Dave Dombrowski

So I'm not saying this for sure.

I do think he was sincere about thinking about coming to Philadelphia.

Yes, I do that.

I think he was.

And I think what ended up happening is the dollar numbers and that we were

We were at the numbers they really asked us to match, you know, to pay.

We were still going through some nuances, but I think in that last, in the time period that the Mets jumped in full bore ahead and that it ended up being that their short-term offer ended up being so much that they decided to take the short-term offer rather than the long-term offer.

I don't know that for sure, but that's what it's appeared to me.

And I, but I do think he was sincere about that.

potentially coming with us.

And I think they jumped in at the last minute and made him a short-term offer that was very appealing to him.

Well, we really were not interested in doing that type of deal.

We had talked about that in the very beginning.

Very quickly.

I can't tell you the minutes, but it was within an hour because I called John Middleton to just let him know that we were not getting the Bichette deal done because we had, of course, been in conversation.

And I told him what my thought processes were at that point, which was to...

to be in a position to call JT's camp and try to get that deal done.

And he, of course, gave his blessing into that regard.

He lets you make those.

But I just wanted to keep him informed.