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I am your host, Brad Rowland, coming to you live on the Sunday evening of Memorial Day weekend and join me for the first time in far too long, frankly.

It's the great Eric Cole.

What's up, man?

Hey, man.

Sorry, I couldn't come. I couldn't be on the show. What was up, man? Hey, man. Sorry, I couldn't come.

I couldn't be on the show. What was like a week or two ago you asked me? I couldn't make it.

I was kind of covered up. So I'm glad to be back. Listen, I can't expect you to come on every

single time I ask you. People have lives, including you, and you have a new venture even, which I'll let you talk about if you want to. But it's been busy for everyone. And I'm glad, obviously I'm glad that the race won on Sunday, but it would

have been a lot different podcast had they lost Sunday and then come into this podcast, losing

five out of six games. You know, winning is nice, although there is obviously a looming story as we record this.

Just for clarity's sake, it's about 7.30 on Sunday, so we do not know anything right now about

Ronald Acuna. We'll get to that in a moment. Aside from Acuna, what were your takeaways from

the last couple of series because, you know, obviously Philly was pretty frustrated.

They didn't really score any runs against the Phillies. Managed to get a win in there somewhere.

But losing two series in a row here, not exactly ideal, I guess.

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