Hey everybody, welcome to the RotoWire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Jeff Erick here with Fred Zinke.

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Fred, let's jump right into it here.

A lot of news.

Your J's, but it was a little beat down on my Reds early on and then held on for Dear Life,

winning 12-9.

Mets won again against the Tiger, so it's now a five-game lead in the last wild card spot.

And, you know, the fact the Reds are, you know, only game ahead of this giant who are beating on the Rockies this week.

Good old Pace, you're thinking of that.

But, yeah, hey, for those Js, they're fighting to try to get a buy into the, you know, first of all, to hold on to the ALEs, but also they get a buy

into the first round of the playoffs. Yeah, Jeff, your sound's crummy. I'm trying not to be

crummy, but yeah. Keep talking for a second there. I'll come here. Yeah, for sure. Actually,

I can talk a little while you kind of work on that. Yeah, tonight's, yeah, so the Big Jays Red

series pitting our favorite teams against each other. And we've seen kind of some of the flaws

of each team here in the first two days. You know, the Jay is blowing, well, Trevor, Jeff

Hoffman, I wish, Jeff Hoffman blowing the first game on Monday.

And then the Reds kind of catching a tough break and not having Nick Ladolo today.

So they go to a bullpen game and the bullpen game, which often turns out fine for teams,

did not turn out fine for them today.

The Jay's had a lot of runs, you know, quite quickly and then kind of

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