Evan

I heard Al and Jerry talking about this, like how do the Minnesota Twins survive?

How do the Pirates survive?

Because the L.A.

Dodgers spent last year

CBT tax, competitive balance tax, $169 million.

And it's going to be more next year.

And it goes to all the other teams.

So these owners, they don't have a shot, but they don't care because they're taking that money, putting it in their pocket, and not reinvesting it because there's no salary for it.

Yeah, well, the players are going to say, do not cap the salaries that we get because salary cap are the two words that they don't want to hear.

So they'll be fighting back on that.

But the competitive balance tax has served as somewhat of a salary cap to other teams.

Like the New York Yankees, that's a salary cap for them.

They've done nothing.

They continue to do nothing.

And when they went to get Trent Grisham and they had to pay him $22 million, that basically took up every cent that they were going to have to spend.

And Hal said, and Brian Cash has told us this how many times, Hal told him this is the number we have to stick at.

So it's essentially like a salary cap.

But then you have Steve Cohen to one degree going over that CBT tax.

I think if you matched what the Dodgers did, they would have gone further.

And even if they didn't go further, Kyle Tucker probably would have chosen them over the Mets anyway.