Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of Is This a Great Game?
Speaker 1: Or one a little bit of a special edition because
Speaker 1: we're changing it up a bit this week.
Speaker 2: Dad. You're in Bristol, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: You are in between about seven different shows right now.
Speaker 2: You are on the set.
Speaker 1: Of Baseball Tonight that just finished, and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: run and do the Baseball Tonight podcast with Buster Only.
Speaker 2: You got Sports Center.
Speaker 1: You've got a million things going on, but thanks for
Speaker 1: taking some time for your son and our podcast.
Speaker 3: Right So, Jeff, it's gonna be a slightly different podcast
Speaker 3: today than any other ones we do. We're not gonna
Speaker 3: have three Cards in the Bathroom or the Wheel of
Speaker 3: Kirkchin because we had forty two trades in one day.
Speaker 3: So we're not breaking news on this show, but we
Speaker 3: have to at least explain what happened on a crazy
Speaker 3: Monday August I. It was out of control and it
Speaker 3: was absolutely breathtaking to trades.
Speaker 2: Dad, that is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: And I know you've been hard at work, and you're right,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a different show. The benefit
Speaker 1: of doing three shows a week is we change things
Speaker 1: up from time to time. We're not your hot take
Speaker 1: breaking news, but we are baseball podcasting, Dad, quickly tell.
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Speaker 1: twenty second. Because Dad, we're diving head first, trade deadline
Speaker 1: forty two trades.
Speaker 2: Hit me with it.
Speaker 1: I know where you gotta start, Scooble of course, right.
Speaker 3: Well, we're going to get to Schooble at the end
Speaker 3: because he got traded on Saturday, not on Monday. We're
Speaker 3: gonna start with hopefully something mildly music buster only. I
Speaker 3: did the show with him and Jeff Passen and Eduardo
Speaker 3: Perezent Kevin Cotter. We were on all day. But Buster
Speaker 3: got a text from a general manager and he thought
Speaker 3: Buster Olney was Buster posey, so he kind of got it.
Speaker 3: He kind of got a trade offer, said to the
Speaker 3: wrong Buster. Yes, soon after the text said sorry, send
Speaker 3: it to the wrong Buster. But this is what happens
Speaker 3: on trade deadline day. Anything is possible. And Jeff, So
Speaker 3: the takeaway from Monday for me was the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: As we know, Jeff, they were thirty two and forty six,
Speaker 3: hopelessly out of maybe the higher playoff raise, and then
Speaker 3: they went on to win twenty eight out of thirty
Speaker 3: three at this taping. So the Red Sox are going
Speaker 3: for it and I just love it now. They gave
Speaker 3: up an enormous amount, but they got Adlie Rutchman from
Speaker 3: the Orioles. Adlee Rutchman was the overall number one pick
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen. It's made a couple of All Star teams,
Speaker 3: including the All Star Team this year. The Red Sox
Speaker 3: needed a hit her and they got a twenty eight
Speaker 3: year old switch hitter to be their primary catcher. Once
Speaker 3: of course he gets healthy. Keep in mind that the
Speaker 3: Red Sox have had four homers from their catchers all year,
Speaker 3: so not only do they add offense, they added it
Speaker 3: to a position that needed offense. And I thought it
Speaker 3: was an exceptionally aggressive move by the Red Sox, them saying, Hey,
Speaker 3: we gave up a lot to get this guy, but
Speaker 3: we're going for it. Fenway is alive right now, Jeff,
Speaker 3: and they are feeding that agreed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been such an exciting time for Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox fans this second half of the season, and
Speaker 1: of course with the streak heading in to the All
Speaker 1: Star Break has been just magical for Fenway Park.
Speaker 2: It's a live again.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned on Baseball Tonight earlier today, Dad, I
Speaker 1: just want to give a word out to our Orioles fans,
Speaker 1: including my dear friend Joey Feierstein. He sent a text
Speaker 1: message to our Ball is Life group text, which is
Speaker 1: our Fantasy football group, Dad, where he says, and this
Speaker 1: is to eleven other guys myself included. HEYJF longtime listener
Speaker 1: of the pod, first time caller. He's sending a message
Speaker 1: to the pod via our group.
Speaker 2: Text, and I mean he's bummed, you know.
