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So I'm here with you like, no comment.

I'm here with former Emily pitcher Pat Light. He's out there. He's doing some content now. Pat, thanks so much for joining me.

Of course. I have so much to talk to you about. I'm so excited you're here. But the first thing I kind of just wanted to come out with the gate. It's kind of a serious issue. The 2020 season happened. I wasn't sure it actually would. You had this really amazing tweet that came right

around. There was the players versus MLB, you know, you're you kind of joked saying like, hey,

go risk your life. And the 50% pay cut. Wait a second. Let's give you a 33 additional percent pay cut.

And you were talking about the relationship or lack thereof between

baseball itself and the players. So I'm curious, A, why you tweeted that out and B, what the

backlash was, because it did go viral. Yeah. Well, my thought process has always been, and listen,

the owners did an amazing PR job through that whole process.

A little bit towards the end, they kind of got some slack. But the players in the, you know,

they're not schooled in this. They don't know that, you know, the owners just shut their mouths

and did everything behind closed doors, which is exactly how you want to handle that.

And the players started talking a little bit more publicly.

And now it looks like just a bunch of, you know, crybaby millionaires that people,

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