Welcome to the fireside chat. Sit back, relax, and enjoy Paul Spore and Nick Pollack.

What is happening? Welcome to the fireside chat. My name is Nick Pollock and joining me by the glistening flame.

Is Paul Spore? Hi Paul. Hi, I thought I was going to be glistening for a moment.

Well, I mean, you do glisten always. You have a glow. And now there is a flame to match you.

And it's certainly not me. Good to see you, Paul. How's everything this past week?

It's good to see you as well. You know, we've been off for a week.

We had to catch up week last week.

So I missed getting time by the fire, talking some pitching and hanging out.

But I'm doing well.

You know, I think I say this literally every pod.

And I'm sorry, but I truly can't believe end of June.

Like I marvel at the time every week that we get together because how come,

how come the crappy part of the year never goes by this quickly, right? Like the non-baseball

part of the year, I never look up and I say, oh my goodness, it's already February. I'm like,

oh, we slogged all the way to February. But during the season, it's like zip zip zip zip and here we are all-star break a stone throw away nick absolutely

i know it is actually really wild um the uh the routine sets in the uh you know when you're

time flies when you're having fun and it's also it feels like such a slog in the preseason because

we talk about the same exact thing that's a good point too. There's nothing new. There's nothing exciting.

It's just the same.

And it's exciting that every week we come by and we got nothing, something new, something new going on.

And this week we're going to have, what do we call the quiz show?

That's right.

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