The Welcome to episode 288 of The Sleeper and the Bus live from the rising stars Arizona Fall League all-star game I'm here with

you know saris and Jason Colette told you we get a live pod together guys how's it going

what's up you know doing good I actually I feel pretty

well rested compared to you guys uh... you know sorry uh... sorry i missed your

breakout session this morning but i did notice a really cool little note about uh...

Justin berlander and how he got a second

you know second half success and I was wondering if you just tell me a little bit about what I missed

this morning.

So Jason and I were on.

First of all, let's explain where we're at.

Obviously we know we're at Arizona Folly, but we're also at the Baseball HQ

first-pitched forums.

So it's mixing fantasy baseball and real baseball.

This morning, at 8 a.m.

Jason and I were on a pitching panel about facts and flukes and one of the guys

obviously that came up is Verlander for obvious reasons you know he had those brutal

first six starts and then

14 brilliant ones. And the main thing that I noticed, you know, because we're

deciding do we believe in it or not, and I believe it was a fact and the

key for me was the high fastball. He completely changed those first six starts and he

has arbitrary because you know those are the bad ones and but there's a couple bad ones mixed in with

the latter half too so I don't think it's

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