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 spoolpen expert

Rick Graham. Rick, how's it going? Your team is in the NBA finals. I have not watched a single

game. They are in the NBA finals, right? Yes, they're in the NBA finals. I have not watched a single game. They are in the NBA finals, right?

Yes, they're in the NBA finals. They're up three games to none, looking for the sweep tomorrow,

or Friday, or today, if you're listening on the day this podcast comes out. Yeah, I mean,

it's been, you know, I know everyone's talking about how it's been kind of a cupcake, easy ride for them to get here and, you know, Luke is hurt and whatnot, but whatever, you know, they can only beat the teams that they play.

So I'm just happy for guys like Al Horford, you know, that dude deserves, deserves, you know, a championship.

So, yeah, it's, it's been fun.

Hopefully they can wrap things up tomorrow.

We don't have to worry about recording during game six next Thursday.

That's right.

Yeah.

Well, we've started each of the last two podcasts off with basketball talk.

So we'll move on. We can do more. We can just do this whole yeah i mean we're gonna have to go to relievers yeah

we're gonna have to start three-pointer list did you see the uh then did you see the new city connect

jerseys uh oh no i don't think i which ones. Oh, the twins ones, yes.

What do you think of those? I like those.

I mean, I like weird jerseys.

I'm not, um, sometimes it can be a little weird, but like twins, I think are pretty fresh.

Yeah, I, they, they weren't one of the worst ones I saw, but I hate city connects with the blue pants. I think it always

Yeah. Yeah. It always makes it look like pajamas, which I mean, technically baseball uniforms are pajamas,

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