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Hour 2 - Put a Cap On It · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from a labor negotiation.
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Speaker 1: I was told by one of my bosses years ago,
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Speaker 1: you should never ever talk about labor negotiations on on
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Speaker 1: the radio because that's that's a killer. I think I
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Speaker 1: can pull this off. I'm going to attempt to do it,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see what the numbers indicate. Here. We'll get
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Speaker 1: the real time feedback and all that, and so just
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Speaker 1: kind of bear with me, bear with me. But we
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Speaker 1: start out at the negotiation table, where as anticipated, a
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Speaker 1: day after the union announced their plan for a salarycap
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Speaker 1: floor and increased minimum wage. Well, then the owners said, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're ready to go. Major League Baseball's owners made their
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Speaker 1: salarycap proposal. So the players Association for all this being
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Speaker 1: done in the court of public opinion, the town square,
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Speaker 1: and they say, hey, we would like a nice salary cap.
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Speaker 1: We would like to cap how much money you can make. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that seems great, why not? Okay, sure, And we know
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Speaker 1: that is a system the union has vowed never ever
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Speaker 1: to accept. And so that is setting the sides on
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Speaker 1: a course, a collision course for a confrontation with sparks flying.
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Speaker 1: And this is why many believe that this will be
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Speaker 1: the last baseball season for a while. There will be
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Speaker 1: no twenty twenty seven season. And there's even some talk
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Speaker 1: that I've heard that the players might just have pull
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Speaker 1: the plug here before the World Series. Who knows, might
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Speaker 1: even get the World Series this year. We'll see about that.
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Speaker 1: The collective bargaining agreement runs out after the season, so
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Speaker 1: they don't really need to do that, so we'll see.
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Speaker 1: But if you didn't see this, perhaps not, or hear
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Speaker 1: about it, possibly not. And here it is, so Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball's proposal would put a cap on it. They
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Speaker 1: cap spending starting in twenty twenty seven at two hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty five million dollars while also establishing a payroll
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Speaker 1: floor of one hundred and seventy one million. So that's
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Speaker 1: a lot of numbers. That's a lot of numbers forcing
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Speaker 1: teams to spend more money. Of course, this is what
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Speaker 1: the owners are saying. The Dodgers baseball's biggest spenders, four
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen million dollars payroll. If you base it
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Speaker 1: on all of the money included on that, not just
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Speaker 1: the deferred stuff, you know that a lot of people
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Speaker 1: leave that out anyway. That would mean, the Dodgers at
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Speaker 1: a four hundred and fifteen million, they'd have to trim
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Speaker 1: the fat and get down to two hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: five million. I suppose there'll be some grandfather claws in
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Speaker 1: there and whatnot, but one hundred and seventy million over
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Speaker 1: the cap. So the Dodgers are one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 1: million over the cap that Baseball's owners have proposed. Now,
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Speaker 1: the early feedback from the public seems to be very
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Speaker 1: supportive of keeping salaries down. I don't ever want my
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Speaker 1: bosses to keep my salaries down, although they do that anyway. Anyway, Listen,
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Speaker 1: the point of this is major League Baseball as a
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Speaker 1: whole is digging in, right. They're digging in. They're like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we got something here. It is interesting to note, as
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Speaker 1: we get into the weeds on this that the public
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Speaker 1: their lean to the owners is a constant my entire life.
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Speaker 1: This has been the way it is now. I don't
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Speaker 1: love the owners. I don't particularly like that the players either.
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Speaker 1: I hate them all. If you said, hey, do we
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Speaker 1: need a sentar cap, I'd say no, it's called a budget.
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Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss.
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Speaker 1: So the question, what are you seeing with Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball's ownership group, and they're opening salary cap proposal to
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Speaker 1: the players for twenty twenty seven and beyond. All right,
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Speaker 1: So my observations on this, I've got Heines fifty seven ketchup.
