Jon Lyons

to the majority of players who reach free agency, speaking not specifically of Alonzo, but of the team's general free agency exploits, and talked about, this was the quote, they don't believe in long-term deals.

So when you say 2026 championship run, this is something to me that is interesting across all professional sports.

But with the MLB in particular, are you saying that you think your championship window is one year?

And so you're not going to commit to...

Long term deals for a guy who's in his mid 30s because you don't see it as like a possible three to five year window with the young guys that you've been promising to everyone who's coming up in the farm system and now they're here.

Like you've got to stretch yourself a little bit, even if, as you said, it doesn't exactly fit the perfect philosophy of how you want to do every deal.

Honestly, Bradfo, that feels kind of gross.

It feels kind of gross to say, like, we're going to leverage this guy's health and, I don't know, like competitiveness and whatever.

It's one thing for a guy to go into a contract and say, this team isn't really giving me what I need, so I'm going to bet on myself for a year and try to get a better contract situation the next year.

But when the team is trying to go...

year-to-year with established players because they don't want to just pay out a three-to-five-year contract.

They're trying to change the game in the opposite way that the Dodgers are doing.

And it's really frustrating that they won't give it to him.

From my perspective, I'm not even a Red Sox fan.

Just watching who he was for the team last year, it's not like you're talking about a guy who's 40.

People are looking at the old Red Sox because those were the ones that won championships.

Bradfoe.

They got outbid by the freaking Orioles.

That to me, like if you had told me that five years ago, I would say that's inconceivable.

Like did Baltimore change markets?