00:00I think it's a totally fair question about, you know, is he the best judge of this? I mean,
00:04we go back to Anaheim in 2023, right? And, you know, if you're going into his walk year,
00:09the team is four or five games out of contention. He keeps taking his turn on the mound.
00:13You know, he couldn't feel his fingers, so he had to come out of a game.
00:17They, right, he, right, they ask him, do you want to take an MRI? He says, no,
00:21he keeps pitching. He blows out. Now, look, I did have an issue there because he was going
00:27into his walk year. I feel that the Angels, because of the way their relationship with
00:33Otani had been set up, right, where, look, we're a team that has nothing going for us.
00:38You're our entire marketing campaign. You are everything to our team's garbage. But,
00:44you know, we're going to we're everything is around you. And they basically kind of let him
00:48kind of run the entire show there. Right. And and in doing so, they let him kind of get in
00:53harm's way
00:54in the larger term, in terms of like, again, he was kind of going into his walk year.
00:58Now, it turned out it kind of didn't matter. I mean, everybody still wanted him.
01:02They probably would have paid him whatever he wanted. But I thought that part was a little
01:06bit irresponsible.
01:07So welcome.
01:07See ya.
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