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00:00Yamamoto is over $300 million contract.

00:03He's only making $20 million a year this year,

00:05but the guy who's pitching tonight, $32 million.

00:07The guy who pitched game one, $29 million.

00:10I mean, it just gets crazy.

00:12I mean, they make the Yankees look like a small market team.

00:14Pitching tomorrow night, yeah.

00:16Yankees are, yeah.

00:18We could go on and on and on.

00:20We're going to have a salary cap in baseball.

00:22It's going to be a little more than a year from now.

00:25I would hope so because I like baseball.

00:27You can't crap on 80% of the country,

00:31but the owners could pay money.

00:34They're being cheap.

00:35Yeah, but they're not, so you've got to do something.

00:40I've had it with people pretending that problems don't exist,

00:45but nothing.

00:47But the game's going to fail if in 60% of the markets,

00:51there's absolutely no chance,

00:53except for whenever that magical wheel spins around

00:57and you get that two-year window

00:58where everything's cost-controlled.

01:00You have to operate under such a different set of rules

01:03than everyone else.

01:04Like, you have to draft perfectly.

01:06You have to develop perfectly.

01:07And then in that window where it's all still cost-controlled,

01:11you get that little bit of time.

01:13The amount of wiggle room that the Dodgers,

01:16the Yankees, and these teams have,

01:18every offseason, these buy a new team.

01:20Dodgers payroll.

01:21You want to guess what the Dodgers' payroll is this year?

01:23Is it $450 million?

01:25No, no, it's less.

01:28I just saw when we talked about this like a week or two ago,

01:31$330?

01:33$350.

01:33Okay, but I'm going to ask you this.

01:35If it was in real dollars,

01:36not spread out over a long time,

01:38what would it be?

01:40Active.

01:41Active.

01:41I have active, which is $268.

01:44Yeah.

01:45I would like to know what the payroll is

01:47if you scrunched everything up until the years

01:49they're actually going to be playing for the team.

01:50Yeah, if you didn't have Otani spread,

01:52you know,

01:52and his $700 million spread out over 20 years.

01:55Yeah, maybe that would be a good rule

01:57to get in place right away,

01:58that you couldn't do that.

02:00Yeah.

02:00They did it in hockey.

02:01Exactly.

02:02Right.

02:02So just do it right away.

02:04That I think everyone could agree on.

02:07Who was it?

02:08Ilya Kovalchev,

02:09who had tried to sign a 15-year deal?

02:11Yeah.

02:12And he was going to be making $4 in year 15.

02:15Well, it was down to like $200,000

02:17in the last, you know,

02:19four years of the deal or something.

02:21And they're like,

02:21no, you can't do this.

02:23No, no.

02:24And, you know,

02:25that's a sport where Winnipeg could,

02:27you know,

02:27challenge for a cup.

02:28In the NFL, Green Bay.

02:30I mean,

02:30these markets that in baseball

02:32wouldn't even exist.

02:34That's good.

02:36You have to have an equal playing field,

02:38at least an assemblance

02:39of an equal playing field.

02:42Ilya Kovalchev,

02:43that's a first time to break up.

02:45This is what I'm doing.

02:45And I'm not sure I'm doing anything

02:46at any point.

03:01Especially,

03:04there's a little one where that's not

03:05the wrong playing field.

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