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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl sit down with former Cincinnati Reds turn Seattle

Marinor starting picture, Whiskey Steel on Life Inside the Wildcard Race and our first ever

bilingual translated interview. Before and after that conversation, we got Sex and Toronto,

a wrench in the ALCY Young Award season, a huge milestone for an underrated baseball guy, in my

opinion. Some funky statistics and a friend's own situation for the ages. It's a great day for

starting nine let's just get in. Action and welcome to starting nine. I am Carl joined by Jake

and it is September 1st, 2021. That's an exciting day indeed. Everything's good. I was

telling you before the show I got no sleep. I stayed up too late playing cards.

Brittany rolls over. Turn your fucking phone off and go to sleep. I can't yet. I just can't. I'm in a

nice game. I told you I had to kind of get the breathing going, get the endorphins running.

I got a busy day, had a really early morning, got a workout in, second cup of coffee,

some sparkling waters here. I got my notes in front of me. But yeah, September is,

it's a really fun month for a lot of reasons. All the hard work that teams have put in to get

themselves in position to have a shot to roll the dice in October. Teams on the fence, potentially

making a wild card spot. Maybe not. The season could be in jeopardy. An opportunity for young players

to showcase what they're capable of on teams that aren't necessarily going to perform in the

post season and get ready for next year. So a lot of stuff going on. A lot of great things

have happened in the past five, six, seven days. So we've got some nice stuff to talk about.

Yeah, huge, huge slate. This is it. This is go time. There's a couple obviously divisions. We'll

get to that are just science healing delivered. But some of these storylines that are coming up

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