Welcome to Rates and Burials, episode number 116. It is Friday, July 24th. Happy opening day

Part 2, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, and Britt Jiroli here with you on this Friday. A very busy opening day, part 1.

We had some huge breaking news come down. Juan Soto tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in the week,

and there have been some changes to the protocols for how Major League Baseball might allow some players to return to play.

So we're going to dive into that.

We're going to talk about expanded playoffs.

When has this ever happened?

The playoff field gets larger on the first day of the season.

We'll talk about that.

And yesterday when we

spoke, the Blue Jays didn't have a home for 2020. Today they do. So three massive stories to talk about.

And guys, it was just fun to watch baseball again. Even though we only got a partial game from the

Yankees and Nats, even though Dodgers and Giants was kind of a trash game in the late innings things really unraveled.

I was just happy to have a little shred of normalcy on a day in which the news overall actually wasn't that good.

So, Britt, first, welcome to our show.

And I got to ask you, like, what was your day like with the news for Soto coming down

yesterday yeah it was an interesting day because I was kind of excited guys kind of like you said

Derek that it was maybe going to just be about baseball for a little while and then it hits

Juan Soto has COVID minutes before the roster comes out.

Now all of the sudden, what was going to be, what I was looking forward to was watching

Max Scherzer and Garrett Cole throw in an actual baseball game.

I was so busy.

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