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Bet365, proud partner of the Colorado Rockies. 21 plus only, must be present in Colorado. If you are someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call our text 1-800-GAMBLER. Terms and conditions apply. I was going to bring something up for you. I don't know if you saw the headlines. Team USA is in Las Vegas this week in basketball. Getting ready for the Paris Olympics. There's so many players that LeBron's playing. Is Bronnie on the team? Bronnie? Bronnie here in just a second. But let me ask you this. And we brought it up with Tyler Kepner about the All-Star game and the Olympics and the world baseball classics. So I'm going to just ask you a point blank. Why not follow the lead of the NBA, which is a sport that's on the Ascension, and showcase the greatest major league baseball players in the biggest stage in the world during the Olympics. Because baseball players are in mid-season. Okay. The NBA is not. Okay. This is the off-season. Well, they just got done playing a long, long season. Now you're going to ask them. What are you going to do? Are you going to ask the LA Dodgers? Yeah, time out. We need some of your players for the Olympics. So just go about your way. No. What they'd have to do is stop the season. Shut it down. Shut it down for seven days. That doesn't work. I have an All-Star break this fall. I can't get the schedule. They have enough. They have a tough enough time getting. They have a tough enough time fitting with the new format in the postseason. They have a tough enough time fitting in the season to begin with. You had another seven-day hiatus. There's no time to fit it in. Rich, I... No, no. I'm going to keep arguing. I'm going to keep arguing. I like your point. I think it would be good for the game. I think it would grow the game. I think it would be the best thing for baseball. But I think scheduling-wise, it doesn't fit because we're there at the season. Okay. So if I can shut the season down for four days, why can't they shut it down for seven? It's three extra days. I have a four-day All-Star break. Oh, you're saying the... Well, we'll now where the All-Star is going to go because the All-Stars are going to be representing the... They're going to be the Olympic League. So why not every four years suspend the All-Star game for the year, play in the Olympics, the biggest stage in the world. Listen, the World Baseball Classic is nice, but we're talking the Olympic Games. We have people from every continent in the world paying attention to this. Why wouldn't you want to do that? So you're saying, every four years, you're going to change history now. You're going to take away the All-Star game to add three more days on to a... Have you looked at the schedule? How long the postseason goes if it goes seven and how early? We're talking the biggest stage in the world, not just North America, not just baseball playing countries. We're talking in the world. They watch this in China. They watch this in Russia. They watch this in Africa. They watch this in the Middle East. They watch it everywhere. I get it. I get it. It would take a little bit of sacrifice from some millionaires and some billionaires to help this game get bigger and bigger because... What's the sacrifice of getting rid of the Olympic game? The season gets a little bit longer. But if you think about it, look how hard... It may be record-setting longest season to begin with. You're going to get it longer. Well, that's because it's the Del Rey Mi that's driving that. Without a doubt. I don't think for the record, players that play today, I think, with the money that they're making, should have zero complaints. No, I think 100 percent. That's not get off my lawn. When I was playing, we made good money. We made a lot of money. I'm not going to complain about that either, not compared to these guys. They probably doubled the revenue since I retired 15 years ago or 16 years ago now, I think. I've sat in those industry meetings where it's everybody from every front office in baseball that buds ceilings imploring us. Drive revenue, drive revenue, drive revenue. We will play games in London. We'll play games in Mexico. We'll play games in Korea. We'll play games in Japan because we want to grow this sport internationally. Why not do what basketball is doing? The NFL wants to grow this game globally as well. This is a perfect opportunity, but I don't see anybody having any interest in doing something that seems pretty natural to me. I think baseball is different than all these other sports. It's every day. It's every day. That's what makes it awesome. It's 230 days a year. There's no other sports even close. I see what you're saying because especially as I get older, I'm in fan mode. Take your business further with a smart and flexible American Express Business Gold Card. It offers flexible spending capacity that adapts to your business. You can also earn up to $395 in annual statement credits on eligible purchases at select business merchants. That's the powerful backing of American Express. Terms apply. Learn more at americanexpress.com/businessgoldcard. I really, I think they're doing a good job with the WBC. I think the way they start games oversees now. Yes, from a player's perspective, it's a big give. It's a bigger give than you think because of how you're in the middle of a season to completely disrupt you and be in three time zones over. That's a big deal for a major league baseball player, but I think it's really good for the game. You're getting to play games in places where baseball isn't even a big deal, but now all of a sudden it slowly becomes a big deal. I think they're doing a lot of real positive things for the game. But this playoff format, as much as it's not old school, it's really entertaining. I think you're starting to attract eyeballs to the game of baseball. Which the game needs, Brett, hold on, that's what the game needs. I mean, I think I told you I agree with you. I agree with you. I'm switching over to football mode on my national show because that's where people's interests are. Imagine, you remember the last WBC? It was Mike Trout, right? It was in versus. Yeah, versus Shohei Otani versus Otani. Yeah, right. Now, that was a pretty big deal. You put that in Paris at the Olympics, and I'm going toe-to-toe with LeBron going up against Gianna Santo Decompo for a gold medal. I got Trout versus Otani. Could you imagine how big that would be for the game? But here's, okay, Rich, here's the thing though. You're saying it's a week, right? The Olympics are a week? Yeah, I mean, you don't have to take 30 teams, but you could do something where you have a quick round robin of seven, eight, nine teams because that's all that really plays baseball. But, okay, if you're in Paris, that seven days going to turn into well with the flying and the travel. Sorry, you're going to have to make a little. You're going to have to make a little bit of an effort. You're going to have to, but you're going to have to turn that into nine or 10 days. I want you to reevaluate the schedule of Major League Baseball and show me where you can find 10 days. But if you could, but if you could, it would have to be the players, and I'm asking you as a player's perspective. Well, I hear, I've changed, I've kind of gone back and forth on this. Now I would do as a player, I would do, and I'll start with the most laymen of subjects. I remember back in the day when they first started to want to mike you up, when you went on the field, I thought I'm a ball player. You don't do that to me. But now thinking about it, well, well, I don't really care. I get tired of listening to myself talk, but from a fan perspective. Did you talk to yourself on the field? No, no, no. I thought Brett was out of a conversation. But when you're miked up, you know, I'm talking to my first baseman. I'm talking to Hal Morse. I'm talking to Johnny old root. I'm talking to my partner in the middle. For me, it that's boring. And that's just my job. But from a fan's perspective, I try to put myself in fan mode. So okay, I'll go inside an NFL huddle. Right. So those guys, they can care less about the huddle. They do it. That's all Tom Brady does is call age 47. It's boring to them. But for us sitting on the outside, it's like, I want to listen what goes on in the huddle. I want to listen to him about the last play. So I get it. So now I think about from an entertainment value and drawing people to the game. If I'm going to wear a microphone and go to second base and they're going to see my interactions throughout the game where the old school baseball player and me was I'm a ball player. You don't do this during the game. You don't disrupt me. Now I think absolutely you disrupt me. The reason I'm making the money that I'm making is because of things like this. So I would do anything as a player to grow the game. But you're not going to find 10 days for the Olympics. Hey, it's Cheryl Swoops and Jordan Robinson from the Queens of the court podcast here to talk about stay connected to what you love with AT&T 5G and home internet. You can be a sports super fan your way. You could cheer like crazy in any room of your house or your backyard, which might startle your neighbors, but they won't judge you. You could fist pump after watching your team hit a buzzer beater while you're on a train surrounded by strangers. Who cares how you look? You enjoy that moment or you could let out a triumphant roar when your team makes an incredible trade. And don't worry if you're out with your coworkers. They know what this trade means to you. 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