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RT The Big Picture July 12, 2024

Website r t v dot com we will be back in an hours time with a full world news update in the meantime though it is the big picture stay with us. A lot from rhode island where i live like you probably are were sticking close to home riding out the pandemic and while there are worse places to spend your summer than the great ocean state i miss baseball i mean going to games we can see games but theyre in empty stadiums with fake crowd noise and fake fans and cold plus players are disrupting team rosters and whats going to turn. Out of being an asterisk season meanwhile were seeing hockey and basketball played in august some College Teams have already started canceling their seasons what of the n. F. L. Lets go to sports h. Q. At least remotely and ask steve crist aco steve welcome to the big picture. Good to be with you alan thank you. Although our world series champion Washington Nationals were deprived of a standing o. To get their rings of proper homeowner i did read with interest that the e. S. P. N. Telecast of that 1st game against the damn yankees was the most watched regular m. L. B. Game on any Network Since 2011 but whatever t. V. Money the networks are going to salvage from this truncated season has got to be a drop in the bucket steve ballpark it for us how much are they losing by playing a half a season and not selling tickets and warm beer and cold hot dogs. Well hell and just from ticket sales alone theyre estimated to lose about 640000. 00 per game and thats just per game now were talking the whole season obviously 60 games short season instead of 100 62. 00 games owners are estimating that they will lose about 4000000000. 00 collectively but some think that numbers a little exaggerated and they wanted it to be that high so they can justify paying the players less but the players did fight for that full corroded salary now generates typically 10000000000. 00 in revenue collectively thats from ticket sales Merchandise Sales concessions and everything go into the ballpark per year 10000000000 per year and they expect it was about 4000000000 of that so its not looking good for the m l b if they are even able to finish a shortened 60 game season has already seen a lot of trouble with teams like the marlins and now the cardinals who have to play apparently about 55 games in less than 45 days now its looking like because they havent been able to get on the field without bricks. Yeah after that 1st outbreak with the phillies and the marlins im surprised they made it to the weekend but during the shutdown every industry has been disrupted by supply chain issues the entire Minor League Baseball season has been called off what kind of domino effect is that going to have on coming major League Baseball seasons without the 5 teams plan ready that form so 1st of all the farm system could be in jeopardy because a lot of those teams will be able to survive without that revenue from the bite at least in the small towns so that could be an issue but also just Player Development over the next couple years you either will be able to vet the players for operating properly or theyll be called up too soon before theyre ready because they have no other choice or not able to be called up at all if maybe your breakout year or or to happen this summer and you wont even get to experience that and were seeing the trickle effect of that domino effect as you said being caused by kohut in all the sports especially as you mention in the intro challenged sports now being affected without a lot of the College Football teams being able to play this year what will that have an effect on for the n. F. L. Being able to scout prospects so the same effect with the Minor League Baseball as the big leagues will be able to prospects properly you know i have personally im so starved for baseball that im trying to stay open minded about all these rule changes theyre experimenting with in the big city how do you think this designated hitter thing for instance is going in the National League expect that to be permanent and what do you make of the other disruptive experimental changes that baseball is playing with this year. Why i guess of any season to do it so experiment is now because its a shame as you said theres going to be an asterisk on the season so its a time to experiment with the universal d. H. I think baseball curious much like yourself maybe im guessing arent a fan of it and want to go back to to the old ways but and making it yours has that but you know i think its a lot of the other side would say that its good to have an even played field so to speak now and because its one of the few sports where you see different rules for different leagues and over conferences and divisions and rather have a uniform blanket rule across the entire league i think is also a good thing but i think this will need to be expanded beyond this year because we wont be able to see its full effect with just a little over a 3rd of the season being played if were able to get to 60 games again. Yeah you guessed right growing up in American League country i was used to the d. H. And thus i was fascinated by seeing National League ball because theres so much more strategy the late Joe Garagiola who like the d. H. Said people dont go to the park to watch the manager think but i always found that part exciting and i guess in a shortened season with these expanded rosters and players dropping like flies they had no choice were speaking with our team sports maven steve christakis steve whats the deal with the players who chose to opt out for fear of the coronavirus they just dont get paid and do they lose that inservice time that reckons into free agency etc. So players who this is 2 fold because if you just forfeit your season you forfeit your salary but thats only if youre not high risk now if you are high risk you will still retain that prorated salary and your Health Insurance and you will still not lose any service time but if you are not high risk and you just wanted to opt out the other reasons personal reasons then you do not accrue that service time in the n. O. B. Now the end. Fellows a little bit different players who are not high risk and opted out will get 150000. 