The Hello and welcome to episode 1282 of the sleeper in the bus. It is Friday, April 12th. I'm your host Paul Spoor.

joined this morning by Justin Mason. Justin, good morning, sir. If you say so.

It's not that good. My bench is killing it.

Yeah, your bench is amazing, yeah.

You know, Colton Counser, I'm very happy that he's great. I didn't start him this week. You know this is the

classic process over results and it's obviously so much easier to guide people on

that notion than to take it yourself, right?

Like when you have to look in the mirror and be like process over results, you know, you put in

the guy that was playing the most games and we didn't know Colden- cowser was going to explode in Fenway.

It's still tough but you know after the jokes and the memes and everything

you know Edward Julian on the bench as well hitting two

homers the other day there is something to be said for having good players on your bench right Justin

like if if you never have bench guys pop off

there's one of probably two things right

you're having a perfect year and you're making all the best moves and every time you're

switching guys in

they're the ones popping off and you're sitting

the guy, your other quality players when they're having a little bit of a downturn.

Or you have a bad bench, right?

Like if this never happens, don't you just have a bad bench?

And so, yeah.

There's something to be said for having a good, and that part of this is copium I freely

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