Hello, friends and welcome in to Rates and Berylls. We're here at The Athletic. I am Chris

Welsh, joined by Anosaurus, and we are very happy to have you here today, as we are doing.

I believe this is called the Project Prospect, as we've been calling it.

You know, that was DVR's name.

DVR, by the way, is with the family.

Baby's good, and we're going to be holding down the fort.

We did not have an episode yesterday as it was a

holiday but normal i will be here for you guys monday with eno uh ano did you enjoy not having a second

to yourself on a holiday where your kids were home yeah yeah we had a degree of difficulty and

had a party.

So it was a pretty insane day.

It was a couple of moms had birthday parties.

So the dads had to do a little extra heavy lifting with the kids.

It took them to the park. And I had this like maybe three minute sequence where one kid came up and whacked me with a stick in a way that still hurts on my thumb.

And then I threw like a batting practice pitch to this other kid who his swing wasn't, didn't look good, but he was kind of athletic.

So he pommeled me. Like, he just, he hit a line drive, like, I don't know, like 60, 70 mile hour line drive, like into my stomach. Like righted the stomach? Yeah. And I'll, oh. And then as I'm down, the kid who hit me at the stick comes back and hits me again. I was going to joke that he's going to come and whack you. Of course he would. It's like, oh, I'll leave me alone for a second. People don't realize when you have kids, like holidays and day off, they're not like fun because it's just chaos that's going on. All right. So you would have rather been recording rates and barrels and being hit by a stick. So, all right, that's good. I actually spent some of the time. If anyone's watching on the YouTube channel, I am quite red as I'm looking on my face. I look even redder. I've been out in the sun every single day as spring training is here. Camps are going on. I have been to probably five or six of them.

And it's cold, so you forgot to put your sunscreen on. Well, that is exactly right. The first

couple days, famously as people know now, Jacob deGron was supposed to come out and work with all

the pitchers on day one, which was Wednesday. And then he felt some tightness.

But also people were very dismissive of it because they're like cold in Arizona.

I was there.

It had snowed the night before.

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