Hello and welcome to On the Corner of the Official.

Podcast, Pitchellist.com, and host Eric Smolski, joined on this Monday afternoon by Nick Pollock.

Nick, happy Monday to you, sir.

Happy Monday, Eric.

How are you doing?

I am all right.

We, you know, battle through the norovirus at home.

Now we're into the, now we're into the sore throat stuffy nose phase.

It's just, I try and defend January because my birthday is in January.

But it's a tough month to defend.

No.

I'm not going to lie.

It's freezing cold always.

It's pretty gloomy. Yeah. There's a lot of days. I get it. I'm not going to lie. It's freezing cold always. It's pretty gloomy. There's a lot of days.

I get it. I get it. Yeah, January is my least favorite month of the year. I know. I have friends that

say the same thing and I always fight back. And there's just, I got to the point where like,

I'm using like the Australian Open as a reason to defend January. And it's like, I'm just grasping at straws here. I like tennis. I like the Australian Open as a reason to defend January and it's like I'm just

grasping at straws here I like the Italian Open like Australian Open like no man that's

it's all I got it's what I got oh my gosh no I mean I added my birthday and obviously the NFL

playoffs and that's basically it yeah don't you know Roki Sasaki signing somewhere which

will eventually happen in January.

Yes.

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