Okay, to the people.

Nat King Cole Christmas, inarguably, the number one Christmas album. Tremendous. It's really good. It is. You got something better? I mean, I grew up on the Jackson Christmas album. Oh, I'm not going to slander that. No, no, no. The only song I'll full of a while I didn't like. I know. I saw Mommy Kiss and Samson. That one's terrible. and I'll tell you the other one, the temptation silent night should come with a warning label.

Inappropriate. song I'll full of a while I didn't like I know I saw mommy kissing that one's terrible and I'll tell you the other one the temptation silent night should come with a warning label inappropriate

oh come on man that that's that's pregnancy music that's not christmas should only be played on

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Justin how you doing hey thanks for taking the call. Yes, sir. Thanks for your patience. I'm sorry it took so long, man. We're trying. Oh, no worries. I got a snow today. I'm a teacher. Good man. My question is about A.J. Hinch. Because I don't think anyone's brought him up, and I feel like he has the power to, like, maybe change Scott Harris's ways.

I don't know, but I'm just wondering, what do you think?

Do you think he's, like, sitting there stewing, or do you think he's sitting there, like, supporting what they're doing?

Because I, he seems too smart to let, he's got him stewing, I think.

I don't know.

It just, have you thought about that?

I mean, I've thought about it a lot.

I go back and forth on it.

I mean, look, he's got, he's brought in some of his people. He's got a major say here. Maybe he just enjoys being the smartest guy in the room and all this roster optimization stuff. I mean, look, the other thing we've all convinced ourselves is that other teams would run to hire him. Would they?

He cheated.

He was a part of the worst cheating scandal in the history of the sport.

If you didn't hire him, who was?

And at any point, other teams can come after your manager.

It can happen.

Well, how come it doesn't happen?

So you have to ask yourself that question. Now that you brought that up, do you think maybe like A.J. Hint and Scott Harris or just sound like an agreement that like, hey, we're not going to push. Scott Harris is like, hey, I'm going to try to run this out as long as I can. And A.J. Hintz is like, hey, I'm going to run this out as long as I can, like type thing, like, hey, we're just going to not rock the boat. Yeah, I mean, listen, ultimately, you're winning games. You have a huge say here because you don't have an overbearing owner. And they get to do it in a way that they clearly like.

And if AJ hated it enough, he could walk.

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