Well, I think this might be the earliest I've ever recorded actually, but it is well worth it to

accommodate this guest who has been an

Intrepid road warrior of late but glad we get a chance to sit down with Mark Steine. How are you?

I feel for you man because this is early for me and your two hours ahead of me two hours behind

On the west coast apologies

All right, well apologies that my schedule is so crazy. Well the good news is I have an excuse of being a little punchy for

The stupid stuff that I probably would have just said normally anyway, so we'll see you

We'll see if the audience lets you off hook daddy. My guess is not

We'll leave it for giving audience. I mean, it's it's surprising actually we've made so many errors over the course of

You know almost 600 episodes now that it's you do too many shows that's error number one five shows a week guarantees that you're gonna make

Well the good news is though like my in-game tweeting if I make a mistake

It's one of just like 40 tweets. So you know, it doesn't it doesn't get as much attention

Thankfully, but

Let's get started. We we talked about a week ago of like some things to come up with and I was like, yeah, you know

There's nothing much news after the all start break

But we actually came up with a bunch of stuff and where I wanted to start here is the Derek Rose era in Chicago

You are at the forefront. I think you might have been the first report that that was likely and then you know

It looked like he wasn't gonna go there in fact

Clint Taylor said now we don't have any plans to add anyone and then low and behold the timing was a little odd a month after

He was initially traded it and weaved Derek Rose is now in Minnesota. How did that saga evolve?

It was odd. I I think it's fair to say that Tom Tibano had great interest in bringing him in from the start

I reported on trade deadline day that when he was dealt to Utah and waved at Minnesota would try to sign him and you know

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