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TOTAL Evisceration 🔥 NCAA 💰 NIL Good for College Sports? WNBA Basketball 🏀 Agree with Labor Agreement?
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NCAA 💰 Is NIL Good for College Sports?
WNBA Basketball 🏀 Agree with Labor Agreement?
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We'll be right back.
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00:00:47
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, what up, what up, friends?
Show Introduction and Overview
00:00:53
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Yes, indeed, welcome back. Ballin' Buds is back at it again with Total Evisceration. am Ballin' the sports professor. And as always, even though we're in our third episode only, I'm always taking the manhood pause of this young boy. That's what we call him in the wrestling industry, young boys.
00:01:22
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Oh, man. Here we go. Jake, what's good, my brother? How you doing? What's up, buddy? I mean, you look happy. I mean, what's going on with your glasses? You look like an idiot with those glasses just flashing.
00:01:33
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what I mean, it's better to look like an idiot with glasses than look like an idiot without them. Because that's what your face looks like, you Get out of here. Hey, man, you ready for me to smack that ass today, too?
00:01:48
Speaker
Wow. Why do you keep doing this? I have to. This is the second week in a row. You're not going to make this a thing where you say you're smacking my ass, okay? Look, pause all day on that, all right? i have no problem. Pause.
00:02:02
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But you ain't going be smacking my ass like that, okay? Stop saying that. First of all, all right, can you just say that you destroyed me or something? You don't say smacking my ass like we're getting sexual, okay?
Sports Labor Agreements and NIL in College Sports
00:02:13
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00:02:23
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00:02:39
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Let's hope I don't get canceled. We're talking NIL. Is it good for the NCAA and college athletes and sports? We're talking WNBA. Is the labor agreement right for where the WNBA is in its entirety right now? And lastly,
00:02:56
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We will have hot take Jake's hot take of the day, but not just one. No, no, no. We will have three hot takes of the day because of the fact that I'm a jackass and I forgot Jake's hot takes last week and I deprived him of his shine. And so for that, I wanted to give him two. And because I didn't feel like coming up with another topic,
00:03:19
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and only doing two topics. I gave him three. So let's start with your first hot take of the day. Jake, what do you got for us? Well, you you you did leave me high and dry last week, and I was pretty pissed off. I did. I apologize. I'm sorry. That's fine. That's fine. um With that being said, we were in the baseball mood.
00:03:39
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I was ready to to go out on a limb. but I have this certain team. They were practically last place in their division. And I think they will actually be representing the National League this year.
00:03:53
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I got the Pittsburgh mother trucking pirates, making it all the way to the NL finals to win it all and represent. Now they're not gonna win the World Series,
00:04:06
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But they will represent the National League. Why do we do this? Hold on, Omar. we do this There's one thing about them that is smarter and better with them.
00:04:17
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They have better pitching this year and they're only three and three and they have not hit that momentum. I hate people that start watching early baseball and say, oh, no, what's going on? Guys, it's 162 games.
00:04:31
Speaker
Be patient. You get your strongness towards July slash August. That's when the run starts. Okay? You don't have to worry right now.
00:04:42
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The run starts during July and August. I agree. The Brewers are a tough out, but they will come out of that division and come out of the whole conference and represent the National League this year. First of all,
00:04:59
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You didn't run to obviously high school. Maybe you didn't even run to middle school because it's strength. not Whatever the hell you just said that wasn't a word.
00:05:11
Speaker
Second of all, the Pittsburgh Pirates are 3-3. Paul Skeens blew the first game to my New York Mets. And the Pittsburgh Pirates ain't doing shit this year. So first of all, calm your ass down with that BS.
00:05:28
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Shout out to Paul Skeens. Shout out to Connor Griffin. The rookie got called up today. But in terms of the lowly, degenerate Pittsburgh Pirates that their owner won't spend more than one penniless cent on their team. You don't need money to win it.
00:05:49
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You don't need money. Not only that, I can make an argument that they have the best two pitchers in the whole entire, including the Yankees roster. The best two pitchers in the whole entire MLB.
00:06:00
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They do. can'ky Is he on crack is the right question. Bubba Chandler is another good pitcher, too. He is a low-key, low-tier good pitcher. I love Bubba Chandler and what he will end up doing. I'm telling you right now.
