it's time to talk sports it's hacksaw headlines a panorama of the World of Sports stories comments and opinions touch now here's iconic Sports talk show host Lee hacksaw Hamilton and co-host John Riley who wants to talk sports on a Thursday we do good afternoon everyone this is Lee hacksaw Hamilton along with my co-host the venerable John Riley we welcome you to our Thursday podcast from the Dixie Line Lumber and home studios in San Diego John an unbelievable amount of late breaking stories tons of controversy we're going to go a lot of different directions great to see you again yeah great to see you as well and I think our heads are exploding with all this information we got baseball to talk about we got the opening of the NFL preseason schedule we got controversy in soccer and more controversy in the world of golf don't go anywhere before we get started John reminder everybody who is part of our live stream how can they join us right at the end of the show with the fans Forum yeah so you can get involved just type in your question or comment for hacksaw in the live chat on Facebook or on YouTube we'll see it here on our screen we'll get you involved in the fans Forum at the conclusion of Hacksaw headlines and a reminder please share spread the word tell everybody what we're doing whether a podcast or Thursday podcast our Monday bonus podcast and my website it's all written as it relates to Padre's baseball here's the schedule they got seven games in the next 10 days with Arizona Arizona at one point was in first place in the National League West and Arizona since that point in time has bottomed out all their pitching gone away injuries fatigue too many young arms and they've kind of stopped hitting they're not the same team they were first couple of months of the Season Friars have to batter Arizona seven in a row they need to beat each and every game the Diamondbacks because then they get three with First Place Baltimore now they do get three with Miami but then they go away and they go got to go to Milwaukee and they got to go to St Louis and they play six on the road where they haven't played real well Friars are in a one and five skid they've never recovered from what the Dodgers did to them and now the stuff spilling out of the clubhouse after a 20-minute closed door meeting after the back-to-back loss in Seattle and Juan sto says we quit as a team we gave up this is unacceptable said Manny Machado Jake cronenworth said we were flat and of course the manager in recent weeks has made those statements about motivation fire intensity dude we're 110 games into the season why are we having this conversation using those phrases about quitting Etc it's just really an ugly scene Fernando tati just just absolutely looks fatigued he is in a hole that we've never ever seen before tatis 7 for 71 just a shade over 100 in like his last 16 games swinging a junk out of the strike zone he just he looks tired to me he just not getting anything accomplished Manny Machado struggling again 0 0 for 14 stretch juano four for 20 black hole and the guys that AJ prell traded for Garett Cooper heop Choy one for 17 one for 17 since the trades from Pittsburgh and Miami and Scott Barlo who came from Kansas City erra 13.50 and I'll tell you I went back and did some checking we're still offended by how this whole Dodger series ended do you know the f four the Padres in this Dodger series The Four game series they had the Fab Four hit 188 oh jeez do you know this season against the Dodgers all the games they' played they're 2- eight Fab Four Collective batting average 228 unbelievable the Dodgers Fab Four you can name any one of those big bats stared with mookie Betson Freddy Freeman in this series they hit 327 to to the Padre's 188 unbelievable and for the 10 games they've played this season the Dodgers Fab 4 hitting 290 just awful and the other thing I look back did some digging around here on the trade deadline transactions and the padr gave up Ryan weathers or gave up on Ryan weathers and finally moved him to Miami in the Garrett Cooper trade but they also traded four minor Leaguers including the young left-hander Jackson wolf who had one start in San Diego did very well do you know the four young players that he dealt away he gave 1.4 million in bonus money to those four guys starting with Jackson wolf and a couple of the others 1.4 million and gave up on them to go get guys hitting 1 for 17 and go get a reliever 13.50 erra money is No Object it's not his money but it's obvious to me overpays sign these guys above the slot after he drafts them or signs the international free agents above the slots don't get your return on the investment cuz you're shipping the guys out in all these different transactions that's 1.4 million gone with a snap of the fingers at the trade deadline and these kids were doing well in the minor leagues Jackson wolf had the one really nice start I know what what kind of business model is this is this the right way to conduct business I know it's not my money it's not your money it's not season ticket holders money well in kind of a degree it is uh so you got all that and then by the way you got the letter in the mail season ticket prices going up 10 to 15% third year in a row they had raised him 18% 20% now 10 to 15% wow and you can say it's Peter seidler's money but in essence you're paying for Matt Carpenter's contract yeah it's exactly right Andrew pomeran say contract and on and on and on and on okay so I've given you a lot to talk about the more more I dug into this I thought oh this is just this is terrible so your response to another closed Clubhouse meeting your response to what's happened to El Nino and Las salsa and stto and what's happened to the newcomers and everything else my Fab Four versus your Fab Four I'm sorry to ruin your day right out of the gate but it's just a train wreck you watched that game last night and you know the Padre is run into bad luck but they also like you say they they look flat they look fatigued um and I go back to to Manny Machado and you know whenever he's interviewed in the clubhouse he has this sort of persona of hey we're Pros we're grinding we're working every day we're going to get through this you know and it's the same tired line and I sometimes wonder if that's like removing the urgency from the the team you know granted maybe behind closed doors well I'm sure it's behind closed doors it's a different vibe but it seems like you know we're professionals we're getting paid and we're doing our best but you know it's baseball this seems weak they 55 and 60 you are way back in what is the last throws of trying to qualify for the last wild card spot it just it's hard to believe that a team with this much talent these guys making this kind of money that great Gold Glove defense quality starting pitcher best closer in the game and you're 55 and 60 and the only thing out of your mouth is we're grinding everything's okay we still got games to play schedule's against you right now and I didn't I did not bring up what happened September 1st you look at the schedule starting in September 1st okay they're not going to win not when they're playing who they're playing starting September 1st but that's another topic for another day cuz geez we got all the stuff to talk about yeah I mean I just want to comment on PR that deal you see they sent him over to uh weathers to Miami and he got lit up you know in his first outing and yeah he's trading a lot of those prospects but he keeps replenishing the farm now granted you know we talked about how he's given away the farm twice now we're working on the third time but that's kind of his currency and how he makes those deals so he doesn't have to give up too many of the let's just say Prime Talent if you want to call them Prime Talent at the MLB level well you can sign anybody my golden retriever could sign a bunch of kids for the farm system for overpay all of them and that that's been his methodology since he came in the front door overpays the slot system for draft picks goes abroad overpays in the Pacific Rim or in Mexico or in Cuba and then he trades a whole pile of these guys away this is his team his team is 55 and 60 uh I it's it's staggering but when he signed all these guys and made all these trades to get Machado and SoDo Musgrove darish I mean we were all praising we were kissing his feet AJ PR and these guys are just laying a turd and you know they need to