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Evan & Tiki

Hour 1: Tony Clark “Family Affair” Fallout, MLBPA Chaos, Salary Cap War Brewing?

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tony Clark’s resignation went from “boring labor story” to absolute baseball soap opera when an internal MLBPA investigation revealed an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law. That sparks a hilarious, surprisingly intense debate over which version is worse, then the conversation flips fast to the real baseball fear: did this just put a work stoppage on the fast track? Hour 1 breaks down why owners may smell leverage, why the interim MLBPA decision (including the Bruce Meyer factor) matters, and how a salary cap fight could turn into a long, ugly standoff. Plus calls on floors vs harsher luxury tax penalties, keeping homegrown stars, and the lingering paranoia from 1994: miss games… and still change nothing.

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0:00.0

The Jets quarterback Big Board will be revealed at 12 noon. You're procrastinating. It's not even procrastinating. It's tough. It is. You're procrastinating. You don't want to come to the realization that you're screwed. The Jets are a sewer. Good point. Carlos Mendoza had a fun conversation with Big Mac and Craig.

0:21.0

We'll analyze that a little bit later on, so we have a lot to do. And if you missed it, it's on the Rico. Yeah, for some reason, the Rico Broin your podcast feed posted that. I know. And I always get complaints about that, not that particular interview because it's a good one and it's met related. It was worth it. Definitely. but sometimes they put things on the rico pro in your podcast feed like they'll put one giant step

0:42.0

and it's like wait a second really i'm just kidding i don't know if they do that i do want to apologize

0:46.9

because i said something yesterday very early in the show that i turned out to be very wrong about

0:51.3

i said that tony clark resigning was the most uninteresting, interesting story because of its

0:58.6

impact on a potential work stoppage, but kind of boring that he's resigning about this lawsuit.

1:04.3

And after we signed off the air, he is still resigning about the lawsuit, I guess, technically.

1:09.6

But the Players Association did an internal investigation lawsuit, I guess, technically, but the Players Association did

1:11.9

an internal investigation and it revealed, quote, an inappropriate relationship with his

1:17.6

sister-in-law, which has created a debate that's been going on now for 18 hours.

1:22.1

We have not had a chance to chime in, which is what's worse if it was his wife's sister or if it was his brother's wife. Right. So let's just get that out of the way because I know that's the hot topic in America, which is worse, Tiki? It's got to be brother's wife. Completely agree with you. Got to be. Open and shut. Not even close. Because it's affecting your family too. Yes. Like if you're messing around with your wife's sister, that's a mess up in their family. So yes, you're going to have a divorce. It's going to be ugly and all that. But that's a family dynamic that's screwed up forever. Mm-hmm. But if it's your brother's wife, bro. Right. Yeah, that's just, I mean, now your brother wants to be too.

2:03.6

Yes.

2:04.6

And the thing that I found funny, and Sean and I have this in common, is that the only sister-in-law we have is neither of those scenarios.

2:11.6

Yes.

2:12.6

I don't have a brother, and my wife doesn't have a sister.

2:15.6

So my one sister-in-law is the innocuous, my wife's brother's wife.

2:20.9

And I think everyone agrees.

2:22.8

Yeah.

2:23.3

None of it's like removed.

2:24.8

It's removed.

2:25.7

No biggie.

2:26.2

No biggie.

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