Rob Bradford

Evan, back in a different world that you lived in, when you were covering the day-to-day stuff,

It was, you remember, it was done by Christmas.

Listen, listen, I don't know if it was done by Christmas, but I don't think there's any doubt in my mind that if there was a free agency signing deadline, it would create something of a frenzy.

And also the other point exists that has some validity is there is a player worry that they would be forced into lesser contracts.

If you take that concern away, and it's a simple...

Would this make it exciting?

Of course it would make it exciting.

People love deadlines, except me meeting yours to come on the program.

Otherwise, yeah.

Like I said earlier, it all comes back to money.

There's money attached to it.

The way the league had proposed the free agency signing deadline...

It's a multi-year deadline.

So if you don't accept a multi-year deal by whatever date, well, then you only take a one-year deal.

So if you're a good player and you're sitting there going, I don't like these multi-year deals, well, you're stuck.

Then you've got to take the multi-year deal that's on the table or all you get is a one-year deal, and that's the proposition the players don't like.

They think they're going to get screwed if they take a deadline.

Well, it's good for baseball.

Going back to the Dodgers...

Andrew Friedman had got up in front of everybody the other day, and they constantly have to answer this whole thing about, oh, we're buying baseball and we're ruining baseball, whatever it is.