MLB Trade Deadline Is About to EXPLODE | Skubal, Dodgers, Yankees & Angels Rumors

Hosts Adam Weinrib and Robert Murray discuss whether Tarik Skubal is actually on the move, why the Dodgers and Brewers are emerging as favorites, the Angels' continued sell-off, Roman Anthony's impact on the Red Sox's deadline plans, Yankees targets, Padres bullpen rumors, Freddy Peralta, Luke Weaver, and answer your MLB Trade Deadline mailbag questions.

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Welcome to trade deadline eve on the Baseball Insiders.

I'm Adam Weiner joined by Fanite is MLB insider Robert Murray, and I hope you put your milk and cookies out for Jeff Passan.

He's gonna trade them for cash nections, unfortunately.

Uh, we don't have much movement.

Yet, yeah, a little.

Everybody woke up to the AJ Minter blockbuster the same way that you woke up to your Christmas presents.

You heard your parents stirring in the halls and you were like, is that an AJ Minter trade?

You shook the box and AJ Minter is going from the Mets to the Twins.

Uh, we've got plenty more rumors to break down some mailback questions on this Friday.

The name on everybody's lips is obviously Tarek Scoble and the team on everybody's lips is the Dodgers.

So we will, of course, start there, but I rely on Robert for opening his notebook, giving us his insight, and it's more valuable than ever in this particular time of year.

Robert Murray, welcome to the show.

Sorry to add more screen time to your docket on a day when you really do not need it.

No, it's totally OK.

I mean, any time that I can spend with you here, Adam, is, is time that I cherish and It's that time of year where the notebook is full.

My, I'm already overtired, but that being said, this is what we live for right here.

I absolutely love it.

Let's dive into it because, well, the biggest trade of the deadline so far is what, AJ, well, I was gonna say it's kind of early.

I, I forgot about that trade.

We got that, got AJ Minor, got Jose Arquiti.

We got more to come, a lot more to come.

Let's break it all down, baby.

Let's do it.

Yeah, first trade still the biggest, as Sheryl Crow once said, Connolly Early and Curtis Meade, uh, but I did not expect a Sheryl Crow reference two minutes into the program.

You didn't?

Wow, you gotta realign your expectations there.

I opened with like Santa stuff.

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Again, best time of year other than the winter meetings and not to be a doomer, but we don't know what those are gonna look like this year, so we might as well take full advantage of what we've got right here and that is why the Detroit Tigers are Probably getting the signals they needed and certainly giving off the signals that the rest of us needed to see when it comes to a Tarik Scoble trade.

Casey May, in case you didn't see, you know, the final piece of this puzzle potentially, was moved off of his start today.

They're going with the bullpen day, he's not gonna pitch again until after the trade deadline.

Now, his velocity was down significantly in his last start.

So there's more than one reason to move Casey Mies around, but Folks are seeing, seeing the trade winds, seeing the karmically horrible way that Scoble's final start ended, or a seven-nothing lead evaporated in case the universe wasn't sending a loud enough message.

Now it kinda feels like Scoble is inevitable, M, Glaber Torres, Kyle Finnegan, these guys are all on the table.

The Dodgers and Brewers have emerged probably as the clearest fits for Scoble.

Shane McClanahan's injury, maybe changes the Rays.

Calculus there, and I'm not even sure in which direction because, you know, they might be in on Sco if they thought this was a championship team, but how McClanahan, do they think it's a championship team?

Would they trade Scoble in for McClanahan or would they just say, man, we were hoping to supplement and now we're scared?

This is the kind of stuff that's going around in my head as the trade deadline approaches.

So, Robert, what are you hearing about Sco Bowl and about the Dodgers and Brewers specifically?

I know everyone's scared of the Dodgers.

What's the situation here?

Yeah, OK, I'll start with, let's start with Scoble as a whole.

Uh, the absolute expectation across baseball is that he is going to be traded.

It feels like a matter of when, not if, and the teams that we've all heard seem like it's gonna end up being in like the teams that It ultimately comes down to, you have the Dodgers, the Brewers, the Rays, you have the Atlanta Braves, you also have the Chicago Cubs in there.

There's obviously, for a player of that caliber, you always have to think that maybe another team or two can end up coming out of the woodwork and trying to get this thing done.