Speaker 1: He's saying, a general manager who says, this is going
Speaker 1: to be the franchise player.
Speaker 2: The face of our team is no longer on the team.
Speaker 1: Dad, give us a little bit of thoughts when it
Speaker 1: comes to maybe players who are in fans we were
Speaker 1: on the other side of.
Speaker 2: The trade deadline, like Joey, who.
Speaker 1: Is devastated, might not even begin to serve how he's
Speaker 1: actually feeling right now.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm confused also, Jeff, Look, the Orioles have
Speaker 3: not had a good year, they haven't had a good
Speaker 3: two years, but they're still two and a half games
Speaker 3: at the day of the trade deadline out of a
Speaker 3: wild card spy. Granted they had three or four teams
Speaker 3: in front of them, but I'm not sure I understand this.
Speaker 3: I repeat, they got a ton in return for Adlie Rutchman,
Speaker 3: but they also traded Taylor Ward. They traded him to Seattle,
Speaker 3: so they got people back. But it's almost like they
Speaker 3: gave up on the Pennant race today, and that's a
Speaker 3: really hard thing for any fan to take. So that
Speaker 3: Red Sock Oriole trade threw me for a loop today
Speaker 3: and many others that it actually got worked out, and
Speaker 3: Red Sox fans for the most part, are very happy
Speaker 3: and oriole fans, for the most part, are not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in debt, I think it always stings more whatever
Speaker 1: division we're talking about, when it goes to somebody in
Speaker 1: your division, right, it just stings.
Speaker 2: A little bit more. Even within the same league, it can.
Speaker 1: Hurt because of how tight all of these wildcard races are,
Speaker 1: especially in the American League, Like you're fighting against all
Speaker 1: the divisions. But when you trade within your division, oh drive,
Speaker 1: some people print, so we're thinking about you right now.
Speaker 3: That makes it even more difficult to deal with. But Jeff,
Speaker 3: we've been over this all year. The American League is
Speaker 3: a winnable league right now, and the Red Sox are
Speaker 3: saying we're not just going to make the playoffs. We're
Speaker 3: going to be dangerous in October with the moves that
Speaker 3: we made. So we'll see if they work out. No
Speaker 3: guarantees of anything, but I really like the aggressiveness today
Speaker 3: of the Red Sox and of the Cubs. The Cubs
Speaker 3: are one of those teams that has a chance at
Speaker 3: least to run down the Dodgers, who are not good
Speaker 3: but great right now. And we'll get to that later
Speaker 3: in the podcast, but the Cub's got Kevin Gossman and
Speaker 3: Clay Holmes in deals, and they were desperate for pitching.
Speaker 3: We know they can hit. They have two ten game
Speaker 3: winning streaks, and most important, Jeff, they are a really
Speaker 3: good defensive team, especially in the infield. And both Gosman
Speaker 3: and Clay Holmes put the ball in the grass. And
Speaker 3: that's all any pitcher wants to know is if I
Speaker 3: throw a ground ball, here are we going to catch it?
Speaker 3: Maybe turn two? So I really liked what the Cubs did,
Speaker 3: and I also really liked what the Rays did again
Speaker 3: also in the American League East, they got Freddie Peralta,
Speaker 3: who's change up just hasn't been very good this year
Speaker 3: compared to last year. But he's a veteran pitcher, he's
Speaker 3: an innings eater. They added him. They added Tyler Wells,
Speaker 3: a pitcher from the Orioles. And they got Liam Hicks
Speaker 3: who's had a really good year for the Marlins and
Speaker 3: he's going to be mostly their catcher this year. Their
Speaker 3: catchers have six homers all season, and now they add
Speaker 3: a really good hitter. What do you think about those teams? Jeff?
Speaker 3: Really being active?
Speaker 2: You know, it was really funny.
Speaker 1: Buster Only was on Baseball Tonight earlier and I saw him,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of really mess with the AL because
Speaker 1: we're so exhausted. When it comes to the American League,
Speaker 1: nobody is the clear winner. People say the rais is
Speaker 1: the best, are the best team in the American League.
