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00:00I'm just going to say this one thing on Juan Soto.
00:06We are at the precipice of a Major League Baseball Armageddon.
00:10And again, from the ownership groups, they don't care.
00:13The Pittsburgh Pirates today, they don't care about winning anything.
00:16They just care about the bottom line, but Major League Baseball and the Players Union
00:20lets them skate by with no bottom on what the floor can be for a salary cap.
00:25The reason I say that is some of those profitable teams in baseball are not the Yankees or the
00:30Los Angeles Dodgers.
00:31It seems like the Miami Marlins and the Oakland Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds and the
00:36Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:37As we talked about teams that won't spend any money, but due to the revenue sharing
00:41of the, you know, payroll taxes that you have to pay by going over a certain threshold,
00:47they're profitable.
00:48It never should be that case.
00:50There should be no like if Major League Baseball wanted to write the ship, there'd be no revenue
00:54sharing in Major League Baseball.
00:55The top teams would make their money, the low teams would not.
00:58And if they can hang on, hang on, if they can't, no big deal.
01:02But also understand this, there are people out there with billions and billions and billions
01:06of dollars that would love to own a Major League Baseball team by that team, such as
01:10the Pittsburgh Pirates, and turn them into a powerhouse.
01:14But Bob Nutting's never going to sell that team because there's too much money in profitability
01:17at being terrible year after year and selling your best players.
01:22That's horrendous.
01:23But as I look at Juan Soto making his decision, can you imagine if it is the Los Angeles Dodgers
01:28and they get him?
01:29And I'm not even saying like we don't like the super team that you can root against.
01:32Not the case.
01:33It's proved in the ratings.
01:34We have a super team.
01:35They're going to get the lightning rod from the teams, excuse me, the fans that love that
01:39team and even more so the teams that hate that team and root for the downfall.
01:43It happens a lot.
01:45But if you are one of those teams, which I completely disagree with their thoughts and
01:49analysis on the Tampa Bay, I already named them, Tampa Bay, Miami, Oakland, the small
01:55market teams, they make their money on the luxury tax money that comes through.
02:00When you hit that payroll tax in Major League Baseball, it gets distributed amongst the
02:05teams that aren't having the high payroll, which is a crazy scenario.
02:09It never should happen.
02:10But the players union is never going to accept a pay, let's just say, I don't want to even
02:15say a deficit.
02:16It's not the right word.
02:17Like a lid on that salary cap.
02:18Like you can't go over this amount.
02:20They like the teams like the Dodgers paying that money.
02:22And yes, they still hate the teams like the Miami Marlins that won't pay it.
02:25But case in point, do you not have like four or five, six, seven, eight teams that say
02:30themselves we are not going to put up with this anymore.
02:35And it's not again that like if the Dodgers signed Juan Soto to a 10 year, $600 million
02:39contract, $60 million a year, that luxury tax is really going to kick in for the Dodgers,
02:45which is more money for the teams that don't want to spend money.
02:47I understand it's hard for people to just wrap their head around of how Major League
02:51Baseball works, but that's why it does.
02:53The Marlins getting three people in their stadium.
02:55They don't care.
02:56They're so profitable every year.
02:58It doesn't matter.
02:59Keep that payroll as bare bones as possible.
03:01Who cares who's watching on TV or who's actually in the ballpark?
03:05We're still going to be profitable.
03:06It's madness.
03:07It doesn't make sense.
03:08But if you are going to get Juan Soto and avoid the luxury tax once again on that cap
03:14by paying him $2 million a year for the next five years and backload it, that's where those
03:18teams are going to start to have an issue.
03:20And I have an issue with that as well.
03:21It'd be like in the NFL, where if let's just say we didn't, as long as it was guaranteed
03:25money, there was no salary cap ramifications where guys like Deshaun Watson would make
03:28$60 million a year.
03:30And if he stunk or got kicked out of the league in year number two, there'd be no more obligations
03:34on the salary cap for the Cleveland Browns.
03:36That's not the case.
03:37You sign the guaranteed money, that's going to be all on the salary cap each and every
03:40year.
03:41And if you cut them, it's still going to be there.
03:42It sort of keeps things in tow where you can't just go nuts otherwise, if there was no salary
03:46cap, like when Jerry Jones and the Cowboys were really good, they just bought every single
03:51good player in the NFL and won Super Bowl.
03:53The minute they put a salary cap in, Dallas hasn't sniffed the NFC championship game because
03:57they don't know how to understand what a roster takes and pick winning football players, case
04:01in point.
04:03But Major League Baseball and Juan Soto, that is a massive issue.
04:06If he goes to the Dodgers based on deferred money, it's not really in the spirit of the
04:10game.
04:11But on one hand, I hate it.
04:12On the other hand, I love it because it shoves those teams like the Rays and the Marlins
04:17and the Pirates who don't want to spend money.
04:19They don't get as much money, which is wild the way it plays out.
04:22Now, let's keep it in baseball.
04:23Juan Soto, we'll see where he signs, maybe by the end of the week.
04:27Stupid free agency period every year in Major League Baseball completely kills the momentum.
04:31The best player should go on the first or second day.
04:33End of story.
04:34Let's get ready for the baseball season.
04:40Let's get ready for the baseball season.