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Chapter 1: What is the feeling of inevitability regarding an MLB lockout?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody.
Could you imagine Lovey Smith doing the whole good, better, best thing and saying bleep the Packers? Come on, guys. Good, better, best.
Never let it rest. Never let it rest. I'll see you on Tuesday. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score.
I've been waiting to break. Oh, there it is. This is thuggish, ruggish bone at least. This isn't Crossroads. It's the thaggish raggish bow. Listen here, if it wasn't Ash Wednesday, I might go outside and get myself some boneless buffalo wings just to support everybody involved in this important case.
Get you some cauliflower wings, Layla. Come on.
Cauliflower wings are excellent, and I love Frank's Red Hot. You know that. Could just make them myself while I'm at it. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody. I'm 104.3 The Score. And... We spent the entire 11 o'clock hour talking about court stuff. Mike Florio was on. We're all very curious to see what happens with Brian Flores' suit against the NFL.
Then there's the matter of what's going on with the MLB Players Association. And then, yes, there was a landmark boneless Buffalo Wings case. I said landmark.
As far as the Players Association, the message that we've heard, whether it's, I don't know how you want to absorb it, whether it's owners hinting at it, whether it's the discussions around it, whether it's even a story that came out today from Evan Dralek-Ray that you sent us in The Athletic talking about dissension among the players' ranks when it comes to the Boris interest in who becomes the Players Association executive director, or if it's a non-Boris interest.
And Then there's Ian Happ, who said this to the Marquee Sports Network about the whole thing when he was asked about Tony Clark.
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Chapter 2: What are the current issues with the MLB Players Association?
Yeah, that's a fair way to put that. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Rays and some of these other teams are operating... because they're small market teams on a very different level than a Dodgers team that's got so much money coming in before things even get started from their local television contract, which half the league doesn't have television distribution on their own right now.
And that's something that we discussed a little bit yesterday, Marshall, but you and I having worked together at Comcast Sportsnet Philly, me going there because of the demise of Comcast Sportsnet Houston, that is in the reality a big part of this.
And when we say the millionaires versus the billionaires, I don't think we're talking about the individuals you picture when you talk about owning the actual team. We're talking about the operating costs and the budgets that the respective teams have. The haves are the teams like the Dodgers, the Mets, and the Phillies do have a very robust contract.
They don't often get mentioned in this, but they do have a very nice deal. Marquee with the Cubs, Nesson with the Red Sox, and the have-nots are the teams that are unfortunately seeing their regional sports networks cease to exist. Now, Pittsburgh is in an interesting spot because they got owned and operated by Nesson, but if you're one of the FanDuel sports networks, St.
Louis, for example, you're in much more dire straits.
When you talk about what we thought were the richest owners in the sport, you know what team falls under the bottom 10 owners as far as wealth? You know the Yankees are in the bottom 10? Did you know that?
I did not.
And so that puts it in perspective, though.
Right. It's not the Steinbrenner family. It's the Yes Network and the cost that the Yankees operate with from their budget.
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