00:00why are we heading towards a work stoppage in your opinion when there's that kind of money
00:04that's being spread why are we going towards a work stoppage i think it's important to separate
00:11and now i think you can see me but i apologize again for this yes ridiculousness but listen
00:18you're don't confuse franchise valuations with industry health those really are two different
00:25things when you see the padres get 3.9 billion dollars there is there are only 30 teams all you
00:33need is one guy willing to overpay to get into an exclusive club but it doesn't mean the padres make
00:40money they don't it doesn't mean that every other team for sale is all of a sudden going to be
00:45worth
00:45that so just be careful when you're drawing conclusions based on the 3.9 secondly the issues
00:53in front of us in labor in front of the industry are not related to franchise valuation when the
01:00union says that they're trying to really get public opinion on their side look at how healthy everything
01:09is teams are going for four billion dollars but owners what they're saying is hey the dodgers have
01:17a payroll of 515 million including tax the marlins have a payroll of 70 million dollars there are 15
01:25cities that don't have hope before a season starts that they can get it done and there's a huge
01:32correlation between payroll and winning that's really the discussion and the issue that faces baseball
01:40all right now david do you think there should be a salary cap in baseball
01:47no one's actually directly asked me that question funny enough dan so the answer is
01:56no it doesn't need to be a salary cap there needs to be a color and you may say that's
02:04a cap but
02:05i laugh at salary caps and other sports if it's not hard the soft cap and the first apron and
02:10the
02:10second apron there has to be a penalty for going over a certain number that actually matters to teams
02:19and there has to be a way to increase revenue sharing enough so on the bottom side you don't have
02:27five or ten teams that simply don't have the revenue or the payroll to compete so a salary cap in
02:33the
02:33sense of the word i'm not insane about that word even though you're going to hear that over the next
02:39year what i am focused on is what mechanisms are in place that can make it more fair so there's
02:47an
02:47equality of opportunity amongst all fan bases
02:51that I can't worry about our marriage
02:51up my dad's...
02:51my dad, you have our baby
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