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Speaker 1: That's Heines fifty seven ketchup, hooked on math and Hedgehog,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all all of these things together,
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Speaker 1: and you and I are going to play whack a mole.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna play. So number one, one, one, one,
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Speaker 1: one one, all right. So I look at the like taxes,
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Speaker 1: and I know we're in the election season right now,
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Speaker 1: and I never ever vote for a tax increase. And
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. They never go away. That even
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Speaker 1: if they say, hey, this is going to go away
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Speaker 1: in ten years, we're going to fix all the roads. A,
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Speaker 1: everything goes over budget, so they'll need more money, and
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Speaker 1: B they'll just repurpose the tax and they won't even
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Speaker 1: allow you to vote on. So I never vote for
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Speaker 1: tax increases on anything, even things that you would think
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Speaker 1: you need, I always vote no on it. That's my position.
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Speaker 1: I vote no on the salary cap because it'll never
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Speaker 1: go away once the salary cap is in. It's in
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Speaker 1: for the rest of time, until baseball goes out of business.
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Speaker 1: The owners are selling this as a competitive balance, and
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Speaker 1: dumb people believe what the owners are saying. They sell
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Speaker 1: this the way politicians talk about a bipartisan issue. It
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Speaker 1: sounds noble, it sounds right, a bipartisan issue, but it's
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Speaker 1: just permanent gridlock and bad faith. This is not a negotiation.
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Speaker 1: It's Republicans versus Democrats. It's it's as turtles permanent loggerheads,
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Speaker 1: and a two hundred and forty five million dollar hard
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Speaker 1: cap is just a fancy way of telling the players
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Speaker 1: to take less, take a haircut, shut up, and smile.
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Speaker 1: And it turns the locker room into a zero sum
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Speaker 1: math problem where somebody always gets erased. For example, let's
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Speaker 1: play this out. We're gonna workshop this year, So if
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Speaker 1: a superstar signs a massive extension, that means that his
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Speaker 1: teammates are going to have to go to the portal.
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Speaker 1: The elite talent is still going to get paid. This
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Speaker 1: does not affect the elite talent in baseball, the ones
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Speaker 1: that move product, the ones that get ratings, the reason
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Speaker 1: that the sport is popular. So the elite talent is
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Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna get their money, but there's the cap involved.
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Speaker 1: So that means the veteran middle infielder, the relief pitcher
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Speaker 1: that's pretty good, the middle class veteran that's not a
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Speaker 1: star and not a stiff somewhere in the middle, they
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Speaker 1: get squeezed. Think of it like a bottle of a
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Speaker 1: plastic bottle of Heinz fifty seven catchup and you squeeze
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Speaker 1: those guys out. They get replaced by the league minimum rookies,
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Speaker 1: and the books are balanced and all that, and with
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Speaker 1: a hard cap, ownership gains the ultimate get out of
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Speaker 1: jail free card. Team has a bad year. Normally, when
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Speaker 1: a team has a bad year, if the fans are engaged,
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Speaker 1: you say, go out and sign somebody good. We need
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Speaker 1: a better player. The team blows, and typically teams will
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Speaker 1: go out and sign better players. If you're in a
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Speaker 1: legitimate market with an owner that's trying to win. Well, now,
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Speaker 1: if you have a cap, you don't have to do that.
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Speaker 1: You have the ultimate get out of joe free card.
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Speaker 1: You say, well, listen, we would have loved to have
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Speaker 1: signed Joe Blow, big free agent. Joe Blow. Bah God,
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Speaker 1: I mean our hands are tied to cap. We can't
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Speaker 1: do it. It's the same thing NFL owners do right now.
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Speaker 1: If you want someone, you find a way to get
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Speaker 1: the money. And the NFL cap is not a hard
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Speaker 1: cap Baseball. From what I read it sounds like it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a hard cap in Major League Baseball. It
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Speaker 1: replaces competitive urgency with this artificial cost certainty is what
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Speaker 1: it does. As for the one hundred and seventy one
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Speaker 1: million dollar floor, that's something for low information fans. I
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Speaker 1: will guar on to you that it's not going to
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Speaker 1: do what you think it's going to do. And the
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Speaker 1: players also are campaigning for this. It's not gonna help
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Speaker 1: that they're dumb on that as well. I don't agree
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Speaker 1: with it at all. The small market owners, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: use loopholes. In fact that I've already laid it out
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Speaker 1: if you read the fine print on this, the player
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Speaker 1: benefits which are included in the cost of the cap.
