Hello and episode 1445 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

It is Friday, August 22nd.

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

Justin, how's it going?

It's going well.

I had my softball playoffs last night, and we fell just short of the championship win.

But, you know, it was our first team advancement.

Right. Yeah, yeah. It's our first playoff win in 25 years of the team being in existence,

20 years for me on this team. And so to make the championship and lose 9-7 in a game that

was winnable, right?

Like, we were close.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

And I'm a little sore today, but we push forward.

Exactly.

We push forward.

And I'm glad to hear that the team is, you know, setting a franchise first, right?

With the playoff win and everything. As long as you're moving forward, keeps it worth playing and a lot of fun. So I'm glad you guys had some fun out there. We're going to talk some two-star pitchers today. And, Justin, I got an interesting board for you. And last week we had the shortened board, not much to go off of. This week, it's kind of mid in terms of volume. But the names are really intriguing. And if I had told you on March 22nd, that on August 22nd we'd be talking about some of these guys, you just said, wait, what happened? I thought Brandon Fault was gonna break out. I thought Bailey Ober was a bankable stud with Tanner Bybee. I thought, Sean Manit, you know, et cetera, et cetera. We got a lot of names here that a little bit surprising that we're having to ask if we're starting them in two steps, but this is where their performance is. And as always, we start with Arizona. And as always, we start with intriguing, but perhaps maybe a little bit uninspiring names here with Eduardo and fought. So lefty, righty versions here. I mean, not of each other.

They're not the same, but they bring the same frustrations where both can get going.

And then usually via the home run, they'll have a bad game or two. Actually, I am going to lean into the

lefty, righty versions of each other. They're really not that different. More Ks this year for Erod than fought,

but too many hits, too many homers,

big problems, and then Justin,

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