00:00my favorite topic that i love to talk about because i don't think it's happening and if you
00:04want it free seven dollars and 15 cents you can come over by my way and we'll have a cup
00:08of coffee
00:09next year donnie what are you talking about it's a new cba the deal is going to happen we just
00:14don't
00:14know when but you know when i do know when we're not getting it craig by december 1st 2026 because
00:20major league baseball they like to long play everything and scott boris will tell you what
00:25are you kidding me i'm going to create a marketplace and urgency then we're going to
00:27strike the deal craig a 28 chance on poly market that we get a deal by december 1st i ain't
00:33buying
00:34it craig i'm not yeah hard to do it and you know every week we're going to get a little
00:39trickling
00:40information donnie like a little nugget on the cba each week uh what was the nugget this past week it
00:46was that the players association have assembled this uh war chest of money uh and oh my god was
00:55it 500 million or something like that but that's like not even shohei otani's contract you know
00:59that is not it's not gonna work uh yeah like eventually this is gonna get done i'm super hopeful
01:06that this doesn't drag into next season but all indications to me i would be stunned donnie if
01:12anything happened before the end of the year i i do think i i don't know i'm an optimist i
01:18think we're
01:18gonna play a full season next season i think we're gonna have a full spring training next season
01:23but i december like man that's pretty we we can't even get free agents to sign until january you really
01:29think we're gonna get this done in december i don't think so i'm telling you craig like we're
01:33talking right now on like april the 5th we've done a lot of shows already on pro baseball today i
01:37don't
01:38want to be talking next year on april 5th craig hey craig do you think they're gonna come to an
01:41agreement here and when spring training going to get underway let me ask you yeah exactly kbo
01:46middle of the night have some fun every everybody's going to be superstars there but answer me this
01:50question is there a legitimate chance that major league baseball comes together and says look we're
01:55going to have some sort of a cap but also some sort of a floor or is it major league
01:59baseball which
02:00we always talk about the most powerful union in sports is baseball where they would just burn this
02:04to the ground and say there is no way we are ever going to accept any sort of cap and
02:09that's where
02:09this thing starts you you mean the players you're talking about donnie re-ask me that question
02:15again just so i know how to answer correctly is there any chance that the players have a starting
02:19point that goes you can ask whatever you want but if it starts with a salary cap we aren't even
02:24going
02:24to come to the negotiation table is there a chance that the players bend on that and say it's better
02:28for baseball to do this or do they just come in because they're always will never have a cap and
02:33that's where they always start yeah look i mean if if that's the case then there's not going to be
02:37a
02:37deal because i think that that is coming yeah no i i think that that i think it is it
02:43may be a
02:43non-starter for the players but i think it's probably a non-starter on the other side and and for
02:49me as
02:49we've talked about here on the show i i think that we owe it to the players to hear their
02:56side of this
02:57i think we owe it to them to get a better understanding as to what they would like to see
03:01because the players i've always been on the side of the players and in the past always but but this
03:07time around with everything that has transpired since the last cba i don't understand why a cap
03:14and a floor would not work it seems to work in the other leagues and so when i hear the
03:20players
03:20making comments such as it doesn't work in the other leagues i'm a little perplexed so i would like
03:28because it does so i would like to see their a little bit of a plan here as to an
03:33alternative to
03:34the cap and a floor so at least i can dissect that but donnie i haven't seen anything yet except
03:39for
03:40comments it doesn't work they're wrong it does work i don't i mean look at the money in the nfl
03:46look
03:46at the money in the nba and look at the amount of money these mega deals have gotten i mean
03:51i mean
03:52james harden is making 40 50 million dollars a year for like seven different teams you're telling me
03:56this doesn't work i i don't get it but we'll see by the way who was it was it brent
04:01rooker that said
04:02that who said uh it was brent rooker i don't want to call out a player because that's not fair
04:07i don't
04:08think that that's fair because i think honestly from brent rooker's perspective i think that that
04:12may be coming from uh somewhere else and again i'm not gonna be that person to to do that because
04:18the players are the ones that we that we want to see and we want to pay for we do
04:24but i i would love
04:26to see a plan in place at least so i could put it against this cap and a floor because
04:31for me
04:32that's where i'm at right now i i am at more competitive balance more parody you know i'm on
04:40a show here i think it was with uh kevin and gabe maybe a couple weeks ago and gabe and
04:45i are going
04:45back and forth and he's like the dodgers would never agree to it the the owner of the dodgers last
04:50week said we need more parody in baseball i i mean it's it's it's obvious to me
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