Producer Evan

Yeah.

The one with the patch on the front.

Black one, yeah.

I think going with the B.I.B.

was definitely always the best idea.

Initially, we were like, should we spell it out backwards?

But I felt like there was too much going on.

Yeah, there should be some passion.

This doesn't have to be boring.

Coming in at number nine, we got our guy Joe Ryan, our Cy Young guy, a guy that Rob picked to win the Cy Young last year.

He didn't quite win it.

Obviously, it went to Garrett Crochet, maybe his future teammate.

Who knows?

But he came on this past year, early on in the year, prior to all the crazy trade rumors.

and talked to rob about a bunch of different things talked about his crazy pitch that he believes got caught up in the wind and just talked about baseball and it was a super interesting listen and possibly the reason why a lot of red sox fans got hyped about the idea of joe ryan coming to their city so coming in number nine we got joe ryan and here is that

Yeah, there should be some passion.

This doesn't have to be boring.

Coming in at number 10, we got the Daniel Bard retirement story.

Daniel Bard came on the pod directly after his retirement from the Seattle Mariners and from professional baseball and just really kind of poured his heart out to Rob about why he decided to do it, his emotional story behind it, and it was just a great listen and definitely a very...

introspective and amazing acknowledgement of how far he came in his career, all the obstacles, and then finally ended up on top.