Better up.

Welcome to No Buntz here on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm Tass Melis and with me here in our Atlanta studio.

As always, it's super producer, J.D. Hello. Hey, J.D. And as always, my co-host, joining me from Taiwan. It's Joel McMillan. Hey, Jolie, it's been so long. Good to be back. I would sing, reunited by Peaches and Her, but I'm more of a bear tone. I can't hit those notes, but it's good to see you, my friend.

We will be talking about people trying to hit notes a little bit later.

That's a perfect segue for the, oh, the anthem singer yesterday at the home run derby.

We'll get to that a little bit later.

But it is so good to be back, Joel.

I need to get to know what happened in the first half of this season

because I've been NBAing it hard and we haven't done a pod since last year.

Skeets filled in at the end of the year for me post-injury.

So it was good to see you guys doing that but i just haven't been

following the the first half hard enough i'm wearing this blue jays jersey because i also haven't

worn that in a long time since the blue jays have been good uh since last season it's been some time

uh yeah tas you want to bring up a sore spot right away that hurts that hurts right off the bat i did i had that written down i knew we needed to talk about that but let's get to the first half of the season before we get to that home run derby talk we're going to hand out some awards in the

golden glizzies dogs for everybody joel we've got dogs for everybody we've got great've got... Dogs for everybody.

We've got great awards to hand out.

Honestly, great awards.

Because as I talked about with that bummer of a start with a Blue Jays, gosh, nobody wants to talk about that.

There are real good things that have happened through the first half.

So let's hand out the first award.

The best storyline. Yeah, through the first half. So let's hand out the first award. The best storyline.

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