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 in the midst of the playoff race,

not even the race, the actual playoffs. And it is really getting down.

We are getting very close to the World Series.

But today we're going to talk about the division series because our last podcast ended,

literally, or our last podcast was recorded literally the day the Wild Card series ended.

So we'll get to recap the entire division series, talk a little bit about the championship

series, and then even touch a little bit about the championship series,

and then even touch a little bit on a mock draft that we're doing and discuss where the relievers are going in that. But Rick, how have you been enjoying the playoffs? Have you been

able to watch it all? Because I have not. They don't make it easy to watch.

Is that because of what networks they're on or be in the West Coast.

Oh, well, that, yeah, that, that, that hurts.

There's, yeah, I mean, MLV TV, you still need to go through cable.

It's weird, like, I feel like it's weird that TBS is, like, carrying the AL championship series.

I know, like, TBS isn't, like, network, but like Fox gets to get Fox gets the,

you know, NLCS.

That's kind of a big deal.

So I don't know.

We'll,

we'll see.

I do know that the,

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