Speaker 1: That's what Jeff Passen had, but you know he bumped
Speaker 1: up the Mariners all the way up to the front
Speaker 1: and the Guardians as well. I think the Rays, Dad,
Speaker 1: are just I don't even want to say flying under
Speaker 1: the radar. They're first in the AL East. That's not
Speaker 1: flying under the radar. But they're much better than anybody
Speaker 1: is giving them credit. And nothing against the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: They are by far the hottest team in baseball right now,
Speaker 1: but when you've done it already over one hundred plus.
Speaker 2: Games, that has to be spoken to, even in a
Speaker 2: soft AL East. In twenty twenty six, I think the
Speaker 2: Rays did everything they needed to do right.
Speaker 3: The Rays went into the Monday Drip trade deadline with
Speaker 3: the best team in the American League and they left
Speaker 3: even better with the moves that they made.
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Speaker 3: Other teams Jeff that I really thought did a good job.
Speaker 3: The Podreys and remember Jeff the Podreys were considering trading
Speaker 3: Mason Miller, who's just been dominant, the most dominant reliever
Speaker 3: that we've seen in a long time. And instead of
Speaker 3: trading him, of course, they kept him. They kept the
Speaker 3: rest of that tremendous bullpen, and they added Robbie Ray
Speaker 3: and Casey Mice. So the Podreys, who won eight of
Speaker 3: their last nine heading into Monday, are back in the race,
Speaker 3: and they're they're looking at themselves and say, we're good
Speaker 3: enough to make a run with the Dodgers. Maybe not
Speaker 3: for the division title that's too late, but in the
Speaker 3: playoffs potentially. So I really like what they did, and
Speaker 3: I really like what the Guardians did too. The Guardians
Speaker 3: are trying to win a very competitive Al Central. They
Speaker 3: went out and got Foster Griffin from the Nationals, They
Speaker 3: went and got Nathaniel Lowe from the Reds, and they
Speaker 3: went and got Joe Adele from the Angels. Remember the
Speaker 3: ops of the left fielders for the Indian for the
Speaker 3: Guardians this year is six twenty six. That is the
Speaker 3: worst ops of all left fielders in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: They address that with at least another outfielder that can hit.
Speaker 3: Joe Adele. So I really like what they did. Really
Speaker 3: aggressive teams out there, and Jeff, I think it's important
Speaker 3: to recognize that since we don't know what's going to
Speaker 3: happen next year, with you know, an impending workstoppage, you
Speaker 3: don't even know what twenty twenty seven is going to
Speaker 3: look like. So it seemed to me a lot of
Speaker 3: teams said, well, if we don't know what twenty twenty
Speaker 3: seven is going to look like, we have to go
Speaker 3: for it this year. And a lot of teams did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a lot easier Dad to you know,
Speaker 1: support the buyer instead of the sellers. Because everybody keeps
Speaker 1: bringing up twenty twenty seven, why not go out and
Speaker 1: get Schooble, Why not go out and get Mason Miller.
Speaker 2: Why not go out and just throw all.
Speaker 1: Of your dollars and cents in your prospects because next
Speaker 1: year could be I don't want to say it, but
Speaker 1: we could not have baseball at least for part of
Speaker 1: the season, and that's scary. But why not push all
Speaker 1: your chips in now? And so any team that went
Speaker 1: out and bought that, I love what the Guardians did. Again,
Speaker 1: the al central to me is just this toss up
Speaker 1: kind of nutso place to be and I love seeing
Speaker 1: the Guardians be aggressive.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit biased.
Speaker 1: My time spent in Cleveland made me fall in love
Speaker 1: with that organization. I am a bleeding heart baseball fan,
Speaker 1: and I feel for any group of fans like Cleveland
Speaker 1: fans who haven't had a championship.
Speaker 2: And way way, way too long, So it's easy.
Speaker 1: To root for fans like that and for good teams
Speaker 1: like the Guardians.