Um, but everyone across baseball at this point anticipates the Dodgers being the favorites, and the Dodgers have the prospect capital.

They have the ability to add that salary mid-season and not have it really be an impact at all.

Uh, but now they have the need with Shoe Otani's pitching status for the rest of the year, pretty much up in the air.

They don't, they don't know what they're going to get there.

Um.

So school can slide into that rotation.

You can have him alongside Yamamoto and and alongside a bunch of those other guys, and you still have a, an extremely formidable rotation for the postseason, uh, without Otani, if he's not able to pitch, of course.

So, um, the Dodgers are definitely the team to beat here in the eyes of many executives across baseball, uh, but the other teams to watch, the Milwaukee Brewers, I'll throw them in here.

They are indeed interested in Luke Weaver.

Um, they are.

Um, they, they really like Luke Weaver in Milwaukee, but they're also involved in the Trek Scuba market.

The, uh, I don't know how much they're involved with Clay Holmes, if at all, but a lot of people across baseball think that's a great fit if they don't get school, but the Brewers have the top ranked farm system in baseball.

But the question that everybody asks.

Is Mark, is, would Mark Antanas, the Brewers team owner, would he be willing to actually give up the prospects and also add that salary for a guy like School?

The, the thought is probably not.

That might be a little too rich for his blood, but I'm not going to rule the Brewers out entirely.

Uh, the Rays, they're not going to give up Theo Gillem in this.

That is the thing that I've heard pretty prominently.

Uh, could that change?

Of course, um, but I think that would be a really bold move, not something that I typically would see the Rays do.

So, they have , the farm system capable of getting a deal done, but it would be tougher without Gillen for sure then.

I'm not sure if the Braves are the most likely suitor at this point.

I kind of think that they're gonna be sensible about this, and whenever you're sensible about a trade candidate, you're probably not gonna get them.

Go back to the old Andrew Friedman quote that he told to Andy McCullough all those years ago.

Uh, and then the Chicago Cubs.

I do I think they're gonna get Scoble?

No, uh, but that being said, I would be very very surprised if between now and the deadline, they don't get at least one pitcher.

I think they're gonna get at least a, a starter, a reliever, and possibly more, who knows.

Those prices that you're speaking of, you know, the fact that Gillan is being demanded and the fact that, you know, Scoble is a rental, but he's also the cream of the crop, it's not surprising that that's gonna be a particularly expensive challenge trade in an area for people to be a little irrational about these kinds of things.

That does not seem to be a Tarek Scoble specific fear, though, at this particular trade deadline.

Earlier today, we saw, you know, a Luke Weaver Pirates.

Connection, and we very quickly saw a rumor that, hey, the Mets like Murph Gray, the Mets like Sammy Stefurra.

These are top-tier Pirates prospects.

And Luke Weaver is controlled at a nominal salary through next year as well, but that's certainly not a bargain transaction.

There, there's a rumor going around that the Mets, if they're dangling Freddie Peralta, are seeking a top 100 prospect.

That cost seems particularly high for Peralta.

And what he's provided this season, but obviously not Freddie Peralta, the pitcher over the course of his career.

Do you think these prices ever come down, or is that likely to be a reasonable starting and finish point, especially after, like we said, the Cheryl Crow trade, the need for early that set the baseline high from the jump-off here at this trade deadline.

Yeah, that's something I've heard.

I'm not kidding you when I say this, probably from at least 6, if not more, executives across baseball is that the prices throughout the game right now are still extremely high, and these sellers are placing a premium on their players, and the the buyers are currently not biting, and it's a, it's a game of chicken at this point, who's going to end up jumping first, but the expectation is Uh, the prices are eventually going to come down a little bit, but I would expect these teams to have to overpay for the players that are going to end up being available.

Uh, just the limited amount of sellers.

This has always been the most realistic scenario, um, especially with, since we've known it's going to be a seller's market here, is these sellers are going to get a ton for these guys.

And if you're the Mets and you got Clay Holmes.

And you have Freddie Peralta and Luke Weaver, and you're the Los Angeles Angels, and you have all those guys, they are going to be in a position where they can absolutely maximize those returns, build up for the future, and in the Mets' case, they're probably gonna want to be able to compete, actually take all the work probably.

They're definitely gonna want to be in a position where they compete sooner rather than later, and they want to compete next season.

