the baseball union

... no, it's not.

And I, I, I don't feel confident that the NFL Players Association is gonna sit there and die on this vine.

I, I don't know.

Um, what I think will happen is the ground swell of the media, and I think the power of the media could play a role here.

Y- I'll, I'll make an analogy.

This is not an apples to apples analogy, but it's, it's an analogy.

What do we have, uh, going on?

You know, th- everything ma-

Well, yeah.

I mean, I mean, you know, I mean, for me personally, uh, yesterday, Tuesdays are, are a chaos day for me.

You know, I teach on Tuesdays.

Uh, I have, uh, my kid on Tuesdays.

I had a podcast that was due on Tuesday, and I had two of my teams playing.

Uh, one was at 3:00 and the other one was at 6:00, and I saw both of those games.

If two of them are in the World Series, does that hurt his cause, or does it not matter at all to his cause?

Right.

So this, this was a situation, and nobody vetted this.

I told my students yesterday, I said, "If you...

I, I wouldn't go to bed tonight without cleaning up your social media.

Like, don't let anybody find this stuff." This wasn't, like, screen grabs from some, like, Woodward and Bernstein detective case.

This was...

Those, those posts were out there.

If they delete this stuff, can it still be found? Unless someone had a screenshot, no, right?

This is Kawhi

Leonard times 100.

It's pretty wild.

Manchester City in 2008, this Sheik bought them, and it's a very simple rule that they have in the Premier League.

You can only spend a proportion of what your revenue is.

It's directly connected.

So if you earn money, then you can spend it.

Seth, I love the fact that you discovered over the weekend that the baseball playoffs and that there's no receding in the playoffs

Okay, all

right.

Although the show Wednesday is great.

The current show, Wednesday on Netflix.

Oh, what a great show.

That's a fantastic show.

But yeah, you know, it's funny on a red zone.

Exactly.

... from, from the, uh, you know, the defeat snatching the jaws of victory away?

Well, the t- the two things.

Number one, they missed two extra points in that game.

They had 15 penalties for over 130 yards, and he threw three interceptions.

So that pick six was just the capper of a disaster of an afternoon, and they lost by three.

You do half of those penalties and they win that game.

Uh, it was a, that was a joke.

So yesterday, were you watching the Jets, or was it a typical Seth Everett Sunday afternoon in which you are locked into the Red Zone?

How hard is it to associate these guys with a school because really there's no association where they just, like, play it for a year and they're gone?

I tell this, uh, the story of when Jim Boeheim retired, uh, Adrian Autry was the, was the replacement, and there was so much pomp and circumstance.

You know, they had orange balloons all over the place.

They had a, a, a big spread for all the, the, the, the, the trustees that were there, and the media was there.

And, you know, it's Syracuse, New York.

We're not talking about, you know, midtown Manhattan.

They throw softballs at him.

Would you change your opinion at all if they reeled in the transfers to you get one?

Right.

There were rumors, and this wasn't like salacious rumors.

This was in People Magazine and Real Rumors, Hollywood Reporter, that Alyssa Milano, you know the actress Alyssa Milano? Big fan.

Alyssa Milano was romantically linked to two baseball players, Brad Penny of the Dodgers and Barry Zito of the A's.

And on a random day, and I didn't even think about this for two seconds before I said it, It was previewing the Knights games and the A's were playing the Dodgers in an interleague series.

And Brad Penny was facing Alyssa was facing Barry Zito.

And I said on the air, I said, Barry Zito faces Barry Zito faces Brad Penny in the Alyssa Milano bowl.

100%.

I see you as the guy being pretty fired up about doing that this week.

For the most part, I have been.

I would say the Facebook memories is the only thing that's screwing with me.

Yesterday, a memory came up.

She was two years old reading my Star Wars books.

Right.

And the post was starting them early.

Were there more people at the watch party that you went to than you expected? Was there a bigger buzz? Cause it seemed to me just judging by what was going on on social media, that the premier league had a little, a little oomph to it to start the year.

It's like, oh, we did it because he died? That's not fair, for lack of a better word.

I know, because you're thinking to yourself, this is what's making the writers look at those numbers, and the numbers don't lie.

I mean, there's no secret about it.

My cool story with Tommy John, so I was with the Mariners in 2000.

And the Mariners played the Yankees in the ALCS.

And I met the folks at Major League Baseball.

And in like December of that year, I came to New York to interview for a chance to work for Major League Baseball.

Did Dan Issel remember the story? And give it to us again.

I'm just baffled that she still has a job.

I agree with you.

My thought...

My whole point on the WNBA is I don't mind what anybody wants to be, and I understand what the rules are, and I understand the fair advantage part of it.

I understand all of it, and I'm not debating it.

My point is that this is not the time to be talking about this.

There's a reason why in college football, they talk about realignment for seven out of the 12 months of the year, and then as soon as they kick off the darn ball, they stop talking about it.

This should be fun for you.

If I'm the union, I'm like, tell me how this isn't working for competitive balance.

Yeah, the interesting part about the competitiveness is the extra playoff round has helped that a lot.

If you take that extra playoff round out, you know, that's a different thing.

The Scooble thing was interesting.

You know, baseball reporters losing their minds when Scooble went to the Dodgers.

And I guess he pitched okay.

You know, it was late last night.

What are we doing this week, Seth?

What's the vibe around there right now? Sports wise.

It's very Knicks.

Very, very Knicks.

The reaction I got from the podcast that I did with Alan Hahn, who's an MSG network analyst.

He's also a radio host.

Alan is a longtime friend.

