We're on? Wow, I didn't realize. I thought there was going to be a big opening, a band, and a whole thing.

God bless. Right out of the gate, right out of the gate.

It's been long in the works. It has been long in the works.

Welcome to the Hot Stove Show presented by the great people at mattress direct I'm

Timothy Michael McKernan and look everybody it's the voice of the St. Louis

Cardinals Dan McLaughlin. Great to be here. We have talked to I I'll tell you what, this has been, when I say a long time in the

works, it's been a long time in the works. I mean, we were talking about doing this years

ago and then we did a little bit at spring training and now it's all come to

fruition and a conversation that we had I guess it was probably oh I'd say

oh man Oh man a few months ago and we said well should we do it at spring training again and then it became do we do it at spring training and then I said maybe we should do it around

Christmas and then you said well maybe we should start it before Christmas and then we

both said do we started you know in November because at that point that's when

really the hot stove that's when it gets

going gets going and and here we are so this is exciting I'm I'm proud to do this I think

this is the greatest baseball town in america if not the country

and and uh... are the world

because people are always talking about baseball everywhere i go and i'm sure to say anything with you

and on your show in the mornings i mean people are always talking baseball I mean everywhere I go it's are they

getting Harper what are they gonna do with yotti once his deals up is you gonna play another

ten more years you know are you excited about the season?

You know, all those things happen and so we just figured why not just start talking

about it now? So I love talking baseball. I love interacting with the fans. The fans have been great to me and I'm sure you love talking baseball too. It's what we do all the time so why not do something like this?

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