Another promotion, August Stuff+ leaders, and what happened to 2021 workload concerns?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the promotion of Edward Cabrera, and set expectations for the Miami rookie for the stretch run before taking a look at the August Stuff+ Leaderboard. Is Logan Webb’s 2021 breakout sustainable? Is Madison Bumgarner good again? Plus, are we on the brink of seeing a lot of pitchers get shut down because of workload concerns?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryls presented by Tops. Check out Tops.com and Tops Project 70 awesome cards launching each and every weekday. |
| 0:25.2 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. It is Monday, August 23rd. I made it through the weekend. |
| 0:31.2 | I had a long battle with, it's kind of like a portable kitchen island, I guess you'd call it, because you can do food prep on the top and you can cram a bunch of stuff on the shelves inside and get a little spice rack on the side. Is this an IKEA thing? Sort of like one. It was ordered online. I think it was a wayfair order. But when I opened the box, the box wasn't that big, but it was pretty heavy. And as soon as I opened the box, I saw, I think, 50 or so individual pieces plus the hardware. And I just thought, every single part of this needs to be assembled. But there's nothing hinged together. There are no screws attached to anything. Every single part of me wants nothing to do with this. |
| 1:11.4 | That was definitely my first thought. |
| 1:13.6 | And then I was told it's really hard to actually return things to Wayfair. |
| 1:19.1 | So I said, well, let's just get the tools out. |
| 1:22.1 | Let's just, we need some more counterspace. |
| 1:24.8 | Let's make some more counterspace. |
| 1:26.2 | So just the fact that I lasted through the weekend despite the frustrations and cursing, rampant cursing. |
| 1:34.1 | Are there any local ordinances about swearing with your windows open here that I should be aware of? |
| 1:40.0 | I hope not. |
| 1:41.1 | We'd be in serious trouble around here. |
| 1:43.7 | Just giving away $50 every so often, just cursing while assembling furniture. |
| 1:50.1 | But now, it's going pretty well overall. |
| 1:52.4 | And we had a chance to grab a couple pints this weekend, too. |
| 1:55.5 | So that was nice and probably kept me from actually throwing the aforementioned island off of the balcony at some point in a moment of frustration. |
| 2:04.8 | So I appreciate your contributions. |
| 2:06.9 | Be around it anymore. |
| 2:08.5 | Yeah. |
| 2:08.8 | I needed a little time away to finish the project. |
| 2:11.8 | I woke up the next day with a fresh set of eyes and really rejuvenated spirit and got it done. So that's my advice. If |
| 2:20.6 | you're building furniture, take a break because you will inevitably find something that's not |
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