on salary. but i personally believe they should be on salary but that s a whole other story. we re talking about two sports in particular, men s basketball and football. that s right. why when you look at the way those two sports have eevolved, why is it so different from hockey that i mentioned earlier or baseball? here s the reason. hockey and baseball began as professional sports. before they were college sports. so they had a minor league system because they had to train players to be good enough to be in the major leagues in both sports. football and basketball began as college sports. so colleges from the start were the minor leagues. and it was the names of the college players, the stardom of the college players that caused them to want to go see the pros in the first place, george miken and players like that. football and basketball never bothered to have a minor league
home. that s not impossible. i think you only have what, 21 seats, it s not an unreachable number for democrat democrats. the fact that the most popular politician, bernie sanders, will be 78 in 2,020. it keeps you the extent of the devastation obama has left behind in the democratic party. in his eight years he did okay in 08 and 12. they have lost, as you enumerated before, the house, the senate, the presidency, two-thirds of the governorships, two-thirds of the statehouses. he had torched their entire minor league system. aaa, aa, single-a, there s nothing left, and that s why the leadership is in their 70s, if the old progressive, the bernie sanders, vacationing in the soviet union hard left. it energizes a lot of students. i don t think it will carry the
home. that s not impossible. i think you only have what, 21 seats, it s not an unreachable number for democrat democrats. the fact that the most popular politician, bernie sanders, will be 78 in 2,020. it keeps you the extent of the devastation obama has left behind in the democratic party. in his eight years he did okay in 08 and 12. they have lost, as you enumerated before, the house, the senate, the presidency, two-thirds of the governorships, two-thirds of the statehouses. he had torched their entire minor league system. aaa, aa, single-a, there s nothing left, and that s why the leadership is in their 70s, if the old progressive, the bernie sanders, vacationing in the soviet union hard left. it energizes a lot of students. i don t think it will carry the
when sports teams are successful, it s because they have a bench, a minor league system. i think the democrats need to do is same. they need to make sure they not only have candidates that are front and center, but they re growing the bench. that s one of the worries about a perez or ellison candidacy. another priority would be the fact that the democrats have lost hundreds, you know, of house seats over the last decade, so, what would be the focus on how to reclaim those lost seat sns. i think you have to rebuild the state parties. we can t talk about building a bench and we re not supporting the folks whose job is to go out there and build a bench, so i think the first task of this chair and the new leadership of the democratic national committee will be to talk, to put together a plan for how to support these state parties. are we going to do a pipeline program? i believe in that. i believe in leadership, bringing in these folk frs the new blue crew as i call it,
show sho sh showalter for two years. they kind of addition by not really doing anything. it s awesome to see buck work a couple years ago in the postseason everything was so calculated. it s cool. pensacola boy. a year ago at this time we were at wrigley field for opening day. a lot of people around that organization said not this year but we have a great minor league system. we keeb hearing about that with the cubs. do they break through a little bit this year? i played there for two years and i m dying for them to get back to the postseason. yeah i don t want to say that i have a breakthrough but they re going to be a heck of a lot bet we re if additions of jon lester. they got guys from the minor leagues, chris bryant created a stir in spring training. he will be up in two weeks. nl east let s go to another team that suffered for a very long time. the new york mets. we always see mets caps around here. how are the mets going to be this year? you answer that lauren. bad