00:00the dodgers right i would say that probably every other team in the major leagues wants a salary cap
00:06after seeing what the dodgers do and feel like all right and the red socks are part of that team
00:10because you know they're probably like well we don't necessarily have to spend that money and
00:15still be competitive do you think if george steinbutter was still alive and not his loser son
00:19that the the yankees would be wanting a salary cap no not the yankees i think there's a handful
00:24a team like right now the dodgers i think the yankees are probably in that the new mets owner
00:28probably doesn't want one but he's probably kicking himself in the ass spending all that
00:31money on juan soto and they stink right to be clear curtis you think that the collusion comes from
00:36the fact that nobody else put an offer together for scoobal and that the dodgers got him because
00:42everybody else wants that lockout yes that the owners if the lockout is far more sellable to
00:48baseball fans if it is on the heels of a three-peat by the dodgers okay if the dodgers stumble
00:54and they
00:54don't get back to the world series and say the rays win the world series then it's more difficult
01:00to sell to the major league baseball fan that this is an urgent imminent danger to the future of the
01:05sport and we need to lock out a season to implement a salary yeah but i don't think the dodgers
01:10have
01:10to win look look at look at this greg just said he wants to lock out my boy text i
01:15don't i don't want
01:15to lock out excuse me i want a salary cap i'm sorry i'm sorry a salary cap my my boy
01:22texted me over the
01:22weekend it was like yo this is scoobal to the dodgers they uh mlb needs a salary cap so i
01:28think
01:28there are a lot of fans whether the dodgers win the world series or not that probably go
01:34major league baseball needs a salary cap and the dodgers what they're probably trying to do is
01:39saying you know what you they're probably this is a rental for them i don't know if they're necessarily
01:44gonna you know sign school i think they probably will i mean they have endless gobs and gobs of money
01:51and so that's because show hate deferred you know well and there's the red socks could have had
01:55show a defer every other team in baseball could have had show a defer they are sit they're sitting
02:00on one point i think the number is 1.2 billion dollars in deferred payments yeah the players and so
02:08they don't care at all right and so it's short of getting an owner like that in your city i
02:16think
02:16there's probably a lot of people are like all right let's try and somehow find a way to even
02:21things out a little bit so that teams can be competitive and if the i'm not so sure curtis
02:27when it comes to owner collusion because i think the owners want the small market teams to remain in
02:33baseball and they're never going to be able to compete with a team like the dodgers never well
02:38the owners right now don't want it to be easy or for any other team to compete but the dodgers
02:44their
02:44goal after this is to prevent other teams from outspending them and for them to have a secure
02:49guaranteed payroll for each of the next 20 seasons so that their values of their franchises are higher
02:55so they can sell their team and make more money and you think the players like all these guys from
02:59the dodgers deferring money i don't think the players want that the players are probably like
03:04wait a second i want my money now why do i have to wait god forbid something happens you know
03:09what i
03:09mean and you're deferring this money till you know who knows when so i think the majority of players if
03:14there is some issues within that union they're probably against players deferring for their money
03:20here's a text that says it's amazing that they can fund the whole thing with a half empty ballpark
03:27on a sunday on a sunday afternoon i was shocked i know did you see the picture of edelman with
03:32his
03:33daughter i was like at first i said oh my god why is he posting this he's going to get
03:36absolutely
03:36bombarded and then he had an entire section to himself i didn't see that yeah it's like yeah it
03:42was on instagram if you if you honestly want to subsidize every market in baseball and and say let's
03:50make it an even playing field and hand in the absolute massive advantage that you have had as a
03:55red sox fan then that is on you and that is not something i will ever in a million years
04:00do and the
04:01people texting you and greg and wiggy i don't dispute it for a second did they text you in 2018
04:06that we
04:06need a salary cap no do they text you in 2021 that we need a salary cap no okay so
04:11all of a sudden
04:12because of the behavior of an owner and the behavior of one franchise it's not one curtis
04:17would you stop it if you had to if you had to honestly sit here and bet and go out
04:22of the what
04:22is it i'm talking about the owner of the dodgers no no i'm saying but the what is it 30
04:26major league
04:26baseball teams or something like that i'm willing to bet you that probably 27 of those teams all want
04:33salary cap what owner of an industry would not want a salary cap every owner that owns anything
04:38but you make it sound like it's the red sox the singular owner was not john henry i'm talking about
04:43because of an owner in la and the way he conducts business we are now saying that all of us
04:49have to
04:50change what we do and to me that is absurd right but i think before the dodgers started doing business
04:56as business kind of is being done right now i bet a lot of these owners were might not have
05:01been
05:01pushing for salary caps but they were pushing for like uh number of years guys can get when it came
05:08to new contracts like that i think the red sox you could tell because think about how many contracts
05:13they were stuck on guys whether it was kyle crawford whether it was adrian gonzalez whether it was david
05:18price where you go jesus these guys again eight nine ten eleven years sure and they're having to eat
05:24money so i the owners will manny manny ramirez was being paid up until last season or whatever it was
05:30but at least what manny he was pretty he was good for the majority of his contract i so i
05:35bet a lot
05:35of these owners are sitting pedroia has deferred money there's a ton of no no i'm saying a lot of
05:39these owners are like we need to fix this what we're giving um vlad guerrero jr 15 year deals or
05:47and now we're having to eat money for seven eight of those years because not necessarily him but he's not
05:54very good look at mookie bets yeah well listen we can get i want to get you on the record
05:59on that
06:00this morning when it comes to the dodgers and to that deal for tarek scuba and how do you feel
06:06about that does that how do you feel about major league baseball
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