have it in the common area you can have it in your trailer as long as it's double wide there's all sorts of different areas on a set where there can be a table tennis table but any case the play of Shalamei was not him no matter what you hear he can't play that well no but very few people can but that's how what the movie's about the movie's about somebody who has this amazing desire to be great and doesn't care about the reality somebody with the illusion of grandeur that can match the grandeur with actual things going on in his life

35:42whether or not he wins whatever he's doing almost is not relevant because the movie is beautiful inside the losses the movie is fast paced within his brain as you watch his life unravel re-ravel and unravel all of his own doing as he coasts from moment to moment in an attempt to make money it is a movie worth seeing is it the best movie of the year? no is it going to win best picture not a chance best direct any of the other nominations highly nominated no the best chance is best actor and unclear after the actor awards where Michael B. Jordan won unclear who is going to win the Oscar only because i haven't given you my Oscar pics yet marty supreme you should see i'm going to watch tonight to review tomorrow a movie called the Ella McKay the reason why you've never heard of it is

36:44because nobody's seen it it is available the stream now and it's written and directed by James L. Brooks and i will tell you my view of it tomorrow this segment is presented by money lion download the money lion app or visit moneylion.com to learn more money lion make money easy well if it were easy anyone could do it the WNBA has emerged victorious in its battle against the players association while you have not read that there has been a settlement while you have not seen an agreement and the start of the WNBA season i am guaranteeing you that Adam silver and the other WNBA owners will emerge victorious from this negotiation because the WNBA the players

37:46association is an outright mess just yesterday just yesterday Kelsey Plum and Breonna Stewart wrote a letter to the players union executive director a woman named Terry Jackson who's been there for years and has done when in their mind a very good job wrote a letter basically saying you don't talk to us quoting barrestries and and kneel diamond you don't bring us flowers anymore it used to be so natural for us to talk but used to be don't count anymore what's going on here Adam silver stands up and says there's a deadline in March 10th you better get a deal done or we're not going to be able to get the season underway and we're going to have a real problem all of a sudden the players union seems fractured

38:46first you get a story that comes out is now while they had voted to approve a strike now there could be some dissension in the ranks about whether or not they should call for a strike there seems to be some dissension within the ranks about whether what the WNBA is offering at the table should be accepted in large part so that they can get their season going there is absolute panic on behalf of the players and when you know that you've got a problem within your union there's one thing you can't do you can't let anyone else know that because once the other side knows about the fracture they stick their leg in it and they use one of those expanders that opened your chest cavity and expose your beating heart

39:47you certainly do not write a letter that you know is going to get leaked for those of you who are going to complain about leaks inside the industry the sports industry every email we write every letter we write every correspondence with a fan or with a commissioner or with a fellow owner you are taught in president's school it's public you have got to communicate with people as though you know everyone is going to read it and you better put context in your communications because left alone there could be room for misinterpretation well this three-page letter did not leave room for misinterpretation this three-page letter was expressing concerns about how the

40:48head of the players association is not only negotiating the deal but also communicating with the mass of union members about what is going on ESPN received this private communication and I'm about to shocked that today is Wednesday because yesterday was Tuesday inside the letter we are frustrated that we have not made more progress as we near the March 10th deadline game over do you know that March 10th is not a real deadline I'm just going to make sure that we're clear about that when Adam Silver stood up after the all-star game during his media availability during all-star weekend and said and we have a deadline on March 10th or there could be a delay and there's going to be a real problem

41:49the reason I smiled is that that day was pulled out of thin air it was to create the need for an end day which creates urgency because that sounds normal except the reason Adam Silver did it is he thought to himself correctly so if I finally put a deadline out there and I'm hearing some rumblings from my insiders that could fracture this union and it played out exactly as Adam Silver would want it the union was forced to call a players meeting last night according to sources that ESPN cited the union now is going to address the issues raised in the letter

42:49by Plum and Stewart it's like doing the snoopy dance if your management and the union is getting together when we're this close to a potential fake deadline of March 10th and they're getting together to discuss communication it's so perfect that anyone who thinks that the women players are going to make the progress that they thought they were going to make because they had the leverage because of Caitlin Clark and because of the greatness of the WMBA and Unrival is selling out semi-final games at Berkeley Center and there's just all this excitement about it I tried to tell you it was not at all relevant to the reality so what happens now well at WMBA players get together and they will decide once and for all how badly are they going to give in

43:53if you are the WMBA management you are not budging a millimeter from your current position there is no reason because the other side is going to come right to you it's going to meet you where you reside and then you give a little nothing so the players can say hey we got the best deal we can we got a little extra at the end the WMBA management can say God were the good guys I don't want to hear from the public or from the media that we are the face of corporate greed and evil we gave an extra month of housing God do I love when you read about housing is one of the big issues in this collective bar and agreement huge you have no idea it's the only thing that matters give me a break what will happen is there's going to be an agreement before I was concerned and I was not willing pretty much in any way

