Welcome, everybody, to the Thursday Rotowire MLB Industry Podcast.

If I don't look like Jeff Erickson, it's because I'm not.

This is Todd Zolder here, pinch hitting.

Jeff is visiting some family.

I guess he went to a game, a playoff game, saw some stuff on Twitter.

Good for Jeff.

So I'm here with some of you may

recognized recognized a friend and colleague Ron Chandler it's actually kind of doubly glad to be

talking to you today because it means you made it through the at least you know through the storm

this one anyway unscathed. Yeah, pretty much.

Luckily, we're on the east coast of Florida, so we didn't get hit with the brunt of it.

We had a bunch of wind probably, well, we were expecting about 50 mile an hour winds with the

storm kind of went a little bit further south, so we had more like 60, 65 mile an hour winds.

But we've been through stuff

that like that before and a few down branches but for the most part no injuries no damages

we're good to go here excellent you know thinking good thoughts to those that maybe weren't so lucky

right and there's still some people that both get hit with some rain et et cetera, coming up. So, I mean, you know, moving to New England, when do I deal with, you know, hunkering down for an occasional blizzard, dealing with some unruly Red Sox fans. Well, that's not nothing. You know, it's, it's, you know, I don't have alligators or snakes or that shark that always seems to show up during these

tropical storms.

But anyway, you know, I mean, you know, it hasn't been the greatest summer for me talking,

you know, my Red Sox roots.

But the other hand, you can tell by your outfit that it's been all right for Mets fans.

It has been so much fun.

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