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We don't hold back and we don't waste your time. We get to what actually matters. That's Boomer and Gio, and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Mark, welcome. How are you? I'm good, Mike. How are you? I guess you broke the story. That's what Monz tells me. So congratulations. All right. Did David have a lot of places to go?

Yeah, he has a lot of teams interested. You know, most of them were looking in that two-year range. He was initially looking for three. He ended up settling on two with an option, which is when Andrew Miller got, and it seems like after last year when the Rockies gave out those three-year deals to Jake McGee and Brian Shaw that didn't work out so well, it seemed like a lot of teams were hesitant to go to that third year for any of these guys.

So it'll be interesting to see what happens now with Ottavino and Britain, who are the two best guys, not Kimbril, left on the market.

Mark, it seemed very out of character for him what went on with this playoff share thing.

It did not seem like the David Robinson that I've known.

I haven't been around him that much the last couple of years.

But he had a great reputation for being a good guy, a charitable guy, a good guy.

Did that hurt him with the Yankees at all? Is that a factor at all with the Yankees? Did that bother the Yankees? What went on with this stuff with the shares? You know, I never got the sense that it was a prohibitive factor in him not bringing him back. It may have played some sort of a role. I haven't heard anybody say that out loud. Did he take the hit for that? Was that fair or was that really him?

I mean, he certainly took the hit for it.

I don't know.

Look, he can't make these decisions unilaterally. I wasn't inside the room. I asked him about it. He kind of said, you know, let it go in the past. I don't really need to talk about that. He didn't want to address it. I think he was taking the hit for it.

But, you know, you think about those meetings, he can't make a unilateral.

No, he's taking the hit for it. But you know, you think about those meetings, he can't make a unilateral decision. No, he's just the guy who's the rep, but the point is he's the one who took the hip for it. Right. Everybody else in the room disagreed with him. They could outvoted him. So, you know, I think it was a little unfair that he was the guy who sort of took the heat for that one. I agree with that. You know, so be it.

I think, you know, to me, the most surprising thing in him signing with Philly for what he signed for is that the Red Sox didn't match it or better it because, you know, that's a team that really needs some bullpen help. And, you know, he lives in Rhode Island. He had made it clear that he was open to the idea of going to Boston. and then the fact that the Red Sox are really, they're either going real cheap on the bullpen or they're laying in the weeds and waiting for Kimball's price to come down so they can bring him back. Did the Yankees make any offer to him? They spoke to him. I don't believe there was an official offer, but they certainly, you know, he spoke to cash a couple times. Remember, he was representing himself also. Oh, he didn't have an agent. Yeah, he, he was. Is that new for him? A player rep representing himself, huh? That's wild. Yeah. So what, do you know anything about that? What was the reason for that? He basically just said that having gone through free agency once and, you know, being at this stage of his career where he, you know, 10-11 year veteran, that he just felt he knew what he was worth, he knew it where he wanted to go, you know, generally speaking, and what he thought he should get and just decided to give it a try. He's always been interested in that side of the business and, you know, just was interested in giving it a shot.

And, you know, some people criticized him and it's going to cost himself a lot of money because he doesn't know what he's doing. But if you look, Andrew Miller got the same deal for 25 and Robertson got 23 and doesn't have to pay an agent. That's agents saying that. Listen, I represent myself for a long time. Never cost me a dime. I heard the people on the team side questioning his, and even somebody from the union came out and said, this is not the advice I would give most players.

Of course.

Of course.

You know, it's interesting to see that he did it, but apparently he got, you know, he got

basically what the market is for a guy of his stature right now.

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