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Yes yes yeah yesterday Jackson I mean I know a lot of people remember the roseb sunset take but I’ll remember that you had the wrong music to start the show yep yep you look like an English professor today I haven’t seen you even though we’ve done a show together for
Three hours I haven’t seen you you got a little turtleneck on and like a sweater yeah yeah it look like like an English Professor from a 1970s movie that’s not a bad look it’s kind of in style now it’s very elite yeah well if the shoe
Fits welcome friends it’s m s uh burkard Alton Toyota’s presentation of balloon party uh I would tell you it’s the best 1-hour midday show in St Louis I would agree I don’t think you know thank you thank you for the delicious compliment you can text into it at 314 399 9646 Air
Comfort Service text line and then we got this YouTube chat that is a hot B of activity I haven’t opened it up just yet but I’m going there right now youtube.com and then I type 101 ESPN and I see balloon party is live and yeah the people are in there Eric Bishop’s in
There Danny jansen’s in there Shan Aston no Rudy yeah Rudy do you say buer busher let’s go with busher thank you pretty excited to hear Jackson’s take on USA hockey’s big game at the world juniors is what Sean busher says I don’t really have a take considering I was on aware that it
Happened I know that did the Blues play tonight yeah they take on uh that club from Vancouver they call him the connects that’s right yeah yeah if we didn’t talk about it yesterday I wouldn’t have known I told the audience on Tuesday that my six-year-old for whatever reason wanted a conu sweater for
Christmas and I got him one Elias Pon of course number 40 right Elias thank you but I don’t plan to go to the game tonight and so it’s very important that he doesn’t see me watching the game because then he’ll say oh the blues are playing the Canucks how come we’re not
At the game yeah yeah yeah and then that’s going to cause a problem at the house I hear that I know if I was over at your house we wouldn’t run into that problem probably no no no that would not be an issue what happened to the
Commitment you made in October to watch more Blues hockey dissolved completely I mean you weren’t even Hing or hawing on any of this here you are dressed up as an English school professor and making no apologies for the fact that you are not watching Drew banisters Club yeah I
Might tune in for a little tonight does you like the conect sweater not against it logo is fine they change often yeah it’s the the whole West Coast Hockey has a real problem with uniforms outside of Seattle they really don’t do it right having said that I probably will tune in
For maybe a period tonight and that’ll probably do it take the under if anybody’s interested in betting me I’ll be on my phone the whole time but I’ll you know what do you got going on what you oh just dibbling and dabbling what’s that mean scrolling there’s a lot to look at
On that old internet man oh William mackerel what are you looking at I’m really curious uh you know reading stuff tweets uh you know articles passages I’ve I’ve been getting into passages scrimshaw all the above yeah kind of into it all just trying to better myself hence
The turtle neck today that’s that’s a conscious effort it’s I’m debuting this turtleneck it’s a new one I got it for prominent winter holiday and I’m feeling really good about it Jackson looks like he’s ready for his photo shoot for his Christmas album cover that’s from Darren
Carlile bad singer really bad singer so I wouldn’t do that um but I could see myself you know some sort of Christmas novel maybe I feel like a novelist in this Jackson looks like a TA in a philosophy class that’s from Eric nickens yeah yeah yeah is Jackson’s
Girlfriend dress now that’s from Mr Smith no this is uh this is my creation like did you get that for the holidays I did I did really this you got the whole the whole ensemble no no no no no no I purchased the uh the jacket shirt combo
Here I purchased the pant the shoes but the turtl simultaneously uh in within like a week or two of each other uh we talk about shopping and do you go me where where do you go I assume you go to Mr guy right so the parking lot at sax and nean was
Too big like too too many people there I to usually go by myself right I think MDS had parent teacher that day yeah so I uh I went to uh went to Macy’s brag and Then followed that up with a little trip to Nordstrom Rack and just loving on that Brentwood traffic
Man oh it’s so smooth getting around there there’s no very nice you know six Lane roads super easy to na Miss Burger King yeah there was a Burger King there right right across right next to the Rally House there Rally House yeah Rally House yeah I don’t think they’re doing
Much with it seems like some weeds have been overgrown around there yeah shrubs and the like Jackson what do we have on this Thursday thoroughfare I assume we will break down the blues and Canucks as they try to Halt the two game skid and really peak in January as they are going
To face some of the NHL’s best oppositions hey Vin good to see you again uh I actually do have a blues question not for the first one oh what’s the first question this is interesting cuz the leag is not obvious this is going to put you to the test here and
