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Subscribe now. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 261 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland. It is

Sunday evening in our traditional time slot. It's November officially. The offseason is certainly

here at this point in time and I'm joined as often by West Coast correspondent Scott Coleman.

Hello, sir. It's only two hours further away from here than usual.

It's one of those things where good old Arizona doesn't have daylight savings time.

Yeah, just weird, weird all the way around. Good to be on Brad. It's, as you said, start of the

offseason. It's always a little weird with baseball when you compare it to the other major sports,

how usually, and I know we're in different times now, but usually the NFL, NBA, NHL, usually have all this crazy buildup and 24, 48 hours before.

We have rumors, reports of all these signings that are effectively done and just need to be finalized.

And then you have baseball, which starts at 5 o'clock Eastern on a November Sunday.

And here we go.

Yeah.

So we're recording at 6.

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