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But Coke is back, which means we're back. Sizzling is, I don't like that word actually. Sizzling

is supposed to mean food, fajitas, when things are sizzling, they're hot, they're cooking.

We use that word in baseball during the winter. We call it the hot stove. I ask people in

baseball why it's called that. I have no answer. No one has answers. Somebody out there

may. But I guess I have to tell you the hot stove is definitely sizzling because every other

minute I'm getting a call from CBS breaking news. Let's go. Another player signed. We did

a special show Friday just for Metz fans. That's the only fans I was trying to talk to on Friday

night when I tried to tell Metz fans how happy you should be that Jacob DeGrom is a Texas

Ranger. When you have a player who has an unrealistic demand and you give into that unrealistic

demand, no matter how big your payroll is, you are going to lose at the end of the day.

Because there's a limited amount of times that even the biggest markets and the best teams

can overpay. Jacob DeGrom says he wants five years. He gets five years from Texas. See

you later. Let that beat someone else's problem. What the Metz did after losing DeGrom is exactly

what you want your front office to do when you've got one of the biggest payrolls in the

game, one of the richest owners in the game, and a team that's ready to win. You pivot and

you sign the next Mac Shurzer. That of course is Justin Verlander. Metz fans instead of having

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