What is the name of this segment uh so P it was originally the little PS Thursday thorough literation but our cohort on TMA Ken Iggy stro Ken Iggy stro 30 years in radio most of it spent in amd2 so we call that the big time and an
Executive at 138 and the woman never forget that executive producer yeah that’s right yeah and they got paid like 75% of the time absolutely yeah for the long run they had mhm the he had a problem with the term thorough Fair he’s saying that the uh dictionary is getting
A little too overcrowded so uh this is the little pills Thursday thoroughfare DBA Ken’s mixed bag oh it’s got a DBA yeah Ken’s mixed bag nice registered with the Secretary of State all right let’s go what do we got what is the lead I’m curious what the lead is where are you
Going LSU firing Matt house leaves a hole wow in their defensive coordinator Ro that’s like we’re in the South now mhm better believe it leading with college football news news that’s right wonder how that’s going to play with the audience I don’t know maybe they like it
Maybe we are in the South now when I put a turtleneck on I don’t give a rat’s ass what these people think baby it’s all me all the time Missouri DC Blake Baker is a top candidate to join Brian Kelly staff do you think Baker making the move
To Baton Rouge is a strong possibility is he trying to be if if sorry if he is trying to become a head coach would this be the right path to travel on WOW I am surp immediately before opining I go to the Twitter tweets just
To see if anything is new yeah and click on the uh what the colonels got to say uh let’s see um go Chris aams reain is headed to the NFL not that’s surprising happened with the uh yeah uh that just was tweeted 18 minutes ago but
Nothing new on Blake Baker so for the record because I think there is a healthy percentage of the audience who might not be aware of this news Brian Kelly who’s a a southern debutant from from souy uh who grinds on high school recruits when they visit Baton Rouge
Fired his defensive staff after the greatest show on Turf that is the Wisconsin Badgers moved the ball up and down the field on his defense in uh the game that everybody’s still talking about from New Year’s Day the r quest bowl and so Matt house was terminated along with former desmat coach Robert
Steeples who went down there to be on the LSU defensive staff and Blake Baker who is the Missouri defensive coordinator who just signed an extension I think like a week ago yeah it was Heyman Kirby I think signed right the same day um is considered the favorite
By some in college football circles in gab Arman of power missou who I will cite as a source says there is a lot to this um I text Jackson at 6:00 in the morning often today I texted you to get the Rory mroy sound from his podcast that’s actually worthy of being talked
About uh and uh and then I texted Gabe as well I said Colonel let me ask you a question here percentage Blake Baker leaves a week after signing his extension in Columbia to go to LSU the colonel said 50.5% 50.5% so some people are like breaking
It down well is LSU a better job and so on and so forth taking all that out of the equation here are a couple fun facts that you may not be aware of uh number one he was fired from LSU by Brian Kelly how about that uh number two his wife
Played soccer at LSU and number three Blake Baker himself has two lane Roots played there MH so there is an attraction that may be more personal for him than the average football coach now uh I would imagine damn near everybody listening to this program is not aware of LSU’s football schedule next year
LSU’s football schedule uh includes in addition to SEC opposition Alabama and ol Miss and Old Miss is expected to be a big threat next year they start the season with USC and three weeks later they play UCLA I don’t know what the hell’s going on there but good for them
Yeah um and they also have Oklahoma in addition to it with Oklahoma coming from Big 12 to the SEC they got a hell of a schedule and some BigTime offenses when you’re talking about ol Miss who knows what Alabama will have but milro will back right yeah and uh and then you
Would think that Lincoln Riley will have something going even though he won’t have Caleb Williams um so with that all said if you’re a defensive coordinator is that the move in a normal year you go oh you can go to LSU as opposed to Colombia well you go to LSU but next
Year Missouri actually might be a better spot the other thing I would say is Blake Baker and Kirby Mort will not be on Missouri’s staff in 2026 and I would put a five-star lock on that and that’s not a shot at them that’s just an observation of two coaches who are
Trending probably could have been head coaches this off season just would have had to settle for a job um but maybe in a spot where they can go to a good job for their first head coaching job if Missouri does go to the college football playoff this coming year and considering
Missouri schedule versus LSUS missoui would be more favorable which is weird to say in a year when they traveled to Tuscaloosa and college station for that man manner but specifically a Tuscaloosa trip which I would imagine most people just already kind of rule out as being a
