Rob Ratt

It was, all right, you know what?

He's just good enough to be serviceable, but the most important thing is that we need that adult in the room, right?

And we need that message.

And, again, you can speak to this better than I can, but it's like your parent – the parent is saying the same thing as your parent's friend.

It's so true, and there's a lot of examples that are jumping to mind.

One of them, which is Hosmer was perceived like, for instance, Hosmer, I was around Hosmer only for a couple months, but everyone was talking about Hosmer, Hosmer, Hosmer.

He's a great leader.

He's a great leader.

And so I asked him about like – he said, well, Raul Banez was the guy who I learned that from.

And think about that.

Raul Banez was at the tail end of his career.

But the impact that Raul Banez had on Eric Hosmer, the impact that Eric Hosmer had on –

let's see, that would have been like 2000, whatever, 2022 or something like that.

The impact that he had on, I don't know, a Jaron Duran, you know, something like that.

Right.

So, yeah, I mean, it's just, I just think it's, it's such an important thing.

And I'm glad that you're able to sort of give me that perspective.

When you do the – so we talk about media –

It's funny because you talk about guys that you're next to, lockers and guys in the clubhouse.

One of the great things I love about doing this is that I learn something all the time because we're having conversations.