Weekly Docket
MLB Player's Lifetime Ban, Trump's Appeal Chances, HOA Foreclosure Auctions, and NFL Hypocrisy
Join Phil Silberman and Austin Black in Episode 21 of the 'Weekly Docket' as they discuss the lifetime ban of a San Diego Padres player for betting on baseball and the controversial due process violations in Trump's trial. Get insights into what buyers should be aware of when purchasing property through an HOA foreclosure auction. Plus, Phil and Austin rant about the NFL's hypocritical stance on violence against women. Don't miss this episode filled with legal analysis, expert advice, and lively discussions!
Join Phil Silberman and Austin Black in Episode 21 of the 'Weekly Docket' as they discuss the lifetime ban of a San Diego Padres player for betting on baseball and the controversial due process violations in Trump's trial. Get insights into what buyers should be aware of when purchasing property through an HOA foreclosure auction. Plus, Phil and Austin rant about the NFL's hypocritical stance on violence against women. Don't miss this episode filled with legal analysis, expert advice, and lively discussions!
Welcome to the Silberman Law Firm's Weekly Docket, Episode 21, where we talk legal news and practical law. Today is June 6, 2024, and I'm your host, Phil Silberman, owner of the firm, and I'm joined by my co host, Austin Black, who works in our Dallas office. How are you doing today, Austin?
austin_3_06-06-2024_130644:I'm doing just fine, rooting for the Mavs to bring home a win in Boston tonight.
phil-silberman_3_06-06-2024_140645:Yeah, go Mavs. What's on our docket today, Mr. Black?
austin_3_06-06-2024_130644:we're going to be talking first about the San Diego Padres player, who received a lifetime MLB ban for betting on baseball. we'll be going over what the ban specifically was. And then, talking about probably the biggest legal news right now, which is, Trump's, trial in New York, where he was convicted of a numerous amount of, felony charges, and exactly what that means. and our take on it, we'll be going over our legal questions, section, specifically, what buyers should be aware of when they purchase property through an HOA foreclosure action. When you do that, are you just getting a really cheap house or are there potential strings that come with that? and then in our Rant and Rave We're a little bit late on this subject, but we're going to be talking about the NFL player who gave a commencement speech, that a lot of people were upset about when he was praising his wife. but the NFL seems to be pretty okay when their players are beating their wives.
phil-silberman_3_06-06-2024_140645:All right, but let's go ahead and get Started with our legal news section, and we've got the San Diego Padres player just received a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball. big news. It would have been bigger. He really wasn't very good of a player, but We'll talk about him. We'll get to him in a second. Okay, but before we did, we dig into that. I want to talk to you a little bit about the history of gambling in baseball. Now, Austin, I know you don't know a lot about sports, but have you seen filled of dreams?
austin_3_06-06-2024_130644:I have not seen Field of
phil-silberman_3_06-06-2024_140645:Okay,
austin_3_06-06-2024_130644:I'm
phil-silberman_3_06-06-2024_140645:that does not surprise me because. Field of Dreams was pretty much watching corn grow for half the movie, But we're going to go way back on this one to 1919. And there was a White Sox scandal, okay? And there were like six White Sox players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson. And Shoeless Joe Jackson was a famous player, and he was famously in the movie Field of Dreams. not literally in the movie, but his character was in Field of Dreams. And the idea of these six guys, who played for the White Sox, conspired to throw the World Series for money. Okay. And they call them instead of the white socks, they call them the black socks, obviously a play on doing these unscrupulous activities. So they conspired with this infamous mob boss. Okay. And this is one of these things I'm ashamed to say, obviously I have a Jewish background. and Mr, Arnold Rothstein was one of these guys. he was named or termed the brain. And he was the, basically the head of the Jewish mafia in New York. And these white socks, ball players got together. to throw the world series. And the Major League Baseball figures it out. And there's actually a criminal trial. And this criminal trial is deemed to be baseball's trial of the century. And they charge these White Sox guys with conspiracy to obtain money by false pretenses or via a game of confidence. a swindle in which the victim is persuaded to trust the swindler in some way. this is the original con game right here in 1919. I tried to find that violation in some penal code in Illinois. I could not find any modern versions. of that criminal act. But conspiracy obviously still exists under the law. as far as I can tell, this criminal violation would be closest to just criminal fraud, essentially.
