Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. So I think we may have to accept the fact that I'm not going to have a great deal of full health this week. I keep thinking that I'm going to wake up the

next day and my voice is going to be back and I keep waking up the next day and it's not a whole lot better.

I think it does sound a little bit deeper today, which, I don't know, I guess that's good.

A little more resonance.

Those of you that are new listeners, you probably think that I'm a, you know, 80 year old man coming in here with this gravelly.

Oh yeah, obviously I've been smoking consistently for the last 25 years as well that's that goes without saying. I'll just I'll take this week's

podcast to try to do my best Alec Baldwin and Will Arnett impressions in the middle of the episodes.

No, no, we're not going to do that.

We're going to do what we've been doing all week, which is get through the most important stuff here on the show

uh... survive it

make sure that i can continue to have enough strength to

demand things of my children when we get off air and then set us up for the

continuing check-ins on basketball over on the social media side.

Because as I said yesterday, it doesn't hurt my voice to type.

This is Fantasy NBA Today, a sports ethos presentation.

I am your host Dan Bespris and I am dealing with easily

the worst case of laryngitis I've had in a decade. And the only reason I know that to be true

is because I've never had to fight my way through broadcasts quite the way I've had to do this week.

I'm trying to think back about all my time in minor league baseball and there were certainly games where we went into 13 14

innings whatever it was and I'm doing these games solo and it's five hours of

broadcasting and I woke up the next day and I felt like I if I spoke that just a plume of dust would come out of my throat

But usually by the day after that

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