Jen Ramos-Eisen

Like they'll say like they're doing this for the fans, but the thing is like they really aren't.

Fan input doesn't necessarily change what they're going to put into proposals.

The bottom line has always been the bottom line for the owners.

They want to make a profit.

As we've seen with the San Diego Padres selling for $3.9 billion, they really want to up the valuations of these clubs and be able to save as much money as they can while not paying.

The fact that they propose such a high floor at first is really just

a sign that these owners can pay if they're made to.

They can pay if they want to, but the thing is they don't want to.

So the only way that...

they will pay it is if they get that cap and the floor and a cap go together.

And that's something that doesn't necessarily get mentioned a lot in stories.

There are some folks that I've talked to think that like a Sally floor is like the most important thing.

But the thing is that you can't institute a cap in major league baseball, unless it can institute a floor in major league baseball, unless you have a cap.

So the union is vehemently against the,

either of those things because like they don't want to cap outright and that means no for so it's just

That's going to be the biggest thing that they're not going to see eye to eye on.

And MLB is going to keep saying it's for the pants.

And one of the things that I constantly go back to in Marvin Miller's book is that he says competitive balance is a phony issue.

And it's just like a talking point, especially for owners, when it doesn't necessarily mean that

It's anything because competitive balance is such a big phrase that we don't entirely know how it is that it's being defined by owners, by MLB, by different teams, by fans.