00:00Uh, Cal, she has the 2027 baseball season start date here, Tom, there's a lot of different options here. I
00:08think that if you look at it, you probably are diving into the potential of a March start, April start,
00:18June, uh, July.
00:21Like I, I hate to even go that far here. I'm hoping for April, but my understanding is, is that
00:27the players do not get paid and start missing checks until April. So that's my fear here.
00:33Yeah, I would say this is, uh, it's an interesting market. Are you, are we banking on a lockout? Do
00:39we think a lockout will technically happen? Yes. Do we think that will impact next season? That is to be
00:44determined, uh, before April 30th, you want to get the season underway.
00:49I, I, again, I have been on the record for saying, I truly believe we will, we will have a
00:53162 game season next year. Uh, doesn't mean it starts exact exactly on March 25th or 27th or 28th or
01:02whatever it is on that Thursday. I don't know, but I think we get going relatively normal next year. We
01:07play a full 162.
01:11Games in the 2027 season. Now this is a tough one here to navigate through. So there's 2430 total games
01:18in a normal 162 game season. Uh, I, I think that number is going to be where I'm going to
01:24go here on Cal sheet. I, I still think somehow they're able to, uh, fit this in. You could see
01:3073% there, 91%. How do you feel Tom about this? Do you think we lose games? That would be
01:37the prediction here.
01:38I don't, I really don't. And maybe they're, again, if they don't start on time, they start on April 15th
01:45or April 30th. So be it, do they try to jam in some extra double headers as we've seen in
01:51years past? Do they, you know, do the shortened double headers, whatever it might be. I, again, I think, I
01:57think they play a full 162. That's what it comes down to. That's been my stance for months. I will
02:00continue to believe that until there's some material change.
02:03This is all speculation about the CBA ending, it's starting, it getting changed, and then having a new season with
02:10pitchers and catchers. I think they play a full season next year.
02:13All right. How about, uh, managers being fired over, uh, on Cal sheet, major league baseball managers. Now this, this
02:19one we could have got in on a couple of weeks ago. It's too late now. Uh, Joe Espada didn't
02:24exactly get, uh, Tom, the vote of confidence from Tom Crane here. I, I would assume he's going to be
02:30let go at the end of the season, unless the Astros, I don't know, win a playoff game. I guess
02:35that would probably have to be it.
02:36Uh, Kurt Suzuki, of course, that's an easy one. This is surprising. I would bet the no on, uh, AJ
02:42Hinch, 42% on AJ Hinch with Detroit. I, I don't, I don't personally see that happening.
02:48Uh, we talked about this last weekend. The thing that we said last week is what I'll say again this
02:53week. It's like the answer is yes for multiple managers. It's not just one. Like this is not just a
02:58market where you, you only have to pick one or you only can pick one. It's like Joe Espada, Dan
03:03Wilson, Kurt Suzuki. Uh, we, we, we could be,
03:06looking at multiple options here, you know, further down the list is like, you know, what happens with Terry Francona?
03:11Does, does he stick around for one more year? Do they want to go in a new direction? Um, you
03:15know, after what has been a disappointing season? So I would say yes on at least the top three of
03:19a spot of Wilson and Suzuki. We're going to see multiple managers lose their jobs in the off season.