00 stipend and not retain Health Insurance and not obviously accrue that service time but if you are high risk that goes up to 350000. 00 stipend for high risk players and of course you do get that service time accrued and you do retain Health Insurance as well so its a little bit different across the board for the different forces and how do they define high risk so those are medical conditions if you have underlying conditions such as more prone to Heart Disease or lets say you have asthma or are extremely overwrote way god basically some of the athletes most of them are very physically fit but a lot of options of linemen in the n. F. L. Are not so if you are more prone to Underlying Health conditions or if you have somebody in your immediate family who has a Health Condition then you would be considered high risk and would be allowed to opt out with less strict conditions gotcha unlike the baseball teams which are traveling the n. B. A. Teams went into the bubble down in orlando and the n. H. L. Teams are skating in the bubble up in toronto and they have had little or no positive interruption correct. Oh yeah the n. H. L. There in toronto in edmonton so 2 cities bubble cities there and its worked out pretty well since they arrived in those 2 cities 0 positive career coach 900. 00 tests the n. B. A. Had a couple initially but those were before they got into the bubble since theyve been in a bubble last month in july there have been 0 positive tests as well in the n. B. A. Actually both system seems to be working and back to the end all be they might actually have to go through the bowl system for a playoff now obviously there are expanding the playoffs from 10. 00 to 16. 00 teams this year another change thats happening so there would be still a decent amount of teams but less players obviously for the playoffs and they dont want to lose that 1000000000. 00 in t. V. Revenue they make nearly a 1000000000. 00 every year from just the playoffs Television Revenue alone so they might be considering moving to a bubble because they see that working for the n. B. A. And the n. H. L. So well see if that actually will happen but they might have to do it in 4 different cities obviously because they need bigger stadiums and theres going to be more more teams of course yeah many fans were upset by players taking a navy they swore off the n. F. L. And since the george floyd the episode weve seen similar expressions in other sports on the Opening Night of the n. B. A. s bubble season n. B. A. Great Charles Barkley told t. N. T. s inside guys you cant just beat people over the head because people watch sports to get away from reality and right now their reality is different weve never seen anything like this in our lifetime this pandemic weve lost hundreds of thousands of people all these Small Businesses are gone im never going to say just go back to basketball but i think these guys got to be really careful steve as things stand now will the n. F. L. Be selling tickets this year. Well holland right now as it stands if there is an n. F. L. Season i think its 5050 right now obviously as were seeing whats going on a College Football totally different situation but the n. F. L. Has a real shot of doing it now at the moment its up to each of the 32. 00 teams to decide if theyre going to advance for example the Washington Football Team here in our area in the d. C. Metro area decided no fans already the Las Vegas Raiders and theyre not season there in vegas said no fans already but there are other teams that are exploring options that get used to this term party like peas in a pod the peas will be the fans and of course to be in separate pods 5. 00 to 15. 00 players picture of checkerboard across the stadium with blacked out areas and that space between these pods and some play some teams like the cowboys for example jerry jones hinted that theyre looking at padi to allow fans while they do have a space for it at that stadium to attend games but were going to see as we get closer this season whether that will be possible and of course it used the new normal now on the ticket there will be terms and conditions of course if they do allow fans at some of these games that youre taking a risk if you catch job in 1900 you could it could be deadly. Yeah just like they said at the trump rally steve thank you for stepping into the big picture and now another scam alert from attorney author and professor stephen j. J. Wiseman and this is a new low recently the f. T. C. Filed a complaint against Golden Sunrise Nutraceutical Inc a California Company falsely claiming that its 23000. 00 treatment plan would effectively cure the corona virus within 2. 00 to 4. 00 days it is important to remember that the World Health Organization has stated that there are no known Effective Therapeutics available to prevent or treat the corona virus and as steve reminds us theres a reason theyre called scam artists you can follow his scam of the day alerts at scam aside dot com coming up with the pandemic and the economy and civil strife here at home what else and where else in the world arent we paying attention to Michael Maloof will join us next to light up the hot spots this is the big picture on our t. America. Lead. