Rob Ratner

I mean, because the cliche answer, and maybe you viewed it even differently as a younger guy.

I don't remember that, but, you know.

I remember me as a younger guy.

I was a younger guy once, but I appreciate it.

No, I know.

I'm giving you another compliment.

Yeah, right.

No, I was January 7th.

Right.

Right.

See, yes, my instincts are keen.

So what I was trying to say is that you look exactly the same as I've always known you, which is a young man that looked like movie actors.

But anyway, do you look at that differently?

Well, what's the difference in trading in the offseason than, like you said, when you get to the –

to the trade deadline and i asked this because i think i mentioned this to you like gomes brandon gomes came on he said our goal is to to not have to pay 3x at the deadline which is everyone's goal right but it's it's almost unavoidable but how much more difficult is it to trade and is it i don't know is it to trade it in the off season than the deadline yeah

Has it become more difficult trading in the offseason because there's probably teams there's not a lot of.

differential in how teams view because of tangible numbers and you know i think there's probably more voices in every front office so i don't i don't know or is it just a case-by-case basis

One specific guy I'm going to ask about is Gallen because I know you touched on when you were workshopping this podcast in the media session.

But that's also the element of patience fascinates me, like to be patient.

Like I would be an awesome GM.