Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 3rd, 2025. Happy New Year, Eno. Welcome to the new season of Rates and Barrels. I count that.

When you flip the calendar over, it's a new season, even if it looks similar, sounds similar.

A lot has happened since we last spoke. We had a mystery team swoop in and win the Corbyn Burns sweepstakes.

We'll talk about the fit for Corbyn Burns in Arizona. Tiaska Hernandez is back with the Dodgers. We'll talk about the implications of that. The Nationals have stayed busy. They made a couple of small moves, but moves that will matter for some deeper leagues. And we've got a bunch of mailbag questions. One of our New Year's resolutions as a show is to dig into that

mailbag a bit more often. So we're going to answer a bunch of questions from our mailbag over

the course of the next hour or so. Eno, how was your New Year's? I saw your message on New Year's

Day, a little bacon correction for the champagne the night before.

Champagne is awful.

It's so much sugar.

It's so crazy.

And yet, I'm blaming that hangover on the like one cup of champagne I had.

It was just the one cup of champagne.

Just the one cup of champagne, not the other beers I had.

No, no, no.

It's not the beer's fault. It's the champagne's fault. But we had a good time. We did a little bit of Marvel movie marathon, had friends over with kids the same age as our kids. And our kids made it to midnight. They were very proud. They were very proud to make it. And of course, if they were going to make it to midnight, we had to.

The parents who were like at 10 were already like, can we go to bed?

Yeah, I get the vibe now that I've lived out in California for a couple of years, had a couple of

years out there that you can pretty easily celebrate the other time zones new years and just call it a night very easily yes there's a lot of

that you know so it's a funny thing i do think that in some ways the west coast maybe maybe la is a little

different but san francisco the closing time of the bars is too and so it's never been uh, and the trains don't go all night like they do in New York.

So San Francisco doesn't quite have that same all-night culture that some other cities do.

Yeah, we get two o'clock here in Madison as well as the cutoff, which is, it's late enough for this town, I think. Yeah, it's right. There's some college students that are pushing it. Yeah, the college kids have their after parties. They're fine. They got a good supply back at the house. But let's dig into these moves. Corbyn Burns ends up in Arizona six years, $210 million. does have an opt-out in there.

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