MLB CBA FIGHT: The back-and-forth will continue! Buckle up! Why anonymous execs are saying MLB expansion is NOT happening! (Episode 1465 Hour 1)

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David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Germany trip continued - thanks again for sticking with us throughout all the audio, video, lighting problems! Today’s word of the day is ‘tactics’ as in MLBPA as in MLB as in messaging as in proposals as in arguing as in yelling as in bashing. Bruce Meyer has come out swinging. Bruce Meyer had harsh responses to the proposal that MLB sent last week. Was there a new proposal? No! Same one, but this time he spoke with the media over it. And then MLB had to respond. (26:20) Could President Trump be the key to this negotiation? Maybe! (32:11) What is going on with expansion in baseball? Is it not happening? (38:40) Review: Half Man. (42:44) NPPOD. (45:00) The Royals have a stadium issue. It’s about financing. It’s always about financing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Tactics.
0:39.9	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:42.3	It is Tuesday, June 2nd, 2006.
0:47.4	Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:50.3	Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
0:54.3	Tactics, the Major is yours. Tactics.
0:55.8	The Major League Baseball Players Association is using tactics as though they just finished business school.
1:04.7	They are negotiating a collective bargaining agreement and they have started exactly what we said they would do and bless their hearts.
1:16.2	If not for them, what would we lead off with every day, it seems, from now until God knows when?
1:25.7	But I'm not going to overreact.
1:29.3	On behalf of owners, on behalf of players, on behalf of fans.
1:35.3	I don't want you to get the impression that the tactics that Bruce Meyer is using are effective
1:43.3	or that they will actually hamper a deal being done.
1:49.0	So it's important to note when Bruce Meyer meets the media yesterday for no apparent reason
1:55.0	because Major League Baseball sent a proposal to the players.
1:59.0	The players didn't counter the proposal instead they
2:03.7	met the media as you know meeting the media does not count as an official
2:10.4	negotiation number one number two meeting the media does not count
2:15.9	getting closer to a middle ground to a compromise to an agreement
2:22.0	the reason that i view what bruce did as a tactic is i want to give him the benefit of every
2:30.6	doubt because he's not a fool he's not an amateur so this has to be some sort of tactic so the
2:39.5	question is why let's look at what he said and then let's see whether or not it matters and then
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