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00:00 I got to talk some baseball with you because I still can't believe that really the Boris

00:09 for I think Bellinger, Snell, Montgomery and the Jays Chapman are still out there.

00:20 How crazy is that?

00:21 And what do you think is going to happen?

00:22 I, you know, the Snell offer was basically the Yankees and nobody else.

00:29 I mean, it feels wild to me that particularly Bellinger is the one who is not signed because

00:34 I feel like I feel like he can kind of just like write whatever check he wants.

00:40 And maybe maybe that is the impasse is Boris and Bellinger are telling these teams, look,

00:46 your four year, one hundred and eleven million dollar deal.

00:49 You know, why don't you send that to Fran Mel Reyes, buddy?

00:53 I am not interested in signing that contract.

00:55 I want way more than that.

00:57 I want to be paid like, you know, basically the best left handed power hitter in whatever

01:02 league that I sign in.

01:04 I think, you know, part of it is definitely these teams just kind of know they do have

01:09 the free agents over a barrel, the negotiation, the arbitration, all of that has gone so team

01:14 friendly the last couple of years that, you know, unless you are truly one of the game's

01:19 greats, which Cody Bellinger is a good player, but definitely not one of the great players

01:24 in the league.

01:25 I mean, last season with all the home runs, he's still striking out, you know, 35 percent

01:29 of the time kind of has that Aaron Judge Giancarlo Stan thing going there.

01:33 It is kind of crazy, I guess, to say about a former league MVP that he's not one of the

01:37 greatest players in the game.

01:38 He's a different player now than he was five years ago.

01:42 I don't really get it, though.

01:44 I think all of this stuff, Scotty, is just such baseball shooting itself in the foot

01:51 because everyone was so enamored with the Otani stuff, right?

01:54 Even people I know who don't care, don't really care that much about baseball, they're not

01:58 that locked into it.

01:59 They cared about where Otani was going.

02:01 They cared about all those signings that the Dodgers were making.

02:03 They were tweeting about Yamamoto.

02:07 And I feel like if baseball did a better job at really getting all the transactions done

02:12 in like a two week period, they could dominate that two week period.

02:15 And I don't really know why that isn't what they do.

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