Halford

I saw that one.

Sure do.

Well, the bets thing wasn't a one-off, right?

Like, I mean, Laddie and I talked about this last year when they traded Raphael Devers.

I remember everyone saying like, this is another instance of the Red Sox trading a star player.

And you remember the Devers trade came after they made the playoffs in 2025.

And you're looking at an organization saying like, are you committed to winning the,

Or is it always going to be about the bottom line and winning is a nice secondary prize if you can either moneyball or put your way towards a team that doesn't necessarily have the star power that you're willing to pay for, but a team that's greater than the sum of its parts, right?

And that's never been the Red Sox.

The Red Sox have always been a marquee team, a top five revenue team, and a team that goes out and acquires star players, gets star players, grows homegrown star players.

But the point is that they've got difference makers, right?

And now you look at this is and, you know, Alex Cora, after he was fired on social media, one of the first things that he did was repost a video from the Mookie Betts trade saying, I can't believe the Red Sox traded Mookie Betts.

It gives you an idea of where the players and the managers are at saying, what are we as a franchise?

Because, yeah, that's something Pittsburgh does, not the Red Sox, because Cora had to walk the plank.

for a team that had traded away during his tenure some very talented ballplayers and guys that help you win baseball games.

That was rough.

That was almost as bad as Gerard Gallant's taxi photo.

Yes.

Very similar to that.

That was a deep cut for anyone that can remember that.