Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Thursday, January 7th, 2021.

Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, Britt Droli here with you on this Thursday.

On this episode, we'll talk about several big topics in the baseball world, which

understandably pale in comparison to the events that we saw unfold in D.C. on Wednesday.

Honestly, we're just hoping to provide some break from the

doom scrolling that many of us have been doing for the better part of the last 12 plus hours now.

Our agenda includes Brits attempt to stop MLB teams from tanking. She had a recent story about

changes to the drug of abuse provisions of the joint drug prevention

and treatment program. We're also going to talk about Eno's piece, about the absence of

in-game video in 2020 and some of the things that that may have caused over the course of

the shortened season. And we'll dig into this year's Hall of Fame ballot, actually sort of

heavy baseball topics across the board. But again, much lighter by comparison than what we saw unfolding on our screens throughout

the day on Wednesday.

Britt, I mean, you're pretty close to D.C.

That's, you know, has got the most buffer.

I'm caught in the middle here in the Midwest,

but as you watch things play out yesterday,

I mean, what was your general reaction?

How did you feel about what was happening?

Yeah, I mean, the first thing I did was text.

I mean, we don't live in D.C.

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