Hello and welcome to episode 1442 of The Sleeper in the Bust. It is Friday. August 15th, I'm your host, Paul Spore. Join this afternoon by Justin Mason, Justin. What up, dude? Hey, it's been way too long. We haven't recorded like all week. All week. Yeah. Been a whole week. Look, I was supposed to record with Jason on Sunday. He got stuck camping.

Like he couldn't get out of the campsite or something like that.

That sounds like my personal hell.

Yeah.

I don't like camping, so I would be, it'd be rough.

And then, yeah, we haven't been able to connect.

I've been sick.

Yeah, I know you had that sickness.

We're grinding through the dog days here, too. Don't worry. We're going to get you guys to your

finish line. Get back on track with some weekly episodes in addition to the two-step.

But let's get into some two-step pitchers today. We did have our day game in Wrigley.

You know if the Cubs are home on a Friday,

it's going to be the one day game there. And they lost three, too. Jack Swinsky went yard in the

ninth. Oh, wow. Anyway, I don't think we're going to talk about a couple of interesting

Cubs, actually, because they've got some challenging starts, Kate Horton, Jameson,

we'll get to them in a moment.

Let's start with that, Gallen.

I know it's a guy we've been talking about a few different times lately because he's been somebody that we have to put on this list now for most of the season. You know, Gallen coming in, I'm sure the very first episode that we did, you know, where he had a two-step, I didn't even put him in because it's like, well, of course we're going to start

him. But that is no longer the king. episode that we did, you know, where he had a two-step, I didn't even put him in because it's like,

well, of course we're going to start him. But that is no longer the case. He is no longer a sedative

and forget-it kind of guy, Zach Gallen, you know, came down a little bit last year. I wrote it off

to World Series Hangover. Certainly wasn't alone there. Seemed like a plausible explanation. He'll get back on track and be good.

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