What's up, folks, the Shay Anything podcast, once again, another episode here on July 11th, 2018, Doug Williams alongside Andy Martino, as usual.

It almost wasn't you.

It almost wasn't.

It was almost elsewhere.

But here I am. Next week, I won't be here on Wednesday. I'll be coming back from the All-Star game.

Wow. So we'll have to make a real decision there if we're going to proceed without me or wait for me to return.

All systems go proceeding without you this week. That's true. Potential Wallach. Nelson was going to co-host. Yep.

So, but he's not.

And here I am.

Would have been fine, just saying.

You know who would have liked that?

Christy Acker, who the Daily News Metz Beat reporter, who feels that I bullied you in our last podcast.

You bullied me?

She says so.

By the way, fun quick.

She says you should have stuck up for yourself. Well, that's so... But she was on your side. John Harper told me a story yesterday. He's at City Field,

walking around, and somebody goes up to him and says, I love the show, first of all. Second of all,

you tell that Doug Williams to stick up for himself on baseball at New York. Andy Martino and John Hine are so rude to him.

Don't let him take that.

Her point was that you were right about the Braves being good.

You could see them being good.

I was saying, I was making a point about the unpredictability of when teams get good.

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