My face is red, oh and he's teed my ass

And I'm going to be sad, we should see what I want for

Oh and he's teed

And I'm going to be sad, we should see what I want for

Hello and welcome to episode 1615 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by a similar of the SPN Hello Santa

Hello Marcus Drowman accepted the qualifying offer

Good news for me in my free agent draft

I didn't think he was going to do it really when I drafted in it was more because I thought the estimate was more than he would get on the open market than because I thought he would actually take it but he did

So big leg up for me and I can screw up a bunch of other picks which I probably will judging by how last winter went

Interesting, okay

Yeah, I don't know if he was convinced by the press conference that Sandy Alderson and Steve Cohen gave on Tuesday

Which a lot of people were impressed by just because it was competent which was a change for the Metz and they said the right things

Which is easier than doing the right things but also hasn't been easy for the Metz in recent years

I don't know if it was that or just the fact that he didn't pitch this year or just the general uncertainty about the market

But I did think when he was tweeting about Tony Roussa on Tuesday and he was making headlines for that too

Because he said that there was no amount of money that he would take to play for Lerusa

And he might sincerely believe that I certainly wouldn't blame him for it given what we've learned about Lerusa

But I think that was probably easier to say at least if he had an inkling that he was going to accept the qualifying offer

And would not be on the open market and thus would not need the White Sucks as a potential suitor

Even if he wasn't going to sign with them still would have helped to have them there to drive up offers

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