Jeff Passan on MLB’s Massive Deals, Looming Lockout, and Offseason Chaos

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It’s been a wild few days across Major League Baseball, with a flurry of free agents signing massive deals with new teams. Max Scherzer to the Mets. Javy Baez to the Tigers. Corey Seager to the Rangers. But the reason for this flurry of spending is maybe the last thing you’d suspect: a looming labor stoppage. Tonight, at midnight, MLB’s collective bargaining agreement expires, meaning owners could begin a lockout that would effectively put a halt on the entire baseball industry until a new deal is struck. Jeff Passan takes us inside the high stakes negotiations between the owners and players, shares what’s at stake for both sides, and brings plenty of Diet Mountain Dew along for the ride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeff Passen, it has been an insane 48 hours of baseball news, and so I just have one question here for you at the top.
0:11.5	How much, man?
0:12.9	How much have you had to drink?
0:15.5	Um, bourbon?
0:19.3	Or the nectar of the gods?
0:24.0	You know what I'm asking about.
0:26.3	Yeah, I've had quite a bit of diabethton dew.
0:31.5	I did three 20-ounce bottles of dew yesterday, which honestly, I feel pretty good about. Like yesterday was,
0:41.3	yesterday was a six-do day and I ended up doing just three dues. I like how for you and for real
0:50.6	baseball insiders, the terror alert scale of baseball news is how many bottles of dew is currently ravaging your intestines.
1:05.1	Did you just...
1:21.9	Just for the listener, that sound you just heard was Jeff Passing getting up from his chair, opening his cabinet, and just a bunch of Mountain Dew tumbling out.
1:24.8	No, no, and now you're just guzzling it. Can we go full disclosure here?
1:27.2	It's before 9 a.m. local right now.
1:32.7	If Mountain Dew does not sponsor you by the end of this podcast, Jeff, I don't know what they're doing anymore.
1:39.6	Yeah, here's the thing.
1:42.1	I am really, really testing my body to see if it wants to produce another kidney stone.
1:48.4	The kidneys, the kidneys, they're feeling everything that's happening in Major League Baseball,
1:53.1	probably more than anything else on this planet right now.
1:56.7	They say to me, you know what, Jeff?
1:59.6	We will bear the brunt of this weekend baseball for you.
2:05.0	We will get you through this because, damn it, it's been a pretty great week.
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