Jon Morosi

I have the thought.

Can you hear me?

The thought I have is that

we will see as this all plays out, this becomes an amplification of the current cultural moment.

And here's what I mean by that.

You're right that for a long time, and still to some extent now, there's this understanding among players that

their forebears and the older players had fought against a cap and been successful in doing so, and that this generation of players does not want to be the generation of players that agrees to a CBA that has a cap.

That's a real sentiment.

And yet, what is closer to them in terms of what voices are they hearing the most now?

Is it the retired players of the 80s and 90s, or when they open up their phone,

the fans or whomever is welcomed into your awareness as a person in 2026, that you're getting texts and you're getting messages saying, why don't you play?

How many millions are enough?

Et cetera, et cetera.

So what is louder to you?

What are you paying the most attention to as a player?

I think it's a real question about, to your point, I think it's a really important term, the institutional knowledge of it all.

And the one thing, too, that I would point out in a word that

that came up in the MLB PA statement today, the critique about, about a cap being a pathway to mediocrity.

I don't, I don't really agree with that.

I look at other sports that we follow the NHL, for example, I don't,