Mike Hazen

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's get into baseball.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I actually look forward to it because I feel like it's the first time you get, you know, you're talking to your fans and I feel like it's the first time that I get to do that.

That's not on the scale of an individual transaction.

You know, like we will do media stuff through the off season as we do transactions and, and, and by and large, you know, there's some, there's some broader questions that get asked in terms of team building or things like that.

But yeah,

The majority of that is fixated on that one particular transaction, which any one move that any of us make in a vacuum, barring some type of blockbuster, it's not overly interesting in the grand scheme of things, right?

They're all important, but it doesn't eat up an entire press conference.

I think doing the first big press conference is a way you get to ask questions and sort of the aggregate of what you've accomplished or tried to accomplish.

And I feel like that's the way for me to communicate with fans on things

why they're going to come watch us this year, why we think we're going to be what we are, where we think we can take this thing.

And so I kind of look forward to it.

This was an interesting offseason for us in a lot of ways because we have four huge players on the IL that are very likely to start the IL on the IL to start the season, which is...

Burns, Puck, Martinez, and Gurriel.

And so we took on all those injuries last year, and they're all coming back this year.

So there was one eye in building this team to bring them back into the fold as they come back and they get ready to go and they come back into the mix.

Also knowing that they weren't going to be ready on opening day.