00:06:14
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that's true So those two will carry. And this is a year. What you have to understand, Omar, is the one thing that MLB does is the pendulum swings far left and far right every year.
00:06:26
Speaker
Last year was all about the hitting. This year, I think pitching will take over. And they have the best two pitchers. in the whole entire league and they will prove to you and everybody else the only way that they will lose is because they have to see a judge that will shut them down in the mlb the world series but other than that they will destroy i think they will go head to head against the la dodgers in that nl championship and beat them to head to the world series so Come on. Okay.
00:06:58
Speaker
All right. You know it too, Omar. You know the pinnacle is squeaks. No. Well, yes. that That is true. That is true. In baseball, that because they are jackasses and because they try to overcompensate every year on whether hitting or pitching needs to be prioritized because they're always doing crap.
00:07:20
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from when they had the strike and they had to have Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire in the steroid era in order to get them back into focus. And then they realized that went off the rail and they needed to bring pitching back into focus. You have that right.
00:07:36
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What you don't have right is that who did you say is the best duo in the league? did you say the Pittsburgh Pirates Chandler yes the way that they're pitching is is a top tier movement I'm telling you right now they have two of the best pitchers and I think you need a one-two punch to finish the job in key games and I think they'll be able to I'm telling you right Great one-two punch.
00:08:00
Speaker
Great one-two punch, but they're young, and they're not proven. I raise you the Royals, Bubik and luci Lugo. I raise you the Padres. I raise you the Tigers, Bubel and Mize. I've noticed that. you've been You've been in his pants a little too much whenever you bring the Royals. yes you have, Omar. Pause again on the pants. yeah alarm I ain't in no dude's pants.
00:08:25
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ah Okay. Now you're representing the Royals. That was the first team you you threw out. i I'm throwing five teams out. I'm throwing your Yankees out. Max Fried and Carlos Rondon. I'm throwing Flos, Texas Rangers out.
00:08:41
Speaker
Nathan Ivaldi and Tyler Meihau. And my number one team and one of my most hated rivals, which means you know the sports professor is a real sports analyst. The best duo in the league is the Philadelphia a Phillies because they got Zach Wheeler and Aaron Nola.
00:08:58
Speaker
So I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I think you will be surprised what the Pittsburgh Pirates do this year. I don't care, AP. I don't care what you got to say. The Mets have been Metsing this year. You're damn right. That's why we're three and three. Lost two to extra inning games. Dude sent Lindor home game two. Should have never been sent. Wildness. Y'all tapping with AP. Rec Room. Let's talk sports. Y'all talking tapping with Canteen at Bottom Line Sports. Him and Flo. Let's keep it moving.
00:09:28
Speaker
I take Jake. You've been totally a vierator That's a slap in the face. That is not true. You know that too. and No, it's come it's not true. At halftime around July, I want you during the all-star break, we will come back and you will be looking at me and saying, damn, Jake, you were right on that.
00:09:45
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I'm never going to say
00:09:49
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that. This trash can. Go ahead. Next one.
00:09:54
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I'm not a trash can. You the one that's a trash can. Oscar the Grouch. All right, let's keep it moving.
NIL Debate: Compensation vs. Tradition
00:10:00
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NCAA. Look, Jake brought this up, and this is a good question.
00:10:05
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The NCAA now has embarked on NIL. Now, look, this let me give you a little bit of background real quick. This started a long time ago, back in the 90s, when players wanted to get paid, including the O'Bannon brothers, famously from UCLA, my school. Shout out.
00:10:21
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Eight clap. ah Anyways, Bannon started this kind of thing in 97 with court cases. AEA sports, the games got put shelved because of all this. We had court cases for 15, 20 years. Finally, they decided athletes are no longer considered um school personnel, students, excuse me, under the guise of amateurism.
00:10:48
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So since 1913, the has tried to hold the athletes down as students and not paid them for things that they have to do extra that other students don't have to do.
00:11:01
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Totally horrific in Jake's words. Now, I can't say that because i have to legally and contractually argue this a concept. But either way, lately, when we got to NIL, things have gotten kind of out of control.