Loss they also host Oklahoma they host Auburn but the non-conference schedule is weak as all get out so with that said if I were just judging it through that lens I would say stay in Colombia taking my Affinity for Missouri out of it um but if he has Family Ties there and he
Goes yeah maybe this year will be great in Columbia but I’m out after next year that’s a different situation um I I I I think he stays in colia I think he stays in colia even though the colonel said 50.5% I’m G to say I think he stays in
Colombia what do you think so the colonel I think like articulated my thoughts on if he’s leaving or not perfectly I think it’s a total coin flip if he does go or doesn’t because I totally understand what you’re saying with Miss’s non-conference schedule and
If you are trying to be a coach not this year but next year by next year I mean 2025 season yeah like being in Missouri might actually put you in a better spot than LSU my other thought and which makes it a coin flip for me is if you
Are able to turn around an LSU defense that was so pitiful last year that had such a great offense which even more highlighted how bad the defense was if you’re able to turn that around for you give LSU’s team Missouri’s defense this year like it’s they’re as good as any
Team in the country that’s correct because they had the best player in the country yeah without a doubt and so like LSU is a five five star Prestige program blue blood as Blue Blood it get money like yourself in the turtleneck yeah then there’s probably only 10 college
Football teams who could be in that five-star prestige level over their entire existence and LSU is certainly one of them if you’re able to turn that around after how bad it was I mean you are you are as wanted as any coach in the country so that’s a bigger risk
You’re taking a bigger risk on LSU with a defense that’s kind of depleted but with how quick you’re able to turn things around you there’s something to consider if you’re going to stay at Missouri and you think the team can get eight nine 10 maybe even 11 wins you’re
Still going to be one of the most saw after coaches in the country well I don’t know if an eight- win season has people buzzing if you’re top 10 preseason and you finish eight and four that ain’t going to that ain’t going to give you much Equity let’s go let’s go
Nine or 10 let’s go nine or 10 wins 11 possibility if you think that you can get there finish in the top five in the SEC top three in the SEC have a chance for the college football playoff and you’re the defensive coordinator and the defense is dominant like they were last
Year boy you are going to be and you have Williams Wier coming in in addition to some turning players and some success in the transfer portal on that side of the football so uh this is something Gabe thinks will be wrapped up by the end of the weekend at the latest it is
Thursday now even though we had a holiday this week uh and uh and it’s a big moment this is the cost of doing business at this level of college football now that Missouri finds itself in after one successful season and if you want to sustain it you’ve got to try to fend off
These Pursuits if anything it’s flattering that you have a program of LSU’s ilk knocking on your defensive coordinators door but it’s the cost of doing business with this comes people pursuing your people and also expectations from your fan base and I welcome it yeah that’s the cost of
Greatness and that is uh something that I think uh is long overdue in Columbia Missouri that people view it through that prism it is a year in which Missouri could be in the playoff but will Blake Baker be a part of it that is what Jackson went with for the lead it’s
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Come by uh Jackson we are in the midst of this Thursday thorough Fair here on mongan Burke Aral in Toyotas uh balloon party it’s also doing business as Ken’s mixed bag mhm I was surprised by the lead of Blake Baker but I’m not saying it was wrong because I don’t know what
The alternative would be I don’t know I’m I’m open to anything kind of a weird this is your show yeah thank you it feels like and by the way Jackson and I will be doing the Tim mccaran show we’re trying to do the show every single day
After balloon party it’s up we’re live uh on YouTube at uh 11:15 youtube.com tml and of course you can subscribe to the Tim mckernin Show podcast and uh and listen in the fun games and that is non sports it can be Sports it’s just anything and you and any question
Comment you can rip my ass rip Jackson’s ass T mccurnin insidestl dcom TMC K RN an insidestl docomomo that every day uh at least we’ve started to and I’d like to continue it so anyway that’s at 11:15 that’s like five or six hours of broadcasting not enough is what I say
Yeah I mean why not do all 24 hours she literally always on the air seems like people do do that a lot these streamers man uh either way let’s uh let’s uh question two let’s strap on the steel slippers talk a little ice hockey when looking at the DNA for the
