The sleeper in the bus, the skill, there's luck, a keeper or cut, open by like case shut.

A shortstop, or stop short, press play or press or support, intelligence for sports.

Good of y'all to listen, aiming at what truth is.

Mike, you know pitchin like the name is Michael Lewis, others in the truth is Mikey no picture like the name is Michael Lewis others in the dust or left out to rust who's hitting who's missing the sleeper in the bust

Hello out there in the the debut of Rotograph's contributor Mike Petriello and today we'll be discussing the Diamondback's

middle infield situation and all things Dodgers. And Mike you actually write for a blogness and so this is your own blog I don't I don't think anybody else writes for it right?

It is my own blog because who else would write for a blog with that kind of title? I would be happy to write for a blog with that title. The more exotic, the better. And I was reading that, apparently it was a Simpson's joke. And we were just talking about the fact that I was reading that apparently it was a Simpsons joke

and we were just talking about the fact that I don't actually watch Breaking Bad

The Simpsons is another show

that yeah I've seen an episode here and there

but I never watched that show regularly and I feel like I missed out.

Did you grow up in like South America or something? I grew up under a bubble. What kind of

say? But also I'm curious because you live in New York City, did you grow up in LA? I mean, why did Dodgers blog?

No, it's a silly story and I get asked that question a lot.

I'm actually from Jersey Shore.

Yeah, I'm from the Jersey Shore.

I'm not an L.A. native.

Even more strange?

Yeah, this short version is that when I was a kid in the 80s, growing up, the Yankees were just

unwatchably terrible, it was the Alvaro Espinoza and the Tim Leary years.

So when I was a baseball fan, but I didn't know the team, and when I was a baseball fan but I didn't know the team and when I was like six years old and seven years old and eight years old you play T ball and you get assigned randomly to a team which means they just give you a screen printed shirt that could say any name on it and I just

happened to the Dodgers every year. And then in 1988 you know Kirkson

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