Hello and welcome to On the Corner the official podcast, pittalist.com.

I'm your host, Eric Smolski, joined on the other end by Nick Pollock.

And I got to say, Nick, I see you in this what looks to be an incredibly comfortable pitcherless sweatshirt.

And I don't have one of those.

No, you don't.

Don't have one.

And that is a problem.

We can get one for you. And this is a gorgeous zip up.

It's pictures in the corner.

It's very warm.

It's actually my apartment is a little cold today.

Well, yeah, because it's 17 degrees in New York City.

So yeah, that'll do it.

But you know, what war warm me up, Eric?

Knowing that it's your birthday tomorrow. Oh, yes. That, yes, that warms me up too.

You tend to not care as much. It's not a milestone birthday. It's just another year older.

Well, I mean, you're going to turn 35 and we're really excited for

Eric. And everybody, of course, please reach out to Eric Smolski and, you know, wish him a happy

birthday because it's a busy month or two ahead for us. Yes. Oh, my God. And of course, also,

my son decided he wanted to give everybody a cough and a runny nose in the house. And so we're dealing with that as well. But we're powering through. It's the winner. That's just it's part for the course. And I am so, you know, I wouldn't say I'm injured, you know, but I'm not operating at 100%.

And that is super relevant for today because we're going to talk about injured starting

pitchers.

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