Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, March 15th, 2021. This is a mashup with our friends at the pitcher list, Nick Pollock and Alex Fast, joining Eno and I on this episode. We promised this when the baseball pods bracket championship was infiltrated by bots last week. So we decided we would settle our disagreements with arguments about pitching.

And that would be for the greater good.

And a super pod, pod, pod, pod, pod.

Well, put the echo in and post.

This is why I like working with Eno.

We don't have to put the echo in in post because he just does it for me. All the sound tricks I can't do, Eno just does them. Old-timey radio voice, echoes. I am the soundboard. Yeah, his favorite movie was a police academy growing up. That's right. I love that guy. I love that guy. I can't remember his name now, but I loved him.

Oh, man.

So this will be a lot of fun, and these are two of our best friends in the industry.

It feels like I've known Nick and Alex a lot longer than I actually have.

Like, Nick, I think I met you for the first time the year that Tout Wars was at the Staten Island Yankee Stadium,

which was only 2016, 2017. It wasn't that long ago. You were kind of throwing some BP

in the indoor cage. That was fun. Oh man, I saw the video of me doing that and it's painful.

Like, I was trying to hold back and it's just all lower half and it's the worst mechanics

ever. And I'm so excited. I got to throw a baby to you and Tristan Cockeroff. Let's go, my God, this is incredible. And I'm like, I have this video forever and now I never want to look at it. It's really bad mechanics. But that was a ton of fun. The lesson is, never hold back. You should have blown it by them. I did a spore.

And like, you know, I should have done it to you too.

And Alex, I think we met for the first time at first pitch in 2019. The last time there was a

first pitch Arizona, I think, was the last time, the first time I met you, the last time

we all got on the road, really, which is, it's amazing. It's been that long already. Yes, that's when we got to know each other. The first time I think I ever had the pleasure of meeting you, I saw you in the corner at Foley's, and you probably, the only thing you might remember from it is just a very, just like, like, wet handshake because I was so nervous. So it was just like, that's probably the only thing you remember is just like like wet handshake because I was so nervous so it was just like that's probably

the only thing you remember is just like who was that wet wet man and why did he shake my hand

right now but you were very kind and you were very gracious and then yes the first time we actually

had a conversation when we got to know one another was the first pitch and it it was, it was awesome. And yeah, I mean, we are thrilled and honored to be here. And this is a dream for us. This is amazing. This is a solid chance that anything that happens at Foley's after 10 o'clock is impossible to remember during a Tau Wars weekend. And we'll be sure to pour one out to Foollies the next time we get together. It's going to be strange eventually going back to Tau Wars and not having Follies as our gathering place. Yeah, that really is going to stink. We're just going to have to find a new place to get Stark raving drunk, I suppose. And that burger is named after us, you know? Yeah. It's going to be wonderful.

Yeah, I don't know that there'll be another bar that'll do that for us.

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