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doing? I'm hanging in there. Hanging in there for a middle of February, not too bad. A lot better when, you know, I felt like this year, Derek, I don't know if you felt the same way. Like, there was a lot more buzz for the start of the college baseball season. We've got, we've got random people talking about it more. I've seen a lot more. Maybe

it's just because my algorithm's all tuned up now, but I'm seeing a lot more of, you know,

shots of crowds throughout the country and just people talking about maybe the baseball growing

and popularity and more people getting into the sport. Yeah, you took the words out of my mouth.

It's all over the algorithms. That's what you're seeing it. It's popping up there. No, you took the words out of my mouth. It's all over the algorithms.

That's why you're seeing it's popping up there.

No, I do think that there has been a lot of excitement for this.

I mean, college baseball's really grown so much.

I mean, how much, do you think the draft rules, kind of the shortened shortened draft i feel like it's probably played a big

role like there's just better players probably in college baseball now reduced drafts you know

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