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00:00We always talk about Mike Lombardi when he speaks, it's really just Bill Belichick.
00:05Every time John Heyman speaks, it's just Scott Boris. And so Scott Boris represents all these
00:10guys. So if Scott Boris is trying to get 600 million for Juan Soto, he's going to want to
00:15include every single team possible, including a team that used to spend. They don't spend anymore,
00:19that's why it's laughable. But they used to spend, so you'd want them in the quote unquote bidding.
00:24You want the Yankees to think the Red Sox are in.
00:28But they are not.
00:28No, of course not.
00:30Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, these are the teams you want in the mix, just in case.
00:37You can drive up the price a little bit if you're an agent.
00:40And John Heyman is happy to do Scott Boris's bidding.
00:42Let's say if Juan Soto makes 600 million on his next deal, do you think the Red Sox
00:47hand out in contracts, so not for this year, but I mean in total contracts,
00:52300 million with all the players they signed?
00:54I was about to say, no chance 600 million.
00:56No, no, no, no.
00:56300 million, no, no, no.
00:57So they won't even spend half in free agency on God knows how many players.
01:02That could be 2, 3, 4, 5, 10.
01:04So to say that they're in on that, and then for him to skirt by,
01:08they're like, oh, they didn't sign Mookie Betts.
01:09I don't really know what happened there.
01:10Aren't you a baseball guy?
01:12Aren't you supposed to be kind of dialed in on that?
01:14Maybe why they didn't, and maybe you want to explore that.
01:16So they wouldn't sign Mookie Betts, but now they're going to give 600 million to Juan Soto.
01:20OK.
01:20Well, I mean, in fairness, they didn't sign Betts,
01:22and then they turned around and signed Devers.
01:23They did sign Devers.
01:24They sort of forced into that because they also let Bogarts go at the same time.
01:26And so you need somebody.
01:27If your logic is sometimes they panic and just abruptly change course,
01:31that's the best logic because the team has done that a bunch.
01:34They have a price thing.
01:35They've done it.
01:36They've done it.
01:36Devers is another example of that, where they just they reverse course.
01:39We're not going to do something.
01:40We're not going to do something.
01:41Oh, crap.
01:41We have to.
01:42Now, I don't believe that's going to happen in this scenario.
01:44I do not.
01:45I thought last offseason there was a chance it would happen, and it didn't.
01:48I'm no longer holding out hope for that.
01:49But there is a history of John Henry saying one thing,
01:53acting a certain way, and then just completely reversing course.
01:56They do it with GMs.
01:57They do it with managers.
01:58They do it in free agency.
01:59They do it.
02:00They've done it all the time.
02:02I now think they're done with that.
02:03Yeah, I don't think I don't think they're going to spend anymore.
02:05Not in a meaningful way.
02:07Probably not even in a top 10 payroll in baseball.
02:10They'll be right around 10.