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00:00A-plus for effort, uh, in their pursuit of Juan Soto.
00:03What would you grade him, Keefe?
00:04Uh, F.
00:05You didn't get him! Like, the whole idea is to get these guys,
00:08and if things are really different, you're gonna get them.
00:10And I'm with you, I can...
00:11If they have a big free agency, you know, aside from Soto,
00:15I'll be happy to give him credit then, and at that time.
00:18But like, how many times do they need to fool us?
00:21Or how many times do they need to be, uh, according to John Heyman or Ken Rosenthal
00:25or whoever else, are right there, like,
00:27ooooh, right there, right on the cusp of it.
00:30Like, that's not an A-plus effort.
00:31You know what it's gonna take, especially a month ago,
00:34we all could've told you.
00:35You're bidding against the Yankees, the Mets, and the Dodgers, like,
00:38alright, you better be, you better be for real, I don't love your chances.
00:43And then they didn't get him.
00:45So like, is that really where we're going now?
00:47The, you're gonna give him credit for being third at best in signing a player?
00:53It's not a, that's not a, this isn't an area where it is effort.
00:56On the field's effort.
00:58Uh, D-minus.
00:59Yeah, okay, maybe D-minus, I'll talk him up to a D-minus.
01:01Honestly, that's kinda where I am, because, uh, for them,
01:04maybe it's higher than an F, but D-minus.
01:06They didn't even make an offer to Otani, like, they didn't even take a meeting with Otani.
01:09So this is somewhat of progress, and it's pathetic we even have to go there, I acknowledge that.
01:13But it is somewhat progress.
01:15They, I'll give them a, a, a stronger grade
01:18if they land a big-ticket player, or two.
01:21They really should land two at this point in time.
01:22They should land two of them, and I'll give them a badge.
01:25Oh, I will love that.
01:26Then, then, the pursuit of Juan Soto really meant something.
01:29They wouldn't extend as far as Steve Cohen, but, oh well, Steve Cohen outspent them, fine.
01:34I can talk myself into that.
01:35You have to actually follow through and do it to get the A-plus for effort.
01:39You can't pursue Juan Soto, come in third or fourth, make a similar offer to the effing
01:43Blue Jays, lose out to the two teams in New York, sign nobody, and get an A-plus for effort.
01:48Nothing will have changed.
01:49What if they are second?
01:50What if they have the second-best offer for Burns, and Freed, and Bregman, and Hernandez?
01:56Like, A-plus for effort?
01:57No.
01:58No, of course not.
01:59No, that, that is an F for effort.
02:00Then you're just trotting out the same team again.
02:01Like, you need to be, you need to be better, you need to improve on this team, and the
02:06thing with baseball is you don't need to win a million games.
02:08Like, you just need to be a handful of games better than they were last year, you could
02:12make the playoffs, and then you could go on a run.
02:15And they're not that far off, and they've gone a handful of years now without spending