Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - FanFic Friday: Ramirez, Skubal, Moustakas and More!

Episode Date: November 20, 2021

Hosts Ty Dane Gonzalez and Colby Patnode go over your Mariners trade proposals for Fan Fiction Friday, including ideas for Jose Ramirez, Tarik Skubal, Mike Moustakas and more!Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to Locked-on Mariners, your home for Daily Seattle Mariners News and Analysis. Thank you so much for making us your first listen of the day. We are free and available on all platforms. Today is Friday, November 19th, 2021. I'm your host, Taday Gonzalez. Still a little bit sick, but we're getting there.

Hopefully I'll be better by Monday, and you guys won't have to. listen to whatever this has been over the last few days. I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Colby Patnode. Follow us on Twitter at L-O-U-U-N-R-N-Rer-Nors. You can follow me at Dane Gonzalez, this D-A-N-Z-L-Z and Colby at C-Pat-E-Pat-E-N-L-Zee, P-T-E-L-E-PAT-E-L-E-L-E-T-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-L-E-L-A-L-L-L-L-E-L-L-A-RRRINES, it is everyone's favorite. Fiction Friday. If you're new to the show, we asked our listeners to provide their Mariners mock trades. So we're going to read as many as we can and grade them on the 20 to 80 grade scale

throughout today's show. And if you like what you hear, give the show a follow or subscribe wherever you listen to us. We greatly appreciate that. So let's start off with a couple of trades that we got via email actually. And you guys can email us at locked on mariners at gmail.com. Starting with Travis Hillary, who has a massive, massive trade proposal here for Jose Ramirez and Miles Straw of the Cleveland Guardians, who are now officially the Cleveland Guardians as of today. Travis has the Mariners trading Kyle Lewis, Abraham Toro, Paul Seewald, Noel V Marte, and Brandon Williamson to Cleveland for Jose Ramirez and Miles Straw, which is honestly pretty similar to a deal that I put together for my own personal offseason plan. for Jose Ramirez. So Colby, I know you hate this idea. What are you giving it on the 2080 scale? 30. It's all right, but why? Explain to me, because you never explained to me why you hated my idea. Because you came up with it. But honestly, I don't think it's enough.

Ramirez is still MVP candidate, two years left at a very reasonable salary. And, I think has five years left, four years left at Club Control. And it's coming off of a big year. And we know how shallow the center field market is. So I don't know if that's going to be enough. There really isn't a young pitcher. You know, Lewis's trade value is pretty dampened right now. Seawald kind of only done it once.

And if you're Cleveland, right, and you're going to keep are you going to trade away Miles Straw and Jose Ramirez? Why do you care about getting back pieces who help you this year? Particularly they're relievers who might not help you this year or they're a guy who's coming off of injury. I look at Seawald as like a fifth piece here who is just someone for Cleveland to potentially bank on selling at the deadline. Maybe, but I still don't think that's enough. I don't think they're trading Miles Straw and I don't think they're trading Jose Ramirez. whether they should or shouldn't.

I mean, I think they should trade Ramirez, but I don't think they're going to. I think they're going to try and put together a pretty good team here. So if they trade Ramirez and Straw, they're trading away about conservatively eight wins. Are they going to get back eight wins in a trade like this? No, they're not. So I just don't think that they're going to do a deal like this. Do I think they would like Lewis? Yeah, and Williamson?

Sure. Noelvie? yeah, I just don't think that this is, it's realistic, to be quite honest with you. I think the evaluation is okay, but I just, I don't see, I don't think Jose Ramirez is a discussion worth having at this time. That could change. But for now, I just, I don't see really any scenario where Cleveland trades in. It's, I mean, it, it's, it has the right idea with Cleveland in terms of what they've historically looked for. in trades for some of their bigger pieces. Like they like bulk.

They like getting major league pieces back. You give them an out, you know, an outfielder that's basically the Miles Straub replacement with probably a higher upside. Kyle Lewis. Toro gives them a, you know, a replacement at third.

