All right to the people I'll duck for cover. Let's see where everybody's at with it. We lead off with ivory

97-1. What's up ivory?

Hey, what's going on guys? How you doing? Good. How are you?

I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Yeah, I couldn't wait the call because my coworker and I we talked baseball a lot and he almost lost his mind when I said this today, that, you know, I would because it kind of reminds me

at a boy situation where when you're a GM, you're coming into the situation and you have to

assess, like you said, okay okay he's two years from arbitration

eligible are we going to win right now and seeing how we we went out there we didn't

do anything with our offense we want to see these guys develop,

okay I was cool with that, but now we see, okay, we have good pitching, he's two years away,

if somebody's going to meet your asking price, me, I trade him tomorrow.

I scratch his starting against Arizona and I trade him tomorrow because I don't want to get

in a situation where he gets hurt and then now you're stuck with nothing because you can

retool that situation you can retool your your offense you can even get if somebody's

willing to meet your asking price get a a good everyday offensive starter, and you could probably

clock another good young pitcher. So I do it in a heartbeat. I do it like, I do it right now.

Somebody's running to be my asking price.

Avery that's exactly why because you're looking at all the pitches that go down in

Major League Baseball yeah you're playing the game where man if he gets injured, his value goes down.

But right now you have teams that are desperate, they need starting pitching, and they're trying to go to the playoffs.

They got a lot of people in, you know, in their farm system that aren't really,

that they actually have people blocking them, like real legitimate people blocking them,

and you can go out and get those players yeah you make the

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