Uh, so if they can get pieces where are close to Major League ready, I think that would really be smart for them.

If you're the Angels, Get the best players you possibly can.

Don't pigeonhole yourself, stockpile of talent because that team is not close, but you have, uh, you have Dettmer, you have Neto, you have Soriano, you have Adele, like, you're in a really good position to maximize this thing and actually get yourself into a legit contender, but it's, it's going to take a bit for the Angels totally here for sure.

Yeah, my question on the Angels comes from, you know, they get the process going with Ohai and Chase Sylseth, only for a nominal return midweek.

Uh, they send him to both to the Rangers for either a top 10 prospect or someone outside the top 30, depending on if you're talking to scouts or John Mosalla, uh, but that just goes for, you know, hey, 1 for 2, and the team that traded 2.

It's two big leaguers, it's Ohai who's regressed and was sent immediately to Triple-A for both fine tuning and probably control reasons.

If you hold him down for a number of, you know, days, you can maybe get another year.

And Sylseth, though, is a controllable reliever.

There's, there's 4+ years of Chase Sylseth and he's been successful this season.

He may not be the name at the top of the market that everyone's familiar with, but, man, that is an early.

Start and you wanna talk about prices escalating, the price was not high there and they went to a division rival in tandem.

Uh, so the Angels have to go further.

How much further do they go with the names that you mentioned, Dettmer, Soriano, Joe Adele, uh, and when does the real business begin?

There was a lot of Joe Adele and Jorge Soler chatter going around the space yesterday that got everybody's feelers up a little bit.

Yeah, OK, I'll start with, um, the, like what you, what you started with here is, like, what's the timeline here for, for the Angels, or like what's the, uh, what could they possibly do?

Internally they're ruling nothing out.

If you have, um, like, it's possible they could trade both the pitchers, it's possible they could trade Neto, could they trade all three, like, I think, maybe, but I mean, that's also an absolute, that's, that's a ton, so that would be.

That would be committing to a full rebuild , and we'll see if Artie Moreno is actually OK with that.

Like he says he is to John Mosalla, Mosalla is saying that publicly, we'll see, but my indication is this is John Mosalla's show to run, so.

Um, I'm not ruling anything out when it comes to the Los Angeles Angels, and I can tell you the interest in Reed Dettmer is significant, and there is a good chunk of the league that is involved in this thing, and rightfully so.

Like you have a pitcher who is, uh, controllable.

You also have a guy who all these teams view as a The player who's still ascending has more upside in his in his body.

So, like, they are very optimistic that he's going to be better wherever he goes, uh, or like, there's, OK, let me rephrase that.

Um, teams are optimistic that once he gets a new home, that he'll be even better than he currently is.

So, you have Dettmer, who I think is one of, if not the most coveted guys in the market.

Uh, you have, uh, Zach Netto.

I was talking about it with an executive yesterday.

And he said it point blank, he was like, OK, if you, uh, if you are the Kansas, or unless you're the Kansas City Royals and you have Bobby Witt Jr, like, why wouldn't you be interested in a guy like Zach Netto?

Like Zetto Neto is thought of super highly across baseball, uh, he's got a ton of interest and Uh, it sounds like there's a, a fair amount of teams involved in this thing, and it's gonna do, like in the position that Moselle has said both privately and publicly, is that they do not have to trade these guys.

They are all controllable, except for like the Jorge Soler types and everything, um, but they're controllable, they can wait till the offseason to try to have a better market, but If you wait, you also have the uncertainty of a lockout, and that's going to be something that could end up hurting those markets.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if they end up trying to be more aggressive here and move on from at least one or two of these guys.

So, it's going to be super fascinating.

Um, but I did not get the sense that a Joe Adell trade yesterday with the Yankees was close despite some internet rumors.

Um, I mean, he fits what the Yankees are going to want, but I did not get the sense that anything was close.

OK. Yeah, a lot to monitor and it's got to, got to.

We know we have a lot of Angels fans in our lives.

It has to go beyond the rental pieces for them to be satisfied with the way this deadline works out.

Even that offseason uncertainty just fuels the need to move quickly here on, on, maybe not again, all of those names, doesn't have to be Neto.

And Soreto and Dettmer is in a complete gutting, but you're gonna have to at least take advantage of something controllable here.

I'll go to the Red Sox now because they are a team that has been connected to Neto to an extent.

