Let's get educated on this whole thing, because I got a million questions. And joining us right now,

a guy does a great job for the athletic senior writer, a lot of information on all this. Evan Drellick joins us. Evan, thank you very much for coming on. How you doing? I'm doing okay, guys. It's been a long week, but I'm glad to be here. How are you feeling? You feeling all right? Because I know you're a little banged up. So, I'll tell you very quickly the story of how this unfolded.

They were supposed to the union was supposed to feeling. You feeling all right? Because I know you're a little banged up. So, I'll tell you very

quickly the story of how this unfolded. They were supposed to, the union was supposed to go

start at spring training tour on Tuesday with the Cleveland Guardians. And I was supposed to go there.

At 9 o'clock on Monday night, I get a text that that meeting was canceled. And that was strange

to me. And I texted Ken Rosenthal about this because I was texting,

trying to text with somebody at the union on Monday, and they were not responding at all, somebody

who would normally respond. I don't get any sleep that night. I end up going to the hospital

with a stomach problem. I never got in the hospital in my life, but something was clearly wrong.

I got an IV in my arm at 5.30 in the morning in a hospital in my life, but something was clearly wrong. I got an IV in my

arm at 5.30 in the morning in a hospital, and we're breaking that story that Tony has been, you know, he's

resigning, been let go amidst all this. And so it's been a very long week for me, but it's not

totally surprising. You know, the question of how was this guy going to continue to lead with the possibility

of a federal indictment coming down during collective bargaining?

What was a question that was looming for a long time?

No doubt. And obviously they do the internal investigation. We find out more information,

and he's gone. I think the first reaction a lot of fans have is, does this make the owners and this commissioner feel like, oh, there's blood now, that we will be even more aggressive in trying to get what we want?

Does this change the negotiations that will start a few months from now?

You know, look, I've talked to some ownership side sources through this.

The feeling that the union was in disarray existed previous to this is kind of what I'm talking

about with the federal investigation looming over it.

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