Speaker 3: Totally agree, job completely. Now let's get finally when we
Speaker 3: have two to go. Your hometown team, the Phillies, your
Speaker 3: adopted team went and Luis a rise to play second base,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna win another batting title this year. It's
Speaker 3: going to be his fourth with four different teams. He
Speaker 3: and Dan Brothers are the only two ever to do
Speaker 3: that if he of course does it. But Jeff, it's
Speaker 3: going to require it's possible. It's going to require Bryson
Speaker 3: Stott moving from second base to third base, Alec bow
Speaker 3: moving from third base to first base, and Bryce Harper
Speaker 3: moving from first base to right field. Now, Jeff, I'm
Speaker 3: all for getting another bat in the lineup, because you know,
Speaker 3: the Phillies had to get another hitter. Preferably it would
Speaker 3: have been a right handed hitting outfielder. Instead they got
Speaker 3: a left handed hitting infielder. But and Harper returning to
Speaker 3: the outfield, I'm not positive about that. But also keep
Speaker 3: in mind, Jeff, the ops of the right fielders for
Speaker 3: the Phillies this year has been six thirty two with
Speaker 3: twenty nine walks at one hundred and forty two strikeouts.
Speaker 3: It's just been unacceptable. Bryce Harper will change that. But Jeff,
Speaker 3: my question for you, the Phillies fan, is they're changing
Speaker 3: like four positions on potentially on August to fourth. A
Speaker 3: lot of moving parts, a lot of adjustments have to
Speaker 3: be made during a season. You're okay with that?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're okay with that. You're the
Speaker 2: least flexible man.
Speaker 1: I know if plans change in a moment's notice, you're upset.
Speaker 1: But Dad, I saw those defensive plans. I've always been
Speaker 1: a Luisa Rise fan.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 1: I've said it on the podcast a number of times.
Speaker 1: Reminds me of the Tony Gwynn era, right like get
Speaker 1: on base, limited amounts of strikeouts. I love a high
Speaker 1: batting average. Who doesn't, But the moves, Dad, are substantiated.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper brought his outfielders glove to an away series
Speaker 1: because he needed to start taking reps, and he even
Speaker 1: went on the record saying I would do anything for
Speaker 1: this organization.
Speaker 3: Just today.
Speaker 2: He said that.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, listen, that's what you need to do
Speaker 1: to win. Everyone is saying in the clubhouse and everyone's
Speaker 1: saying on the internet. The Phillies need to fill their
Speaker 1: right feel. Their position is the leader of the team.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper not thinking to him yourself, well, I could
Speaker 1: be the best hitter on this team and I could
Speaker 1: fill that position today and they could go get somebody else.
Speaker 2: It makes it.
Speaker 1: It gives me NBA vibes, does it not, dad like
Speaker 1: adjusting your role on a team if you're the superstar knowing, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking the ball up in the court anymore
Speaker 1: because we're getting Russell Westbrook six years ago. I need
Speaker 1: to let him take it up and I need to
Speaker 1: play the traditional three.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is it sounds a little untraditional in baseball,
Speaker 1: but everybody's willing to move on that Phillies team because
Speaker 1: the reality is anybody who knows really since twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: the team has stayed relatively the same, and they're at
Speaker 1: the point where if they don't win, it's a fire sale.
Speaker 2: They're getting older, this is the time.
Speaker 1: So if it means Bryce and Stott mixing it up,
Speaker 1: Alec bow same thing, then that's what has to be done.
Speaker 1: And I think it will be done, and will it
Speaker 1: pay off, We'll see, But I love Luisa Ryes. I
Speaker 1: hope he leads off for the Phillies. They could use
Speaker 1: that high batting average in the top spot of the
Speaker 1: lineup right right.
Speaker 3: Fascinating day for the Phillies. All Right, we'll finish Jeff
Speaker 3: with the Dodgers, since their big deal came on Saturday night, Jeff,
Speaker 3: and again, the rich obviously get richer here. They got
Speaker 3: Trek scouble for three young players and they still didn't
Speaker 3: give up like the absolute charms of their farm system.
Speaker 3: So I thought this was a great trade for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: But this is how the Dodgers operate, Jeff. Whenever they
Speaker 3: have any sort of roster issue, they just are in
Speaker 3: a position to go corrected immediately, and that's what they
Speaker 3: did here. And just as important, they kept Trek Scooble
Speaker 3: away from any of their contenders. I mean, imagine if
Speaker 3: Terek Scubel and ended up with the Cubs. What if
Speaker 3: he had ended up with the Brewers and gone next
Speaker 3: to Jacob Mizerowski and Trek Scugle won two going up
Speaker 3: against the Dodgers. The Dodgers wanted no part of that.
