Yo! Welcome into the House of L podcast. I'm Lauren Tomes. Thanks so much for hanging

out and rocking with me today. We are brought to you as always by our friends

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great summer, make a lot of money, make some friends, all that good stuff. I'm

really, really grateful that you're here for this episode of the podcast. I

have been out of town the last few days. There was a glitch in the matrix that

allowed me. It comes at a day game on Thursday and I just took Friday off. It

made it a super extra long weekend. Even with the super extra longness of it, it

doesn't feel that way. But usually if I take about a week off, I ordinarily will

do a podcast so that I can get my timing back in order from when I go back on

the radio. And depending on when you hear this, I'll be on it noon the next day.

But I wanted to speak specifically and do the podcast specifically today because

usually we start talking about baseball teams at three different intervals of

the baseball season. The trade deadline, which this year is August 2nd. The 4th of

July, we're usually talking about a team and Memorial Day. That's usually the

first stop when we start talking about a team. Not quite a third of the season,

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