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00:00Would I be willing to go 15 years for Soto?
00:02Yeah.
00:03Is it smarter to go 15 years and 700 million for Juan Soto, Keith, or is it smarter to
00:11do the Bob Nightingale plan that came out the other day, that the Red Sox want not one
00:15but two of Corbin Burns, Max Fried, Blake Snow?
00:19So is it smarter to sign two starting pitchers than Juan Soto for 15 years, 700 million?
00:26I still want Soto.
00:27I think so.
00:28I love Burns.
00:29I paused because of Burns, but I don't know that it's smarter, but the Red Sox, they need
00:38a household name and a superstar.
00:40That's what they need.
00:41And I think it just adds so much more.
00:44Not that Soto is a polarizing figure, but getting him from the Yankees and then having
00:49him go up against the Yankees now adds so much more juice to that rivalry, which needs
00:56a little kick in the shorts.
00:58I would still lead that, just because I like Max Fried, but he's no guaranteed stud-signing
01:04guy.
01:05Burns is closer to that.
01:06None of this whole show likes Blake Snow.
01:07None of us.
01:08Nobody does.
01:09Yeah.
01:10So yeah, I think those pitchers...
01:11So Max Fried and Blake Snow or Juan Soto?
01:12Juan Soto.
01:13I don't care if it's 700 million.
01:14Juan Soto plays every day.
01:15Yeah.
01:16And I know any player can get hurt all the time.
01:17It just feels like baseball players get hurt, or pitchers get hurt all the time.
01:20I think you're right.
01:22They'd also get the...
01:23I think there's a benefit to stealing a player away from the Yankees.
01:26I'm not even talking head-to-head in the standings.
01:28Oh, we made them weaker and we got better.
01:30There's that benefit.
01:31Yeah, yeah.
01:32But there's also Red Sox fans going, oh, we outspent New York.
01:34They want him.
01:35We outspent the Yankees.
01:36We outspent Steve Cohen and the Mets.
01:39The Dodgers aren't even in.
01:41We outspent those teams.
01:42There would be a real benefit to fans reinvesting and recommitting to the team because you did
01:48that.
01:49One thing, and I know it's the cost of doing business, but if you have your biggest free
01:52agent signing in, I don't know, seven years, and it'd be way bigger than what you had before.
01:57I mean, David Price was a huge contract, but this is another whole stratosphere of contracts.
02:04The cost of doing business often is giving these players these opt-outs, but that to
02:09me is a little deflating.
02:10If you finally come together and you give a 15-year deal and $700 million, you're like,
02:17here we go.
02:18And then he has three really good years and he opts out.