16. 16 is the nothing personal word of the day. Friday, July 24th, whenever you're listening

to this, it may be today. If you're watching on YouTube on the nothing personal YouTube

channel, you're going to see clean faces everywhere. Yes, indeed. Yesterday was quite the

day. Majorly baseball actually started. The season actually started. It was July 23rd.

It should be like almost the trade deadline, which is normally July 31st, but no. COVID happened.

Then the beards happened. Then the shaving happened. And then all of a sudden, first pitch

is going to happen. And there's an announcement made that the playoffs are all of a sudden

going to be expanded. And everyone is scurrying around trying to figure out what does it

mean? Is there going to how many teams? What are the seedings? What are the rankings? Rumors

everywhere. Is there going to be a selection show? This was my favorite rumor of the entire

day. Let me rewind. Majorly baseball announced several weeks ago that they were imposing a

60 game schedule on the players. There was no agreement between Majorly baseball and the

Majorly baseball players association. Although they had both agreed to the universal DH and

to expanded playoffs that would have taken 10 teams and made it 16. However, when they

couldn't come to an economic agreement, the expanded playoffs were off the table. So

when Majorly baseball imposed the 60 game schedule upon the Majorly baseball players'

association, expanded playoffs were not part of the equation. However, what you heard

here on Nothing Personal is negotiations continued under the dark of night. Hello, is this

the union? Hi, it's Dan. I was just saying that we'd like some more revenue, please. Any

chance of expanded playoffs? Well, Dan, this is Bruce. And the answer is yeah, but show

me the money. So baseball said, all right, we'll give you 50 large, 50 mil. And let's expand

to 16. They go back and forth, back and forth. No agreement. They're not done. What is the

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