00:11:19
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We've had boosters. We've had schools. We've had agents. We now have GMs. Who gives a shit? basic Well, then please. They deserve their money. Do you agree? Okay, well then talk to us. Is NCAA NIL good?
00:11:35
Speaker
I have a question for you, Omar. Have you been more enthused in the NCAA tournaments now, the football and the basketball? I sure am. Let me tell why. It was chalk. me tell you why. It was chalk. It was chalk. The whole basketball tournament was chalk.
00:11:51
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Hold on, Omar. The one thing that I'm noticing is people are starting to notice fucking players now. And excuse my language, but damn, I sure did hate the era when I had to get to watch Anthony Davis play one year and then leave the next year. These guys are actually staying and making the teams formidable.
00:12:10
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Guess what? We're in the gambling era. So yes, casual fans are gonna join and watch the the the the games for their points and what they need. But to get your core fans back in it, you need players that stay committed.
00:12:25
Speaker
The NIL does that. They stay there. I'm glad you said core fans. Because one of the things that is ruined by NIL, it's tradition.
00:12:37
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We don't have core fans anymore. how yeah We don't even have rivalries anymore. What? How? Omar? Where has the college tradition gone? Look at college football. What's the Pac-12?
00:12:50
Speaker
What's the ACC? The Atlantic Coast Conference stretches to Stanford and Cal. The Pac-12 stretches all the way to the ACC territory. We got the big 12. They're getting closer to the NFL. Moving into super conferences. Oh, stop, Omar. Are you kidding me? We got free agency.
00:13:08
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You're damn right there's free agency because you deserve to pay me for what I am. I'm the best damn man back in the league, man. Look, you I agree. in I agree that players deserve compensation. I agree that players should not be treated as students because they have more responsibilities than the normal student. But the current system is not sustainable.
00:13:35
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NIL has overcorrected the system and is damaging the structure of college sports. It's no longer about the NIL supposed to be about endorsements. It's not name image likeness, my brother. Its name increases lavishness. It's all about the almighty dollar and how much someone can make and how much someone can put another school against another school in order to get that money, which by the way, as we know in a capitalist society that we live in the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. So what happens to Cinderella's in the NCAA tournament? Oh, bye!
00:14:25
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Talking about the Atlantic you don't care about competition You just want to have the winners the favorites win everything Crazy, you know what's crazy people are big programs to dominate you big programs to dominate Texas is the biggest vendor I got it. Don't let me find you out Jake ah ah Don't let me find you out, Jake. so glad you brought up, Texas, because you know what? If the NFL if the n i l existed 20 plus years ago guess what? We get to see Vince Young defend the main goal championship won.
00:15:07
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Maybe doesn't that ass team as the Tennessee Titans because he was forced out because they told him to. Because now he's getting paid and he gets to stay and defend the crown that he earned, beating the Dynasty USC team of 2005.
00:15:23
Speaker
Come on. Maybe, maybe you get a chance that Matt Liner gets to three-peat, maybe even four-peat. But let me tell you something, Omar. These guys don't get to do that. Johnny Manziel doesn't have to rush out of Texas A&M to try and get himself a bag from the Browns rather than sit there and sign a big autograph. It's free agency every year! It's free agency every year. Why build a program?
00:15:46
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Why build a roster when it's going to change every season? Why do you think Mike Chichesky? Why do you think retire? Why do you think Nick Saban retire? Why do you think Gabbo Sweeney can't win a damn game? Because the NIL is messing them up.
00:16:01
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You know what's funny? You know what's funny, Omar? My next hot take is going to defend vinna the football side. I will figure out how to defend the the basketball side. but there' oh but you can't figure it out now.
00:16:13
Speaker
You can't figure it out now. Because you're a bum. Because you're bum. You are hater. You're a bum. You want to see the Atlantic Palm to face Alabama and get their ass move 66 to 3 every year? I sure don't. No, but I don't want college football to be a minor league free agency.
00:16:30
Speaker
I don't want tradition replaced with transactions. is This isn't an empowerment. It's chaos. Is there free agency in the NFL every year? you So you're okay with bidding wars in college?
