How's it going and welcome to episode 145 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 we are here once again, Kevin, uh, week by week goes by. We're getting closer and closer.

Finally new year. So now we, you know, I feel like this is finally where you can start confidently

saying last year, meaning last season. We always hear this when talking to people

when I, and just on podcast, whatever's like, oh, it's, it's November and you're like last year.

I mean, I mean, this past year, I mean, this last season. And you never quite know what anybody's

talking about now. We can say that confidently and we can say that we're

drafting for this year. It's just, it's just nice to be able to get that nuance out of the way.

How you doing? Oh, I'm doing great, Adam. Hope you're doing well, enjoying your new year so far.

Here we are. I think it's the fifth day of the new year as we're recording. Yeah, things are going

great. Enosaris was on island visiting families. So hung out at a brewery, of course. We hung

out for a little while. A listener of the show, Matthew King, joined us as well, talked baseball

over a couple of beers and got a little further behind on yard work

than I already was from the holidays, but never passing up an opportunity to talk baseball.

Just the fact that you're talking about doing yard work in early January, though, is just,

come on, come on, Kevin.

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