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Speaker 1: For the lower end teams, it's a way to put
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Speaker 1: makeup on a pig, and it's a way to hide
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Speaker 1: the cheapness and all that. And what's gonna happen is
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Speaker 1: these crappy teams that don't spend money like the Athletics
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Speaker 1: and the Guardians and the Rays and the Pirates. They
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Speaker 1: become the dumping ground for bad contracts that the Mets,
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Speaker 1: Dodgers and Yankees and the big market teams have. It's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: you got that relief pitcher that has an ERI of
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Speaker 1: seven and three more years on the contract, why don't
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Speaker 1: we send him to Pittsburgh because the Pirates have to
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Speaker 1: get to the salary cap floor and we'll just take
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Speaker 1: back like a low level a ball pitcher or something
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Speaker 1: like that. Okay, sounds good. Sounds good. Now, all of
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Speaker 1: that aside, I'm anti cap. I think the cap is
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Speaker 1: crap and all that that aside. The biggest non starter,
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Speaker 1: the reason this is DA dead on arrival. A salary
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Speaker 1: cap only functions fairly if it is tied to a
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Speaker 1: fixed and this is the big word here, say it
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Speaker 1: with my kids. Audited percentage of actual industry revenue. And
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Speaker 1: that's the NBA in the NFL, which are the models
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Speaker 1: that everyone's looking at here, everything gets audited by the players. Historically,
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball owners have been adamant that they will
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Speaker 1: refuse to fully open the finances. They're not gonna let
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Speaker 1: you see what they have financially, they're not gonna allow
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Speaker 1: an independent there's this thing as independent, but an outside
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Speaker 1: council to come in and audit them. And look at
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Speaker 1: how much are you making on that regional sports deal
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Speaker 1: that you've got where a lot of these teams now
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Speaker 1: bought the regional sports networks because they're not doing very well.
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Speaker 1: Or what about that ballpark real estate deal you got
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Speaker 1: around Finway or Wrigley Field. You're making all that money there.
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Speaker 1: Let's see how much money you're making, because we had
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Speaker 1: to include that in the revenue and the players get
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Speaker 1: a little taste of that, And so why not all
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Speaker 1: those little hotels and restaurants around the ballparks and the
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Speaker 1: second stream of income, and the players obviously have no
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Speaker 1: interest in capping their salage. Why would you? Makes no
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Speaker 1: sense based on a revenue picture where the owners essentially
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Speaker 1: say this is the owner's strategy. When you say, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're the union, why don't we go look at all
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Speaker 1: the numbers? Okay, no, no, no, just trust us bro.
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Speaker 1: Well that's not really a good business strategy when you
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Speaker 1: say just trust us bro. Like I used to work
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Speaker 1: out in Glendale at the gym over there, they always might
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Speaker 1: the guys in the gym, and you know what's up, bro,
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Speaker 1: trust me, Bro? All right, now it's page two. But wait,
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Speaker 1: there's more, all right. So the question now is can
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Speaker 1: you explain what the Major League Baseball owners are really
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Speaker 1: accomplishing with his first opening offer to the players. So
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Speaker 1: this is what's known as setting up the guardrails. And
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Speaker 1: it's not a legitimate offer. It's a I call it
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Speaker 1: a bait and switch starter, kid, and it's the oldest
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Speaker 1: trick in the book. Now, when I was growing up,
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Speaker 1: I never cared about labor negotiations. I got it a radio,
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Speaker 1: and I've been doing this job for a while, and
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Speaker 1: so this I know this stuff from just paying attention
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Speaker 1: over the years. And I'll date myself a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but I covered baseball before in the season where the
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Speaker 1: World Series was canceled and that period of time. So
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Speaker 1: I was around that and I heard a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 1: I got a great education, not from school, not from
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Speaker 1: there was really no internet. I think we had AOL
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Speaker 1: online back then and Netscape Navigator. But I got my
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Speaker 1: education from being around people who taught me the birds
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Speaker 1: and the bees, if you will, of how this stuff
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Speaker 1: works and how they really make the sausage and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: And so this is an old trick. You start extreme
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Speaker 1: in any labor negotiation. You start extreme and then your
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Speaker 1: next terrible proposal looks somewhat reasonable. It's negotiation one oh one.
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Speaker 1: You never accept the first bird out of the case.
