Hi, welcome to the Pazcast. I am Joe Paznanski and with me is Michael Schor, Michael. Welcome.

Thank you for having me, Joe. You're welcome. All right. So here's here's what I want to say. Okay. This is I think a a it's a unique

podcast. Here's why here's why I think this is a unique podcast. People probably know or have figured out on

their own that we do no preparation for these podcasts. Not correct. We do not. What we will do is you will

text me and say something to the effect of we ought to talk about Ellie Della Cruz or or let's talk about

Tony LaRouso or I'll text you and say we ought to do a podcast on show A or whatever. That's it. That's

that's the level of preparation. That is that is what our research department puts together for us.

That is that is that is you know our in the writers room. That's what we spend a lot of our time

thinking about. This podcast is really special because we go in. I have no idea what we're talking

about. None. Not even so here not even a theme. Not even like even a general thing. I don't here's

the thing though. Today we don't need we don't need the minimal amount of research that we normally do.

I'll tell you why there's a bunch of things going on. We're two weeks away from the trade deadline. Right.

Show show Hayotani rumors are floating around. Flying. They're flying. The the New York Yankees just lost

two out of three to the worst team in the national league. Awesome. The reds have come back down to

earth a little bit after the Ellie Della Cruz. Yes. And he has come back down a little bit. He has

come back down to the league. The league was like, oh wait, what if we throw him a slider? What

happens then? The Boston Red Sox are the, I think still the hottest team of the last 25 games.

They're super they're hot enough that they are now tied with the New York Yankees and the

so great. So like, there's a lot of baseball stuff. Just baseball stuff. There's other that we

can probably talk about Carlos Alcarez. Carlos Alcarez. That was you're a weird tennis

sicko who has to, you're like the lost computer, like the lost computer and the numbers that

had to be entered every like 100 minutes. Your brain has to write 5,000 words about tennis every

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