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- 0:04Speaker 1: Twins. Reporter for The Athletic, Dan Hayes is here covering
- 0:08Speaker 1: what I think is one of the most shocking headlines
- 0:11Speaker 1: of the sports year. The Pollads had been looking to
- 0:14Speaker 1: sell the Minnesota Twins for about a year, and Dan
- 0:17Speaker 1: has been all over the case here. He put out
- 0:20Speaker 1: another article this morning with Brittany Giroli and The Athletic
- 0:22Speaker 1: why the Pollads stunned potential buyers and kept control of
- 0:26Speaker 1: the Twins. That is a real quote from one of
- 0:29Speaker 1: the next generation family members of the pole Ads, Joe
- 0:33Speaker 1: Paulad said, we are the right people. Dan, here we go.
- 0:39Speaker 1: What the heck happened? And how has this shook Minneapolis?
- 0:44Speaker 2: Oh man.
- 0:45Speaker 3: I'm sitting by the Delta complaints counter here at MSP
- 0:50Speaker 3: and I halfway expect a bunch of Twins fans to
- 0:54Speaker 3: line up and complain about the pole Ads. It's been
- 0:56Speaker 3: a rough couple of weeks. I mean, the trade deabline
- 0:58Speaker 3: was shocking enough, right, but this sale was stagnant. Basically
- 1:03Speaker 3: after Justinishbia left. It just felt like there was momentum times,
- 1:08Speaker 3: but the thing it always lacked was big fish. You
- 1:11Speaker 3: always need an anchor investor like the guy with the
- 1:14Speaker 3: big Bucks. The Twins had a ton of interest from
- 1:18Speaker 3: limited partners, and we saw that play out right here,
- 1:21Speaker 3: where two groups investing at least twenty percent into the club.
- 1:29Speaker 2: We're willing to.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Buy it up without having a path to control, without
- 1:32Speaker 3: having anything more than a seat on the board.
- 1:36Speaker 2: And so that's two seats on the board.
- 1:37Speaker 3: We don't know how big the board is, we don't
- 1:39Speaker 3: know how much voice they will actually have.
- 1:42Speaker 2: That's a very unique, unusual deal.
- 1:45Speaker 3: There was plenty of people like this that were interested,
- 1:49Speaker 3: but I think after Justinishbia kind of left and abandoned
- 1:54Speaker 3: has pursued of the Twins in January when the when
- 1:58Speaker 3: Jerry Reinsdorf's sons reached out, they really couldn't find someone
- 2:03Speaker 3: that wanted to come in.
- 2:05Speaker 2: And so this this team sat on the market.
- 2:07Speaker 3: And there's only so long that you can keep the
- 2:09Speaker 3: house on an open market before the value starts to
- 2:12Speaker 3: go down and bids get less. The MLB wasn't going
- 2:14Speaker 3: to let that happen. I think that you know, it
- 2:18Speaker 3: sat there forever, and they had groups still spinning their
- 2:22Speaker 3: wheels trying to put stuff together, and we wrote about
- 2:24Speaker 3: that that there were still investors meeting yesterday trying to
- 2:27Speaker 3: figure out a way to get there, and they were surprised,
- 2:31Speaker 3: blindsided to see this sale happen the way it did,
- 2:35Speaker 3: the partial sale, but I mean that was the Option's
- 2:39Speaker 3: been there for six months. The price hasn't changed, and
- 2:43Speaker 3: like I think, just at some point the Pullouds had
- 2:45Speaker 3: to kind of pull the plug, and by doing this
- 2:48Speaker 3: they infuse much needed cash without giving up power. This
- 2:53Speaker 3: probably positions them for a sale down the road, even
- 2:56Speaker 3: though they say they're committed, and I didn't include that
- 2:58Speaker 3: in the story today, but Joe pull D said, we're committed,
- 3:02Speaker 3: but it probably positions them after the next CBA for
- 3:08Speaker 3: selling them when franchise.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Values might be higher. The fact that they will have
- 3:12Speaker 2: half the debt.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Or somewhere in that realm a significant amount less with debt,
- 3:19Speaker 3: it should increase the value of the Twins and position
- 3:22Speaker 3: them well later. But I mean, you know, Twins fans
- 3:25Speaker 3: have been clamoring for this for probably decades since.
