Welcome in. Good to have everybody aboard. We've got a lot to do today.

And we are going to touch the table on the Terrick Scoobble conversation, because we didn't get a chance to really do it after the NFL script writers dominated the day yesterday.

Rico, I want to present three options. I'm not telling you which one is right or wrong.

I think all three could be credible.

This is about the listener.

I want to know which of these three pathways are what you want to happen.

Not a predictive measure of what will happen.

What do you want to happen?

Option A, you're not going to pay them.

This organization really gets jolly over prospects, and you trade them.

You get a package that probably includes some MLB talent, prospects, which you'll get everybody

all bricked up,

and the scubal era is done.

You'll be traded to the Mets, Dodgers, Padres, something of that sort, okay?

Yankees, whatever you want to say.

Okay.

So it's trade them before you lose them.

Option B is you pay them.

Again, this isn't about what I believe is right or wrong I'm what he wants yeah that you only have about 96 million committed to the payroll next year and

it will go up you have to factor in arbitration and different things but you will be outside

the top 20 in payroll for what is committed right now.

And luckily, or not luckily, anybody you brought in, you're not retaining.

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