Epic World Cup parade ends with Argentina team airlifted via helicopter I The Rush
Argentina’s soccer team returned to Buenos Aires for a World Cup parade for the ages, where ten percent of the country’s population reportedly took to the streets of the nation’s capital to celebrate. The San Francisco Giants postponed Carlos Correa’s introductory press conference after a reported medical concern arising from the shortstop’s physical evaluation and former Michigan State basketball player Mat Ishbia bought the Phoenix Suns for a record $4 billion.
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JARED QUAY: The party has been raging in Argentina ever since La Albiceleste they won the World Cup on Sunday. This is the scene around 2:30 AM when a team plane landed in Buenos Aires.
And that was just the beginning because the Argentine government declared a national holiday in celebration of the nation's first World Cup win in 36 years. So you know, the people had to come out for their football heroes on a 50-mile parade route. The fans were in the streets, on the freeways, overpasses and underpasses. What you see here is an estimated five million fans taking over the city. That means more than 10% of Argentina's population showed up to the party on the parade route.
The players buses were supposed to go to this landmark obelisk, but, as you could imagine, there ain't no way that could happen safely. So the side hitched a ride on a fricking helicopter and did a flyover instead. I think the government needs to declare a week-long holiday because I got a hangover just watching these people partying.
One celebration in San Francisco has been postponed. The Giants were scheduled to introduce their new shortstop Carlos Correa at a press conference on Tuesday but suddenly scrapped the event. The Associated Press reports that an unspecified medical concern came up during Correa's physical, prompting the team to delay the introduction. First and foremost, we here at "The Rush" hope that nothing serious is going on with Carlos and that he's OK.
And second, the amount of money on the line is ridiculous.
- How much is it?
JARED QUAY: The Giants are set to pay Correa $350 million.
- Uh, that's a lot of money.
JARED QUAY: Mhm-mh, not compared to what's changing hands in the NBA.
- What is happening there?
JARED QUAY: Disgraced sons owner Robert Sarver is out, and billionaire Matt Ishbia is in.
- Who-- who's that?
JARED QUAY: Only the most famous walk-on in Michigan State basketball history.
- This team knows that it's going to have to play four games to win the Big Ten Tournament but it's not impossible. They did it last year.
JARED QUAY: The roof would have come off the Breslin Center had Ishbia's shot gone down. They just love him here. And Ishbia comes up with the loose basketball in his first and only start of his career.
- Oh my.
JARED QUAY: Sure. Ishbia stunk up the Spartans stat sheet on the basketball court, but he credits coach Tom Izzo with helping them be successful off the hardwood. Ishbia took over his family's mortgage lending company, transformed it and just bought the Phoenix Suns for $4 billion. You think he going to finance that?
- Is it arm the right choice, is it a fixed? Is it a 5% down, is it 20% down? What are those implications? This is the biggest purchase of your life.
JARED QUAY: Oh wait, that's some big Mark Cuban energy right there. I can't wait for the Suns and Clippers to play each other so we can get Ishbia and Steve Ballmer sitting next to each other courtside. Because you know, with all that energy, there's going to be a dance-off. I could feel it.
And they're going be good dancing, but that energy, you can just see it. It's going to be billionaires dancing. It's going to be like the billionaire Soul Train Awards. It's going to be like Michael Jackson dancing again.