Mike Hazen

it's not just on the coaching staff or the manager to develop and raise these guys the right way.

It's also on the guys in the clubhouse.

And I do very much believe that the players you put these guys around, you know, it's like raising a kid, like the good environment and trying to be a good parent and like that you're going to shape who they are as people, maybe not every bit of it, but you're going to have a chance to round out the edges in a lot of ways.

And the, and those subtle development things from a baseball standpoint are

matter.

They matter when it's when, when the, when the, when the difference between teams is that close.

I mean, there's teams obviously at the very top of the food chain here, both objectively and financially, et cetera, that are extremely well run that, you know, they are what they are.

They're the, they're there.

And we know who all those teams are.

And then for some of us, you know, we've been to the last weekend of the season, the last two years, years in a row.

And then even before that, when we made it in 23 last weekend of the season, you know,

you think about it's baseball and one game doesn't matter.

You know, you can take that mindset in April and then you look back in September for the last three years, one game's made a big difference to us in a multitude of ways.

And so it's hard to sort of not take the position that you have to do every little thing possible that you can to scrap out any little edge or win that you may take during the year.

And I think you don't, we don't,

value it.

We have no way to value the mechanism really other than anecdotally or what we feel like happens to these players as they develop.

But we've had a lot of really good experiences with a lot of really good veteran players that have really helped the culture and the fabric of our organization.

And I hope that that's going to happen again.

Why don't you tell everybody I just turned 50?