The Midday Show

Andy Bunker and Randy McMichael were joined by Fox Sports South Atlanta Braves Broadcaster and former MLB pitcher Paul Byrd who shared his thoughts on Washington Nationals Max Scherzer’s tweet.

“Baseball is so weird guys. It is so weird. A long long time ago antitrust rules were set up because they believed Baseball was the national pastime and if it failed America would suffer greatly. Therefore, there was a lot of stipulations and credit given to owners and certain things they didn’t have to abide by. Thankfully some of those things are changing and what I am talking about is pay. You do not have to pay minimum wage to a player that is the minor leagues. Thankfully, Toronto, the Cubs, some others have started to change that and said lets be fair to these guys,” Byrd explained.

Byrd then shared some interesting stats on minor league baseball players before turning his attention to the owners. “I promise you, I promise you to whoever is listening the owners make a ton a ton a ton of money. These are billionaires who are really good at business. They are so many people who are fighting, knocking down doors to try and get a major league team. But it’s a small exclusive club and they do really really really well and they don’t have to show their numbers to anybody. And the Braves the public we get a little but it doesn’t include the battery and some other things. People are doing really well in Major League Baseball and they are great businessman and they are great negotiators. There not going to start off with an incredible deal that’s fair to the players,” Byrd said.

Byrd continued, “The way historically the players win is if they stand together and they realize that hey guys what we have done we are in such an elite crowd, an elite minority of a big crowd, let’s stick together and get each other’s backs and fight for what we can get for that very very very small window that we have.”

Andy and Randy react to cuts from Kirby Smart on player safety and Brad Guzan on other leagues getting back to action.

Andy and Randy are asked about their interest level in J.T. Daniels transferring to UGA, will we ever use a Mike Francesa clip again for a topic and are we really interested in the sports that are on right now.

Andy and Randy are joined by FOX Sports Southeast Braves reporter Paul Byrd. Paul spoke about minor leaguers and the true numbers of how few make it to the bigs, his son's current experience (he is in the Cubs system), how good the owners are at negotiating and his thoughts on the DH.

Andy and Randy discuss the latest between Major League Baseball and the Player's Association. Click to hear why they are now siding with the players after a tweet sent by Max Scherzer.

In the final hour of today's show Andy and Randy got back into What's Trending before they were joined by Atlanta United Color Analyst Jason Longhsore, who spoke about the latest with the MLS. Then the guys wrapped up the show with the AMA and their Take Aways of the Day.

In the third hour of today's show Andy and Randy reacted to the best audio in the universe during the Big Clip of the Day before the guys asked their "Falcon Question of the Day," which was what Falcon defensive player will be the next to sign a Top 5 contract at his position. Then the guys continued to pull cards from a set of Topps 2003 NFL cards before Brian Gebhardt joined the show for "Some Damn Good Questions."

In the second hour of today's show Andy and Randy covered a few different topics in the NFL No Huddle before replaying Dukes and Bell's interview with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Then Wendy Adams joined the show for "The Wendy Zone."

In the first hour of today's show Andy and Randy kick-off the show talking about how there might not be an MLB season this year for a couple of different reasons before the jumped into the rest of the days headlines in What's Trending. Then Brian Gebhardt joined the show for "Big Deal, Small Deal, No Deal."