October, that cold, crisper fall foliage and Jack O'Lanners on the front porch can only mean one thing postseason baseball and not pumpkin spice latte.
Well, at the MLB's postseason began this week in October is known for creating legends on the diamond, and with NHL opening night.
A week away, the sports world is pretty much in the swing of things.
The Europeans just won the Ryder Cup while the college and NFL football season are heating up.
Joining me to weigh in is Rick Horos, CEO of Horo Sports Ventures.
Good morning, Rick.
Great to have you on the show.
So let's start by talking about the Ryder Cup.
Yeah, well, let's start out by, let's start by talking about this Dublin hat prop, which is nice if it's 30 degrees, not here in South Florida, but pumpkin spice latte, we're there.
The reason this is important was an amazing conjunction in Ireland between the first NFL game ever there, a tribute to the Rooney family, Steelers and Vikings last week, NFL Dublin, combined with just across the street.
Going to Temple Bar and watching Shane Lowry make the last putt to have the Ryder Cup clinched by the Europeans.
I wasn't going to wear American clothes there with about 300 Irish people with a lot of drinks in their bodies, but the bottom line was good for Ireland, good for the US on the NFL game.
It was significant because it was a 9:30 slot that is now a normal spot for.
The American international games and again, first game in Dublin should be the Steelers.
Steelers home game.
Vikings stay for a second game in London have a regular process now.
Economic impact well over 100 million.
They spend $10 million to get it ready, but Dublin was very excited about it, knowing that it's a big deal now in the future.
NFL may be an 18th regular season game.
Where are they going to play it?
Probably across the pond on a regular basis.
Yeah, so Rick, welcome back to the US and here's stateside.
It's an exciting time for baseball.
So what's going on in the majors?
Yeah, I'm taking this off because it's enough.
And as far as the majors are concerned, the Dodgers clinch, but at press time, as you all say, we have 3 wildcard series going to the final game, which is tremendous.
The ratings off the charts.
Major League Baseball rumored to do a Netflix-oriented opening weekend starting next year with significant revenue dollars.
And the bottom line is this wildcard week, not only because it was a drama just to get in it.
But now it's important.
It's a big deal.
The balls and strikes next year, we're going to see umpires being second guessed left and right.
People are going to have in this ABS system two challenges.
If you succeed, you get to keep them for as long as you challenge until you fail twice.
And at the end of the day we're going to just like John McEnroe didn't like it, we're going to remove some of the crying in baseball because we're going to have everybody at their couches judging whether the replay system is going to overturn it.
Will it take too long?
Probably not.
It's long overdue for baseball.
Yeah, and finally, Rick, before I let you go, we have about 60 seconds here.
NBC Universal and YouTube TV reaching a short-term extension agreement to avoid any service disruption that could have disrupted Sunday Night Football.
So Rick, what would we have done?
Well, we have gone to play chess or something.
Now I'm going to talk fast because we've got 43 seconds.
And at the end of the day, the YouTube last minute deadline fiasco is symptomatic of every cable negotiation around the world where you look at the deadline, you talk about consumers being not able to.
Their games and NBC Universal needs YouTube and YouTube needs them just like everybody needs it.
And because YouTube has become so prolific, so easy to get, and so important to the window of streaming, this becomes a really important deal to solve.
Watch every other cable negotiation deadline take the same route.
They'll all get done.
Well, speaking of deadlines, we are here on a deadline as well on Wall Street.
So Rick, always great talking to you.
Thank you so much for joining us and fantastic hat.
Welcome back.
Thank you, bye.
