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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Chris Bassett is a Baltimore Orioles pitcher. He has pitched

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with Toronto in the past.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's best.

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Speaker 3: In Oakland's feels like he would sometimes he would either

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go six innings of shutout ball against the Astros or

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then get crushed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one or the other.

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Speaker 2: He is on the subcommittee for the Players Association, and

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apparently if you're on the subcommittee, one of the things

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you are a sub of is you are in the

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labor negotiations. When asked yesterday about the salary camp in

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baseball or a potential salary cap, here's the quote.

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Speaker 1: The salary cap doesn't fix anything.

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Speaker 2: If you look at every major sport that has a

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salary cap, we have the best parody. The salary cap

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is not the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league

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so owners can make more money is not the answer.

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Now stay with me now on this quoting Bassett life.

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If I tell you in twenty five years the Dodgers

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will be playing and going to the ten World Series

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and winning seven of them, is that an issue? Because

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that's the Patriots. Then Chiefs have been to six or seven.

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The Philadelphia Eagles have been to four or five. The

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parody in our sport is better than any other sport,

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so we will make changes to try to help the

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so called bottom teams out. But a salary cap and

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suppressing salaries and taking from players to try to help

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the so called bottom feeders spend more that is not

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the answer, because again, if you're trying to make a

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competitive league across the board, we have proof that every

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single league has less parody than ours. So how can

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you sit there and say a salary cap is going

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to fix this when every single salary cap sport has

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less parity than ours.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense. Whant to chew on that for

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a minute.

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Speaker 3: I will say now, when he says there's the better

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parody than any other, he's talking about teams that have

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appeared in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about leagues.

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Speaker 3: When he says games hartly, Yeah, I know, But what

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is the definition of we have better parody? How is

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he defining parody?

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Speaker 2: Is the champions or that there have been numerous different

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World Series champions in the last ten years. We have

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seen the Astros win, we have seen the Braves, when

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we've seen the Nationals win, we have seen the Rangers,

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when we have seen the Dodgers win. He's saying, if

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you go look at the NFL, who's typically there. It's

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been New England, it's been Kansas City. If you look

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at the NBA, you think of what largely what the

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NBA well, And there's been parody there. Denver's won a championship,

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Golden States won a bunch.

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Speaker 3: It seems like there's been a fair amount of parody

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in everyone. So I'm wondering what the measure is and

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what exact numbers he's using. And I will also say

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baseball is susceptible more to randomness then the other two sports,

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if you do us, especially certainly in NBA. NBA is

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the least random in a seven game basketball series, which

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each game is like two hundred possessions, generally the better

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team is gonna win in a seven game series, generally speaking.

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Speaker 1: Barring injury. Baseball, I mean you get, like.

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Speaker 3: You get Joe West calling a home run that wasn't

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you get I don't know, a ball rolling off of

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at the top of the wall it at Fenway like

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stuff can bloops and weird stuff. I feel like baseball

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is more of that than any other to what we

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talk about, like the worst, the worst of the absolute

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worst teams can still win like they win generally sixty

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plus games.

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Speaker 1: Let me put it this way. And I don't know

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if this is a comp or not.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you that a small, a small market

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team may win a bunch of NFL games next year.

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There might be a chance that what was the small

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rest of the market teams would be your Jacksonville Jacksonville's,

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it could be your Carolina's. It could be to a

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lesser extent than the Packers up in Green Bay with Milwaukee.

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I have a pretty good feeling, not guaranteed feeling, but

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a pretty good feeling Rossy that we're never going to

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see a Marlins versus Guardians World Series.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Diamondbacks caught lightning in a bottle and made

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a World Series. Like, oh, it's great parody the Diamondbacks were.

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The Diamondbacks made a World Series. Ye, But the Diambacks

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weren't even good that year. I mean, they won what

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like eighty four eighty five games, and they got hot

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in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I guess we can.

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Speaker 3: There's a number of examples we can think of, Like

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the Patriots, for example, you could argue didn't deserve to

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be in the super Bowl. So maybe we can do

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this to every league.

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Speaker 2: Can you have a league that has a floor without

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a ceiling, without a cap? I mean theory.

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Speaker 3: I guess you could only a salary floor and no

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salary cap, correct, right, I guess is there is there

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a way you can do that. You could do it,

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but I don't think you can get the owners to

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agree to that.

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Speaker 2: That's what I think Chris Bassett wants. He even said

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as much in his quote. He's like, we want to

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helpbout the bottom feeders. We want to make sure they're

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more competitive.

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Speaker 3: Because generally it's what is Let me look it up.