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Speaker 1: You never do that. The owners threw a salary cap
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Speaker 1: grenade and called it a a conversation starter. However, the
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Speaker 1: union will reject that because of hooked on math or
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Speaker 1: go The math ain't mathing. It's designed to trap them.
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Speaker 1: The union has seen this movie, same plot, different group
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Speaker 1: of billionaire owners. A hard cap is not a compromise,
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Speaker 1: it's a financial straight jacket for the players. And by
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Speaker 1: dangling the one hundred and seventy one million dollar floor
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Speaker 1: the owners, they're essentially on a pontoon boat on a
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Speaker 1: phishing expedition, if you will, to see who blinks first.
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Speaker 1: Dangling a wedge issue to split the rank and file
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Speaker 1: from the superstars. They want to have the medium level
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Speaker 1: players vote against this because there's more medium level players
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Speaker 1: than superstar players. And they're going to pretend to take
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Speaker 1: this seriously, you know, and all that the union's not.
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Speaker 1: They know it's malpracticed. So You don't negotiate with a trapdoor.
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Speaker 1: You walk away round it. And this is just round
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Speaker 1: one of a twelve round fight, and you don't get
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Speaker 1: knocked out on the first jab. Now, it is interesting
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Speaker 1: to note that the Major League Baseball the teams that
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Speaker 1: are above the payroll and below the payroll. We'll get
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Speaker 1: into this in a little bit later in the hour.
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Speaker 1: There's very few teams that are above the proposed ceiling,
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of teams that are below the
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Speaker 1: proposed ceiling. And the fans always pulling for the owners
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Speaker 1: on this, which is just bonkers to me. You can
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Speaker 1: explain that to me. I don't get it all right.
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Speaker 1: Final point TOAs San Diego we go where the Padres
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Speaker 1: are are not doing so well lately. We are in
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Speaker 1: the final weekend of May. Can you believe that? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: calendar flips over. Next week we get into June and
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Speaker 1: one of baseball's biggest names has gone limp. Now, the
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Speaker 1: good news is overnight we have a commercial for a
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Speaker 1: pill that'll help him. Padres star Fernando to tease Junior
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Speaker 1: has as many home runs as I have and you
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Speaker 1: have combined. Yeah, Tatise has not hit a home run
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Speaker 1: this season, he has not hit a home run in
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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four days. I guess now two
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty five days. Despite that, the nerds, they
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Speaker 1: say everything is gonna be fine, don't worry about Fernando Toutise.
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Speaker 1: The super nerd site Baseball Savant says that Tatise still
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Speaker 1: has elite batspeed and exit velocity, which is odd because
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Speaker 1: none of the balls have exited the ballpark. And their
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Speaker 1: argument is he's merely having issues with his attack angle
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Speaker 1: and launch angle. All question, do you trust the Poindexter
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Speaker 1: crowd when they say, for Nando Tatis Junior his power outage,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay, don't worry. The Podras will be
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Speaker 1: all right with Tatis. So I'm obviously shaking my head. No,
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Speaker 1: you can't see me unless you're watching on YouTube. I'm
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Speaker 1: shaking my head. Head. No, this is the part that
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Speaker 1: drives me to the edge. Here comes the geek squad
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Speaker 1: telling everyone to calm down, don't believe what you're seeing.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, there's a toxic cloud hovering over Fernando Tatise.
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Speaker 1: Just it's not what you think it is. The guy's
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Speaker 1: the face of the Podres and he's gone from the smiling,
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Speaker 1: dancing peacock to the hibernating hedgehog. And this is not
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Speaker 1: a slump at this point, this is a sabbatical. He's
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Speaker 1: like a tenured professor on sabbatical. Three hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: million for the hibernation cycle is what he's got. And
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Speaker 1: the poindextra crowd, they tell us the dork goes, are like, hey,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, you know the numbers, he's gonna be okay,
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Speaker 1: the numbers are lying. Okay, at some point, the Podreys
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Speaker 1: actually need production, not a ted talk about exit velocity.
