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Yeah, Jimmy Stewart

just reminded me where that other first-round pick went.

It was to ditch David Backus.

To ditch David Backus to Anaheim,

you had to send along a first-round pick for them to swallow his salary. You did get back, Andre Kosh. That's great. Did you also get Richie? Did you get Nick, that lumbering stiff Nick Richie? Was that part of the same thing? Sounds right. Either way, you didn't even get a player back for the first round pick, really. It was really just to get anaheim to take on his salary that's

where your other first round pick went which is a whole another story which again i'm not like i'm not

going to lose my mind on that a free agent hit and miss that happens okay okay okay you have you

you you have to be able to draft at some point and it's just i think their drafting history is

freaking grim grim and that's the that's the that's the lesson of the Eichel thing. Not that I wanted Jack Eichael. It's just that you've drafted so poorly, you couldn't even match if you wanted to. And so when the next one comes around who you do want, and we would like, you can't even play the game because you don't have the prospects to give up. Right. It's not about Ikel.

It's not about Ikel, whether you like Ikel or not.

It's about being in the game for Ikel. So that's our Bruins thought as they finally return to action tonight. We have all the Celtics drama on the table as well. And Patriots on the table, of course, always as well. We also did a little Red Sox minute before about qualifying offers for Eddie Rodriguez.

Do you want to do it?

Do you think they would do it? We're questionable. I mean, I would do it. I don't even like the player Eddie Rodriguez. I'm not into him. But one year, $18 million is a qualifying offer. I would do that if I've got an $180 million payroll like the Red Sox. I mean, he is going to chew up some innings. And it's only one year in 18 million. And if you lose him, you get a draft pick. So yeah, I do it. It's automatic, I think. It should be. But we're questioning whether the Hime and the nerds in the Tampa Bay on the Charles there is going to be even in the market for someone like

Eddie Rodriguez.

I bet you they don't. You bet you they don't. I bet you they don't make the offer. I bet you they look at it and say for what he gives us, we can find a guy and pay him $8 million. Well, no. What a nerd would do is sign three guys for $3 million a clip, pay half the money and have three different guys to throw in there and match up with the launch angle and like do that out of the

bullpen.

They'd rather do that. Which is what they're probably going to do. Get ready for it. It is going to be freaking mind-numbing to watch them. Okay, so there's your Red Sox reset. Back to your phones, Bob and need him. Go ahead, Bob. Yeah, first off, guys, maybe the cure-off for the Celtics is to have a player-only Thanksgiving Day dinner. Maybe that'll solve the problems as well. I'd love to be a fly on the wall on that dinner. Secondly, it's not just the Bruins that are the rest of draft talent. It's like, you know, Ainsha 20 years and all those picks, he never hit like a miraculous 14, 15, 17th pick. It turned into a player that you could actually trade. The Red Sox. I'll give them to Barclay, at least he won the World Series without trading all the players. The Patriots have had stiff draft. All four of them have been horrendous the last 10 years at drafting. It's a bad run. Aange was the best of them.

I mean, Tatum was a money pick.

Huge. And Brown. Yeah, good one. Good pick. Even Smart's not a horrible pick. Where else were you going to go there? Yeah, and I would even throw in like Terry Rose here was an okay pick. He's been an okay player in the league. Well, I mean, Aange has had your standard hits and misses, and I think he had a little cold streak with those mid-first round picks.

So he had his ups and downs.

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