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Patreon supporters I'm a rally fan graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Linder

the Ringer Ben how are you all right how are you I'm all right

excellent you know I was talking last time about I'm all right. Excellent.

You know I was talking last time about how all else being equal I'm more excited by an international

free agent because we haven't had a chance to see them play on a daily basis and I really had that driven

home for me on Saturday because I wanted to watch Yoshinobu Yamamoto in what will almost certainly be his final NPP start and a huge start.

He was pitching in the Japan series, Game 6, that's NPP's equivalent of the world series and his team was facing

elimination so Oric had to win or else they would be going home and he was

coming off the worst start of his career and it's

you know his NPP send-off and so much is at stake they're playing Hansin who are still

subject to the curse of the Colonel, which we talked

about hundreds of episodes ago, the curse that has supposedly prevented them from

winning a Japan series since 1985 because of a statue of KFC's Colonel Sanders

that was immersed, sunk to the bottom of a river and ever since then Hanchen has not managed to win the Japan series since that season.

So a lot at stake and I could not watch the game.

I just like there was no way to watch the game I mean we think of this as a

global society you know we're used to having information and video and audio at our fingertips we can access any

information at any time and this is the best player in MPB on the biggest stage

in MPB about to be one of the most coveted M.L.B. free agents.

Yeah.

About to make an enormous amount of money.

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