giuliani was shamelessly out there night after night defending him on television. there is no question, it was his freelancing in ukraine that started that mess, in many ways. yes, trump was trying to quiet was seeming to come to grips with his defeat, only to again be spun up by giuliani and sidney powell, as the rest of the west wing empties out. people had left. there was another covid outbreak after election night. who was left, giuliani. for all his defense on tv, for all the showy press conference with his sweating hair dye, when push came to shove, he had to go to a courtroom in pennsylvania, the judge says, what are you alleging, fraud? he said, no, i have no evidence of fraud. backed away from everything he had been say on tv. it was a show. his law license stripped in new york. yes. that didn t save him in the end. yeah. good news for us baseball fans maybe. the associated press reports
vaccination overshadowed by that tournament. it s not a sure thing he ll be allowed to play. now, to hopefully movement on the major league baseball lockout and the sport s first work stoppage since 1985. the ap reports the league of the players union are scheduled to meet tomorrow, ending a 42-day break in negotiations since the last one on december 1st. that s when the lockup began. we ve got five weeks to go before the start of spring training. look, i speak for baseball fans, spring training, about that can be delayed. we don t want that, but that s okay. you just cannot miss regular season games. the sport will not recover. get this done. meanwhile, new york yankees will make history with a new hire, rachel balkovitz, the affiliate of the yankees first
party. yeah, look. before we get into why his grip may be loosening, it s important to point out that when you look at the national polling right now, he is still well ahead in a potential 2024 primary. look at this, all the way up at 53%. ron desantis, in second, is just at 16. the rest are in single digits, right? so look, his grip may be loosening, but he s still getting over 50% of the potential republican primary vote. that s a pretty strong position to be in. historical context here is challenging for us, right, neither of us were around for gro grover cleveland. we were not around for grover cleveland, though i did enjoy the picture grover cleveland alexander for those old-timer baseball fans. look, nonincumbents polled 45% or above presidential primaries to this point, only two of them. only two of them. hillary clinton in 2016 and al gore in 2000. so at this point being 98 and 2014, both of those two won the
these billionaires and these millionaires have such contempt for these baseball fans that they only meet five times in their off-season? you know, the easy answer, joe and it is probably too simplistic an answer, but it is all about money. i mean major league baseball, while quality professional sports are swimming in an ocean of money, both sides, both the players and the team owners. the team owners are obviously billionaires, you re not going to own a team unless you have a lot of money. the players feel they ve been screwed badly over the last five or six years based on the last accomplishment they had putting together a pact, a contract. now they want to make up for it. in the service time they re talking about eliminating one-year of service before the players become a free agent and the owners think it will cost too much money. jonathan, i don t know about you, but the money factor here is sickening.
welcome back, everybody. baseball fans are going to have to wait a bit longer for some action. pitchers, catchers should be reported to spring training this week but the major league baseball lockout between owners and players has delayed that. here s more on the ripple effect. reporter: the crack of the bat and the pop of the mitt. familiar sounds that signal the start of another baseball season. but this year spring training delayed. pitchers and catchers nowhere to be found. the clash between players and team owners has fans of america s past time crying foul. it s devastating. this is such a big baseball community. the dispute resulting in a lockout. it s a major league setback. not just for baseball but communities across florida and arizona that depend on the financial injection from the teams and their die-hard fans.