now: some bombshell accusations against the red sox. in the dugout. >> i take any issue that affects the play of the game on the field extremely seriously. >> red sox video replay personnel reportedly sent pitch info. >> they didn't use this between every pitch of every game, it seems, but rather they waited for someone to be on second base. and they did that because it's very easy when you're on second to then relay the signal to the batter. >> reiter: it would become known as the baserunner system. and it would eventually come out that the astros had a version of that, too. antonio padilla admits he and his fellow video room staffers helped run the system to great effect. >> so, you could call down and say, like, "hey, the catchers are using "outs plus one for their sign sequence, so relay that to the runner on second." i think the codebreaking could definitely give an advantage. you know, if you're able to tell the runner on second what signs they're potentially using, i think that could definitely help. ♪ >> reiter: inside the astro

you mentioned your boston red sox. when i was a kid, it was the red sox, the curse of the bambino. win between 1908 and 2003. they finally broke it in 2004. we are used to losing. our heart goes out to the folks in detroit. maybe they will win a game. maybe even tomorrow night. >> maybe. here is pulling for detroit. that is a tough story. one of the worst sports stories of the year. we can't end like that. here are some of the best sports stories of the year. here is tom foreman. ♪ >> reporter: in sports, the best nfl team was the cankansas city chiefs. >> this was two points shy of tieing the highest scoring super bowl ever. >> the rihanna halftime show, she did it pregnant. >> this game, it represented a takeover. with tom brady retiring, it was patrick maholmes league. >> a serious injury on the field. >> the best comeback from the worst moment, damar hamlin who suffered a cardiac arrest but was back on the field this fall. >> i didn't think it was possible. >> reporter: in baseball, the s world series. >> the texas rangers were really good. >> when it's not a competitive world

i'm a red sox fan. they had an incredible draft. not lately, they won four world series the century. and your bills, man, not doing well. >> no. the buffalo bills have never won a super bowl, but i swear this is going to be the year, john. the bills have never won a super bowl. i have real faith. and you mention the boston red sox. when i had a kid -- world series title between 1908 and 2003. they finally broke it in 2004. so we're used to losing, our hearts go out to those fine folks in detroit, and maybe they will win a game sooner enough. maybe. he's pulling for detroit. >> all right. that's a tough start here. one of the worst sports stories of the. but we can't on the program like that, so here are some of the best sports stories of the. here is tom. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the best nfl team was the kansas city chiefs, who edged out the philadelphia eagles in a barn burner. >> this was just two points shy of tying the highest scoring super bowl ever. >> and the rihanna halftime show. are you kidding me? she did it pregnant? >> i think this ga

coordinated a deal to ship alex rodriguez to the boston red sox, part of the deal was that the red soxto renegotiate alex rodriguez's contract. they were going to slice some money off the top and pay him on a later annual basis in order to reduce the cost on their annual cap, the red sox cap. then the major league baseball players association said you couldn't do it and they couldn't do it and the trade did not go through. a-rod never became a member of the red sox, thank god, but this seems similar to what they renounced doing to alex rodriguez and the red sox. so i don't know. we'll see how it plays out. >> yeah. >> all right. we're going to get to our top story, just a tad late this morning. >>> new 2024 polling shows a neck and neck race between president joe biden and former president donald trump. according to the latest numbers from reuters and ipsos, trump leads biden by 2 points, 38% to 36%, among all adults. that is within the poll's margin of error. reuters adds, quote, in the seven states where the election was closest in 2020, wisconsin, pennsylvania, arizona, georgia, nev

after that, i'm not into the remarks called my games about top of us, new of on teach from breath red sox and 18 in the american media, legal and media, unless not to believe strong slate to statements. well, i really found those planes already ranging around and when he does this, it does nothing but verify and people's mind. and he's a megalomania that was also even more funny. is that the miller, d m, i is the military industrial complex and neal contributive mega, my, me, megalomaniacs, new teeth are now jumping on the fact that he's claiming that he would be a dictator and there warning everybody. you can't let him when again. and i'm also saying that if you listen to the tenor of some of the things they're saying and the way they're raising this, they're almost god forbid, almost green lighting, our country action that we don't even want to discuss. this is, this is ray z talk all for a moment with sean hannity. that was just, he was exuberant that he was happy. but politically, one of the most stupid things anybody could ever say, quotes these people live with out trump. and he's l

