Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, June 21st.

Derek Van Riper, Eros, Trevor May, all here with you. It's a live one. Thanks for the live hive for joining us on our YouTube channel. We're live most Fridays at 1 o'clock Eastern. I've been awake too long today, fellas. I have been awake for about seven hours already, which is about three hours too many before a noon local recording.

So I've had time to let a lot of things marinate.

I've had time to drink way too much coffee, which could be good for the show.

Could be a disaster.

We're going to find out over the course of the next hour.

On today's episode, we'll discuss Thursday night's game at Rick Woodfield between the Giants and Cardinals. We'll dig into the 2024 major league baseball run environment. People have been asking us about this in the Discord for a little while. What's going on? Is it the ball? Is it something else? We're going to dig into that a little bit more. We're going to go all the way back to 1888 for a split second too. So we can look forward to that trip in the time machine. Promise we're going to be there for three seconds. Then we're going to come right back. We're going to dig into some situational stats for pitchers that Trevor was digging up and things that I hadn't really thought about a lot before. But Trevor thinks about them all the time. I think we should bring those to light because they're going to be really fun to discuss. And we'll take some questions along the way as well. So if you got questions,

fire away on stream. We'll get to those here in just a little while. Gentlemen, we had a great

game on Thursday night at Rickwood Field. I think it delivered in terms of broad expectations

that I had, just in terms of learning about history, seeing a

beautiful park that I'd never actually seen before, had an entertaining game as well, a six,

five game. So I had a little bit of everything across the board. I want to start with you,

Trevor. What were some of your takeaways from Thursday night? So interestingly enough,

I was only able to catch a couple pitches of the actual game because of a bunch of random things that kept happening all afternoon.

But I was able to catch a lot of the desk.

And I had a really good time a lot of those conversations.

Like, I've actually had the pleasure of speaking to Reggie Jackson a bunch of times.

He's one of those guys who is maybe one of the best better storytellers, I think, of ex-players.

His story about the stuff he had to deal with.

That was super powerful.

Was super powerful.

Really, really awesome.

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