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Speaker 1: This is all a bunch of crap that didn't exist
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Speaker 1: and the world was fine, And you can't be the
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Speaker 1: face of the franchise when your bat is on airplane
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Speaker 1: mode and you don't sell a lot of tickets to
19:13
Speaker 1: people don't go to watch expected slugging. Say hey, let's
19:17
Speaker 1: take the family out to the ballpark. Let's watch Fernando Tess.
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Speaker 1: He's got really good expected slugging. Okay, that seems like
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Speaker 1: a good idea. You sell tickets by hitting home runs
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Speaker 1: and getting big numbers off as when you're the headline
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Speaker 1: player on a team, and at this point, the only
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Speaker 1: thing he's barreling is excuses and this is uncharted territory.
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Speaker 1: I looked it up. I filled down a rabbit hole.
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Speaker 1: Do you know there has never been another three hundred
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Speaker 1: million dollar player who has gone fifty four consecutive games
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Speaker 1: without a home run like Fernando Totis. So I tried
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Speaker 1: to figure out who's the next closest, and that means
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Speaker 1: a player who's healthy, playing regularly. And is it true?
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Speaker 1: The only player that comes close Bryce Harper a few
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Speaker 1: years ago in twenty twenty three with the Phillies, he
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Speaker 1: went thirty eight games without a home run for the Phillies.
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Speaker 1: Thirty eight games to Tease is at fifty four and counting. Now,
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Speaker 1: I do have some advice. You probably think, wow, I'm
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Speaker 1: a Dodger fan, so I don't want to help the
20:16
Speaker 1: Padres out. That's not true. I would like to help
20:19
Speaker 1: the Padres out. I want to have the whole mcgillo.
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Speaker 1: So my advice is to get to Tease on a
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Speaker 1: bus or an uber. Take him down to Mexico, and
20:29
Speaker 1: there's a great pharmacy in Tijuana. My old radio partner
20:33
Speaker 1: and TV partner, Tom Looney knows of there right there
20:35
Speaker 1: in Tijuana, and forget the whole spiritual reboot. Take him
20:39
Speaker 1: to that famous pharmacy in Tijuana, just across the US border,
20:43
Speaker 1: and they have really good ringworm meds, and I just
20:46
Speaker 1: think he's suffering to tease from ringworm. If they can
20:50
Speaker 1: get him those right pills and shots, I think he'll
20:54
Speaker 1: be okay. It's just my opinion. It can't sue me
20:56
Speaker 1: for my opinion. I just think that he's got a
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Speaker 1: to it. So we talked about the salary cap in baseball,
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Speaker 1: which has been proposed by the owners, and just settle in.
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Speaker 1: To settle in because in the spring of twenty twenty seven,
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24:07
Speaker 1: So that's that's going to be great. That'll be frickin' wonderful,
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Speaker 1: absolutely great. Analog Al writes in we talked about Fernando
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Speaker 1: Tatis as well, who has as many home runs this
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Speaker 1: year as you have and I have, so you can say,
24:21
Speaker 1: have as many home runs as a guy making three
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty million, although he's giving ten percent of
24:26
Speaker 1: that money back. Analog Al says, can tatise run. Early
24:31
Speaker 1: in his career, Mickey Mantle would drag bunt during a
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Speaker 1: hitting slump. I'm pretty sure that he's not. He's not
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Speaker 1: going to drag bunt to get out of his hitting slump. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Bill says, Fernando is done of If who's your Bill
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Speaker 1: said it, it must be true, it must be true.
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Speaker 1: Ferg Dog says, Yeah, I've got nothing on MLB's cap,
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
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Speaker 1: eeny Meanie mighty Mode. Let's say hello to hollering James
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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, minasul, Hello, hollering.
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Speaker 4: James, Hey, Dan Chant home good. It's speak of a
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Speaker 4: Brewman Championship trophy to Minnesota when they got home court
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Speaker 4: advantage and Scott Foster might be the referee.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm told James that home Grin's going to
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Speaker 1: bring it right to your home. He's going to bring
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Speaker 1: it to visit you.
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Speaker 4: He lived, Grin and I grind to pick you up.
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Speaker 1: And big big fan, really really big fan of of you.
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Speaker 1: Loves your work. Can't get enough.
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Speaker 4: Kenemy and I returned to Switch Students elementary school growing up.
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Speaker 4: And that's a Catholic school. You went to a Catholic school.
