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Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score.

Well, I think the Portland pick becoming a reality is certainly an attractive piece,

but I've been pretty consistent from day one that this is an attractive job.

Let's just start with the obvious.

There's only 30 of these. So anybody wants

this job. It's a big market. It's an ownership group that doesn't like to make change. Are there

some, you know, constraints, quote unquote, you know, from their longstanding history of, you know,

paying the luxury tax only if you're in championship contention.

Sure, but, you know, these books are clean.

And this was reported, including by me, that first day.

I mean, I think one of our tourists' biggest disappointments in this is that, you know,

he not only inherited a very good situation from John Pax and Gar-Forman,

but he's leaving a very good situation to whomever succeeds him. I mean, so it was, I would say that Portland pick was an

asset regardless because it was sitting there, but now that it's a reality, sure, that just

makes this situation, you know, you can you can attack this offseason and make a pretty big

dent in what you need to do if you make the right moves, you know, you can attack this offseason and make a pretty big dent in what you need to do

if you make the right moves, you know, to getting this team back into contention.

Casey Johnson on with Mully and Hawke.

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