Well, Curtis, before we get to Hill Notes, it appears that baseball Brett has taken umbrage with something that you said this morning.

Perhaps during your lead, we got to leads at around 645 this morning, as we nearly always do.

Hello, baseball, Brett.

Good morning, Greg. How are you?

What's up?

I'm listening and I'm trying to parse through all of the dialogue and a couple things that Curtis said.

And I always agree with Curtis, especially on like the economic reform and the Red Sox spending,

but a couple of things that just jumped out off the page to me

this morning. Good morning, Brett. Good morning, Curtis. How are you? Wonderful. Curtis, you continue

to talk about as your like poster child for this like, you know, pain in the clubhouse

is, is who is your poster child?

Who's, uh, Manny Ramirez, right?

Yes, yes.

Okay.

In 2003, the Red Sox put him on irrevocable waivers.

Anyone in the league could have had him for free, no payment, no prospect, no trade.

Claimed him and it just assumed his contract.

That's it.

Like, the Red Sox were so fed up with him, they just wanted to give him away.

And nobody wanted them.

Nobody wanted them.

Wow.

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