Today on Rates and Barrels, it's Fantasy Friday.

We dig into some injuries that are shaking up playing time around the league.

We look at some starting pitchers you should consider trading for in the wake of some slow starts.

And a new closer has emerged for the A's.

Let's go.

Let's go. Well, great, to barrels. It is Friday, May 1st, Derek Van Riper here with Ido Seris.

Guess what, I know, it's May. It means you can freak out about your fantasy teams, your major league teams being up to slow starts, or you can freak out about a grown

man in America in his 80th year on the planet, eating a chicken wing for the first time in his

life in the booth. Of course, that's Jim Palmer. That's mind-blowing to me for so many reasons.

I did learn reading some of the backstory.

He's pretty health conscious,

so he'd never had fried chicken or a chicken wing before.

And yet, I still think that's impossible.

He was a professional ball player.

Those guys are on the road all the time.

There is only junk food to eat in some places. I imagine Jim Palmer in his

era being surrounded by teammates, chugging pictures of beer and eating mountains of chicken wings.

And I can't believe that curiosity or just pure hunger didn't get him to pick one up and try it

before this week.

My whole philosophy is try everything once.

I've tried so many weird things, dude.

I tried chicken sashimi.

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