And I do kind of, I see his side
of it where if I'm him, I know in
, in, in John Henry's statement, he mentions
it too. I know that I more or less
built the infrastructure for the next Red Sox championship.
Like I know that if the Red Sox win the
World Series in the next call it, I don't
know, decade that I built the backbone of that
championship team more or less so that, that's a
tough pill to swallow. And Jeff Passen kind of
had this on the radio yesterday where he said,
uh the Red Sox asked Heim Bloom to trade Mookie
bets get under the luxury tax, uh and win
all at the same time. And that's a very
difficult thing to do. Excuse me, you're talking
about uh uh a window in which you were asked
to get under the luxury tax while also trading,
I don't know the second most talented or right up
next to Ted Williams player in franchise history, you
have to wear that right out of the gate.
So you've got a target on your back from the
fan base. So the fan base is saying you
traded our favorite player, one of the best players
to ever play and you need to win, but
you need to rebuild like you need to build up
the farm system, but you can't, you can't
trade any prospects but you need to win. So
how are you supposed to win if you can't trade
any of the prospects? Like it, the whole
thing just seemed to me like it was an impossible
task and this off season is what I was just
referring to is, is it was phase two.