I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospect. I am Sean Magdew from The Athletic.

And Sean I want to start off this show today. I don't know if you saw like

Baseball Hall of Fame ballots are coming out? Okay. Did you see how

Rob Bradford who's a Boston-based baseball writer did you see how he announced his

his picks? I did not. What did he do? He put out an immaculate grid of it, like through the official immaculate grid. A-plus. No notes.

Awesome.

Fantastic.

Now the problem is that people figured out that multiple guys who were on the ballot this year like work for a few spots.

And so people are like, do you mean like Manny Ramirez or like Bobby Abreu here?

Somebody like that, I can't remember what the exact questions were but the first one I saw was like I don't know what this is but I figured out that one of them is Joe Maurer and I was like okay this rocks. That is really fun. That is excellent. I was slightly

terrified when you you initially brought that up because I was very often the, let's just say the baseball guys can be a little weird, but that was very...

Yeah, I think they have something like 170 ballots out I haven't looked at the the latest

you yeah but like that have come in I guess something like that and they and

people announce them like they can publicly reveal them which or not which allows many fans to sort of start piecing together.

It's like getting the early returns on on election.

That's exactly right, yep.

A much better system than hockey, even though it does rely on

crusty old sports writers.

That's right, yeah.

But yeah, I just thought that rocked.

I have, I'm doing a pukedoku later this month.

Like, you know, I'm writing another puzzle basically okay so that's fun

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