Utah, MLB’s Insane System Cannot be Questioned!

Shower Thought - July 29, 2025

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Imagine if the NFL had no salary cap.

And the New York Jets had Josh Allen and Joe Burrow and Jared Goff coming in out of the bullpen and the Rams had Mahomes, and Lamar and TJ Watt and Myles Garrett and Justin Jefferson and Maxx Crosby and the Jaguars had Kedon Slovis at QB and a bunch of arena league players.

And imagine if Goodell showed up to the Jets locker room and was like, look you've got all the good players. Jacksonville has no money. Can we do something about it? And they screamed at him and threw him out.

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That's what happened the other day in MLB.

Utah, MLB's Insane System Cannot be Questioned!

Rob Manfred was in the Phillies locker room talking about improving the disparity between the haves and the have nots in baseball.

And Bryce Harper told him to get the bleep out of this locker room. Harper is on a $330 million contract. The Phillies have the fourth highest payroll in baseball at $284 million a year. The A's are at 73 million. There's no league in America that has that kind of pay disparity. Not even college football.

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Harper told Manfred to get out.

And MLB fans are like you tell em Bryce. We hate Manfred. Yeah I understand you hate Manfred, and down with the man and all that stuff, but shouldn't you be for making the league have more parity? If the NFL had this system we'd be setting things on fire.

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