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Millionaires have enjoyed the winter break because they haven't been sitting down talking to each other. they haven't been negotiating. they're basically saying, the hell with the fans, let's just whatever park you go to, there are people who work all year to be able to take their kids to see three, four five baseball games. these billionaires and these millionaires who are fighting each other didn't even -- couldn't even break a sweat to sit down and negotiate this so we had spring training and so we have a regular season. it is a disgrace. they need to get to work. mike, thank you so much. >...

>> they're all sponsored by gaming. really, we banned pete rose for betting on baseball games? i mean it is just really bad. >> if you -- we were talking earlier. if you tune in to sports radio now, you just hear constant discussion of gambling, what's the spread, did you beat the spread. each of the people on sports radio is talking about his book, what he's betting today, what he made this weekend. it is an environment in which figuring games just seems an almost inevitable problem. >> oh, yeah. >> there are billions, tens of billions of dollars streaming into this. states are going nuts, co...

No, but it's -- it's a common tactic on the right. they feel like they're being, you know, persecuted, that it is racist to, you know, racist to them because they are marginalized because they're white males. it's a really common threat in that sort of culture where they view themselves as nonracists while at the same time basically only viewing america as, you know, white faces and baseball games. yeah. >> tasha, to what extent do you think the former president knows what he's doing here when he gives a speech like this? to what extent do you think this is some kind of a strategy? >> yeah. i ...

Appreciate this. i don't think major league baseball appreciates this. they'd rather be playing fortnite than watching a yankee game until 10:00 at night. >> this is risky for baseball. two years of covid. people lost habits. this is a chance to basically get off your electronic toys, get out and do things again. >> yeah. >> i think this is stunningly short-sighted, about losing a generation, not reinforcing, if you will, the baseball muscle or habit. it won't be america's game. people learn to live without it. >> well, it's not. football is. >> football or basketball, what have you. this is j...

I'm sitting there with my 13-year-old boy, and we're watching the games. i'm on the phone with my other boys talking about the games. friends are talking about games. fantasy football league. football, the nfl, for all its problems, everybody is going to be waiting for opening kick-off next year. with baseball, seriously, people like mike barnicle and me, it is a health crisis every time the red sox make it into the playoffs because we got to stay up too late. guess who else is not staying up late, my 13-year-old son who watches 162 regular games a year whenever he can when school is not in. t...