Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, May 30th, Derekman Ryper, Inoceris, Chris Welsh, all here with you on a Project Prospect edition on this episode.

We're going to talk about some players we want to add in long-term leagues and some that we're willing to part with in long-term leagues as well because we hit that point, the Memorial Day weekend, it's special.

Something about it makes everyone's internal clock.

The alarm clock goes off and everyone has to start making moves. Everyone has to choose a direction now because we're 50 plus games in. A third of the season is enough. A quarter of the season, not enough. A third of the season, just right. So it's time to choose direction. Lots of news to get to you on this episode as well. Maybe even a mailbag question or two. You know, it looks like you survived your trip to the Wisconsin Dells. Like you're still in one piece. It does look like you may have gone hunting. Is that a camouflage hat? I was about to go get some elk or something, you know? No, it's something weird. It's like a dragon hat that I've had forever. It's a dragon.

Okay.

I thought it was a camo hat. Yeah, it looked kind of like camo. Yeah, it was fun. It was crazy. This place, I feel like I can't believe it exists because it's like three or four bars and restaurants and inside a hotel with a water park. And so I'm like, I couldn't help to look around and be like, the liabilities here must be through the room. Is this similar? It's so weird that you're doing this. In today, I'm going to Great Wolf Lodge. Is this like a great, that's where I was. Oh, that's where I'm going. I'm going. There's a whole bunch of things here because I was about to say it's very interesting the whole drinking in the water park,

because I'm about to go to a place that's exactly like that. Okay, yeah. So I will be there on Thursday. The kids loved it. The kids loved it. They had a great time. It was a bit of a money suck. They've designed everything to be like. The wristband. Yeah, the wristband. And so you're just like, ah, just put it on the car, you know, like, put another shrimp on the Barbie. And then like, you know, they have all these like, like these activities for the kids. The kids like, well, I want to do the mind maze. Dad, I want to do the mind maids. And like, you know, more of it should be included, I think, because you're like, oh, $50 for the mind maze, how long is this going to take? And then you're like, oh, 15 minutes later, you're outside again. You're like, oh, $50. So don't do the mine maze, I'd say. I do think at some point they're going to implement that into baseball where they're going to be like, all right, you can't bring your credit card in. We're just going to attach your credit card to this little wristband.

And everyone's going to be like, oh, hot dogs for everybody and beer for everybody.

And it's a really good psychological trick.

But you got to like trick back a little bit.

Yeah, you don't have to actually take your wallet out.

I know.

Yeah.

I'll have this one.

It wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to take the cash and make that a piece of plastic. Now we've got to make the piece of plastic in your back pocket a piece of plastic on your wrist. Now we can speed up the process even more and make you feel even further removed from the money that you don't have. So rates and barrels is going to be a lot more broke after this. Eno's broke. I'll be broken in a couple days. So DVR, it's all on you now. I'm moving across the country in six weeks. I'm pretty much bro. Yeah, you have a baby. Send money to at-race. For a little while. Yeah, if you want to just Venmo me money to help with my move, I probably wouldn't turn it down right now. For sure. That's where we're at right now.

But let's dig in.

Royce Lewis is back, made an impact his first game back as well. I got a home run. We talked about the twins a few weeks ago on this show. Kyle Farmer was sort of keeping the seat warm for Royce Lewis. and it seems like as long as the health holds up,

the twins are going to push Royce Lewis's playing time

if not to an everyday role to... seems like as long as the health holds up, the twins are going to push Royce Lewis's playing

time, if not to an everyday role, to something very close to it. It's been a very long road

for Royce Lewis. Before the multiple ACL injuries, he'd finally started to put all the pieces

together in the upper levels of the minor leagues. So, well,

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