Jeff Passan

Yes, he was.

Okay, well, he is in all likelihood going to be – I don't know if he's going to be their ace going forward.

He's good, though.

And another Juco kid, Central Arizona.

So the path is there, and it's clear.

And I just – I love watching the games, man, because they remind me of baseball when I was growing up.

There is no strike zone on the screen.

There is no velocity readings on the screen.

It's just –

And it's good ball.

That's the thing about it.

a good thing or a particularly bad thing for you in in terms of getting labor peace so these are almost two sides of the same coin here and and what I mean by that is the the bad thing is that they are not just like far apart in negotiations they're not talking the same language

And until they do, there's not going to be a whole heck of a lot of progress on this.

They're going to talk because they are under law required to bargain in good faith and continue discussion.

But what I mean by they're not talking the same language is Major League Baseball wants a salary cap.

The Major League Baseball Players Association wants status quo.

They're talking two entirely different financial infrastructures to govern the sport.

And so until they can even agree on something as simple as, okay, what are we going to have to enforce the rules of the game, there's not going to be a whole lot of progress.

And yet I found some solace in two things.

Number one, the MLBPA yesterday in its proposal came to MLB and said, we want to share more local television revenue.