Frank Seravalli

And I have to say, and this isn't demeaning to Ryan Johnson or Evan Gold, this has been the least inspiring hiring cycle that we've gone through, I think, in this current GM cycle.

I want someone who's going to come in and out think everyone who's gonna, you know, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, but there's so much that needs to change in my view, in terms of processes, how things work at recognizing biases, like everything.

Like I could talk for hours about front office structure and how this all should work, but.

I just think this is a really interesting time to be making the hire.

Well, and...

To be fair, even the outsider that would come in, the first question that I would ask would be, how long would it take for your outside view and approach to be beaten out of you based on how the Vancouver organization has worked?

I mean, look, let's be fair.

This is an organization that

for all their pluses and minuses has an ownership group that is very intermingled and intertwined into every single aspect that ha that takes place or runs its course.

Um, that isn't the norm.

Uh, there are other teams that, that is the case, but it's not kind of like it is in Vancouver.

And the fact that they decided to go with, in the end, three people who are familiar with that, I don't know if that's good or bad.

I really don't.

And I think we have to take a step back and let everyone work and let's see what changes are made.

I could tell you nightmare stories from around the league as to how some of these teams are operated.

that it really is like a toy chest that almost none of these teams are run like a true business.

There are communication gaps.

There are sometimes zero processes at all.

There are decisions being made in vacuums.

There is no, like, I know a team earlier this year at the trade deadline that was,