00:16:42
Speaker
So you're okay with bidding wars in college? I agree with that, absolutely. You know why? would Should schools pay athletes as much as professors? Should athletes get paid as much as your boy who professed at the university, themed University of Vanderbilt?
00:16:58
Speaker
Because Professor Skimm ain't doing a damn thing. He ain't making no damn money for that damn school the way that a damn Fernando Mendoza is. Fuck Professor Skimm, whoever the hell that is.
00:17:10
Speaker
here with that omar How dare you have the audacity, the inaugural gall, the look in your face, the straightest of all, and have the decency to say that? And sticking your tongue out like a damn dog?
00:17:24
Speaker
How dare you, Omar? Come on, man. professor Professor, who knows who? Get out of here. They don't do shit. They don't make money the way that Fernando Mendoza is making you. And that's the problem. Teachers should make more money because you know why? Then we produce idiots like you in this country.
00:17:45
Speaker
You what they always say? You Omar? If you can't play, you teach. You know that. And if you can't teach, go. know. And that that's why I teach and you play on the sidelines, you bum.
Proposed NCAA Football Season Shift
00:17:58
Speaker
NIL started as fairness but turned into free agency chaos. If we don't regulate it, we're to lose everything that made college sports great.
00:18:10
Speaker
Now, moving on. Hot take, Jake. What is your hot take of the day? Number two. I think the NFL should be in process with this, but I do think we are in a shorter.
00:18:25
Speaker
Here's the thing that I'm noticing. The NCAA benefits the m NFL and NBA overall. What I mean by that is the college sports, as long as you can build the players,
00:18:38
Speaker
will build the players to, and that's how you get more fans. What I mean by that, let me explain. I think the one thing the NFL has an issue with that they're doing wrong. have no clue what you're saying right now. Good, brother. You're about to find out. Don't worry.
00:18:51
Speaker
The way that the NCAA and the NFL only grows is by building up their players, okay? This is my proposal. I think we need to get rid of college football starting the same time the NFL does. I think they should start in January all the way till the NFL draft, which you move the draft to May. Let me tell you why.
00:19:12
Speaker
I think the NFL, you you'll you'll hear me and you'll be, you know what, Jake? This is fucking smart. This is damn smart, okay? I believe that the NFL has too much time to be dealing with their own problems. They don't have time to help the NCAA football committee right now.
00:19:28
Speaker
And I think the NCAA is getting closer and closer to an NFL league. But to keep them coming and to make your players even more phenomenal, you need to do this.
00:19:39
Speaker
I think you need to pizzazz them. Think about this, Omar. There's a lag the second the NFL season's over. all the way till maybe a March Madness.
00:19:50
Speaker
I think if you start them in January and then them to the NFL draft in May and they have their season during that time you create now you have the NFL ah the NFL owners and everybody helping build up these rookies, soon to be rookies and these players.
00:20:07
Speaker
Because now every Saturday and Sunday during these times, you turn it into the prime time games. The same thing can go with the NFL. Let me tell you something. You ever notice on the NFL on Sundays during the day's time at 12 o'clock, there's about seven games. You can't watch all of them.
00:20:24
Speaker
But if you take the NCAA out, From Saturday that week, guess what? Now you can have a Saturday and Sunday, and now you can make more primetime games for everybody.
00:20:36
Speaker
And everybody gets a chance. The NFL wants to build. And I think the NCAA is their only chance of building even more. And this is how you do it.
00:20:48
Speaker
That's not a sartan sarcastic smile. I have a point here, Omar. the The football season does not end. Guys, we still look. I know you were screaming and frolicking in your pants before the show telling me we got Kirk Cousins. We got a chance.
00:21:04
Speaker
You said that to me. So with that being said, you are still excited for an NFL season to come. I get it, Omar. But that's why I'm saying I think the hottest take I've had in years to come, I believe soon to be the NCAA will move on and start in January as in football and end around the NFL draft.
00:21:25
Speaker
because if you do that you build the football phenomenon process more than ever before and you help not only the nfl you help the ncaa football league as well and i think that will happen within the next four to five years you watch it on one watch it what do you think you know what jake you know what Now that I'm starting to chew on it, now that I'm starting to feel it a little bit, now that I'm starting to hear your arguments and understand exactly what you're saying about college football getting more respect than the NFL, maybe a little more ah publicity. I don't give damn!
