Welcome to the fireside chat.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy Paul Spore and Nick Pollock.

What is happening?

Welcome to another episode of the fireside chat.

You can hear the crackle of the flame on this lovely day outside, but it is nice and cozy in here because I am joined by the wonderful in his

teal robe. Paul Spore. Hi. Hello, Nick. It's great to talk with you by the fire here as we

turn the calendar into May. Feels like, you know, this happens every year. We wait so long for the

season to start.

Now that it's here, it's like zip it.

I like, it's already may.

Are you kidding me?

But I love that we're kind of, you know, in the full swing.

The routine is back.

You know, even some of the negative parts of routine,

aka five game weeks, don't love those.

You know, I want as much baseball as possible. But yeah,

I feel great. A lot of pitchers popping off. And pitchers starting to come up, which is going to be,

you know, kind of our main topic today. And I also want to mention, I really enjoy the format of this

show with you, Spore. Me too. The fact that I'm all about all energy all the time.

And no, this one is for us to get back, relax, be like, hey, look, look at this wonderful

thing that's going on.

And this is a good topic today of just the young guys, the real excitement as I talk so

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