Bradfo

In the last five or six years, the I don't know everything has become more important than ever because there's so much more that none of us know.

It's changed so quickly, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think you hit the nail on the head to sign on the door.

I mean, I forgot that, right?

I wish everybody had that sign on the door.

And this is one of the great things about when we have these conversations is I immediately after this want to put a sign on this door and no one will see it, but just to remind myself.

But that's...

Well, that actually dovetails exactly with one of the things I wanted to talk to you about, and that is front offices now, is that there is this narrative, rightfully so, I think, in a lot of cases, because when you keep hearing it over and over and over again, it becomes a reality of there's more front offices, there's more decision makers who have become paralyzed, and they'll say they're not, but they have been, and you live through different iterations of front offices, but do you feel like...

That is accurate from what you know, what you observe, that there is that element in front offices now where the information is so overwhelming, the voices are so overwhelming.

When they're making decisions, there's 50 people in the room instead of five.

Tell me if I'm wrong about that.

Tell me what your perspective of it is.

Yeah.

I mean, I think so when I look at free agency, for instance,

is that, you know, I think it's different.

There's luxury items and there's the guy that you want to have, the guy that you feel like this is the most plan A, this is the most important thing.

And I've been referencing this in regards to like even your life at the Red Sox, that time period where for years upon years upon years, I was like, boy, if they wanted someone, they were going to get them.

And I kept referencing, oh, the only one they didn't get was Mark DeShera.

I mean, I kept coming back to that.