Speaker 1: All right, this is the dumbest show on the radio.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get into a discussion about a sports
Speaker 1: reporter who's in hot water. But before we do, this
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Speaker 1: new story about a sports reporter in hot water, here's Kevin.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that about baseball, Ben, because Braves
Speaker 3: reporter Wiley Ballard is his name, which I would go
Speaker 3: ahead and just say red flag already with the name
Speaker 3: Wiley Ballard.
Speaker 2: But he's there, a roving field reporter.
Speaker 3: He's their Noxie and he is they're in Toronto So
Speaker 3: he's up as a Braves reporter talking to what you
Speaker 3: I think would be Blue Jays fans, but he's looking
Speaker 3: for Braves fans up at some sky lounge.
Speaker 2: So here is the audio from last night.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of fun up here off the
Speaker 4: coroner rooftop. Who do we got here? What's your name?
Speaker 4: My name is Lauren Lawrence? All right, and I'm Kayla.
Speaker 2: Okay, who's Lawrence? She said, my name is Lauren, and
Speaker 2: he call her Lawrence. Let me hear it again.
Speaker 4: My name's Lauren Lawrence, all right, and I'm Kayla. Kayla.
Speaker 4: And you guys hang out the rooftop lounge often once
Speaker 4: a year I come out to visit. Okay, well we timed
Speaker 4: it pretty well. All right. Good. How are you guys
Speaker 4: feeling roof for the Braves today?
Speaker 3: You know I should I should describe the women yep, blonde,
Speaker 3: probably early to mid thirties.
Speaker 2: It's dangerous.
Speaker 5: Maybe late twenties, I would say, more mid twenties, late twenties.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I thought it was two. I thought an
Speaker 2: older and a younger one.
Speaker 5: Oh they look the same age.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe bad scatting for that other one to tell that.
Speaker 2: It's so pixelated. You just can't tell. That felt like
Speaker 2: more of Ben's projection on what he wanted it to be.
Speaker 5: Both very attractive women.
Speaker 2: We can see period. You can't say that as far
Speaker 2: as we know from the neck up.
Speaker 5: Ye started tell Yeah, once a year, I come out
Speaker 5: to visit.
Speaker 4: Okay, we timed it pretty well. All right, good. How
Speaker 4: are you guys feeling root for the Braves today?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping for the best.
Speaker 4: What about you? Are you Braves fan? Now? Not quite quiet?
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to work up here, guys,
Speaker 4: come luck the rest of the way. Okay, Wiley, we've
Speaker 4: got five innings, four innings to get the numbers. Come
Speaker 4: on it, get us some more Braves fans. All right,
Speaker 4: So they want me to get your number.
Speaker 2: They want you to get that.
Speaker 4: I'm dead serious, they're saying to my right now. Shouldn't
Speaker 4: believe it because she thinks you guys are are not
Speaker 4: making this up. Even if you guys weren't to, I
Speaker 4: might use that in the future. That's actually pretty good move.
Speaker 4: This is unbelievable. So the best part of this right
Speaker 4: now is that Wiley could totally be faking and this
Speaker 4: might be the new move. You just walk around with
Speaker 4: a fan duel microphone and the ear piece in and
Speaker 4: convinced fans that they're actually on TV. I should have
Speaker 4: thought years ago. I am speechless. I got the number.
Speaker 4: We're good.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got the number. We're good.
Speaker 4: So he did.
Speaker 2: She did pull out her number her phone, and he's
Speaker 2: playing his phone, and he got the better one, the
Speaker 2: one on the right. Oh, you think she's the better one.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, if you read the comments, a lot
Speaker 5: of people were saying that he missed out on the
Speaker 5: more attractive one.
Speaker 2: Wait, the one on the left is the more attractive one.
Speaker 4: That's what?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: All right, again, I think they're both attractive.
Speaker 5: We can get into actual conversation of whether it's creepy
Speaker 5: or appropriate or not.
Speaker 2: Just trying to fill time in a baseball game is
Speaker 2: what it felt like to me. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think he would he would have taken whatever, because
Speaker 3: they were He was about to throw it back to
Speaker 3: those guys for thirty seconds, and then they made a
Speaker 3: comment you got work to do, and he on the
Speaker 3: fly off, Mike went for it like he.
Speaker 1: Been to me, this is all just a broadcast bit.
Speaker 1: Now you know it started because of the other guys.
Speaker 1: He's trying to interact with them and have chemistry and
Speaker 1: they're like, come on, man, get her number, and so
Speaker 1: he's just doing a bit almost like remote control.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't find that to be offensive, and as a woman,
Speaker 1: is that offensive the whole bit, because if it.
Speaker 5: Is, I'm I think, well, I think they just said
Speaker 5: it not thinking he would actually do it. I think
Speaker 5: it was a joke like all right, man, you got
Speaker 5: a few innings to get those numbers, we'll come back
Speaker 5: to you, not actually do it on the microphone. I
Speaker 5: don't think it's professional in any way, but I do
Speaker 5: agree it made me laugh. I thought it was funny.
