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Greg Giannotti

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13000 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

So this is a disagreement between the owners of the baseball teams.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

Now, Major League Baseball just signed a huge deal with Polymarket.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

So Rob Manford is working hard.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

They're trying to get as many sponsors as they possibly can.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

They want to keep building the war chest, much like the NFL has done, and nobody's done it better than the NFL.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

You could argue that the NBA has done really well in that regard, too, especially internationally with the NBA and all the international players.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

that they have and all the different contracts they have all over the globe.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

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.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

And the players of today are benefiting from that strike.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

I firmly believe it.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

It took a while to get it going.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

But after about 15 to 20 years, the players started really making some serious money.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

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.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

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.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

And they're going to want a salary cap.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

They're going to want to jam it down the players' throats.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

And they're going to just basically threaten not to pay the players.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

So if you're Juan Soto, at this point, you have this huge contract.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

You're Shohei Otani.

Boomer & Gio
Full Show - Opening Day Right Ahead, Jets Looking For 2nd QB, Nick Swisher Calls In

You have this huge contract.