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Tyson nation will community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or inmate in the shallowness. The world is driven by shaped by. The dares thinks. We fear to ask. Snapshot of the u. S. A recent models forecast 300000 usa deaths by early december from a coronavirus the president is still telling us will his words just disappear economy interrupted still as states that jump the gun reopening back. Peddle were seeing urban strife across the country an arguably martial law in portland while its all we can do to cope with all of that here at home what else in the world is happening that we should be paying more attention to because it could end up affecting us here lets ask former pentagon official Michael Maloof whom i havent had an opportunity to talk to since before the massive explosion in beirut this could simply be a matter of negligence as they improperly stored almost 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate a bomb just waiting to blow although the Investigation Continues michael take us inside the pentagon at a moment like this when a major news flash clears what kind of protocols immediately snap into motion. Well theyre going to focus on it. Quite closely theyre going to examine whether it was an accident or whether its was. A an explosion manmade explosion by design and violent attack even trump himself the president said he had talked to his generals and they thought it could have been an attack they dont know yet nobody knows i know the french have brought in the Forensic Experts believe the f. B. I. Is going in to help with friends of experts they and if if they do notice an explosion my prediction is even. If it was a if it was an attack of some kind i doubt seriously that well ever get to the bottom of it if if the if a points to israel the implications of that would be catastrophic so its in the u. S. And western interests even if there was fault by israel that we would never hear about it because of what the consequences would be as a consequence of the of that explosion it would it would embroil the entire middle east. Youve been at the pentagon during some interesting episodes and it is quite a moment alarms go off people go to prearranged positions and Conference Rooms etc is that how it goes. Well yeah theyll do that but it primarily your intelligence people are going to be working and feeding into the joint staff into the and. Trying to get as much information as you can from the teligent community the Defense Intelligence agency the cia they will be monitoring. Screen grabs from Radar Systems i know that there were some u. S. Vessels in the area at the time they will screen shots of radar activities at the time. Ive had friends call me and tell me that they actually saw 2 jets fly over just before the major explosion ive seen other videos. Of a strike of a projectile hitting just before the major explosion so all of these things have looked at as a as i said we dont know and im not im not pointing fingers at this point even if even if there was culpability. And it was and it was an attack youre not going to i doubt that youre going to hear alternately who did it because of what the outcome could could be the alternative it would be much much more serious and dire ill bet ya hey despite the president branding at the chinese virus we here in the usa are the hot spot and the e. U. And the caribbean and then various other countries even canada wont let us in the president spend pushing pills and talking about ingesting this in fact and telling us children are effectively moon michael your contact list is enviable youre talking to people all around the world how does the usa a look in the way that were mishandling this crisis and how does this pandemic a worldwide event tip the geo political balance of power. Well thats a loaded question in terms of handling or mishandling the virus its a novel virus no ones ever had to deal with this type of virus before and other countries have also been affected. We we are and we are basically experimenting as we go along and because were learning more and more about the virus all the time i would add that other countries are going through the same problem you had some countries which had none and then all of a sudden there have been renewed spikes look at new zealand they went for about 100. 00 days without any positive coronavirus and all of a sudden theres a spike in again. It just shows up and no one knows why so and so theyre having to deal with it i think the countries are working together on sharing information as much as they can to try to come up with a vaccine and i think thats the push right now to point fingers of about who who is doing a better job or isnt doing a job i think all countries are are very very committed to trying to resolve this problem because of what the ramifications are and i would add that the virus has basically altered the whole geo political scene and were seeing countries that are less affected basically trying to make moves at this point where china for example seems to have recovered much more quickly and theyre pushing right ahead economically with their belt road what does this mean this means that because the u. S. Economy is the basically down for the count at this point the chinese see an economic advantage to to make inroads particularly with the belt road and the countries that. Are in latin america and even in europe d and in africa so theyre theyre going full speed ahead and theyre still pushing to be the dominant economic power between 2045 and 20. 50 and we see them really pushing in that direction and were also seeing that the whole the whole effort to to. Come up with with with moving positions and and with with with the focus on the pandemic were seeing countries such as turkey and and greece getting into it were seeing. More and more over oil and gas or seen other. Trouble spots beginning to emerge and not only in the middle east lebanon of course just be on the latest one and this is going and were seeing or see in lib

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