Now, the mid-podcast spot break, I think we try to keep to being fairly unobtrusive.

But I'll have to revisit that.

Obviously, I want to keep the products, listenability at an industry standard or better than industry

standard.

But at the same time, I've finally gotten enough, oof, and mass, and repetition, an audience

where these podcast commercial dollars are being delivered to us without us having to go

out and hunt down advertisers.

And it's a very efficient way to make this podcast worth everybody's time.

People have asked, well, can't you offer a commercial free podcast for subscribers?

And that gets tricky because then, are you robbing Peter to pay Paul?

Are you just taking money out of one pocket and putting it in another pocket?

I don't know what to say.

Other than become friends with the skip button.

And if there's an ad for something you have not heard of, well, then listen to it and

say, oh, scratch his chin, I might want to buy that thing or product.

Okay, a couple of things before we get to John Ziegler, MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred,

who is the worst commissioner in sports, hold my fear, says Roger Gidell.

Okay, he's tied for worst with Gidell.

Apparently, he gave every major league player a brand new set of top of the line, Bose headphones,

with a note saying, I appreciate the hard work it takes to be a major leagueer, please

accept this gift as a small token of appreciation in light of the lockout that we just endure.

99 days in which Manfred was on the side of the owners trying to crush the union, squeeze

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