Obviously, you're not going to come close to replacing Jose Ramirez, but that does make sense. Seawald, you can bank on trading and getting something back for him at the deadline. No, Lv is a top 10 prospect in baseball. Brandon Williamson is criminally underrated, quite frankly. But like you said, you know, I think in general the valuation is fine.

I don't know if Cleveland would actually take it, though. It's hard to gauge what they want, really, in general. So, you know, and even when I came up with a similar deal like this, I forget exactly what it was, but I know it was, Kyle Lewis and Toro were a part of it. I know Noelvi was a part of it as well. I think Matt Brash was in there. But even with that, it's still like you,

you still don't feel super comfortable with it. Because you just don't really know. So, I'm going to give this one like a 45. Wow. I'm going to give it a 55. You suck. You already said 35,

Goober. I was joking. Or 30. Well, maybe I was joking. You ever think of that? No, you weren't. You weren't. No take seed back, sees. I think it is a generally good valuation.

I just, I think Jose Ramirez trades are generally a waste of time. I just, I don't see it happening unless you're going to give up Julio, maybe Kelnick or Kirby. But if you're not willing to give up those three, I don't think Cleveland has any incentive. At least they say they don't have any incentive to trade Ramirez. I would do it if I were Cleveland. I would, I would trade Ramirez because we saw what keeping. Lindor the extra year did to their return, crashed it. So I would avoid that mistake, but do I think Cleveland's going to?

No. Sure. I agree with that. All right. So Andrew Wood, and by the way, thank you, sorry, Travis for submitting your trade idea. Greatly appreciate it. So Andrew here, Andrew Wood, who's also a subscriber of our Patreon podcast. has a three-team deal here with the Phillies and twins. This is a pretty big one, so get ready here, Colby.

The Mariners get Byron Buxson and Zach Eflin, two guys that you really like. While the Phillies get Justin Dunn, Nick Margavages, Luis Arise, and Josh Donaldson, and the twins get Emerson, Hancock, Alec Baum, Hans Krauss and Gene Seguer. And Donaldson also comes with $5 million from the twins. So that's a lot.

Um, it's a lot to go over. So what, just break it down from the Mariners perspective. I don't give a crap with the. Yeah. Mariners get Bucks and in Eflin and they give up Justin Don, Nick Margavages, Emerson Hancock. That's it. Apparently.

And then the Phillies to give up Eflin and who, Gene Seguerra. And Alec Baum. And in Alec Baum get Josh Donaldson, Luis, Eliza Rize, Justin done to Nick Margavages. I don't know if that makes sense. for the Phillies. The Mariners just aren't given up enough. Yeah, Margavich's and Dunn just don't do much for anybody. Yeah.

Dunn more so the Margavages, but like even Dunn's lost a lot of trade value. Right. I mean, what are the Phillies going to do with Justin Dunn? You know, they're acquiring a rise and, and, and Donaldson and they're taking on that much cash, they're going for it. So what does Dunn get them? Nothing. Dunwood should go to the Phillies and the Mariners should give like a Steckenrider or something to Philadelphia to help their bullpen.

Like I think like what's the incentive for Philly to do it? Would the Mariners do this? I hope so. Yeah. But I don't think it's enough. Yeah, this would be a no-brainer for the Mariners, I think. Yeah. I just, I don't think the Mariners are giving.

up enough. The twins, you said, would get uh, Hancock, bomb, Kraus, and Seguerra. For, uh, Buckston and Donaldson. For Donaldson,

Buckson and Arise. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like a stretch for Minnesota too. Yeah. So, I don't know, they do get Seguro, which does help, but yeah, I think it's too light on Seattle's side. I think, they need to give more.

And I think the more they give probably has to go to Philly. Yeah. Or maybe even a little bit to Philly, a little bit to Minnesota. But it's creative. Yeah. It's a creative deal. And, you know, these three team deals in general are insanely hard to get down Pat, where it makes sense for all three teams.

So for that, I'll give it 45 to a 50. I'll give it a 52. Okay. uh, Andrew has another three-team trade, by the way. This one with the Mariners, Yankees, and Reds,

which, uh, the Mariners, Yankees and Reds kind of made a three-team deal in a way, a couple years ago. It wasn't really a three-team deal, but, the,

the, you know, remember they, the, the, the Yankees traded Sunny Gray to the Reds. They got Shed Long and then Shed Long eventually went to the Mariners for Josh Stores.

