Hello and welcome to episode 1082 of the sleeper in the bus that is Tuesday, August 2nd.

And I'm your host, Paul Spore. It's trade deadline. I'm with Justin Mason, Justin.

Good afternoon. We're late evening because of the deadline.

Hey, it's it's good to see that you cleared COVID protocols to come back and be able to

discuss things on the trade deadline.

Sheesh, I should redo that intro. It was terrible, but that's all right. We got through it.

It happens when you're off for a little bit, you know, you get a little rusty. But we got a lot to

talk about. We've been talking in different capacities all day. You were on a show. Nick and I

did our trade deadline special. So we had another banger. It was another excellent trade deadline.

What we're going to do is we're going to go team my team and just talk about guys that impacted my

trade. So not just the folks that were traded, but of course, different players that may be rising

and falling because of those trades. So we're going to go East to West, AL, and now starting by

standing's order. So we'll start with the Yankees. And Frankie Montas, Harrison, Bader are the big two

here. And the the reliever additions, they're not going to change the closer landscape to being

young, nor Afros. So I don't really think those matter. And of course, Bader's on the sidelines

right now. So we'll get to him in a moment. He doesn't really have a whole lot going on. It's really

Montas. So I think the primary question becomes the home park change. Do you have any overarching

concerns about moving from Oakland to New York? And would it be enough to to make a substantial

substantial move down the rankings for Montas for you? I mean, I definitely have some concerns

he's going from pretty much the best pictures park in baseball to hitters park. And not only that,

you're moving from a division in which while he doesn't get to pitch against his own team,

like still had other bottom feeder claims in the division to the AL East that does not have

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