- 3:28Speaker 2: The contraction bid in two thousand and two. You know,
- 3:33Speaker 2: I mean, if.
- 3:34Speaker 3: There are two thousand and one, the years are mixed
- 3:36Speaker 3: up in my head here, but you know, like they've
- 3:39Speaker 3: been clamoring for a sale for a long time. The
- 3:41Speaker 3: last ten months we've seen just an overwhelming push for
- 3:45Speaker 3: them to sell from fans, and I think they're very
- 3:48Speaker 3: disappointed today. And I certainly would not want to be
- 3:51Speaker 3: in the season ticket holder office talking to those guys.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Dan.
- 3:56Speaker 4: It's only if we would have talked about this months
- 3:58Speaker 4: and years ago. I mean, it was two thousand and two,
- 4:00Speaker 4: by the way, contraction because I was on the team
- 4:01Speaker 4: they want to get rid of it. It was between
- 4:03Speaker 4: two thousand and one and two thousand and two US
- 4:05Speaker 4: and the Expos they were talking about contracting, getting rid
- 4:08Speaker 4: of the the franchises for whatever reason they want to
- 4:11Speaker 4: come up with. Whatever it was all bs. So here,
- 4:13Speaker 4: here's the thing, Dan about this. You just mentioned that
- 4:15Speaker 4: the pole Ads didn't want to sell, and they wanted
- 4:18Speaker 4: Joe Polad to be on the board, and they wanted,
- 4:20Speaker 4: you know, grand grandson Polad to be on the next
- 4:23Speaker 4: board and then the great grandson of that to be
- 4:25Speaker 4: the president twenty five thousand years from now. I mean,
- 4:28Speaker 4: there was all these stipulations, right, So they never really
- 4:31Speaker 4: wanted to sell. That's what it comes across to me.
- 4:32Speaker 4: Unless they got blown out of the water, it wasn't happening.
- 4:35Speaker 4: You know there's a possible workstop it's coming out. But
- 4:37Speaker 4: what gets me about all this is we're the right
- 4:39Speaker 4: people to run this team? Are you? Because I was
- 4:43Speaker 4: there when Carl Pohlad the grandfather, would walk in the
- 4:45Speaker 4: clubhouse and not know who the players were, and I'd
- 4:48Speaker 4: be standing in my locker and he would go, oh, hi,
- 4:50Speaker 4: Tory Hunter, and I'm like, uh no, I'm not Tory Hunter. Right,
- 4:54Speaker 4: So like things like that, it was like, wait a second,
- 4:57Speaker 4: that was twenty five years ago and we're still talking
- 5:00Speaker 4: about it, right, So how can they come out and
- 5:02Speaker 4: say we were the right team to or the right
- 5:05Speaker 4: people to write the ship.
- 5:06Speaker 2: You haven't writed it in twenty.
- 5:08Speaker 4: Since nineteen ninety one, let's be honest, since that's been
- 5:11Speaker 4: since nineteen ninety.
- 5:12Speaker 3: One, right, No, Look, I mean just on recent examples alone,
- 5:17Speaker 3: they're going to miss the playoffs for the fourth time
- 5:18Speaker 3: in five years this season. Are in some miracle comeback
- 5:21Speaker 3: that's not going to happen. They are on pace for
- 5:25Speaker 3: one point eight million tickets right now.
- 5:27Speaker 2: It's going to be the lowest.
- 5:29Speaker 3: I think it's currently on pace for five thousand more
- 5:32Speaker 3: tickets than the all time target field low. They're going
- 5:35Speaker 3: to miss that. People are gonna not show up. They'll
- 5:38Speaker 3: they'll end it probably sub one point eight million. They
- 5:41Speaker 3: don't have secured a they have not secured a market
- 5:46Speaker 3: media deal like significant deal there. There's lots of things
- 5:50Speaker 3: to point out right now to say this isn't going well.
