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for more information. Good morning, Mike. Good morning, fellas. How you guys doing today?

Good. Good morning. It is the draft process. Once it's done, like do you have a cocktail?

Is it exhausting? What's it like for you? It feels pretty good when it's done. Yeah,

it's, you know, like two weeks of, you know, long days and looking at film and grinding

out, you know, kind of pressing players around with with your group there. Yes, it's,

you know, you take a deep breath, you know, you're you're you're just back. Take a deep breath,

you know, congratulate everybody on on all their hard work. Maybe have a little cocktail

and kind of just relax, you know, before, you know, the next deadline hits, which is the

trade deadline in a couple of weeks. You know, after the signing, the signing deadlines are

the 25th. So it's still a lot of stuff to do, but the draft is, you know, always, you

know, the most exciting part of the baseball calendar and Mike humble opinion. And it's one

of the most important days of the year for the organization. So those three days went

well and and their past is now we sign the players, get them physicals and and then move

on to the trade deadline, see what happens there. So Mike, is the draft a year round process,

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