Speaker 1: Sports page with The Orlando Sentinel and FM ninety six
Speaker 1: to nine The Games.
Speaker 2: Mike the Bulldog Beyond You.
Speaker 3: On jr R.
Speaker 4: Bulldog Sports Page, brought you this morning by JR R's
Speaker 4: Tripp in Thursday, Hammock Beach Beef Resort, Taco Bob awaits
Speaker 4: on what the Instagram this morning?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one man four day, three nights
Speaker 1: day and a Hammock Beach golf resort. You want to
Speaker 1: win it again? That instagram is at one O one
Speaker 1: one wj r R. Get there before midnight, Bulldog. I
Speaker 1: know you're probably gonna be a half full guy on this,
Speaker 1: but are we gonna have to change the name of
Speaker 1: the future baseball team to the Orlando Pipe Dreamers.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: He's using that one.
Speaker 3: I promise you that I would use it if I
Speaker 3: thought it was Drewe. I don't think it is. I
Speaker 3: mean yeah. The news came out yesterday that the Rays
Speaker 3: and the Rays announced this themselves. They are in quote
Speaker 3: unquote exclusive discussions with a ownership group led by Jacksonville,
Speaker 3: the developer Patrick Zalufski, who and you know, concerning a
Speaker 3: quote possible sale of the team. This story sounds fishy
Speaker 3: to me. It sounds fishy to me. There's been no
Speaker 3: indication of this. The Rays have released this themselves. Usually
Speaker 3: teams do not release that they're in negotiations before anything
Speaker 3: has been finalized. I think this is Stuart Sternberg just
Speaker 3: setting the price for his team, is what I think. Okay,
Speaker 3: what what what really changed yesterday? For for Orlando? You
Speaker 3: said the pipe dreamers? What really changed yesterday? To me,
Speaker 3: nothing has changed the change. Tampa Bay still has to
Speaker 3: build a stadium. They still have to build a stadium.
Speaker 3: There's you know, is this guy gonna buy a team
Speaker 3: without a stadium? I don't think so. If Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: builds a stadium, we have we have no chance of
Speaker 3: getting a team in Orlando. If Tampa Bay doesn't build
Speaker 3: a stadium, then we have a chance of getting a
Speaker 3: team in Orlando. Nothing changed yesterday in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Okay, now you wrote more on this in New Orlando
Speaker 4: Sentinel dot com.
Speaker 2: But we shall see. We shall see.
Speaker 1: Is this maybe a game? And I hate to be
Speaker 1: one of those, you know, conspiracy theorists, but is this
Speaker 1: maybe a game of smoking mirrors where somebody like you
Speaker 1: said over in Tampa they're doing it to get a
Speaker 1: price or over here. Do you think it's somebody with
Speaker 1: the Orlando Regional I.
Speaker 3: Think it's Stu Sternberg, the owner of the Rays, who's
Speaker 3: who's not liked over in Tampa Bay. So he's he's
Speaker 3: leaking out that the team. He's in negotiations to sell
Speaker 3: the team. Why would somebody sell a team just without
Speaker 3: putting it on the market. I mean, why wouldn't you
Speaker 3: try to get the best offer you could get this
Speaker 3: This doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're trying to speed up Orlando on this deal,
Speaker 1: you know, like our government.
Speaker 3: Well I don't know, No. I think Stuve Sternberg is
Speaker 3: just trying to get as much money as he can
Speaker 3: and he's set this price at one point seven billion,
Speaker 3: which is overpriced for the Rais.
Speaker 2: But we shall see speak in a sports ownership filia.
Speaker 4: Yes, and now let's change sports here and go to
Speaker 4: the West coast on this doozy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Lakers are being sold the Bus family, the
Speaker 3: iconic Bus family is entering into agreement, a real agreement,
Speaker 3: by the way, not like the Rays proposed agreement. A
Speaker 3: real agreement to sell the Lakers to Mark Walter, who's
Speaker 3: a global multi billionaire finance guy. He's the guy who
Speaker 3: owns the Dodgers as well. The franchise is gonna sell
Speaker 3: for about ten billion dollars. That's the highest ever for
Speaker 3: a US pro sports franchise. As I mentioned, Walter is
Speaker 3: the CEO and chairman of TWG Global, which is a
Speaker 3: financial You know, Matt, he's just a huge financial, financial guy.
Speaker 3: He owns a bunch of other sports interests, including the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: including an F one team, Cadillac Formula one go down
Speaker 3: the list, Chelsea of the Premier League soccer team. So yeah,
Speaker 3: he owns a bunch of stuff. I think this is uh.
Speaker 3: You know, the Bus family has obviously been one of
Speaker 3: the best ownership groups in modern sports history. They won
Speaker 3: eleven championships while they owned the Lakers. But this guy,
Speaker 3: with with the NBA getting more and more expensive, I
Speaker 3: think this guy is gonna be an even better owner
Speaker 3: for the Lakers because, let's face it, the Bus family
Speaker 3: that the Lakers were their main source of income. This
Speaker 3: guy is you know, this is a hobby for him.
Speaker 1: So wouldn't that be nice? Actually, I think if I
Speaker 1: had all that money, I didn't even think I'd wrap
Speaker 1: myself around sports and getting the headaches I just be like,
Speaker 1: he's gotta roll around the money all day.
Speaker 4: With all the stuff that bulldog reeled off that this
Speaker 4: guy owns, It's more like he's a collector, a hobbyist
Speaker 4: of yeah.
Speaker 3: When you're a multi time, multime multi billion like he's
Speaker 3: worth about twel I think twelve billion dollars or something.
Speaker 4: Hey, Men's College World Series is set now. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be LSU against Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 3: Dog right, the big bad bmth from the SEC against
Speaker 3: little Coastal Carolina. What percentage of fans outside of LSU
Speaker 3: fans do you think we'll be rooting for Coastal Carolina?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Lord, about nine? Right? Hey?
Speaker 1: How about the How about Stanley Cup being paraded around?
Speaker 1: Those dudes bar hopping and they were getting.
Speaker 3: Wild damaged to Stanley Cup. It's got a big dinner
Speaker 3: in it now.
Speaker 1: That's hockey in hockey though, isn't it.
Speaker 4: They'll have that fixed up in time for the big
Speaker 4: victory parade on a Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. Den it
Speaker 4: up again, not to see if they drop any f
Speaker 4: bombs on Life TV again like.
Speaker 2: They by the way, they haven't.
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting for my invite to be in the
Speaker 3: parade since I am the number one Panthers fan in
Speaker 3: the state of Florida, so I should have my own
Speaker 3: little you know, a little floats.
Speaker 4: Probably you don't have a little VIP area up there
Speaker 4: on the stage when the parade ends, you.
Speaker 1: Know, And I think you can wait in one hand.
Speaker 3: And you know, by the way, Schadur Sanders, Cleveland Brown's
Speaker 3: quarterback fell to the fifth round, got arrested for driving
Speaker 3: one hundred one miles per hour at past midnight in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: The other well done, well done, son, good lord.
Speaker 3: All right.
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