David Rubenstein

And so we think it's a great combination.

They get along well.

So it was something where nobody said this was a mistake.

Everybody we talked to said, you're lucky if you can get him, but you won't be able to get him.

because I think he'd had a number of other managerial offers and he'd turned them down, so it wasn't that easy to persuade him to do this, so we were able to do it and we're very fortunate.

Mike was American League Executive of the Year a few years ago.

He knows baseball inside out.

He's shy and doesn't like to promote himself, so we didn't make a big announcement about it,

Mike deserves everything that he has received from the Orioles.

He's done a spectacular job, and we have great confidence in him for many, many years into the future.

Well, there's no doubt that a lot of attention has been paid to that.

We have the resources to acquire the players that we need to make the team work.

So we don't have particular financial constraints.

We have an investor group that's pretty deep pocketed.

And so we're able to do what we need to do.

And so we will do that.

Mike has a lot of authority to go out and find the best players.

that we can get, and of course, it's not always the case that the highest payroll wins.

Clearly, the last couple years, that's probably been the case, but that's not always the case, and so we don't feel we need to break records by setting payroll records, but we think we wanna get good players who wanna be part of an organization that really is very cohesive,

part of helping to rebuild Baltimore.