DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: A baseball writer mentions a salary cap!

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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For the longest time most baseball writers never uttered the phrase 'salary cap' especially those from the national media. That all has changed with ESPN's Jesse Rogers mentioning it Monday joining Dejan Kovacevic as two of the few for a salary cap system in baseball. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:22.3	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:28.0	It's on Prime.
0:33.4	I have a new hero. I'm a new hero in journalism, in baseball journalism, and I am so smitten with my new hero
0:49.5	that I'm going to dedicate the entirety of this podcast to this hero. Good morning to you. Good Tuesday morning.
0:56.7	I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is a joyful edition of daily shot of pirates.
1:03.7	It comes your way bright and early every weekday if you're into football and or hockey.
1:07.6	I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins where you found this.
1:13.1	All hail, Jesse Rogers, Chicago-based ESPN reporter.
1:22.1	It's done a terrific job for a lot of years covering both the Cubs and White Sox contributed to a major
1:30.4	breaking story earlier in the week regarding the continued malfeasance of the
1:35.8	NHL's Blackhawks. Don't worry about that. I am here to share and to celebrate with you a baseball writer somewhere other than me
1:49.9	mentioning the term salary cap.
1:55.6	How many times, for those of you who've been listening to this program for a while now,
2:00.5	have you heard me say, there's not another baseball writer out there anywhere, anywhere,
2:07.0	who even dares to speak the term?
2:14.1	That's the extreme to which the Major League Baseball Players Association led, in essence, by Scott Boris, has dictated how this thing gets covered.
2:31.5	They don't even speak it. Why? Well, it's not as conspiratorial as it sounds.
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