This is why Major League Baseball is going to have a lockout.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and complain that the Dodgers are spending money because I wanted my owner to spend money.

Exactly.

So I'm not going to complain about that.

But what I'm trying to get to is I'm trying to get to this is the huge problem in Major League Baseball.

There are literally about seven or eight teams that are the

halves and the rest are the have-nots. And the players are happy and giddy. They love this.

They're in a good situation. They make a lot of money. The Dodgers are spending money like

crazy. They're deferring a ton of this money to stay away from some of those local income taxes. But what's happening here is that if you aren't the owner, and I know you

don't like the guy, but I'm just, I always use it as an example because it's a small market

team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, you're sitting there going, we have no shot. Well, hold on, though.

Guys like that.

So I heard Al and Jerry talking about this, like how do the Minnesota twin survive?

How do the Pirates survive?

Because the L.A. Dodgers spent last year, CBT tax, competitive balance tax, $169 million.

And it's going to be more next year. And it goes to all the other teams. So these owners, they don't have a shot, but they don't care because they're taking that money, putting it in their pocket and not reinvesting it because there's no salary for. But the problem is that Kyle Tucker's not going to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's not going to play for the Kansas City Royals. He's not going to play for the Cincinnati Reds. He's going to one of the big three, if you will. And the same thing with Cody Bellinger. He's not going to the Reds. He's not going to Tampa Bay. He's just not. And they're not going to make offers because they know that that's not where they want to go. They want to go where they believe they have a chance to win a championship. And that right now, number one, that is the Dodgers. That's obvious to all of us. And this is why there's going to be a lockout. And again, remember, the lockout has nothing to do with the players. It has nothing to do with the players. It has everything to do with the split in ownership in Major League Baseball, in my eyes.

Yeah, well, the players that are going to say, you do not cap the salaries that we get,

because salary cap are the two words that they don't want to hear.

So they'll be fighting back on that,

but the competitive balance tax has served as somewhat of a salary cap to other teams.

Like the New York Yankees, that's a salary cap for them. They've done nothing. They continue to

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