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70 celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards.

It is Monday, September 27th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris.

We are heading back into our pleasant surprises series.

And there was one unpleasant surprise from me last week when I cut part of our rundown from Monday and pasted it in for Wednesday to continue the series and left the Detroit Tigers sitting there on Monday even though we didn't talk about them on Monday.

So I appreciate everybody reaching out and saying, hey, did you guys forget the Tigers?

Heartfelt apologies.

Yeah, we did.

We didn't mean to forget them, but we did forget them thanks to my phenomenal use of the copy and paste tool.

It's too bad that that's a new tool and I haven't had time to learn how to use it correctly.

But on this episode, we'll dig into the Tigers, the NL West teams and probably a couple NL Central teams.

We'll close out the series on Wednesday.

Kind of times out nicely with the playoffs just around the corner.

And as we mentioned, I believe on a few episodes, we are going to go every weekday, starting the Tuesday that the playoffs begin at 1130 Eastern.

If you watch us live on YouTube, 8 Eastern no 830 Pacific see I'm still learning

time zones too you know I'm uncaffeinated I'm already tired no and I don't know where I am so

with the Monday ass oh already I'm so angry right now you've no idea how mad I am about everything

oh that's that's that's that's where I'm now. You've no idea how mad I am about everything.

Oh, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, a, that's, a, I'm at, a, I'd say, a, a good, 75 seconds, bliss on the, on the, on the, um, on the river yesterday.

Oh.

I'd say, I'm a good 75, maybe 90 seconds.

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