00:22:06
Speaker
What you've got to say, what the hell are you talking about? That is the dumbest idea I have ever heard in my whole entire life. Are you telling me that you want to get rid of 200 years of tradition and the fact that we got college Saturday and n NFL Sunday and all of a sudden just say...
00:22:26
Speaker
Every NFL fan, every college fan, every football fan, and we're just going to change everything up and move things three months out of the year because hot take Jake thinks is a good idea? turns into year-round.
00:22:37
Speaker
No, we don't care what you think. You bum, and it's never going happen, so shut up. That was the dumbest hot take ever heard. Hold on, want add this in real quick. All right, fine. The year that Angel Reese and Kaitlyn Clark were in college sports.
00:22:51
Speaker
Okay. in the In the college basketball, we were so locked in. Not only that, they had their their draft right after that, and then they ended up playing in their in in the ah in the WNBA. And I know we're getting to it. It's a great segue to the WNBA topic we have.
00:23:07
Speaker
That is a tremendous segue. But hold on. What I'm saying is we watched all the way through, Omar. Did we not? What did we watch? We watched from college sports, watching them play college basketball, and we followed them into the WNBA in the same year because they got drafted right after, and they the WNBA starts literally right after the ah the NBA draft.
00:23:32
Speaker
That's what happened. We can do that with the NFL and college football every year now. And it's year round. You don't want that, Omar? Come on, man. You know you know what, man? Again, i keep thinking about this, and you just keep making a really salient point that just sticks inside my noggin and tells me, you know what, Omar?
00:23:53
Speaker
Maybe you should think differently. about what hot jakey jake is saying maybe you shouldn't just think it's a piece of shit idea right maybe you should think that's the most asinine worst fucking i idea i've ever heard in my life on with shut your mouth do you want to compare the wmba who's the lowest earning league in history to the nfl which makes money in college, which makes a hand over a fist.
00:24:21
Speaker
No, get out of here. Mind your own business models, fool. That's what it is, tradition. It's tradition that holds y'all back. It's tradition, Omar. You ran with the damn tradition word. No, it's not tradition. It's business. Now let's get to some more business. The WNBA came to a new labor agreement, historic labor agreement.
WNBA Labor Agreement Discussion
00:24:43
Speaker
So the WNBA, by the way, for everybody that doesn't know, came into effect in the 1997 be exact.
00:24:51
Speaker
NBA, you know, helped them to grow into what they are. But the WNBA in the past few years since Jake mentioned Angel Reese, shout out my Terp girl and Caitlin Clark, obviously the white protagonist that brought in a lot of the fans that may have not been WNBA fans. We admit that.
00:25:10
Speaker
um With that came a lot more publicity, a lot more people watching. Leagues, unrivaled, AUPB. I did an interview of Mercedes Russell. If y'all didn't see it, go check it out. It's on Instagram and YouTube, shameless plug. She's awesome.
00:25:26
Speaker
ah But the part the fact is that women's basketball, not just women's basketball, but women's sports in general are growing. So what happened here? the wmba agreed to a new labor agreement the 1.4 will be their new super max salaries which a few of those players were getting the salary and cap it cap itself will increase from 1.5 million to 7 million almost four times the amount They will receive the players 20%. Yes, they wanted 50%, but that was never realistic ah for, honestly, what has been provided in services. So they're getting 20% of the revenue, and then the league gets the other 80%. Hot take, Jake.
00:26:15
Speaker
Do you think that the WNBA deserves this money and deserves this compensation for... They need more. Let me tell you something. Kaitlin Clark has become a phenomenon.
00:26:26
Speaker
I honestly did a poll. Hold on, Omar. I did a poll. And i I did a poll with a lot of friends around here. And I asked them, the top three players in all of basketball right now.
00:26:39
Speaker
You know what they named, Omar? They named the number one LeBron James as the known best basketball player. They named number two Kaitlyn Clark and number three was Steph Curry.
00:26:51
Speaker
So you're telling me out of the top three basketball known players, number two is Kaitlyn Clark? That tells you that the NBA itself is falling and it tells you the WNBA is rising.
