I do think we should be talking a bit about the when. I mean, this is, you know, suspending your kid for three days if it starts on a Friday from school is a lot different than starting on Monday morning. And I think that the manipulated timing is almost more problematic than this 90-day, what essentially is a 90-day sentence.

Yeah, it is. And listen, I don't think, I just say this up front, I don't think Sinner knowingly cheated. I don't think he intentionally did. I think his trainer, you know, fucked up in epic ways. But we are responsible for what our teams do. That is why we are here, out of suspension. Not because they found Sinner at fault Not because he knowingly was doing anything but because we are responsible uh for our teams um It's just it it's a it literally if you can handpick a date right it's i'm gonna start this I don't know 10 days after the aussie open and i'm gonna end it not even right before the french French Open, right before I make my return to Rome in the Masters 1000 there. Like, you could not have handpicked a better sweet spot for Yannick Sinner to take this deal, which is either, you know, strange or it's the best coincidence that's ever happened to the Sinner team.

Yeah, Rome also being the largest event in the country of the player that we're talking about. And you know what's weird about this, Andy, is that WADA never contested the facts, right? They never said, wait a second, you didn't consider what happened on the Tuesday, or someone's testimony was contradictory. All WADA seemed interested in was, you've got to have a penalty in strict liability. It's what you said. If you have a code that says you're responsible for what you put in your body, you can't allow an athlete who tests positive twice to skate. Okay, fine. Why would this have taken this long to reach this plea agreement? If this sort of deal was always on the table, why would it have happened in the middle of February when WADA appealed this not long after the U.S. opened? So yeah, I mean, the timing couldn't have worked out perfectly. You're right. Not only does Sinner not miss a major, but he gets to play in the biggest event in his home country. I'm sure the ATP is thrilled. WADA, I guess, can say, listen, if we hadn't appealed this, he would have totally skated. Now we've got 90 days and you no longer can say, hey, my trainer. I mean, think about what would have happened if he had skated entirely. Any athlete with plausible deniability who had doping at the hands of a trainer or someone on their entourage would escape meaningful penalty. That's not a good result. The flip side is that one year suspension, you know, that could be 10 percent of an athlete's career, one year suspension when the report said there's no finding of fault or negligence. That seems awful harsh. So I think 90 days is probably about right. But yeah, it's a little weird that this fits perfectly into a window that allows the player to not only not miss a major, but play in Rome. I think that's what's going to kind of stick in

people's craw. What, getting suspended during spring break doesn't count as much as getting suspended. Exactly. It is extremely convenient timing. I want to know, like my mind automatically goes like, what's this negotiation like, right? Like, we're okay, well, you know, we have to do something. Like, how does this conversation take place to avoid this trial? I think I have more questions about what we're reading this morning than I have maybe going up to this point, right? Like I felt pretty confident, like, you know, I don't think he did it on purpose. I can't imagine why you would put your entire career at risk for, you know, like you'd like to say a speck of sand in a swimming pool that gives you no added benefit. That doesn't seem like a likely sequence of events. So i tend to believe that yannick at least was acting in good faith the entire time now this whole thing with the the you play the first major you win it and then you take a little you know siesta and then you continue on uh with a week you know a warm-up tournament in rome and then you don't you miss no majors Now, I don't know how this, and maybe it's just, you know, good fortune for the center team, but the timeline is borderline laughable.