005 - Potential work stoppage in baseball's future 052926
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
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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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