find that spark that energy that will because when they when stto says we gave up and konob birth says we're flat well yeah I mean it's very obvious you could see it when you're watching the game they these guys got to turn it around well they can right now because got seven in a row against the team that didn't belong in first place and it's all kind of caught up to them hey join us on fans for just tell us what you think about the state of the Padres mentally emotionally physically and from a leadership standpoint okay we go from that let's move on to another hot spot in baseball yeah the Yankees I guess there's been a crazy story with Aaron Boon boy this these meltdowns are unbelievable this is this is beyond Bobby Cox who was an Umpire agitator this is probably equal to Earl Weaver who every time he came out of the Dugout he was kicking dirt on the Umpire shins and on home play Aaron Boon is just in total meltdown stage now he's got a team that's got all kinds of problems I mean the injury list is utterly ridiculous better team on the disabled list than actually on the field I don't know where the general manager Brian Cashman is right now because he was kind of Silent at the trade deadline now they got some young players they brought up maybe there's nothing left in the farm system they sure paid a lot of money to a lot of guys who got hurt and they paid some real money uh to guys that have not contributed at all this season because of injuries so Boon is going crazy with all the home plate umpires this has been a continuing Saga I'd say since June so he just got tossed out of his sixth game in like the last two and a half months and he's been fined and he's been suspended so he goes Haywire over balls and Strikes count he comes out of the Dugout which is an automatic ejection coming out of the Dugout to bark about balls and Strikes and he puts on a tantrum that I have not seen since Earl Weaver flipped his hat and was kicking the Umpire shin guards and kicking dirt on the plate he stands at the Batters box I don't know if you've seen the video he stands at the batter's box and he takes his spikes in his hand and he draws a new line for the Batters box and then he's standing there going right in the Empire's face and then he turns around comes back and goes the ejection salute yeah so he was ejecting the Empire so he's mocking the Empire with all of his gestures big time yeah yeah there'll be a letter from the Commissioner's Office uh please send your check to MLB on Park Avenue New York uh what an absolute disaster but they've got so many problems there you know they lost Aaron judge he's hit one home run since they came off the deal had the real significant toe injury run he ran into the fence of rer Stadium Jin Carlos Stanton has not really paid back on the investment they made a couple years ago when they got him out of Miami DJ lameu has been chronically hurt I mean he's one of the top hitters in the American League a year ago Josh jnelson has just done the shortstop third baseman's g a chronic calf Anthony wizzos go back on the iil first it was back now it's a concussion symptom thing that goes back a couple of months uh Harrison Bader their center fielder can't stay on the field he's got calf injuries hip injuries Etc a Domingo German who had thrown a no hitter a couple weeks ago he's left the club he's been removed he's he been sent to alcohol rehab Kus rodon they gave a ton of money to he's had three different injuries he's back on the ilil and Frankie Monto who they traded for from the a blew his elbow out he's in surgery he's not made enough progress to come back so I mean the Yankees roster is a mess the GM is either paralyzed or just does not want to trade any young guys away and the manager is he needs psychiatric care and he might get fired I mean they're they're struggling to stay above 500 the Yankees above 500 can you believe that it's unbelievable and you know it's probably Garrett Cole and Aaron judge against the world right I mean they're just surrounded by a bunch of other you know triaa guys but you know you talking about Aon Boone and getting ejected the plls and Strikes calls are just terrible they're I mean I was watching the Padre game last night against the Mariners and the Mariners pitcher is getting called strikes like 3 four inches off the plate and you know the Padres you're trying to you know take pitches work the count and you can't do that when the Umpire is so erratic so get me the robo ump I want the robo um and I think a lot of this frustration will go away but in in Arab Boon's case I think he's just blowing up because his team is is stinking up the joint and he just needs to try to create some energy I got new glasses do you think I should send these to the third base ump and the first base ump I've never seen in recent times so many missed was it a swing was it a not yeah and then go back on replay and say oh dude he he broke his wrist that should be a strike he keep calling balls and so what are these guys looking at chewing gum girls in the stands first base Third Base Empire they keep mistaking was it a swing or not and then the replay shows us upon further review that guy at third base that guy first missed the call again well I think the the strategy of batters now is to work that count and to work for walks everyone understands the value of onbase percentage so now these umpires are getting exposed and you know now they're you know balls that otherwise would have been swung at are now being taken I mean stto takes so many borderline pitches and he usually gets a break from the up sometimes but yeah the the whole system is breaking down these umpires they just don't have what it takes to call it accurately you've talked about how you know these pitch are dashing and darting all over the strike zone it's hard to call a game back there bring me the robo up okay then you'll be screaming about the computer so that's what's going on in baseball hey you like baseball jump on board our fans Forum we will get to your questions or answers your statements coming up at the end of our podcast let's go from there to the big topic on the table that everybody is talking about my goodness our social media platforms what we're doing just exploding about pack 10 pack 12 pack 4 Mountain West yeah I mean it's unbelievable the numbers I mean we had by the best day ever on YouTube yesterday just with all this reaction to the Pack 12 the Mountain West the Big 12 Big 10 everyone's got an opinion we had 15,000 hits in one day on my commentary his response to the death of the Pack 12 what we call it Black Friday yeah okay this is the latest let me walk through this I'll try to read it off my list here correctly the Pack 12 on the Mountain West the big question is there a merger coming to save both leagues is there a buyout coming or are they going to sink and swim the president of Washington State University Kirk Schulz on Wednesday night just went off on the leadership of the Pack 12 Conference Now understand Washington State Oregon State Stanford calb been left out there on the street corner cuz everybody else affected and those schools notably Oregon state Washington state they're looking at a drop of 40% athletic department Revenue cuz the TV contracts are going to evaporate and where are they going to go so Schulz went public said what we have just seen is the worst ever situation in the history of college football he attacked his fellow presidents on the council these people lack honesty all they care out now are themselves he said the Pack 12 presidents caused the demise of the Pack 12 Conference by the way they acted he says these presidents meet only three times a year it's not enough to exchange data about what's happening at each of Our member institutions he said do you understand that some of these Pack 12 res presidents have virtually no working relationship with their athletic director who's the CE CEO of a big piece of real estate on that campus Kirk Schulz said I meet with my athletic director and my football and head basketball coach nonstop over a given calendar year he said my mandate is to protect this University and my student athletes so is Oregon States we're going to stay in the power five conference then today Pat Chum the athletic director of Washington State he went off he said A Century of pack 8 10 and 12 history is now gone because of those people those people USC UCLA the presidents the chancellors