Hello and welcome to the Keeper Cup podcast, the first episode of the 2026 season.

We have baseball underway, Pete.

They're out on the field, literally right now as we record this on Sunday evening.

It is the first Sunday night baseball game of the year on Peacock.

So yay for that, I guess.

I'm excited about it because my guardians are playing.

But I'm just happy there's baseball back yeah it's so amazing man and

the beginning of the year is like weird because you know the Red Sox weren't playing on

Friday I think it was it's like what the heck but then it's also cool because teams are

playing at all times of the day you know which is really is really exciting. So I'm just all about it.

I'm so glad it's back.

Yeah. And it's funny to me because every year I go through this like, oh, pitchers and catchers reported baseball's back. And I'm like, yeah, okay, like a week later, I'm like, whatever. Then I'm like, spring training games. I can watch a baseball game. Baseball's back. And then like a week later, I'm like,

nah,

whatever.

And like,

even this year with the WBC,

as fun as that was,

I was like,

oh,

competitive baseball's back and then like a week later i'm like nah whatever and like even this year with the wbc as fun as that was i was like oh competitive baseball's back and then it ended

and i was like well yeah i mean it was but but now this is this is the real deal and the game counts

yeah um i've already made it to a couple games games. I was telling, telling you people before we were

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