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. I could feel the dim light on my robe.

And I look across the room and I see the wonderful Paul Spore. Hi Paul. Thanks for being here.

Thanks so much for having me Nick. It's great to be by the fire even through the old beanie on, you know, it's getting toast. I want to be real cozy and toasty.

Yeah. What is the mug that you're holding today?

Oh, well, it's a beautiful fan graphs mug that you can get turned into an ad.

Yeah, it is, it is just a lovely fan graphs mug with some nice coffee in it.

You know, I love my Red Bull, but you had to get a coffee by the fire and just really embrace the heat and the calming nature of everything.

Absolutely. I'm with you. I'm holding my PL logo with

a with my photo of me pitching at Brandeis. I love that. I love that. And no, you cannot buy that.

That is for my parents and me. And that is it. I so welcome everybody to the fireside chat.

And it's kind of funny for me to say like this is the eighth episode because we've been doing this in what? 2019, I believe.

Yeah.

Maybe, oh no, 2018, actually.

18, yeah.

18, absolutely wild.

But today we are going to talk about the ERA leaders. These are the guys who you just look at it and you say, okay, well, these are the ones who are leading the majors in ERA.

These are qualified starters only.

And which are the ones that we think like, okay, this is just weird, early season stuff.

And what is, oh, hey, there's actually something we should be really paying

attention. Now, this is something strange that people might not know about me. I'm curious about

your take on the sport. I don't look at ERA and whip numbers a ton during the year. There's

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