Rob Bradford

And that's the state of labor in baseball today.

The Kyle Tucker signing only inflames those, you need a salary cap calls, and...

I'm dreading it a little bit because it's going to be, you are a little bit.

Sure.

It's because you have to work.

You actually have to write stuff.

That's right.

That's right.

The, the, in all honesty, in all honesty, once that, that time, when that comes, like the lockout comes, okay, I'll take your word for it.

It's not, if it's just, well, it's not even when it's just going to happen.

You have to basically, you become the athletics, most important person.

I disagree with that in the sense that one of the truly great things about being at the athletic is the size of the team, right?

I work closely.

Ken Rosenthal will hear things.

Our other national writers were here.

Our beat writers will hear things, right?

It, you know, it might end up getting funneled to me, but it is very much a group effort here where, and there are plenty of times where something ends up with somebody else's byline, but it's because somebody else

Yeah, I get that.

But the point is that nobody enjoys writing it more than you.

These people who are finding out information and siphoning information to you, they don't want to write it.