the red sox simply not spending.a while, with the one exception of locking up devers to the long-term deal. they're clearly the last place team in the american league east. >> clearly. >> as far as yamamoto goes, earlier reporting is the mets offered a similar deal which he took to the dodgers and stayed there. the yankees came in less. it is disappointing for the yankees, as well, but you're right, the dodgers, as good as they've been, they have just the one world series title in the short covid season. >> fluke title, fluke! >> fluke title. they've had playoff woes and more needs to address. sam stein, we appreciate your sports insight there and pure anger at the red sox, an anger i share. >>> still ahead on "way too early," the cdc director says the united states isn't near peak flu levels. sam said "way too early," so it was on the brain. this is "morning joe," of course. dr. gupta joins us to talk of the health headlines. i'll say it again, "morning joe" will be right back. ♪ i'll step to the edge ♪ ♪ to see the

we always viewed this stuff through the prism of the red sox.-season, full throttle, this is like one tenth throttle. i don't know what to say about ownership, these are a pulse in fenway. what is going on? ? i'm having early morning panic attacks about the rotation right now. >> they've happiness if i could spend for a while with the direction of locking up in the end. they are clearly at american lee is dead and as far as normal clothes. we're reporting as the mets, offered a similar deal which he said ants the doctors as good as they've been for the last decade. they just had the world phrase target in that short season. >> luke title! fluke! >> and they certainly had playoff woes and more needs to address. sam stein, appreciate your support and anger at the red sox for that action. still on way too early, the cdc director says the united states isn't near the get picked for a covid for full-time's first authority. this of course, is morning joe. doctor van gupta joins us to talk about the top headlines. as we open the holidays morning josiah

yes, so the chagrin of all of our red sox and yankees fans, the a.l.are going to be in baltimore for the next 30 years. we're ectatic. it's a great deal for the state, and, honestly, we showed this is how you get big deals done. you do them in partnership. you know, we did it in partnership with the team. we did it in partnership with the general assembly, the maryland authority, and our outstanding chair thompson. i had three criteria when we entered into this, and there were no negotiations taking place when we took office 11 months ago. we knew one of the most storied franchises in sports was about not to have a lease and would be homeless. we had three criteria. one, we'd be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. two, we wanted winners on and off the field. three, i'm not doing a short-term deal. our state had a history of the one-year deals. i said, these short-term deals, they're not only unimaginative, they're dangerous. only long-term deals. so we're really proud that this is a deal that's going to keep the orioles here for 30 years and start just

and, the red sox. if you can't join us live, don' forget deceit set your dvr, where great live, not as good o tape, but don't, but watches anyway. 's lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. delicious too. just ask my old friend, kevin. nothing like enjoying a cold one while watching the game. who's winning? we are, my friend. we are. there's challenges, and i love overcoming challenges. ♪ when better money habits® content first started coming out, it expanded what i could do for special olympics athletes with developmental needs. thousands of bank of america employees like scott spend countless hours volunteering to teach people how to reach their financial goals. it felt good. it felt like i could take on the whole world. 's >> trace: exclusive fox news video showing thousands of migrants lining up to kids change about three hours south of eagle pass, texas which mean overwhelmed for the patrol agents are about to get another massive surge of illegal migrants. back with more on this. it's

where are my red sox? jeez? >>> all right, turning now to the nba. the detroit pistons, this is -- they're on the cusp of a dubious distinction. the team fell to the utah jazz last night 119-111 but extends its losing streak to get this 25 consecutive games. that is one short of the single season mark of '26. wow. calls from the crowd to sell the team could be heard as the pistons dropped to 2 and 26 on the season. that is really pathetic considering the number of top draft picks they've had over the years. >>> meanwhile, to oklahoma city. an early entry for dunk of the year throwing an alley-oop to himself off the backboard for a slam, a kind of vintage kobe for the big guy. ending l.a.'s nine-game winning streak. good stuff in the nba this year, folks. take a look. now time for the weather. let's go to meteorologist angie lassman for the forecast. angie, how's it look out there? >> the forecast looks a lot better than my pistons this year. we've got good conditions up and down the east coast. if you're traveling from new york to tampa and anywhere

