Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Thursday, March 24th.

Derek Van Riper here with Enosarist, King of Waffles. That came all

the way back on the 3-0 show this week. So I think we're going to stick with that on screen on

YouTube for just a little while longer. Plus, waffles are such a fun food anyway. They're a good

symbolic food for you anyway, you know? Ever since you gave us that waffle maker, that waffle iron, we've been making a lot more

waffles.

I've gotten good at it.

The key is to make it thin.

The batter should be thin.

Yes.

The other key is to not fill the entire waffle iron with batter.

Like leave a little bit around the edges. You get these kind of, yeah, clean up for one. And also the shape of the waffles comes out more craggly. And I think that's kind of fun and gives you a little extra texture as well. So your waffle tips for the day are already in the books in the first minute of the podcast. A couple things I want to point out right up top. There is a bracket going on. We are in the

finals. It is the baseball pods bracket at baseball pods on Twitter. We won last year, but we're

losing in the finals this year. We are currently losing, and I think voting closes sometime around

eight or nine o'clock Eastern on Thursday, the day this podcast is being released. So if you happen to hear this episode as soon as it drops and you haven't voted for us already and you do like our podcast, just as much, if not more than the CBS Sports Today Fantasy Baseball podcast, we'd appreciate your vote. But thank you to anybody who's voted for us along the way. And also be sure to check out the other shows throughout the bracket because I think it's a great tool to discover new podcasts. I think one of my pet peeves as someone who makes audio content is that it's very difficult to find new things that you might like. The algorithms tend to favor established shows that have been around for a little while. And Discovery is like a broader podcast or a problem.

And I think this is one of those events that highlights a lot of great new shows that you

maybe even never heard of before, at least haven't had a chance to listen to yet.

So be sure to explore the bracket once you get a chance to do that.

I'd like to think we're like Mike Trout or Willie Mays where we're just obviously the best, but, you know,

there's some fatigue and people just don't want to give it to us every year. I'm just kidding. I love

you guys. Thanks for listening. And yeah, if we lose, they're a great pod. And, you know, we had a

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