The culture of Major League Baseball, and that includes people who cover it, people who follow it, people who participate in it, has spent such a long collective time in a non-salary cap existence that it can't even fathom,

let alone understand some of the stuff that's happening right in front of their faces.

Good morning to you. Good. Tuesday morning, I'm Day on Kovach of each of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday.

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The New York Times reported yesterday as if this was news that there might be some special reason

that the pirates and the Marlins, among others, are making noise about spending

when they have never, in fact, spent, or seldom, I should say, in fact, spent in the recent past. And they reached the

startling conclusion that this might have to do with the work stoppage that's coming up.

Listen, I'm not going to keep repeating the same stuff I've shared with you. Wow, it's been for years now, if you've

been with me that long, about how the salary cap system works in, you know, all the other sports

anywhere. But in this specific environment where the owners want to take the sport into that system, they're going to have to do a number of things to curry some public favor because they're going to get lamb-based. Let's be real here. It's not even just that everybody loves the players and everybody hates the owners.

Players are the ones you cheer for.

The owners are the big bad rich guys.

I got to be honest with you at that level.

I'm kind of with them on this.

I mean, who the heck would take the other?

But they're also going to have to deal with, I think, first and foremost, everybody's counter who's in defense of the current system,

that the only thing that's really wrong with the way things are now is that Bob nutting is cheap,

and whoever owns the Marlins now is cheap, and listen, those are real things. Nutting is cheap and whoever owns the Marlins now is cheap and listen those are real things

nutting is cheap the pirates don't spend enough on payroll these are true things but I'd

like to think that if you asked anybody in this city who's informed on this subject

that's actually why we need this system. That's why the cap system is a must.

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