00:27:02
Speaker
I would not be surprised if Kaitlyn should not make, if not the same as LeBron, if not more than what LeBron makes it as an annual salary. Because she's carrying something that LeBron could never carry. She's carrying it on her back. Her and Angel Reese have changed the phenomenon of this.
00:27:18
Speaker
This is magic and bird all over again. You have to understand, Omar, this is the time when you have to understand that life is changing. Guys, the and NBA used to be on tape delays in the 70s.
00:27:32
Speaker
The same thing is going on live with us right now. Kaitlin Clark is changing the WNBA for our very eyes. I think they low key, they have better ratings eventually than even some of the NBA final games that you can watch.
00:27:47
Speaker
That's what I mean by that. Oh, get out here, Omar. And you know that too. You know what Kaitlin Clark- I agree. Players deserve compensation. I agree. Angel Reese and Kaitlin Clark,
00:27:59
Speaker
brought eyes but this system is not sustainable just like nil players salaries need to reflect league revenue your external comparisons to the and nba is not feasible because the nba cannot be demanded the same from the WNBA that has done nothing like the du like the NBA.
00:28:23
Speaker
Sports salaries are driven by TV deals, sponsorships, and ticket sales. This ain't about fairness, buddy. It's about who pays the most money due to the most eyes. It's about investing your money into the product.
00:28:39
Speaker
but And you can't reinvest your money into marketing, into expansion, into more cities like they want to do. If you're giving all the money to the players who frankly don't make enough in terms of eyes, they deserve that much.
00:28:57
Speaker
shut your ass up real quick hold on so you're telling me it's fair that they gotta go to adidas and go to these shoe deals to barely make to make more money probably a third times more money than they make in their own contracts from their own profession right now omar they gotta go to nesquik come on omar it's a slap in the face Again, it's not about fairness.
00:29:19
Speaker
It's not about fairness. It's about what the market demands. We live in a capitalist society. If you're the WNBA and you owe the end, let's be, let's be, like you know what?
00:29:32
Speaker
You know what? I'm to turn this music off for a second. I'm going to turn this music off for a second. Who sells more tickets right now? SGA, the league MVP of last year, or Caitlin Clark, who sells more tickets to you?
00:29:46
Speaker
Kaitlin Clark does 100%. Oh, stop it, Omar. Stop it. SGA could leave the NBA tomorrow, and it would nobody would give a rat's ass about him. Nobody would give a shit. If Kaitlin Clark left tomorrow, there would be no chance that the WNBA survives what they've already risen from. Stop it.
00:30:05
Speaker
That's what I mean by that. You have to understand. Bro, Kaitlin Clark just got here. ain't the end-all, be-all. I know we had Holy Week and praise Lord Jesus, but she definitely ain't that.
00:30:19
Speaker
All right. She may have helped save the game, but she ain't no savior. And she ain't about to be the end all be all. They had the WNBA before her. They'll have the WNBA after her, just like any other sport in this world.
00:30:33
Speaker
The WNBA survived. You know what what happened to PGA whenever Tiger Woods finally let off after what happened? It kept going. We had Warren McIlroy. We had Brooks Coffman. We had Scottie Sheffler. We did as popular as it was during the Tiger era.
00:30:48
Speaker
It was probably more popular. Bullshit, Omar. Get out of here with that crap, man. Come on. That was not a lie. Are you kidding me? That last one was lie. You said that with a straight face, too. did. The call of you to say that.
00:31:00
Speaker
That is nasty, Omar. now that we have nothing in my mouth Now that we have the music turned down, you're right Look, hey, everybody watching right now, anyone that may watch this video on the replay, we have a lot of fun on this program.
00:31:15
Speaker
ah We are contractually obligated to take opposite sides in these arguments. So sometimes you might hear something from me or Jake that maybe we don't wholeheartedly agree with.
00:31:32
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I personally think NIL is better than it isn't for NCAA sports. But for the WNBA, let me break something down for you, Jake.
00:31:45
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This league... heavily, heavily owes its life and its profitability to the NBA. They have been heavily subsidized, and I know you don't know that word, but it means to help financially, by the NBA since their inception. And I know you don't know what that word means either, but it means to be born into it.
