How's it going and welcome to episode 234 of On the Wire proud member of the

Pictureless Podcast Network?

I am Adam Howe joined per usual by Kevin Hasting.

We've got a great show lined up for you today as we continue our look back at 2025 today staying a little

bit more negative looking at the disappointments both just what we expected what's the

projections projected and then what we actually got.

Obviously, a little bit less than ideal.

But we'll get into all that a little bit.

Kevin, how you doing?

I'm doing amazing, Adam.

We have amazing baseball going on as we speak.

As we're recording here on Saturday with the Brewers Cubs, go home game going on after last night's 15 inning affair.

We've had some great baseball the last couple days.

So that's how I'm doing, Adam.

Oh, man.

I mean, it's like, it's like looking back, it's like you look at all the like the different narratives that you could possibly think about the different ways that teams could match up against each other.

Congratulations, Seattle fans.

Like that's great to have to see you come back after what, 24 years and not being in the ALCS.

That's amazing.

You know, part of me is like really wanted Detroit to do it just because of proximity to Toronto. So it's nice. It would be nice to see if there was some inter, well, I don't know how many people are going across the border in this day and age. But still, it would have been nice to see the proximity, the Detroit, Toronto, not that far from each other.

Well, yeah, but, you know, Canada as a whole is a whole, right?

For Toronto.

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