ETC he says the demise of our conference is because of the conference mismanagement and he said the poor leadership has now led us to this overall fail really nasty stuff at Washington State and they're the only ones that have stood up and said this is horrible these guys need to be blamed uh Chum also said we should be no conversation about a new commissioner till we have a new game plan but he's of the opinion that George kov has to be removed because he knew for a year what was going and he didn't get the deal done now here's a lot of different ideas that are being kicked around there's a conversation out there the pack four that are left are evaluating how much money they have in their bank account and there's a a thought the Pack 4 pulls some of those resources goes to four the Mountain West teams Aztec Boise Fresno and Colorado State and funds half their buyout to leave the Mountain West wow they give each of those schools 17 mil of the 34 mil the Aztecs would have to pay get them out take them to the pack four which then becomes the pack eight H then they would go to the American Athletic Conference AAC they would go get SMU and they will go get rice which would put them in the Texas TV market so you bring them in with the San Diego Southern California TV market and you operate as a 10 team conference it's just in theory right now but you know if you're going to give each of those four Mountain West teams 17 million as a help to buy them out buy out the conference that's an awful lot of money what does it do to you reserve so that's that's one thing there's another conversation Pack Ford just goes to Colorado Springs and meets with the Mountain West commissioner and proposes a merger you bring your 12 teams from Wyoming and San Jose State all the way up to San Diego State and boy bring them all here's the moving vans bring them to the pack four take those 12 add those four 16 team conference oh by the way make sure the extra baggage John bring your TV contract with Fox and CBS because that would become part of the deal we take that bag and we'll go back to those two networks and ask for an upgrade on the TV contract and by the way apple is out there still in the Horizon that if they could get this deal done where they expand the pack four and make it pack four with the Texas schools and the Mountain West schools or just the pack four merging with the Mountain West and run it it would run under the pack four Banner Colorado State office would close apple is out there Fox and CBS might renegotiate throw some more money in Now is it going to be 30 million 40 million no not at all but that's that's another thing that's out there the Mountain West continues to say well once there is a decision what's going to happen with Cal Stanford we want to talk to Oregon State and Washington State about joining us but I can't see the beavers and cougars stepping down to go from what was a power five to a group of five conference so that is still out there and on on top of that the Big 10 because you brought this up about 10 days ago the Big 10 says we are not going to go back and talk to call and Stanford M evidently when the Big 10 knew they had the chance to get Oregon and Washington to come they went back to Fox Fox kicked in another 150 million in the big TV deal so it could be the Big 10 adding the Ducks and huskies and on top of all that all the anger you can cut through the anger in the Pacific Northwest with a chainsaw Oregon State in Washington state are now dropping hints rivalry game apple cup Civil War we're not going to play Oregon and Washington Oregon State and Washington State are talking about cancelling the civil war game and the Apple Cup game which are the end of the season game I mean that's their rivalry game talking about they did that to us we're done with them so like I say there is so much anger and there's so many things being discussed now you know why I have a headache go ahead yeah well you figure that uh it's like you know your girlfriend breaks up with you and then goes for the you know the new guy you know and and they're going for all the money in some ways you can't blame them but Washington State and Oregon State had such little leverage in the Pack 12 and they're the ones yeah that are left hold in the bag but yeah there's got to be a way to merge these two conferences together and hopefully they do it under the Pack 12 umbrella so you retain the power five but I go back you know for years for decades San Diego States wanted to be in the Pack 12 forever and they could never get in and it was largely because of academics and the University of California Berkeley kind of treating San Diego State and the whole state college system as sort of like a little brother well now suddenly Cal and Stanford jumping in a bed with San Jose State and Fresno State and San Diego State the academic Community is probably going to have their heads explode if they think that they're on the similar par but I don't know if they have any other choices right now it it's really hard because you're correct if we drag everybody from the Mountain West in now we're bringing in a lot of subst substandard academic institutions but see this whole problem was caused by your guys your presidents in the ivy Tower looking down at everybody yeah uh it's it's a mess my gut feel i' if if the pack four has the resources to help the Aztecs in Boise and Fresno and I guess Colorado state would be screwing Air Force yeah but it other resources to help them buy out a chunk of their exit fee bring them because then then then if you got you got four pack four schools you're bringing four from the Mountain West and you go get the two in Texas which is probably more about TV sets than anything now got a 10 team conference and at least you're competitive it's not as sexy as it was before no no Trojans No Bruins no ducks no huskys maybe that's the way it's going to work but it's going to take some time well you know a lot of these other conferences are not as sexy as they used to be like the um what is it the ACC you know in football it's like what they have Florida State right but not a whole lot else off the cliff yeah but you know and then you the the the um the Big East you know blew up so everything is it's all SEC big big 10 and then the Big 12 to a lesser degree and then the ACC and the remnants or whatever is left out there from Black Friday yeah and Conference USA and it's all blowing up so I think the the idea of these these uh presidents of these universities these ads they've just got to forget the past this is a new world there's more money there's more nil there's more transfer portal going on there's a lot bigger deals with TV and all these old traditional you know paradigms are breaking down concur you got a comment on fans for M your invitation message Us in the chat box let us know what you think about the things that are being discussed right now from there we got NFL football yeah it's going to be starting here real quick and I'm looking forward to seeing all these new quarterbacks and uh head coaches yeah a lot of story lines around the National Football League let's just kind of run through this Indianapolis Colts uh it's been weird because they they've got the contract mess and the injury mess with Jonathan Taylor that's not been solved Jim 's public stance about money you add that Gardner muu journeyman quarterback but kind of a gunslinger has refused to give up the starting quarterback job to Anthony Richardson the number one pick out of Florida AR15 is going to start in the Colts first preseason game but muu is going to play the equal number of snaps that Anthony Richardson plays it's interesting Indianapolis now desperately needs a running back cuz Jonathan Taylor's hurt and he's got the contract issue they brought in Kareem hunt who's got like over 5,800 allpurpose yards and 48 touchdowns ex Chiefs X Browns brought him in did not sign him now I don't know if it's because Hunt is asking for a ton of money or ERS is trying to devalue the running back position and he only wants to give him the veterans minimum but I would have thought he would have been a lock and he could play immediately and help them and instead he's gone Arizona you think you got problems here living in this heat how about the heat the Cardinals are going to have now there is no Kyler Murray there is a new coach obviously a lot of new staff members new playbook and all that