austin_3_06-06-2024_130644:Makes sense.
phil-silberman_3_06-06-2024_140645:but here's the news. They were all acquitted, so they get off scot free, but they were banned from baseball for life by then Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis. I, is that a real name, Austin? I don't know.
austin_3_06-06-2024_130644:It must be. I don't know why you'd name someone that, but, go for it,
phil-silberman_3_06-06-2024_140645:maybe he was native American. And, that was the first banning of baseball for gambling. and it didn't stop people from gambling though,
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:And one of the most infamous examples we have in kind of the modern era is Pete Rose. all time hit leader in Major League Baseball with 4, 256 hits. but he had a gambling problem and he bet on baseball. So he received a lifetime ban for betting on baseball. he denied it for like years and years, but then he wrote an autobiography where he admitted it. So I'm not sure if. He wanted to do that to sell books. They caught him through a series of investigations, gave him a lifetime ban. we have a Major League Baseball rule, MLB rule 21.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:it says, quote, any player, or club or league official or employee who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the better has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:pretty simple rule. You bet on baseball, you're out. and there was, no evidence that Pete Rose ever bet against himself. Or against his team. does that matter to you? what if he was like, I'm so good. I'm betting on myself to win.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:Personally, I wouldn't care about it, but I can also see how in the situation, if there are people who would be, I don't know, more it would give him more of a motivation to throw games, right?
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:Then we've got the Shohei Itani incident. great ballplayer for the Angels. He's currently the designated hitter. That's really just because he is a phenomenal pitcher. He injured his shoulder, so he's not able to be on the mound pitching in 2024. So he's just going to hit, in 2023, he led, baseball in, on base percentages. So phenomenal player Otani's family was linked to gambling activities through the player, though Otani himself. Was not actually linked to it. Shohei Otani's interpreter took the fall on this deal. He was accused embezzling money, pleaded guilty in federal court on charges related to theft. Nearly 17 million from show. Hey, that's a lot of gambling if that's what they used it for. And Hey, the word on the street is if you're an athlete, you've got to have a fall guy.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:Yeah, that's a good
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:maybe that was part of the deal. You're going to be the interpreter. You get to steal a bunch of money or get paid a bunch of money. but if anything, when the, you know, what hits the fan. You're going down. So maybe that was the deal. Scandal was uncovered through some financial audits. Shohei comes out of that unscathed by Major League Baseball, but maybe his reputation is a little tarnished. So now we get into this recent news, by much lesser ballplayers that frankly, no one really cares about, but made the headlines. Tukapito McCarno, we're gonna go with that, was banned for a life Venezuelan ballplayer, below average, second baseman played for the Pirates got a lifetime ban recently. He had like low 200 batting average to show you how good this guy was. he's a major league ball player, so give him some credit.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:your word for it that that's
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:He was on the injured reserve. He wasn't even playing and he just started betting 387 bets, some of them on his team, but he wasn't playing in the games. He bet, over 150 grand. I think the data we have is that. he did not win. We have a statistic here.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:he won just 4. 3 percent of his wages.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:3. so let's break that down. Just use round numbers. If the guy bet 100 times, he lost, let's just say 95 of those times,
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:yeah, let's be conservative.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:so he was almost as bad a gambler as he was a baseball player.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:So they just banned him from playing baseball,
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:that's like a big deal. that would be like you being banned from being a lawyer. You got your bar card pulled. You're out,
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:no. I get that. I get that. I feel like maybe they should've just banned him from gambling, and that would've helped him,
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:right? I don't think they have the power to do that. and this brings us to a legal topic. The power to regulate these ballplayers is based on a CBA, a collective bargaining agreement. And in the law, if you have unionized. Employees, which in this case, the major league baseball players are in fact unionized. So the union appoints some members, they bargain collectively on behalf of all the ballplayers. With Major League Baseball and in the contract, in the union contract, it states explicitly prohibits gambling and, players agree to those terms. So we were not able to find any modern legal cases of these of like Pete Rose or Tuco getting being charged with criminal prosecution. That could have been from the fact that they tried it in 1919 to criminally prosecute. These guys didn't work. Jury acquitted him and maybe after the Black Sox scandal in 1919. Prosecutors have been very reluctant based on that. They figured we're not going to get a jury and in today's era, right? The era of draft Kings and fan duel and all that good luck getting a jury to some guys who gambled,