the winter meetings are under way, and we've got a rare tde between the new york yankees and boston red soxision rivals yesterday making only their seventh trade in the last half century with alex verdugo heading to new york to trade for three pitching prospects. he also was the last player left from the mookie betts trade. what a disaster that was. while this deal partly fulfills the desire, new york is reportedly not giving up on the push to add superstar juan soto from the padres and could possibly flip verdugo to get soto. >>> and guv enough ron desantis is bashing the college football playoff system. the florida republican who's also running for president asked the state legislature to set aside $1 million for florida state university to sue the cfp committee after the seminoles were left out of. it's being viewed by most as a political stunt. by the town the florida legislature agrees on a spending band the college football playoff will be over. and the potential lawsuit will not have any future implications as the football system next year is set to expand to 12 team time now for the

western ranchers were the fishing industry from the pacific northwest or my home region of new england, red soxion massachusetts, that is the largest market. and so i want to introduce the idea of complexity. that a single -- one dimensional shot, that this is only a competitive relationship. does not get to the heart of what the relationship is. i started with competition because a lot of our vital national interest are focused and they have to be focused on competition. all of the americans, great public servants and i worked with them all in china, and i, we are focused on competition. we probably spend undoubtedly the majority of our time competing, defending, advancing in those four areas i have talked about. security, technology, trade, human rights. but we have also got to work with china on these other engagement areas because our interests sometimes are aligned. we have got to do something about climate change and global health and food security and fentanyl. this means that we have two think about a balance of interests as we deal with china. it is not weighted evenly. the competitive

wound up in fenway park and i was blackberrying my friend and i'm on the field before the boston red soxca most memorable sporting event? >> jessica: i was at the olympic spirit to track and field ones. just incredible. >> jimmy: that is read. i did it all. kno >> jimmy: good for you, rachel? >> rachel:t i hate sports and everybody knows that about me,90 but i did love watching my husband claim and 90-foot tree because he was a lumberjack athlete.e wo so going to the world champion lumberjack competitions in wisconsin and watching my husband win. >> that is awesome. >> jimmy: 2k mic two-way tie come i was at yankee stadium ana lot of people don't know they he umpires on the field's hurt gnoc secret service agents and my t brother joey was on the field which is cool because he was a cop. although i was liee d to buy the ticket broker that said these seeds have a good deal but you forgot to mention it was jupiter. n i was like oh triple zx. peer at the time was past saturdayrs g lincoln i pittsburgh steelers ga guest of the team so we were on the field.d fo and it was amazing for lincoln a

to be like if you're a democrat, you're a republican, it might be like i'm a yankees fan, you're a red soxto get back to that on college campuses sometime the soon. kelly: well, i would hope so as well. alex shieh, thank you so much for your time, and for reminding us that we should is be having more conversations. >> absolutely. thank you. cel okay. well, many happy returns. gerri willis is hitting a mall in new jersey to tell us what retailers are expecting as a your relltys try to take back that ugly sweater you ghei them for christmas. shame on you. >>> but the retail etf is up more than 23% over the last two to months. we're coming right back. ♪ mucking they're all expecting more. more efficiency. more benefits. more growth. when you realize you can give your people everything, and more. thank you very much. [applause] ask, "now what?" here's what. you go with prudential to protect, empower and grow. with everything you need to deliver, you guessed it... more. one more thing... who's your rock? learn more at prudential.com i'm andrea, founder of a boutique handbag brand - andi - and t

he loved the boston red sox. a two way passion, and he loved the civil war. and this was where i got my passion for the civil war, i get it from my father. my father was born during the depression and he liked to say that he never got out of it. so, he was a very frugal man throughout his entire life, my brother said that he was cheap. but, my father did purchase, and i don't know how he managed it, but he did purchase three different magazines that he loved. one of them was either time or newsweek, depending on which one had the best subscription rate that year. the other one was american heritage magazine, you remember when american heritage was the hardcover back in the 50s and 60s? it came in a box, delivered, and it was a great magazine, bruce catton was the editor in charge, and that, when it came, it was a big day in my house. my father was the type of guy who would not let you have something until he had read the whole thing first. okay, so i would patiently wait for my father to read the whole thing, then i would get american heritage magazine. my fa

tom: audible question, you work with john henry years ago, the owner of the boston red sox.it one soto go to new york yankee and not the boston red sox. >> i will enter that often, but tell me how it is that john henry is a trend follower winning three world series when the yankees have only won one. tom: very nicely finessed. let's go to cash, it is in your review, the mystery of all this cash. you talked about there is just too much cash out there. what do we do with cash next year? >> you've laid out an incredible introduction to what we are writing next year which is called slow then grow. the idea is that you are going to see a slowing economy at the beginning of the year. a lot of the concerns that lisa just talked about to come to bear which is that the economy slows down but it does not crash. we do not have a recession, we do not have a v-shape recovery. and because we don't have a clear signal to investors, they sit there with cash. it is extraordinary. and yet when you take a look at all the different parts of the economy, the average stock in the u.s. hasn't done

