You think you dislike Dick Monfort now ? Wait until he serves as a leading hawk in the upcoming Major League Baseball labor negotiations .

The hardline and mostly small market owners will push for a salary cap after the current collective bargaining agreement expires at the conclusion of the 2026 season. In an exclusive interview before the 2024 season , Monfort told me that he viewed a cap and a floor as the only long-term solution for baseball.

The talk has grown louder over the past few months due to the changing landscape in national and local TV money — good luck convincing the Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs and Red Sox to share their media dollars — and motivation for expansion and division realignment.

Here’s the problem: Nothing has stopped the big market teams from spending, and

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