Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 339 of the Battery Power podcast.

I am your host, Brad Rowland, is Thursday, March 10th, a day that will positively live in infamy.

Baseball's back, and I'm joined by Eric Cole.

Hello, sir.

How are you? You can't say it's going to I'm joined by Eric Cole. Hello, sir. How are you?

You can't say it's going to live positively in infamy yet. We're still, you know,

like things can still happen that can change that drastically in a big way. But yeah,

obviously great news just for baseball fans in general. You know, we're actually getting back

to the business of baseball, being able to talk about baseball things as opposed to, you know, who's getting what share of what money and, you know, wishing that anyone else other than Rob Manfred was the commissioner of baseball, you know, things like that.

So it's nice to actually be able to talk about baseball stuff again.

Certainly. And if you were living under a rock on this Thursday, news broke about 315 Eastern

time that actually came from Jeff Passon, who had quite a day. Jeff Passon.

NFTs, Jeff Passon.

Arched animusist of Scott Coleman. His account was hacked on Twitter today, which is a bad timing for him.

But he did sort of recover and break the news of the CBA being agreed to.

And then later on it was finalized after a vote from the committee and the player reps.

And the owners were 30 to nothing.

By the way, the executive committee, the players negotiating committee was actually

eight zero against the deal, which might tell you that they weren't thrilled with this one., the players negotiating committee was actually 8-0 against the deal,

which might tell you that they weren't thrilled with this one, but the players at large just wanted

to play baseball, it seems. So that's where we are. But it was a 99-day lockout. And it ends now,

and presumably, barring a weird, you know, strike slash lockout situation, they're going to have

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