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And the word of the day is deer Brian. I want it to go with deer John, like deer John

Doe, or deer Jane. I don't think that's a thing anymore where people get deer Jane letters.

No one writes letters anymore. People write emails, they do texts, they do tweets. But in

Major League Baseball, the commissioner and the commissioner's office has always been

into letters. But the way it works when you get a letter from the commissioner, when

you are being fined, or your organization is in trouble, or when you're losing draft

picks, or when there's an issue, a dispute, you don't just wake up one day, go into the

office with your suit and your tie, and you go see your assistant, mail call, and then

raid our walks in or clinger and drops the mail off. And you see an envelope with

commissioner's office of Major League Baseball. And you open the letter and you read it and

you say, wow, I had no idea I was going to be contacted about this. What a total surprise.

The way it works is that you get a phone call. And the phone call comes from when Bud

Sealer was commissioner, it would come from Rob Manford. Now that Rob Manford's commissioner

comes from Dan Hallam, and the phone call comes to you and says, listen, we got a situation

involving your debt. We have a situation involving your use of revenue sharing. We have

a situation involving a player transaction that you did that is going to be grieved by

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