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b-t-t-t-t. Hello everybody and welcome to the sleeper and the bust. This is

episode number 146. I am your host Nicholas Minix and I am joined by as usual during the week

Eno Seris you know how are you? I'm doing great I'm about to move on Monday that's

gonna suck that is suck, but considering that last time you said you were having to deal

possibly with that being pushed up until the non-waiver trade deadline for baseball might be good.

Let's hope you get that knocked out well in advance of that.

That's a good point, actually. I'm not moving on the 31st.

That was even harder. Nothing like downward comparison. This is true, this is true.

But if things continue to go kind of the way they have lately, maybe most of the trades that could happen on July 31st will be done by then. And that kind of takes us into our first topic, which is that Detroit has acquired

Wachim Soria from the Texas Rangers, and probably the more interesting news immediately

attached to that is that Detroit has made it clear that they plan at least for now

Although they didn't say that part the at least for now to stick with Joe Nathan as closer.

And we talked about him on a couple of occasions

and basically he suffers from old man disease

as far as closers go, where pitchers in general,

players in general.

He has, I'd like to bring up. now this does not inspire much confidence for me.

I'm assuming the same for you.

He has pitched a little better lately in his last seven innings, all of them in this month.

He has an ERA under four, and the strikeout. in this is

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