Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 115. Happy opening day.

It's Thursday, July 23rd.

Derek Van Riper here at Enosaris.

I have been whistling the Caddyshack intro track from Kenny Loggins pretty much all day.

I'm very excited that baseball is back.

I'm very excited to have games that count happening later tonight

and happy to see the Brewers getting back on the field on Friday.

We're going to discuss several items, of course, with opening day here.

We'll talk about a few more roster changes

and some of the really odd things we're going to see with roster management

as we kind of roll into the weekend.

A lot of retroactive IL stints that look bad at first glance but are going to cause some

problems for us as we make decisions about our rosters over the weekend.

Most importantly, we're going to have some more season preview type predictions, some big ones,

Sy Young winners, MVP's, playoff teams, and World Series winners for this 2020 season as well.

How's it going for you on this opening day Thursday, you know?

It is good.

I'm excited.

And it's funny, I'm home, and I will be home tomorrow. I'm not going to the park and this is actually my mode for opening day. Like this is what I've done my whole life. I have been to very few opening days in my life. In fact, the only opening days I've been to in my life have been ones that I covered, I think.

I think about my childhood.

I was poor, so we weren't buying our own tickets for opening day.

And when I had some awesome, I did have awesome tickets for those Braves years.

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