Before we start the show, we reference an interview with Max Kepler that we were excited for something came up.

It fell through. It'll be happening at a later date. So don't listen to every minute of this or just skip around to try and find the Max Kepler interview.

It is not part of this podcast. It'll be part of a future podcast. Get excited for that.

Welcome to Talking Baseball. We're going to try and figure out what the hell this all means and we're going to talk with Max Kepler of the Twins.

It's pandemic.

Yes, sir.

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to Talking Baseball. We are coming to you live. Well, not live. We're recording this. You're going to listen to it afterwards.

Jake and I are at John Boy Media headquarters. Trevor Ploof is in the hidden hills headquarters. HHQ. He calls them and we will be talking about what this.

I don't know what the term like lock out, pause, hold, whatever you want to call it on the season. Use the word embargo a lot today.

Yeah, I like that word. You do like that. It fit on the way I was using it. Yeah, kind of fit. Perfectly. So it's a halted play. How this is going to affect contracts and service time.

And there's a lot of players right now that are probably pretty scared about their contract and career. But first and foremost, Trevor, how are you doing?

I'm doing great guys. I'm happy to be here. I don't know if you guys see behind me. I've been working on the studio. A lot of people on YouTube have been talking shit to me about my audio, everything. So I'm trying to, you know, get a dialed in. They've been coming after you.

That never stops, bro. Buckle up. Yeah. You know, I'm okay with it. Shelf's a great though. Proud of you. I built these just so you guys know, like I 100% constructed those from scratch. When you were done, did you get that rush? Yeah. No, I was tired.

And, you know, I couldn't like gummy up or anything last night because I was doing this. And you can't like really measure on gummies. Oh, you could have done that's the best. Hey, Trevor, on the down low.

Might need you to mail me some gummies. Yeah, running out over here. Well, the we'll go off camera on that just on the down low. Jake, how are you doing at Heywood, Jeblow me. I'm good, man. I'm good.

You know, pandemic o'clock. I'm excited for this topic. Trevor, Trevor, let us into this one a little bit. Hot take. Trevor is going to come out for sure.

And honestly, it's such a mess. And I think it's so much wild speculation and so many different ways to go about it. I'm going to say the word pro rated a lot.

And we'll see how that that sounds. So I'm excited. I'm excited. Was it talking baseball when we talked about how cool the word pro rated is. Yeah. Yeah, pro rated. It's kind of an overrated word. I think we talked about that too.

Just the way it sounds pro. It's cool, but it's overrated. Well, the word pro has good connotation sort. And it means like, you know, professional. Yeah. Or like I am pro that I'm for that. Yeah. And then rated.

And it kind of has an R in there. So that's always cool. And I'm excited to talk to Max Kepp and a little bit. Yeah, he's absolutely a stud. We saw him at spring training. I mean, six, four. Got the Greek bod going a little bit in German bod.

Trev Trev raves about him. Yeah. He's the exact opposite of you. Okay. And physical life. Yes. Yeah. No, you're not wrong.

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