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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 217 of the talking chop podcast i am your host

brad roland is wednesday evening it's midweek but uh joining me as often the great scott

coleman hello sir hello brad thanks for having me on as always uh lots of stuff talk about

not every not every week we do on a what is it a, a Wednesday going into Thursday here, but lots of good stuff to chat about.

So it should be a lot of fun.

Yeah, like we've been trying to deliver a podcast every 10 days or less during this time, even though it's so weird.

And we had Carlos Colazo, good friend of the pod on last week, talk about the 2020 MLB draft, which is, by the way, fast approaching,

and we have plenty of content on the site and on the network about that particular event

that's coming in, by the way, less than two weeks, which is kind of crazy.

But in advance of that, we'll do no draft today because that is not the expertise of either Scott or myself.

There is some stuff to talk about with regard to the potential season. And I say potential because

it looks at some points, depending on who you ask, a little bit less encouraging today than maybe

it did a couple of days ago, but we'll get

into that and the reasoning why, and we'll sort of end with something that Scott wrote about,

actually, earlier today on talking shop.com. Okay, well, the first thing is the, I'm sure people

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