WGB #47: Millionaires vs. Billionaires

Mets Podcast - We Gotta Believe

Barstool Sports

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Blake Snell came out throwing heat this week against the league and not only does he not want to risk his health to play half a season, but he damn sure isn't going to do it for anything less than half his paycheck. KFC and Clem breakdown his rationale, why the millionaires should get the benefit over the billionaires and the dangers of ranting on a live-stream from the comfort of your home. Also, the $200 million man, Mark Teixeira, weighed in from his Ivory tower about why the players should play for free and it's as tone-deaf as you would imagine. The Mets might lose a year of players in their primes, but at least we haven't suffered any soul crushing defeats...yet. MLB is certainly in a pickle compared to every other league and the doomsday clock is ticking away, but we gotta believe we'll come out on the other side- drinking beers, eating hot dogs and celebrating America in July!!

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0:00.0	Hey, we gotta believe listeners.
0:02.2	You can find us every Monday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
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0:11.5	We live!
0:13.0	Let's go.
0:14.0	We gotta believe live right now on Stream Yard and Periscope, yada, yada, yada.
0:19.0	Lots to talk about.
0:20.8	Blake Snell dropped his video while he was on Twitch yesterday or today, whatever.
0:27.3	With some, I mean, you know, I know we've seen the tweets from Doolittle and we've heard comments from like retired players and whatnot.
0:34.0	But this was the first, you know, video spoken word on a player being like, fuck this.
0:39.1	I'm not playing for any less money than I should. And I think most people are on his side.
0:47.5	But I also think, A, there's always going to be a disconnect between like, yeah, there are, there are grocery store workers out there doing $10 an hour and you're complaining about playing baseball for like a million dollars.
1:00.6	That's always going to be a problem.
1:02.5	And I think he, I think he overplayed his hand with the whole, I'm risking my life.
1:09.7	Like, I know it's more dangerous.
1:11.5	I know you have to worry about your family.
1:13.3	But nobody wants to hear about a pro athlete in their prime who is, I mean, they could get
1:19.3	the Rona and like literally nothing would happen.
1:21.9	So I think there's both sides of the spectrum here.
1:24.9	Where do you fall?
1:26.7	No, I'm with you on that. It kind of,
1:29.5	it's always right in the middle with the pro athletes. And we do this covering them, right? And you're
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