Speaker 2: Isn't that what it is?
Speaker 5: More of a minor league, not major league, dude.
Speaker 6: I think I think all this, I think all this
Speaker 6: is fair. Okay, So, first of all, what happened, in
Speaker 6: my opinion, is that the play by play and the
Speaker 6: color guy that are not there revealed that they think
Speaker 6: he's talking to hot chicks. So that's how the whole
Speaker 6: thing gets going.
Speaker 2: Like beyond a man.
Speaker 6: In the stands, they're not there, and they're the ones like,
Speaker 6: hey man, you got a couple more innings to get
Speaker 6: a number. So they're immediately starting this thing, this whole
Speaker 6: separate thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, get out there and throw the football with dead exactly.
Speaker 2: It used to be, it used to be more commonly.
Speaker 6: Accepted that men could go that chick's hot. And then
Speaker 6: there was a backlash against all of that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: And then especially within the world we're realm of sports
Speaker 6: broadcasting where it's hard for a lot of women to
Speaker 6: break through and all these kinds of things. It takes
Speaker 6: on all this other But at the base level, here's
Speaker 6: three men going, these chicks are hot, you should get
Speaker 6: their number. That's basically what's just happening, kind of impromptu,
Speaker 6: and then he is like, okay, I'm gonna continue the bit,
Speaker 6: so he leans in. And the real hero to me
Speaker 6: of all of this is the chick on the right going, oh,
Speaker 6: they want you to get the numb it's then that
Speaker 6: wants the number hut right, and she's like, I'm game.
Speaker 4: Let along.
Speaker 2: She's playing along with it. It's all fun and yucks.
Speaker 2: It's all fun and yucks.
Speaker 6: And I when I start seeing these sorts of things
Speaker 6: and how they unfold on the internet, you know, just
Speaker 6: public discourse is like one of the things that happens
Speaker 6: with these broader conversations about how men act and how
Speaker 6: women act in public and what they project and all
Speaker 6: that is people have sexual instincts.
Speaker 2: They have them.
Speaker 6: That's how the world is repopulated and produced and all
Speaker 6: of this time, time and time again, people are attracted
Speaker 6: to other people, and we've kind of gotten into this
Speaker 6: thing where like, Okay, you kind of have to suppress
Speaker 6: that because it's like you said, it's quote unquote inappropriate
Speaker 6: or this isn't the time and place or all this stuff.
Speaker 2: But this realm, the jock realm, it.
Speaker 6: Used to be perfectly acceptable to behave like that, and
Speaker 6: now there's all this backlash, and if you really want
Speaker 6: to go deep into it, there's all this now backlash.
Speaker 2: The other way of look.
Speaker 6: At how we've treated you know, masculinity and public and
Speaker 6: public and look at this generation of young men and
Speaker 6: how they don't even know how to go out into
Speaker 6: the world and court women anymore because they're just on
Speaker 6: their phone. And like that's why this is blown up
Speaker 6: on the internet, because these conversations have been going on
Speaker 6: for like the last ten years of masculinity, what masculinity means,
Speaker 6: what's acceptable all of that stuff.
Speaker 3: I'd like to know because the most down chick that
Speaker 3: we know is Emily Jones, and that is her job.
Speaker 3: Because the people who are really mad are female reporters
Speaker 3: who are like, okay, so that she was putting a
Speaker 3: position where she kind of couldn't say no on TV,
Speaker 3: and if she does say no, then she gets slut
Speaker 3: shame forever because it's on TV. That's all these people
Speaker 3: are saying, and a lot of these women, female reports
Speaker 3: are saying reverse the roles, like I would be fired
Speaker 3: for this. Like if Flora Stickles for the Rangers went
Speaker 3: out and did that and got the number.
Speaker 2: Of two guys. Yes, well some hot guys down there,
Speaker 2: could you get their numbers?
Speaker 1: I would love to know how broadcaster who told her
Speaker 1: to get the numbers would be fired.
Speaker 6: No, No, I mean, you guys are right, And it's
Speaker 6: like this, this sort of behavior fifteen years ago, nobody
Speaker 6: thought anything about it. But the Me Too movement happened, right,
Speaker 6: and the way people talk about gender and masculinity and
Speaker 6: all these things has changed dramatically. But there's also this
Speaker 6: thing out in the world where, especially for young attractive people,
Speaker 6: it's okay, to go out there and court one another.
Speaker 2: Okay, and you know, so she took her phone out.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So are people saying that the entire broadcast crew should
Speaker 1: be fired the color of the play by play and
Speaker 1: the end the stands guy, because they're all culpable, right
Speaker 1: if they're all doing a bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, should she never be allowed to be back in
Speaker 2: a stadium?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What are what are we doing here? Who else canceled?
Speaker 2: Why don't we continue to talk about this?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll carry this over and have this
Speaker 1: conversation in the next half in about four minutes. Don't
Speaker 1: go in here less than a little over three minutes.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with the second half of that conversation.