This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.

This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Tuesday, August 1st, right after the trade deadline,

and today will be better than yesterday.

I'm Buster only working from a studio here, makeshift studio in Bristol, Connecticut.

We're taping this, Rachel Ulrich, who is the baseball editor for ESPN.com.

I know I'm going to mess up your title.

You probably have some special title, senior, something executive vice president of Baseball.

That part is much less interesting than the baseball editor part, that's the important one, yeah.

And you all know Tim Karchin.

Tim, how you doing?

I'm great.

We're done with another trade deadline, so that means Buster and Jeff Passen and a few others out there get to finally relax.

We're all half year at 648, then we were at 548.

You guys are the big winners at the trade deadline, man.

There's just such a sense of relief.

All right, so Rachel from you, you get to, you were basically downstairs in the ESPN.com version of the War Room.

Exactly.

Tell me what your impressions of this year's trade deadline, and you can take it back to when guys first started to be flipped, not necessarily just today.

Yeah, we weren't sure what to expect, and I had in my head, you know, vivid memories of last year when it was just all about soda all the time,

and we were all just waiting for this big Padres deal, and wasn't really sure a couple of days ago what those big deals were going to be.

So we were super excited that the Mets went all in, made some moves that we could talk about.

Everybody was excited about, and then I also really loved, I feel like this year way more than last we got a flurry right at 6 o'clock,

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