Hello and episode 1486 of The Sleeper and the Bust.

It is Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day, March 17th.

I'm your host, Paul Sporer.

Joined today by Joe Rico, Justin Mason, and our special guest, Eric Simulski.

What's going on, gentlemen, Joe, start with you.

I didn't get the green memo, and it's my own fault.

I just got caught up with work and totally didn't even realize it was St. Patrick's Day until five minutes ago. But I'm going to need to find a green beer this evening for sure once I get off of work. Eric. Eric of NBC Sports. How are you doing good, sir? I'm good. We missed you. We missed you, Tout Wars.

Missed y'all, absolutely.

But, yeah, I'm good. It's fresh off a busy draft weekend, and we are almost a week away. I know. It is so close now. Justin, you are in your St. Patrick's get-up for those that cannot see the YouTube. Doing well. I know we just talked and had a great episode with Joe Psypia's draft court. Cannot wait for that to go up. But how are you doing? It's been about an hour since we've talked. It's the day of my people. And by my people, people who aren't Irish would say that they are. Liars, then. Yes. Stolen valor. Is there valor in being Irish? I don't know. I've stolen valor with the Irish stuff because I don't know if you know this, but I have multiple Irish tattoos.

Oh.

And then I didn't find out I was not Irish until after the Irish tattoos.

Can you get them converted or you're just riding it now? Now you're just righting it. Just yeah, I'm just fake Irish, you know. Fyrish, if you will. I like it. I would stick with it. We've got a lot of pictures to talk about. We have Eric for a nice hour plus here and I want to get into all these guys here. So I'm going to be Steve Nash, throwing it out, moving us around.

Eric brought up a great point though. A guy we talked about back on pitch preview episode

two was Chase Burns. Well, things have greatly changed since then, and he deserves an update here.

So I think we do need to start off with that, and I will start with you, Eric, because right now

there's a lot of,

there's a big cloud around what's going on with him. If you go to roster resource, he's not even in the rotation. That is going to influence drafts, folks, but that's not confirmed yet. What is

going on, Eric? Catch us up on Chase Burns. Yeah. So on the 13th, we were told that

Chase Burns was healthy.

He went out and threw a bullpen over the weekend and they basically stopped the bullpen.

On Friday, he threw a bullpen and they stopped it short.

And there were all these rumors that he was hurt. And then Francona spoke over the

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