Ben Ennis
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Podcast Appearances
They obviously knew him, but he knew and wanted all of it.
The pinstripes, the right field, the Yankee Stadium, the captaincy, the cameras twice a day.
He wanted the whole thing.
And if I'm the Dodgers or the Yankees or the Mets, whoever it is, a big market team, if I don't know the guy really wants it, like really wants the whole thing, then you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to wait one more year for the next once-in-a-generation player I get, which, by the way, we have one every year, which I love.
This is this year's generational player.
Well, guys, a generation is like 25 years.
You can't have one every year.
And I just think that we as an industry, we get so excited.
Again, there's Otani, there's Judge, and there's not really many other guys that are in that level.
And I think that we maybe get a little carried away with how we're describing players and how much they're really worth.
And we underrate, dramatically underrate clubhouse chemistry and harmony in making these decisions.
I appreciate it, Kevin.
We don't check in with people often enough.
And my favorite thing, too, again, I'm on a roll here, but I want to put this out there to the people.