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:convict
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:Yeah, to convict him. they may take it a little more serious if they gambled on themselves. I think this is the part of the show Austin, where we need to say. If you have a gambling problem, go find a number to get help. I don't have that number, but if you have a gambling problem, there's a number out there,
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:the number is 800 GAMBLER, by the way, in case anyone
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:That's actually the number.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:Yep.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:that's terrible. Like, I mean, what's the suicide number? Like, like 1 800 KILL YOURSELF or something? if
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:I did hear a story though about someone who called the suicide hotline recently and no one picked up. And they just thought that was so funny that they didn't move forward with committing suicide.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:we got to talk about Donald Trump, if you've been living under a rock, Trump was tried in New York for, some 130, 000, some hush money paid to a porn star, Stormy Daniels. The hush money payments are not illegal. The New York prosecutor had to charge him with something. They charged him with falsifying business records, which is just a misdemeanor in New York. There had to be another crime. associated with that falsifying business records to raise it to a felony. So Trump gets convicted, jury comes back guilty on all 34 counts. That was surprising to me. Trump, of course, said the whole trial's rigged. The judge is out to get him. And I'm not a Trump fan, alright, in full disclosure. But I did not like this trial. It felt like political persecution.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:it is strange to me and it seems like they're grasping at straws. And then we're about to talk about, even with this one, there were procedural issues with it.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:so here's the legal theory and the idea if this is gonna get overturned. Here's the best idea that I've seen, and these are not my original thoughts, is that Donald Trump did not receive due process. And most of that argument is stemming from the fact that he did not have an opportunity to defend he did not get adequate notice of the jury charges And did not have an opportunity to properly defend, on that second crime. He didn't get adequate notice of the second crime because the prosecutor, was hiding the ball. Like no one knew, including the Trump defense, what was this elusive second crime. That he's being accused of and the indictment did not specify the second crime. Okay So during the trial it was only revealed, you know after the evidentiary phase And that what was it? What was the second crime? It was, crimes unlawful other unlawful means a federal election law falsification of other business records
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:Yeah.
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:violation of tax laws. So very late in the game, did Trump get notice of this second crime? and that's the idea. Okay. He wasn't afforded due process and that's why it's going to be overturned. Did not have the opportunity to defend. And, the other concept here is, this thing being unanimous and if you're a juror in a criminal case, there has to be a unanimous decision, not that he was guilty, but it has to be unanimous on all of the elements of the charges. And we've got some cases on that. Cole v. Arkansas from 1948. that one established the necessity of the notice of specific charges. And that goes back, that's not talking about whether it was unanimous. That's talking about, did he get notice of the specific charges specifically that other crime.
austin_4_06-06-2024_131924:and then it was Shad v. Arizona in 1991 that addressed the need for Specifically unanimity in criminal verdicts, especially when the means of committing the crimes are broad you
phil-silberman_4_06-06-2024_141925:So you got a lot of different crimes there. The jury has to be unanimous in there. And there's some evidence that the judge did not give the proper instructions to the jury, because I think the jury even had some questions about it. and the jury was actually instructed that they did not need to be unanimous on what unlawful means. from a guy myself, from Phil Silberman here in Texas. I know you think everyone from Texas is a Trump supporter and all that, but from a guy who's not a big Trump supporter, this has some real problems. the other thing we're hearing a lot is the United States Supreme Court is going to overturn this. I don't know if I buy that, but I at least need to address the theory.
phil-silberman_5_06-06-2024_144939:The theory here would be that Trump is somehow immune as a previous president, from this type of prosecution. presidents are, or the idea that presidents are immune from all sorts of crimes is a bit ridiculous. If a president were to commit some heinous crime. active murder, then certainly the president can be prosecuted for that sort of thing. I don't think the Supreme Court is going to just give Trump blanket immunity. But what they would do if they were to take this up is to go back and have another court look at whether this second crime that, that they allegedly accused Trump of. or anything Trump did had to do with his official capacity as president, right? And if it did, the Supreme Court could then make a ruling his presidential immunity. And that would, no pun intended, Trump the 34 verdict charges, right?
