We're gonna listen. Um but our, our price
points are high. Um you know, we have
valuations um on our existing personnel and, uh you
know, the bar is high to meet it.
Um, but we are willing um in certain circumstances
to, uh you know, use Steve's investment and
, and kind of repurpose that investment um to,
you know, serve the serve the larger goal which
is to build a championship organization, you know,
and the other day, I was talking a little
bit about, you know, go to build a
championship team at the same time, you're trying to
build a championship organization and you're trying to serve both
of those masters and when, you know, circumstances
arise, um you want to kind of embrace your
reality, um and, uh, and make the
best, you know, be at your best regardless
of your circumstances. And so we use this opportunity
to, you know, bring a player into the
organization that we're extremely excited about. Um, that's
close to the big leagues, um, talent that
you can't access and, you know, generally with
clubs um that are gonna go through a rebuild,
you have to endure. 567 years of losing and
we don't have the appetite for that. I'm not
gonna do that. And so what we wanna do
is we wanna use Steve's investment and enhance this farm
system and get us to our larger goal. Um
You know, there was some, some conversations going
on with a couple of different clubs and um you
know, I was uh talking to max a little
bit about it, but not in great detail.
I wanted him to go out and then when I
talked to him before, I just said, just
go make a start, um, make your start
be you, I can't tell you what's going on
, but this could be on the horizon and then
we'll have a conversation the day after, you know
, I think we've, you know, Steve said
it, I've said it, you know, free
agency is not the market that we want to rely
on to build a championship team. It's a market
that we want to use to enhance the team that
we have, but we would rather go to that
market for opportunities, the necessity. And so we're
not there yet and that's going to take a little
time. And so, you know, we're still
going to have to invest through free agency.