Welcome, everybody, to the Tuesday evening, Rodewire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I am not Jeff Erickson.

Jeff is on vacation this week.

Well, deserved break, as they say, some graduation stuff, some fun stuff, good for Jeff.

But Fred's here.

Fred's a trooper.

He's stuffing it out out i guess this is our

yearly uh once a year we get to do this no jeff seems to uh it's usually around this time looking at our

old emails it was around this time last year that we uh what we we got to hook up and do this uh do this

so glad to talk to you got to see you right in uh this past spring that's right yeah yeah you were

made it out to tell wars finally or not you finally but yeah we finally made it live that's right uh yeah

yeah you're right that we do seem to be on around this time every year i think Jeff's on a vacation

I think it might be in Hawaii or something like that yeah I'm pretty sure so good for him

um I don't have much of a life so I seem to make it on basically every week. So that's both, it's maybe bad for me, but good for the listeners. Oh, maybe bad for the listeners. Maybe bad for the listeners. Maybe bad for everyone. But anyways, I'm here to help as best I can. There we go. Well, his younger daughter just graduated. But it's been a busy, busy week, busy month from Mr. Erickson. And good, good, good for him.

I got filled in on Sirius today.

And I'm doing Thursday's pod with my special guest, Tristan Cockroft. Oh, wow. Yeah, well, yeah, you know, once we, you know, we get, we get the big guns. I don't know if he'll sing. I don't know if I'll get, I don't know if I'll get, I don't know if I'll get, because we get

denied that now.

Like, I used to listen to Tristan and Eric all the time and listen to Tristan sing. That's like, maybe not, well, it wasn't Tristan. It was Matthew and Nate way back in the day, right? Oh, yeah. That was like my, the fantasy 411, now I'm deviating already,

it was my first that I would listen to on like an iPod, like before I had an iPhone. And, but Nate and Matthew were probably right there with it as of the first ones I listened to. And then, yeah, eventually Tristan and Eric. And yeah, anyways, good for, that's awesome getting Tristan. I'll listen to that for sure. Yeah, good. Yeah, absolutely. I think he is actually doing Justin Mason's podcast earlier that day. So hopefully he'll still have a voice left. But anyway, so we got a bunch of talking points about the game, about what's going on today, some interesting news. I did want to ask you one question.

I've been talking to some people, you know, not on a podcast,

but I'm just curious to hear what people,

what is your, how do you, the pitch clock and enjoy them in the ball games?

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