What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. You morning pitching podcast from Pitcherlist.com. My name is Nick Pollock. Today is July 19th. And yes, we're going to talk about baseball. Oh, my gosh. I have missed you all. Oh, I have to apologize to everyone listening. I did not do a good enough job of communicating. Why I was overly ambitious I went to

Cape Cod to visit family on Friday two weeks ago and after cancellations of flights

and having to do it Saturday I finally got there and I just had not enough time

to record this daily as I thought I would. It was just one of those cases.

I had to do the roundup.

I was backed up on that.

I'm backed up on the streamers, the list.

A lot of other things were going on.

And, of course, spending time with three lovely nephews.

Obviously, my sister and brother-in-law, my parents up there.

And it's just I had to make some sacrifices so

unfortunately I wasn't able to do this regularly that said I'm back baby and yes I am

going to Texas on July 28th for a week however I have full intent to be recording this there so I we are full on ready to go

and because there's a roundup yesterday I am going to be doing the starting

pictures for today tomorrow and Sunday I felt like that is something I should just

put in the work today do something extra for this podcast also I do want to mention if you didn't in the work today. Do something extra for this podcast. Also, I do

want to mention, if you didn't see the tweets, today's a very monumental day for Pitcher List,

as we've officially crossed our eyes and dotted our T's, as I like to say, by hiring our first

full-time staffers here at Pitcher List. I've been doing this for 10 and a half years.

I started Pitcher Gifts in 2014. I am not a full-time staffer. And we hired a HR consultant to get a

setup with a PEO to ensure that we got our first full-time staffers done correctly the right way with competitive

wages with proper benefits and essentially my theory is look if you cannot hire uh if you cannot

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