00:00I think the real issue is, like, in Craig Breslow's head, they are aggressively pursuing Bo Bichette, and they're going to be hundreds of millions of dollars away on what Bo Bichette actually gets, and in his mind, they are, like, I'm not sure Breslow or Breslow's people, when they're putting this out to whoever the media is, national media members, local media members, I think they honestly believe they're being aggressive, and they're nowhere near it, and I think that's now my big concern with the team.
00:29This isn't just spin.
00:30They actually think they're in on Bichette, and they have no chance.
00:33No, they're not going to get Bo Bichette, and actually, even last year, they kind of, I don't want to say lucked out, because they did get the guy, and Alex Bregman, they did get him, but he had more overall dollars and more years on the table, and they got him, and I wonder if that gave them sort of a false confidence to, like, see, we stuck to our guns last year, we got him, but it ended up being a one-year deal, and now the guy wants to be back, and he wants to know Drake Clause, and we won't give it to him.
00:58This would be the analogy. It's like, when Marcus Smart hit a three early in a game, you're like, ugh, here it goes.
01:02Here we go. Like, he thinks he's on fire already, and he's going to jack up 12 of them and make two.
01:06Yeah.
01:06Yeah, that is kind of, that's kind of the same idea. It's like, Brett, they played hardball with Bregman, they were right, and now they're like, we can do this with every single, we can do this with Alonzo, we can do this with Schwarber, we can do it with Bregman again, we can do it with Bichette.
01:20Do you think we'll eventually win with somebody, and as we said yesterday, they think the musical chairs are going to run out and the player's going to have to come to them?
01:27No, I know.
01:28What's going to happen is the music's going to run out, and you're going to be the team standing, and you're going to lose. That's what's going to happen.
01:33Oh, you're definitely going to lose. They have all offseason. I wonder, like, to try to simplify it a little bit, does John Henry tell Breslau, look, you have $250 million over the next X number of years to spend on contracts and free agency?
01:50Let's say hypothetically.
01:51I think it's something like that.
01:52Let's say he says you have $250 million, and now it's up to, and so at that point, maybe Henry doesn't even care how much within that structure Breslau gives to a player like Bregman.
02:02But now Bregman's trying to stretch the dollars, so he's like, I can only go to $165 on Bregman, where in reality, he could have gone to $175, but he's trying to get cute and save some extra money for, like, a reliever or whatever.
02:16Yeah, or he's already spent some of it on Sonny Gregg.
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