00:00And if the Yankees did it, we would love it.
00:02If the Mets did it, we would love it.
00:04So the fact that the Dodgers are doing it, you can't bitch and mo now.
00:08Wah! Wah! It's not fair! It's not fair!
00:12They're doing everything that we as Yankee fans or Mets fans have an expectation that we would be doing.
00:21So I just want to put that out there as well for you.
00:23Okay. Well, we've had this discussion already.
00:25I want to preface it by saying, wah!
00:27Nah! You're 100% right when you say that we would want the Yankees and or Mets to do this.
00:32That's 100% we would want them to do it.
00:34And they both have the ability to do it.
00:36No, they don't.
00:36They choose not to do it.
00:38It's different. I'm sorry. It's different.
00:40The TV deal they have is different.
00:42The Otani contract allows them to do other things.
00:44They spent money and did things before Otani, not like this, addressing every single problem with the best player available
00:51and then just getting any great player available no matter what.
00:54That changed when Otani came here.
00:56The contract, the TV deal, give them a benefit that other teams don't have.
01:00Having said that, this trade has nothing to do with that.
01:04That is correct.
01:05Well, the second part of what you said is accurate.
01:06The Yankees can sign deferred contracts.
01:09They choose not to.
01:10The Mets can sign deferred contracts.
01:11They choose not to.
01:13If Otani came to the Mets or Yankees and said, give me $700 million and I'll play for $20 million
01:18over the next 10 years,
01:19every single one of them would have said yes.
01:21Yes, he wanted to go to L.A.
01:23He wanted to stay on the West Coast.
01:25Yeah.
01:25So that's not an advantage to the Dodgers.
01:28Of course it is.
01:28No, it's not.
01:29That contract is an advantage.
01:30They don't have a competitive advantage because they get to do something the Yankees couldn't do.
01:35Yes, they do.
01:36The Yankees could have offered him the same exact deal.
01:38He chose not to.
01:39He wouldn't have taken it.
01:39He didn't even talk to the Yankees to get that offer.
01:41That's not as if the Dodgers are playing on an unfair field.
01:44I'm not saying it's their fault.
01:45That's what people are saying, that the Dodgers have the ability to do something that the Yankees don't have the
01:51ability to do.
01:52That's not accurate.
01:53Now, the Yankees might choose not to.
01:55It's easier for them to do it.
01:56No, it is not.
01:57It's not easier at all.
01:59Yes, it is.
01:59The Yankees are worth $12 billion.
02:01If they wanted Otani, they could have them.
02:03It's easier for the Dodgers.
02:04No, they couldn't have.
02:06Sure, they couldn't.
02:06He didn't want to come here.
02:08He didn't even talk to the Yankees.
02:09He wanted to go to the West Coast and play for the Dodgers.
02:12And then he said, I'll go there, win multiple MVPs, be the best player in baseball, and pay me $2
02:19million and push the rest off.
02:20If he would have come to the Yankees, they'd have the advantage.
02:23They don't because he went to LA.
02:25That's not an advantage.
02:26It has absolutely an advantage.
02:27You guys talk about the advantage because of the cable TV deal after that divorce, right?
02:32Yes.
02:32But again, it's all an advantage.
02:34It makes it easier for them to spend the money.
02:36Not really.
02:36Yes, it does.
02:37The Yankees have the money.
02:38It's just whether or not they want to spend it.
02:39Steve Cohen has the money.
02:41It doesn't hurt as much for the Dodgers to spend it.
02:44They're paying less in luxury tax.
02:45This is go look it up.
02:47This is all out there.
02:48They have advantages that the other team doesn't have.
02:51I disagree with it.
02:51Okay, we could disagree with it.
02:53That doesn't change the fact that I agree with you on this trade.
02:56All the Dodgers did was give out a subpar package for the best pitcher in baseball and have the
03:03Tigers say yes to it.
03:04Kind of makes you wonder why the Yankees didn't.
03:06Okay.
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