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Caseball fans, welcome back to the bar, a little baseball show. This is Friday. This is the

American League show. It is Carl and I am joined by Chris Castellani in Detroit. Chris, what's going on?

Not much, man. We've got a juicy week of American League baseball, a lot to discuss.

I'm right. I just tweeted before, like, before a podcast, man, I'm like, you know, Dwight Schroo,

in that episode when he's about to ask for a raise, when he's lit, like, that's me. I get the

energy up. I listen to some heavy metal. Let's do this thing. I'm ready to bang up.

Okay, heavy metal. I've been listening to a lot of Wolf Mother lately. So if you're a

Wolf Mother guy out there, I want to talk to you. Like you said, huge week, juicy stuff in the American

League. And I like that we have these segmented breakdowns for the American League National League's

Wednesday. And then on Monday, we do power rankings where we talk about the top teams in the league

and some of the biggest storylines. But it's Friday. I'm with Chris Castellani. When it comes to

the American League, I consider just like a foremost expert. We've got a fun game. We're going to

play towards the end of today's show where we kind of rank the teams in order of who would we be

fans of if we could just start cold turkey. Everything we know now about baseball,

but just start cold turkey right now. We can just pick your own team. There's some big, juicy stuff.

I want to start with the biggest thing though. I want to go, I want to go out to Toronto.

I want to be a blue J's fan. I want to be Yankees fan right now. Put me in the center of the

controversy. We got guys getting kicked out. We got signed stealing. We got Aaron Boone yelling

at Schneider. What's going on? Hey, just a bizarre series of circumstances. I mean, when the dust

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