Speaker 3: So now the Dodgers have, Jeff I count seven, if
Speaker 3: not more, way above average major league starting pitchers, led
Speaker 3: by Scooble and Blake Snell and Yamamoto. And we haven't
Speaker 3: even gotten to Otani or Robleski or Tyler Glass now
Speaker 3: or Roki Sazaki. I mean, their rotation is ridiculously deep,
Speaker 3: of course, when everybody is healthy. So on Baseball tonight.
Speaker 3: The other day we had a little chart up on
Speaker 3: the air and it had the five best eras by
Speaker 3: pitchers since the twenty twenty three season, so the last
Speaker 3: three years, and four of the five were Dodgers. Four
Speaker 3: of the five best eras in the last three years
Speaker 3: are on the Dodgers right now. That's how good they are.
Speaker 3: So Jeff, I'm going to ask you good for baseball,
Speaker 3: bad for baseball? Any thoughts on what the Dodgers did
Speaker 3: and what it means.
Speaker 1: Dad, We're not We're not that show. But I just
Speaker 1: have to say, I don't think it's good for the game.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's good for the game when the
Speaker 1: best team, clearly or at least the best roster, let's
Speaker 1: put it that way, is able to just go get
Speaker 1: the best player out there, right. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to say Trek Scoble's ring chasing or whatever, because you
Speaker 1: know those decisions are made at the general manager level.
Speaker 2: But at some.
Speaker 1: Point these teams need to look at themselves and say,
Speaker 1: do we want that team to.
Speaker 2: Be that good?
Speaker 1: Because obviously the Tigers are saying we're out, we're done,
Speaker 1: and we don't care what happens in October, But they
Speaker 1: need to ask themselves, Okay.
Speaker 2: Who do we want to win it all?
Speaker 1: Because clearly, clearly this is going to shift pitching wins
Speaker 1: in October.
Speaker 2: Dad, Do I think this is good for baseball? No?
Speaker 1: Do I think that this will change what twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven looks like.
Speaker 2: Yes, from a labor negotiation.
Speaker 1: Standpoint, because the rich get richer, Dad, it does worry me.
Speaker 1: I'm not a hot, taky guy, but I was unhappy
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Speaker 1: the Brewers or the Cubs per se.
Speaker 2: I think there's like fifteen that are really upset.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying everybody's happy when he goes if
Speaker 1: he goes to the Brewers, but I am saying at
Speaker 1: one point we have to ask, okay, this is is
Speaker 1: this good for baseball or not?
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Speaker 3: Jeff, you are in the vast majority on this all
Speaker 3: I will say. Look, I agree it is unhealthy for
Speaker 3: baseball that some teams have a payroll like the Dodgers
Speaker 3: or the Mets or the Yankees, and others are four
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollar difference. I mean that is not
Speaker 3: healthy for baseball. But to blame the Dodgers for this
Speaker 3: is I think unfair because I will tell you, Jeff,
Speaker 3: from covering baseball for forty five years, they are the
Speaker 3: best run organization in the game. Now. Granted, they have
Speaker 3: resources and money that other teams don't, and yes they
Speaker 3: can afford when they make a mistake, they can make
Speaker 3: up for it with everything else they have. But they
Speaker 3: run their organization beautifully. They draft and develop better than
Speaker 3: almost any team, and when a player goes to the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: he almost always gets better. So keep all of that
Speaker 3: in mind before you blame the Dodgers for all this.
Speaker 3: You know, let's blame payroll disparity, which is a big
Speaker 3: problem and must be addressed in some other way. But
Speaker 3: you can't just blame the Dodgers for this. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of teams out there that have to share
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Dad, you do bring up a good point,
Speaker 1: and I dial back my passion for a minute. They
Speaker 1: do develop great players, right, They have these prospects that
Speaker 1: they develop that they're able to deal in order to
Speaker 1: get the best players out there. And then obviously when
Speaker 1: it comes to signings like show, Hey, they are the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: for goodness sake, big market, major market team.
Speaker 2: You can't blame them for being in LA. You can't
Speaker 2: blame New York for being New York. It's not their fault.
Speaker 2: You even can't blame Boston for being Boston.
