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John Scott, the All-Star man.

John Scott, the family man.

Thank you for listening to dropping the gloves with John Scott.

Hey, everybody, welcome to dropping the gloves.

A nice Friday episode.

Thanks for coming in and hanging out with us at the end of the week.

Tim, I'm not feeling too hot, my friend. What's going on? You know, I've been battling this little bug the family's got, ran through all the kids, every single one of them, even our littlest. And I finally thought we were out of the weeds than I'd get it yesterday. Come on. I can hear you. My voice voice is a little deeper. I got congestion. My throat's a little tickly. I can't taste anything or smell anything. I think it's the flu. It's fine. But no, I'm just, you know, not 100%, but we're soldiering on because boy, oh, boy, what a, what a week. What a couple days in this free agency.

Unbelievable.

Like, I don't know.

Break down.

When you, when you showed me this, I knew it was a busy couple days in free agency.

When I saw the final numbers, I was astonished.

It was like a spending spree.

Joe Biden showed up and started giving everyone money, and they were going nuts.

So why don't you break down what happened this year and how insane it is?

Yeah, because we were, because normally we had tagged something like this and kind of talk

about like every major signing and how it affects their team and what the term is right and all this stuff. But there's just so many signings,

trades, buyouts, movements, rumors. We can't possibly cover it all. And I want to kind of just place

some context around how crazy this week was, especially those first 48 hours of free agency,

two hours, excuse me. So, and starting

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