Dakota Mekas

No.

I mean, how it was introduced was incredible, but do you think the only thing I thought about was

If they'd somehow just not told anybody, they could have brought him out on stage at CubsCon like a pro wrestler, and it would have brought the house down, and I was like, I would have loved to have seen that.

That would have been the most incredible way to do it.

This might be the second best way, though, how it turned out.

Bregman at the airport and been like Alex Bregman like they're in a tweet good point tinted windows in the car who knows how how was it announced tweets just came through from a tweet but it was like right during the middle of the Bears game it was kind of it felt like I think it was 21-9 maybe when the tweet came so it felt like it was kind of the turning point when the Bears started to do their usual here the ship's turning around and we're coming back yeah

The one thing I thought with Bregman that was really interesting is do you guys know how many playoff games he's played in?

A lot.

47.

102.

Okay, I wasn't even close.

He's got almost 450 plate appearances in the playoffs.

I mean, that type of playoff experience cannot be bought.

And the fact that you guys are able to bring someone in like that coming off of a year like you guys just had where you make a deep playoff run.

That can only help.

And we've talked about it for a long time, Dakota.

We've wanted to see, frankly, I'll put it bluntly, this ownership group prove that they want to win.

This is a win now move from this ownership group that we've asked a lot of.

And you have to give them credit in this moment for going all in on this team.

And we'll talk about the trade in a second too, because that is, I think a part of this as well.