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Monday morning, March 27th, 2020.

That's March 27th, 2020.

It's the beating-the-book podcast, Major League Baseball preview.

Cannot wait to discuss the upcoming season and all the bets associated with it.

It's Gil Alexander with three distinguished baseball gentlemen to my right in studio.

First time doing an MLB preview with us.

Adam Burke, ladies and gentlemen, at Skating Tripods on Twitter.

And for baseball purposes, Adam, would it be fair to say that the nerd baseball community perhaps knows you best, not only from Veson, but I would even argue from your

bang the book previews from so many years? Those were the, and I've said this to you before,

I'll say it to this audience. The greatest, as a guy who wrote a lot of MLB previews, I would read and thought

mine were great. I would read yours and be like, who is this dude? So happy to have you here, man. I appreciate that. Yeah, it was a, we'll call it a labor of love. I think it's the best way to kind of describe it. But, you know, also it helps me organize my thoughts for betting on the baseball season. So, you know, it's dual purpose, right? Get to help everybody out, but it also

helps me out to organize all my organize my thoughts for for betting on the baseball season so you know it's dual purpose right

get to help everybody out but it also helps me out to organize all my my thoughts and philosophies and all

that i couldn't believe the volume though you you did for all 30 teams did you and you would have a

you'd have a lean or a bet on and over and under and they were just i don't want to use the word

exhaustive because that has a negative connotation but but they were just so thorough. How, I mean, like, what was the, how long did that take you to complete? Yeah, I mean, I would say the process from start to finish would be six to eight weeks depending on, wow, you know, depending on how deep I went. I mean, I used to write them about 4,000 words apiece. The ones I did for Vista this year about 2000. So I'm working smarter and not harder, but

you know, there's just so much I mean, I used to write them about 4,000 words apiece. The ones I did for Vista in this year, about 2000.

So I'm working smarter and not harder, but, you know, there's just so much that you can get into. But for me, when you look at it from a season win total standpoint, which is what the previews are kind of intended to be, I mean, there's 162 games. There's a lot of stuff you have to cover. Depth, prospects. Yeah. If a team's going to be a seller, trade deadline. It takes time and words to get all those thoughts out there. It do. Speaking of words. Paul Sporer joins us for yet another MLB preview at Sporer on Twitter, writes for Fangraph, Sleeper in the Bus podcast, and where are you working now as well, Paul? Where's that? Out of the park, out of the park baseball. It's a simulator. It's a video game. It can actually maybe help with some long-term betting if you're into running simulations. Oh. Well, I think it could, actually. Twitch.tv slash spore as well? That's right. All right. Still doing that. And you play video games all through the night sometimes. Not maybe all through the night, but MLB, the show and out of the park baseball. Yeah, I'm not as much of a night owl anymore. I've been waking up early. I got these multiple gigs running. Got to be available more in the morning. So it's more of a quote unquote normal time for streams. But every once in a while, you know, I did

for the WBC when there was those eight games in one day, I did a 22-hour stream

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