But, uh, the Mariners here in this deal, get Tyler Malley and Zach Britton. The Yankees get Kyle Farmer in Eugenio Swares. And the Reds get Matt Brash, Zach the Loach, Justin Dunn, and Glaber Torres. Jesus, that's what? Say it one more? The Mariners get who? Tyler Malley and Zach Britton.

Ooh. Okay. And they give up Matt Brash and Zach the Loach and Justin Dunn and the steel. Seems. The Reds get Glaber Torres and the Yankees get Cal Farmer and Yon in Eughenio Suarez. It's interesting. Yeah. It's not terrible. No.

Isn't Britain like out for the year though? Yeah, he had surgery on September 9th. So I would say that and that was Tommy John. So I would say probably not. Also.

Oh, okay. It wasn't Britain, I don't think was a free agent. Like his contract expired after this year, but he had a 2022 team option for $14 million, but the team had to decide whether or not to pick up that option after the 2020 World Series. I'm going to assume that they did. They decided to pick up that option.

But yeah, it's like you're taking on 14 million for, this is what we talked about yesterday. You can't just take on salary for a guy who's not going to help you. has no shot of helping you in in 2022. So Britain has no shot of helping you in 2022. So taking on $14 million, just getting nothing out of that $14 million, I don't think that's a good idea. So as much as I like Tyler Malley, I just, Britain to me, I just, I don't want to spend,

at that point, you're spending about $20 million and prospects to get Malley. Seems a bit much for me. Yeah. Yeah. But again, another 50-ish grade because it's creative. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, it's not terrible. Solid.

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Thank you again for making us your first listen of the day, just like you do every day. We greatly appreciate your support. We're going to look at Twitter now for your trade ideas, starting with Curtis Christensen, who has an idea here for Sean Mania, which the Mariners get left-handed pitcher, Sean Mania from the A's, of course, for pitching prospect Taylor Dallard. And one of the best names of the mayor. owner's organization, Patrick Frick. Colby?

Seems too light. I'm not, I'm not saying that Oakland wouldn't take a bulk deal because they will. Maybe not specifically for Mania, but Oakland is kind of known for they'll, they'll take you know, five, 45 great prospects instead of three, 50 grade. prospects because they trust their player development system and you know to their credit the a's player development system is very good so they will take bulk if they see more upside but I just I don't think that's even enough bulk for Mania I like Dollard Patrick Frick is kind of a I mean just seems destined to be kind of a Donovan Walton at best so I think if you're you're

going for a bulk deal with Manaya, you need to actually add a bit more bulk. So, yeah, I like the trade target. And I do think Dollar is going to be an arm that other teams will be interested in. But for Manaya, I don't think that's enough. Yeah. I agree. I would think that you need to add at least one guy that's in your top 12 to make this work. Phillips.

Somebody like that. Yeah. Someone like that. I'll give it a 40 yeah okay all right so let's let's go to stand here at

mariners pain love the mariners get Shane Beaver and Miles straw so I'm sure this is going to go in a similar fashion to how I went in the last segment Cleveland gets Emerson Hancock Brandon Williamson Evan White and Delamore

Colby your thoughts uh say that one more time for me that's that is a lot Beber and Straw for Hancock, Williamson, Evan White, and Delamore. No. Yeah. Potential Cy Young candidate and Shane Bieber and a controllable center fielder with elite defense.

Yeah. Dillmore and Evan White shouldn't be in anybody's trades. Like trade packages. They're just not, they just don't have value. So unless you're getting a damage. player, then somebody like Evan White just isn't going to appeal to anybody right now. So, no, that's like a 30. Yeah, I'm going to go like 25 or 30, honestly.

Sorry, Stan. Yeah. Jack at, oh boy, at Daddy de Poto on Twitter. Matt Chapman, Sean Maniah and Chris Bassett for 110. Of course, yes. 80 grade. 80 grade trade idea. This is why I didn't give Stan a 20 because I needed to save it for this.

