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Because with the Dodgers...
Listen, if someone offered me $60 million a year for the next four years to do my job, I'm probably taking that offer.
No doubt.
That's the business aspect.
But then you throw in that where that offer is coming from is it's the best in the business and you don't have to really think about the culture.
You don't have to think about the resources that are there.
everything that comes with it, it's a no-brainer.
I'm probably going to walk away with a ring in those first two years, given where everything is at.
Not guaranteed, because baseball is a grind, but then from there, he can still go make more money.
That's why, for me, it's a no-brainer, and I understand that, but I don't understand the... It's the other owners that are just not spending the money.
So go back to Steve Cohen.
And the reason... That's a longer tangent to what I'm getting to here.
Steve Cohen was kind of...
You know, he was kind of looked at like a Brutus, if you will, when Pete Alonso left, when Edwin Diaz left.
And I think that was unfair.
Because I think ultimately those were business decisions by both sides, the player and by the team.
Yep.
Do you, as a fan and kind of what you see from Mets fan, do you think that's kind of how Mets fan is looking at it?
Or are they still kind of looking at Steve Cohen in that same negative light of like, nah, this guy doesn't know what he's doing?
In all of this with Bubba's shit, the thing that's interesting is it had been widely reported that the Phillies were like... That's what I was thinking, yeah.