00:00All right, so Major League Baseball in the union started talking on Wednesday or Thursday, excuse me, of this past
00:06week.
00:07Salary cap. Players Association said, uh-uh, not happening.
00:12They want to go like $240-plus million and there's a floor of 171.
00:17I looked it up. Cap, half the league's under the 171.
00:21How the hell are you even going to get to the floor of 171?
00:24What was your takeaway with the convo?
00:26Well, I mean, right now, it's nice that the conversation – well, I don't know if it's nice that the
00:32conversation is there.
00:33This is such a deep topic.
00:34I guess it's good that the conversation has been started because it needs to be had with what the Dodgers
00:39are doing.
00:40But that was not a realistic number ever.
00:42Like you just said, half the teams are under the minimum.
00:45What are we going to do? Make the Dodgers pay for players on other teams?
00:48Like, there isn't money that's going to come out of thin air.
00:51So that number was never a real suggestion.
00:53Right now, they're acting by telling us they're talking about a salary cap.
01:00Here's the thing that I hated about it, too.
01:03Because in football, get this, what you're going to start doing is categorizing positions, Cap.
01:09See, in the NFL, you pay a tight end this amount of money versus a wide receiver who makes more
01:15money.
01:15Or a left tackle versus a right tackle.
01:19A salary cap means you're going to start designating players.
01:23The coolest thing about your sport, Cap, is that if you're the best player in baseball, you're getting the most
01:29money.
01:30Whether you're a catcher, a pitcher, a third baseman, it doesn't matter.
01:35In the NFL, if you're the best player in the sport like Miles Garrett, you're not making $65 million.
01:44That is, right?
01:46And that's why there's, is there going to be a strike, right?
01:49When we do get there, will the players go on strike again?
01:51The reason why we're here is because of the strike all those years ago, right?
01:54Because the baseball players did what, you know, players in other leagues weren't willing to do.
02:00You know, it's such an interesting topic, man.
02:02I'm curious to see where it goes.
02:04Me too.
02:05I can't wait to see where this goes because if I'm a player and I'm in that union, there's not
02:11a shot in hell I'm looking at that going, hey, yeah, let's start designating positions for us to start paying.
02:17No way.
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