So you want me to do it again for somebody who there's no market for.

If they were coming back to Steve and saying, hey, look, this is the Blue J offer.

It's higher than yours.

What are you going to do about it?

Well, then there's a decision.

But right now it feels like you're bidding against yourself.

No, nobody should do that.

I think you overpay when you really want something. In this case, we're talking about players and their services because you know that somebody

else is going to overpay.

Right.

But if nobody else is going to even match what you've offered, because right now it feels like

there's two offers on the table.

They're reported, even though I don't know if that's real, Blue Jay's offer, and what we know

is the

Mets offer.

And so if Pete Alonzo wants to be a MET, he's going to have to make a hard decision, either

wait potentially for someone else to come out of the woodworks, which is not going to happen

because pitches and catchers are eight days away and most rosters are already kind of set,

or just suck it up and take

what the Mets are hoping for. That's what the Mets are hoping

for. That's what the Mets are playing the game

towards. Now, let me address

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