Speaker 1: You know, Adley Ritchman, it's a huge ad, but there's
Speaker 1: a huge amount of love to go into Boston, to
Speaker 1: go into New York, to go into LA because of
Speaker 1: the fan bases and the money that's in those markets. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, these trades are being made and the players
Speaker 1: don't have a say, we're talking more signings at least
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: In this moment. But yeah, yeah, I do think you.
Speaker 1: Can't blame the Dodgers, but you can look at teams,
Speaker 1: the other teams and say, trade with anybody else, anybody,
Speaker 1: anybody else. I'm with you, Jeff, Where does Scooball go
Speaker 1: next year? I don't want to put you spot because that's.
Speaker 3: The whole point. We don't even know what next year is.
Speaker 3: So in the absence of that information, I think all
Speaker 3: bets are off right now. You just try to win
Speaker 3: right now. And I think a lot of teams on
Speaker 3: Monday made an effort to win, and that's the most
Speaker 3: important thing. I think a lot of fans are sitting
Speaker 3: at home saying, all right, the Dodgers got way too good,
Speaker 3: but our team is trying to get better. I think
Speaker 3: that's the most important thing about the trade deadline, and
Speaker 3: I saw a lot of that today.
Speaker 1: All right, Dad, do you have any winners of the
Speaker 1: trade deadline that you want to kind of like put
Speaker 1: your TK signature on here.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I think that's too cliche, Jeff for
Speaker 3: what we do. But to me, the winners are there
Speaker 3: are three winners. The Dodgers are the biggest winner they
Speaker 3: got Trek Scougel. The Red Sox are the second biggest
Speaker 3: winner because they got Adlie Rutchman and they just showed
Speaker 3: everybody we are going for it. And the third winners
Speaker 3: are Buster Oney and Jeff Passen, who have been beating
Speaker 3: the bushes, calling agents, calling general managers every single day,
Speaker 3: and now the pressure is off, the trade deadline is over.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean we stop reporting on things, but I
Speaker 3: know the pressure. I'll never forget walking into ESPN about
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago Jp Richardi, who was the former general
Speaker 3: manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, who was working for
Speaker 3: ESPN at the time, might have been twenty years ago. Jeff,
Speaker 3: and he walked in on trade deadline day and he
Speaker 3: looked at me and he said, well, you have a
Speaker 3: different look in your eye today than you did yesterday.
Speaker 3: And I had to explain it's trade deadline day. Today
Speaker 3: is different, which is why Jeff our show is different today.
Speaker 3: Now Thursday. For Thursday's episode, we're going to get back
Speaker 3: to we laugh and we learn we're gonna have best
Speaker 3: of all. I mean, we're gonna have you know, quirk
Speaker 3: Gins and takeaways and you know, the Wheel of Kirkchin
Speaker 3: and three cards in the bathroom, and we're gonna have
Speaker 3: the greatest players of all time. Last letter t But
Speaker 3: today was all about the trade deadline. I think we
Speaker 3: did it right, you think so, just for one day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just got to say, though someone upstairs is
Speaker 1: not looking kindly onto you to start trade deadline day.
Speaker 1: Your flight got delayed, that must have.
Speaker 3: Been No, it wasn't delayed, Jeff. It was canceled. And
Speaker 3: I got to the airport this morning for a seven
Speaker 3: thirty flight at four point thirty in the morning, okay,
Speaker 3: because I had a lot of work to do. And
Speaker 3: I went to the Admirals Club and for American Airlines
Speaker 3: and I sat there and I worked for two and
Speaker 3: a half hours to seven o'clock, and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden it said flight canceled. Fortunately, the people at
Speaker 3: the Admirals Club got me on a ten am flight.
Speaker 3: I got to ESPN on time. I got all my
Speaker 3: work done, which still isn't done. I gotta leave now
Speaker 3: and go do another podcast and Sports Center tonight. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna cut this a little bit short than usual, Jeff.
Speaker 3: But again Friday Thursday, we'll be back to our normal fun,
Speaker 3: our normal podcast.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, everything else good, Dad, Just kidding, just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm for subtlety. He's gotta go, folks. Okay, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for listening, and thanks as always for being
Speaker 1: a part of our family.
Speaker 2: Love me, Dad, have a good trade. Dupline night.
Speaker 3: I love you.
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