- 5:53Speaker 3: So when I heard that, I mean, yeah, of course,
- 5:55Speaker 3: that's why it's in the headline. There's a little bit
- 5:58Speaker 3: I get they're excited Joe Pollad, this really gives.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Him run as a shot, and it.
- 6:05Speaker 3: Clearly was probably up in the air the last couple
- 6:07Speaker 3: of years. I do think if they had gotten the
- 6:09Speaker 3: right deal, they would have got out. I think that,
- 6:11Speaker 3: you know, it's a big family. Started with Carl Pohlad,
- 6:14Speaker 3: but he had three sons. There are now seven grandchildren,
- 6:18Speaker 3: and then all of them have kids, and you're talking,
- 6:20Speaker 3: you know, a huge family. Not everybody has the same interests.
- 6:25Speaker 2: One of the brothers is in.
- 6:26Speaker 3: The movie industry, like they you have diverse interests when
- 6:30Speaker 3: you have a big, rich family. I don't think everybody
- 6:33Speaker 3: is totally on board. I think a handful definitely are.
- 6:37Speaker 3: But there's been just this air of uncertainty, and I
- 6:40Speaker 3: think had they gotten that big offer, they would have
- 6:44Speaker 3: taken it just because how do you pass that up?
- 6:46Speaker 3: But it's been just awkward, and you know, like you said,
- 6:51Speaker 3: the statement, the phrasing. This is the same group that
- 6:55Speaker 3: said they wanted to right size the business last spring
- 6:57Speaker 3: training after the thirty.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Million dollar pay cut.
- 7:01Speaker 3: They make headlines from time to time that have not
- 7:03Speaker 3: been flattering, to say the least, and frankly anger fans
- 7:08Speaker 3: and I can understand it.
- 7:09Speaker 2: And you know, Joe pull Out as a friendly dude.
- 7:12Speaker 3: I enjoyed my interactions with them, but this is two
- 7:16Speaker 3: statements like that where it's like, you know, those aren't
- 7:19Speaker 3: the best statements, and they make headlines and they stick
- 7:22Speaker 3: around for a while, and I think fans will definitely
- 7:25Speaker 3: use that for a while, especially if the team isn't
- 7:27Speaker 3: able to turn this around now.
- 7:28Speaker 2: I mean, clearly they infused a.
- 7:31Speaker 3: Lot of talent the deadline, even though they salary dumped
- 7:35Speaker 3: Carlos Correa. You look at their pitching, there's some really
- 7:38Speaker 3: intriguing arms along with still having a lot of starting pitching.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Intact. You saw Joe Ryant last night.
- 7:44Speaker 3: Bailey over maybe looks like he's getting back on the
- 7:46Speaker 3: right track. Pablo Lopez is around the corner. Zebbie Matthews
- 7:49Speaker 3: looked pretty good Monday a Yankee Stadium. And then you
- 7:52Speaker 3: have TODJ. Bradley of Mike Abel and you have Kendrick Rojas.
- 7:55Speaker 3: I mean you have some good starting pitching. Like there's
- 7:58Speaker 3: a world where you.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Can see them maybe getting healthy.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Quicker if some young guys developed, But if they don't,
- 8:06Speaker 3: like how long are people going to hold those kinds
- 8:07Speaker 3: of phrases over their heads?
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- 9:10Speaker 5: I had another question, but just talking about what you're
- 9:12Speaker 5: talking about. When they said we're the right people to
- 9:16Speaker 5: write this ship, what does writing the ship look like?
- 9:19Speaker 5: Or have started turning the runner because history shows you
- 9:24Speaker 5: they've had good pitching. History shows you they've had infusion
- 9:30Speaker 5: of really good position players. Now they have Byron Bucks
- 9:33Speaker 5: News healthy and you think Royce Lewis is gonna get
- 9:36Speaker 5: better because he actually plays worse when he's playing all
- 9:39Speaker 5: the time, and he plays better when he's hurt all
- 9:41Speaker 5: the time. So you know, it's it's you have that infusion,
- 9:44Speaker 5: it's the same Twins team. What does the writing of
- 9:47Speaker 5: the ship actually look like? If that is true?
- 9:51Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's hard to say.
