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 bullpen expert Rick Graham.

Rick, we're one week into the fantasy baseball season, and I guess the regular baseball season.

How are you doing?

How are your fantasy teams going?

Yeah, I mean, it's a weekend, so it's, you know, grain of salt.

But I feel pretty good so far about my teams.

I, you know, have kind of avoided the injury bug for the most part.

I have Josh Jung in a couple places that hurts, but, um, for the most part, yeah, as long as you're healthy

and like, you know, you don't have, you know, guys getting demoted in week one, um, no shots

at S2 Rui's, uh, managers out there, but, you know, just, yeah, I feel pretty good. It's just exciting but you know just yeah i feel pretty good it's just exciting you know

see see see you know closers get a blown up a little bit over the first week yeah we're back

last year was too easy last year was too smooth yeah that was like the first thing we mentioned

when we hopped on prior to hitting

record is that this year has been so crazy prior to last year when everything was so normal

just across the whole year. Nothing was crazy in terms of closers blowing up, but now and now it's

just everything coming together in the first week of the season

everything's going wild but yeah i it's it's been fun having baseball back i once again have too

much stuff going on outside of work to be able to uh have as much attention to baseball as i wish

i could which is would be all of my attention but you know there's still enough there to be able to be a good enough fantasy manager and analyst.

I am not ashamed to take victory laps early.

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