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, how's it going? We are in the final month of the season.

There's like two and a half weeks left yeah um busy time

as you can see also is moving i've been moving so i'm moving around um trying to say on top of everything

baseball related and finish out the year strong uh especially you, these these roto leagues that go to the end

of the year. Like, you know, it's a full season, so still a lot of work to do there. But, yeah,

it's exciting. We were talking about the playoffs and how, you know, we'll see how the wild card turns out.

Because, yeah, all of a sudden there's interesting, like a month or not even a month,

like a couple weeks ago, those wild card, they seemed locked up.

And now the Mets are struggling and the Mariners are struggling, opening things up on both sides.

Definitely makes things a little bit more exciting and interesting you

hate to have the last couple of weeks of the season just sort of be having to be played out just

because they need to be played because it's always really weird to especially in the last week of

the season when you get down to the past couple days and then all of the postseason spots are locked up and you're just like why are we even playing these last games other than to

like get stats i mean it's fun for fantasy i love the last games but then you have teams sitting all

their players too and it gets really uh sort of pointless streaming like random pitchers against the team

you know is just not going to play anyone yeah Yeah. I know. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So hopefully we don't have that. I mean, I feel like it's been a couple years since we've had a final day of the season where actually meaningful baseball is happening. Sometimes it's like, oh, the seating and the playoffs hasn't been determined yet, but we got to figure that out on the last day of the season.

But I think last year it was like last day of the season, there was just nothing to play for.

I think so last year.

I think like, yeah, by the weekend they were pretty much, yeah, everything was kind of who was playing in the postseason was determined.

But yeah, it's like, yeah, little seating things. Yeah postseason was determined but yeah it's like yeah little seating things yeah hopefully you know it's since yeah the giants are surging since

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