You're going to be. Hello, one one, one, episode 689 of the sleeper and the bus. It is Thursday, May 16th, the night cap of the day night cap of the day night

double-headed for me and I'm your host Paul's four joined by pitcher list Alex fast

Alex what's going on man? Hey man, uh, wow.

So awesome to be here with you.

I, I, I've been such a fan of yours for so many years and now I've come to meet you and

know that, uh, you're not all that great.

Garbage, exactly, dude.

Once the barrage is broken, you're like,

I mean, I guess I'll be on your stupid show,

but I thought you were much cooler.

You are one of the best, if not the best, in the biz, so very happy to be here with you.

I really appreciate that.

I was legitimately bummed to miss the first time you're on the show.

Those Sunday morning ones can be tricky. You know, I kind of carve out some time on the weekends for my girlfriend and so making that one work was really difficult because I'd committed to some other stuff and I told you I was like we have to get on one and so here we are doing

a nightcap we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the early hot hitters and

kind of what we think about them and how sustainable it is just a handful of guys.

I'm going to let you get in some Caleb Smith stuff.

But first we've done a little bit about what's going on today.

Not a full slate if I'm looking correctly which is kind of no that's

Thursday yesterday it was weird because there were some off days I think only a couple

teams had days off but for Wednesday to not be a full slate is weird but this

Thursday when there's

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