Hello and welcome to episode 1441 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

It is Friday, August 8th.

I'm your host, Paul Sporer, joined this morning by Justin Mason.

Justin, good morning.

Good morning.

How we doing?

Not too bad.

I'm in that panic mode of it being early August, meaning football is here.

And it feels like the season is over tomorrow.

I know it's not.

I know we got two full months of regular season and then a great playoff October.

So, you know, we have three months left of like hardcore baseball.

We'll cap it off by going to Arizona, of course. But it feels like it's over, which, again, I know it's a stupid feeling, but I talk about it every year right around this time. July, early August, I'm like, oh, the season's over. What a bummer. And it's because football comes back into the picture, which, by the way, I don't even hate football. Well, the lions are good now.

Right, right. I have more reason to like, and my horns. So, you know, college and pro

popping off for football, but it's just baseball number one all the time. And I, and I don't want to,

I don't want to feel like the season is, is nearing its end. How are you doing? you doing yeah it was it's funny you kind of bring

that up because last night i was just kind of looking at my teams and kind of figure out okay

which ones actually have a legitimate shot of winning which ones have a legitimate shot of cashing

and which ones are dead like you know i mean there's there's going to be a few for me this year at least uh where like

you know i dug myself an early hole and it's it seems unlikely i'm gonna you know make it into

the kind of a cashing spot and you know on the type of person i want to i just want to play it out right

uh and so i can't give up on things yeah i'm not going to like not do fab

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