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Welcome back to another edition of the Around League podcast.

My name is Dan Hans and I'm joined by a room filled with heroes, Chris Wessling, Mark Sessler, and Greg Rosenthal.

What up, boys?

Hey, Dan.

Actually, yeah, actually, it's more a room full of trunks.

We've been put in the back room of a Sheridan in Times Square, and that's why it might sound like we're recording underwater.

So understand the production's going to be a little off here.

But the energy, the love of the game, the love of the media day, the weird way that Dan's

voice sounds in this strange room bouncing off, that's going to be on top of things.

There are literally like 22 massive black boxes filled with potentially arms.

More than 22.

So.

All right, so today was media day.

I guess maybe that's where we should start.

There's so much to get to.

We have the four of us haven't been together in a while, but Media Day was today, so why don't we start there?

And Greg, I throw it to you, the boss, your big picture takeaway from the day at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Well, I like the beginning of it. We get off the bus and there's a band just making music upon our arrival, made us feel like we were athletes.

And then after that, it was just pretty much, I don't know, the same media day as always. You know, it's a lot of nonsense.

A couple good questions mixed in there.

I'm more interested in Wessling,

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