Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, October 18th. Derek and rapper

Enoseres here with you on this episode. We had an all-timer in game three of the ALCS on Thursday night. We'll talk

about a few takeaways from that, including the possibility that among all things, kind of drifting

toward average-ish level performance, if hitters wane in the postseason, because everything's

more difficult, perhaps elite relievers wane a little bit in the postseason because they're facing a better group of hitters than they're used to facing. So we'll pull on that thread a little bit. We've got some questions about early NFBC drafts. It's already happening. We'll take a look at some of the top end pitchers where they're going, where we might disagree as we've got some drafts coming up in the near future. First pitch Arizona,

two weeks away. If you have not made plans to get there, you still got time to do it. Go to

Baseballhq.com for all of the details. Eno, how's it going for you on this Friday?

It's good.

I've got a day planned.

A friend of mine was in a car accident, so I've got to drop off some flowers for his daughter.

Not her too bad, just the seatbelt, but it was a hit and run.

Then I think I'm going to try and watch as much of these games as I can while also going to a show tonight.

And I have choices for the shows.

I haven't decided between punk and a track.

It's like kind of kind of trip hop.

So going out.

I haven't gone out in a little bit.

And it's going to be fun.

It's going to be a fun night.

The beauty of the West Coast game times is that you could actually have life after sports. I do miss that.

If you'd like to have life online with sports, our Discord is available using the link in the show description.

We've got some threads set up for both games that'll be happening on Friday. Not much for us to preview on those games because, again, timing leaves it such that we

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