DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Imagine union opposing expanded playoffs

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Try to imagine why the players' union is opposing expanded playoffs. Doing so when expanded playoffs would incentivize competition throughout the league, or at least it should. 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	Fourteen teams could be part of the next Major League Baseball playoffs.
0:43.4	14, up from 10.
0:46.1	Imagine being opposed to that.
0:49.3	Good morning to you.
0:50.5	Good Tuesday morning.
0:52.2	I'm Dayon Kovych of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday if you're Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kowachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is daily
0:55.4	shot of pirates. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football
0:59.4	and or hockey, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins where you found this.
1:05.6	14 is the number that's been put forth by the owners in these ongoing labor discussions with the players union.
1:18.4	Not surprisingly, the players are opposed to this.
1:24.0	I'm not making that up.
1:26.0	If you ever wanted evidence that the players will just say no
1:31.1	to anything that gets put their way and that simultaneously, the owners will say no to anything that
1:40.3	gets put their way, here you have it. Imagine, imagine taking the stance
1:49.5	from the union perspective, the people representing the players, that you'd rather have fewer
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