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Seven Rooms. Make Magic. Make money. What's up everybody and welcome to episode 272 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Saturday evening, and I am joined for the second time in as many days by Eric Cole.

Hello, sir.

In some cultures, we'd be married, Brad. Like, it's kind of wow. I guess that's probably true.

If you missed it yesterday, it was a much more somber episode, not even like an episode number,

I guess sort of a special edition of the podcast where Eric and I talked about Don Sutton and Hank Aaron.

That's still on the feet if you want to listen to it.

But we were sort of teased this yesterday, but we're going to talk about some baseball stuff today.

There was a big-ish rumor earlier this week that we have pledged to talk about.

So we'll leave with that now.

I will say this.

J.T. Romuto is a name of a player.

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