Here's 20. Like B minus joke, like 60 grade joke. No, like 55 grade joke. 20 grade trade offer. We got a similar trade idea from Jerry Savage to Poto, our buddy. At Savage to Poto on Twitter. Sure. Zach the Loach, top prospect Zach the Loach for Juan Soto.

I don't think the Mariners are getting enough. For the meme. Yeah. Juan Soto is not getting traded, guys. In a serious note here, somebody was talking about, somebody asked me on the AMA on Sunday night. They were asking, you know, what would the Mariners need to give up? Like, how many of the top prospects were the. Mariners have to give up to get Juan Soto.

And I said all of them, because there's a very real chance that the Mariners could go to Washington and say, here's Julio, Jared, Gilbert, and Kirby. Will you give us Wonsodo? And they would laugh at you. That's how good Juan Soto is. He's probably the best pure hitter in baseball. And he's like, what, 24? Like, you're not getting Wonsoto.

So Curtis Christensen also had a question about Justin Upton. would acquiring Justin Upton as a way to take on a contract and get a good young player along with Upton be worthwhile for the Mariners or would it not be a good idea since it gives the angel salary relief for this year? Upton has one year at $28 million. My question, my response to this is what young player are you getting back from the angels? They don't have any. Exactly, exactly.

And for $28 million, I better be getting a really good player in return. and they just don't have that. No. They just, they don't have that. By the way, it does not matter. Within the, within reality, right? I mean, they're not trading Brandon Marsh. Yeah.

Or David Fletcher even. I don't even know if Fletcher's good enough. Or Jared Walsh, any of those guys. Yeah. Like, it just, just no. And by the way, I don't, I don't care at all that you give the Angel salary relief. I really don't care about that. um there's just not anybody that makes not anybody who would be available in the angels organization

who makes who who who with whom it would make sense to eat 28 million dollars on just and upton who's pretty mediocre at best right now as a player so no hard pass what is with all the meme trades today got another one here from the poker monkey j p crawford and jerry Kelnick for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 20 grade. 15 grade. Curtis Christensen has another trade idea, actually. Would you guys trade Emerson, Hancock, Luis Trenz, and Adam Macco for Luis Castillo?

No. Yes. No. Luis Trenz is way too good to be traded. It would be like trading Waddy Jr. to trade Luis Stranz right now. It just doesn't make any sense. I wouldn't hate it.

I would prefer to replace Terence because I know that there's like the meme is like I love Louis Terence. I don't, but I love that he's at least an average bat and the Mariners right now have like two of them. So why would I trade the third average bat you have? so yeah i would i would rather give up something which may seem a little more significant to others

rather than give up turenz because turence can't help you in 2022 um so yeah it's not it's not terrible i would just try really hard to remove turens i'd rather give up kyle lewis and louis turenz i'm not saying in this trade by the way i don't i don't know i don't know i don't know Louis Trens has proven he can hit for longer than a month. Can you say the same about Kyle Lewis? Because you can't.

We don't have time for this discussion. All right. We're going to move on here. We've got more trades coming up. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'll give this a 50. If you want to list. No, you know, I'll give it 55.

We haven't graded the last couple of trades, but I'll give this one, I'll give this one a 55. Yeah, I think that's about right. It's good. Yeah. All right. We got more trades coming up in just a moment. Real quick, I want to remind you this episode of Lockdown Mariners is brought to you by betonline.ag.

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I mean, Jake Shiner is completely inconsequential here. So really it's Levi Stought and Jake Braley for Sunny Gray. What do you think about this deal, Colby? Honestly, Fraily is kind of inconsequential, too, if we're being honest about it. Yeah, it's not enough. Yeah. I do think the Reds might like Stout. I've heard that they really like Brann & Williamson.

So I think that Stout would be appealing to the Reds in this trade. I don't know that Fraley would. I just, he was so bad in the second half. but the Reds are, you know, they're going to be bad next year. So maybe they like him. I think if this was Williamson, Stout, and Freilly, you might have a shot at it. But I think Stout would have to be the second best piece you're giving up. And then it kind of depends on, you know, how desperate are the Reds to move salary?

