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I am your host, Brad Rowland. It is actually Saturday

night where a day earlier than usual, I'll explain that momentarily. In part, though, it's

sort of a downtrodden episode, and we'll talk about it at the top, but this is not your

favorite day. My co-host today is Eric Cole, who is not enjoying himself this afternoon.

It's not evening.

Yeah, I've definitely had better days as, you know, as a fan of baseball in general,

and particularly of my adult Canadian son, Michael Soroka,

who got some pretty rough news this past, the last day or two.

And it's been kind of a rough one.

You know, you see like an injury happen like that to, you know, just such a, like, in addition,

just like a really important player and, you know, someone that you kind of admire watching,

you know, play the game, but also just kind of a genuinely really good human being.

Yeah.

So obviously, we might have some new listeners conceivably that we may not know uh all about your torrid affair

with mike saroka uh but he's your he's your favorite prospect basically of all time is that

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