All right, I want to get to the callers.

Just one other note, Scoobel winning his arbitration.

It does kind of show you the folly.

I'm very pleased the team did not allow it to impact the pursuit of a Framber Valdez.

But Rico, we said it from Jump Street.

How to hell did they walk in that room making essentially the same offer that David Price got 11 years ago

and think they had a chance in H.E.L. Hell of winning that arbitration.

I don't know.

I mean, the only thing they could say is, hey, baseball sent us here and said, this is the price. Really? No, this isn't Moscow. It's not how that works. We would have offered more, but it was recommended by Major League Baseball. This is the price. And it's a great price. I mean, it'll be, you know, no, no. You had no chance of winning this thing. Not at that price point, no. So it just, again, I'm happy that Scoobel got his money. He deserves it. And honestly, I'm never going to root for a team to screw a player. I don't like the arbitration system. No. I understand it was collectively bargained. I didn't bargain it. I don't like it. See, I'm glad he got his money, too, because it would have been a very awkward situation that he loses. You're paying him $19 million, and you just signed Valdives for pretty much $40 million. Correct. Let's go to Jeff, 971. Jeff, how you doing, buddy? Hey, Mike. Before I get to my point, can I just ask you, what egregious drop did you play during

Otto's update that made that happen?

Oh, we have an auto drop of the Mike Breen thing.

And Otto's hilarious is he's so professional, but if you play a drop, he unravels.

He crumbles.

He just can't. He just

falls to the floor. So we mess with him. It's fun. It's hilarious. I crack up every time

you play it. About the Veldas signing, I think a kudos to Scott Harris for finally being the first general manager in town

to not listen to Dan Campbell telling him we're good and just signing somebody finally and like making

a big solid move, which also was my point about the pissings like, come on, this was our year.

Like, why didn't we do anything? I don't know. I mean, Jeff, that's, that's, you know, again,

it doesn't have to be a five-star move. You got to do something. You can improve, you know, even Trajan's words about improving in the margins. You know, the Pistons are a bad three-point shooting team. They don't take enough. They don't make enough. And that's going to bite in the ass the way the game is played. And I understand, like, they play a hard-nosed brand of

ball. They want to make it tough on you to score and they can grind you down. And, you know, J.B. made the point of, well, you know, the two-pointers still count. Yeah, they do, except you're playing a bygone era of basketball. There are ways to get better. I don't understand why they chose not to.

But you know what?

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