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It is the moose episode.

He's loose. The moose is loose. The moose, you smell that?

You smell that, folks? That's right. It's breaded up season. It's breaded up season.

I couldn't be fucking happier for this dude, Grobus. Take the money out of it.

I don't care if you're paying moose $20, $5 a year for the next four years.

Moose has a home for more than a fucking year.

That's kind of what I took away from this. That's what got me really excited about this.

This is because this is a dude and we have applauded the guys that have bet on themselves.

We've applauded the guys that have been able to sort of withstand the turbulent

free agent market being told they're great biggly ball players and then being bent over the barrel.

Come breaded up season. Well, not so much for moose anymore.

Four years, he's got a home in Sienci out fucking standing for this dude.

And we can congratulate ourselves on that because in the interview that you're going to hear

with Mike Moustakis later in this particular podcast, I said, hey, welcome to Starding 9.

I hope you know of the Starding 9 rub, which means that you're either about to have a great season.

At that point was a little too late. We recorded this. I think it was the last home stand of the season.

Or I said, or you're about to get breaded to fuck up. No more one year deals.

You're about to get at least like a little four piece here. And low and behold,

Mike Moustakis, a four year deal with the Cincinnati Reds to play second base, by the way.

That's that's the thing too is to play second base.

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