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Speaker 4: We have something to common.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're saying, James, I went to
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Speaker 1: a Catholic school.
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Speaker 4: Okay, to Cavlic school.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a wafer.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little wafer. Congratulations.
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Speaker 4: Well, you are coolder ticket that'll be better. And I'm
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Speaker 4: not baking.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we have any golden tickets to give you.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Raina, why did you break my heart? You always
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Speaker 4: break my heart?
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Speaker 1: And uh he's a heartbreaker. That's that's what these beautiful
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Speaker 1: women do, their heartbreakers. I tell you to stay away.
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Speaker 4: From Kevin desart Her for her a minute. She's seen
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Speaker 4: the women home of the February in the March, that
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Speaker 4: was quitting in June May in June. Come on, yeah,
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Speaker 4: oh my, she just apputed off. I don't I don't know.
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Speaker 1: All right, combent, Okay, James, you had to we get
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Speaker 1: to how can we make these calls better? What can
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Speaker 1: we do to make these calls better? How can we
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Speaker 1: improve these phone calls? James? I feel like these calls
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Speaker 1: have gone the wrong direction? Yeah all right, No, you
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Speaker 1: got nothing, James, right, you got nothing?
27:36
Speaker 4: Now, no woman either?
27:39
Speaker 1: All right? Well, this listen, this is worth the worst
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Speaker 1: problems to have. You got your health right, you're in
27:43
Speaker 1: great shape. You run marathons. You look like Adonis over there.
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Speaker 1: You got good food? What do you eat? What did
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Speaker 1: you eat today, James? What did you have today to eat?
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Speaker 4: I had to have shrimp because they don't need pork. Okay,
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Speaker 4: room people, and they don't touch the near a pork
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Speaker 4: or bacon or any.
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Speaker 1: Kind of Okay, they like they like this, They like
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Speaker 1: the shrimp. Okay, all right, shrimp, well, okay.
28:14
Speaker 4: Er beans. You had like five per shrimps.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta go, thank you? All right, it's James. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because you didn't call that call got on the air.
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Speaker 1: That's your fault. That ain't my fault. That's your fault.
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Speaker 1: the stinger, breaking news, Analog.
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Speaker 5: Owls Fox Sports breaking news though.
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Speaker 1: No not probably not no, No, analog owl says, Anthony
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Speaker 1: has his priorities. All right, see what else we have, Adam.
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Speaker 1: He's checking in from the Bay Area. He wishes us
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Speaker 1: all a good morning. Well, thank you Adam listening on
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Speaker 1: ninety five seven the game there in the Bay Area,
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Speaker 1: and we thank you for that. Bill. Who's your Bill
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Speaker 1: says not a step on highly anticipated salary talk. He says,
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Speaker 1: I was in desperate need of a Coachella window sticker
29:28
Speaker 1: on my twenty thirteen Yaris. You guessed it, there you go.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
29:33
Speaker 1: This is just gibberish. Let me get to this. So
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Speaker 1: I mentioned the salary cap in baseball. The proposals like,
29:39
Speaker 1: oh what does that mean? In layman's term? So Major
29:42
Speaker 1: League Baseball has proposed a cap to the Union, which
29:45
Speaker 1: will not be accepted. So we're just fuxing around here.
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Speaker 1: The salary cap would be at three or two hundred
29:52
Speaker 1: and forty five million would be the ceiling, and one
29:55
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one point two million would be the
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Speaker 1: four So how many teams? How many baseball teams are
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Speaker 1: above the proposed ceiling, and how many teams are below
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Speaker 1: the proposed floor. According to a story that I saw,
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Speaker 1: they said that there are one, two, three, four, five
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Speaker 1: six teams. Six teams that are above the four manu
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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get rid of salary. They got
30:21
Speaker 1: too much salary. Those teams are the New York Mets,
30:23
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Blue Jays, the Fighting Phills,
30:28
Speaker 1: and the Atlanta Braves, so Holy Tommy in Atlanta Batman.
