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I feel like every time I do these, they're not unexpected because it is not unexpected to see baseball fight over what is sort of a on the fly takeout CBA.

They did agree to something in March. The parameters have changed. I'm leaning player on this one because I feel like the owner is going, hey, let's just do like a salary cap version of this for season. See how it goes.

There's no way that was ever going to work, but I also think the players should feel some of the losses which they wouldn't appropriate it's salary thing, but I'm more pro player on this one.

And I really hope baseball can figure this out because they need to get on the television for everybody to see.

Because I think it's important a baseball. I'm not talking about selfishly wanting to watch baseball. I just think it's really important for baseball because the fall out of baseball doesn't have a season and then the NBA does come back, which feels more positive today than it did Sunday.

If baseball doesn't come back at all, like it's just as if baseball doesn't deal with enough criticism, fair or some unfair. I can't even imagine if they just missed the whole season because of a CBA.

Again, it's not a normal CBA negotiation, but a CBA on the fly. Yes, the players should have to take some of the hit, but the owners, I don't think should be trying to pass mechanisms that are basically non starters in any negotiation with the players unit.

Get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected talk to a state farm agent today. So here's the plan. We're going to do a mailbag. It'll be fun at the end. We're going to talk with Nick built in who is the author of American kingpin that is the story about a guy named Ross.

Obrich who started Silk Road. I didn't know anything about Silk Road. Kyle, did you know anything about Silk Road?

I did actually when I first came to California, I just trying to get someplace like Silk Road. I found like a different website, but I was interested. I was very interested in cornered on it in college and stuff like that.

Oh, you did. All right. So it's all research base. That's good to know for the potential employers out there. Yeah. Silk Road was a dark web version of Amazon for drugs.

And the story is incredible. And I can't wait to talk to Nick about it. I also want to do a little bit on Pippin. But first I have really good news that I want to share with everybody.

Those of you that have followed me since ESPN. A big reason why I wanted to leave the radio show was that I wanted to pursue writing. And I've signed a production deal script deal with ABC studios.

And it's the next step in the plan. And hopefully I can hopefully I can put together something great. And so yeah, I signed a deal with them. So I was only away from Disney for a few months.

And I couldn't be happier to be back with them. And I want to thank Johnny Davis at ABC. There's a bunch of other people that I need to think but I also need to get to work on what I'm helping develop.

Certainly not guaranteeing anything anybody that understands this business knows how hard it is. But at least like the next step is there. It's official. I guess I am a writer.

And I'm excited about it. And I really want to thank my guys at ICM, Ted, Shervin, and Michael Charney. Because without agents that believe in you instead of agents that just tell you, yeah, that's a great idea. Never followed through.

These guys believed in me and I told them from the get go I go the sports thing I have I got it but I go I need your help on this but I have to know that you guys are into it and you believe what I'm doing.

I'm sure they probably did a little bit of a let's see and then they read my stuff and they're like, you know what, there might be something here and get a few scripts out there. So there's a mother stuff I'm also working on with the writing stuff. But that's the first official one. I don't know when the announcement. It's supposed to be happening soon.

So I'm just going to go ahead and make that announcement here on the podcast. So I'm fired up. Okay, let's talk Scotty Pippin.

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