How's it going and welcome to episode 143 of On the Wire?

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I am Adam Howe.

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And Kevin Hasting is

at Hasting Kevin on the Twitter. And Kevin, glad to be back once again. And we, uh, last,

last episode that we did together, um, you know, sprinkled in a little mock mock draft episode that, uh,

did with, Nick Pollack on Sunday.

But since that, I'm like, all right, we're going to clean up, we're going to catch up,

we're going to get to all this news, get it out of the way, get it off our plate.

And lo and behold, we could do a whole other news and notes episode if we really wanted to. There's enough to talk about a lot going on. How you doing?

Oh, doing great and trying to keep on as much of this as possible. You know, it seems like it's

slowed down. I really thought once Otani signed, we'd see more of a flood of moves, and we haven't. Like you said,

there's been a lot of moves, but some of the bigger names, you know, Blake Snell, Cody

Bellinger, uh, Yamamoto, of course. And then we're, we're getting conflicting reports. It,

it could be after Christmas even even after the New Year.

Oh, that was just annoying.

His deadlines, the fourth, right?

So we know we're going to see Yamamoto by January 4th.

Maybe that's one more piece we need to see drop before the floodgates really open on the rest of these guys.

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