30:32
Speaker 1: So those teams are all over. The Mets are eighty
30:34
Speaker 1: eight million dollars over as far as the teams that
30:37
Speaker 1: are under, Now I love this. The Miami Marlins are
30:42
Speaker 1: ninety two million dollars under the floor, ninety two million
30:47
Speaker 1: under before. The Cleveland Guardians are ninety million under. The
30:52
Speaker 1: White Sox are eighty million. I mean, there's a bunch
30:54
Speaker 1: of teams as those are the three biggest defenders. But
30:58
Speaker 1: you got a bunch. You got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
31:02
Speaker 1: Who do we appreciate eleven, twelve, thirteen, forty fifteen teams?
31:05
Speaker 1: Half of Major League Baseball? Half of Major League Baseball
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Speaker 1: is nickel and diming everyone where they're they're below the
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Speaker 1: proposed floor. Now, some teams are right on the edge.
31:16
Speaker 1: The Mariners are below it, The Baltimore Orioles are below
31:21
Speaker 1: it barely, barely, like less than than ten million. And
31:25
Speaker 1: so you look at that and you're like, whoa, there
31:27
Speaker 1: you go. See, So fifteen teams are gonna have to
31:30
Speaker 1: add payroll and only six teams are gonna have to
31:34
Speaker 1: get rid of payroll. So that's an advantage for the players,
31:37
Speaker 1: and then you start going down the rabbit hole and
31:40
Speaker 1: you realize not quite right, and who knows, if those
31:47
Speaker 1: calculations are even right, it could be even more teams there,
31:51
Speaker 1: and so they just make up a cap. The players
31:53
Speaker 1: aren't gonna vote for it anyway, so good luck on that.
31:59
Speaker 1: And they're the owners are like, well, the players would
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Speaker 1: be paid, you know, five hundred million dollars more with
32:05
Speaker 1: this proposal if the numbers are right and all this stuff.
32:08
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of uneducated people that don't understand
32:16
Speaker 1: how this works. I just pull numbers out of the
32:19
Speaker 1: sky and throw those down and say, well, here's what
32:22
Speaker 1: the numbers are. Not quite now, will the thrill? If
32:25
Speaker 1: you're an old guy, will the thrill. Will Clark was
32:28
Speaker 1: a big star for the Sign Francisco Giants when they
32:31
Speaker 1: played in this horrific ballpark called Candlestick Park, where you
32:36
Speaker 1: saw napkins flying around and trash and no one went
32:42
Speaker 1: there at night because it was too cold and it
32:44
Speaker 1: was terrible. And I do love this story about how
32:47
Speaker 1: they decided to build the ballpark at that point at
32:50
Speaker 1: Candlestick and it's a famous story where the New York
32:55
Speaker 1: Giants were looking for a spot to build the ballpark.
32:57
Speaker 1: When they left New York obviously to go to San Francisco,
32:59
Speaker 1: and the person that sold them on Candlestick Point took
33:04
Speaker 1: them down there at like one o'clock in the afternoon
33:08
Speaker 1: on a Saturday, and it was a chamber of commerce
33:10
Speaker 1: kind of day. There was no wind, beautiful, perfect temperatures,
33:15
Speaker 1: and the guy that owned the Giants is like, this
33:17
Speaker 1: is the spot. This is the this is a beautiful spot.
33:20
Speaker 1: And then they ended up playing games at night and
33:23
Speaker 1: it was horrific. It was a nightmare. One o'clock on
33:26
Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon. Beautiful place to be really good. Anyway,
33:29
Speaker 1: Giants legend Will Clark not particularly happy with his old team.
33:35
Speaker 1: Clark upset with the celebration that the Giants have been
33:40
Speaker 1: having in the outfield. If you have not seen it,
33:43
Speaker 1: the Giant outfielders when they win, they really now basually
33:48
Speaker 1: Baseball tried to ban this. By the way, they do
33:52
Speaker 1: a coordinated there's a hip thrust. There's a lot going
33:56
Speaker 1: on here. Oh I saw this, yeah yeah, yeah, So
33:59
Speaker 1: they've they've tried to tone it down a little bit allegedly. Anyway, Well,
34:04
Speaker 1: Will Clark is from the Old Country and he's not
34:08
Speaker 1: happy he ripped the giants. You got to tighten the
34:13
Speaker 1: screws up on the ship. He said, there's a screw
34:16
Speaker 1: that's loose over there. We need to tighten that, son
34:19
Speaker 1: of you know what he said. And there's another thing.
