Impending MLB Lockout: Key Issues in Collective Bargaining

So can you talk to us a little bit? Put that in context. The last time that there was an issue with a strike and the World Series wasn't played was, I believe, 1994. Okay, so what's going to happen this summer? Yeah, 1994, there was a strike. The players went on strike because they wanted more money. Now, the agreement ends on December 1st. Okay. That's when they are talking. They've been talking about it. The last agreement three years ago, at the last minute, they came together. They came to an agreement, so we had baseball. There's a lot of little things, but it goes because baseball is complex the business of baseball especially now with with betting houses and with people being allowed to bet on baseball and the sponsorships there's a lot of not millions but billions of dollars franchises being sold for three four billions the angels just recently over three billion dollars the yankees are close to 10 billion no the yankees i mean they're they're crazy the dodgers are crazy good because they have their own tv broadcast system right so that is part of the team but when it comes so they don't split revenue among the teams in the mlb with the tv contracts the way they do in the nfl they they split some but not everything it's not equal yeah it's a percentage and that's what the players want the players want to and i'm not going to mention any teams but the teams that don't spend any money the players want those teams to spend the money they're getting from their revenue share from the other other other owners so the owners with the the big teams like again new york la chicago they spend and spend with no issues but the teams with small markets as they call them like Pittsburgh like Kansas City like Milwaukee like Tampa Bay they don't spend a lot of money so the owners that the biggest issue here the owners want a ceiling they want a salary cap the players don't want that the players are saying okay you want your salary cap we will think about it but then you need to have a floor meaning you need to spend at least this amount of money and i believe right now the figure is about 150 million don't quote me on that but there's a lot of teams right now that do not spend 150 million dollars throughout the season so it's going to be interesting i am not worried yet but december 1st that's when the agreement ends but they are negotiating they're talking about you know what they're saying and bringing back to the Dodgers that if there is a cut in the season for there's A delay in the season, when we have a shortened season, it's going to benefit some of the older veteran teams to play 80, 90 games instead of, what is it, 160 games? 162. That's a lot of games. Yeah, that's a lot of games. And like you said, the Dodgers, yes, they got there, they got close, but they're getting older. And the older you get, obviously the more tired you get, like me. I'm tired every morning now. We need some more recovery.