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00:00He says Major League Baseball and the fans and the Tampa Bay Rays, they should thank
00:05their bottom dollar that, yes, Hal Steinbrenner ponied up to allow the Rays to come into his
00:12home, Steinbrenner Field, and spend the season.
00:15Yeah.
00:16The Yankees, you know, and I think I've said this publicly, but I'm going to say it now.
00:21You know, the industry owes Hal Steinbrenner a real debt of gratitude.
00:28I mean, he put literally tens of millions of dollars into improving Steinbrenner Field,
00:33and the first people who are really going to get to use it for any period of time is
00:37the Tampa Bay Rays.
00:39And that support for the industry, that collegiality, is a really important thing, and, you know,
00:46Hal deserves a ton of credit for the approach that he took.
00:50Please.
00:51Well, I'll say this much.
00:52He was going to do it anyway.
00:53They're going to put a big dent into that ballpark.
00:56I mean, they're going to be playing all their games there, and I think it's going to take
00:59a toll on Legends Field.
01:02But yeah, it is.
01:03Look, you obviously have the Rays playing 81 games there this year, but I mean, to act
01:10like Hal did it out of the goodness of his heart, Hal was going to re-renovate the place
01:14anyway.
01:15He was going to dump a bunch of money into Steinbrenner Field and upgrade it, so calm
01:20down.
01:21The next one we always love, Sacra Tomato, which is where the A's are going to be.
01:26Here's Rob telling you how great the atmosphere is going to be in a little minor league ballpark
01:31at Sacra Tomato.
01:32I think that the level of excitement in the community is really palpable.
01:38I think their desire to have Major League Baseball in the short term and in the long
01:43term is really impressive.
01:45I think the owners of the Rivercats and the owners of the A's have worked very hard together
01:54to make sure that for our players, it is as close to a Major League experience as it can
02:00possibly be.
02:02There's a lot of investment that was done in facilities that you just would not have
02:05done otherwise.
02:06And you know, the ballpark is charming.
02:10I do think that fans are going to have an opportunity to see Major League Baseball all
02:17season long in a really intimate environment, and I'm hopeful that the whole year is going
02:23to be a positive for us.
02:25Charming.
02:26Whatever.
02:27Yeah, it's going to be real charming.
02:29It's got to be better than the 2,000 fans they drew at the Ashtray.
02:35I mean, honestly, when they're going to have 10,000 in Sacra Tomato and they got 2,000
02:41in Oakland.
02:42I mean, it was so embarrassing, the Ashtray, for the last 10 years.
02:47It's been going on for 10, 15 years.
02:49Nobody goes.
02:50They were making playoffs and nobody went.
02:54And I don't want to hear it about, you know, they're banging the drums and all this other
02:57nonsense.
02:58Nobody went.
02:59And it was ugly.
03:00So this little ballpark, I think he's right, because I think they're going to sell out
03:04in Sacra Tomato every night.
03:0710,000 is nothing there when they're craving baseball, and they love baseball there, and
03:12they want it there.
03:13So I think they're going to go.
03:15I think people in Sacra Meno are going to go to the games.
03:18I really do.
03:20Now, Rob also said that he has no problems with the amount of money that the Dodgers
03:26are spending, but he does say he understands the frustrations of the fans of the smaller
03:33market teams.
03:34He's not going to do anything about it, but he understands their frustrations watching
03:38the Dodgers spend hand over fist while the other teams do not.
03:42Well, it is what it is, and it's not changing, and it never will.
03:46So if you get really good pitchers and you get two or three really good hitters eventually
03:55in the draft, like the Pirates have done, they spend no money, they're going to screw
04:01up schemes and lose him, too.
04:03They've lost everyone else.
04:04Garrett Cole, they've lost everyone.
04:05So while they have him, you know, go out and beat him, OK?
04:10So if you're such a badass, if you're such an incredible pitcher that nobody can hit,
04:15then go beat him.
04:16You know, beat him.
04:17That's, you know, we've seen the Royals do it.
04:20I mean, if Kansas City can win the World Series, anyone can.
04:25And people say that's absurd to say that.
04:28But well, then what was that?
04:30They had no business winning the World Series, but they did.
04:34Small market, small budget teams can do it if they get enough badass young talent and
04:39they go out and execute and win and they go out and beat these teams.
04:43They can do it.
04:44I'm telling you, it's not impossible.
04:46It's happened.
04:47It's happened before.
04:49It can happen again.
04:51Obviously, they spend tons of money in Los Angeles and New York.
04:54I mean, what are you, stupid?
04:59No doubt.
05:00And the last thing you did mention was that the Cubs are working.
05:03They're working with the Cubs to get the All-Star game in 2027 back to Wrigley Field.
05:09They're going to give it to them.
05:10Wrigley Field is an institution in sports.
05:14And despite the fact that they've ruined it, they still have to have All-Star games at
05:20Wrigley Field.
05:21As long as Wrigley Field and Fenway Park are around, there's going to be All-Star games
05:27held there.
05:28People want to go to Fenway and Wrigley.
05:31It's like bucket list stuff.