>> i'm on the field for for the boston red sox for the u of that guy on tv on his phone the whole timeveryone hates yeah jessica most memorable sporting event i went to i was livingto g in london in 2012 when they had the olympics, so i got to go to a lotot of events, especially the track and field runs. that's true. that's incredible. that's i tow i rad, this ivory . >>did it all. good for r you, rachel.t abou well, i hate sports. everyone knows that about me. o becai did love watching my husband climb a 90 foot tree because he was a lumberjack athletathlete.e and going to the world champion lumberjack competitions in wisconsin and watching my husband wiching >> yeah, that's a two way tie. o i was in yankee stadium when bush threw out the first pitch of the world series 2000. >> wow. epic. a lot of people don't know. they had umpires1. mpires oe fiel on the field lik that were secret service agents dressed as umpires, like mon you'veoey waked gu ever seen. that movie was straight out of that. so that was a when my brother joey was there fiel cit on the field, i w which was cool becaus

tom: the three of us, we have not been in a branch since the red sox were in first place.han: speak for yourself. tom: we do everything digitally, zelle this, zelle that. how does tacoma, washington compete with the digital investment of the major banks? chris: the smaller bankschris: -- the bigger banks are going to move first and the smaller banks will adapt. second, they have built out capabilities to compete effectively. maybe not to the sophistication of international banks. tom: what is a capability that they have in the coma, washington where they don't want brian moynihan to come in from the bank of america? chris: turn and online speed for deposit capture. i have not been in a branch either in years. the capabilities for you and i as a consumer, the smaller banks can accommodate that. they may not have the budget initially, but they will. jonathan: we are still down 25% from the highs of the year. any reason to believe we reclaim those highs next year? chris: we are market weight the u.s. banks. this is the one-year anniversary of moving to market weight. what we

tom: other red sox -- damian: you know better than i.nd said, can we pretend we are bidding for some of these people? damian: they will surprise you. tom: always good to talk with damian sassower. lisa: what is the business sense behind that, though? tom: that is my question. how do you pay for $700 million? lisa: sounds nice for him. tom: someone will have to write a check k may be the same people doing accounting for disney and discovery. we are struggling with a data check this morning. red and green on the screen. i guess i can go there. the real yield, that is all damian sassower -- turkish lira 29.00. good morning. ♪ the power goes out, and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book. who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up. plus, now through december 31st, eligible xfinity rewards members can get 25% off (jennifer) ready wifi device. the reason why

the new productivity, let's set it up as capital labor and something else we don't understand like red soxave the haves and have-nots. we were talking about record homelessness around a boom america economy, whatever amount of gdp now says, and the answer is there is a wacko labor deepening going on in productivity. what is it? >> this is a really important idea because when i think about the unemployment rate rising, which is what we expected, the fed expects and a lot of people expect to happen in the coming year, it is worth a million jobs. where does that get hit? when we go through all of the employment sectors, there's really only a few sectors that we see that have real imbalance. one of them is retail. you could see some real damage in the retail space. you're talking at least a few hundred thousand jobs. as a corollary to that, transportation and warehousing get hit on the back of this. they are very related. those sectors alone, you could see up to half a million jobs. that to me is the problem. that to me is the challenge. you are going to see this rise. if there is any good thi

so here's the top five the rotation is round out by the reds the rockies, a's and white sox the draftt july >> the oakland athletics who had the worst record, they got the short end of the stick again he do >>> now to college sports. could a long-awaited change be coming for college athletes? charlie baker proposed a new tier for division one schools. this would require the wealthiest power five schools to offer athletes payments through a trust fund baker's proposal would also allow d-1 cools to enter into nil deals. they are currently facing numerous legal challenges. this is something that should have been handled differently a long time ago. they did not want to pay athletes now it's pay them but control how they get paid. i mean, it's going to be an uphill battle if they want to control that >> if you're looking for a figure in that trust fund, about 30k a year >>> jamie foxx makes his debut after his medical scare. debut after his medical scare. ma, ma, ma— ( clears throat ) for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops. with two times more menthol per drop, and powerful

