Danny Parkins

making plays in the field and plays on the base path to change ball games.

That's what PCA, the power, I'm not rejecting it.

I will take it.

But if he goes over the length of this, and he gets out of here, let's say, over the next seven years, and he gives you 200 home runs and 200 stolen bases, and he OPSs over 825, 840, we'll say 840, and he gets gold gloves all those years, that's a deal well done.

So when I say 825, I just mean the average.

I think he's going to have up and down.

No, I wasn't saying he's going to minimum 825.

I was saying an average 825 OPS over the length of this extension.

And there's been so much talk about a salary cap, right?

And I don't expect there to be a salary cap, but let me just be very frank on that.

Unless the owners are willing to lose an entire season, I do not expect there to be a salary cap.

And that would be tragic if we lost...

a significant portion.

Anything more than a fourth of a season, I consider a significant portion of baseball games next year.

But the owners, they got to figure it out.

We know it's billionaires versus billionaires first.

Then it's the billionaires versus the millionaires on what would be a much more united front.

I think it's very smart for the Cubs to just get the deals done that they can get done and try to... Because even if something did change, right?

Grandfather clauses are a thing.

Like how they would navigate around, whether that's reworking how deferred money is looked at in Major League Baseball contracts or how total contracts, if someone's way over the salary cap because they signed all those deals before the CBA.