- 9:52Speaker 3: Look, the previous plan, the plug got pulled after the
- 9:56Speaker 3: playoffs when they signed Carlos Career. I want to say
- 10:00Speaker 3: the day that Christian Vosque has signed was the day
- 10:03Speaker 3: Korea was going to have his press conference with the
- 10:05Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants, and I sat in Joe Poulad's office
- 10:08Speaker 3: that day with Dustin Morris, communications director, and we talked
- 10:11Speaker 3: about what payroll could look like if the business was right,
- 10:14Speaker 3: and Joe Poled said there was a world and I
- 10:17Speaker 3: used the quote, there's a world in which if the
- 10:19Speaker 3: business is healthy and the team is ready, I could
- 10:22Speaker 3: see us having a one eighty two hundred million dollar
- 10:24Speaker 3: pay well. I floated the numbers, one eighty two hundred million,
- 10:27Speaker 3: and he said, I could see.
- 10:28Speaker 2: That being a reality. That was the plan.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Then they signed Carlos Korea. Three weeks later. They had
- 10:36Speaker 3: the record payroll that year was either one hundred and
- 10:38Speaker 3: fifty seven million dollars or maybe one sixty But then
- 10:42Speaker 3: they pulled the plug on that year. Later they cut
- 10:43Speaker 3: payroll by thirty million dollars. They stopped adding around that group,
- 10:47Speaker 3: so it's kind of incomplete, like you're seeing what is
- 10:51Speaker 3: left of that now, which is a not an athletic team.
- 10:53Speaker 3: Luke Kishaw has been a breath of fresh air because
- 10:56Speaker 3: he is athletic. Roys Lewis is starting to show some
- 10:59Speaker 3: of the signs of that again because he's looking healthy.
- 11:02Speaker 3: Byron Buckston clearly is one of those guys. Now we're
- 11:05Speaker 3: going to see them go in this younger athletic direction.
- 11:09Speaker 3: I wouldn't say they're going to go what the Rays
- 11:12Speaker 3: are doing or the Milwaukee Brewers are doing, but I
- 11:15Speaker 3: mean it wouldn't shock me if.
- 11:16Speaker 2: They try to go in a new direction. It's yeah,
- 11:21Speaker 2: it's confusing.
- 11:23Speaker 3: If I was a fan, i'd be frustrated that July
- 11:27Speaker 3: thirty one was a dark day. I mean, I've struggled
- 11:31Speaker 3: to find anyone that can tell me at any point
- 11:34Speaker 3: where they've seen ten players traded. And by the way,
- 11:36Speaker 3: I apologize for my camera, this is not optimal, but
- 11:41Speaker 3: you know, this has been a really rough stretch and
- 11:46Speaker 3: what getting right looks like, I don't know. I think
- 11:48Speaker 3: that's why fans wanted a fresh perspective coming in, a
- 11:53Speaker 3: clean break, and clearly we're not getting that, and you
- 11:56Speaker 3: have to wonder what the future holds.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Okay, I got to ask because Falve came out and
- 12:01Speaker 4: said he was directed by ownership to trade everybody. But
- 12:04Speaker 4: now the ownership saying we didn't say that, So who
- 12:07Speaker 4: wanted to fire sale?
- 12:08Speaker 2: You brought it up.
- 12:08Speaker 4: They traded, you know what, almost half their team away
- 12:11Speaker 4: in like four hours, So who was it on. Was
- 12:14Speaker 4: this a fallavi decision, Was this a whole out decision,
- 12:17Speaker 4: or was it the fans are going to be mad
- 12:18Speaker 4: at me, so we'll just do it anyway's decision.
- 12:21Speaker 3: I think Korea was definitely something from an ownership level,
- 12:26Speaker 3: the impending free agents, that was a given we were
- 12:29Speaker 3: going to see them get traded anyways, you know the
- 12:34Speaker 3: way they've described it is. And I asked Joe Paul
- 12:37Speaker 3: specifically about the deadline yestady, and he said, I thought
- 12:39Speaker 3: it was good baseball decisions for the long term, short
- 12:42Speaker 3: term and long term health of our franchise.
