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Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

They've done nothing.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

They continue to do nothing.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

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.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

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.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

So it's essentially like a salary cap.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

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

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

And then you have the Dodgers who don't give two craps about it.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

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

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

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

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

Because the Dodgers are just โ€“ I mean, at some point, someone's going to stop.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

And Steve Cohen stopped at 55, and the Dodgers went up to 60.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

Well, the Mets offered, at least for AAV, more for Kyle Tucker than they did for Juan Soto.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

Yeah, but don't you think, though, that...

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

If they limit teams like the Dodgers, the Mets, and I don't even know if you can put the Yankees in there anymore, but the Dodgers and the Mets, the players are going to balk at that because if there's a salary cap you can't go over, like the competitive balance act is a soft cap, but if it's a salary cap you can't go over, then Kyle Tucker's not getting that money.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

If Juan Soto, there's a salary cap you can't go over, maybe Juan Soto isn't getting that money.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

So if I'm the players and I'm thinking, you have a hard cap,

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

then these contracts are going to go away.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

I know, but that's my point.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

The players are not going to agree to this.

Boomer & Gio
Kyle Tucker To Dodgers Means Lockout Right Ahead

Yeah, but you said they're not really involved.