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Uh, 'cause I've, I've been thinking about, like, my personal mountain in my career, and it's like, I feel like I just kind of, like, made camp 500 feet up, and I don't feel like going any further.

I found a nice escarpment or something, like a butte or a mesa, and I'm not gonna climb a mountain.

I'm lazy.

I'm just, I'm right here, and I'm just gonna make jokes about, I don't know, Rick Russell until the end of time.

That's all I do.

Y- Graner, are you familiar with the geographic entity known as a molehill? [laughs]

Yeah

I don't know Joe Niekro.

Okay, good.

Okay, so, uh, Joe Niekro, a bad hitter, uh, for his career.

He is, uh, let's see.

He pitched for 22 years, and when it comes to being a hitter, he had, his OPS+ was eight.

Uh, that is a 156 batting average, 188 on base percentage, uh, 188 slugging percentage, a bad hitter.

However, when you're going through Joe Niekro's line, May 29th, 1976, he does have one home run.

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So that's kind of where it's, you know, from pitching perspective, it's like, yeah, you don't have to spend like a million bajillion dollars, but at some point there is like a, you get what you pay for.

Yes.

And listen, free agency is completely imperfect.

It's not like the Brewers just steamroll through free agency.

They've had their missteps.

They just DFA'd Luis Ranjifo.

And it's like they kind of paid a little bit extra for him.

There's a lot of Jesus won shirts throughout Major League Baseball.

Some very famous concerts happened there, and it was-

was-It was kind of, um, you know, one of the legendary venues, uh, that went away at some point-

Oh

... like all of the legendary venues.

Not all of them.

Not all.

There are still some legendary venues.

Like, what, what is that process?

Why? G- give me some more context on why the half the World Series is the same from last year, but now you're suddenly in love.

[laughs] Well, last year, Dodgers-Yankees...

Look, I know the Yankees haven't had, uh, the same success that they had in the turn of the millennium, but they're still the Yankees.

They're still the boogeyman.

Uh, you know, the Cowboys haven't been to a Super Bowl in 35 years.

People still get annoyed by the Cowboys, and the Yankees y- have, uh, that same vibe.

They're still kind of a, a payroll bully.

Do we know what kind of b- MLB manager he's gonna be? Absolutely not, but it is gonna be mesmerizing to watch who he hires, what he, what staff hires, where he goes, what his game planning is like, what his bullpen-- It's gonna be must-watch TV for me every night to see how he handles it starting in spring training.