Lockout

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Passan joins Buster to discuss the official start of the lockout, the forever fight over money, the poor working relationship between the players and owners, the importance of message discipline, each side's soft underbelly and how much spending will occur when the labor situation is resolved. Then, Hembo stops by to discuss his research on the middle class dilemma, his favorite free agent signing and his least favorite signing. Later, Buster and Tim Kurkjian suspend reality and hit on all the major signings from the last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, December 2, 2021.
0:17.0	Today will be better than yesterday.
0:20.0	That's the principal anyway.
0:21.0	That's the challenge by Major League Baseball and the players association and we'll explain
0:26.0	why in a moment.
0:27.0	Producing from his home studio Connecticut, Stella Schwink, I'm Buster only working from
0:31.0	my home in New York.
0:32.0	Taylor, how you doing?
0:33.0	Excellent Buster coming off a little time in Maryland and got some college football cooking
0:39.0	up in the other half of my life, but over here a little bit of doom and gloom.
0:42.5	We can talk about all the signings and everything.
0:45.0	That'll be exciting, but man, this labor stuff is such a bummer.
0:48.0	Yeah, I must say now I'm like, what am I going to be doing?
0:52.0	I'm going to make sure that I get out for a run every day over the next weeks to come.
0:57.0	I'm going to have time to work on some other projects because last night Major League Baseball
1:03.0	owners voted unanimously to lock out the players.
1:07.0	Taylor, you and I talked about, should we run sound from Rob Manfred today?
1:11.0	Should we read the statements from the players association?
1:14.0	I'm kind of at the point.
1:15.0	I don't think anybody necessarily wants to hear that.
1:18.0	No, I don't care. It's all political mush mouth blaming the other side.
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