Sam McKee

He absolutely is.

But they ask us to keep our ballots private until the awards are announced.

I'm not scared.

I saw how he looked at that toy.

Yes.

Well, you know, the thing that really stands out different for me about this one, Nick, and it's not only the Toronto one, it's also Nashville, and it's also, to some degree, New Jersey, but also Vancouver.

Like, doesn't it feel like there's a changing of the guard?

That a lot of the people that we were used to or got mentioned, they're not really even candidates here anymore.

Like, look at all the names that we're hearing now

all across these different searches.

Like New Jersey, when they found out that Toronto had interest in Sonny Mehta, they ended their search.

They had called people and they said, okay, we're going to do some interviews here.

And then all of a sudden it was like, nope, we're not losing this guy to Toronto.

and he's our guy, and we're giving him the job.

And that's what surprised me here, Nick, is that out of nowhere almost, the guard is changing.

That is what has shocked me the most.

Yes.

I think that they were going to ask him regardless of who represented him.

I had heard his name.

That was one of the first names I heard connected to Toronto was that that was a guy that they were interested in and that was a guy that they wanted to talk to.