00:32:16
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The insults keep WNBA does not owe the NBA specifically, but I did the math as what hypothetically the WNBA would owe the NBA for the past 30 years of subsidizing them.
00:32:36
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So, Check this for your sports professor's math. This is why you come to the sports professor, by the way, baby. In the early years of the league, not only did the NBA subsidize the WNBA with $10 million at least a year, but also let them use their stadiums and marketing.
00:32:53
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We won't count the stadiums and marketing for now. It makes it harder on the math. Let's just count that $10 million. Let's move it on to the now recent days. 2024, 2025, the NBA had to subsidize the WNBA for 40 to 50 million a year.
00:33:13
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Again, not including stadiums, not including marketing, not including all these other things. Still had a conservative. tip ah let me At conservative estimate, you would be looking at $40 million, dollars you know, over $30 million. You're looking at at least $500 million to a billion dollars that the WNBA owes the NBA for helping them to get to what where they are.
00:33:47
Speaker
So you want to talk LeBron and you want to talk Caitlin Clark? I'm talking opportunity cost. I'm talking market value.
00:33:59
Speaker
I'm talking you owe me money like a plug would tell a fiend.
WNBA Funding Controversy
00:34:04
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You better pay me that 20 bucks you owe me. If I'm LeBron, if I'm Adam Silver, and I look into the camera now, ladies, and I just want you to know,
00:34:16
Speaker
I truly love all women. I support all women. And sometimes we're contractually obligated, so I am sorry beforehand for what I am about to say.
00:34:27
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But if I was LeBron, if I was Adam Silver, I would tell these women, I'm sorry, Rock Chalk. I'm so sorry. Don't turn it at this time.
00:34:40
Speaker
Tune out. Tune out, Rock Chalk. Tune out, Rock Chalk. If I was LeBron and I was Adam Silver and the WNBA owed me $501 billion, dollars I'm just joking. I would tell them women to get back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant and cook me some damn dinner, make me a sandwich while I drink my beer because the WNBA ain't nothing to the m NBA.
00:35:12
Speaker
God bless. Forgive me, Lord. I apologize. You made me fall out of my damn chair. You made me fall out of my damn chair with that, Omar. Are you kidding me?
00:35:24
Speaker
Are you freaking kidding me right now? No, put your damn visuals back on.
00:35:35
Speaker
That is ridiculous, Omar. That is ridiculous. And you said that with the straightest face. You know, what's up? Look at you. Look at you. Talk. Talk.
00:35:46
Speaker
How dare you Omar, how dare you say that? You know what Kaitlyn Clark has done with us. You know that. She's done so much for us. And you even said it too, that she could be the greatest of all time in the NBA.
00:36:00
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You said that before, whenever we first, touch that was back in the old days in the bottom line sports days.
00:36:08
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I cannot believe you right now, Omar. The gall of you to say that.
00:36:14
Speaker
Is your mic on mute? to all my To all my women friends, I truly hope my mother was not watching just now. I hope so. she likes to ah But the women, I'm sorry, you're demanding way too much now and you don't deserve it.
00:36:30
Speaker
Yes, you can love Caitlin all you want. I can love Angel. But until you're getting those eyes on the product like the does like the NBA does, then you don't deserve nothing but to go back home and be a housewife to the real men in the NBA. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Mom. I'm so sorry. I love you, mom I'm completely joking, mom. is why I signed the contract, mom. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. On that note, what is your third hot take of the day, my brother? Well, there's a reason why I couldn't make it to Tuesday's show.
00:37:10
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You know, Jake, hot take Jake was frolicking. into his last door frolicking i was skipping around omar excited to whoop your ass all over again excited and i walked in and let me tell you something guys when you have co-workers that are as ass as you could ever have boy do you walk in i'll tell you something there's an old there's an old saying a good friend used to tell me david i'm gonna shout out his name good old david blizzard he told me hey jake
00:37:42
Speaker
Chips don't sell in the back room, you dumbass. That's the smartest thing he ever taught me. And guess what happened?
00:37:51
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Guess what happened? I walked right in, and you know it too, Omar. I walked right into that back room, and I saw a ceiling full of damn chips in the back room.