They have definitely been connected to all of these Marlins targets.

We talked about Otto Lopez on our previous show, Xavier Edwards, and, and those guys, uh, Liam Hicks.

Their calculus, again, I don't know how much it changes, but it, these things change quickly.

A couple of weeks ago, they were obvious sellers, and then they were, well, let's see, maybe they'll make a push, but they seem like they might have to thread the needle or something here, you could trade Aroldis Chapman but keep Sonny Gray or, you know, choose between the two of them.

That's out the window.

They are the hottest team in baseball, they have been for a month, they're in the thick of the American League playoff race, and Roman Anthony, who we were told was not.

Going to make any progression of any kind until he was pain-free, took 30 swings off a tee yesterday, or at least at some point this week, Chad Tracy told us yesterday.

So, they lose Curtis Meade quickly.

He may or may not come back this season after being acquired.

They have the guys in the room right now in a weakened American League where there are, you, you can't rule them out, obviously, of making a significant run, even if they don't do anything, but you're getting Anthony.

On the right track , I can't say back, but on the right track.

You already seem motivated to add a shortstop, add a catcher.

How does Anthony's return, how does the last 48 hours of the media diagnosis and Anthony moving change their trade deadline calculus at all?

Would they wanna take a huge swing this year, knowing that, hey, we could just be welcoming some guys back and we're already good enough.

I think the Red Sox are keeping every option here open for like internally here.

You have an opportunity where you are surging going into the deadline, and you have increased your chances in What is, like, I mean, I think we gotta call it, like, we see it, like a pretty pathetic American League as a whole, and this is a chance where you have, you have the pitching, and if you can end up maximizing in here, and you end up adding to the offense and you add an impact bat, I think that's something they absolutely have to go out and truly consider.

But, like, that being said, who is that option going to be?

Is it CJ Abrams, like, he's got a ton of interest league-wide.

Uh, but the expectation is that he is probably going to stay with the Nationals.

There are some executives who think the Nationals should trade CJ Abrams.

I think I mentioned that on the last show, and I've since heard that from other people.

So that is, uh, makes me feel better about my stance there .

Um, but I do not anticipate CJ Abrams going anywhere.

Uh, Zach Netto.

I definitely am not ruling out a trade involving Neto.

I'm not just saying that for the Red Sox, but I'm just saying that in general.

Uh, the interest in him is so substantial that I think it absolutely could lead to the Angels getting off that they just can't turn down.

Uh, and the Red Sox, I would expect to be in that mix, uh, and you also have a guy like Otto Lopez too, where, uh , he's going to draw a bunch of interest.

He's been an incredible player in Miami, um, but they're not gonna move him just to move him.

Like the Marlins.

I still am kind of skeptical they go like super crazy here with their with their sale.

I can see it being a Pete Fairbanks or maybe an Anthony Bender.

I don't know if they could do both, but it's possible they could throw another piece on there, but I just, I don't know, I'm, I'm skeptical that Lopez is ultimately moved, but that being said though.

The Red Sox are going to be involved in a lot of these different names, and it's clear if they like a player, they're not gonna be afraid to overpay, because the league-wide sentiment was that they overpaid getting Curtis Meade by giving up Connolly early, like, that was a pretty consistent, like, sentiment that I heard across baseball.

Also, same with what the Angels ended up doing with the Rangers.

Like, it sounds a lot of people across the league were kind of puzzled by the the Angels' trade there.

Um, and thought that the Rangers did very well.

And I, I forgot to say this at the time.

Um, but a lot of things, a lot of people across baseball believe that Logan Ohai needed a change of scenery, and needed to get out of Anaheim.

So we'll see if they're ultimately right, and he can get back to that top prospect form that he once was.

So , uh, but that was a worthwhile gamble for the Rangers there for sure.

But I do expect, as I've said previously, The Red Sox to be active, to, to tie it all back to Boston, but I expect them to be active.

But I, I also think that uh Jarred Corrabas made a very good point the other day is that Breslow's done very good work in the offseason, but he's yet to master a deadline, and I think that was a very astute point by Jared, and this could be the deadline where he turns that narrative around and, and possibly turns the Red Sox into a team that can go deep into the postseason.

That is a crazy thing that I never expected to say a month ago, but the American League is so wide open.

You never know.