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What is the floor in the cap in the NBA? Yeah,

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salary four is one hundred and forty million, which is

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so yeah, there, their floor is ninety percent of the

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salary cap. That's not going to happen. In baseball, cap

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is one hundred and fifty four million. Floor is one

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hundred and thirty nine. So baby, let's just call it

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one fifty five. Yeah, that's only fifteen million a wig room.

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There's no way baseball orders agree to it.

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Speaker 1: That no way.

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Speaker 2: So the owners are gonna say, all right, you want

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a floor. We get that, but we want to camp too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm generally in these types of situations, generally on the

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player's side, but I can't buy the oh, we have

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more parody than anybody else.

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Speaker 1: You can't use parody.

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Speaker 2: As an explanation, as a as a logical reasoning for

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no need for a cap. The Havelves have a much

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greater long term advantage in baseball than any other of

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the major sports, and it is because of the lack

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of a salary cap, and the Dodgers, while enjoying it now,

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have basically said, hey, we want the Our contracts are

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already crazy right now, part because of us, are large

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part because of us. You're we need a governor and

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the playersball player is like, well, that's your fault. You

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can't control your spending and that's on you. You're the

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ones that want all these players. So look, you can

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see if I'm both sides of this, for sure, you

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absolutely can. There when when when you go to a

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player and you say we're putting a cap on something,

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that means they're going to cap the amount of money

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the players are going to get, there will not be

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a Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: There will not be in New York.

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Speaker 2: There will not be a Chicago that will say budget

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be damned, because you if you have a cap, you

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have a budget.

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Speaker 1: And that's what the players do not want. Let's talk

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to our buddy Aggie doug here.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's an economist here on the Matt Thomas wild

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Ross eighty what do you got today?

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Speaker 4: I am definitely not an economist, but I do know

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that this is basically planning from a different rule book.

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I mean that's all it is. I mean you basically say, okay,

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well our field is you know, one hundred by you know,

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seventy five, but the Dodgers field is only eighty by sixty.

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It makes absolutely no sense. You can't play with a

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different set of rules just.

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Speaker 1: Because the Dodgers have more money.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't make them basically they can go out and

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money with it. I mean the Yankees used to do

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it in the eighties and the nineties. So yes, absolutely,

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I agree with Back that that's not a recipe for success.

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It's not a guaranteed recipe for success because obviously we

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know the Yankees they sucked even when they had, you know,

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paid all those players. You got to pay the right players.

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The point of having this whole parody conversation. It's a

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different sport. In the NFL, if you have a franchise quarterback,

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you're probably gonna make the playoffs. In the NBA, if

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you have one or two superstars, you're probably gonna make

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the playoffs. So for them to sit there and say, oh, well,

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you know, if we pay you know, our top fifteen guys,

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let's just say top fifteen out of twenty six significantly more,

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let's even say twenty five to thirty percent more than

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any other team can even afford, not even like they can,

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but they can afford. So that's a completely different set

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of rules.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I I'm not smart enough to do this adly

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any of us are. It's hard for me to cross

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over sports and say, well, if one sport does it

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one way, we should do it another way.

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Speaker 1: I I can't. I can't figure that out. And I'm

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more going to.

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Speaker 4: Think about it like if you have a stud pitcher, right,

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we had your done and we had you know, uh,

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you know, our two or three pictures that were great

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with Framburg and dressin Verlander. I mean, but we had

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to have a lot of other guys do a lot

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of things, and we paid them a lot less money

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than the Dodgers would ever even think about paying. So

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I guess that's just my point is that when you

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have the ability to pay thirty percent more for even

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a guy that's just a guy on some other teams

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and that's just your plugin guy or your bench guy,

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that makes absolutely no sense.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Zachie Doug for the phone call. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 1: The players are definitely afraid ross if there's a cap,

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there's not enough money to go around. Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 3: If there's a cap, then the Dodger just bank all

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these profit if it's that the players have no access to.

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Speaker 2: That is correct, because the television deal for the Dodgers

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doesn't change unless the Major League Baseball owners collecqively say

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we'll take all of our TV money and put it together,

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and the.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers have no interest in doing that.

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Speaker 3: Okah, We're going to take this straight to the bank.

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And then if you make a cap for you know,

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the same cap for the Rays is the same cap

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for the Dodgers. That's that's just letting the Dodgers keep

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all their cash and the players. You're not allowing the

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players to get into that Yeah, I don't know, this

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is interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah again, we.

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Speaker 2: Got a lot more minutia to go to over the

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next calendar year. I would just say the overriding sentiment

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was I wouldn't be booking West Palm Beach for twenty

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Speaker 1: Put it that way.