Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, Jeff Erickson with Fred Zinky here.

It's going to be about streaming targets for the second

half and a whole lot of news. Fred Zinky, how are you? I'm great, Jeff, for this morning podcast,

which we haven't ever done before. Yeah, I know. I've done it for like the Thursday one. I'm starting

I'm going to do it tomorrow for football. Get Chris Harris from Harris football tomorrow. Looking forward

to that. and hey i

like doing the morning sometimes get it done then i have my xm show right after that i also have golf

today so i'll be done in the afternoon it'll be nice are you a morning person like i am definitely a

morning person not a night owl are you a morning person or a night really so here's the deal. I don't like getting up, but once I'm up, I like being up early.

Gotcha. So you know what I'm saying? Like, I love the early morning. I love being out there. Yeah. I just don't like the actual process of waking up early. Yeah. I hear you. I hear you. That makes sense. Yeah. So I sent a tweet out last night. Anger, anger Reds treat, uh, reds tweet and, uh, it caught fire. Uh, it, it, you know,

it was about the, you know, about the Reds and how they've stood pat all off season and now

in the season, having this like house on fire bullpen and blowed and blew another game

repeatedly last night. Um, and Reds fans, uh, I think every single Reds fan I have on my Twitter feed liked it. I think it got into viral. It's like, because here's the thing. They're going to be like, oh, well, we were going to, we were going to trade, but then we fell out of the race. We were going to add some relief pitchers. We're going to, you know, we're going to try to get credit for saying we would have tried,

but they didn't try.

They didn't. And they blew another game. They blew a couple over against the, against the brewers over the weekend. Now they're like seven and a half, eight out. It just stinks, man. stinks when your team doesn't try.

Yeah, I hear you.

I'm not in the trade negotiations.

I wish I was. man. Stinks when your team doesn't try. Yeah, I hear you. I'm not in the trade negotiations.

I wish I was. I don't know if teams, I wonder sometimes if teams are like hesitant to sell

the relievers until the deadline because they want to try to get the best possible. Like they don't

want to, you know what I mean? Like if you're calling the royals or the pirates or something, I don't know if they're hesitant to sell at this point unless they're really blown away because they want away to the last minute or if that's possible.

But something that doesn't get discussed enough.

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