00:00I've known Hal Sarenbrenner for a long time, and I negotiated with his father with him.
00:04I learned something in the one Soto pursuit in the meeting when Hal was there, is that I saw
00:08an emotional commitment to competitiveness. I had not seen that personally before. You know,
00:13we have conversations, we talk a lot on the phone, but I hadn't seen that in Hal. And I saw
00:18it again
00:19this year with Cody Bellin. Again, this is our guy, this is who we really want, it's our focus,
00:24what we're going to do. We obviously had to take a timetable of that negotiation, which
00:29is sometimes difficult for teams to deal with, but they stuck with it. That was their plan. That's
00:34what they wanted to do. And so the idea of being competitive, being personally committed,
00:40being involved, I've seen a transition in that, in Hal, where I think that's how he feels about
00:46his leadership with the Yankees.
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