44:55to tell you that there would be an agreement without a work stoppage or strike that there would be an agreement and that it was possible the WMBA would miss a season I was very concerned about the possibility of all that happening that concern has washed away like worries on a beach when you've had a lobotomy and you can't remember how crappy your life is going at the moment I am so sure of this coming to an end that I am willing to do a wait to see wait to see when I tell you something's gonna happen if it does great if it doesn't okay wait to see we'll revisit it though the WMBA and the WNBA will settle their labor dispute by March 10th the problem with that coca hold on one second now I'm going with that that's fine because what they could do because March 10th is really fake

45:57what they could do is say okay you know it's March 14th now or it's March 15th and so what I really should say is by the end of March but that's not aggressive enough I'm gonna go for it wait to see coca WMBA and players settle by March 10th but for all the fans the WMBA out there there will be basketball nothing personal pick of the day so pick of the day is presented by draft kings draft kings the crown is yours we have got a national basketball association finals preview tonight the Oklahoma City thunder and the New York nickerbockers I say that only because what a dream for the next to go back to their first finals since 1999 taking on a team that was rumored to have been

47:02rumored to have been the greatest team in the history of the MBA has turned out to be they're good but when you've got a team that's six and one against the spread in their past seven road games and you've got a team that is going into the garden and saying to themselves listen it hasn't exactly been the regular season we expected because we wanted to win 75 games and go 75 and seven however we love going into the garden and we got to make sure that everyone in the Eastern conference understands that whoever makes it out of the west and it's going to be us they are winning the title no disrespect to Boston or New York or Detroit but that's our plan to do that you've got to find some meaning in a regular season game from time to time and this is the moment to do it so the nothing personal pick of the day presented by draft kings draft kings the crown is yours thunder minus four and a half over the nicks as they look to win their seventh out of eight road games against the spread

48:12what happened last night anyone recall i don't know coca did you watch the spurs remember what i mentioned that the spurs were going to rebound from they're getting crushed by the nicks and they were going to crush the sixers well i think they won by 69 points we are 14 and 15 i don't know i don't know how long i'll keep telling you about those super bowl losses but we are 14 and 15 are nothing personal pick of the day but we did have the spurs eight and a half over the sixers big news out of the NFL last night i want to finish the show by acknowledging at least this hour that when you are the first overall draft pick in the NFL and you get released by your team after signing an outrageous extension because during the course of your career you've not won anything meaningful in any way it's hard for me to feel sorry

49:15Kyler Murray signed a five year 230 and a half million dollar contract extension with the Cardinals in July of 22 it is now almost July of 26 and guess what no thank you the Cardinals have not done anything with them he's been hurt when he's not hurt he's been mostly ineffective they'd have no no playoff results of any kind and Arizona decided we made a mistake it's time to cut our losses and they are going to release him now the reason why Murray it's a note is that he is guaranteed 36.8 million dollars this year not to play for the Cardinals how many of these deals have to happen before the NFL wakes up and says hold on these quarterback contracts are absurd the number of contracts that don't work out out numbers the number of contracts which do work out because for every my homes in Allen there is a Murray and

50:18a two why am I so worked up about it is because this sets the Arizona Cardinals back way more than if they had not signed Murray to that contract to start with those years ago in the same way frankly that the dolphins are screwed with two and will have to release them because no one in the right mind is going to trade and pay the kind of money the two is getting paid and two is not going to be a dolphin this year but it sets the dolphins back because they were pressured to sign the quarterback and all of this all of this is because we perpetuate this fantasy hey it's the most important position on the field if you're going to win you got to win with the quarterback okay Sam Donald has a Super Bowl ring okay Josh Allen hasn't even been there who would you rather have going into a season if you had a choice wouldn't you take Josh Allen but it goes to show you that if

51:25you do not have the proper quarterback do not make that investment it makes no sense not only do now have to pay the player this guaranteed money you've got a huge dead cap hit which makes it harder to compete and you've basically just screwed yourself so Murray does the Instagram post saying I love you Arizona I'm sorry I failed you yada yada yada trust me the players all yelling oh I'm so sorry we didn't win and I wanted to win for you bring our first championship in 77 years but thanks for the money dad come on let's play what are the Cardinals going to do now they're going to start again they're going to get a new quarterback what are the dolphins going to do they're going to start again maybe they'll get it right though history says they won't both for the Cardinals and for the dolphins be careful what you demand of your team and pressure them into doing it may not work what will work is you holding on for a little bit and we're going to come

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