I've heard from a couple people that, you know, a lot of people are welcoming subpoenas at this point.

A lot of people who work for the team are welcoming subpoenas because they want to tell their story and they're, and they're very afraid of coming forward.

Hey there, boys and girls.

Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

As always, we're presented by Draft Kings.

We're produced by Brian Neal. My music producer of the music you hear under there, Sam Brent, just spent the

weekend with my son, Sam, in L.A. We're going to talk to A.J. Perez today. He has broken a story

about the Washington Commanders, the team that seems to put the fun and dysfunction more troubles for them these

may be fatal troubles to owner daniel schneider with a lack of reporting or lack of funding uh these

visiting team guarantees with ticket revenue i'll explain it all and we'll talk to a j who broke

the story for front office sports he He will join us in a minute.

First, a couple rants. The first one, as we start baseball season this week, I wanted to do a quick

rant on baseball. There's a note I saw from John Heyman on Twitter last weekend that just continues

to ring in my brain. The Oakland A's are going to start the

2022 season with a payroll of drum roll, $33 million. To me, that is just shocking.

$33 million payroll for a major league baseball team where there are teams paying upwards of

$200 million, maybe 300

million in payroll in the same league competing against the same team.

My point I want to make on this is salary cap gets a bad rap from players, especially

major league baseball players who have fight it forever to tooth and nail they will never allow

the owners to implement a cap and the owners know hey we're not even going to try and collect a

bargaining that was not even a topic as we know in their just completed collective bargaining negotiations

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