Rob Bradford

Well, first off, you complained behind the scenes.

You complained that you weren't getting paid to do this podcast before the podcast.

And I felt, I don't feel bad, but as compensation, I am going to make you a t-shirt that says levers of power that you can wear around.

you know what the Chilean miners complained about the same thing as they were sticking the srob through the ground alright so how does alright through all the why you're interested in that stuff fine

How does this feel different than last time?

I guess that's like the nuts and bolts.

Do you remember how it felt leading in at this point last time?

How does it feel different?

And should we be more worried that there is going to be games cut into because a lot of people will say, oh, it's just going to be the same thing as last time.

It's different for a couple reasons.

One, everybody just lived through it, and the last time we hadn't had anything like it in 25 years.

The 94-95 strike was the last time you had any sort of lockout or strike period in baseball.

So everybody's a little bit familiar with the program, I think, at this point.

Last time, it was the players who were the aggressors for really two CBA cycles, at least a full one, five years each time.

The players have been angry about service time manipulation.

There was a whole list of issues that the players wanted to be fixed.

And by the way, they had been angry for years.

And in the end, still nobody actually missed games, which I do think is a notable point here.

But those are kind of the two issues.

major differences is who's the aggressor and who's kind of more playing defense.