Rahimi Harrison-Grody

Brent Suter, a veteran relief pitcher and subcommittee member, told reporters that the union is going to have an interim executive director and keep everything as stable as they can this year.

That doesn't immediately indicate to me a position of strength, but I know Meyer has been pretty public in a lot of his statements and conveying the union's message ahead of this fight.

Well, I can confidently say that when it comes to the reporting side, we've got some guys.

What?

Yeah.

In fact, Bruce Levine is now joining us.

I know we were trying to chase down Evan Drollick, but there's a lot of news going on.

Bruce, kind enough to join us via the Circus Sports Illinois hotline.

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Bruce, you talked to Davis Martin, the player rep for the White Sox.

Thanks for joining us from Arizona.

We're talking to Bruce Levine.

He is joining us from Mesa, but he was also over in Glendale talking to White Sox player Rep.

Davis Martin about Tony Clark's resignation.

And something that we haven't talked about yet regarding his resignation, Bruce, is it comes in the wake of the Eastern District of New York's ongoing investigation into the finances and other dealings of the Players Association for Major League Baseball.

And this is a quote from Jeff Passan's article on ESPN.

including questions about the use of one-team partners, a multi-billion-dollar group licensing company partly owned by the Union and Players Way, which is a youth baseball initiative that spent millions of dollars but only offered a handful of events.

And there was a whistleblower complaint, according to this article.

The National Labor Relations Board got involved because that's who governs player unions, not just player unions, but work unions.

And so this is a federal matter that I don't know how much players expect this to come into the negotiation when they've got to work with the owners at the end of the year.