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Andy Roddick

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1175 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

Yeah, but he's like.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

Send me healthy.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

He goes, you can't tell me that I shouldn't hate it when you haven't lived through.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

The personal side wasn't worth the other side.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

You can't tell me how to gauge those things.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

I can go off on this in a million different directions.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

You can't have an 11 and a half month season and expect people to be committed when it's not in front of them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

And in order to have a conversation that's

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

realistic and in the right actual spirit of change.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

The tour runs independently from the ITF, which is in charge of the protocols for the Olympics, which is in charge of drug testing, which is separate from the Grand Slams, which is separate from the team events, which is separate from the... Everyone fighting for those couple of weeks.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

So everyone agrees everything needs to be shorter.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

Everyone agrees these changes and no one is willing to give.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

And so then you bring in money from other parts of the world.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

Everyone's reacting to like, is that going to set off...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

Is that what's happened?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

Are the Saudis entering this space as well?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

But it's just everyone lives in their own silo.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

The biggest properties, which are the slams, aren't in control or don't really care about how tennis is delivered throughout the year.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

So when ESPN comes in and buys only the slam rights, whoever's negotiating that deal doesn't sell them the Monday night game with two losing teams in December.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Andy Roddick (former professional tennis player)

That's a mistake.