How's it going and welcome to episode 173 of On the Wire?

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We've got a great show lined up for you. But before we get into all of that, Kevin, it's great to be back with you on a Saturday night.

I don't think we've done a Saturday night recording all regular season. So this is cool. We got a lot of extra information to get to pile through as we as we get closer and closer to the fab run, the 17th Fab run of the season.

How you doing, man?

Yeah, doing well, Adam.

As I told you as we started recording, I was actually a little upset with my royals for scoring runs in the bottom

of the eighth inning on Saturday here versus the White Sox because I was anxious to see

who was going to get the ninth for Kansas City. It ended up being Chris Bubich. They had a five-run

lead, but with the acquisition of Hunter Harvey,

and I had already been speculating on a couple of other closers for the Royals. Now, he would be

my number one spec. He did pitch the eighth inning and was the one that gave up a run to make

it a save situation for the ninth.

So we still don't know in Kansas City,

although it does appear that they were planning on having MacArthur for the ninth inning.

So Hunter Harvey may just be a setup guy here.

Already diving in right here in the intro, Adam.

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