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271 - Hard Caps, Soft Caps, Salary Floors and Baseball Cards

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An inadvertent whistle turns a 6-0 Bay City win into a disputed Port Lavaca touchdown.

1. Hooks & Runs opens with Craig and Rex describing Texas high school football, baseball, music, and culture. 2. Craig and Rex are the hosts, and their back-and-forth matters because they move from game stories to salary-cap analysis. 3. The episode asks what Major League Baseball would need if Rob Manfred actually pushes a salary cap. 4. Craig uses Bay City's 6-0 game against Port Lavaca to show how an inadvertent whistle and a lateral changed a play. 5. He says the umpire blew the play dead on what he thought was an incomplete pass, then a line judge signaled a touchdown. 6. The officials reversed themselves twice before Port Lavaca won 7-6 on the extra point. 7. Craig says Texas high school football officials are a problem because the sport does not pay enough to attract enough experienced referees. 8. He says some officials are

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