Because Gray's only going to make like 10.5 million. So it's not like he's a, you know, $18 million guy. So we'll see. I mean, did they just give up on Wade Milit? and Tyler entirely for like $6 million. Yep, they did. I'll give this trade like a 40, 42. I'll get him a 45.

Because I do think that Frealey has some value. I think there's going to be a team out there that probably likes Freyley. And it might be the Reds. He might make sense for the Reds. All right. Dal Capone has another trade. Jared Kelnick, Emerson, Hancock, Taylor, Tremel and 1,10 for Brian Reynolds. I mean, ideally, you would like to trade Kelnick instead of Julio in the steel, I think,

because Kelnick's more comparable to Reynolds than that. Really, you're hoping that Jared Kelnick ends up becoming Brian Reynolds one day. So from the Mariners side, yeah, that would be great. I don't think the pirates are going to do this, though. no i also don't think honestly the mariners want to trade kelnick uh even though i would uh i would do this about the mariners yes and i think it's it's interesting enough that pittsburgh would engage but i think ultimately what would happen is they say well look we don't care about wantane that much let's you want to give us brandon williamson or even like do you want to give us like you know chris

flexen you know something that just doesn't really make a lot of sense for the mariners at this point right so i don't know i give that one like a 45 maybe a 50 it's pretty good yeah 45 to 50 is good spot there uh i do like it i i think it's a good initial offer to pittsburgh one that you can build on and negotiate from um all right so moving on to aiden here at s fn a 58 mariner's get geo or shella from the yankees and the Yankees get Evan White and Drew Steckin Rider. It's kind of interesting. Urchella had a bad year last year. Yeah.

Bill's in a third base. Evan White is inconsequential to this deal. So it's Urchella for Steckin Rider. Actually, it hurts your offer because the Yankees have to carry Evan White on their 40-man roster. So actually, it probably hurts your offer here. plus why are we tacking on Evan White like he's a throwaway he's only going to make a million bucks next year just keep him and see what happens so I'm going to ignore Evan White in this deal and I'm going to look at Steck and Rider for Urchella I think that's interesting um with the Yankees do it I kind of doubt it but I think it's I don't think it's terrible I think it's plausible I'd give it a 50 like I think it's solid yeah i think you probably have to add a little bit of i just want to outdo you so i'm going to give it a 52 i mean that's basically your entire business model just wait for the smart person to say something

and then try to slightly outdo them there you go there you go uh yeah no it's it's solid though in all seriousness it's it's definitely something to to think about yeah yeah i i i like urchella I think he's a good bounceback candidate. And if the Yankees went bullpen help, I think that makes some sense. Because, I mean, Steck and Ryder was a top 30 reliever in baseball last year per F4.

So, I mean, that's not nothing. Yeah. All right. So moving on to Thadius here at Thadius III. I really like this idea. It's mostly because I'm just, I'm biased on the, for the player that the Mariners are getting in return here.

Kyle Lewis to the Tigers for left-handed pitcher, Derek Scoobel. This is something that we haven't heard before. So I like the creativity on this quite a lot. And I like Scoble a lot who started to figure things out a little bit towards the end there for the Tigers this year. He had a dreadful rookie season. But he threw almost 150 innings this year,

averaged over a strikeout per nine from the left side. I think this is a really creative and fun deal. Yeah, yeah, it's really creative. It's different. I'm going to give this, honestly, because I think the Tigers would probably consider this, by the way. I think I'd give this like a 58.

Because I don't want to give it a, I think 60 is too aggressive, but I think it's better than a 55. It's a 65. 60's too aggressive. I don't know. the Tigers would want more. But I do think that the more would probably be

relatively inconsequential. Because obviously they just signed Rodriguez. They have a lot of young pitching already. They do need outfield bats. So could you get them for like Fraley and Lewis? Maybe. I like it. But the real winner here is your Twitter handle.

