We are back. We got new managers getting hired. We got a manager search still going on.

Free agents opt-outs, opt-ins. Let's do it.

What's going on everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. The first official kind of off-season episode.

And we're going to find our own gears here. Obviously this show has not had an off-season episodes as we go.

We are excited to figure out what it is how it works and all that my name is John Boyr. I'm coming to you from New Jersey. I got my coach Jake coming from Denver.

Rockin' a nix hat. This is a baseball podcast not a basketball podcast. This is just the number nine.

Oh, just a nix hat. It's just number nine. And I want to correct you on another thing again. This isn't this is your talking baseball first off-season podcast.

I was doing talking baseball 94 95. I'm just talking to my wall and my dog. So I'm pretty well traveled in this. So don't you know this is technically year. I mean like year 15 or so.

Year 15 of talking baseball off-season. Right. Usually it was. It hasn't been recorded or shown. That's my bad and a mistake. I shall not make again.

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I had Stoltsonbach is like a long picture like six seven. That works to you just can't be average body. Okay. Just don't be average. Jacob Stoltsonbach. Yeah. It's the name that commands a presence.

Those are our most recent Patreon supporters and subscribers two dollars a month. You can hang out, listen live and some jerseys. I gotta do the October Raffle actually. Cool. All right. Anyway, Jake. It's been a little bit. I think the longest break we've had on the show in a while because we're doing daily episodes.

How are you doing? I'm great, man. I'm excited. I mean, it's again, this is part of a bigger philosophical baseball free agency problem that you and I ran into last winter meetings that I mean free agency technically kicks off. What midnight tonight? Yeah.

Yeah. And in the NBA world, that leads to like 48 hours of pure chaos and it's awesome. And MLB. It's like, all right. Like honestly, the chaos is going to be in the next couple hours with a couple opt-ins opt-outs to be decided.

A couple, you know, for the Yankees, I know we're kind of assuming that they're going to reach a contract with Brett Gardner before free agency starts and other teams have situations like that. Cool. Cal Hoon. We like putting those two in a bucket anyways.

But it is exciting. It feels like the world series just happened. The Nats just had their parade. But now it's like, all right, 2020 free agency. It's a little bit of a bummer. It's not going to be like, I'm not going to know Garrett Coles team in the next 24 hours, which in the NBA would.

But I'm excited. And it's I do like as I joke to bell, I've always been a huge baseball fan. And you know, I like this side of baseball a little bit more. The free agency, the coming together, the teams are, are you going to trust your minor league third baseman?

Are you going to go out and bring in a Todd Frazier? So I love that stuff. And there's there's a couple fun teams that I'm already locked into. So I'm good, man. I'm good. How are you? Nice. I'm doing well. I'm in the midst of a move.

Yeah.

So I'm the least a couple days ago today is Monday. I think Tuesday, Wednesday are two full move days. And then I'll be in New York City. Oh wow. Okay. Like it's, it's happening quick. Yeah.

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