Sammy

Let me win this game for you.

And Cora understood that assignment.

And I'm not saying it's always the right move to let a guy go like that.

But if you're the Mets...

You can't do that.

You don't have that guy.

So that's why you do consider a crazy... I'm telling you, the trade idea I have is crazy.

It is unrealistic.

But that's because Tarek Skubal is that good.

You don't see guys like that get traded hardly ever.

And credit to the Red Sox, by the way.

That's how you acquire an ace.

You identify a guy with ace upside.

You acquire him for a reasonable price and then let him become the guy you think he is.

Like, that was perfect.

Oh, absolutely.

There's like a small, small class, small caliber of guys that you kind of throw aside all your...

not values as a franchise, but your internal rules and stuff where you kind of throw... And it's not apples to apples, but it's a good example of kind of like throwing out all the beliefs of a franchise.

And this is when you told me, it's when the Rangers acquired Max Scherzer.

And sure, it wasn't Max Scherzer, Max Scherzer.