2019 team I was able to make that pause like a Jim Rome pause was it did you lose your place on your script I honestly wanted to see how long I could pause Without You giggling oh I I would have gone until when looking sometimes young Tikes
For whatever reason cuz I if I were a young Ty I stay away from me yeah right engage in staring contests with me I have no idea how or why sounds like something that the law might want to look into and I’m like let’s go you’re six
Friend of my sons you’re going to lose and I will fill Ivy their souls wow yeah I’m pretty not gonna lose I’m pretty good at staring contest you want to have a staring contest should we do it on the air no talking I think we probably should just
Do that on qfa it’s at the moment the show jumps the shark I don’t know the show is ever not yeah that’s fair when looking at the DNA for the 2019 Blues team that was able to make such an incredible turn down memory lane five years ago since Gloria five years ago
Isn’t that nuts it actually it does stand out to me is that crazy I can picture being at that game clinch in the west against the sharks with my wife and my dad and it’s just like one of my favorite moments it really is probably
Because of who I was with and I’m going God that was five years ago it’s crazy it’s crazy it’s crazy a senior year of college for me uh they were able to make such an incredible turnaround what is the 2023 2024 Team Missing in that DNA
Helix that gave the 2019 DNA Helix all while wearing the turtleneck yeah there’s no mistakes here everything’s intentional it’s like a kubric film uh that 2019 team was able to tap into in general do you think the blues fans should be excited for the short-term future of the Fran franchise or proceed
With caution with their emotional investment for the next season or two I would love to start 2024 by blowing smoke up the backsides of the listeners but you know what this program is called Jackson honesty in media you better believe it brother yeah and therefore you can like it you can
Dislike it honestly it’s just not my concern at this point in my life but I am going to tell you what I think and I do not see that happening uh and I think I think even though I can’t imagine many people were thinking it was possible in
January at this point January anuary of 2019 I think if we were to step back and look at the respective rosters you would go the 2019 team certainly had more Tools in place number one Alex petrangelo would certainly stand out uh Vladimir tereno would certainly Stand Out Ryan O’Reilly coming
Over from Buffalo would certainly stand out um and it certainly became the strategy that played a role in in their run and that was they could roll four lines at you and and dominate and penalized teams over the course of playing them night in and night out as
Was the case I think with every series they had the way the blues dominated games the their record in games 5 six7 and every one of the series went to a minimum of six the Jets and the Sharks and then the uh and then the series against the stars and Bruins going seven
And the blues records in games 5 six and seven they were dominant I think it was probably in the 67% to 75% win percentage and that’s I mean the guys the Sharks couldn’t even send a team out in game six here they were so beat up this team doesn’t have that and Jeremy
Rutherford was on with us on TMA yesterday and I don’t think I asked about the chances of them H repeating that run I think I asked about the long-term coaching situation like How likely is it that Drew banister gets the gig and I see that this morning in the
St Louis Post Dispatch Ben Frederickson uh wrote that he thinks Drew Bannister will wind up getting the gig uh I think Rutherford thinks that that’s certainly possible uh and if you remember Craig baru’s tenure did not start off successfully if you isolate it to immediately after the firing of Mike yo
It took until January well yo was fired um I think it was November 19th if I’m not mistaken um right around there in in 2018 so with that all said why do I say all of this when I asked ruford about that he said yeah this a team might be able
To to get into the playoffs but it isn’t just like dismissive of the team being able to make a Deep Run and I would love to say I and and I I suppose in hockey perhaps right there with baseball I guess you can just get in and maybe something can happen whereas that’s
Going to be tougher in in the other sports but um I just I just don’t see it happening and I think as far as whether you want to talk about shortterm long-term it it’s still falls under this umbrella the organization is saddled with contracts that are going to make
Their success in the ceiling limited and that is at the start of it the biggest problem the St Louis Blues have at this moment I actually have a hockey take you you find yourself surprised like a curious finger has arrived in your chair well so often we talk about hockey and I
L I just if you were to turn to me and say do you have any thoughts I would have absolutely nothing I paused expecting you to go to question three candidly and maybe I’m repeating what you just said but hey you know what did you zone out while I was talking I was
