been a while since we've talked to ben uh because i was away i don't know if ben joined the show

um while i was away but he's back today uh and it's a day after one of the ota days that was open

uh to media yesterday after last week's OTA days.

He's got some stuff on Terry McCorn, but I wanted to start with this.

You had mentioned to me in a text that you had an opportunity to sit down with team President Mark Klaus.

I would assume people will be able to read that on your substack or listen to it on your

podcast at Ben Standing to get access to all of it.

But what did Klaus have to say about anything?

Was there anything there that was interesting that you can share with us?

Yeah, he was out there at the park yesterday because the team was announcing that they

were going to have some value price

menus for their food out of the stadium.

A lot of things under $5 and $10.

A lot of your staples, your chicken tenders, your soda, things like that, which is, you know,

good deal.

But anyway, so that was like why he was there.

So we didn't talk about that for a little bit.

But, you know i i think for me

i'm always intrigued by the idea of you know they've got this one big mission item of building the

new stadium but that still isn't going to happen for a few years right and how do how do the people

who were tasked with having to maintain this other thing that nobody really wants anymore? How do you sort of go about that? Because you can't just, like, do it, you know, I've been going to do with some sincerity because you're really into it. He just got four more seasons to play there. Four. Yeah, yeah. So how do you, you know, maintain that enthusiasm to a degree knowing that everybody wants

to go to this other thing? And, you know, he's like, hey, look, I mean, you know, we recognize

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