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 today, of course, on the other side of this

lovely room with a crackling fire, some lovely shag rug at our feet,

tumblers in our hands and robes around our waist.

It is Paul Spore. Hello, Paul.

Good afternoon, Nick. We got the lights a little bit low. It's gloomy outside, a bit rainy.

Had the eclipse yesterday, which was fun being in Texas, got the totality of it.

Neat little, neat little experience there. But yeah, you know, with the rain today, it's a little

gloomy. So the fire is needed. And I'm happy to get by the fire. Unfortunately, today, Nick,

we got some negativity. I know. Today, today is not the cast of celebration.

It is actually, is that a theme that we have now for this fireside?

The first one, or the one last week, of course, we were talking about those who had not

performed well and how should we be assessing that moving forward?

And when we sat down and thought about different topics, I mean, there is really no grander topic in the majors right now than just the incestant battering of our notifications.

And this guy's elbow hurts.

This guy's elbow hurts.

Look, it was a weekend.

We had Spencer Strider.

We had Shane Bieber.

We had Framber Valdez yesterday.

Perez was a lot right before that. Uri Perez was guaranteed.

Tommy John. He was already there. We thought it would be okay. Maybe not. I mean, I'm just waiting

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