Hello and welcome to the In The Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers part of the Pitcherless Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler.

And as always, I'm joined by pitcherless, full pen expert Rick Graham.

Rick, after the conversation we were just having, I wish I could say like alien expert Rick Graham.

But unfortunately, we are not alien experts.

I mean, I might be, but you are mostly a bullpen expert.

How is your week going?

I know we're recording on Friday as opposed to Thursday due to some internet issues, but how's your week going?

I do have a follow-up question.

Okay.

It's going well. I mean, it's nice that it's Okay. It's going well.

I mean, it's nice that it's Friday.

Been a long, hectic work week, you know, short-staffed and scramble in the last

couple days to get some things done.

But, you know, it's Friday.

So, yeah, I'm excited to talk about baseball and not my other job.

All right.

Well, first, the off topic question of the week.

Have you or do you play any instruments?

No, I wish I had or I wish I did.

I played, let's see, in seventh, seventh eighth grade I played clarinet for a little bit

the whole band that was nice so we had like a um basically like a lottery system to

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