 Baseball has changed and I think and this is going to sound really really aggressive, but I really truly believe it If 226 year olds exemplary talents cannot get the long-term deal There's gonna be a there's gonna be a strike when this collective bargaining agreement over and I'm not saying that the owners You're doing anything wrong. They're not the players signed a terrible CBA and as long as you have a threshold You essentially have given the owners a reason to say no to cap things and the and the GM's have gotten smarter So unless this loosens up That's it. There's gonna be a work stoppage. Well, what what legs do the players have to stand and they don't have anything to stand on But the next time there's a CBA they they're gonna want changes where players will get paid early in their career Like not have arbitration years and get paid when they're 24 or 23 But if if Harper and Machado, who's the $40 million player people say well, Mookie bachelor Mike trout I don't buy it. They'll find something wrong with those guys. Well, it's not something wrong with them It's just it's a lot of money to invest. What does it guarantee you? See in basketball, I can give Kevin Durant the money It's gonna pay dividends for me because I know that I'm gonna compete for a championship every year that he's under contract Right, what is getting Bryce Harper and Manny Machado guarantee any team to guarantee them a championship? Does it no, I mean on the white socks. I've been lousy forever. All right. I've got the money First of all, he wouldn't take it most likely because they don't want to play for the white socks But even if they did if I had Harper the white socks guarantee the win what maybe maybe a half a dozen more games than they did last year It's not winning me a championship. How many more fans are gonna watch the games Is it gonna make the white socks bigger than the cubs? So how am I getting my money back? How am I getting a return on my investment? You're not you you you're probably not I think the Yankees would get a return on the investment I think they're still in and maybe there has to be a change of heart. We're a very creative contract Where the higher average annual value maybe it's 34 million a year for three or four years something like that And he goes into free agency again at 30. There aren't that many teams We always just agents just always depend on the one dumb owner It doesn't exist anymore the GMs are too smart now the players are gonna want to get paid I get it, but is it good for the game? I mean revenue sharing at least allows some of these smaller market teams to be able to compete If you're gonna have to for you're gonna be forced to pay You know getting these guys contracts earlier that how are these small market teams who draft well gonna be able to Hold on to some of these players good point the whole idea is that if I draft a mic trout That's why I think I stop it for a while, but if the players end up winning this work stop But you're gonna go back to where we were 20 years ago It's great for the Yankees and the Mets the Phillies and the Red Sox and the Dodgers and the Giants But what about all these small market teams? How are they supposed to compete and another offshoot of all of this? Think about it look at all the free agents that are still available with five weeks from spring training The agents and the players haven't caught on that's why what? Donaldson did brilliant take the 24 million for one year from the Braves the guys that signed early those were the smart guys I mean the the contract that Andrew McCutcheon got brilliant Brilliant so now we're gonna see how much manning Machado wants to play for the Yankees because I don't think that any really good team is out There that's gonna offer him the 10-year deal that he's dreaming about with Harper He's either gonna go back to the Nationals or take something that he has a want and in terms of the threshold being a cap The the Chicago Cubs desperately want Bryce Harper They can't do it. It doesn't fit under their their their payroll, especially because of the dumb contracts They gave out in the past. I mean the money that they gave out to you Darvish The outfielder that just never panned out. What was his name? failing me The kid that used to be with the Cardinals Oh, you are They want to change Brian Hayward Brian Hayward Jason Jason Hayward Jason Hayward I mean these contracts now stick with you if you want to stay under a threshold now the Like that, but it's it's not a salary cap, but it doesn't it does keep you somewhat fiscally responsible And another thing is that these players or these GM's are smarter. They're not given 10-year deals It's not it's look at the 10-year deals in history baseball Most of them don't work but Harper Machado. We're supposed to be different. Yeah, they're so young. Yeah Like if I really wanted Machado and I thought that Machado was a difference And I could get him with a 10-year deal like 30 minute I would do it because he could be a good player at 36 That's why I thought that these two would be exceptions But if they can't get the big contract well the last big contract that's gonna be handed out then is Probably stands and that was a 13-year deal And and if you think about it the Yankees were smart because with the money that the Marlin sent them and the money that they gave back In the stolen Castro contract, they're getting him essentially for 24 million a year You can't get a player like John Carlos stand for that Now they probably wish they didn't have them for nine more years. That's the problem. That's the issue