Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, February 12th. Yes, that means Valentine's Day is Sunday. If you're like

me, you didn't know that until you walked into a grocery store yesterday. You still have time to save

yourself. So, you know, do that accordingly. Derek Van Riper here with Britt Jiroli and Ido Saris on this

Friday. Lots of fun stuff to talk about today. We have some curious questions around the Red Sox following their trade this week.

Andrew Ben Intendi, gone.

He is now a royal.

We'll talk about their offseason as a whole.

I'm going to take a look at the Pocoda projected standings because Eno's Astros came up with a very favorable win total there.

So we'll dig into that as well as some other teams.

Yeah, you're definitely on board.

Really cool format, home run derby fantasy leagues.

We're going to talk about that for a little bit and some follow-up questions about some

changes to the baseball, plus the other fun tangents that we usually go on.

How's it going for you guys on this Friday?

What's going on, Britt? Nothing. So have you not been to the grocery store since Halloween? Because the Valentine's Day stuff has been out basically since. I guess it's like the day after Christmas would be probably more accurate. So I did not forget. Seasonal creep. But also I'm a woman, so I've been dropping hints all week. Like, what are we doing this year? Because we can't do anything. So I hope you have something planned. Well, we're approaching year 12 of our marriage in my house. So we've agreed that Valentine's Day doesn't have to be that big of a deal. Our wedding anniversary is in the spring. So we do more for that typically than we do

for Valentine's Day. So that's kind of nice to not have to like double down on gifts.

Yeah, that's exactly what we're like. And in fact, for us, our wedding anniversary is two days

after Valentine's Day. So we pretty much ignore Valentine's Day and focus on our anniversary.

Since they're so close, I still have to use Valentine's Day as a, oh, dude.

That's right.

It's a built-in reminder for you just in case.

My grocery store, so they have a big bunker of like the on sale meat right when you walk in, very convenient, right? So they put the chocolate and stuff right in front of that for this week. So you couldn't miss it. It's been there for months, like you said, kind of on the side. Marketing it, men. You're here for the meat. Oh, don't. I very much felt

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