Hello and welcome to episode 1467 of The Sleeper and the Bust. It is Thursday, January 29th. I'm your host, Paul Spore. Join this afternoon by Justin Mason. Justin. How's it going? It's going well. It's beautiful out here. It's sunny. Actually, so sunny that I am finally after, God, I've living living here six years I'm finally going to order a blackout

shade for my freaking because I'm tired of certain times of day being blinded I had to at my old place

it had this half circle window up there and the sun would just pour through it.

Getting a blackout half circle was a game changer.

So I do fully recommend that.

Did you guys get anything?

I know a lot of the nation was getting the cold, but did you even get California cold?

I mean, we've gotten cold, but like-

I spent this weekend during like the ice and snow stuff. I mean, not bad. Not unseasonably so or anything? No, no. If you came here today, I could not convince you that we just had a nice storm. It has all gone... It's 68, so it's all gone. So again, I would be telling you and you'd be like, you're gaslighting me, stop lying.

I'm like, no, everything was frozen over. You couldn't go anywhere for two days. It was insane. And you'd be like, Paul, stop. And that's just how quickly it goes away here. Thankfully, it wasn't too bad. Didn't lose power at all. We had our space heaters. We had a full fringe. Sharra and I were good to go over here. So let's talk some short stops. We are on a little bit of a shorter time today. We're closer to 45 than an hour. So we're going to do part two of three because you went deep on short stops with your list, which I appreciate. And I don't want to give tier six short shrift. There's a lot of guys I want to talk about in that tier. So let's do tiers four and five today, and we'll do the rest of it tomorrow morning, Friday morning on the 30th. So let's get into tier four at shortstop here. And again, we're using five game eligibility. We're probably not going to do that next year, much to Justin's delight. But we are doing five this year.

So if you do play in something that has that very wide netcast, then you can get them.

And we usually acknowledge when, oh, this guy doesn't really qualify here, but only in the shower

formats. But we got Betts, Mookie Betz, Nico Horner, Geraldo Perdomo, and Jeremy Pena here.

Very interesting group. Just got done listening

to a deep dive talk about Heraldo Pardomo on Pitchcon, which is going on now. If you're

listening to this the day we make it or the day after or actually any of the three days

after, it's going until through Sunday, PitchCon on Pitcherlist.com on their Twitch. Justin and I'll be part of it.

It's just all day, all baseball stuff. It's awesome. If you've done Potapalooza with Justin,

if you're familiar with that, this is very similar. This is actually kind of the first event.

You know, this is the Golden Globes and then you're the Oscars or, you know, however you want to work that. Because are you going to do Potta Paloosa this year, too? No. I made the decision. I set all that up and then, and then it would not happen. I made the decision to retire Potapalooza. Okay. You know, with the explosion of Pitchcon and everything else that happens in spring, it just became too

The calendar's, it has exploded.

Like when pitchcon and Potipalooza started, it was to fill in the winter calendar, right?

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