We're back, we're back! This is a distraction. I'm Drew, that's Rob. How did you do, D-Rolf?

Oh, um, how did you do, D-Roo? Is this the next, we're gonna do that every episode now?

No, no. I just don't like throwing you a little off-downs with a party hard or a stay-excellent or something like that.

I like it when you sometimes just will like join the podcast and it James had field voice.

Are on careers! You know, like, which is even worth it.

Yeah, that's good. I think who doesn't like starting a podcast off with those types of sounds?

Or I could do the head-filled maniacal laughter thing when he does a concert.

I love that. I love you waiting for it with like an ooooh, like a tick-a-solo.

Ah-ha! Oh, I do love, I do love any rock song, like Clubfoot by Cassabian, that just has like a thrust in it like,

Hey, let's get to our guest because she's been waiting long enough. It's our old friend

from Sports Illustrated Emma Bacheliary. Hi, Emma, how are you?

I'm good, although I'm a little sad I didn't get a signature intro sound there.

Yeah, what kind of sound do you like?

Oh, okay, we can do that. It's, uh, Sports Illustrated Emma Bacheliary. How you doing, Emma?

All right, there, that's much better. Yeah, I'm great. How are you guys?

We are good. Emma, we wanted to have you on because we want to talk about baseball because we're

getting toward the end of the regular season. But also last week, you wrote about how minor leaders this

year were able to unionize and they forced Major League Baseball to recognize their union.

All in the span of just 17 days. Now, you wrote about how this was actually, it took much,

the groundwork that was laid for this effort was years in the making. But I want to go step by

step through how that happened. First of all, the one thing I want to ask you is, why weren't minor

leaders part of the Major League Baseball Players Association to begin with and what historical

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