All right, Pat, first question, because we haven't wrapped with you yet this week, so we have a million things to catch up on.

Do you think Byron Buxton enjoyed his vacation to the Pacific Northwest this week?

Do we know where he is?

Is he in Texas, in the heat of Texas?

Is he back in St. Paul?

Do we have any idea his whereabouts?

In the Zoom era, it's very difficult.

You pretty much have to wait for somebody to tell you at the ballpark if somebody's around or not.

So I don't have any idea where he is, but man alive.

It was a week ago, Tuesday, so what's that at 10 days now, I saw him run out to triple

and when I was out there. And then two days later, he hit the two home runs and drove in five

runs. And I think when they put him on the plane to the west, you know, then he played once

more. And we put him on the plane to the West Coast. and we thought, yeah, okay, he's going to play. But now, I also, my column that I

wrote after I saw him in St. Paul was starting Friday, there's a hundred games left, and these

are the most important hundred games of his career

because it will determine whether they really want to sign him or not and he's going to have to

play 80 85 of those I might play 10 so I think that I think the decision has been made and

I don't think he's that determined to play for this team and but they

course they keep saying boy he's fighting to get on the field but he makes sure he slows down

those last 40 feet when he's sprinting to make them think that there's something wrong with him so

I have no idea what's going on but it's a joke so you think that this is probably him more than

them as far as not playing?

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