He came on the podcast and the sheer joy that I have not heard.

And I got the biggest kick out of that because now I'm going to call you a Cardinals fan from this point forward.

Yep, I'm aware of

it.

That's what I want my life to be.

I want to be Rooster.

That's what it is.

Rooster is about an author.

I'm not an author, but he's an author.

I'm guessing you're the cool teacher.

Well, that's better than the off-air conversation about what was it? Bayheims, what are they?

I watched the basketball tournament, the alumni game that Chris Paul came up with this tournament, where all the colleges like Kentucky and Kansas and Louisville and Seton Hall and Syracuse have put these groups together to, Of college players that never amounted to anything in the NBA.

And last night, the Bayheim Army took on the Hall Inn, which is the Seton Hall alumni in South Orange.

And David, you know how close South Orange is to my house.

And I could have gone to that game.

And I didn't know it was happening until the third quarter.

But I watched it last night.

That would help golf.

Well,

he, Yes, I'm rooting for my guys.

This whole tournament, I have only watched games where my guys are in, my Arsenal players are in.

So I've watched six teams.

Belgium was one of them.

Ecuador was one of them.

England, Spain, France.

How much do things like that hurt their chances of getting other things in your estimation?

know, dive into the soccer video world?

I have in 21 and 22.

That was mostly during COVID.

That was a great way to learn the players.

You could learn the players on the other team.

So I bought the FIFA game.

It was then the FIFA game.

People would go nuts.

... nonsense? Yeah.

Yep.

Th- this time it counts.

That was the tie, and we were in Milwaukee, and that was the day that there was a massive rainstorm during the Home Run Derby.

It's a retractable roof in Milwaukee, right? And it's a massive rainstorm.

And waiting to get on the media shuttle to go back to the hotel, Charlie Manuel, who is a dear friend of mine, was-- who was managing the Cleveland then Indians, walks up to the bus and slips in mud, and wipes out.

Like, it, it-- Like, he looked like Fred Flintstone falling into a, like a pi- a pile of mud.

Hmm.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

I have an extra little thing to plug, if that's okay.

Tomorrow night, and David, you're going to crack up.

Tomorrow night, I am guest hosting New York Sports Nightly on WPIX Channel 11.

How did you get that gig? I am hosting with Nelson Figueroa at 11 p.m., and I found out that I get WPIX because that's how I watch some of my Syracuse ACC games on WPIX.

But this thing's done a lot better than I think even the biggest pessimists expected.

If it sucks, tell me it

sucks.

But what I like, for example, when Barkley, when the Knicks came back from 29 down, and Barkley says the Spurs are the stupidest team going.

That was terrible.

What I didn't hear him say is, I couldn't watch that second half.

Like, I don't know.

And maybe I don't see enough of it.

I was laughing so hard

I didn't even want to say those two words because, you know, I

I've I've been watching.

So what I did was I designated there are 10 Arsenal players on six countries.

And what I did was I told my phone, you know, the Apple Sports app, I told my phone that those six countries are my favorite countries.

And so the schedule is conducive to me.

So, for example, yesterday I watched France because William Saliba is a defenseman on France.

I watched Norway because Martin Odegaard, the Arsenal captain, is on Norway.

That

This is terrific

hockey, Seth.

It's been incredible.

And it's funny to see longtime hockey media people, whether it's broadcasters or...

You know, a lot of times you fall into this trap of where, you know, you get short-sighted memory and you always think this is the greatest thing you've ever seen.

There are people who are writing articles that are saying literally these four games have been the best Stanley Cup final maybe ever.

I mean, I don't know how you compare ever.

No,

one thing i'll say about the congressional bill and everyone can argue about politics but that could help the lawsuits that could say no you can't run to court every time you get a a decision you can't play so for that reason i am in favor of a congressional bill

do you get the sense that Forgive me, but this is what you're saying sounds idealistic.

So my question to you is, do you see that there will be some kind of selfless interest into this, this policy to kind of write the wrongs that are going on.

I mean, we're seeing this story.

We had a guy on last hour who's sitting there saying there's probably, you know, 20 to 30 to 50 other athletes that are gambling on this stuff.

And no one seems to be governing this.

And there doesn't seem to be anybody in charge.

Maybe Syracuse says, we're in in hoop, but we can't afford football.

So the NBA could not be drawing this up any better through three games.

Yeah.

This is, uh, this is like, uh, what's his face? Uh, Manfred when, uh, the Dodgers played the Yankees in the World Series.

Like, you just, you love the matchup, um, the idea that it's a superstar on one team and then this, this juggernaut on the other team that hasn't been there in so long.

I mean, the entire scope of the NBA has changed since the last time the Knicks were in the finals.

You know, we've talked, uh, you and I at least, have talked in the past about how that sport is no longer a regional sport, that, you know, because of social media and because of everything that's evolved, if you grew up in New Jersey, for lack of a better phrase, you don't have to be a Knicks fan.

You could be a- a- a Giannis fan or a Jokic fan or a LeBron fan, what- whatever your, your, your choice is, because of the access to these players.

[laughs]

Do you see that happening? Do you think there's a way for that to happen?

I don't think it's a fair apples-to-apples comparison.

I know that they both take place around this time, but I don't think they're connected.

I think that what hockey has is its base, and hockey continues to show growth.

But hockey's not trying to compete with the NBA.

The league that's trying to compete with the NBA is the NFL, because what the NFL did as soon as Amazon and the NBA signed their deal, the NFL immediately was like, well, we have to renegotiate.

Hockey didn't do that.

They