Thinking about my take and I’m not sure if you said my take while I was thinking of my take because uh you know one thing at a time may be either way run that for a promo that’s right anyone listening if you are uh and we’re talking about that
Helix that DNA Helix yeah well you said that right I well it’s my show and um yeah you look at the 2019 team obviously the star power that was there O’Reilly terasen was strong I’m anxious for what’s what I’m about to hear but like with the 2019 team the physicality is
What separated them come playoff time they were just like you said with the shark just beating up on teams and just always staying in games because they’re always gonna fight I just don’t you were a fan of the four check yeah once I find out what that word means I was a really
Big fan where’s Jamie River and so I just don’t think this team has the physicality like the few games I’ve watched uh nothing bolsters a gentleman’s point right well if I could put it like just in one moment the game before the G the day of Buu’s firing
Jordan Kyu gets beat on a puck on the boards and they score like that is a in a microcosm like what’s Happ like they just sometimes get beat on the physical side I just I don’t remember that being the case in 2019 in fact I remember
Being the opposite right well I when it gets down to it I just don’t think that it’s there but at the same time as we were told by Doug Armstrong at the start of the Season he knew it wasn’t there either um the the thing is I still watch
With the hope you know last year got to a point where kind of like I kind of wouldn’t mind him losing at the tail end of the season but I’m you know I’ll be watching tonight as long as my six-year-old isn’t around uh and in my the back of my mind
Boy if they can just get in and then if they do get in man if they can just you know I mean I never going into that Series against the Avalanche two years ago I had very low hope knowing how good the Avalanche were and then sure enough
You know and it heads back to St Louis the series is tied at one and Jordan Bennington has gone from being the backup at the start of the wild series to standing on his head and then he gets hurt and then things begin to spiral but
The blues played a hell of a series so that can happen and we’ve seen plenty of eight seeds make it to the Stanley Cup Final and and a couple of times we’ve been here in St Louis on the receiving end with the sharks in 2000 and the
Kings in 2012 of these eight seeds that can go on runs Chris Pronger a part of an eight seed that went to The Cup finals in Edmonton so you can see it happen um just get in I just when I look at it it would really surprise me but at
The same time if I were hosting this show 5 years ago and you would ask about the Stanley Cup Final I mean that was like it was a foreign topic the Stanley Cup Final for you know the vast majority of the people who weren’t alive when the
Blues had last been to one so I’ll watch with hope and you know what hope is a wonderful thing perhaps the best of all things Morgan Freeman Red Shaw Shank Redemption yeah I think I said that word for word sound like it I know I delivered it confidently at the very
Least yeah that was great thank you so much voiceover is awesome red yeah yeah Morgan Freeman Brooks was here man what a film uh all right we’ll have questions three four five and six coming up in the second half here on the Little P Thursday thorough Affair DBA Ken’s mixed
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Program 1038 in St Louis miss anything podcast do tire and auto center podcast and of course talk it over in the YouTube and you go back and watch it on YouTube 125 people are in there right now very active conversation Jackson that’s what the Thursday thorough Fair
Does though or DBA Ken’s mixed bag what is question number three here today today uh question number three Tim so I don’t really have a question buying time buying time that’s right I saw question three the Cardinal’s grade yeah yeah I have that I also okay wow if you’re
Going to call an audible though go ahead well I don’t have any question around this is just a thought Rory’s appearance on the stick to football podcast talking about the Liv and PGA situation uh you’re talking about this like people know what you’re talking about now I know what you’re talking about because
We played audio from it on TMA this morning and I actually watched the podcast last night and I would recommend it by the way I think it’s from Sky Sports the name of the podcast to stick to football uh now it’s the it’s Europeans Talking Football so therefore it’s soccer but they’re interviewing
Rory mroy and maoy is very introspective on the way things have gone down with the PGA Tour and live and the way he’s handled it yeah absolutely that is the background of what Jackson’s referring to thank you for the context no no problem I just think it’s such a it’s
Such a while it is golf it this such a bigger like it’s kind of the first time maybe it’s not all true but basically the first time in mainstream that we’ve seen foreign money come into sports at this level in America in America I agree so I think it is a very
