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

Hello, welcome to the fireside chat. Episode 3. It is Tuesday, April 2nd. I'm joined by Nick Paulic and I, of course, am your host, host Paul Sport. Nick, we are by the fire here.

It's going to be a rainy day across the league. So I think it's nice to be by the fire because it's a little cold out there still in a lot of these April games. How you doing? How was your first big weekend of baseball?

What is happening? Yes, the warmth is here, isn't it? We need it. We need it because, you know, really this podcast is going to be dedicated to all of you

who maybe had some struggles and you don't know what to do.

You know, the guys who disappoint us, and I really felt, we both did actually.

We came into this, what should we talk about?

I already labeled it who were we dropping.

And Spora said we should probably talk about the guys who labeled it, who are we dropping? And Spora said,

we should probably talk about the guys who had duds this week. There you go.

We independently came to the same topic. I love that.

It's the heart of the fireside chat. It's how it got started. It was the dud of Luis Castillo

in 2017. I got to say, first and foremost, I am so relieved for that Cole Reagan's

not ever done.

No, I know.

He just can't have that.

That's like, I mean, Justin Mason, our good friend and my podcast co-host, did befall that fate,

or that fate befell him, I guess, as how you put it, because his big guy, hisans was bailey over oh that's where we're gonna start

oh yeah absolutely today and uh we're even talking before this show um we're gonna try i'm gonna try

try and do spore a solid everyone because every time that spore is on a podcast, he becomes the host. And

as someone who, you know, I do

drive a little bit with the craft and honestly,

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