Greg Giannotti
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So this is a disagreement between the owners of the baseball teams.
Now, Major League Baseball just signed a huge deal with Polymarket.
So Rob Manford is working hard.
They're trying to get as many sponsors as they possibly can.
They want to keep building the war chest, much like the NFL has done, and nobody's done it better than the NFL.
You could argue that the NBA has done really well in that regard, too, especially internationally with the NBA and all the international players.
that they have and all the different contracts they have all over the globe.
But when it comes to what's going on right now, and I went through a work stoppage with the NFL in 1987, we, the players, struck on the owners.
And the players of today are benefiting from that strike.
I firmly believe it.
It took a while to get it going.
But after about 15 to 20 years, the players started really making some serious money.
And they can look back at that strike and they can say that's one of the reasons why they were able to do this.
In this case, this is probably three-quarters of the owners against the top quarter of ownership in terms of spending money when it comes to the Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees, the Phillies, the Cubs, the Red Sox, teams like that.
And they're going to want a salary cap.
They're going to want to jam it down the players' throats.
And they're going to just basically threaten not to pay the players.
So if you're Juan Soto, at this point, you have this huge contract.
You're Shohei Otani.
You have this huge contract.