Hello and welcome to the Keeper Cup podcast. Chad Young here with Pete Ball.

And we are, we're efficient. This is the first second episode, I guess that's come out since the end of baseball season.

But it's the first one we're recording with no baseball going on.

Last time we were following along, I think, in game three or something.

I guess there's Arizona Fall League.

There's not no baseball.

Yeah, I haven't been following Arizona Fall League much at all, but I did follow the demise of the New York Yankees.

So, you know, I felt terrible. I shed a few tears. And, you know, gosh, I just hope they get Soto back because imagine they lose him and lose the World Series.

That would be really tough for those lovable fans. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, fans who grab hold of outfielders arms and try to rip their gloves off. Awesome

stuff. I don't know how to explain how I feel about that situation because it's egregious. He never

should have done it. It's awful. He put Mookie at risk. I also love that it happened. Like,

that's just, that's just so awesome. It's such a great picture.

The funny thing is I had made an argument with some fans and some other people in the Auto News Slack earlier this year that there should be no fan interference rules except for contact with the player.

If the ball goes into the stands or near the stands and a fan can get to it,

like even if they lean out over the field, that should just be fair game.

Yeah, why not?

And that's what I'm with that.

Yeah, actually, I like that.

People are like, well, how do you protect players? It's like, it's simple.

Any contact with the player at all.

And it's, it's off that that's it's it's it's

you cannot make you know and then this happened and people are like you really

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