Jeff Passan

And then on top of that, whatever you have remaining, two-thirds of that will go into the pot as well.

And that will all be distributed evenly.

MLB went a step further and said every local television dollar there is will go into a pot, and we will just have centralized TV money in the same way that the NFL does, and we'll distribute that evenly.

And the reason I appreciated that, Jeff, is because, you know, at the end of the day, the real question is how strong is the MLBPA and

How stubborn is Major League Baseball?

And I say that because the strength from the union will be holding off on accepting a cap, and the stubbornness from the league will be pushing for a cap.

Because let's not forget, the league is the one that's trying to change things here.

It's incumbent on them to convince the other side to do so.

So whatever the system winds up being, though, there is going to be a giant pot of television money that's coming in.

There's going to be a, you know, the national television rights are going to be huge.

And the local television rights, especially if MLB can get every team or the vast majority of teams under one umbrella, are going to be big, too.

So this pot of money is going to go up significantly.

And

Look, I get MLB's desire and instinct to narrow the gap between the top-end teams and the bottom-end teams.

Whatever math you choose to do, whatever math is most convenient for you, there is a multi-hundred-million-dollar gap between the Los Angeles Dodgers this year and the Cleveland Guardians last year and the Miami Marlins.

They're always the same teams at the bottom there.

So does that need to be narrowed?

Would that be a good thing if that were narrowed?

Yeah, I do think so for the health of the sport.

But at what cost is the question?