Hello and welcome on the corner of the official podcast to pitchers.com.

I'm your host Eric Smolsky, joined on All-Star Week.

But, I mean, we're lucky to have him back traveling all over.

What a chore to get back here in time.

Nick Pollack, Nick, what is happening?

Have you had any sleep?

No.

Okay.

So I just want to say really quickly, thank you guys so much for dealing with all of that.

Long story short, left on Friday 10 days ago and had my flight canceled after a whole day

of the airport stunk.

And then I actually flew out on that Saturday.

Had a whole week.

I was trying to get as much done as I could.

But honestly, I had family.

That's the one time I see this family for the year, really. Everybody in one place.

It was wonderful. Got to see my nephews, my sister, my brother-in-law, parents. It was great.

But I made it so that I wasn't as consistent with picture of stuff, and I apologize for that, guys.

But getting back, I plan to come back on Sunday mid-afternoon,

but then my flight canceled midday on Sunday. So I took a bus to get to another airport

that took two hours to get another flight, which then canceled, to which then I took a bus at 11 p.m.

to then arrive in New York City at 3.30 and fall asleep at 4 in the morning on

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