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You Better You Bet

Bob Nightengale Talks MLB Lockout & Salary Cap

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Audacy MLB Insider Bob Nightengale shares his thoughts on the latest surrounding a potential MLB salary cap and lockout next season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Bet 1520 WWKB Buffalo.

0:05.0

Always live on the free Odyssey app, an Odyssey Sports Station.

0:14.6

Welcome back to You Better You Bet on Westwood One Sports.

0:24.0

And here we go, the final hour of the show on a fabulous Friday.

0:29.7

It is the power hour on You Better You Bet.

0:32.1

Chris Mack in for Nick Costos today here on Westwood One Sports.

0:36.3

With you every single day, wherever you may be, whatever you're up to, always, inside the Westwood One Sports with you every single day, wherever you may be, whatever you're up to,

0:40.1

always inside the Westwood One Sports app, and also the Odyssey app, A-U-D-A-C-Y, and always live across North America on Sirius XM Channel 375.

0:49.9

Back into the discussion about Spurs, Thunder, Game 7, tomorrow night in Oklahoma City.

0:56.8

These two teams going back and forth, has it really been a good series, a great series,

1:01.6

or has it just been me?

1:04.7

I know we're getting to Game 7, which is great, but have these games really lived up to what

1:09.2

we thought they would be following the game one thriller we got?

1:13.4

We'll talk to Nick Friedel, Odyssey NBA Insider, about that in about 20 minutes here on Westwood One Sports.

1:19.4

Plus, the changes to the draft lottery as well, which I think I was pretty clear on earlier.

1:24.5

I hate them. They're stupid. I think they're terrible. I think they reward mediocrity. Now, Major League Baseball is trying to find maybe a little bit more

1:34.9

mediocrity. That's probably not the right word. Parity, right? We've talked about competitive

1:39.4

imbalance. It should probably be more about financial imbalance because you've got teams that are spending a ton of money.

1:47.4

You've got teams that don't spend nearly enough.

1:50.4

And Major League Baseball came to the players yesterday with a proposal that included both a salary cap and a pretty hefty salary floor.

2:00.3

Here to talk to us about all of it and just how messy

2:02.7

this could get and whether it will include missing games next spring and summer.

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