00:00Brian, do you believe that there will be a work stoppage, and will it be lengthy?
00:04Yeah, we have to stop saying that.
00:06Like, even your frame of mind, you're being put into propaganda.
00:11Like, everybody's like, there's going to be a work stoppage.
00:12Is there going to be a work stoppage?
00:13We don't know.
00:14Hey, Dan, I'll say this.
00:15Like, they're talking now, right?
00:18Like, I've always said, hey, you know it's coming.
00:20Why don't you start talking now?
00:22And people will tell you, well, you need a deadline, blah, blah, blah.
00:24I said, well, why don't you start ironing out, or at least, like, many top negotiators will tell you,
00:29find out where you agree, and then you can move on.
00:33And they're talking now.
00:34It's a very good sign.
00:35And, of course, their initial proposals are far apart, of course.
00:40But this is an excellent sign that they're talking already.
00:43And, look, you can close up from where you are now.
00:47And probably, you know, the players have certain things that are, that's the third rail,
00:50and the owners have things that are the third rail.
00:52But they're actually already, you know, in a ballpark.
00:57It's a big ballpark, but they're already in the ballpark.
01:00Rob Manfred, how do you think he's handling this?
01:02And how do you think he's handling this conversation that started yesterday?
01:06And how is he handling Major League Baseball?
01:08I can tell you this.
01:09I think he's done a fabulous job with trying to keep the Rays in Tampa.
01:13He went down there.
01:14He met with Ron DeSantis down there.
01:16They want to try to keep that team in the Bay Area.
01:18Orlando is an option.
01:20And he's been pretty much all over the place.
01:22His expansion is coming up.
01:23Maybe, you know, relocation could be potentially somebody there with the A's and all that.
01:29Tell me how you think he's handled Major League Baseball.
01:31Well, think about this, Dan.
01:33We shouldn't take for granted that baseball just implemented a seismic new rule, and it's working.
01:41It's great.
01:41It's the Strike Zone Challenge, the ABS Challenge System, right?
01:46For years, again, you and I have fans a long time watching where nothing could change.
01:53You know, nothing like, no, you can't change this.
01:54You can't change that.
01:55Now, pitch timer comes in.
01:57It's great.
01:58It works.
01:58The game's better.
01:59Suddenly, it's much, much better.
02:01Challenge System comes in.
02:02Not just, you know, the electronic strike zone, but the Challenge System, which enables us not to throw the keys
02:09to the robots, right?
02:10I think we've seen in life, this is not the thing you want to do.
02:13I used to be in favor of it.
02:14Now I'm not seeing what's happening outside of baseball with, like, AI and everything else.
02:18Don't throw the keys to the robots.
02:20But let there be an outlet to a grievance.
02:24Eliminate, as they have in the past, like a few years ago, eliminate the egregious slides at home plate.
02:28Eliminate the egregious slides at second base.
02:31Eliminate the, you know, the few bad calls in the strike zone.
02:35They've done it.
02:36Like, Jen, if only life itself worked this way.
02:39If every other institution worked this way, we'd be in great shape.
02:42Like, I don't want to take that for granted.
02:44Because in our lifetimes, very few things changed in baseball.
02:46Now things are changing left and right.
02:48And 40 minutes off a game of dead time, gone.
02:51Now the game moves fast.
02:52You know, now you see a bad call, you can challenge it.
02:56Immediately.
02:56Like, calls are being fixed left and right on the bases, you know, at the plate.
03:00So, like, don't look past, like, major innovations that have happened under Rob Manfred, under his watch.
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