Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Boc Talk presented by Wendy's.

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may vary at participating US Wendy's. So before I start, I wanted to give a quick shout out some thoughts and send some prayers to those

impacted by these Northern California wildfires. This is right in my backyard and I understand

how much of an impact it has. So know that I'm thinking about you and everybody here as well.

You're in our thoughts, you're in our prayers. I know how tough of a time

this can be very smoky out there. So just thinking about you guys. We're halfway through the

MLB season, which is kind of weird to think about. We're not obviously going to have an all-star

break. It feels like the season started yesterday and the deadlines pretty much in a few days on

August 31st. That's going to be interesting to watch. It might be a little bit of a different

scenario this time around. I was hearing that, you know, we're not sure about some of these

resources. A lot of these trades may not even be huge. But a lot of the teams that were used to being buyers,

could be sellers and vice versa.

So that's going to be kind of something interesting to watch.

And of course, they cover the A's.

And that's going to be a lot of what we're going to see

from the A's wanting to bring some guys

to kind of set them over that threshold toward the end.

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