Truthfully, truthfully, I don't understand why the red lights turning on again

Just cause you look up, doesn't mean it's got a rain

The red lights turning on again

It could take a hundred years, it could take a thousand

Don't waste a lot of time waiting in the rain

You know I used to feel unlucky now I just was strange

Hello and welcome to episode 1251 of Effectively Wild A baseball podcast from Vangrass

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I am Denver of the ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrass, hello Jeff

How did you sleep? Did you sleep? Are you happy to have the trade deadline over?

I slept very little, it was an exciting day

But I'm not that unhappy to have it over

We have no trades to talk about right now so it feels a lot more laid back than it did yesterday

What it felt like we had an insurmountable task ahead of us although I guess we surmated it

It is, it's like a pretty dramatic come down after I know the trades can still happen

But like things generally don't happen in like early August

And the Justin Verlander trade last year was sort of the exception for this time of year

You'd be looking for more like Lance Lynn type moves or boring stuff like that

You have this build up, of course there were the hand and timber trade and the Machado trade

There were other trades that happened well in advance of the deadline

But you're kind of, you're cresting the mountain right and then you get to the summit

And then the summit push and then you get to the deadline or realistically half an hour after the deadline

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