​Editor’s note: Follow the MLB Home Run Derby live!PHILADELPHIA — Sure, Bryce Harper is quite appreciative that commissioner Rob Manfred personally selected him to be in the All-Star Game in his home ballpark, but to think that his gesture would even remotely soften his opinion on whether the players should accept a salary cap, sorry, he’s not budging.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWhen asked Monday if he could foresee any scenario that the players union accepts a cap, Harper looking straight ahead, forcefully said: “No.”Harper, who shouted and swore at Manfred a year ago when he visited the Phillies clubhouse, telling him that he should leave if he even mentions a salary cap, insisted it’s up to the players to stick together and remind each other of previous generations that fought for them.“I think the opportunity for players to get paid is what this is all about,’’ Harper said. “You know, that’s why we have no cap, and what we we’ve done for so long, starting with Curt Flood. So, we owe it to the guys that have come before us to do the same thing, and all the young guys that are going to go through everything else.“So, we’re going to give it the best chance we can and give it the opportunity that we can to keep it safe.”Bryce Harper joined the Phillies before the 2019 season.And, sorry, no matter how much Harper appreciated Manfred’s gesture, it has zero to do with the upcoming labor negotiations. Harper not only wants nothing to do with a salary cap, but is vehemently opposed by MLB’s proposal that high school players would be ineligible for the draft until turning 20.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThis is coming from a guy who was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at 16, signed with the Washington Nationals as the No. 1 pick as a 17-year-old, and was in the big leagues at 19.“Obviously, I think if you’re in the top three rounds as a high-school kid,” Harper said, “I think you should be able to do whatever you want. It would really be tough for a guy like [Baltimore Orioles infielder] Jackson Holliday to be the No. 1 pick and not get a chance to go to the big leagues at 19 or 18 if he gets the opportunity.“I think each player should have the chance to make that decision based on them or their family.”Harper will gladly express that sentiment to Manfred if asked, saying that his All-Star selection has nothing to do with his views on the CBA.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“I think both of those things are so separate,’’ Harper said. “Obviously, CBA, ownership, players, things like that, it’s very separate than what’s going on in the season. I don’t think any of us are really thinking about that [labor talks] right now.“So, I think he just saw that I was having a great year, and he put me in. I’m definitely grateful for that. But I feel like also I deserve to be here, and I’m glad he saw it that way.”1 / 92Jonah the Dog, who went viral on social media while looking at another dog eat