they don't have a starting quarterback they've gone through all the OTAs and all the spring workouts and now couple of weeks into Camp they got four quarterbacks and all four are going to play in preseason games Colt McCoy was supposed to be the backup but he hasn't set the world on fire you know and nobody knows how long Kyler Murray is going to be out might be four weeks might be six more weeks are recovering from knee surgery so you you got the Cardinal situation where the four different guys are going to run out there at quarterback holy cow that's not good at this late date Chargers boy they're excited on offense now they have a setback today at about 11:00 a.m. they lost Josh Palmer the big rangy receiver Tennessee went down we think it's a knee injury made an unbelievable catch in full contact and got crushed now they have indicated whether it's a torn knee ligament or just a sprain or there's something else that happened but that's that's too bad because he had 72 catches last year average like 12 yards per catch made a bunch of big plays down the sideline now the Chargers are really excited they've got a 64 receiver that they had on their developmental Squad all last year kid by name of John Hightower and he's had a remarkable Camp he's caught eight touchdown passes nice in in all the workouts he's exceeded Keenan Allen Mike Williams so keep an eye on him Saturday night uh in this game Quinton Johnston the number one pick big tall athlete kind of looks like Mike Williams uh has made some big plays but he's dropped a bunch of balls he dropped a bunch of balls last year at at TCU uh also there's a huge fight for starting spots in the secondary so if you're watching the charger Rams game JT Woods Mark web JY or Taylor all fighting to steal a starting job so that's the latest with the Chargers Raiders we talked about Jimmy Garoppolo he will play uh this weekend uh the Raiders intriguing things though in the last two weeks they've really upgraded their secondary they need defensive help everywhere uh Marcus Peters has come in I mean he is physical he's fast he plays with attitude he's a bit of a hothead he was in Kansas City played well went to Baltimore played well but they both got rid of him I think the correct phrase would be high maintenance okay so he's got 32 career picks anyhow he is come in he's playing really good quarterback for the Raiders second-year quarterback Myron EPS is playing really well and a guy that really earned his Spurs last year and was in and out of the lineup because of injuries by name and Nate Hobbs he's playing well so we'll watch the Raiders in their preseason games what they do uh Patriots play Thursday night against Houston they'll play against CJ strad and this will be the unveiling of the new Patriot offense with their struggling quarterback M Jones who had a really bad time with assistance last year and their new coordinator who's coming back to belich staff Bill O'Brien who's a really sharp dude kind of a weird Persona so we'll see what that linkage is M Jones with Bill O'Brien and in Denver as we all await the debut of all things Shawn pton I am the law he's had a lot of injuries and this is really tough because I didn't think he had enough players to begin with but he's lost two of his top receivers Tim Patrick ruptured Achilles again KJ hamler removed from the Rost a regular heartbeat situation left tackle Garrett bus is is not held up he's coming off knee surgery they lost their big money right tackle Matt mlinci to a knee injury yesterday Barrett Browning do everything linebacker at a good season a year ago then he got hurt at the end so Shawn Payton's got an awful lot of injuries that he's just he don't have enough players if he can't get all these guys back uh but Russell Wilson looks Dynamic Eric benemy this is really interesting big uproar in the Washington commanders Camp bemy of course a longtime Chief's coordinator now the coordinator and assistant head coach uh in Washington to Ron Rivera evidently players are bitching that benemy is so intense that he's in everybody's face every minute of every day and players went to Ron Rivera and Rivera told him to leave the office would not talk to him he says this guy is quote coaching you up H and he told those players and met individually with him he has my approval to do what he's doing because look where he was and what he accomplished The Other Place The Other Place being Kansas City and he said it's your job as a player with a Washington commanders to become comfortable with what is uncomfortable that was a direct quote that's a good line yeah that's a that's your boss would tell you yeah quit bitching go back to work exactly so that's what's that's G on there and one final note uh oldtimers will remember this name this guy was a great kicker in the old pack eight UCLA name was zenan Andrew went to Canada played 13 years in Canada to ronto orgon it's going to be in the Hall of Fame uh guy kicked 215 field goals he was also their punter in the kickoff guy did everything in Canada he had a 108 yard punt wow in the CFL of course the fields are 110 yards long 108 yards nobody ever come close to it he just passed away at the age of 76 he was a great my goodness great punter and kicker and he was actually a Kansas City chief for about two years and elected to go back to the CFL played forever up there made a lot of money kind of a a folk hero so that's that's what's going on in the NFL notebook yeah so it look the punk God before the more recent Punk God right um but I this intriguing all these NFL teams and yeah what a disaster in Phoenix you know they're trying to put that thing together after Kingsbury got you know let go and you know they've never been able to have a functional offense with Kyler Murray but let me ask you Lee you know there are a lot of those top quarterbacks we've talked a lot about Bryce young and CJ Stout and Anthony Richardson and a bunch of others um you know the kid from Kentucky the kid from TCU are any of those do you think are going to surprise us this year I mean who are you looking forward to seeing well the learning curv is right there CJ Stout is starting for Carolina I'm sorry for Houston Bryce young is starting for for Carolina both are going to start their preseason games each one of those preseason games so now you're going to go through that learning curve with those guys will Levis who sat on the board forever you talked about the Kentucky quarterback he's going to play this weekend probably coming off the bench but he's going to play like a full half uh for the Tennessee Titans um it'll be fascinating to see how far along Anthony Richardson is cuz I watched a bunch of video of him at Florida and he is dynamic and he is big and he's an athlete and he's also wildly inconsistent but Jim Merc says he's going to have to play he's going to have to learn it's probably going to be painful but he is starting indianapolis's first game so it'll be fascinating to see interesting story in I think it's in Washington Jake haer Fresno State star quarterback has had a really good camp oh wow which kind of surprises me cuz he's to me he's kind of undiz like he's 510 if he's 510 but he all the throws at Fresno and they Blitz the Daylights out of him and they got battered and he stayed in there kept making plays haer has played well now granted Sam how second-year quarterback is going to be the guy and jacobe perette journeyman quarterback is going to be number two but Hayner's going to play in some of these preseason games so that's where we are and quit bitching just go back to your stall and your computer be comfortable with what I'm making you you uncomfortable about yeah well LeBron Rivera made the right move there because he hired the enemy for a reason sure and he can't you know kind of bend a knee to the players you know he's got to be able to be a tough guy there but you know this this preseason is going to be fascinating I'm looking forward to seeing how all these teams go but I'm really interested to see I mean Anthony Richardson a really Dynamic Athlete so imagine if he could kind of Figure It Out Boy the Colts could be in for a really nice show okay you're an NFL fan we're getting to halftime you're an NFL fan and join us on fans form you got questions we're going to have answers for you we get to halftime our Thursday podcast brought to you by 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goal scorer Joe vardal from