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My name is Dan Hansus coming to you from a city that is filled with heroes in bunkers.

Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosethall.

What is up, boys?

Hey, Dan.

Boys, boys, boys.

We are, this is bunker cast three.

The league year has indeed started on time where, well, it hasn't officially started

yet.

That will be Wednesday, but the legal tampering period did kick off today, which led to an avalanche

of league activity, signings, one blockbuster trade that will leave people scratching their heads

for the ages. So much to talk about. And personally, I am happy in retrospect that this played

out the way that it did. They could have pushed it back and nobody would have killed them for it.

And I know there were some vocal critics online.

Mike Florio, Greg, your old boss is one of them, positioning as one of the league's great potential gaffs to go off as scheduled.

But I think this was the right move.

And it really gave all of us, both in the industry and fans, something to do today and for

the rest of the week.

And that's not a bad thing. And that's not a small thing where we are in the world right now.

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