You're going to be. Hello, I'm welcome to episode 774, I'm the sleeper in the bus.

This is an emergency edition.

I am flying solo at 5 o'clock in the morning to bring you this.

I'm talking Mookie Betts trade right now folks and it has to be done because we're actually going to end up with three podcasts coming out today. Is that too many? Yes, definitely, but this is what happens when Mookie Betts gets traded on Tuesday night as he did because we already had the two

labor podcasts planned, the draft prep one and then the one where the draft actually took place

and everything that we did for that.

That's already like five hours of listening excellence. The draft's of four.

I think the prep is about an hour or so but maybe a little bit more than that.

At any rate, I wasn't just gonna leave Betts, the Betts deal hanging

until the next proper pod with with Justin or or on Friday with with Nick I

didn't really know what to do so I say you know what I'm just gonna do it by

myself do it by myself. Do it live!

So, let's just dive into it.

Let's talk about the ramifications by now.

You know what the deal is.

You know what's gone down.

All the rumblings actually came to fruition. You know, we've heard so much about these star players possibly getting traded this year, this off season with Chris Bryant, Francisco and Doerr, and of course Mookie Betts.

And a lot of times it's the old, you know, a lot of smoke and no real fire there. It never really comes to fruition.

This one really started to turn up and I gotta be honest, when I was hearing the Will Myers Manuel Margo tripe that you know and

this was like to counterbalance some of the money it was going to be you know price and

bets to go so then they have to counterbalance and send over like a somebody like

Will Myers no no I wasn't buying any of that that you can't trade one of the five best players in the game and get well Myers back

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