Leipzig but they lose a couple players too uh one went to Saudi Arabia so many people have gone to Saudi Arabia Manchester City though is still the team to beat I'm intrigued to see what Manchester United is all about because the Red Devils bring in Mason Mount goal scorer I think he was with Chelsea they wound up getting from Spain Rasmus hosand they picked up a third young player Andre Onana now they do have Marcus rashford amongst others back casemiro Etc manu's got to make up some ground to chase down man city Manchester City trying to win third straight p title I don't know what's going on with Tottenham and Hotspur this is really strange I mean they open this weekend and Bayern M Munich at 8:00 this morning hour time firmed up a $110 million transfer deal to acquire Harry Kane from Hotspur oh wow Kane of course had 32 goals last season he's on the Bret becoming the greatest scorer of all time in the English Premier League I don't know if how how how can Tottenham make a deal the weekend the season starts and let go their leading score even if it's a big $110 million price tag deal um is C trying to force their hand that they give him the state-ofthe-art contract to stay in England or is he just waiting for a transaction to occur because this is the final year of his contract it's a real mixed signals but how could you let this happen the weekend the season is about to begin now you're going to let this guy go I find that whole way of doing business really strange with Hotspur Arsenal pretty good off season for the Gunners Arsenal went out and got Declan rice from West Ham goal scorer got Kai HTS uh he came from Chelsea as transfers they're going to be good they were good last year they might have been a surprise team last season could they close the gap uh and move up on Manchester City Liverpool's got the veterans mosala Diego Yota but they also add Alex Mallen but they seem to be a little bit wafer thin and I don't know what to make of what's going on in Chelsea they purged everybody I mean we talked about Christian psic going to AC Milan Marcus Mount was allowed to transfer to another team within their own League who's going to score goals to help it's like Raheem Sterling against the world there so that's that's really an intriguing story but city boy city is just loaded and Manu is not what Manu used to be now maybe that's going to change with the additions of the team this year yeah I'm of course I'm rooting for City I went to a game there um in Manchester a couple years ago at the family and we had an incredible time and boy the energy in that stadium and the songs and and it was a great time so I'm on board with City mostly because my son has been a fan of their team but isn't it amazing how we're seeing this Dynamic sort of movement of money and players and teams in almost every sport you know we're talking about the college football but look at all that action that's going on in the Premier League people getting lured by these really big contracts to other countries 19 guys have left to go to Saudi Arabia 19 guys from the EPL and they all got bloated bloated high price contracts and Inter I'll give you a sidebar story 30 seconds uh about the English Premier League so I take a vacation to go to England and Scotland so I'm on this tour it's Cathedrals and castles it's just so cool so where on this bus trip and we go up north of London and we stop in a hotel to stay the night to continue the the junker to go to Scotland we stop in norwi city and we're driving in off the the highway and there's the hotel and it's attached to the soccer stadium said wow so I get settled in I get down I walk around the perimeter of the stadium and I and then it dawned on me this is the home of Norwich City which at that point was in the EPL mhm so I walk in the security office I me there's nobody else around it's like Friday at 4:30 I walk in and the security guards at the desk and I introduced myself I said I'm from America I'm a reporter I've never been inside a English Premier League Stadium you think I could take a peek he says well you have to identify yourselves I of my bag I have my Padre press credential I showed it to him I said I cover Major League Baseball I work in talk show radio yeah I'll let you in he says just go through this door there's an elevator go in punch five it'll take you to the top so I go and punch it doors open I'm in the BBC Booth with all the cameras oh nice the top of the stadium looking down what a cool experience cuz the stadium colors are green and gold which is Norwich City's color in a stadium it's just beautiful so I stand there I took a few pictures there's nobody in the stadium I mean the place is all locked up so I come back down I said hey do you think I could walk out on the pitch he said uh yeah so he goes to the front door he locks the front door cuz now it's almost 5:00 says follow me goes out the other side in the security office turns on a switch and it's this long walkway the locker rooms are on either side mhm and they have on the walls the logos in neon lights of every team in the eepl nice 20 of them it's really cool so I walk all the way down and he says here's you're on on the on the pitch on the field and it's like the Masters like the grass it's just absolutely I'm taking all these pictures so that's that's my cool English Premier League Stadium story now I came back went to the hotel hotel is a mob scene they have a pub next to the hotel mhm and the pub is full of Chelsea blue fans because Norwich City was going to play Chelsea Saturday afternoon the next day so I sat in the back of the pub and I watched these eppl fans sit there drink beer sing you know point at the norw city fans I mean it was you talk about rivalries that was pretty pretty cool and norward City beat him the next day which absolutely stunned me because norward city was fighting for its life so they wouldn't get relegated so that's my English Premier League store I wish I could have stayed for the game but I had to go to Edinburgh Scotland at that point in time but what a cool experience you know you you think of the cathedrals and Major League Baseball and the great stadiums that we were in when I was a voice of the Chargers and we broadcast the NFL and places this was really different well it fit in with your castles and Cathedrals trip but I I I get that Vibe every time I'm in a new stadium a new ballpark it's like you're walking into a church you know it's just you have that aura and you can feel the history and and you know that even if you're there on an empty day um it's going to be jam-packed 24 hours however it is and there's going to be so much energy in there so yeah visiting stadiums is just a great thing to do and it's wonderful that you were able to do that while you were traveling abroad okay speaking of soccer who there controversy other places aside from just Tottenham h how about this one yeah so mbappe back in the news here with Amar Paris s gerain in France the elite team uh mbappe about to become a free agent does not want to play there anymore couple weeks ago we had the story that uh Saudi Arabia offered him $332 million in a package transfer deal that would allow him to play for them and then the following year go play uh for Real Madrid he turned down theone did not want to go to Saudi Arabia now this came months after lonel Messi turned down the money and instead went to Miami to play for MLS and if that's not enough he's told PSG I'm not going to listen to any contract offers either you're going to do a transfer deal that's going to send me to Real Madrid or I'm going to go on a free transfer and my contract is up so PSG is in hot water and now they got another problem cuz the third store wants out Neymar South American Superstar he said move me franchise deal otherwise I walk on a free transfer next summer so here's this legendary franchise which has gotten raided and has got all kinds of money issues with guys who have been offered phenomenal dollars to go to Saudi Arabia and instead of going other places so uh that that's interesting to see it's a legendary franchise this is kind of like Real Madrid FC Barcelona this is kind of like Manchester United back in the day and they can't hold on to their players by the way Messi mhm one of two things this old dog can still play or MLS isn't real good Lon Messi has scored seven goals in his first four games for inter Miami wow that's pretty good so that's a