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's bullpen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, how's it going?

How are you feeling about your Celtics being in the NBA finals?

Yeah, it's an exciting, exciting time right now.

And, you know, as we're recording this, game one's going on.

They've got an 18-point lead in the second quarter already.

Feeling good about that.

You know, obviously we're not going to talk a lot of basketball here.

But I do like this matchup for the Celtics. I think this is,

you know, it's been a pretty easy run as far as, you know, playoff runs go, but, um, you know,

whatever. It's, we'll, we'll take what we can get. And, um, it's not like this is any less

deserved because of the opponents they've played. So yeah, I'm, I think they have a, you know,

I think this is a five, maybe six game series where Boston wins. Hopefully they can keep

this thing going. Porcangis looks good though. I'm excited about that. He looks healthy out there.

All right. There's your basketball talk for the day. That will end that. I've tuned out basketball for the last few years until the Warriors are playing in the playoffs. And that was not the case this year. So I was not watching. So that's been my basketball intake this year. But no worries. We are here to talk baseball and more specifically, as always,

bullpens and relief pitchers. And today we're going to be discussing, as always, the news,

notes and injuries and transactions from the past week. We'll discuss the closers rising and falling on Rick's ranks. And then we'll cover some mailbag questions from our own

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