Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We are live. Winter meetings. That's right. Rumors, signing, straights. Anything could happen. Trevor's here. Let's talk ball.

Uh, uh, uh, um, Framber Valdez.

Boba shit on the Red Sox

You're talking a lot of Red Sox

Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball

We are coming live from winter meetings in Orlando

We're in a middle of an unguarded hallway

So I guess if you're tuning in and you're

close, you can be on the show. I really shouldn't be saying that because they do do the

recruiting stuff in here. So there's been a lot of talking base bros saying what's up

along the way. I'm Jake Strombole. That is Trevor Plouffe. Rob Chiracco's producing live. Jolly Olive is on deck, ready to get some hacks and Matt Stair style. BBD is floating around. It's winter meetings, Coach Trev. How are you? I'm so happy to be on the sticks again. I feel like I've been gone. I know I have been

actually. Yeah. And so I haven't been on a lot of episodes with you. And I like need to get

this ball yucked out of me if you know what I mean. So I wish I was there. I love me some

Orlando, Jubi Tibera shout out. But I was growing the game today. SoCal Padres finished second in the

bronze bracket. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. It's not great right now for us. But nevertheless, growing the

game. And I don't know, I guess I'm excited to talk rumors. I'm excited to talk free agents.

But more so just kind of just talking my good pal Jake, man. I feel like it's been too long. I know. You and I feel

like we've been long distance dating for a little bit. Some kind of slutty face times, both ways.

Yeah, I can't even...

Well, actually, you don't know this yet, Trev,

because you probably didn't go back and listen,

but I did you FaceTiming me while Jimmy Claussen was toasting his wife.

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