soccer update that dude's talented um yeah it's interesting you know all these guys moving around you know the players trying to call their shots like a lot of the NBA players you know when LeBron you know hooked up with um uh why I Chris Bosch and and who's the other guard there Wade um you know in Miami they're trying to assemble these teams I wonder are are they are the soccer stars doing that internationally or are they just flat out going for the money well they're going for the money because there is a play fair rule as it relates AKA salary cap in soccer but Saudi Arabia then subscrib to a salary cap and that's why they're offering this unbelievable amount of money for these guys to jump okay from soccer uh slap shots and saves let's talk hockey yeah always breaking news here especially with the Ducks and the leavs yeah let's talk about what's happened most of the free agents are off the board now another one has just left uh Toronto Maple Leafs in a bit of a surprise they got salary cap problems Toronto has signed former starting [Music] goenda cren last year former San Jose Shark former la king pretty good goenda where he'll probably wind up battling uh for the starting job not good news for the Ducks uh you know they're in the midst of rebuild they have lost one of their Center Icemen Isaac Lindstrom played here for the San Diego goals for about a year and a half one up there was pretty competitive scored 16 goals ruptured Achilles tendon training in Sweden he's going to miss half the season the other interesting story as it relates to the ducks that means the draft pick Leo Carlson from Sweden going to get the chance to be a starting center Iceman it's interesting because there was a theory that if he did not make the Ducks as a 19-year-old they'd let him go back to Sweden but now because of the lundstrom injury Pat verbi the general manager just indicated this week if Carlson's not ready to play in the NHL at age 19 he's coming here he's going to play for the San Diego gos oh wow and we're talking about an elite top of the draft board guy oh right on coming here this might be the best and NHL draft pick that's ever put on a goal's jersey if if he winds up here and if he doesn't make it there we'll see but you know we talked about extensively for the hockey fans we talked should they have taken an Adam fantelli at number two or take Carlson well they took Carlson because he's a multi-position guy probably took Carlson not thinking have to play play him at Center Ice fantelli went to Columbus he's going to be on an opening night NHL roster but how about that if Carlson's not ready Carlson wears gos colors opening night in October that's a real high draft pick that's a real talent yeah I think uh gos ownership and general manager has got to be fired up about that possibility they sell a lot more tickets but you know we we talked about the NFL quarterbacks kind of getting thrown in there like Anthony Richardson but they're still maybe in their early 20s I mean this kid's only 19 and I mean he probably barely shaves so it's just it's intriguing to see if these guys are going to be able to handle that pressure and the physicality in a game the physicality is the big issue the wear and tear because I mean these guys they they play 72 games NHL's schedule is really tough the wear and tear factor is huge but he's a big guy he's 63 205 right now and you put him in a weight training program and nutrition he's going to be much bigger on that frame in in year or twoo so we'll keep an eye on that I wish we didn't have to talk about this but we have to talk about this okay we're going talk about Phil melson oh my goodness oh yeah I mean saw the headline for this so you got some uh updates here AAW Phil Mickelson has had a long issue with betting on sporting events lost a ton of money reputation taken a phenomenal hit there was a new book that's just about to be released uh it's written by one of his longtime friends and that becomes the issue Billy Walters Billy Walters is a gambler a very successful Sports gambler who got into a relationship with Phil mikkelson and Mickelson's got quote a gambling addiction well the quotes in the book that came out Thursday at 12: noon from Billy Walters that Phil mikkelson has wagered 1 billion doll over the course of his entire career wow as a pro golfer wow that's about a 14-year span that he lost a100 million of his wealth gambling over these many years Federal records that are encompassed in this book that Billy Walters has put out showed that he transferred huge amounts of money to gambling companies including a $3 million payment to a a better uh in Detroit guy won $96 million his career and it's all gone because of his gambling debts oh wow um he of course got dragged into insider trading a couple years ago and got caught Billy Walters gave him Insider Trader information Phil had to repay over $900,000 of illegal gains now he oddly enough he did not get charged because he turned around and paid it back within two days but he did not get charge and of course they got $200 million from Liv to go be part of Saudi Arabia they've indicated that he made more than 7200 bets in a three-year span and that he in one day he bet 42 times he bets on NFL games NBA games baseball games it's also a report that Phil mikkelson tried to place a $400,000 bet on a writer cup that he played in oh wow I guess the big issue I have with this hey he's got a sickness he's got an addiction obviously he says he went through rehab and he no longer bets who knows big problem I have is PGA had to be aware of some of this and they let him just continue to play and play and play mhm I mean PGA has disciplined guys like Dustin Johnson and others for things like domestic abuse or cocaine they had no knowledge that Phil Mickelson had this depth of gambling addiction that's absolutely it's a sad story because for the longest period of time Phil mikkelson was the fans man yeah for sure so I'll ask people on fans Forum you view few do you view Phil Mickelson differently now just because of all the junk that he did with livv and all the things that he said and what he just said and now what just come out in this book which is going to be released in the next week or so and you can you can argue well Billy Walters who's he they sent his ass to prison for five years for insider trading but the then president Trump pardoned him ah did no wrong pardoned him so that's where we are with Phil Mickelson thoughts everyone loves Lefty right I mean it's been like that forever and it's surprising that he's gotten into this mess but you know what I like gambling is a pretty serious addiction and at the same time it's getting more and more involved in sports like one time I was out with one of my buddies and we were up in Tahoe and he whipped out his phone and he had like a an app that a bookie gave him and so he could place online bets all throughout the day I mean guess that's how mikkelson probably did 42 bets in one day but now you can bet on the game as it's in progress like you know in the second or the third quarter of an NBA game you know the point spreads change the odds change and you can do sort of realtime betting so this whole thing has become more sophisticated and if you're walking around with this app on your phone then yeah I could see how that would be addictive just like social media it's tough I you Phil Mickelson the same same now as you did before oh no no I mean he's a different guy you know in terms of the brand image that we always had of Phil uh but if he only earned like roughly speaking aund million only $100 million in his career but then he's bet over a billion or nearly a billion he lost 100 Mil oh unbelievable yeah no he's got all of his endorsements and his sponsorships but that's probably why he wound up turning his back on his PGA Tour car to take another payday cuz he probably got all these money issues it's a sad commentary it's a horribly sad commentary it is a sickness you know I wouldn't condemn him if he had cancer I guess I can't condemn him for his addiction if he got help and if he's beyond that but this book this book is sorted oh yeah well yeah like you said maybe this explains why he went to livv and took the money because maybe he had to because he had no other options on we go it's time for fans for and before we get started just a remind if you 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to the first week of