Hello, and who collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing today in our annual Winspool,

Dun, which I have never won and is also a snake draft

so I'm in really big trouble.

Our reigning champion from last season.

I believe McMahon won two years ago. He did. I know he didn't win.

It was me. Our reigning champion is joining us, believe it or not, from New York City.

We haven't seen him in New York City in weeks,

Hymptemps.

Hello, everybody.

It's nice to be back in New York City for a moment.

It's a beautiful summer, a beautiful fall day,

I should say.

Nice 75 degree sunny day.

Joining us from Dallas, Texas where he's slunk away. Nice partners it's good to be back glad my suspension's over when he took it awfully

personally that I called his first pitch of balance pass and had to spend a week

away from the pod but here I am baby it was you know it was a skip pass Skip pass has a certain value. If you, you know, sometimes you throw the ball in the dirt for on purpose.

That's a skill that you learn. You need to, and you need to skip it in there.

You don't bounce at eight feet in front of the plate you get the guy to swing at it.

I was happy to catch there was like six ceremonial first pitches including a robot and I was the last one and I was just

glad that the catcher was able to handle the pitch in the dirt.

It didn't go all the way to the back stop.

All right, as the reigning champion,

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