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That's why I love baseball.

Special dances, previous series pitching and pure poetry.

That's how the baseball.

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I'm doing okay, and I am not suffering from sciatica. Neither is LeBron James anymore. He has returned to the floor. Why am I talking about a basketball player at the beginning of a baseball podcast?

Well, as you know, I'm just an all-purpose sports pundit now.

Yeah, you're a sports guy now.

Keep my roving eye on all athletic endeavors.

But LeBron returned to the Lakers.

He played his first game of the season on Tuesday, and he set a record in the

process. He played in his 23rd NBA season, and he is the first player ever to do that.

He was previously tied with Vince Carter at 22 seasons, so now he has broken new ground,

and that was fascinating to me as mostly a baseball guy because 23 is a lot, but it doesn't sound like it should be a record.

Yeah.

It wouldn't be in baseball.

In fact, there are quite a few players who have played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball.

In fact, baseball reference has a handy-dandy

leaderboard. Most seasons played. And it is led by Nolan Ryan and Capanson about a century

or so apart. And they each played for 27 seasons. So that is the record.

But there are 36 players who have gotten to 23 seasons or more.

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