00:00My question, though, Craig, is that when did it become the situation where owners, GMs, and teams think by selling
00:12the fans on the future means more than the present as an excuse?
00:19How many times can you keep telling fans the future matters more than us putting all our chips into the
00:26middle and saying we're going for it?
00:27Come out of high water, we're going to go for it, and that's it.
00:33Boston, I mean, ridiculously overpaid for Rushman.
00:38Ridiculously overpaid.
00:39But their message is we're in this thing.
00:42We're in it to win it, good or bad.
00:43Here it is.
00:44We're pushing it.
00:45And then you've got teams like Minnesota and others that are like, well, we're in it, but we're not really
00:51in it.
00:51And then you've got everyone else saying, yeah, now the future is way more important than what we've got going
00:58on right now.
00:59I just don't understand the concept there, and how do you sell fans on that?
01:03So Boston, it's funny.
01:05So Boston fired Dave Dombrowski for going all in and trading all their prospects.
01:14And then they hired Haim Bloom from Tampa Bay.
01:18And Bloom famously traded Mookie Betts and got nothing back.
01:22But, Joe, every other player that you're seeing play for Boston was acquired by Haim Bloom.
01:29But because after two years they looked at Haim Bloom and said, this guy just doesn't want to go all
01:34in.
01:34He wants to keep getting prospects.
01:35Bloom is like, this is what you brought me here for.
01:38Like, it made no sense.
01:40So they fired Haim Bloom, and they hired Craig Breslow.
01:44So Craig Breslow is like, okay, I got all these guys that Haim Bloom got me, and I'll be the
01:50all-in guy.
01:51And now they're all-in.
01:53So you tell me.
01:55I don't know.
01:56It seems like teams change all the time.
01:58But that's an anomaly.
02:01In New York, you can't rebuild.
02:03In Boston, you can't rebuild.
02:04In Philly, you basically can't rebuild.
02:07But your question is now in the forefront in Baltimore.
02:15That's the team right now.
02:17That's the question.
02:17The question you're asking is being asked in Baltimore.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Is the present more important than the future?
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