Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Wednesday, November 10th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, and Britt Jrolley, Brit on the scene at the GM meetings.

That's in Carlsbad, right? Carlsbad, California this year. Not San Diego, near San Diego. So a beautiful location.

A lot to talk about. We've got a signing. Andrew Heaney has a new team. We have a workout Justin Verlander through in front of lots of people. So we'll talk about that. It sounds like the A's are going to go through a tear down, possibly the Reds as well in some fashion. And of course, the Mets are still Metsing. They are in the news. We'll save them for later because I really never set out to host a Mets podcast, you guys. I don't want that to be the show. I don't want us to be a Mets show. So it's at the back. I don't know how important it actually is until they make a real decision. We'll get to that a bit later on. But, Britt, I wanted to ask you first, what actually happens at the GM meetings?

And how are they different than the winter meetings that people are a lot more familiar with?

Those, of course, happen in early December and are heavily covered on MLB network throughout the entire event.

Yeah, what is nice about these guys?

Is there a lot less structured, a lot more chill?

Basically, as a reporter, you're just meeting as many GMs,

as many front office members as possible.

They're staying in this hotel in Carlsbad.

So the place is crawling with baseball people who,

they all kind of look the same now.

There's definitely a front office look.

Have you guys noticed?

It's like the kind of like Lou Lou Lemon-lemon-esque like nice polo with the slacks and the half-dress shoes have sneakers

and then they're all walking around with backpacks with hand sanitizer clipped to the outside so

they literally all look the same uh and your job is to figure out who is part of what front office.

It's an incredible game.

I was looking at the media availability too.

It's not like the winter meetings where they're like at three o'clock,

you'll get Bob Melvin over here, right?

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