you remember, i mean, years ago when there was the momentary deal of alex rodriguez going to the red soxtract to defer money, the mlpa said, no, you can't do it, and he became a yankee, thank god. unfortunately, this will allow the dodgers to sign yamamoto, the great pitcher from japan. >> probably part of ohtani's plan. $2 million on the books instead of $7 million, freeing up money for other players like him. we'll see. >>> ahead, we'll take a look at stories making headlines across the country, when "morning joe" comes right back. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano. you're replacing me? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ if there's pain when you try to poo ♪ ♪ and going sometimes feels like you ♪ ♪ pushed through a pineapple or two ♪ ♪ colace is the brand you need ♪ ♪ to soften stools, we're all agreed ♪ ♪ #2 should be easy to do ♪ trust colace to soften stools with no stimulants for comfortable relief. >>> qatari officials are still trying to

in other games, red sox and liverpool hosted jacksonville jaguar or fulham.anges than openai at the ceo level. liverpool went ahead. alexis mcallister, that's how you say word to your bomb and dropgenargentina. took a 3-2 lead. liverpool summon two late goals, this one from local hero trent alexander-arnold. as joe would say, roll tide. liverpool, watching them, they make you feel alive. finally your league leaders, arsenal who downed wolves with a set of goals. this one scored with fleet afoot telepathy. i'm pretty sure they found a hole in time and space. saka announcing himself as a star atop of football's christmas tree. john, football at its best is joy in an otherwise too dark world. it's beautiful. >> arsenal plays georgia in the orange bowl in an unexpected crossover. >> that's how it works. >> that's how it works. no one like him. roger bennett, thank you for joining us this morning. we deeply appreciate it. and the third hour of "morning joe" continues right now. >> we say good-bye to a former first lady, a former secretary of state, and a supreme c

what are the red sox going to do? at least one starting pitcher, and it's a start. >> yamamoto? >> the fear about yamamoto is steve cohen, the mets owner, billionaire, loves to spend money on baseball. good for him. >> you'd think he'd learn his lesson. the mets really once and for all taught us all last year you have to build baseball teams from the ground up. the yankees have been spending millions and millions through the years. they got one world series this century to show for it. you win by building from the bottom up. you'd think steve cohen of the mets would have figured that out by now. >> yamamoto is so attractive to so many teams. he has four great pitches. he's 25 years of age. he'll be signed for upwards of $100 million. steve cohen's offer might blow others out of the water once those bids come in. >> what do we think about ohtani? here's a guy who had some season-ending injuries last year, which may drive him down to like a $650 million deal. the dodgers actually talked about talking to him, which is su

struck me, someone who fought in the israeli military but he spent his summers in maine, was a big red sox no one is really talking about what was a mass casualty terrorist attack where americans were killed and my world of counterterrorism where when someone -- something like this happens, the fbi tries to come in and bring people to justice. if that doesn't work the u.s. military and intelligence community using unique authorities can remove those terrorists from the battlefield but everyone really matters, and if you have that beautiful blue passport as an american citizen we're always going to come to aid or bring to justice those would killed americans, and i don't see that and in conclusion as i thought through this, you can't help but think, is this because of just this viral anti-semitism that has been brought up in the united states and the world today? do israeli american dual citizens not count as much? my old colleagues are working hard, because, again, 30 americans are killed, and you don't hear a lot about that although i will say ang administration official yesterday talking

cleveland had a 2% chance the top five is rounded out by the reds the rockies also the a's, white soxnd of a new deal for them you know, the second year when it comes to this draft lottery after the 2022 collective bargaining >> guess who got the short end of the stick the oakland athletics. they lose the team and top pick. >>> could a long-awaited change be coming for college athletes charlie baker proposed a new tier for division one schools. this would require the wealthiest schools to offer payments through a trust fund. the proposal would allow d-1 co schools to enter into nil deals with student athletes. they have held long-standing policies for student athletes for which they are facing numero numerous legal challenges over it's a little too little too late they didn't want to play the players and penalize them d pene step every step of the way. >> you're asking how much? 30 grand >>> cvs is changing the way they price. g the way they price. ma, ma, ma— ( clears throat ) for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops. with two times more menthol per drop, and powerful vi