Put me in Roth.

I'm ready to play today.

We're back.

We're back.

It's a dead cast.

I'm Drew. That's Roth.

Hi, Roth.

Hi, man.

You got to warn me when you're doing John Fogarty voice because I have a whole series of stretching exercises they do to get ready for that. He has the best old man voice. It's just the get off my lawn of voices. I love it. It's incredible that he's from California too. When I was a kid and I loved Credence all through like, you know, high school. I mean, there's still really good songs, but I was like, this is it.

This is the real Americana shit. And then he's like, he's from San Diego. Like, all his buddies were just into pot. Like, he's just like a, he somehow came out sounding real hickory smoked. Yeah, there's just gaps in every tooth, it feels like. Got a ha, ha, ha, to ha. It makes sense that he would write the baseball song, the sentimental baseball song.

Speaking of which, Roth, today, oh, can you just smell it in the air? The crack of the bat, the scratch of the crotch. Yes. The reek of the hot dog. It's opening day of baseball season, your favorite day of the year, am I right?

It is actually a pretty good day.

I dig it.

It's one of the magical things about being an idiot is that I can get upset about the broader

state of baseball for like months on end.

And this offseason sucked ass basically start to finish.

And then like as soon as the game start counting, I'm like, well, I hope his slider moves as much as I imagine it might. And I just am an idiot again for another few months. Then I get mad again. Yeah, well, I mean, that's every sport now. Every sport is corrupt and horrible and crooked. But then you watch the games, and you're part of the problem. Yeah, that's part of what makes me mad about it is that, like, baseball is this cool thing. There's not, like, another league that they're competing with. And they're so reckless with their shit. Like, they just kind of, whatever, are treating it like some car that you're just have decided. You're like, I'm going to drive it until, like, the engine completely gives out. and then I'm just going to leave it on the side of the road. And that's the relationship I'm going to have with it.

It's true. Nobody ever challenges it. Like there's no XLB. Yeah. I would love, yeah. I mean, the, uh, with all due respect to the Atlantic League, which is my local, uh, independent minor League and is a great place to see guys that played for the Mets in 2014, like up really close.

Yeah, there's no real competitor.

That's the other thing is that if you have minor leagues instead of relying on college sports

to develop and draft players, then you've essentially eliminated the threat of other

leagues challenging you because they're just minor leagues.

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