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What's up everybody and welcome to episode 149 of the Talking Shot podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, it is Wednesday evening.

Sort of deep into the night here on the East Coast.

That's what we do.

Whenever we have time to find a show, we do a show.

And even if there's not that much happening, we are back after, I think, only like a nine-day absence. So even with a vacation trip of sorts slash work trip for me in the middle of that,

we're not really that off schedule. And joining me this week is the great Scott Coleman. What's up,

man? What's up, Brad? I was hoping we might have a trade or a free agency signing or something for this

pod, but unfortunately, that did not happen as of right now.

You're touching the gods right now. It's going to happen in the next half hour.

There has been a little bit of news, as you said. So good stuff to dig into.

For sure. And I was hoping you'd be right. You were prompting the baseball gods on Tuesday

to have something happen when you were tweeting about it before the podcast. Nothing really happened,

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