- 12:44Speaker 2: So I know they plan on using there. I don't
- 12:48Speaker 2: know how they will use it, because he phrased it
- 12:50Speaker 2: if we choose to do so. But he talked about
- 12:53Speaker 2: the financial flexibility.
- 12:55Speaker 3: I don't know that the payrel is going to go
- 12:57Speaker 3: up much from where it is right now, and next
- 12:59Speaker 3: year it wouldn't shock me if we saw them around
- 13:02Speaker 3: one hundred million dollars. But I mean, honestly, those aren't decisions.
- 13:05Speaker 3: They're made until October November anyways. But it's going to
- 13:09Speaker 3: depend on season ticket base and what that looks like.
- 13:12Speaker 3: And I can't see the season ticket holders sticking around
- 13:15Speaker 3: right now.
- 13:16Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting to see what that fallout
- 13:19Speaker 2: looks like. But I would say it was directed.
- 13:22Speaker 3: From ownership level, even if they're saying no, they were
- 13:25Speaker 3: motivated to move Carlos Corey's money absolutely the way too.
- 13:30Speaker 2: I think partly you can say it's Derek Falvey.
- 13:33Speaker 3: As far as knowing what direction they're heading and knowing
- 13:37Speaker 3: that they needed a talent in fusion.
- 13:39Speaker 2: One way to do that is sell off a good bullpen.
- 13:41Speaker 3: And so I think that's why we saw Louis Varlin
- 13:45Speaker 3: get traded, Griffin Jacks get traded, was hey, we can
- 13:48Speaker 3: bring in this younger talent that's, you know, high upside
- 13:52Speaker 3: and very attractive.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Even though Louis Varland.
- 13:55Speaker 3: Himself had very little service time. They really love the
- 13:59Speaker 3: guy that got Ken Rojas. They love Alan Roaden. They
- 14:01Speaker 3: think Alan Roden and I've heard a lot of people say, man,
- 14:04Speaker 3: this performance has been so consistent across the miners. I
- 14:07Speaker 3: think he at one hundred and sixty five walks, one
- 14:09Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five strikeouts, and thirteen hundred minor league
- 14:12Speaker 3: plate appearances. They want to see what he can do
- 14:14Speaker 3: at the major league level they were. They were blown
- 14:16Speaker 3: away by that offer and decided to make that. So
- 14:20Speaker 3: it wouldn't shock me if it was a little boats,
- 14:21Speaker 3: but I would not.
- 14:23Speaker 2: I think think.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Ownership's fingerprints are all over the whole the whole scheme
- 14:27Speaker 3: in general.
- 14:30Speaker 5: Can you confirm this? Maybe I got trolled on a
- 14:33Speaker 5: story I read. Did the Twins up season ticket prices
- 14:37Speaker 5: for next year right before the trade deadline? Or did
- 14:40Speaker 5: I not read that correctly?
- 14:41Speaker 2: You know what? I honestly, I doe. There's been too
- 14:44Speaker 2: much going on. I don't know. I'll look into that
- 14:46Speaker 2: and get back to you guys, But the last three
- 14:49Speaker 2: weeks as of bar it's just a bo kratzy.
- 14:51Speaker 4: I'll tell you what happened. I was told that they're
- 14:53Speaker 4: going to up at five percent. So I could be wrong.
- 14:56Speaker 4: I could be trolled. I could be been given bad information, Dan,
- 14:59Speaker 4: I don't know. It was something that I was told
- 15:01Speaker 4: from people not in the organization that I know outside
- 15:04Speaker 4: the organization, that said there's there was a rumor and
- 15:08Speaker 4: they think it's fact that the ticket prices are going
- 15:10Speaker 4: to go up five percent next year and so right,
- 15:11Speaker 4: And this was right after the trade deadline when they
- 15:14Speaker 4: were going to send out the season ticket list.
- 15:17Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen people online today just kind of
- 15:20Speaker 3: grandstanding showing that they're canceling their accounts. I've heard from
- 15:24Speaker 3: one person that it's a busy day in there, and
- 15:27Speaker 3: not the fun kind of busy day.
- 15:28Speaker 2: So it's going to be very interesting.
