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We say good morning to Chelsea James National MLB writer for the Washington Post.

Good morning Chelsea. How are you?

I'm doing great. How are you here?

What's up, Chelsea?

We are doing well.

Lots to talk about today. Yeah, we definitely wanted to dive into your article about Max Scherzer. It's entitled Max Scherzer once seemed invincible. How much does he have left and we know that you caught up with him as he's trying to

rehab down in Texas? I mean I never thought I'd see a head, not the headline, but a few paragraphs

in about him pitching for the AAA round rock express trying to come back from just a litany of injuries I mean when Max was here for Washington he seemed like bulletproof you know like the guy was always taking the mound and sadly you know he's had a lot of health issues over the last few years.

Yeah, I mean it was funny to kind of sit there and find him just in this random, you know, AAA ballpark.

And more, I think it was, you know, even in the last few years when I've cut up with him, he's been like, oh, you know, an oblique, that's just a freak thing, it's not because I'm getting old, you know, there was a little bit of denial there.

And I think right now it's more like, well, we'll just kind of see what I have because

had some big problems and who knows.

And that was like such a departure from national

era Max Scherzer that it was pretty telling and it'll be interesting to see you

know if we're as close to the end as you know we could be or if you kind of you know find a way to

rejuvenate things. I mean this is what happens when you you play 15-16

years you throw 3,000 innings I mean I can't be shocked. I mean, he was obviously a dominant pitcher and he won multiple

Cy Youngs and World Series and this is what happens to the body breaks down when you throw that many that many pitches just does

Yeah, especially now you know and one of the things he was kind of talking about afterward was you know how he doesn't know you know Jack Lighter is you know al lighter's kid like big

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