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The Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, Jeff Erickson here with the great Canadian Fred Zinky. How are you?

I'm good. Welcome back from vacation. Is that a vacation shirt that you're wearing?

It is. It is. Wow. That's awesome. It's like it's almost like first day. I was going to say it's like

kids on the first day back to school after Christmas when you have to wear something new that you got for Christmas on the first day of school.

Like your first day back on the air and you got to wear some vacation clothes today.

Absolutely.

Non-humble brag completely.

So there you go.

Yeah.

Absolutely what it was.

But yeah, with Turks and Caicos, it was awesome.

It was relaxing. It was beautiful. It was warm. Food was copious. Drinks were as well. And now it's, but I'm eager to be back. And I missed baseball. I missed the routine. I'm happy to do this. And my God, step right into it. Hey, baseball's going crazy here, Fred. Right as we started the Sirius XM show today,

Major League Baseball officially announced their new rules

cracking down on the enhancing substances for pitchers on the baseball.

You don't want to say, I guess it is performance enhancing again.

Performance enhancing gear for pitchers, this time,

although pitchers could use steroids too.

And it's big stuff here. It's, you know, it's not just, okay, you know, spider tech. It's

anything basically on the ball. The sunscreen, the rosin, you know, anything, resin even. Resin,

rosin, rosen, pine tar, you name it.

If you can put it on a ball and it's not one of like three substances allowed, you're out of luck.

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