All right, David, with the ticket text, and we go right to the callers.

We got a little bit of Tigers with the Scott Harris interview in the free press,

and you've got Michigan.

A lot of people want to talk about Sharon Moore.

We're here for it.

I'm taking aback at the level of vitriol, and that's me saying.

If their treatment of schoolboy is how they are going to run the team,

why am I concerned about, quote, unquote, blocking the kids when it's becoming a parent that they don't want to pay them

either and from Mount Clement? Here's what I will say. A first offer never defines a negotiation

unless what they put out was not only uncompetitive, but it was insulting. That's different.

Deadlines make deals, not people.

I just, I said it last year, I'll say it again. If you wanted to button this up and you didn't want to get into a war and you didn't want to play Boris's game, 10 at 400. Why? Because Garrett

Cole had established what the top pitcher in the sport is going to get at 36. Scoobel is left-handed, younger, and if you wanted to not have Boris do what he wants to do,

and again, once again, I gave you nine or ten examples of Boris clients that didn't take it to

free agency and did sign with two years or more left on their deal.

And I laid those deals out.

They have to be substantial. Now, if you don't want to make that commitment, that doesn't make

you a bad person, but it does mean you've got to have difficult conversations. And this is

where people attacked RICO or attacked Rieger. It's the way last year went was so bizarre to me with how people

wanted to draw these battle lines. Like I just sat here and said, I'm not inclined to trade the guy,

but I'll listen. And if I traded him, here's what it would take. Even then, people were upset.

And it's like, well, guys, here's the reality we live in. He's at his peak value now.

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