It is true that last year, and the Red Sox, the players in the clubhouse, did a great job of recovering from this deflation, so it didn't really affect them all that much, but there was a palpable sense of what just happened when the deadline came and went, and they sort of didn't pick a direction, didn't finish the Joe Ryan thing that was heavily rumored.

Again, they still played well throughout that month and continued building on their advantage that they were creating, so credit to the guys in the clubhouse, but The coverage around the Red Sox last deadline was botched deadline by Craig Breslow, missed opportunity, and this is a chance to correct that narrative and again, overpay to get something big done.

So we will be following this, expecting a lot of Red Sox chat on Monday, given how many different things they have, how many irons and how many different fires they've got working as we head towards the trade deadline.

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Uh, the right-handed catching market, uh, everybody's out here looking for catching help, from Hunter Goodman to, you know, Tyler Stevenson, to Carson Kelly of the.

Any other under the radar right-handed hitting catchers that could join that market, could move, given the Rays and Red Sox and Yankees, and everybody kinda looking for these guys.

I'll also say no Carson Kelly in the lineup on Friday for the Cubs did make me go in horse mode, but I will turn this over to you.

What are you hearing in the catching market now, and we know the Hunter Goodman prices are exorbitant, but is there any chance those come down or somebody gotta go crazy and overpay?

Yeah, I still think it's gonna be an unlikely that Hunter Goodman is, is ultimately going to be moved.

The price is high, but I would expect it to come down at least a little bit.

Uh, so maybe that becomes more attainable or more realistic for a team that would be interested in him.

But the Carson Kelly inclusion was Really surprising to me because that was a player who was not on my radar.

I'll, I'll be totally real.

Um, I was texting about it with an executive earlier in the week and, and he mentioned Kelly to me and I was just like, oh, he must be spitballing.

Turns out that he was actually like being discussed in, in trades according to, I believe it was Joel Sherman of the Post and Uh, like they're, the Cubs have considered it.

Uh, I don't know if it's the most likely thing in the world, but, uh, it is something that they are at least considering internally there, which, uh, considering the overall lack of catching on the market, I think that makes a ton of sense.

The other guy, I mean, I'm just going catchers as a whole here, uh, is Ivan Herrera.

Uh, he is someone who Saint Louis Cardinals are still very high on, uh, but is he a catcher long term?

Like, what's exactly he going to be there?

Uh, but he's got fans across baseball, he's drawing interest as we speak.

So, like I would expect we're gonna be hearing his name much or a lot over the next 72 hours, uh, but it seems like Chaim Bloom is listening to a bunch of different things in Saint Louis.

Uh, obviously they're not gonna move like a weather Holtter Jordan Walker by any means, but I, I, I think Chaim is in listening mode on a lot of those players, and like I would put Pereira, I'd put Lars Newbar, I put a bunch of others in that category there as well, so.

Maybe they can make a deal that people aren't expecting.

I'm not sure, but he's listening at least, and that can always lead to a deal.

Appreciate the question, of course, gonna throw another one in there.

The Discord is talking a lot about the Padres relievers today, and we know Mason Miller, we know your opinion on Mason Miller trade, unlikely to move.

Adrian Morahon also at the top of the mountain, not just for Padres relievers, but for any relievers, could be on the move, it's gonna be pricey.

Uh, but beyond those guys, is it possible that the Padres moved some relievers who are slightly below that tier?

Which of them could be on the move and to where?

Who's looking at these Padres relievers?

Yeah, I would say, um, A guy like Bradley is going to be somebody who teams like a lot, um, he's controllable, he's someone that the Padres are, are very high on, uh, but like, when you have a talented bullpen like the Padres have, you're gonna end up getting hits on a lot of these guys, but I think Bradley is, is definitely one that would make sense.

Uh, Estrada is a player who is showing some really good ability in San Diego, um, and he's got a ton of fans across the league as well.

So, I look at those two guys.

Um, I mean, there's, I mean, I'm not kidding you, this is a lazy answer.

Uh, I, I believe this question was from Drew.

So, Drew, like, To answer your question here, every contending team that is looking for bullpen help, which again, is everyone, um, is gonna be calling the Padres and calling any other team that has bullpen help and asking about these guys.

Uh, Morohone.

Like the Padres have a, a big emotional attachment to a player like him, uh, and that would, if they ended up moving him, that would be extremely difficult for him.

