Oh, every night, every day, a little piece of you is falling away

Lift your eyes, the western way, and build your muscles as your body decays

Yeah, from your line and play the game, like the anesthetic of dawn

For the one day they call your name

You know which type will I ever fall?

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I'm Meg Rally of fan-graphs, and I am joined very early to talk about the

Astros as always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. I guess we don't always talk

about the Astros, but I'm very often joined by you

Yeah, and it sort of seems like we always talk about the Astros, isn't it?

We've been waiting to have this talk about the Astros for a while

So the last 24 hours or so have been a whirlwind. Monday started out slow

It seemed like any other normal day, and Sam and I actually recorded a non-time sensitive

episode, which you will hear at some point in the near future, and there I was

just written about the bachelor not seeing any big baseball news, and all of a sudden

the temporary ban him or dropped in Rob Minfred's report was released, and the

findings that we've been awaiting for the past two months are here, so we're going

to dissect and discuss them. Yes, we are. So I guess I should go over the

the big picture penalties here, although I would think that everyone knows

I will assume that everyone knows because I actually had a friend who doesn't

follow sports that closely and was texting me to tell me that he thought the

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