Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, November 4th, 2020.

Derek Van Riper here with Edosaris, episode one of 2021 fantasy baseball draft prep season.

I think that's fair to call it that.

We're back after a week of temporary relaxation, and now we've just dumped a whole bucket of anxiety all over ourselves in the last 48 hours or so.

And it doesn't look like that's going to clear up anytime soon.

But you know what?

This is a welcome distraction, you know?

I think this is a much needed episode for me, for my own sanity and well-being, given where we're at right now.

Don't want to look at the needle anymore.

Do not want to look at the needle anymore.

It is weird, though, I think, to kind of just finish off the World Series.

And, like, maybe procedurally we could change things in baseball where options aren't due like the day after the World Series ends or something. It's like we will right into, you know,

are they going to pick up his option or what are we going to do? Like, hot stove, let's get into it.

Maybe baseball wants that, you know, I guess there is a part of the baseball machine that wants to

have like mb network needs to have content you know they can't just spend a month uh you know just

put nothing up or putting old games up so like i guess that's the whole idea make it year round

you know make it the sunday after World Series, the options are due.

So then we get to yell about Brad Hand and yell about all these option decisions.

So, I mean, if the commissioner is going to take an interview, an exclusive interview,

the night of game six, or the night

before game six, and talk about how many losses, financial losses baseball is having.

There is a certain element of baseball that just is always on and will always be on.

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