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005 - Potential work stoppage in baseball's future 052926

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Potential work stoppage in baseball's future

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0:00.0

We are back folks here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the

0:04.0

big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. Ira Weindrave on the other side.

0:09.7

And Ira, you know, a lot has changed in 30 or so years.

0:15.6

I mean, we talk about it all the time.

0:17.7

The Big Ten has, and the SEC, the membership has ballooned.

0:24.6

College players get paid. I mean, it is so different, right? Major League Baseball, I think,

0:33.1

is very different. Now, too, now, the structure of Major League Baseball is not different at all.

0:38.2

There's no salary cap. Players have boundless incomes.

0:44.0

Now, the halves are killing it. The big market, big budget teams, are you realize they've won

0:51.0

the last 10 World Series? You realize that's the last 10 world series

0:55.0

have been dictated by basically how much you spent?

0:59.3

You know, the muddy ball, the strategy I can piece me on my way.

1:06.0

No, that's not a thing.

1:09.3

And so yesterday, the Major League Baseball owners, they proposed a salary cap.

1:19.7

This isn't a novel concept.

1:22.4

The other leagues have it.

1:24.9

Major League Baseball last proposed it, oh oh about 32 years ago in 1994 and there was a work

1:33.8

stoppage and it feels to me ire like at that time fans were on the side of the players.

1:44.2

You tell me what your recollection is, but I felt like fans widely sided with the players.

1:51.1

It was one of the reasons that whole thing ended without acquiescing to the needs, to the demands, to the request, demand requests, whatever you want to call it,

2:03.7

of ownership.

2:05.7

But has that changed?

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