Is there any way to avoid an MLB work stoppage?
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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.
I think the game's in a great place. The rules changes have worked. The pace is fantastic. Viewership, attendance, all of those things are in a great place. It's a beautiful game, and you can see that the reception has been really strong from fans in the last few years. And so I really hope that we can continue playing baseball and avoid anything that would take the game away from the fans.
He's the first person I've heard say something like that. Which part? Like the part that, oh, this doesn't have to happen.
He can believe that. He can hope for that. The reality is there's going to be a work stoppage next year. And how long that lasts depends on how dug in the owners are in their intent to leverage a salary cap on baseball, which does not exist, has never existed, and if the players get their way, will never exist again. That's the problem here is that the owners, we heard about how they have their little war chest. What is it, 45 million per team?
75, I believe.
Oh, I'm sorry, yes.
Millions.
Millions to just kind of weather that storm. And are the players willing to give up a season of baseball to not see a salary cap enforced? That's the question.
Yeah.
He's right, though. It doesn't have to happen. But that would mean that people have to agree to a lot of stuff quickly.
And it doesn't sound like people are going to agree. And before we even get to what I just described, don't forget... Before it's the billionaires versus the millionaires, it's the billionaires versus the billionaires. Fellow team owners have to decide what they want to do. The Dodgers are certainly not going to agree with what the Pittsburgh Pirates or the Tampa Bay Rays want to do.
Or that's the billionaires versus the millionaires. Let's be honest.
Okay.
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.
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