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 Rick Graham, pitcherless bullpen expert.

Rick, how's it going?

I can't even remember what we started the last podcast with.

Had the Celtics won the World Series?

Oh, the World Series.

Had they won the World Series already?

Yes, they hit a couple home runs and scored some touchdowns in the final game.

Yeah, they ended up clinching on Monday.

Okay, okay.

It was great, you know, good to see Al Horford win a title, you know, Brad Stevens, like, putting this team together.

Great team, great season.

I, yeah, I don't want to hear anything about they didn't play anyone because, you know,

well, it's not their job to pick their opponents.

So, yeah, it was a fun run. And now I can finally focus

entirely on baseball for the next, you know, three, four months. That's right. Yeah. And that

will end our basketball talk for the season as well as that season is complete. And I promise our

listeners that we wouldn't talk about basketball if it weren't for

it being Rick's team winning the championship. Like if it was the Knicks or whatever, for example,

we wouldn't be discussing it. Exactly. But, you know, Warriors, Warrior Celtics, I think we got

at least mention it. But we've got a ton of stuff to cover today. So I think we're just going to

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