The Welcome to episode 1312 of the Sleeper in the Bust.

I am Justin Mason with no Jason Killett on this Sunday.

So I had to bring in a pinch hitter, a big bat

for the middle of your lineup, or, I I mean he talks a lot of pitching a relief pitcher a fresh arm

It's Eric Somolsky of the on-the-corner podcast and wrote a world baseball. How you doing my friend? I'm good. We can go big

bat. I was a terrible pitcher. I tried. But you know that's the beauty of

being a catcher is I feel like I know as much about

pitching without having to be able to do it. Nick will tell you otherwise but yeah I just I threw

like 80 it's terrible.

At least you can throw 80.

I tried to be a pitcher.

I have really, really short arms, and so I was not able to like get enough leverage to throw like above 75 at any point.

You should go to drive line and just see what happens.

Yeah, maybe that is what I was missing.

I think you probably get me to like 77,

but yeah, unless I could throw a knuckleball,

which I just don't think I would be able to do consistently.

Yeah, it's the knuckleball. I tried that too. I was trying everything. I was like, let's see what happens.

The knuckleball did not work for me.

Yeah, I can't imagine how guys, how guys figure out how to like throw that, like Waldron, like, yeah, obviously he struggles at times with commanding that pitch, but like he's so good

it like consistent, fairly consistently like getting it to like kind of go in the spot that he wants it.

Yeah I'll tell you I mean we had a lot of the guys who were struggling to get

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