They, or for them, they have a lot of love for him internally.

Uh, they watched him come up.

He's been in the organization for a very long time and he's blossomed into a very good player there.

So, uh, he would be difficult for them to move.

Still absolutely not expecting Mason Miller, but I'm not surprised one bit that probably is getting asked about those bullpen guys and And yeah, I, there, I, I feel very confident in saying that Preller is going to consider.

Like almost anything on the market here.

He's going to be a typical AJ Preller, he's gonna do what he does and, uh, who knows, maybe he could have a surprise in store for for baseball.

I mean, I'm, I'm never ruling anything out for Preller.

I'll throw one final thought in here, just we talked about the Red Sox, but did not quite touch on the Jaron Duran incident last night that made it, you know, deeply confusing clubhouse stuff, he went after Wilson Contreras and it was Quote unquote, handled, but also this is not the first Jaron Durant incident.

There's a reason the Red Sox fans keep asking us about him as a potential trade candidate.

We know other teams were interested in the past.

We know every time you and I have spoken about this, that Boston's valuation does not match up with the league's valuation at this point, and so a trade is still unlikely, but it feels like there's something.

You know, bubbling beneath the surface, it's not affecting the Red Sox on-field product, but there's a reason he's a popular mover in these conversations.

Any chance that even at this low value, he does move just to clear up whatever's going on?

I, I don't, I still don't think so, but it seems like there's just incident after incident that involves Duran there, and like, when's enough enough, you know, like, it's.

It's a, it's a difficult situation.

They, they love him internally.

Again, like I can't stress that enough.

They think so highly of him as a player, but this is just not the time where you move him because you have, uh, he's not performing like how he's been in years past, and you'd be selling low on a player you think super highly of.

So my guess is he stays, uh, but that cannot happen.

He's got to take ownership, uh, with the team, he's got to take ownership with the media, he's gotta Uh, be accountable for it because, like, they're, they're trying to save face, uh, but it sure did not look good.

And maybe, maybe we all misinterpreted it, but it seemed pretty crystal clear what was happening there.

It just was a, a tough look overall, but I don't think this changes anything with, with Durant at the deadline.

Yeah, I appreciate you answering that question, cause again, it's gonna continue to be asked as, as long as there are strange incidents like this that have to be addressed, we're gonna have to talk about clearing out that outfield logjam, but the value just doesn't match up.

It's hard to Get to the finish line, even if it's not hard to justify in the eyes of fans.

And we appreciate everybody who asked questions today.

We appreciate everybody who joined us in the Discord.

Robert, this is Friday, the deadline is Monday.

When do we really start moving here ?

I'm going to expect it to start moving probably Sunday is my ultimate guess.

And after that, it's going to be the floodgates for like the last 24 to 36 hours.

I think it's going to be extremely active.

So I will look for it to be, maybe we get a couple of things that go across the finish line today, and some things to go across the finish line on Saturday, and then it to get really crazy here.

But I would look at, I'll, I'll also throw this in there.

There's There's teams who I would not be surprised if they call the Toronto Blue Jays, not only about Jeff Hoffman.

But about a, about a guy like Tyler Rodgers, you have a bullpen market that's super weak.

You have, you lack impact guys beyond like Morohone or Luke Weaver.

Could they try to pry um Rodgers out of, out of Toronto?

I think that's definitely possible.

Uh, and then also, could teams try to talk to the Orioles about some of their bullpen depth there as well.

So I would look at those two things.

Um, maybe, again, I Mentioned on the last show, could Cleveland possibly move some pieces?

We'll see .

Those are 3 things that I'm monitoring at this point, but I wanted to throw those in at the end because those are part of my notebook.

And you know what, you guys want to hear the notebook.

So those are 3 things that I'm monitoring over here.

But Adam, I appreciate you.

Are you excited for the deadline here?

I'm excited for the movement.

You got me going win horse mode with those last couple.

Um, look, today is gonna be, I'll be on call today, tomorrow.

It's Sunday, even if it's not busy today, tomorrow, uh, cause I love the deadline .

I appreciate everybody who joined us here on the show today.

We will see you back live on Monday when the chaos is hitting the fans.

That's what hits fans, right?

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Until next time, I'm Adam Weiner for Robert Murray.

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Peace everybody.

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