34:23
Speaker 1: All right, hey, he says, Hey, Look, when you go
34:26
Speaker 1: out there and you do your thing and you win
34:29
Speaker 1: a baseball game or whatever, all right, high fives or whatever.
34:33
Speaker 1: But to be twenty and thirty and then Will Clark
34:37
Speaker 1: can play me watching and they've got some sort of
34:40
Speaker 1: dance where they're doing a effing pelvic thrust or something
34:44
Speaker 1: like that. I'm like, what the f You're ten games
34:48
Speaker 1: under five hundred. You don't have the luxury of doing
34:51
Speaker 1: that kind of bull blankety blank blanket looks like chicken blank.
34:56
Speaker 1: He went on this long rant there. It was really funny.
34:59
Speaker 1: It was quite amusing Will Clark doing the old guy rant.
35:05
Speaker 1: Not a fan of the hip thrust in the outfield,
35:08
Speaker 1: which reminds me of Cam Newton when he was playing
35:12
Speaker 1: quarterback for Carolina and they were I think they were
35:17
Speaker 1: playing in Nashville, and some woman got very upset and
35:23
Speaker 1: she had her kids at the game, and she wrote
35:25
Speaker 1: this long this is back when people used to read newspapers.
35:28
Speaker 1: And she went bonkers and she ripped Cam Newton's chest puffs,
35:34
Speaker 1: pelvic thrust and arrogant struts. And I still remember that.
35:38
Speaker 1: We used that line a lot years ago on the show.
35:40
Speaker 1: It was really funny. So World Clark time. Not a
35:43
Speaker 1: fan of the pelvic thrust. Lorraina likes the pelvic thrust.
35:47
Speaker 1: She's a fan of the pelvic thrust in the outfield.
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Speaker 1: Is that correct?
35:51
Speaker 2: All of it?
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Speaker 1: You like that?
35:53
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Speaker 1: got eight triples and thirty walks this season. The last
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Speaker 2: This is one big bet.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, God it stopped Kobal.
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Speaker 5: The Kansas City Chiefs were finally dethrowned last season, as
39:20
Speaker 5: the Broncos became the team other than the Chiefs to
39:22
Speaker 5: win the first team other than the Chiefs to win
39:24
Speaker 5: the AFC West in nine years. However, heading into the
39:27
Speaker 5: upcoming season, the Chiefs are favored to win the division,
39:29
Speaker 5: yet again, the Broncos don't even have these second best odds. Ben,
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Speaker 5: would Kansas City be your best to win the AFC
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Speaker 5: West title?
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Speaker 1: Well, yes, it's rather simple, coop. The math on this
39:39
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs have an easier schedule and the Broncos
39:42
Speaker 1: have a harder schedule. So that's the math. Like, it's
39:45
Speaker 1: not that deep. It's you know, who's who's got going
39:48
Speaker 1: into the season a softer schedule, And because Kansas City
39:52
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs last year and all that, and
39:55
Speaker 1: the Broncos did and they had a good year, the
39:57
Speaker 1: Chiefs have an easier schedule next.
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Speaker 5: Commander's quarterback Jade and Daniels said on Wednesday that last
40:02
Speaker 5: season left him with a miserable feeling as he wasn't
40:04
Speaker 5: able to go out and do what he does on
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Speaker 5: a daily basis. Ben do you think, what are your
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Speaker 5: expectations for Daniels this year? Yeah, he's at a FOURK
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Speaker 5: in the road.
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Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic. This seems like another one hit wonder
40:15
Speaker 1: like RG three was for Washington. I hope I'm wrong
40:18
Speaker 1: on that.
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Speaker 5: Next Ben, the Cubbs became the first team in MLB
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Speaker 5: history with a ten game two ten game win streaks
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Speaker 5: and ten game losing streak.
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Speaker 1: What's going on with Chicago? You know who? I blame
40:26
Speaker 1: Jonas Knox, who was a Cub season ticket older, my
40:29
Speaker 1: friend Jonas Knox, for buying money or spending money on
40:31
Speaker 1: the Cubs. No, they are a dysfunctional team. They got issues.
40:34
Speaker 1: How do we do a coupaloo? You pass? I guess
40:36
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