00:38:03
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You see how nasty that was? There was no help whatsoever. The guy before me was straight ass. Couldn't do a damn thing. Left all of that for me.
00:38:14
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In fact, Omar, when I left the store two days before that, Omar, when I left the two days before that, I had him at half a cart. And I walk into that. I should have taken a picture of the aisle.
00:38:27
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i would have thought that food stamps hit. And it was March 31st overall, Omar. Food stamps don't hit to the first of the month. You know that. Both of them said it themselves.
00:38:37
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It was a slap in my face, Omar. Chips don't sell in the damn back room. My poor company, man, couldn't get us any sales that day for that. And I love that company. And yet somehow we weren't making no money because we had a lazy piece of shit not taking anything out.
00:38:56
Speaker
Slapping my face on one. let's Let's break this down, audience. First, I want you to see Jake as mad as he was when he saw this. Look at this. This is Jake's face. When he first saw these boxes, he said, holy shit, what did this fucking dude do to me? Then he came in and he saw this in the background. and He was like, man.
00:39:14
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I got a whole pallet of chips. I got a flip that this dude doesn't cost me two, three hours. But then no way. No, the dude left him multiple bags and pallets. Three full carts.
00:39:27
Speaker
Three full carts. You're a bum. Whoever you are, you're lucky Jake is a nice guy and not putting your in government out there because I put your government out there. You're a bum. And you ruined our show for two days because you didn't want to do your job and work when you should have been working. And you left this bullshit over here for my man Jake to handle. That's fucked up.
00:39:51
Speaker
Sad day. Sad day. Go get your new Frito-Lay chips. We got hot deal pickled puffs coming out. Get ready. And your boy, that guy, I hope he gets fired because he's been totally eviscerated.
00:40:06
Speaker
Oh, bad. it's not until my pops watching. Yeah, I'm sorry, Dad. I'm sorry. i hope that no women ever watch this program. But if they do, just know that I was completely joking and get your ass back in the kitchen. Holla. We're going to out of here. Me and Hot Take Z, you know we love you. We love to have fun on this program. Let me remove that off the screen, get us back up here. Hey, brother, another good week, another good show.
00:40:32
Speaker
i mean, this show is blowing up. I'm getting really good reviews from everybody that watches this show. They're saying they're laughing their ass off. They think that we got a concept here that could take us to the top.
00:40:43
Speaker
And we're going to continue this, Don. Any final words, my friend?
Show Wrap-Up and Future Plans
00:40:48
Speaker
Guys, I appreciate the support. I got people already telling me that Omar probably is my greatest opponent I've ever had to have gone against.
00:40:57
Speaker
I don't know how the guy ends up eating his own, eating his own words half the time, but i loved him to death like a brother. And I can't wait to bust his ass again next week. Oh wait, is it in two weeks? Are we two weeks after that? Two weeks. I got country box next week. So nothing next week. I got country box. Country boxing. They box that shit out of you and punch you in the face.
00:41:17
Speaker
I'm not actually in the ring, you jackass. I do the interviews for the fighters. I'll be there April 7th, Plaza Mariachi. Y'all join me for Country Box. Shout out my brother, Jimmy Adams. I'm going call you here in a second. Let's see if we can get an interview going tomorrow. Hot take, Jake, my brother. Thank you so much for another wonderful week.
00:41:33
Speaker
We will see you in two weeks on the 16th of April before I go to WrestleMania with Mar. By the way, make sure you check out Ball and Buds. Make sure you subscribe. Handy QR code up there at the top.
00:41:46
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00:41:57
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And we'll catch you in a couple weeks. For Hot Take Jake, I am the Sports Professor. We will see you next time. Holla. Holla. 5,000. Oh, yeah.
00:42:08
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Whoa. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
00:42:16
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Ladies
00:42:20
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and gentlemen, welcome to the show Welcome to the show Hey, hey, hey, hey,
00:42:44
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Everybody watching the ball and ball.
00:43:08
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Break it down like a championship king March madness when the bracket explodes Talking hoops while the highlights roll From the court to the cage to the title fight Every sports fan tuned in tonight When the play go crazy and the crowd erupt Everybody watching Ball and Burn Let's go, Mar!
00:43:26
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Ball and Burn
00:43:43
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Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Run the show.