austin_5_06-06-2024_134938:Yes
phil-silberman_5_06-06-2024_144939:here's an interesting idea. Have you seen what Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, said about Trump? about this case and the, I thought this was really inappropriate.
austin_5_06-06-2024_134938:Mike Johnson said, quote, to Fox News, that he believed the Supreme Court should step in. On the verdict, I'm implying that he may have spoken with some of the justices about Trump's legal issues, which again, yeah, it just seems really inappropriate. And again, he said, quote, I think that some of the justices on the court, I know many of them personally, I think they are deeply concerned about that as we are. So I think they'll set this straight. This will be overturned, guys. There's no question about it. It's just going to take some time to do it. It's super inappropriate for someone in one branch of government to be talking like that about Sort of collusion with another branch of government. Yeah.
phil-silberman_5_06-06-2024_144939:exactly. Our 3 branches of government, executive, judicial and legislative are supposed to be independent. Mike Johnson being part of the legislative branch is supposed to be independent of the judiciary and to imply. That he has any influence over a tribunal. So I don't know if Mike Johnson's a lawyer. A lot of them are lawyers. Like that would be a violation of the Texas rules of professional conduct to imply that you have some sort of sway. over a tribunal. let alone the, to imply that you have some sort of sway over the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:All right. So let's go ahead and answer some legal questions. Moving on to our next section. What should buyers be aware of when purchasing property through an HOA auction?
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:so an HOA foreclosure auction usually is instituted due to fees or other sorts of assessments, that the homeowner has racked up owed to the HOA, that they can assess according to their bylaws, covenants or restrictions, right? The big amount usually comes from legal fees that they tack on to that and so that you notices of this potential foreclosure or violations and then interests that are tacked on to those fees that you're assessed. But when those eventually get high enough, the HOA institute foreclosure proceedings against the property. let's say that. The money that they've racked up for the foreclosure is like around 7, 000. That's a pretty standard amount, unfortunately, most of these properties that are being foreclosed on with an HOA foreclosure auction are not owned free and clear by the homeowner. They're subject to a superior lien, right? A purchase money mortgage, usually in that situation, for let's say 200, 000. And then the HOA's lien on the property that they're foreclosing on is only 7, 000. So if they sell that property at a foreclosure auction. don't get the full property free and clear. It's going to come subject to that superior mortgage. So a lot of people look and they say, Oh, look, here's a 200, 000 property. I'm getting for 7, 000. This is such a great deal, right? And they purchase it. they don't realize that it can still be foreclosed on by that superior lien.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:yeah, that's exactly right. Let me add just a little bit of color to this and tell you what's happening. all over the state of Texas. you have all these auctions going on at this designated place, the courthouse in all these counties across Texas on the first Tuesday of every month. And everybody who thinks they're going to be the next greatest and real estate investor is going to make millions of they go and flock to these courthouses. Now there are some very sophisticated buyers down there, but there's also a lot of novices. These novices of these greenhorns go into the auction and a lot of times they don't have a lot of money to spend. Do they have their life savings and they're sitting around the auction and up comes a property that's worth 200, 000 that they can buy for 10 grand, 20 grand, 30 grand, 40 and they're like, I just bought a 200, 000 property for 50, 000. yes, I finally done it. I'm going to, I'm a real estate guru. And then they quickly figure out that. They did not get such a good deal. And that's what's Austin's talking about. Turns out that the mortgage, the bank who lent the money had a superior lien to the HOA fees. So when they did the HOA auction, that lien was not wiped out. So they ended up basically overpaying for property. Maybe the 200, 000 property they bought for 50, 000. You know that had a 200, 000 lien on it. So they just threw away 50, 000, right?
