It's whatever happens, you're young enough to recover from it.

Yes.

If you're 29 and you have Tommy John, Serzy, you could screw the poot for the next, you know,

three or four years before you ever realize.

You're probably never going to realize the contract.

I keep thinking about our debates about Yamamoto, because you would look at me and say,

dude, why do you and others want him so badly? And why would the Mets want him that badly? And you're like, he's small, he hasn't done it here. Like, we don't know. It's a different. Well, the track record on small pitchers from Japan is not great. But the counter I always had. And by the way, the jury is still out. He's only been here for two years. Good point. To be fair. And he was hurt his little bit his first year. Now, I would say that it's already worth it.

Of course. And by the way, the jury is still out. He's only been here for two years. Good point. To be fair. And he was hurt a little bit his first year.

Now, I would say that it's already worth it. Of course. No, it is worth it because he won a world championship. And he carried it to me. But the reason it was always worth it to me was, and David Stearns feels this way, you'd rather take the risk on a 25-year-old with questions about pitching in America than a 32-year-old who's already done it, but has a lot of wear and tear on his arm.

They are more willing to go deep for Yamamoto than they would be for Framber Valdez.

And that's, I think, the book on David Stern.

So as we try to calm down, take a deep breath, and stop calling him names, which I did. I did it too. And we try to be rational. He's not cheap. He's not running them like a small market team. He's very picky on the players they want to go big for. And so far in his tenure here, the two players they went really big for, one they got,

one they didn't, is Yamamoto and Soto.

It just has to work now.

That's the only issue.

Yeah.

It has to work.

Bobby, you know his own park.

What's up, Bobby?

Hey, guys.

Thank you so much for taking my call.

I appreciate it.

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