Welcome to the Fireside Chat, presented by Rotographs and Pitcher List.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy Paul Spore and Nick Pollock.

Hello and welcome to episode 952 of The Sleeper and the Bust.

It is Friday, July 9th, and it's a Fireside Chat, which we saw in your host, Paul Spore,

joined by the Fire by Nick Pollock.

Nick it's toasty over here, how you doing?

What is happening?

You know the way you just said that made it sound like you're calling me like my nickname

the fire.

The fire is here, the fire Nick Pollock, that's your new nickname, the fire Nick Pollock.

Oh no, it sounds too close to fire Nick Pollock and I don't know, we don't want nobody

wants to do that.

So, so no, that's great to be here, man, we're going to talk some pitching today and that's

the best thing there is, so I'm excited for this.

Yeah, it always, we love getting by the fire, chopping it up, obviously we're heading

into the all-star break here after this weekend set of games, so you know, people are going

to start really assessing their teams, take some time.

It's hard to assess on the fly sometimes because everything's happening, right?

You take a evening to assess and three other things are happening with your players that

ruin that assessment or improve that assessment, which depending on which way they're going.

So, a week of no games or virtually a week, there's the Thursday makeup between Boston

and New York and then everyone comes back on Friday.

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