Thanks for ending your workday with Helger and Mads.

On 985, the Sports Hub. Dumbull! And streaming at CBSBostonSports.com. Give me some follow-up thoughts on Dombrovsky from yesterday. Okay, so you're going to have to indulge me here for a moment, okay? Because I went through and listened to the part of his press conference yesterday that pertained to John Carlos Stanton. and as I was listening to him

answer a series of questions,

some of which we're going to play here for you in a minute, I wanted to pull my hair out, what's left of it, poke my eyeballs out, and puke because I thought a lot of it was complete total garbage. Garbage. So it starts with this. Go back to the beginning here. And he was asked,

Dumbrovsky was, about the Red Sox involvement in the entire Giancarlo Stanton sweepstakes.

Well, I really can't say much about him because he's another organization's player.

Stop, Jimmy, stop. As soon as that's the first question. Okay, as soon as he's giving you, I can't answer much because he's part of another organization.

Right there, I just wanted to throw my hands up and say, that's it.

I'm done listening.

So now you're not going to answer questions about it either.

Keep going, Jimmy.

Well, I really can't say much about him because he's another organization's player.

But the early asks for him were not things that we were interested in.

And then as time went on at the end, there were no conversations based upon.

I mean, he was traded into, I had an imp of, they had a deal done with St. Louis,

they had a deal done with San Francisco.

At that point, when I reached out, there was, they were in the midst of dealing with the Yankees at that point.

Okay, so we didn't edit these.

Okay, we didn't edit them because I wanted you to sort of hear how he paused and chose his words. Because honestly, I don't know. I don't think he's telling the complete truth. We reached out early. We didn't like the ask. And then they talked to the Giants. They talked to the Cardinals. And, you know, those broke down. And then we reach out and they were, you know, so we did call back, but they're already talking to the Yankees. So you just threw your hands up then.

That was it.

It was always. They talked to the Cardinals, and, you know, those broke down. Then we reached out and they were, you know, so we did call back, but they're already talking

to the Yankees.

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