Hi there. Welcome to the Rota Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. Today is Monday, October 2nd.

Yes, this October, which means we're going to be talking playoff baseball.

My name is Chris Crawford. I am joined by my good buddy Ryan Boyer. Ryan, how are you doing today?

I'm good, man. These people probably thought they were going to get rid of us with the regular season

being over, but we waited all of, well, we didn't have our normal Sunday show, as we

had been having during the season.

But first day of the quote-unquote off season and one day

before the playoffs began, we are back and there's nothing you can do about it.

There's nothing you can do about it.

You're forced to listen.

Yes.

And you down and stick AirPods in those ears of yours.

Yep, you're stuck with us.

There's nothing you can do about it.

We're refreshed now too, so that'll be, that'll make us just even more intolerable.

No, we're pretty great at this.

Ryan, we had talked.

I'll take you behind the scenes,

and we weren't going to talk about any headlines,

but something happened like five minutes before we started recording.

It was just announced that Phil Nevin will not return as the Angels manager.

Who in the heck is going to want that job well i mean if you go by the there are only 30 of these

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