Don La Greca (13:25)
Those are facts. The Don show starring only Don. Good for me. It's the Don show starting now. Tweet that. Hey, Don. Great that they still use that even though there's Only less than 9 minutes left in the show. But a show is a show, right? 1-800-919-3776. You want to get in on the last Call crew before our coverage of the Knicks and the Nets right here on ESPN New York. Want to thank Kofi. He's. He's our conscience. He's the one that, you know, helps us with stuff all the time. He's like our unofficial and unpaid statistician on the show. And he reminded me was Mike Florio on Rich Eisen, where the idea was floated about designating a day off for every player so that in an 18 game season, none of the players would have played a full 18. I think it's a. It's an idea. I'm not going to say it's a bad idea. I just don't think it would work. How do you designate a day for your quarterback to take off at a game where like every week is going to be big? You look at the Giants, right? Like people think this team can win eight games, maybe nine. Well, that means they're gonna be playing some very meaningful games. They can't throw games away. And all of a sudden, Jackson dart, sorry, he's designated to have this game off and you lose and you miss that, miss the playoffs by one game. That would be devastating. But the one thing I wanted to bring up here is, and this was sent to me by our producer, Anthony True, Anthony Pusick, who that it was mentioned. I just want to be able to punch it up here for you. I had it here and then it disappeared on me that Aaron Judge has said that he wants to participate in the next WBC and the LA Olympics. And that is Chris Kirschner that tweeted that out. Now, what I find interesting about this is not that he wants to play in the next wbc, but that he wants to play in the LA Olympics. Well, right now, baseball is not an option for the Major League Baseball player. So when I hear Judge say that, what pops into my mind is, especially with all the Accusations that the players in America didn't care about the wbc, that if the players rally and make this a point to want to play in the Olympics, where they want it, put in the cba, which they're gonna have to, and force Major League Baseball to take the allotted days off from their schedule for the players to go to LA and play in the Olympics. If the players want it, they'll get it. Now they have to give something up in the cba. But if they really want it, because I saw it in the NHL, the players really wanted to play in the Olympics. They made sure they put it in the cba. The owners wanted the relationship to be pure so they didn't have any more work stoppages and they gave it to the players. But what line are the players willing to go for this? Would they say, okay, we'll accept the salary cap? The the owners aren't just going to give it to them. They're going to want something back in return. And really, the players are happy with the current system, what the possible lockout, and it's going to happen on December 1st, and we'll see if it affects any gameplay, is the owners are going to want a salary cap and the players are going to say no. And oh, by the way, while we're fighting on the salary cap, we want to make sure you carve out time for us to take off in 2028 to go to the Olympics and every four years to do that, like they do in the NHL. Okay, we'll let you do it. You're going to have to accept the salary cap, so we'll see how far it goes. But the fact that Aaron Judge says he's going to, he wants to play in it tells me that it looks like it's something that very well could happen, but it would have to be collectively bargained. And we're going to find that out during the course of the winter how badly they want it and what they're willing to give up because they're going to have to do something. And it really would be a shame with Ohtani and Judge and the Dodgers and the Yankees being good and ratings being good, coming off a phenomenal WBC to see there be no baseball in 2027. And I know from the NHL standpoint, when you start fighting for things like a salary cap, and they have fought for that, the owners, for a long time and have never gotten it, and now you've got teams possibly like the Yankees, that might be for a salary cap, they may be willing to go to war for this. And I can't imagine there not be games affected during that CBA negotiation. You just hope it's not a whole season. And you do hope, at least for me, that if they do end up canceling all season, that you straighten out your problems at the end of the day so we never have to go through this again. That's what you have to hope. Because if you're just going to pacify, put a band aid on it, then every three, four years have to go through this stuff. It doesn't work. It just doesn't work. 1-800-919-3776. Let's go to Chris in Monmouth County. You're on ESPN, New York. What's up, Chris?