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:then they call us the Monday before the first Tuesday of the month.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:yeah,
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:they're like, my property's up for foreclosure tomorrow. What do I do? And I was like, you should have called a lawyer before you bought.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:right. we get 2 calls, The 1 you're talking about before the auction is often the homeowner that's waited to the last minute. That's getting foreclosed on. and then the call we get like a week after the auction are these novice investors, like they finally figured out, Oh crap, I just way overpaid for an HOA foreclosure property. Mr. Attorney, Silverman Law Firm, Mr. Black, Mr. Silverman, please help me and get me out of it. It's my life savings. That's the call we get a week later.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:help.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:how we go about solving those problems is beyond the scope of this podcast. But,
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:requires some, a lot of negotiations where the is on the other side. So yeah, sometimes it can be successful and there are things we can do to help. We just don't have a lot of bargaining power usually.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:and I think what needs to happen and the HOAs don't want this to happen. There needs to be a big sign, caveat emptor, buyer beware, the sign right down to the auction house. Be very careful when buying HOA foreclosures. These properties are usually subject to a Superior bank loan. And and I've thought about, going down there to do a public service like wearing, like the guy on the corner who's come by the furniture or come by whatever. And he's doing a little bit. I'm gonna go down there with a little sign says, be careful. Don't buy these HOA properties. They're usually I'm doing a public service. maybe we should have one of the associates go down there and do that as a public service. I really want to move on to this a rant and rave section, which is my Favorite part of the show. I'm super fired up about this. harrison butker he's a kicker for the kansas city chiefs No one really ever notices the kicker. All right until he misses It's only when you screw up as someone can take notice. he was giving a commencement speech at a Catholic private college. Somewhere in Kansas. I think it's Benedictine College. and he sparked a lot of controversy in this speech. My favorite thing about Harrison Butcher is his Instagram handle. buttkicker7 he, He stirred up controversy on many things, but one of the things I want to focus on that really just got me fired up is, his quote about women and specifically his wife. So I've got the transcript here, and Austin, it's a rather long quote, but I want you to, for our listeners, I want you to go ahead and read, because a lot of the mainstream media out there is not giving you the whole quote. This is the whole quote.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:taken bits and pieces of it to make you, to give you rage bait, but
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:Right. Good.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:quote is How many of you're sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you're gonna get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you'll bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I'm on the stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I'm beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all, Homemaker.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:Yeah. that was him talking specifically to the women in the audience. And after he, he said that applause, we have an applause lasting 18 seconds after that quote, I think it was one of the sweetest things, ever said about a wife. Tell me the truth, okay? You're a young, hip millennial. is this wrong? Is this inappropriate?
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:I don't think that there's anything wrong with the second paragraph of that, right? Where he starts talking about, I can tell you my beautiful wife as well, etc. The beginning where he says, I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you bring into this world. I think maybe that's a little bit Presumptuous, possibly, when it's at a commencement,
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:Yeah,
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:these women have finished their degree. and maybe that is true. Maybe a lot of them are more excited about that. Their marriage and potentially being homemakers later, and maybe in addition to their career, or maybe foregoing it later. I don't know, but I do think it's a little bit, the venue that he chose to say this, I think may have been a little bit inappropriate.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:interesting to me. So you would have completely agreed with it if it had been a speech to like a group of graduating high school seniors in a home economics class.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:Sure. Yeah. I think that all the outrage over this is ridiculous, but I think he could have been more diplomatic about where this was set.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:Okay. All right.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:yeah.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:point. I think the whole thing is great. I it did strike me as a look, maybe a little bit, presumptuous, he does give him some credits. Like many of you may go out and get some careers, maybe you're the presumption is you're more for those of you that are going to get careers, you're probably more excited about the children you're going to have. So, I can lend some credibility to that theory. So it's controversial. portraying women as homemakers being viewed as misogynistic and out of touch with modern views on gender is the rap. The NFL's response to that, distances itself from Butker's views, emphasizing its commitment to inclusion. the NFL stated very clear that Butker's views do not align with the league's values of inclusion and diversity. So here's my take on it. the NFL doesn't agree with women being homemakers and being this influential, this rock and supporter for their husbands, I guess the traditional role of the woman as opposed to the modern role of women. But, they're okay. They Austin, they see the NFL seems to be more okay with beating your wife or beating your fiance or your girlfriend. Then they don't seem to distance themselves from that as near as much as this. And we've got some examples here. we're gonna go through some of these players. Who have gotten into some trouble and I would say in fairness the animals not like they condone it I just don't think they're
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:but did they come put out a statement saying oh, we strongly believe in not beating women. That happens way more than people coming out, than Interpol players coming out and giving a commencement speech people may take as misogyn
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:well
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:Hmm.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:beat his fiance And got a two game suspension two games for beat for beating your fiance That suspension was shorter than many other plays players facing drug charges. So the idea, the message the NFL is sending there. Is were, more okay with you beating your fiance than you are doing drugs. 2014 San Francisco defensive end Ray McDonald arrested for domestic violence, against, either a girlfriend or a fiance. and the NFL determined that did not violate, personal conduct policies. another instance in 2014, Greg Hardy, Carolina defensive, and assaulted his girlfriend. This is one of my favorite ones from this list. Used physical force, causing her to land on a futon that was covered with at least four semi automatic rifles. So how many automatic rifles do you need to throw the girl on? Okay. it's just, what?
