Hey everybody and welcome to episode number 26, the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of John Boy Media.

And look who I found. He is back. He is Billy's reliever, Archie Bradley. It is good to see you,

my friend. How have you been? I've been good. Been grinding. You know, this is my first year going on the DL, or I guess it's the

aisle now, since my rookie year. So a little foreign territory for me, had to really lock it in.

And yeah, we're back now. So it's good to be back. I'm healthy and trying to get riding and get

going.

Yeah. Well, listen, a lot of people missed you. And I guess I didn't tell them as much because I wanted to respect your privacy was that you were having a hard time with the injury.

You texted me early on that, hey, this is only the second time I've ever had to deal with an injury.

And it's got to suck when you are joining a new team and you want to make a good impression and out of the

gate, you're like, oh my God, really something, something blew out here. How tough was it for you

emotionally to deal with that?

It was really tough.

I think as you know me, Chris,

and as some of the fans on this have gotten to know me,

I'm a very outspoken, loud teammate,

loud person in general. And so when you get hurt early on,

and you're counted on to be a guy for a team, and in person, I expect on to be a guy for a team.

And personally, I expect myself to be a guy for this team.

And now I'm sitting on the sidelines.

And, you know, I was texting everyone I knew that had ever dealt with an oblique issue,

asking them how long it took, what they felt, advice.

And everything I got back was, man, don't rush, don't rush.

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