Been present in the EPL yeah yep and it was controversial at the outset similar to this yeah when they bought Newcastle it was crazy having said all of that I just think it’s a very interesting and it could apply to all right I like this I like I like both of
Your topics the Cardinal letter grade from CBS Sports I’m in and this topic I’m in so whatever you want to do you know what I’ve decided you’re a prince okay I’m gonna tease tease the living PGA stuff so I can think of a question on the fly to frame the discussion so
I’ll start with my Cardinal question CBS Sports has given the Cardinals a CG grade for their offseason moves do you agree with that grade do you think in mid November of 2023 that people would grade that the same or has it dropped with time what do you think the Cardinals faithful would
Grade this offseason Cardinals faithful would be lower than a c without question um I think C is probably within the range for me I’d be probably C C+ C minus so I’m very comfortable with C being our median um I get here is for me individually like in a big
Picture I like it because they have haven’t gone and put themselves in a spot where they are tied to a deal that you’re going like there’s just no way the Philadelphia Phillies in 2028 are going to be thrilled that they have Aaron null on the payroll now contextualizing that part of the
Conversation and these long-term deals that go have gone will go to snell and Montgomery at some point in the pitchers if the Philadelphia Phillies get their first world championship since 2008 they may be able to say yeah okay Nola you know is now you know using vaseline
On balls to throw him up there because he’s 37 38 years old uh but it was worth it because in 2024 we brought the city of Philadelphia together and won a World Series we’ll never forget that without arinola we don’t do it it just depends
On what lens you view it through I don’t think the Cardinals are that close of course as we were just talking about with the blues things can happen but I view things through probabilities and I just don’t think it’s there I didn’t think it was there before the Dodgers
Did what they did and the Braves are doing what they’re doing and of course with the baseball playoff format being what it’s being things can change but man would it be a big surprise if you didn’t see one of the Braves or Phillies at the top of the National League East
And the Los Angeles Dodgers at the top of the National League West it’s kind of college foot Balian in that way and that you know okay well and it’s all said and done I don’t know what the hell’s going to happen I just know Alabama and
Georgia somehow going to be in the mix you just know what’s going to happen baseball didn’t Ed to be like that with the exception of that Red Sox Yankees era late 90s early 2000s so I like that the Cardinals didn’t give themselves an albatross of a contract because that can
Hamstring an organization for years to come from the are the Cardinals now in a position to win a championship because these moves the answer is no uh and so when Randy carer for example came on the morning after the I believe Sunny gry deal Y and said I don’t know why you
Needed to spend whatever dollar figure it was he was talking about I don’t know if he was incorporating the Lynn and Gibson contracts along with gray to be an average team I’m paraphrasing what Randy said for the record uh I totally understand where he’s coming from I
Think my position this isn’t like I am smarter therefore I’m just saying I know I’m kind of on an island on this similar to my bowl perspective like I love that Missouri beat Ohio State I don’t really care about bulls and I wouldn’t have cared if Missouri lost Ohio State I
Cared a lot when they lost LSU in Georgia and I loved the wins against Kentucky for example and K State so I realize I’m on an island on this going God I just hope the Cardinals don’t screw themselves for 2027 2028 and 2029 in November of 2023 yeah because it
Ain’t going to happen in October 2024 no matter what they do unless they go so far outside the box and sign yamama Moto so I like what the Cardinals have done I just don’t think they’ve done because I’m looking at it through the big picture as far as 2024
Goes you know they might win the Central and then I you know I suppose anything can happen but to date and there’s still some big names out there but to date it’s kind of blah it’s a I never would have expected the Lyn Gibson thing uh Sunny gray God if you could
Have said okay here all the free agents who will the Cardinal sign I oh give me sunny gray it’s textbook but I like it CU it’s only a threeyear deal and I like the lynen Gibson thing just because they’re one-year deals and the club has an option if they are successful and
They want to bring them back and they want to eat Innings I like it because I view 2024 as kind of a bridge year yeah so I’m on I’m on board with it but I think Cardinal fans are angry as Hornets when it comes to the majority of
Cardinal fans yeah yeah and I think in addition to that and something we’ve talked about plenty is with what’s going on with the TV money and you the uncertainty with that spending like crazy this off season when the talent might not be worthy of it does not seem
