Rob Radford
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And I think there's not enough of them.
I think that there's, and this is a big, big, big, big problem.
I think in a lot of deals that are or aren't made.
How, from your perspective,
You probably can see the executives who are willing to do that and how reluctant are executives now compared to maybe, I don't want old men yelling at clouds, but maybe in the past to say, hey, listen, we're just going to have to get uncomfortable, but that's the guy I want.
Man, you scratched right where I itched.
Honestly, I'm glad you said that.
It's about identifying the guy that's going to help you win a World Series.
The guys are going to help you win a World Series.
And within reason, doing what you need to do to get those players.
That 10 seconds right there, summed it up.
It was, I mean, no, seriously.
And you talk about being uncomfortable, and I probably have mentioned this to you.
I know I have, and I've cited this example a million times, but I just love it.
Back in, not this trade deadline, the last one, Chris Young bringing everybody together saying, hey, who thinks we can win the World Series?
If we do think we can win the World Series and these are the guys that we're going to have to trade.
We're going to have to, sorry, but we're going to have to trade these guys.
And there was a lot of probably people like, oh, really?
We do?
Do we really?