October and they're not in a playoff game holy cow oh it's going to be brutal I mean the fans are going to just Revolt it's going to be I mean we're already so frustrated you know as fans like it's like we're taking a beating it's like mentally punishing every day watching this team it's it's hard to believe Silver Slugger bats gold star gloves Sai Young Award pitching roads relief Ace of the year and their sub 500 and their six teams in front of them in the Wild Card chase the Wild Card Chase I'm talking about first place Wild Card Chase okay on we go next question okay on we go let's go here to um October and he says benemy a Coughlin likee coach well he's a fire brand I mean he was that way as a player that that's what fueled Eric benmy he was a tough guy running back a demanding running back a smart dude running back uh I got to know him fairly well uh when he was with with the Chargers and he was involved in a really bad incident right before the Super Bowl in pregame warm-ups he got a fight with one of his own teammates he was so amped about playing in the Super Bowl uh we'll see he has not been hired as a head coach I don't understand why the dots never got connected he had seven different interviews maybe he didn't interview well maybe there's a piece of that reputation that precedes him but I mean he's earned Spurs and Ron rera is going to let him have his run to do things differently and they need to do things differently cuz the Washington Redskins turn commanders haven't been very good for a while yeah I it's it's a tough thing the enemy to me I I always liked him I he was at Colorado he played here for the charterers for was like in the early 2000s yeah in and around the Super Bowl team oh back then in the 90s okay so uh yeah he he was an interesting running back he was kind of a smaller frame guy fire plug guy tough guy catch the ball run the ball want to be on the field all the time he kind of a role player in the NFL he was not the star that he was at CU but that's who he is I mean you talk about throwing on that light switch well that's the guy and I think there's a lot of expectations on him because people see him as the next big NFL coach bright light right hadn't had the chance yet we'll see what happens maybe he's the air parent if Ron Rivera decides to walk away in Washington on we go fans for okay here let's get another comment here from John he says um as for the pack four if they can buy out the mountain four that would be the best of all worlds yeah it really would if but that's a that's an enormous amount of money so I don't know how you rationalize emptying out the pack four bank accounts to pay each school half of their share to get out of the Mountain West I mean 17 mil per school for the four schools that's what almost $70 million now how do you get that back or you you you know because do all these schools are they sexy enough do they bring neon lights to the Pack 4 I mean it's not like you're buying the right to have UCLA come join your conference we're talking about Aztec Boise Fresno in Colorado State said I mean to pay each of those schools 17 million it should be half of the 34 exit fee remains to be seen awful lot of moving Parts yeah it's interesting too because if even if they came up with that money 17 million for four schools those schools have to come up with another 17 million right because it's a 30 4 million exit fee and I don't know if they have the resources to do that San Diego State says they do well they keep saying that they can't afford you know they can't afford 34 34 yeah so I I the pack four is in such a desperate situation I mean this is really kind of one of their few angles to retain that power five conference if they don't pull in some of these Mountain West teams then I think the whole thing blows up and would they ever let's just say hypothetically the Mountain West teams came in to the pack 12 or 16 whatever it was and the NCAA says you know what you're no longer a power five I mean look at the quality of your athletic departments there we're just going to now exclude you from the big bowl games I don't think they'd do that because you still have Cal you still have Stanford and you got Oregon State and Washington State and you're above the minimum you have to have six to be considered a power five conference but um I think one of the interesting sidebar stories it's going to be months down Road you know there is a formula as the college football playoffs John go to 12 teams there is a formula of who you consider Etc but now the conferences having been blown apart does the formula change and does it screw the little guy does it screw the group of five or in this case the group of five that might have its luggage sent to the pack four that's another arguing point you got to keep an eye on that story but that's that's probably months months down Road next question okay we got a bunch here in social media that are kind of Ong the same lines about this college football situation and um this comment here is from um Antonio on YouTube he says the Pack 4 should just set up conference that that whis like reg reg the relegation system like you know English Champions League soccer they add all the Mountain West and other good schools and teams then separate into subdivisions that change each year based on performance like a league um like an a league and a B- league and possibly a c League then you move into the league by win this this guy didn't want to say it but I guess I'll say it he just wants to relegate Wyoming and San Jose State and a few of the Have Nots that would never work if you're going to have a TV network partner you know who's on our conference who we paying this money to they might get kicked out now it's a novel idea but the rest of the world doesn't live in the relegation World otherwise the Oakland A and some of these really bad teams and other pro sports that we get relegate it's not novel idea but that's not going to work well it just seems like college sports particularly college football for the longest time they didn't have a playoff system remember there was like co- Champions and the teams that were Champions never played each other and it seems like it was always money it was always the guy in the back room with a cigar that was in charge of the bulls that ran the show it's almost corrupt you know and so now I think maybe some of that's breaking down I'm not sure well the Spectrum was over here way back in the day and now because of all the realignment in the contracts and there's so many different networks they want to be part of the players now that it's pinned gone all the way to the other side and it's totally out of control I it this might be a short order fix maybe the things some normaly is going to come back nobody that I know is real happy with the structure of college football right now I it's utter utter chaos and like a week ago Black Friday a historical day in college athletics let's move on who else wants to sound off on social media lots of reaction Lee this past week over the US Women's National Team I got to bring up one of the comments let me tell you tell me what you think of this this is from JK Camy he says Lee I'm tired of your Trump bashing and your boy Biden lies steals takes bribes and flushes our country down the toilet I'm no longer a fan and won't follow you peace out everybody's entitled of their own opinion um there's a whole bunch of angles to this whole USA Women's National Team crisis one of the things that bothered me and I I guess I should have mentioned it last week was Team USA should have beaten Portugal did not nearly lost to Portugal USA had the chances against a very much more physical Netherlands team did not win that and then obviously had a ton of scoring chances and didn't put it in the back back of the net against Sweden I guess one of the things that was I think offended a lot of people is the women on the US national team after all these ties were acting like we won gez you should have lost to Portugal I don't know you should have been jumping for joy and smiling they were jumping for joy and smiling because they were going to go to The Knockout round played much better against Sweden could have won against Sweden but didn't did not and my response was JK I was commenting on Trump's comment and condemnation of Team USA and mocking them and mocking migan rapino we do cover the stories here now whether you buy the opinion