Hey, everybody, and welcome to episode number 13 of the Chris Rose rotation.

We are back at the top of the rotation, but you might notice we're starting the lefty

instead of the righty reliever Trevor May.

There's a little quirk in the schedule, so we want to welcome back for the third time this season,

Stephen Brault of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Hello, friend.

Hi, Chris. How's it going, man? You're my friend, too. I don't want to make

it seem like I'm not returning the friend thing back, but I like using names when I remember them.

So, hi, Chris. Thank you, Stephen. For people that are joining us just audio only right now, it looks

like you're holding a lightsaber

um that thing's not going to go off and like take your head off right no i'm very careful with it

it's funny actually so so normally i have this microphone like set up like this right because it has

a stand that is over there but uh since i'm in a hotel, I don't want to, you know, completely unpack my life.

So all I have here is like a suitcase.

So I don't have that stand.

It's in my car.

It will be, you know, whenever I move into another place, which should be soon.

But it ended up being a little bit more of a fiasco than it should have been.

So I'm still in the hotel

right now, but it's fine. All right. We've got a lot of ground to cover. But first, I want to say

that you're actually making a lot of people very happy because they were complaining. You're such

a good looking guy, but they were complaining that you had the microphone stand right in front of

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