Speaker 1: In the sports page with The Orlando Sentinel at FM
Speaker 1: ninety six to nine The Games, Mike the Bulldog beyond
Speaker 1: you on Jr.
Speaker 2: Hey, goodbrning Bulldog. What's going on? Brother?
Speaker 3: What's going on? I am starting am I'm resurrecting. Bring
Speaker 3: professional baseball to Orlando. Is at the press conference yesterday
Speaker 3: where they introduced Barry Larkin as the new frontman for
Speaker 3: the Pat Williams effort to bring baseball to Orlando. I
Speaker 3: gotta tell you, Barry Lark and the guy's a Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer. He has already talked to Ron matt Manford,
Speaker 3: the commissioner of Major League Baseball, and they they've got
Speaker 3: some financing already. They've got five hundred million dollars in
Speaker 3: commitment for this baseball effort, according to the spokespeople over there,
Speaker 3: and Barry Larkin as the front man, Guys, we need
Speaker 3: to get on board with this.
Speaker 2: Hold on, are you talking about an additional team? We're
Speaker 2: getting an exist team to relocate here. Yeah, which one?
Speaker 3: Either Either there's gonna be expansion. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be expansion in the next few years. There's
Speaker 3: gonna be a team out west. Everybody that's gonna go
Speaker 3: to Vegas and there's gonna be a team in the East,
Speaker 3: and that if there's you know, if there's a relocation
Speaker 3: like the Tampa Bay Rays. They're still fighting over in
Speaker 3: Tampa to get their stadium built in Saint Pete. So hey, Wed,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying this, all right, we need to get
Speaker 3: on board with this. I've looked at all these statistics.
Speaker 3: Orlando's the fourteenth biggest TV market in the country. We
Speaker 3: are bigger than a bunch of other baseball markets Denver, Miami, Cleveland,
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Cincinnati. We're bigger than
Speaker 3: all of those right in media well yea. And we're
Speaker 3: certainly bigger than Las Vegas. Las Vegas is the fortiest
Speaker 3: ranked TV market in the country. We're four team Yet
Speaker 3: Vegas has football, they have hockey, They're about to get
Speaker 3: baseball with the a's relocation. The NBA wants to put
Speaker 3: a team in Vegas as well. So Vegas is big
Speaker 3: enough to have four teams, and we only have one
Speaker 3: major professional sports team in Orlando. And it's good that
Speaker 3: we have MLS, but I'm not counting down among the
Speaker 3: big four sports leagues in America. You know what the
Speaker 3: difference is, Vegas has leaders that go after sports teams.
Speaker 3: We have leaders that go after Shriners conventions. That's the difference.
Speaker 2: Well, you kind of took the words in the thought
Speaker 2: process out of my mouth. The obvious answer is tell
Speaker 2: the Rais organization, Hey, we have the financing. We will
Speaker 2: build you a stadium here. Commit to this and let's
Speaker 2: get this done. Then I'll be on board. You asked
Speaker 2: us to get on board, now we need to back it.
Speaker 2: I'm not getting on board just this morning. It's not
Speaker 2: going to work. If the ras are still over there
Speaker 2: and you're trying to get a team here, they're not
Speaker 2: going to let that happen. They can't fill their stadium much. Bulldog,
Speaker 2: Come on, be realistic here.
Speaker 3: Where are two completely different markets. It's like LA has
Speaker 3: three different teams. It's different markets.
Speaker 2: They've ten times of population is us.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, Okay, San Francisco, for the longest
Speaker 3: time they had the A's and the Giants. They're not
Speaker 3: ten times bigger than US.
Speaker 1: Had don't have any more. Just I say, just tap
Speaker 1: the brakes on this one.
Speaker 3: Dog, you go with it.
Speaker 1: I'm holding back.
Speaker 3: That's the problem. You guys are like the politicians in
Speaker 3: the city. Oh, let's tap the break. No, let's go
Speaker 3: after it.
Speaker 2: How about that. I just told you what I I
Speaker 2: My opinion is to Green like this. If they can
Speaker 2: make that happening, yeah, let's go for it. Hey, bulldog,
Speaker 2: I see that the Magic have had to reschedule three
Speaker 2: remaining regular season home games. Did you see this story?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because of the the LA Fire. They had to
Speaker 3: obviously had to post boat some games because of the
Speaker 3: LA Fires. So yeah, everybody's it's not just the Magic,
Speaker 3: other teams are having to redo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was also the winter storms in Atlanta and
Speaker 2: New Orleans through monkey wrenches into the schedule as well.
Speaker 2: So if you had had gate tickets for the games
Speaker 2: on March twelfth, or March seventeenth, or April sixth, they
Speaker 2: all have new dates.
Speaker 3: Now. Yeah, the Magic, by the way, are played tonight
Speaker 3: on the road in Portland. Portland, of course, came to
Speaker 3: Orlando beat them last week, and the Magic need to
Speaker 3: go out there and beat a Portland team that's not
Speaker 3: very good.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the Magic, just so you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at a Magic watch party this Saturday,
Speaker 1: Doggumen out to Tom's watch.
Speaker 2: Bar out there. Awesome, awesome, Yep, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna be out there and started at four thirty Magic game.
Speaker 1: It's uh, let's do it people. This this Saturday four
Speaker 1: thirty to j r. Our stuff, including some b WO.
Speaker 2: Merch Magic will be facing Utah on Saturday afternoon. Hey, Bulldog,
Speaker 2: before we let you go, did you see the high
Speaker 2: school controversy brewing at one of the high school powerhouse
Speaker 2: teams in the country.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: St. John Bosco Bosco out in uh in California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard of at high school.
Speaker 2: Their longtime coach Jason Nagro has been accused of embezzlement. Apparently,
Speaker 2: you know, the players are getting rich so he wants
Speaker 2: some of that action too. And keep an eye on
Speaker 2: this one, dude.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know high school coaches in the state of
Speaker 3: Florida who are up at because they get like a
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars stipend the coach football, right, and their
Speaker 3: players are making more in niow money than they're making
Speaker 3: the coach to tea right.
Speaker 2: Well, take a look into this one where there's smoke.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not saying the guy's guilty, but if
Speaker 1: I was coaching, I'd be driving a Caddy all.
Speaker 2: Right bike the bull Dog Bianchi. If you want to
Speaker 2: join the campaign to bring Major League Baseball to Central Florida,
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Speaker 2: for filling us in on the sports page here on
Speaker 2: JRR This Morning, Doggie.
Speaker 3: I'm is perfect.
Speaker 1: Anyone that disagrees with you probably smells bad.
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