Nick Swisher

That's why they have a CBA.

But a lot of these guys will take that extra money and not put it back in the roster and stick it in their pocket because that's the only way they can make money.

Because their teams, they can't win, and no one goes to the games, and that's how they run their business.

Well, the point being, this is why you would have a CBA.

A CBA has an agreement between the players and the owners to allow the monopoly to exist.

Sure.

And, you know, the agreement now does not have, like what Nick was saying, they don't have the floor.

Like, you have to spend a minimum.

They don't have that.

They only have a maximum, and he talks that we say it's a luxury tax, but essentially it is a cap tax.

And this is where I think Hal Steinbrenner gets in trouble because he uses that as this is the benchmark.

We're not going past this.

And everybody gets all up in arms because the Dodgers don't care about that.

They blow past it.

Sure.

And now there's pressure on Hal Steinbrenner to go through that.

Think about the pressure on him from the fan base.

Well, I mean, you saw that this offseason when he was getting very, very testy with the reporters about those questions.

And he also has not only the Dodgers that beat them in the World Series a couple years ago, but Steve Cohen blowing through these competitive CBT thresholds.

And he's got his general manager out there saying, I have a drop-dead number.