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sevenrooms.com. Seven Rooms. Make Magic. Make money. What is up, everybody, and welcome to episode 288 of the Talking Chop podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland.

It is Sunday evening.

It's a little bit later than usual, but it's still a normal time slot,

and I am joined as often by the Mike

Soroka appreciator, Eric Cole. Hello, sir. Too soon, man. Like, you're late at night and you're

hitting me the first line of the podcast about my Canadian son. Yeah, we'll come back to that later on.

I feel like we had to start there because you're here, and's what you're uh i guess beyond like just minor league

baseball in general uh sorroca is like your guy in capital letter so we'll come back to that later on

indeed i feel i feel bad that uh i feel bad that you're here number one on this on this night

but i also i'm glad that you're here because you have uh perspective that i do not have so

we'll come back to that later on with saroka But before we get into some new stuff at the end of the podcast, let's go to the games

this week.

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