Mike Hazen

I mean, is that?

I was going to wish you happy birthday.

Yeah, and I have to be careful of that, I think.

Because we have some PTSD over the last three years.

And I do think you can take that too far.

I do.

Because everyone wants to get off to a good start.

The game in April is as important as the game in September.

We all know that.

But building towards...

what you would look at July, August, September, putting your team in a position to buy at the deadline.

You know, we had one of the best second halves in baseball, I think, last year, crawling out from where we did.

Maybe in the end when we lost the last five, it knocked us back down.

But up until that point where we had lost the last five, I mean, we were going to finish over 500.

And we were nine under, I think, after the deadline, right around the deadline.

So we had played really good baseball in the second half.

But we put ourselves in a position, in my opinion, to sell.

I didn't feel like I had an alternative strategy to deploy at that time.

Now, people can argue with that.

Players won't always agree with me with that.