Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We have the most special of guests today. My brother,

Jeff Passon, formerly of Syracuse University. Let's do it.

Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We are on the last week of John Boy's paternity leave as he has brought human life into this world. Trevor Ploof is just AWOL.

He's actually Jeff, you're going to like this. He has now befriended the Stafford family, Matt Stafford, the quarterback for the Rams.

He is in San Francisco. He posted a picture with Gabe Kapler over the weekend and he's going to the Monday night football game tonight.

Basically, he's the celebrity of Talking Baseball has gone to his head unlike myself. But Jeff, you're here and now we can finally talk. How are you?

It is like the last 15 minutes just gone forever. Yeah, so that was nothing. That wasn't live. I'm sorry.

I just assumed we were streaming Jeff. I don't know how this works. I'm a professional. We are peers. And if you were live, I'm going to tell you your live. I'm not just going to put a mic in front of you and try to get you. That's not who I am.

I'm just a yes. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, you literally did that. It's the way to be in the 2000 that you ran all day. The microphone. It said, hey, want to talk? I'm going to give you this t shirt with hand porter on it. Let's chat.

Okay, so let's check out a couple things here. Is that all true? Yes. But I mean, I told him a microphone and there's a camera there. So that was a little different.

No, it's not different. You're in front of a microphone right now. And there's a camera on me. It's the exact same thing.

Well, an electric start to the program. The last couple minutes before this were very cordial. We were actually talking about our friendship slash enemy ship, I guess.

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Hold on. Can we do this? Can we talk with this for a second? Yeah. So you are prepping me as to what this is going to be like. Yeah. And we're just going to have some ad reads. Yeah.

You didn't tell me it was going to be a owner read in the middle of the award or ad read signing.

I mean, in a way, it's not a boner read. Well, the two in my experience, the two are very much tied together. Yeah.

This honestly, this is very much how my morning went.

Hey, we're getting rid of the stigma, Jeff. This is this can help people. That's what we do here. Are you back? Are you okay?

Probably lost for Christmas. Okay, that's perfect. That's perfect. That's how the show works. Jeff, we get the notification. Everyone has their Jeff pass the notifications on.

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