Hello, and welcome to episode 1047 of the sleeper and the bus. It is Tuesday, May 3rd. I'm your host, Paul Spore.

Join us when you're by Justin Mason, Justin. Good morning, sir. Good morning. How you doing? I'm doing pretty well. I know that I'm doing better than you because you're recovering from a pretty wicked cold.

How are you doing? It wasn't COVID, but it was COVID symptoms and just now I was on the I.L.

Um, even though it was, I never thought it was positive. Yeah, it was undisclosed on roster resources. It was someone's close. I didn't know why you were on the I.L.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, I'm back. It's been rough. Uh, and I'm still still feeling the the after effects of it, but um, some days that you said you didn't literally nothing.

Yeah, I mean, I, I barely got out of bed. Like I pretty much just turned on the NFL draft and, uh, and just watch that from my couch or my bed and didn't do much because I, uh, I was like, I could not have recorded with you and, and go via.

Just say, don't worry. Govian, I filled in in, in your stead. It was great episode with Michael. Love talking with him. He killed it. So you're all good. Man, take time. Get healthy.

I'm glad you're back. I know that you did up WFB last night. You're here. People looking for the road to write up. We'll be getting those two. So, uh, we got lots to talk about. We got about an hour. So we're going to dive right in. We got some news and notes.

Now we're going to play a little keeper cut, man. I've, uh, we're definitely, uh, kind of following the trend of the community. We hit that month mark. I think a lot of people out of pods in the community are starting to talk about guys that could be cut.

And, uh, I think it's a valuable exercise because so often we talk about guys to pick up, but never really give guys the cut. And it's like, okay, pick them up. But who the heck do I, you know, okay, go get Taylor Ward, but I got these five outfielders here that I love. Who am I supposed to cut?

So we're going to go through some guys talk about keeping our cut. Um, we'll talk about different formats too. Cause I know some of them, you're going to be like, I'll cut them here, but not here. So we'll get into it. Well, let's start with some news. Ryan Presley is starting a rehab assignment today, uh, Tuesday for the, uh, Astros.

I don't know why I almost said the J, he's never been on the J's. He's not anything related to the J's, but I almost said the J's, but Ryan Presley for the strobe is going on rehab. He's going to get his job back completely when he gets back, right?

Yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't think there's any doubt in me. They gave him the big contract. Uh, I'm excited.

How tough for those Hector Narrow spits when Raphael Montero got the two saves in his absence. Um, are they as bad as the Ryan Hellsley, um, Bids that came through this week. And then the next day, I know, I know.

Uh, Giovanni, uh, Gagos, Gagos, listen. Um, you know, I'm a huge guy. I know sky. And I did, I did do a little gloating yesterday. I will freely admit that it's not too dark to be honest.

It's not to dog out. Hellsley. And I don't even think that those Bids, a lot of them weren't even badly, early, early, he went 22. I should, I should have paid 25.

I should have, I had like, I had a like $10 or something. I was the back of an 18. Yeah.

I probably should have been more aggressive and cutting Badu, which we'll get into, um, and gotten him myself.

But the thing for me was with Gagos, he didn't pitch for six days. And he also jumped over the wall for that stupid brawl instead of going through the door.

And I, logic tells me he was nicked and they didn't pitch him. Why else would he miss six days?

I don't think it was just because of the meltdown on Monday night, that week, with the Aernado error and then him not covering first.

Maybe it was part punishment too. Maybe they're like, hey, you should have covered first. We're gonna sit you for a few days.

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