DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Cap charge led by ... Yankees, Red Sox?

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DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Like the sun rising and setting each day, salary cap discussions dominate Major League Baseball's offseason. It's not the Pittsburgh Pirates leading the charge for a salary cap rather, it's the Yankees and Red Sox out in front. 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	Remember what I've been saying as it relates to Major League Baseball coming up with a salary cap or a cap type system that it's always, always, always been about the owners being united.
0:54.5	It's got nothing to do with the union or the agents or anything else.
1:00.4	Well, well, well, good morning to you.
1:04.4	Good Friday morning.
1:06.3	I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is a semi-joyful edition of Daily Shot of Pirates,
1:15.3	which comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're in two football and or hockey,
1:21.5	I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins where you found this.
1:30.2	Yesterday, in Chicago,
1:34.8	Hal Steinbrenner, son of George, owner of the Yankees,
1:49.6	told reporters that he himself voted for Major League Baseball's recent proposal to lower the luxury tax threshold from 210 million to 180 million in addition to implementing an unprecedented
1:59.3	hundred million million payroll floor.
2:04.4	Now, if that sounds like a cap system, it also probably is one.
2:11.0	And it is.
2:12.3	It's as close as one could reasonably expect baseball to get.
2:21.0	You know, first step.
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