Hello and welcome up. So 982 of the sleeper in the bus. It is Friday, October 1st. I'm your

Rose Paul Spore joined this morning by Justin Mason, Justin. Good morning, sir. Good morning to you. How are you doing? I'm sweaty. I'm very sweaty. It's the final week. Another regular season. Titles are hanging in the balance. And it all comes down to this, man. How are you feeling? I mean, I'm going to sweat some leagues, but not as badly as you were going to sweat some leagues. I fell out of first this week for the first time since

I think May there might have been a day like a week in June that I didn't end in first, but I think it's since May. It's been a while. So to wake up, you know, a day and not see that. It was nerve-wracking. I'm currently in first by a point. It is remarkably volatile. And to just kind of really, really drive it home. Me and the competitor in question.

Our tied and to our very close and to categories work tied and wins and we've been trading back and forth and runs. He currently has the lead. So we could pretty much decide it with ourselves in those categories.

And neither of us have really been able to get much going with the wins this week. We've had some heartbreaking no decisions, both of us.

And so it's going to come down to it this weekend with guys like Elliott or with like Eli Morgan, who I'm throwing today against Texas. Can he get it down, dude? Oh, I'm so nervous.

But this is this is why we play at the same time. The errors that cost Frankie Montaus. I was like, why do we play this game? It's a stupidest game that's ever been created. I hate it. I want to bomb it.

So I'm a bundle of nerves. I also have a concert festival this weekend to distract me, though. And it's probably going to be for the better Justin.

Yeah, I recommended that you don't look at your phone, like just turn off your phone the entire Sunday and enjoy the concert. Don't worry about the results until everything's set and done. And I also told you I would not be able to.

Yes, I love that idea. And that sounds great for somebody else. It is not what I'll be doing. But we'll see how it goes. You know, it's out of your hands. Now the players got to do their thing and we'll see what's up.

But we'll try to set you all up with some stuff for the weekend because we got Saturday and Sunday streamers. So let's just get into it with the Saturday eligible guys here.

And we're going to start at the top with a guy who's not necessarily super available, but you got to decide if you want to take this guy and put him in your starting lineup or on the reserve roster because John means business has to face Toronto.

And he has to do so in Toronto. Are you are you doing that?

No shot. Right. Well, okay, here's the thing.

What scenarios would you, I guess, let's let's focus on that because not everyone's scenarios are the same. There's protecting. There's hail marrying.

So on that scale from protecting ratios, which means you would never take a start against Toronto to hail marrying.

Where does means fall in that? I mean, I guess hail marrying all the way at the other end, like there's nothing in like the middle, like anything below that it has to be full hail Mary mode because of Toronto, which by the way, I'm not disputing. I'm just furthering to establish where you're at.

Yeah, I just I think you're right. By the way, yeah, it would take quite a bit for me to even consider like I mean Toronto has a 113 WRC plus guns left in a pitching this season.

Like, you know, it's so only people in chase mode. Basically, what you're saying, if you have a lead and there's pitching volatility anywhere, you can't take on this start.

Yeah, I think it's it's I don't know means has been a lot better as of late, but like this is just like if you go position by position on the Toronto Blue Jays, they've got like four positions where they have the best player.

And like, they're all right. He's too for the most part. It's not literally, but like, it's so righty heavy. So it's going to be difficult. Again, you have to be the chaser ever works to take this on and hope that he spikes a big one because this is this is scary with John means at Toronto.

This next one, I don't even know like what to expect from Tanner Hauke. He doesn't have a primary listed, but it might just be another one of his like low inning counts. So if you're chasing wins, you know, he's at Washington, which by the way, similar to the Cubs, they haven't been too bad here in the second half, despite those two teams making moves to look forward in the years.

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