00:00All right, that question, does the game need major changes, Maz, to the point where a lockout would do it
00:03good to reset the sport, do you think?
00:05So I say yes, and again, you say the game.
00:08This is the part that I'm focused on.
00:10I'm really not on either side.
00:12I want what's best for the sport.
00:14Right.
00:14Okay, that's what I want.
00:16And so I think the free agency system is broken.
00:18I think that guys who get qualifying offers, attach to them, get screwed.
00:22No one wants to sign them now because teams have become so draft-focused that they won't give those guys
00:28any sort of money.
00:29As soon as Kyle Schwarber got a qualifying offer, I knew the Red Sox weren't going to sign him.
00:34I knew.
00:35So when you said this, I didn't realize this is what – the part I think is broken about the
00:39free agency system is that MLB is the only sport that free agency starts.
00:46And nothing happens.
00:47It's boring.
00:48It's part of the problem.
00:50MLB free agency is boring.
00:52Every other sport, that bell rings on the first day of free agency, and it's a blast.
01:00Bodies are flying.
01:01Private jets are in the air.
01:03Rumors, like great off-season fodder for the sports.
01:07Those are big days, all of them, all the sports.
01:10Agreed.
01:12Basketball, there's not quite as much – I mean, there's really interesting player movement in the NBA.
01:16But, like, the NHL and NFL is like a frenzy.
01:19It's great.
01:21And MLB, the bell rings and no one does anything for, like, months.
01:24I thought that was the part you were going to say, that's the part I think they need to fix
01:27it.
01:29I think they're going to say, that's the part I think they need to fix it.
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