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Good morning. Good afternoon and evening baseball fans. Welcome back to the

Barstable baseball show. This is Carl. It is Wednesday. I am joined by Clemer as you're listening

to this right now. We're also probably joined in person. We're in Boston for the award show.

Right now, as people are listening to this, let's say we're having lunch. What are you gonna

get for lunch? Ooh, you know, I say this for now. Massachusetts, the best roast beef sandwich.

I will be having a roast beef sandwich sometime. Let me put here in this that I promise.

I love a good Boston roast beef. Spartan beef sauce is so good. Let's go.

The right amount of spices to that roast beef can be an Italian beef. If cooked properly,

we don't need that argument. Let's just have a good time. It's Wednesday. This is the award

prediction show. You reached out to me at a time and said, I want to talk about four major

award categories. Rookie of the Year, MVP, Sion, Manager of the Year. Let's run them through the

predictions. I ran my simulation. So I had my computer up and running late last night.

We have a meaty discussion to get into here. And the reason I like awards so much,

because it goes into the storytelling and the narrative of the baseball game. There's nothing

better than looking back and saying, you know, this guy was a three time MVP finished,

he finished top 10 for the MVP a number of times. It just allows a great story.

Exactly. It provides historical context. Like I was born in 79. So I don't know,

1970. I never saw it, but I'm able to look back, see who won MVP. It's interesting to see

who people thought were great. I Steve Garvey, like how much people liked him then. And like,

look at him now, like the perception of him is wildly different, because like his skill set

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