Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. Derek Van Riper, Bridget Roli, Enosaris, here with you on this Friday. Friday, July 2nd. That is the day. That is the date. It's only confirmed to me by my computer. I honestly don't know what day it is. Two out of three of us are in completely different places. I feel like I'm podcasting with one shoe on, if that makes sense.

I guess what I'm saying is I'm sitting in a chair that is not mine, at a desk that is not mine, at a laptop I don't normally use, and everything looks and sounds and feels weird, but I'm happy to be talking to you guys because there's a lot going on right now. All-Star selections

have been revealed. The starters for both the AL and the NL. So we'll dig into that. We've got a

nice holiday weekend in front of us. So we'll answer a few sticky stuff questions that have come

into the mailbag in the last couple of days. And we'll talk about beer of the month. It's time.

It's a perfect day for beer of the month.

So some fun stuff here today and a hot dog eating contest prop maybe if we have time as well,

because why not?

When in Rome?

It's the grossest thing we do as a race or a human.

What is that?

It's so gross.

I can't even watch it. I agree. It's disgusting. It's reached a level where it's pretty bad. Like in the 1960s when it was just actually eating a hot dog and not dunking it in water and tearing it apart, it was probably like the winner could eat three or four. And that was cool. Like, oh, you ate four hot dogs. Here's a trophy. It's sometime between. was that low, like oh you ate four hot dogs here's a trophy it's

it never was that low but you know it was a little bit like the sticky stuff thing right

like it's gross because we science the crap out of it right like yeah i saw something where he was

like joey chestnut was talking about like his or no i think it was the japanese guy was talking about his method and he was like Joey Chestnut was talking about like his or no I think it was the Japanese guy was

talking about his method and he was like or like is crazy like is the one that like goes up

and down and he was talking about like I do that to like keep like push to tamp the stuff down

and like it's the water and then there was like a whole discussion about like if you puke it only counts if you eat the pu And then there was, like, a whole discussion about, like, if you puke,

it only counts if you eat the puke back. And I was just like, oh, stop, stop. You guys, in like a few hundred years, they're going to study this race and they're going to say, this is what they did for fun. and I just think that's all you need to know.

They are going to be this is what they did for fun. And I just think that's all you need to know.

They are going to be amazed that we made it that far into the future when they look back

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