00:00He said at the beginning, right, when this knee thing first came up, it's like, okay, yeah, I feel it,
00:05but I can pitch through this.
00:06Then he couldn't pitch, right?
00:07And it's like, well, I feel it when I pitch, but it doesn't really bother me, like, when I'm hitting
00:11or running.
00:11Well, you know what?
00:12Like, now we got to a point where he wasn't in the lineup because of this.
00:15Clearly, I mean, anybody can see this.
00:17Like, a five-year-old could tell you this thing's getting worse.
00:20No, and you know what it is?
00:21They've been very insistent that it's been better since he got the lubricant shot.
00:23They are afraid of him.
00:25They're afraid of him.
00:26That is the bottom line here, right?
00:29And you can talk about, you know, and look, like, human beings run this thing, right?
00:34And look, I mean, I think people in the front office, right?
00:38Now, you do have a former player in Brandon Gomes there, but you also have a lot of people that
00:42obviously never put on a major league uniform.
00:45And I hate to kind of go here, but I think that this is a factor that, like, they want
00:48to be liked by players, right?
00:51I mean, they do.
00:52I mean, look at, look, I mean, why is Gomes here?
00:54I mean, he was a former player who, right, buddied up to the guy that runs, like, the baseball ops.
00:59Well, no, I'm serious.
01:00Like, that's kind of what happens.
01:01That's a factor in these things.
01:03And I think that they don't, there is kind of them, right?
01:06Like, because I don't think, here's the thing, right?
01:08Like, you could argue from, like, a power standpoint.
01:10I've talked about this before.
01:11Obviously, by the fact that they're, right, he's basically taking no money up front right now.
01:15Most of his contract is going to be paid to him in retirement.
01:18The fact that he's generating millions and millions of dollars for this team.
01:21I mean, there's a giant Uniqlo sign now, right, above the batter's eye here, right, in large part because of
01:27him.
01:27You could argue that that has kind of subverted the power dynamic.
01:30And, yes, if he was, like, an American, right, I would say, like, yeah, like, you got to be very
01:35careful in the way you approach him.
01:37Okay, now I'm just telling you, culturally, he might not be happy with things, but he's not going to, it's
01:42just like, I'm just telling you, like, in the, it just will not be, the culture will not permit him
01:46to just be like, okay, you know what, we're going to put you on the aisle for 10 days.
01:50He's not going to go crazy.
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