Just a couple quick notes before we get started.

We did talk today about how well the Diamondbacks are doing, so that's one thing for Dodgers fans to be depressed about.

We were not able to talk about the other thing.

Corey Seager is out for the season and will have to have Tommy John's surgery,

which might actually change the favorite in that division, but we'll have to talk about that another day.

Also notable?

Jeff wrote a post about Shohei Otani and did not bring it up to Banta about it.

Pretty sure that's against podcast bylaws, but go check it out.

Shohei Otani hit a home run over the weekend and it was a notable home run.

Spoilers, it was way inside and it was thrown very hard by Luis Severino and it was hit very hard by Otani.

And he was not supposed to be able to do that to pitches like that.

Amazing as always.

We also missed out on a mention of Brewer's reliever and recent podcast subject Josh Hader,

who faced eight guys on Monday and struck out all eight of them.

First time anyone's ever struck out that many batters in a sub-3 eating outing.

Go a few hours without podcasting and the whole sport passes you by.

So we have technically discussed Seager, talked about Otani, and hashed over Hader,

which means that this podcast can begin.

You know, half the time a lot of people don't enjoy it.

You know, you come here over a certain amount of years,

you build up a lot of sort of unenjoyment.

You wind up unenjoying a lot of things.

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