Hello and welcome to In The Pen, 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 talked for a little bit about baseball, the landscape of relievers right now.

Sometimes I get on here and we go, you know, the opener and I'm like, what's going on in baseball?

But what's going on in your life that's interesting that can give the listeners an insight into the legend the myth Rick Graham.

It's going on in my life.

I mean, it's just baseball, man.

No, I, you know, it's, you know, busy times, busy, busy work time of year for work,

for, you know, this, for my day job for writing um but you know also i'm

not just a baseball fan i you know big uh big you know boston sports fan in general so i'm getting

excited for the bruin self dix playoff runs coming up um always this time of year NFL draft next week

too just a great you know sport time of year um

as long as you have teams in the playoffs i guess yeah yeah for sure i mean the the warriors

miss the playoffs for the first time in a while so that's that's disappointing for me but hey

that means the the giants and the a Giants, will be the focus of

attention in the Bay Area, which is really what they need right now because they've not

started off too hot.

But yeah, I'm a pump for everybody to focus on baseball.

I've had a pretty weird month.

There's a dead rat in my car.

Yeah, very cool.

And it's in a spot that I cannot get to and I don't want to pay someone to do anything with it.

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