Rob Bradford

I mean, now that I hear it,

I feel like that is something – and we've talked about that dynamic on the bench, how there's always usually something that takes – to take away.

A couple that jumped to mind is the whole like, oh, you know, we screwed up the John Lester thing, the Pablo Sandoval body fat thing.

There's been plenty of them, right?

But that one was –

Yeah, yeah.

Thoughts?

Thoughts, Gordo?

It felt like he was ready to say it.

He was asked if they had an organizational policy against no trade clauses, and that was the answer to it.

Isn't that weird?

It feels like he wanted to fit that in somewhere, and he didn't want to answer the question about if they're willing to hand out no trade clauses or not, and so he just fit in the line that he had ready to go, which is weird because there's no upside to saying that.

The obvious, and I don't know what any follow-ups were, but the obvious rebuttal to that, Gordo, is, well, yeah, but you think that it was fair to say that?

That if you want to be here, that he'd be here when you offered him less money and a no-no trade clause?

And more deferrals, too.

It's an objectively worse offer.

Yeah.

Yes.

I mean, so it's kind of crazy to say, well, if you want to be here, it's one thing to do like the whole going way back, the mark to share a deal where I think that they felt like they had made a competitive offer or, you know, or, you know, if, if they said Pete Alonzo, we're going to offer the same as the Baltimore Orioles and, and Hey, listen, if you want to be here, I'll be here.

Like that fits some places, right?