That is a reference to the television show reset. I like where your head's at. Shout out to Bo Stanfield, who said that he bought some Bilt Bar. Yeah. Thanks for supporting the show. And Eli Sellers here at Eli Sellers 24 has an idea for trading for Ryan McMahon, third base, second baseman of the Rockies. Zach Belich and Levi Seltz on the Rockies for Ryan McMahon.

I mean, obviously this is a guy that has underachieved. at the plate, but a really good defensive player at both positions. What do you think about trading for McMahon and giving up Deloge and Stout and the steel? Seems a bit much just because McMahon's never been an average major league hitter. Yeah. Pretty close to Major League hitter. I mean, but he's never been a 100 WRC plus guy. And yeah, he's a good defender, but Deloche and Stout are just, they're not great

If this came across the ticker, you're like, okay, like, I get it. I wouldn't be thrilled with it, though. I'd give it a 50. Yeah. It's fine. I like McMahon a lot. I'm pretty high on him. So I'd be excited about that, about getting the player that you're getting back.

Give it up the Loach and stout kind of stings in that deal. I think it is a bit of an overvaluation, but that might be what it takes to get him from the Rockies, to be quite honest with you. So it really depends on how much you like McMahon. which I do a lot. So I'll give this like a 50 or 52, somewhere in that range. Yeah.

SUP on Twitter at P-S-U-S-A-N-G-E-N-G-N-T-N-T-N-T-N-T-N. Has the Mariners taking on Jason Hayward's contract to get Nico Horner for Taylor-Tremel and Justin Dunn? I'm not super thrilled about that. No, I don't really care about done all that. It's a tough one to evaluate. Like, I like Horner.

It's just like, do I really want to take on that Hayward contract? Yeah. Like, there's not a lot of upside there with Horner. He's, I mean, yeah, Hayward's got like 50 million bucks. or something guaranteed to him the next two years. 44 million over the next two years. So I had to give up Tremel and Dunn for $44 million. Like, it's not like Hayward is to pay $44 million for Nico Horner.

Right. Well, and whatever you get from Hayward, who's really like a fourth outfielder at this stage of his career at best. So, yeah, I'm going to pass on that. Yeah, I, yeah, just from the Mariners perspective, I mean, it's creative. Like, I haven't heard Nika Horner really before in any of these episodes. So that's cool.

It is a creative deal. But I, yeah, I'm going to say 40 at best on this because I just, I don't like that for the Mariners. Yeah. All right. Final deal here. And of course, we had to finish it on Jordan Levitt at Mormon Pizza Man, who has another red. the Mariners deal. This guy, I think all he does is study the Reds and the Mariners as

trade partners. Random Williamson to the to the Reds for Nixon's Lell and I assume Mike Mustakis, he said mouse. I assume probably means moose. Yeah. Yeah, I why would I want to take on Mike Mustakis's deal just for Nixon Zell and give up one of my best pitching prospects? in the process. Yeah, Senzel's like an average pitcher. Or sorry, Sinzell's like an averageish player. And Moose is an average player right now.

And so give up Williamson for a utility guy and maybe a platoon third baseman. A $16 million platoon third basement. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make Senzel gray. and maybe we'll talk.

Yeah. Yeah, that's that's where I would be. I need to get one of the pitchers. I don't care about Nixon Zell, quite honestly. I really don't. I mean, memory serves, Jordan really believes in Nick Senzel. Either Jordan or Chris. I can't remember which one of them.

They constantly ask me about Sinsel. So I get why. He's former top prospect, but no. Is he better than Dylan Moore even? Yeah. Maybe. But it's not definitely yes, so that scares me. Yeah, it's just there's a lot of risk involved here.

And Brandon Williamson is, I mean, there's no sure thing when it comes to prospects. But I mean, Brandon Williamson kind of feels safe in a way to be at least a number four. Right. That's pretty useful. I just, I think I can get a lot better for Brandon Williamson. agreed. So, sorry, Jordan. I think I'm going to have to get this like a 35.

Sounds about right. All right, well, that's all the traits. And that's going to do it for our show. And that's going to do it for this week, which has been an incredible struggle for me. We've had voice cracks. We've had coughing. We've had all this stuff.

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