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for the wall street journal. joining me from las vegas, sports columnist at the new york times. bill, how crazy is it in vegas right now as the world has been waiting on this fight that is finally going to happen? first of all, i have to tell you how impressed i am in you. when are you coming here? let me explain. that research comes from ky ma who is a tiny producer but very interested in boxing. melissa s got game. come on. so excitement is still sleeping. this thing is i drove in from los angeles and there was like a caravan of people coming. so in about two hours, three hours, this place is going to be permanently crazy because, everybody loves a fight. we can talk all about the peace and the love and the concussions and the hand wringing. people love a big fight particularly in one of the great fighters is an american. somebody who won the united
having the national anthem played in front of 45,000 empty seats was very poignant. wow. that s deep. i kept feeling we make decisions about this show and what s going to go on and what s a reasonable set of conversation for us to be having in the context of the world. we re really battling with do we turn to talking about the fight, the thing that everyone is talking about, do we turn to talking about sports in the context of baltimore. now baltimore shifted, but if it were still burning, there s a question, would the fight have gone kind of obviously, i wonder if it should have. the whole week you have a number of sporting events taking place. the kentucky derby todayp the nfl draft taking place. it really i m glad that baltimore and the orioles in particular kept the fans out of the stadium to make it seem like this is really more important what s going on in the city than the actual event, but i think it goes to a hardgelarger point that for americans talent trumps
they re feeling, why don t they do this? you have never been black. so slow down a bit. slow down a bit. i want to talk about this question of talent trumping character in the context of the nfl draft. we ll give everybody a chance to weigh in more on this. because up next the number one pick in the nfl s draft will his past trouble affect the already troubled league? if you can t put a feeling into words, why try? at 62,000 brush movements per minute philips sonicare leaves your mouth with a level of clean like you ve never felt before giving you healthier gums in just two weeks. innovation and you. philips sonicare.
take a look at the eerie scene at oriole park in camden yard on wednesday as the orioles played the chicago white sox to an empty stadium. believed to be the first major league game ever played without spectators. team officials had declared the game would be closed to the public and the protests that had been taking place in the streets of baltimore. i wanted to set these two things next to each other, this idea that everyone in the world would be watching the fight tonight on pay-per-view, on everything else, then in baltimore, the other enormous and important story, here we had a major league game that was happening, no one there, except you. i was. i was there. it was absolutely bizarre. and you know you talk to players and managers in the stands and everyone seemed kind of resigned to this reality but obviously not very happy with this decision. what this did was send the message that baltimore is not