The Hello and welcome episode 1233 of the sleeper in the bus it is Friday

December 1st I'm your host Paul Spore joined this morning by Justin Mason Justin

Good morning. It's December can you get it

morning I can believe it's December I mean not really even the off season starting to go by really fast like it's

blazing I mean that's not bad right I can't wait to get back to baseball but I can't

believe it I really can't believe it's already December and you know I've been saying

this last two episodes I'm gonna say it one more time because by well maybe not

by the next episode by this time next week we'll start to see if that's true but this

time last year was when things really perked up will we get that there's no

guarantees but as I mentioned I was looking at old pods and I just saw that around this time early December

We had like three back-to-back pods that had several big signings or trades in them and I'm hoping that we get that because we've been in a little bit of a lull.

Like there's been trickles and you know, Nolle resigning and the Cardinals being active and

my even, my Tigers making a couple of solid moves. But it's been quiet.

We're hearing rumblings.

Winter meetings start soon.

Do you think we're gonna get the wave at the winter meetings?

Yes, I think we are. I really, really do. And it's not just wishful thinking. I think there's a lot of stuff that's percolating and it will be finalized there.

And there's just not that many amazing free agencies here.

So it's not gonna take much to get things really going.

And I mean, for the most part,

we've already had a bunch of free and signing so like even like you know

Nick Martinez sign. I didn't put them on the rundown because when a picture goes to the

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