Hello and welcome to the In the Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers, part of the

Piturless Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by pitcherless spulpen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, I know you're a little under the weather, but how are you feeling are you going to

be able to survive this podcast? Yeah, I'm, you know, I got, I know you're a little under the weather, but how are you feeling? Are you going to be able to survive this podcast?

Yeah, I'm, you know, I got my tea in front of me.

I got, you know, some water.

Hopefully you should be able to make it through this.

No, it should be fine.

Yeah, it feels like, you know, even, you know, everyone in this area right now has got some sort of sickness or some cold or something. So, you know, just battling it day to day, hopefully get over it through the weekend. By everyone, do you mean you and your roommate? I mean, well, yeah, my, I mean, my fiance has been feeling a little down, her work, my work,

everyone's been sick there. I know, you know, with the Red Sox calling up Von Grissom, we had to wait

a couple days for him to be, uh, ready to go because he was sick. I know it's going around

what's the Worcester Red Sox. It's just, yeah, yeah, everyone, I don't know, it's weird.

This seems late for this type of thing to happen.

But here we are in May 2nd, you know, got a cold going around.

Well, I'll make sure to stay out of Massachusetts.

On the West Coast, we've got a stomach bug going.

So there are a few people at my work and their children that are not doing too well in that

department.

But you actually don't sound too bad.

And I haven't heard you cough yet.

So maybe that's where you start to hear it.

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