The Hello and welcome to episode 1325 of the sleeper in the bus is Monday July 29th one day before the trade

deadline I'm your host Paul Spoor joined this afternoon by Justin Mason

Justin good afternoon sir

good afternoon neither of us have been traded. I make that joke every year. Hey, it wouldn't be the deadline time if you didn't make some sort of reference to us possibly being traded to Rototire or to some other organization and those are the

jokes we live for I like them but the deadline has been hot and heavy and there was some real

concerns that it wouldn't be and I think they were valid under the premise of

everyone's in it quote unquote everyone so no one's gonna make a move.

Uh-uh teams have been aggressive, teams that are actually legitimately in it,

rays, we're looking at you of course,

like they're very much in it,

three out of the wild card,

have been making major moves,

but they're also not tearing down,

that's the beauty of the rays.

And, you know, I'm gonna push back a little bit on.

I know it's a little kitchy, a little cute now

to kind of push back on the race.

Oh, do we always have to fawn over this organization?

I don't think we've fawn over them unduly.

Do they not just continue to make the best moves in the league?

I understand the idea of like promoting something beyond its validity, right?

Like, you know, if we were still saying, I can't even think of a great example off

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