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Check out all the Series 1 baseball NFTs that have dropped over at TopsNFTs.com. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. We have a lot of great questions from our mailbag. We have one listener who sent us some ideas about streaming steals and wanted to know if that was something we would consider doing in leagues with daily moves especially. Obviously a great idea if you can pull it off. So some interesting things to pull on there. A few drop questions and some questions that are kind of angling at how much to balance a very slow start through 15 to 20 games against a fast start. So we'll have a few players that we look at under the microscope in that regard.

I've got some stuff plus and pitching plus questions as well as a couple of questions about

foul balls and the value of those and a new metric called grip plus proposed by one of our

listeners as well.

You know, how's it going for you on this Thursday? It's good. I like Thursdays. I got my long run out of the way, eight miles yesterday, and we're looking straight at the weekend. That's awesome. Yeah, I need to get my run in later today. I've got this show. I got to record the athletic baseball show. I got to bring

my wife to the airport. Got to keep the dog fed and edit these shows. But I'm going to try and

run. Days are nice and long now. There's so much more daylight now. It's so much easier to go for a

run on a workday now than it was back in the winter when it was dark at 4.30, that nonsense.

What do you do when your wife is away?

I don't know. It's been so long I've forgotten in the past.

The last time I can remember her taking a trip without me was a work trip pre-COVID pretty soon after we got Hazel. So that time,

I just stayed home. We had a five-month-old puppy or six-month-old puppy, so I wasn't really

going anywhere. I was on dog duty. So yeah, I don't really know. I mean, is this a situation

you've been in before now where you have these limited windows where you have the house to

yourself or you have a

couple days to yourself what should i be doing it happens every once in a while and usually what

i do is watch a movie from beginning to the end with that eruption i don't have to get up i don't

have to get make food for anyone i don't have to do anything i don't have to you know. I don't have to make food for anyone. I don't have to do anything.

I don't have to, you know, and, and, you know, my wife and I, we have a little bit of time I have to put the kids to bed. So a lot of times when we do see a movie, we have to see it in, like, sort of like, half hour, hour increments. I have to tell you those long, like,

Snyder cut type movies

when you have to see you those long, like, Snyder cut type movies.

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