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 full pen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, we are in the middle of the summer.

It is July and it is a fun time in baseball.

Honestly, I think my favorite month of baseball, with, you know, October and April

sort of rivaling it.

But I love July because of all of the content we get surrounding the All-Star game,

the Home Run Derby, the Futures game, and now we have a futures game skill showcase, too.

So there's a lot of things to be excited about this month.

And that doesn't even count the the first year player draft and the trade deadline.

It's just an incredible month.

Are you on the same page in terms of loving July as much as I do?

Yeah, that feels right.

I mean, if you weren't going to say like the draft

and like oh yeah that I like how that's now a part of this whole

month and the whole all-star weekend

you know

lumping them all together kind of

it it feels better I don't know I like it a little bit better

just um content wise yeah, going right up

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