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Bradford, what's up?

The core is last word, McFarland. I can confirm that, yeah. There you go. That's a touching tribute. That is. That was very, very nice of him. Actually, the text of 1130 on Saturday night said, I'm happy. Dot, dot, dot, McFarland, you can quote me. So there you go. Okay. How often does that happen? Let's just start with that since you brought it up. How often does that happen? We're a manager who just got fired, which I can't imagine is something that's typically a very happy thing. How long has that happened in, or often has that happened in your career where a manager reaches out to multiple people on the beat, takes to social media, emails

everybody at 4 a.m. replies all to the whole organization, and I know he had a follow-up email

yesterday. How often does that happen in your experience? Well, I think, first of all,

that's never happened to me. I could, Terry Francona never did it. I don't like John Farrell

did it. He sent one to Keith. Yeah, I got one.

Oh, you did you? Okay. I think that you have to sort of go through each of those things, right?

I mean, the text back, a lot of people texted him, right? You know, obviously after it happened.

And I know that he texted back some people, basically the same thing that ultimately he texted me back at 11 or 1130.

I guess the only difference was the dot, dot, dot, you can quote me, which I'm like, okay, that's fine.

And then the next time, like he says, I'm happy the next day.

And then the email, like, that's predictable. I mean, he's going to say that to the entire organization. But I think that the reason why the whole happy thing was it was just sort of this untenable situation in his mind. And obviously in their mind as well. And that's when he's like, hey, you know what? Moving on.

Moving on. I'm going to, I have my contract. I have my pay. I'm going to have a better life. I'm going to have better opportunities. I'm happy. There's nothing more that I could do. And I think that's ultimately a big part of this, which is I think that obviously he had his way of doing things he had like his ideas but when the ideas

aren't cracking through then then there's nothing he's going to be able to do now that the dust

has settled a little bit on it do you think it was the right time to fire alex quora no i mean

it certainly wasn't the right time to fire five coaches or six coaches.

I mean, I brought up the spinal tap reference in the column today,

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