You're going to do it?

Three, two, one?

Oh, there you go.

We're in.

We should just use that as the beginning.

All right, everyone. Welcome to Rates and Barrels. We are DVRless, which means that I'm going to stumble through hosting this show. I will make mistakes. I will forget to tell you things like you should check out the draft coverage in the athletic. I think it's day two.

I don't care about football, but there are things happening and we cover it really well.

My ranks are up today pitching ranks.

We'll talk about those later with Paul Sporor who joins the show to help me not have to talk all the way through.

Oh, my God.

And later, we're going to have Niv Shaw come on the show,

and that'll be a reunion of sorts all the way back to, I don't know,

like 2011, 2012 when we were at first pitch Arizona altogether.

So that'll be a fun part of the show right now, though.

Paul Spor, thank you for coming on the show thank you for giving us a

little your time today and stepping in for DVR as he's out thanks for having me you know it's great

to talk with you and excited to go over your picture rankings and uh don't worry uh you know you've

improved as a host since we were together and you know i can help you with the outro i know

that's the part that you're most worried about i've made a rundown i barely you did the run down

and i made a rundown and i for anyone that listened to you know and i were on the sleeper in the bus

and you hear me complain about not him not reading the rundown i did threaten to not read it to get

him back but it was a pretty good rundown. I did threaten to not read it to get him back, but it was a

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