Like a smart idea from a business perspective I really want to maybe maybe now is time I kind of wanted to see the free agent stuff come to an end I want to sit down I’ve done it before down in his office with Bill thewit III and I
Just want to I I want to have a real and I don’t care if it’s off the Record if it’s off the Record just so I have a better understand like what is this television situation and he’s been on the podcast a couple of times I believe
And his father’s been on the podcast and have a conversation and have an understanding of where this thing is not just through the through the the financial implications and I realize a lot of fans care about that because it impacts what the club spends but I think more people
Care about how they’re able to watch games yeah and how just outdated this is so often technology gives you advances that you go my God I can’t believe I can just click one button and I’m watching any movie and sometimes can do that without even paying for it now uh and
I’m not talking about IL legally it’s just sitting there for you on YouTube right imagine that imagine telling yourself not you cuz you would have been too young but my peers who bought a billion DVDs when we were in college that those would all just be like little
Artifacts within a decade y well when it comes to sports television technology somehow we’ve gone backwards yeah regressed it’s phenomenal but it also is now impacting organiz ations in the manner with which they do business and therefore it could impact player salary specific to baseball so I I find this to
Be and maybe it’s not for great radio I don’t know um but it it is so it’s it’s like in 2012 13 14 15 in TMA I feel at minimum every week and probably every other day we were talking about the Rams moving MH and I don’t think this matches
The Rams moving but I felt like if I’m going to be hosting a show and I’m in St Louis and my belief is that the NFL team is going to move it would be uh irresponsible to not talk about it and I don’t give a damn if they don’t like it
At Rams Park and they’re not going to come on the show F off I don’t need you on my show I don’t need guests you know I’m going to tell the audience what’s going on and what evidence I have of it and that’s why I took my ass out to
Oakland and San Diego and Englewood and Carson to have a better understanding of the whole thing and it was all said and done on the day of the vote Kevin demov was texting me from inside that meeting room so I had done my diligence and I knew where things were and that’s the
Responsibility and so the responsibility here is if the Cardinals are in a spot where things are tight financially because of this television deal it might not Fascinate you because you’re more interested in going on Twitter and bitching about no Blake Snell signing or something but the television deal
Impacts why they’re signing 36y old pitchers and guys to three-year deals I believe I believe it’s material because in St Louis they don’t have the flexibility that they have in New York to throw $10 million at Harrison Bader for a year and so this could impact not just the shortterm but the long-term
Viability of the franchise uh your thoughts are welcome 314 399 9646 we will have Jackson’s deep teas and some sound and a response from Phil mikkelson and this is this is much bigger than golf like I love golf but I don’t talk about it much on here but this is going
To be bigger on it I’ll I’ll get into it because this is how the PGA Tour banged itself that’s next here on balloon party welcome back 1053 in St Louis final segment of balloon party then Jackson and I go to uh youtube.com tml for the Tim mcer Show podcast and uh that’s
That’s non sports Jackson That’s anything anything goes and you can send your questions comments anything insults t mckernan atsstl.com or watch the program all right you set this up in the previous segment Rory mroy appeared on the stick to football podcast um and I watched it last night
Because I read some of the quotes yesterday and I thought I want to hear the context really good show and I did hear the context and he talked about a couple of regrets he had and also what the live tour exposed with regards to PGA now you
Might be like dude I don’t I’m tired of this story and I go I kind of am myself but I’m going to get to a bigger point on this that has really nothing to do with the game of golf and what I think may have been one of the most grotesque
Strategies I have seen in sports business in my life that was executed and failed Jackson if you would play the sound but I think what Liv and the sties have exposed is okay well if you have you know a t and you’re going and you’re asking sponsors for millions of dollars
To spons these events and you’re not able to guarantee those sponsors the players that are going to show up you know it’s very hard it I can’t believe they’ve done so well for so long so it’s actually exposed some flaws in the system that hopefully Gulf will have a
Look at more okay well if we’re going to ask these people for so much money we need to be able to guarantee them what they’re getting and I think that was part of the stuff that we’ve been trying to do for the last two years to figure
