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Available feature, Bose is a registered trademark of the podcast normally opens. But today, a little bit of a curveball here at the top.

We'll be talking about baseball momentarily with myself and Eric Cole getting into the brave slow start

and the upcoming series with the nationals because that series is not going to start until Tuesday now.

But before we get into that, I wanted to open up as the primary host of the show.

Obviously, Scott and Eric are co-hosts.

They are often on this podcast, but in the end, it is my voice for the most part on

talking talk talk podcast, dating back to when it launched with myself and Carlos.

So I wanted to open up with my kind of thoughts on what's transpired the last few days.

The baseball, sorry, majorly baseball ended up moving the all-star game out of Atlanta. That's the headline story from Friday, and there have been all kinds of takes flying since

then, on all sides.

You know, just kind of some background factual stuff.

Rob Manfred, the commissioner, who I've poked fun of a number of times on this podcast.

He's not my favorite person in the world, and he's one of the most moot-toest people in the

world. I think it's pretty funny to me that he's now seen by some as this like super controversial,

uh, crazy outside of the box figure when he's kind of the opposite of that.

He's pretty conservative and weird most of the time.

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