Hour 2: Chris Dickerson

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This is what everyone is talking about. Everything is on the table. This is what champions come to take. This is what everyone came to see. And the slam!
No do-overs, no second chances, no more Mr. Night Sky. This is winner take all. And it's all happening now on the home of the NBA finals. Don't miss it, June 3rd on ABC and the Espn app.

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Welcome back to the show. We all excited about tomorrow. I mean, let's be honest, 830 tomorrow, the tip goes up and the Knicks and the Spurs begin. Spurs are the favorite. The Knicks I think are very, very attractive betting underdog. They really are. And I think you're going to see a lot of money pouring in on the Knicks. A lot of NBA people that we really do respect. Wow, they like the Knicks, but Vegas likes the Spurs. Now, we have a big show tomorrow. Let me tell you what we have tomorrow and how I mean, if you're listening now, you're going to be listening tomorrow. But I think you've got to tell your family and friends. So, at 1.3 tomorrow, right, we have on Brian Windhorst.
Always locked in. Maybe he'll know how Mitchell broke his hand. At 2 o'clock, the last time the Knicks won a championship, you know who was on the mic on the radio call? Marv Albert. You know who's going to be on the mic on our show at 2 o'clock tomorrow? Marv Albert. Now, Marv has done some interviews, but he doesn't, hasn't done interviews where he's speaking because he's been having some trouble with his voice. And he said he's going to give it a go tomorrow at 2 for us. So I'm looking forward to that. Marv Albert at 2 o'clock. And then it's Wednesday. Tomorrow's Wednesday. So at 2.30, we'll have on Mike Lupica. What a show as we lead you into game one of the NBA finals. The only thing that could derail it from being all basketball, Schlittler throws a no-hitter tonight against the Guardians. I think we've got to cover that, don't you think so? But otherwise, Knicks in the spurs, baby. That's the way it rolls.
So one of the clouds that hangs over this baseball season is that is there going to be a season next year? And baseball as we know it, is it going to be that way? Or is it going to change completely? December 1st is the end of the present collective bargaining agreement. And at that point, there is going to be a lockout. The only thing that would stop a lockout is if in fact, an agreement is come to during the season. I don't think that's going to happen.
The only way a lockout could be stopped is if there is great progress that's made toward an agreement close to December 1st. Then they'll probably keep the business of baseball open. I don't think that's going to happen. And I felt this way even before the salvos back and forth of the Players Association and the owners. So the Players Association first released their proposal to double the minimum wage, not to have a cap, but to have a floor.
And the tax, the first tax would start at 300 million. And you know, you saw that and you go, that's a non-starter. First of all, there's no cap. And then you're taking the initial tax, which I think is at 245 now, and you're raising at 55 million. So you want the Dodgers, the Mets and the Yankees to spend more money, which I understand because you're the players, you'll get that money. Then the owners came back with their proposal, which includes a hard cap, $170 million floor, which is higher than a lot of people thought that they would do, and then a cap at 245 And I would say, well, that's a non-starter too. That cap is much too low. But as an opening salvo, you start low and then you negotiate closer to what both teams can agree on. But the players have said that a cap is a non-starter.
So then you come out and you go, well, if a cap is a non-starter and the owners are dead set on a cap, then I don't see an end in sight. It's almost like they're speaking different languages. You know, when you're negotiating, you want them to be speaking the same language and be on the same planet. Well, they're speaking completely different languages, ones on Pluto and ones on Mars. They're not even close. Now Bruce Meyer, the acting or the interim head of the Players' Association, he's the guy that took over after Tony Clark resigned, he fires a salvo yesterday and says that under this new proposal, players would earn less money in 2027 than they do in 2026