You're going to be here. Hello and

welcome episode 514 of The Sleeper and the Bust.

It is Friday January 5th. I'm your host Paul Spore and I'm a liar.

I'm flying solo. If you follow my tweets, you know, I'm a big fat liar. I said you know was going to be on and he's not.

He actually had to take care of the kids so he couldn't jump on so I went ahead and decided, you know what, it's been entirely too long, got to get an episode

out, got to talk some baseball, so I'm jumping on solo.

And there's just so much news to talk about in the baseball world like we can't keep track of all the transactions

This could be like a no I'm kidding nothing's happening

Nothing it's crazy happening. Nothing.

It's crazy.

I was part of the group that thought it really was

O'Tani and Stanton holding it up

and that that was going to kind of open the floodgates.

There were others that were like, no, that's not necessarily yet.

I was like, I think it's a, I think it is a really big part of it.

Well, I was wrong wrong because it's not I mean you know and

there's always gonna be multiple factors and something like that but I definitely

thought they were if you were gonna make a pie chart of what was

holding up the free agent market I would put those two with big chunks of the

pie maybe squish them together and make it a big portion of the pie

of what was kind of causing the stopgap but obviously they've they've been

one's been traded one's been signed you know stands traded

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