that's on you but we cover the story so we had every right to talk about what that guy did to the US team he offended an awful lot I wonder if he offended every female athlete Across America it's going to cost him some votes now if you want to get into a political argument maybe I should be a guest when you have your podcast yeah maybe that would be good you're kind of like hacka Off Script here yeah oh we really go off script uh at at the end of the day full disclosure I don't like either one of these guys that we may have to vote on yeah I'm in the same boat with you I'm tired of Joe and I would never ever want that man your man to lead us every again and at the end of the day on the bottom line in this whole discussion if you have a right to have an opinion about Trump I have a right to have an opinion anti-trump uh did we say First Amendment yeah right on hey just email me when you get your own podcast I'll be glad to talk politics if not sports with you but on we going Team USA there's going to be changes the the longer this goes I believe there will be a coaching change I don't think this thing is is destitute I don't think this is face down on the gutter they've developed so many good young players maybe what we should say is hey the realistic thing is these other countries have caught up because they got athletes in their funding and our great athletes starting from mam to Hope Solo through this group here are all now handing the the Baton to the next group and I think we got collectively a really good group of young players I mean they had 11 shots on goal against Sweden and a hit cross bars and they had shots blocked the goal tender was phenomenal so Sweden beat Team USA it's not that Team USA underachieved I thought they played really well and they got a chunk of these girls are going to be coming back does that make sense yeah it does and I think the team is promising going I mean really the next World Cups for both the men and the women I mean they could USA could be in a great spot you know America first right so um but it is kind of weird how you know politics has sort of infected Sports and it's not just in soccer it's in everything um and it's kind of sad cuz back when I was a kid I mean they were separate worlds but they're similar they're both like team sports they're both tribal politics and sports but at any rate you got a lot of push back I'll just tell you that on social media hey thanks for listening thank you for following if you like it great if you don't like it too bad for you but we're going to continue to talk about the topics on the table let's move on okay let's move on here and let's talk a little bit about the Aztecs and this is from Michael and he says um Do You Believe Brady hul and his coaching staff was has recruited from the portal a better grade of talent and Charisma than they had last year last year at this time coach hul was bragging up Braxton Burmeister as our quarterback he was a talentless waste and was a quitter on the team towards the end of the season hope he has not recruited any players that mirrored Braxton go azex well a whole bunch of things I thought Burmeister would play well based on what I had seen and I looked at video of him at Virginia Tech and talked to people back there he got here he was overwhelmed he got here got his brains beat out he had five different injuries cuz he had a young offensive line that just was learning on the job and it was just painful I didn't like what happened at the end of the season but then again I didn't like that will hasell uh was thrown off the team and since runoff by the coaches but the more you dig the more you find out that Will hasell was a real academic issue and will Haskell didn't want to work well and will hasco wound up having to go to a junior college to get his associate degree he's now at the University of Washington and as a walk on uh I blamed hul a lot for that whole mess but I think there's a story behind the story where they just said enough is enough um did he recruit well in the portal I don't think he did not this year compared to last year where he got offensive lineman defensive players they got I think they got hurt by the nil cuz the guys the big linemen they were in on somebody else showed up at the last minute and said more money and they're not going to come here and play for 2,000 a month month cuz that's all the Aztec Foundation can give them that's all they can afford and they go somewhere else you know the prime example is is the big right tackle that they had great aspirations for Josh Simmons 67 310 now he struggled really badly last year but he played every snap and they think he's a prototype tackle guard and all of a sudden he got tampered with and he was out of here he wound up at Ohio State why 50,000 wow that's what they paid him so Aztec didn't do the portal as well this year cuz they don't have the money that everybody else is is throwing out there from the the you know power five conferences that's going to change I would bet I would bet a year from today um we're going to have a different structure in the nil because I think Congress and the NCAA are going to come up with a foundation and a infrastructure that will control this thing across the board and you won't have Ohio State making phone calls in the middle of the night to parents to tamper with kids like Josh Simmons cuz I swear that's the story behind the story as to why you lose one of your top offensive lineman so big season ahead we'll see if Jaylen Maiden is the real deal under Ryan lindley's new offense if you're an Aztec fan red and black scrimmage Saturday night Snapdragon Stadium will get a feel couple of weeks out they play my alma mat Ohio u in the opening game of the season they got a great schedule my goodness if they got a great schedule you like college football go see the great schedule mhm and you know you might not be happy about the prices you might not be happy about Brady might not be happy about the fact that they've had all these quarterbacks come and go and it's not a position of strength but they they are playing UCLA here and then they're playing all the enemy all the bad guys come here this year Boise Fresno Nevada I think it's a it's it's just a really colorful home schedule John yeah I'm looking forward to it in fact one of my buddies just invited me to the game against this the second game of the year Idaho state so he had an extra ticket he hey let's go and I'm like right on so I'm looking forward to that I think it's going to be great but this this whole structure in college sports there are halves and have knots and San Diego State's always been in the have not category it's no wonder they've just so anxiously want to be on the big stage and they legitimately deserve it I mean they're a much better academic and athletic you know University than a lot of other programs around America so it's it's a real shame and I can't blame for the aex for being aggressive to try to get to that power five level we'll see if it happens I I think there's got to be some type of blueprint that the pack four can execute that will save them and give some opportunities to bring four the best of the Mountain West in but you got a $34 million check somebody's got a right for each of those schools that wants to leave and boy that they'd be bitter in Colorado Springs oh yeah and I I'd feel terrible for Air Force Academy that is one of the most unique instit tions in the country that in West Point in Annapolis they get they get screwed out of this and they're not part of it I feel terrible for them the others others don't have resources the others don't have phenomenal Traditions you know not Nevada not UNLV not I got friends that work at the University of Wyoming great place but you know it's it's a scuffle to be who they are where they are in the Mountain West they're not going to be part of this this transfer okay we move on okay we move on here's a another comment here about sports media and this one here this is from John he says find myself coming back to hacksaw for analysis of San Diego Sports the new batch of San Diego Sports media seems so bandwagon and toxic and zero knowledge of History lots of reactionary takes that change on The Daily thanks for the grounded content with in-depth analysis you are right we are bleeping brilliant thank you now I enjoy it this is what I do this is who I am 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