- 15:31Speaker 3: And you know what, rarely my perspective do you cover
- 15:34Speaker 3: a team from a the business side of things, But
- 15:37Speaker 3: clearly that's something that we have to keep an eye on.
- 15:39Speaker 3: I mean, this is a team that just went to
- 15:42Speaker 3: MLB run Twins TV this year. You know there there's
- 15:47Speaker 3: a lot of uncertainty going forward and you know where's
- 15:51Speaker 3: where ticket sales are to be Next year is gonna
- 15:53Speaker 3: be really interesting.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Now.
- 15:53Speaker 2: The one thing that's true is winning does cure all.
- 15:56Speaker 3: And if you put Luke Kishaw and Royce Lewis and
- 15:59Speaker 3: Byron Bucks and that's starting staff together and get a
- 16:02Speaker 3: little bit of help here or there, because they do
- 16:04Speaker 3: have financial flexibility. If they do piece it together, maybe they.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Are an interesting club.
- 16:09Speaker 3: But there's just more pressure on that team to win
- 16:13Speaker 3: right now to get the business side going again.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Yeah, otherwise they're taking the franchise. This is a page
- 16:18Speaker 1: out of the John Fisher Book of how to move.
- 16:21Speaker 1: But they're not moving and they want to move the team.
- 16:24Speaker 1: This is such a mess.
- 16:26Speaker 3: It is and why you know, that's the one part
- 16:27Speaker 3: is why would you want to move from Targetfield? Target
- 16:29Speaker 3: Field a spectacular ballpark. I know that April sucks in
- 16:34Speaker 3: the weather there. If we ever see what a late
- 16:36Speaker 3: October looks like, that's could be very interesting. But they
- 16:40Speaker 3: have a long lease at target Field that there. It's
- 16:43Speaker 3: the same reason contraction didn't happen. There was the least
- 16:45Speaker 3: the Metrodome. The judge ruled that you can't get out.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Of your lease.
- 16:49Speaker 3: This cannot happen, and that shut down contraction talks real quick.
- 16:53Speaker 3: Twins have like twelve fifteen years left on their lease
- 16:56Speaker 3: at target Field.
- 16:57Speaker 2: They're not going anywhere, so you know.
- 16:59Speaker 3: It really is it's just a really interesting ten months,
- 17:06Speaker 3: last three weeks.
- 17:07Speaker 2: It's it's insane.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Yeah, they could not care less. They have tried to
- 17:11Speaker 1: move the team, contract the team now fake sell the
- 17:14Speaker 1: team for really over two point one billion dollars if
- 17:16Speaker 1: you include the debt, and everyone was like that's crazy.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Someone offered like one point five and they hung up
- 17:21Speaker 1: the phone, like this is just an utter disaster. But
- 17:24Speaker 1: at least, and I'll end this the way that we
- 17:26Speaker 1: started this, at least this is the right person to
- 17:29Speaker 1: take them through the storm. Declared by I don't know
- 17:32Speaker 1: the high heaven. Somebody declared it. No one knows who
- 17:35Speaker 1: it is, but someone declared that Joe paulad is going
- 17:38Speaker 1: to lead this franchise to glory into victory, and if
- 17:41Speaker 1: he does, obviously he's going to sell it. So we
- 17:43Speaker 1: know where they'll be voting, and they'll be trying to
- 17:45Speaker 1: lock out the world. That's why this is a baseball problem.
- 17:47Speaker 1: They're going to try and lock out the players and
- 17:50Speaker 1: the fans from watching baseball next year because it would
- 17:52Speaker 1: raise the franchise value if they can suppress salaries. It's
- 17:55Speaker 1: that simple. Someone can come on and tell me otherwise.
- 17:58Speaker 1: There is no doubt that's where they'll be voting. Behind
- 18:00Speaker 1: the scenes story for another day. We'll get to that
- 18:02Speaker 1: in the off season. Wanted to get to the on
- 18:03Speaker 1: field product here, Dan, we got to jump. But great stuff, man,
- 18:06Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, and good luck with the complaint
- 18:09Speaker 1: line over there where. It'll be all about the twins
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- 18:17Speaker 2: Right, guys, thanks for having me.