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What's up everybody and welcome to episode 137 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, after a week off.

It feels like a long time after we did, you know, a show a day, basically, for almost a week.

But I joined me to catch up on sort of what is now the dead season for a little while.

Eric Cole, what's up, man?

Hey, man, thanks for having me. You know, it's kind of weird to be kind of an offseason baseball uh since it was a long season but it was definitely a lot of fun it was um and you know we'll talk about mostly

future facing stuff on this podcast and really for the whole of the off season but i did because

you weren't on the last show, you know, after the series was

technically over.

I wanted to see if you had anything left over that you wanted to get out there about how

the NLDS went.

Obviously, we are now fully in the middle of the NLCS and the ALCS.

In fact, we're recording in the middle of the ALCS game right now. But anything you wanted to get off your chest from the NLDS and how that all went down

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