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, bullpen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, we are finally post-trade deadline and we're into August, my birth month.

No need to. Wish me a happy birthday. Actually, we do have to figure out and we're into august my birth month no need to wish me a happy

birthday um actually we do have to figure out when we're recording because it does come up on a

Thursday um we'll talk about that after the pod nonetheless welcome all our listeners to the show

and uh rick how are you doing uh anything you'd like our listeners to know give a a, give our listeners a fun fact about yourself,

something they don't know. Oh man. I, I, this question. You got to have something prepared for

this always. This is, yeah, it's like one of those interview questions where they just pop it on you

and it's like, um, like, I don't know.

I don't know how to answer these.

You have any special skills?

Is there any video game really good at?

Have you read a book a lot of times?

No, I mean, I was really good at NHL, like the NHL series back in the day.

I haven't played it in a few years.

What did you play on?

Mostly, well, started on like PS2 and then, you know, Xbox 360 from there and kind of been mostly Xbox since then.

But yeah, I was like I used to be like highly ranked in

those, like, you know, 100s. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah, it was, it was, I mean, I played it a lot. It was the one,

that was the one game. I was like good at everything else. I was mediocre at best. That's sick. I've

only ever played that game once. And it's because I bought a GameCube from one of my friends when I was mediocre at best. That's sick. I've only ever played that game once. And it's because

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