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Eno Seris, Britt Jiroli here with you on this Friday, on this episode. We will discuss the interview

that Britt had with Commissioner Rob Manfred earlier this week. I laugh as I say it just because

I don't know if I should call him Commissioner Manfred or just Rob or how I should refer to him or that guy that no one likes.

Whatever we do, it all feels wrong. We'll get into that interview and some responses that he had to some questions that put out there that I thought were pretty interesting.

The Cubs threw a no-no, combined no-no to celebrate Eno's birthday on Thursday. So probably the coolest thing that happened on Eno's birthday, actually, even though the Dodgers walked a million times in that game. We're going to talk about the Astros because no one likes to talk about them, and they're actually really good, and they might be the best team in baseball. So, you know, we got that going on for us. And we're going to try and break up several bad teams. We're going to break up the Orioles, the pirates, and the Rangers, because there aren't that many spare parts. Feed on their carcasses. Yeah, there's not much there to pull off of them. You got to put like three bad teams together to find a few interesting trade pieces. So I had to Frankenstein that part of the rundown. But let's get right to it.

Britt, you had an interview with the commissioner himself just a couple days ago. It was two days

into the new enforcement of the sticky substance rules. And you talked to him while we were

all thinking about Max Scherzer versus Joe Girardi and Sergio Romo getting the belt off

like he had three minutes to get through security before catching a flight. But things weren't as

bad as those two incidents at the time that you spoke to him. And after reading the interview,

I think it actually in a weird way sort of calmed me down. It was like, okay, the way this is

happening for the most part, it's not that invasive. It actually seems like a reasonable way to

implement these procedures compared to some of the ridiculous alternatives that we could dream up

that would be much worse. Yeah, I think I was comforted, certainly, because I think it's easy to sit here and be like,

everything's a mess.

Sergio Ramos taking his pants off.

Max Scherzer's going nuts.

And, you know, we'll get into the numbers a little bit later, but it's working.

Guy's spin rates are down.

For the most part, I think the novelty is going to wear off of checking these guys. it later, but it's working. Guys spin rates are down.

For the most part, I think the novelty is going to wear off of checking these guys.

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