Richard Griffin
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1,103 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Richard Griffin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But they can change some of the rules to protect the 30-plus players who are seeming to be phased out of the game for the younger players.
They can make changes to make sure the younger players don't get manipulated in service time.
and screw them out of free agency or arbitration.
There are ways to do it.
It's just if you don't pay attention to what they just said yesterday on both sides, then you'll be better off because it's going to go into the offseason and maybe to Christmas.
Right.
Yeah, in 92, 93, it was the Jays with the highest payroll in all of baseball because it was really Pat Gillick and Paul Beeson who were calling the shots and ownership didn't pretend to know anything about it.
So they felt free to spend whatever they wanted, but it was at a far different level.
than it is right now.
And the individual ownership is gone.
It's all corporate.
Billionaires want to be multi-billionaires and you know, it's really ugly.
But when you look at competitive balance, why should the workers be the ones to make sure there's competitive balance?
Shouldn't that be the owners and the employers instead of the employees?
And, you know, you look at Milwaukee, in fact, the entire National League Central, five teams are all above 500.
Milwaukee, one of the top four teams in baseball, and they average 20th out of 30 in payroll, those five teams.
So it's kind of hard to make that solid argument that you can't win on a budget because these guys are showing you can.
Well, I would say they're better than they were on opening day last year.
I mean, opening day last year, we were talking about Max Scherzer.
We debated whether he'd ever get to 15 starts for the year.
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