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BassPlayerDude's avatar

I'm happy to subscribe. It's about time you did this! Well worth the $$ and then some!

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David Lesky's avatar

"It was time."

-my wife (this is a joke people, though she did think it was time)

I really appreciate it and all the kind words!

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Paul M. Wade's avatar

I am more than happy to subscribe. I think I hit the right button, but I am not sure. Can you tell me if I got subscribed or not. I am not very tech savvy.I look forward ever

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David Lesky's avatar

Thanks so much, Paul! Yep, you did it perfectly!

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Paul M. Wade's avatar

every morning to reading your newsletter.

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Cam's avatar

Sick, now I can pay David for his hard work! (Also, I'm excited to learn if a "glasses" giveaway are the drinking kind or the prescription kind)

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David Lesky's avatar

Haha, the drinking kind, though I suppose you can pop the bottom out and get a prescription lens in there.

They'll be from my wife's Etsy shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/orlucollective/

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BassPlayerDude's avatar

Upon further review... I fully expect the comments section here to become as interesting and informative and grown-up as it is over at Seth Keysor's newsletter. And brother, that's sayin' something!

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David Lesky's avatar

Well let's not go THAT far. Seth runs a tight ship haha.

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BassPlayerDude's avatar

😸 That's very true! I'll settle for "90% as grown-up."

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Joel Kellen's avatar

I knew I was going to have to pay you to deal with my comments eventually. Happy for the content. Lol

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David Lesky's avatar

I'm charging you double, Joel. 😂

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Kevin Agee's avatar

What's the $80 Royalty option?

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David Lesky's avatar

I...don't know. I think there's a Substack preset that I missed. Let me dig around.

Edit: Looks like it's a preset that I knew about at some point and renamed it to Royalty. It's if someone wants to pay me even more than the price I set.

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Scott Schlegel's avatar

Definitely worth subscribing too. Glad you're taking the leap to be paid for the great content. I'm in.

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David Lesky's avatar

Thanks so much, Scott! I really appreciate it!

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Julio's avatar

Happy to subscribe. Enjoy your analysis!

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David Lesky's avatar

Thank you so much, Julio!

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Greg's avatar

HI David,

Yes I subscribed. As my uncle Vic used to say (a Yankees fan), "everyone has to eat", so you deserve to earn some income as the product is worthy of payment. And you can claim you have some guy from Canada on board now!

With regard to Bradley Jr. or Nate Eaton I say its time for the Royals to just run the young guys of the future out there and live with it. I can always spot the teams either going nowhere, or so good they are just missing one little piece, when guys like Bradley Jr. are on the big league roster... I don't think we are in either category so they need to go with Eaton.

Thanks again for your work on this newsletter.

Greg

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David Lesky's avatar

Thanks for subscribing, Greg! I 100% agree with Eaton over JBJ. I *think* that's where it's going to head, but I'm also not entirely sure on that.

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Tom Van Fleet's avatar

Happy to be a paid subscriber! Your tireless work entertains and informs me (and all of us!) and the cost is well worth it, if not just the overall value. Looking forward to a lot of fun this year! When's the first 2023 ITC meetup at Kauffman? P.S. I hope it's at Craft & Draft 🤣🤣🤣

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David Lesky's avatar

Ha, that’s not a bad idea! I’ll figure something out!

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JCK's avatar

Subscribed and well worth the money. Enjoy everything you write.

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David Lesky's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Nic Alexander's avatar

The time required to put out such great Royals content is well worth it! And I completely agree; It will be very interesting to see how they fill out the roster! Nice to have some decent quality depth to make those decisions harder!

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David Lesky's avatar

Thank you so much! Yeah, it’s a far cry from some other “battles” that were much more like tickle fights.

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Mark's avatar

I am now a subscriber - Go Royals! Go David!

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David Lesky's avatar

Thanks so much! Go Mark!

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herbie's avatar

Well worth it, thank you for changing the options of contributing.

How about a March madness like 26 man prediction contest to kick things off? Winner to receive bragging rights. 1 point per player on roster?

Salvy. Fermin. Vinnie. Pratto. Lopez. Massey. BWJ. Beatty. Dozier. Melendez. Isbel. Reyes. Olivares. Eaton. Greinke. Singer. Lyles. Keller. Yarbrough. Bubic. Staumont. Garrett. Barlow. Chapman. Lovelady. Hernandez

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David Lesky's avatar

I like the idea, but I think it'd be a lot more varied if we did it a month ago. I think like 21 of the 26 spots are basically written in ink. Maybe next year!

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