Ben Shulman

Getting a little chillier.

You know, the booth has this kind of wind tunnel effect where it'll be nice outside, but if we have the door open, which we do right now, it just kind of sucks the air in here, and it'll get a little chilly.

You're right.

They should never open it.

They should do what Arizona does and just have a rhetorical, retractable roof.

You know what?

I was when it first happened, and then someone had pointed out to me with Vladdy down right now, even if it's day-to-day, you know, if you're deciding between Davis and Lanine, you need someone to play first base.

And I know Ernie's filled in at first for them, but they actually don't have that many other first base options.

So I think that if you think about that, yeah, Okamoto, I guess you could.

And then you put Ernie at...

third and davis at second so i guess you could have done it that way by that barge right here so that's my yeah so i think right now i mean it's it's to a certain extent like neither of them have hit the way that they've hoped to it's a little six or a half dozen uh i was a little surprised but i guess if it is all that even asset management and you have lenine play first for a couple of days as well are you a little surprised that okamoto has been going through more bumps

I mean, I don't think that they're worried like they think two years from now or whatever, that bump might still be there, but

I think all of us thought maybe a little bit when he cleared the first hurdle that maybe, you know, you're always going to have slumps.

And I've heard you guys talk about this, too.

Like, you know, with Vlad, it was taking a little longer than maybe some people would have expected for him to get out of the slump at that point, given.

how much time he's played.

And Okamoto's played a ton as well.

I mean, he's a 29-year-old professional at this point.

And so I think that the bump's probably been longer, the second bump, than people would have expected.

For me, maybe the biggest surprise, I thought the bumps would come more defensively and less offensively.