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00:00Let me ask it to you this way, and let me ask Cub fans this.
00:03If you win a World Series with Kyle Tucker as a major cog of your team this year, is
00:09it worth whatever you had to give up to win a World Series?
00:14Yes.
00:15That answer is yes, without a doubt.
00:19If you make a World Series, is it worth having had to give up Cam Smith and Isaac Paredes
00:27and Aidan Wisniewski?
00:29If you just make a World Series with Kyle Tucker as a major cog in your offense, you
00:34make a World Series?
00:35That to me is a yes.
00:36Yes.
00:37It's a yes to you as well, right?
00:38Yeah.
00:39Because of the randomness of the postseason, if there is overall success for the Cubs,
00:45if they're a 93-94 win team that wins their division, I think that you can look at it
00:52and say it's a success.
00:53Now maybe, just maybe, he plays so well and things go so well that ownership is like,
01:01you know, he's really young to be at this point from a contract standpoint.
01:10Maybe we're willing to go.
01:11Maybe they've got to do it.
01:12Maybe ownership will realize, you know what, we do have to do this.
01:15We've got to give them $450 million.
01:18Let's continue the thought exercise.
01:20So winning a World Series, absolutely it's worth it.
01:23Getting to a World Series in one year, even if it ends up being a rental, even if it ends
01:27up being that way, getting to a World Series in one year, yes, it's worth it.
01:32How about getting to an NLCS and losing in six or seven games because of the randomness
01:37of baseball?
01:39Is that worth having given up what you did for Kyle Tucker?
01:42Yes.
01:43For me, that's a yes as well.
01:44So we do need to put the caveat on it of, well, what happened?
01:49What does, what does Cam Smith become?
01:53But I still think it's worthless regardless.
01:55Do you?
01:56Yeah, I think it is too.
01:58So what if they win the division and lose the first round series?
02:03It's going to suck, but that's what baseball, like if they win 92, 93 games and lose their
02:10first round series, having won the division with Kyle Tucker as a big cog and they lose
02:14their first round series, is that worth it?
02:17Having made the trade?
02:18Yeah.
02:19I'm kind.