Hey and welcome in to the House of L podcast I am Lauren Holmes you due to full host and I'm excited for episode 78 of the podcast.

We have an incredible guest who is extremely thoughtful and interesting

in Sahada of Sharma who writes for the athletic and I'm so happy what's really interesting about like putting together the podcast now is with with

with with for a while,

I can actually get baseball writers on to talk about

covering baseball,

because they've got a little downtime

before the Cubs make a decision about their managerial because

there's the the blackout issue when it comes to having news inside the window of the world series.

So it's great because I when I go out to Wrigley Field or or 35th in Shields,

I get a chance to talk with with these guys in person.

And I'm like, man, they'd be such a, like I love to talk about whatever

with this guy or this guy or this woman who covers baseball.

But I never really get the chance because they're working because it's a grueling grind.

It's a great job, but it's still a job.

Everything is relative and it is difficult to cover baseball because you are

working all the time so this is kind of the down window which gives me a chance to

talk with interesting people who cover the game.

Like Sahadev. I love his work and I'm so happy that he had time to get because he's always doing something.

There's always another angle that he's looking at when trying to dissect what's going on

in the world of Cubs baseball.

He's got a really interesting story, and I wanted to talk to him about his story and I wanted to talk to him about

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