Out okay how can we basically try and bring the thing back together again and and and learn from some of the things that have happened and some of the stuff that Liv has has exposed and yeah I still I feel like there was a
Way to do it where it wasn’t going to be this massive disruptor to the game and I think that’s the other thing to me it’s like it’s just it’s created this massive upheaval in in professional golf which has been sad to see and it’s like some people have taken one side some people
Have taken another and golf’s a small enough sport it’s not like football where you’ve got billions of fans so if you start dividing the eyeballs in professional it’s no good for anyone it’s just going to Cabe itself so so Phil Nicholson was one of Rory mooy’s targets throughout
This whole process and mikkelson sees what mroy says and tweets out this morning this quote and the many others made today by Rory probably were not easy to say let’s not use this as an opportunity to pile on rather it’s time for me and others to let go of our
Hostilities and work towards a positive future Rah son ing is turning into a bridge to bring both sides together as evidenced by the many com comments today regarding mroy and a month ago about changing the rules for the rider cup so John and others can play so let’s use it
As such until an agreement is reached it will be business as usual for both sides but hopefully without the needless disdain that right there could have been a moment where Michelson dunked you know right social media dunking uh on mooy cuz melroy’s quoted in full swing is saying F off Phil F off
Live and here’s Rory saying and he goes on to say later on in the podcast how he was wrong and he judged guys for going to live and the reason why this thing went off the rails from the beginning is because Jay Monahan the commissioner of
The PGA Tour declined to take a meeting with the head of the Saudi uh public investment fund uh yaser Al ramayan who he later on June 6th of 2023 would sit in an interview and talk about now their Alliance had he taken that meeting none of this happens it’s weird to have a
Moment that defining that impacted billions of dollars and an entire sport but I believe that it did and that’s because Monahan to date had been in charge of what essentially was a monopoly and didn’t want to involve another quote competitor into the arena and so well you can’t win and the issue
Became they only defense against live was not to say that the product was trivial moronic the idea ridiculous the team names the teams some of the players who were closer to the Champions to her than they were to being forces on the PGA tour none of that instead they
Demonized people for doing that which has been the centerpiece of the United States of America since it’s founding which is capitalism you are in the Open Marketplace some somebody wants your services and will pay you more then you choose to go there but as opposed to
Simply saying oh I’m going to go across the street and work for this person I understand shake hands and move on you were considered to be unpatriotic you were considered to be a traitor and then you were considered to be supportive of the nation responsible for September
11th that was the defense not the product and lifting up your product no you demonized the people who went and worked for a place where they were going to make more money and therefore it became not a discussion of capitalism and is live golf better than the PGA Tour it became good versus
Evil and so Rory mroy feeling like he’s doing the right thing by standing up for his tour joins in the voices of the PGA Executives and calls them out for doing business with Saudi Arabia well the issue is many companies in the United States and around the world do business
With Saudi Arabia and have been for a long time but in this case the PGA T had no defense and so their only mechanism was to demonize those who chose to do business with Liv as if they were trading being American citizens in addition to that to bring out the
Victims of September 11th’s families and have them stand outside a PGA Tour event Live Tour event and use those people and that’s exactly what was done they were used to try to keep their business going from my standpoint was so gross in the moment I thought it was gross and now
After the fact now that he is sitting there with yaser Al ramayan I have no idea how pga2 her players how guys who were on live tour and PJ tour Executives and sponsors would ever want to continue to do business with somebody who would do something that for my standpoint is
So grotesque but that was their only defense mechanism and so therefore guys who simply just chose to go well I’m I don’t know I don’t know if ol make it on the PJ tour I’m Brooks capka my body’s breaking down I was great but now I’m not necessarily sure what’s going to
Happen I’m going to go take this money they became bad for doing that when plenty of people make the decision you know what I’m going to leave there because this place is going to give me an opportunity to make more money but they’re not called traders to the United
States for doing so it was gross and that’s why Jay Monahan and the PGA Tour are in the spot that they are in time for us to wrap it up for Jackson brette I’m Tim mccaran this has been balloon party on 101 ESPN
