after an all-star break we are back talking baseball we are we're talking a friend of ours a friend

of the podcast win the home run derby we got a lot of injury news to talk about mostly in

Atlanta unfortunately we got a lot of a lot of fab to talk about all come up next in the

rhoda fire fantasy baseball podcast podcast.

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We appreciate them for that. If you can please rate review review the podcast that'd be fantastic also other than that uh we're happy to see everybody we're off for a week i'm scott jenstead join us always on sunda nights by jeff ericsson jeff how was your all-star week uh it's always good scott we went away to vegas uh unplugged for a little bit took a week off from. Now we're back at it. I'm going to be talking a lot this week. So if you're sick of me, I'm sorry, but I'll be there. Or if you're not, you know, just find me in many outlets there. Doing rates and drill tomorrow. You got a football podcast starting to, right? Football tomorrow. I'm doing rates and barrels tomorrow. I'm doing Sarah Sanchez's podcast on Tuesday.

It's good. Let's go. That's awesome. You got to get your Cubs knowledge up then. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. A lot of, uh, a lot of Leon Durham and Jay Johnstone talk there, I'm sure. Absolutely. Those are my two oldest cubs I could pull out. Yeah. Ernie Banks. He's older. Well, I was going to all this and most random ones.

All right, good.

But yeah, it was a the oldest and most random ones.

All right, good.

But, yeah, it was a fun All-Star break. All-Star game was a awesome game was pretty fun, but we're jumping back in. I know it's not really the second half of the season. It's a little bit past that, but still kind of call it that. But we've got about two and a two and a half months left of the season, you know, still some time to make some, make some moves in our fancy leagues, but kind of the point where every, every move matters, you know, controlling your fab matters this late. So we'll talk a bunch about fab a little bit. But I've had some actual baseball first, Jeff. It's funny. I think about five weeks ago, we talked about how it was pretty impressive that the American League West had the biggest margin of between first place and second place with Seattle having a 10 game lead over the

Astros and the Rangers. Jeff Astros are not tied to first place. They were up one, but

Seattle actually won a game today. I'm afraid the Astros are here. Yeah. I'm not even,

I'm not even surprised by this. The Mariners aren't even surprised by this I mean they they

DFA you know type France today they know that they're they're in a bad spot right now they're

they're really trying to find some ways to boost some offense it's it's pretty ugly right now for

them they got this great pitching and they're they're just wasting with terrible hitting and now Julio's hurt too so It's it's pretty ugly right now for them. They got this great pitching and they're just wasting with terrible hitting. And now Julio's hurt too. So we'll see. Although it's

at least from now, he's having MRI tomorrow so we won't really know. But the x-rays were

ex-rays were negative. When he first hit the wall, I thought he was done done. Like the way he

reacted. Yes, me too. I thought he like broke his ankle right away. And I was like, oh, my gosh, this is horrible.

And then he kind of, you kind of got up and then walked off pretty slowly, but kind

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