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welcome to episode 1272 of the Sleeper and the Bust.

It is Thursday, March 21st. I'm your host Paul Spoor joined this afternoon by Justin Mason. Justin, it's been a while. How you doing?

I'm doing well back from New York and I apologize to everyone that we haven't had anything go up in about a week but

like like said I was in New York didn't bring my mic with me wouldn't have had time to

record and I didn't I didn't end up finding guests record. And I didn't end up finding guests.

I mean, I didn't put a lot of effort into it either.

I kind of took the time.

I was updating rankings and everything.

I was just kind of staying on the grind with articles.

So my apologies there.

I could have definitely been made a bigger effort but hey we got all the

previews out and everything today we're gonna kind of follow up on a bunch of pitching stuff talk a bunch of

pitching news in fact you and Jason did a great pitching closer preview and then that day, the number one, or at least regarded by many as the number one, at no worse than number two, goes out for half the year and it's been a bloodbath ever

since Justin so we're gonna get into closers and kind of reassess the entire

landscape you know I'm a pay-for-saves guy I don't know what the hell I'm going to do on

Saturday. Jeff Zimmerman, if you're listening in Shelly Verstreet, close your ears. I got in the main event with both of them and I

respect both of them and that's why I'm not happy because I respect how quality

how good of quality players they are I'm not happy about that my little gambit to do the

draft while everyone's drafting on Saturday in Vegas didn't quite work and I knew it wouldn't fully work I didn't I

didn't think there'd be a bunch of scrubs in there with me because there aren't

that many scrubs that are looking to pay 1700 bucks you know I'm one of the

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