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:know. I'm sure our government will fund a study about
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:the NFL here, they originally gave him a 10 game suspension, but later reduced it to a four game suspension. I, I think the four games were part of an arbitration, proceeding.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:Are they not doing a game per rifle? Like, if they say at least four,
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:Right. That's what it was. And this to me, this is the worst one. It's 2021 22. Deshaun Watson. He was the quarterback for the Houston Texans. That's my home team accused by 26 women of sexual misconduct and harassment. What he would do, Austin, is he would go to these massage parlors, or he would call massage therapists over his house. We have a lot of massage parlors in Houston, in case you're wondering. and then he would, There's some really gross kind of weird, sick stuff that came out of it. I'm not going to go into the details. The NFL gave him an 11 game suspension, not a lifetime ban. if he had been a baseball player and gambled, he'd have been banned for life. NFL is like. You can do what you want with 26, women, you can still play in 11 games. so that's a little flavor of how the NFL has handled some of the violence against women.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:yeah.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:And irony here, what gets me fired up is the NFL wants to distance itself from the kicker, who's up there saying amazing, wonderful things about his wife. not beating her, giving her all kinds of glorification and all kinds of praise. And they want to distance themselves from that. And then meanwhile, they're basically slapping these wife beaters on the wrist. I guess their idea is, Hey, we got to let them beat women because we wouldn't have, very many players left in the league if we did it. it just really gets me fired up. hear me on this. If whoever you are, women, men, whoever, if you strongly disagree with violence against women, you need to not, focus on this Harris Butker, thing, but you need to tell the NFL, to take the plank out of your eye before you try to take the speck out of your neighbors. And boycott, the NFL and this Taylor Swift thing, women, you have made the N-F-L-A-A phenomenal sum of money with the whole Taylor Swift thing and the Chiefs. The Chiefs have made a ton of money on that.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:Travis Kelsey actually commented on the Harrison,
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:what did he say? What did he say?
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:he said that personally disagreed with a lot of what he said, but also thought that it was ridiculous how people were, like, judging him on just the speech made at the commencement thing. and people are mad at him about that.
phil-silberman_6_06-06-2024_145726:they should be mad at these other guys for beating up their girlfriends and fiances. here's a number for you. This was an estimate by Apex Marketing Group. they told, front office sports. that, the whole Taylor Swift thing has generated 331. 5 million for the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL. if you want to keep making the NFL richer, ladies keep watching it every time Taylor Swift comes on, but leave this Harrison Butcher kid alone. and I think this is just totally crazy. I think it's, I think the NFL is a filthy, dirty organization. That cares more about, money and not offending people or not offending a small minority of people than it does. Actually, properly policing their players and disciplining their players. So that brings our show to a close. I've been your host. Phil Silberman. Austin Black has been my cohost. Like us, follow us, review us wherever you get your podcasts. Just a friendly reminder. Nothing in the show is to be considered legal advice. And this has all been for entertainment purposes. If you have a legal question, email us at info at sylblawfirm. com and say you want it publicly answered in the podcast. Thanks everybody for watching and have a great rest of your day.
austin_6_06-06-2024_135725:Thanks guys. Bye.