Greetings and salutations, everyone, and happy 2020 to all of our listeners out there.

It's Rich Wilson here, and I'm here with the great Tim McLeod and his fantasy baseball live.

We're here every Sunday evening talking the game of baseball, talking the game of fantasy baseball, talking

whatever the heck we want to talk about.

Timmy, the clock has turned over to a new year.

Yeah, it has.

And eventually, when I get this cord untangled from my shirt collar, we'll remove all

a lot of static.

You're probably hearing, Rich.

I heard it a little bit before we got started, but it's been an interesting start to the year, Timmy.

Let's see if I got it right.

Australia is burning, and the U.S. might be getting into a war.

Do I have that about right to start off the year?

Yeah, that sounds pretty fair, Rich. I think you covered most of the real important bases. I'm sure there's a few things, a few other things that have happened, but yeah, that's, yeah, that pretty much sums it all up. How did the, I don't understand, I don't want to talk about the U.S. and the where I don't think that's actually going to happen.

Why did Australia, you've got a lot of friends in Australia, it's part of the commonwealth.

What happened there? How did all these fires start?

It's been hot and it's been dry and they haven't got any rain.

And I heard somebody describe it as the equivalent to a blast furnace.

Temperature is running 40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius with no rain and everything is just dry.

Like, you know, 40, you you're you're looking at 100 plus

every day and high winds on top of that it doesn't take much to start so any any spark will

you know just a match that gets out of control and you could start a blaze i i heard that there were

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