Christian

Sell the team.

Okay?

If you're telling me that 160 is the max you felt, and it wasn't, but we'll get there in a second.

If you're telling me that you felt 160 was the max that Cody Bellinger was worth and you weren't going to pay him a penny more because you felt he wasn't worth it, I still disagree with it because he was the best offensive player left on the board and you needed him.

But I would say, you know what, that's what they feel he's valued and if they don't want to pay him more than what they feel he's valued, that's one thing.

To have it be out there,

from reliable sources, that you didn't want to go into a bidding war because you were still embarrassed over what happened with Juan Soto last year, it means it's time to sell the frigging team.

If you're letting losing one bidding war affect the way you're doing business going forward, sell the team.

We all want one thing as Yankee fans, to win number 28, to end this drought that's been going on since 2009.

And we got an owner in charge of an organization that is scared to get into bidding wars because he doesn't want to be embarrassed that he lost.

Put your big boy pants on and go and fight.

Last year, you could have went toe-to-toe with Steve Cohen.

You put that last offer in front of Juan Soto, and then Steve Cohen beat it, and he was in that.

You don't think to tell me that if Juan Soto and Scott Boris knew you were willing to go punch for punch with Steve Cohen, they would have came back one more time?

You tapped out at 760 or 750, whatever the number is.

Again, it doesn't matter at this point.

You lost.

You had a good pivot.

But now this offseason, we found out that it was all going to be dictated by your embarrassment.

So you were willing to let the Yankees go into 2026 with a worse team than they had in 2025 because you were embarrassed because you lost Juan Soto.