Hello, I am Matt Williamson.

How's it going today?

Strange day here in La Trobe.

We are back after the acclamation process, padded practices.

For Tuesday, I'm recording this Tuesday night.

Just got back from dinner.

But a little wrench in the plan, it poured here.

And they didn't cancel practice, but they went inside and did a walk through.

The fields were unusable.

So I was really excited to talk to you guys about first padded practice.

Now, I do think it's going to be really good here

tomorrow. Didn't be able to do any hitting today, so I think they're going to get after it really

hard tomorrow, maximize the Wednesday edition of practice. The McAfee show is going to be here.

There's going to be a ton of people, I'm sure.

So that should be great. But in the meantime, I have been saving this literally for a rainy day.

And today was about as rainy as you're going to get. So I want to talk about some things I dug up.

But first before we do, the news of the day, or since we got together last, is Cordero Patterson's been released.

I still don't have any answers on this matter, to be honest with you.

I don't know why it took so long.

I never thought for one instance, thought there he and really him too.

I'm not sure he even thought. He was part of the master plan. I don't know why it took forever.

Maybe it'll come out or someone will tell me or whatever will mention why this took so long.

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