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This is the downbeat on ninety seven
one. The freak just watched the video

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of Chapman drilling Chas McCormick in the
right inner thigh with one hundred and four

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mile an hour fastball late in the
game. Yeah, and I remember when

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that happened. I was thinking,
First of all, I didn't think it

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was intentional, because I don't think
Chapman knows where the ball is going to

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end up half the time. He's
a wild ass man. But just the

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timing of it and the way,
you know, the way things went down

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with uh, you know, adult
adules getting getting hit and all that crap

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happened, and him waking up the
astros. He's like, dude, don't

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taint this, you know, with
something like this. And I was so

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glad that measured minds and steady hands
did not allow anything more than didn't allow

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that to be anything more than probably
what it was and just a wild ass

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pitch. Yeah, and it was
Chas McCormick. True, Like if that

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was Maldonado or L two Bay,
yeah, or a lot of a handful

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of guys, I guess you could
start looking into it. Yeah, things,

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So someone sent me a link to
the Houston Wikipedia that has been updated

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with their new mayor, Dulas Garcia. I do appreciate a good, quick,

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quick Wikipedia bit and it'll lasts for
like five seconds. I've gotten a

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lot of texts, so if you
want to text anything in the that you

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saw on the broadcast whatever, we
are live from Houston. We were at

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the game last night. Absolutely incredible
experience, so much fun. But two

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on four seven, nine seven,
if you have any questions about how it

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all went down and how it looked
in in stadium, I certainly will read

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them on air. One guy and
I don't know if it was Brody,

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but it is wrestling related, so
I assume it's Brody, although there's not

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some obscure reference in the text,
so maybe it's not him. But this

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is kind of cool because last night
at the American Airline Center was Monday Night

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Raw. That's right, and he
says, what's up, guys? Yesterday

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they had Monday Night Raw at the
AC and during the damn near sold out

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arena. During the damn near sold
out arena, there was chance of Let's

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Go Rangers, Astro sucks and f
the Astros during the show. It was

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amazing hearing eleven thousand people cheer on
the Rangers during the show like it was

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a watch party with some wrestling.
That's wild. I wonder did they have

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screens up showing the game. No, yeah, there's no way they would

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do that. People just keep it
up on their bones. Yeah. I

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don't know if you were watching it
live on their phone or how they were

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taking it in, or you know, if you're psyched to have Monday Night

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Raw in town and then damn it, Game seven, what do you do?

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But they were definitely keeping their finger
on the pulse. One thing about

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yesterday obviously. Then the MVP that
actually didn't play the game was unequivocally Kevio.

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I don't think there's any argument keV
Oh. Kevin Turner dressed up as

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Super Mario for the duration of Game
seven in Houston last night was outstanding.

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But you also, Kevo, get
a good MVP vote for your social media

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posts now if they if you were
following our trip via the freak accounts,

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I think I had had a pretty
good run on my Instagram downbeat Dan nine

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seven to one on Graham. But
dude, the response, the interaction,

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the views, it was really cool
to see, you know, people kind

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of taking that journey with us,
and all of that stuff's posted. It's

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TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, you
can find that stuff out. There's some

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really fun stuff. And you were
great with all your weirdness yesterday, keeping

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everybody kind of linked in with us
and connected with us as we made this

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wild ass trip. Man. Yes, say, I did not expect this

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to happen when we were watching the
game. When we were watching Game six

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on Sunday night, which seems like
a week ago. It's Tuesday morning right

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now. It was less than forty
eight hours ago that the tech started going

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around. It's like, wow,
game seven, what if? And then

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Mikey comes up with the idea yesterday
morning, what if we just go?

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And then it all just came together. Industries of ideas. It's like a

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probably a bad one, but you
know they're a little bit to it.

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Maybe is not the worst idea.
Well, I'm happy we all greenlit this

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thing. This has been an incredible
experience. It was fun being in there.

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We mentioned the mass exodus a few
times. It started maybe the sixth

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inning and then you're like, are
they just going to the bathroom? And

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they clearing out and then let's go
Astros chance started turning in a let's go

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Rangers chance yep, and then we
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to the area behind the Rangers dugout. We were down there right when the

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last out happened. There's video of
that on those socials mentioned. Yeah,

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I got a good video of the
second strike with the clerk on the mound

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and then I guess with a ground
infield grounder. Yeah, that ended the

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game and the little bit of celebration
about a minute long clips on Twitter,

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on TikTok and Zach our program director
was a big help too. That's what

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I wanted to say is that house
was so packed last night that cell service

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was horrible bad. Like I was
trying to send a two or three second

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high Malcolm, you know, I'm
at the ballgame video to my son That

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took literally twelve minutes to go through
on an iPhone. Yeah, because service

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was just bad because everybody was on
it. But it was wild to see

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how as the game ended and people
started leaving, Oh I can actually send

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some text here, I can actually
post something on Twitter or whatever. But

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yeah, that was the sight to
see and the layers of the of the

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exodus. You know, like you
said, it's kind of started in the

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sixth, but it wasn't a real, I mean, a real commitment to

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leaving because most people stayed. And
I remember saying to you guys, well,

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I think it was I think it
was ten to two, I believe,

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and they had the three shutout shutout
innings the Rangers did. And then

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I said, if we get one
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eleven to two, this place will
be empty. And I'll be damned if

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I guess it was was Evan Carter
got on base with a single and then

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got maybe doubled in or something like
that. We ended up going up eleven

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to two at that point. That's
right. Always had another home run too,

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
solo bomb, but the run that

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got us to eleven, that was
the straw that broke the Astros back.

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And that's when everybody left, and
the only people sticking around were the ones

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that were either hardcore lifelong Astros,
faithful ones that wanted to see the celebration

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be part of a baseball a historic
baseball moment. But it was Ranger f

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ing nation on that on that that
third base line man, and it was

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really cool. Where they let us
down there to get behind the dugout with

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our buddies. For the Yeah,
for the most part you had to kind

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of sneak in there and be a
little creative. But the ticket got it

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felt like it felt like a home
game, you know, for for just

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that that that those sections that were
you know, kind of concentrated behind the

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Rangers dugout, it felt like a
home game. Well the players, and

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the players like almost kind of they
recognize you for a minute, you know,

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and maybe it's maybe it's obligatory.
They should have came a little closer.

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Okay. I I was a little
disappointed, and because they do their

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party and then they start wheeling this
giant stage out and I assume the broadcast

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goes to commercial and hell, they
may go over to Jeter and Poppy and

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everybody, and there's enough time.
You know, the crowd's going nuts.

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The remaining Ranger fans were there and
there's a few waves and all that.

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But then I thought they'd go to
the stage and then do the run over,

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uh, you know, and give
that crowd some love. But they

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kind of didn't. They kind of
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There was the walking of the wags, the wives and girlfriends as they allow

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that floodgate to open, and all
these blonds just sort of flock onto the

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field, holding blond babies in most
cases. And then then the team gets

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there, you know, makes their
speeches, gets their trophies. They all

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hug their families, which is cool
to see too, man, because when

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they're up on stage waving at their
kids or whatever. Yeah, just cool

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moments, man. But I did
think coming over and just acknowledging the hell

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out of those the fans that were
losing their minds was probably warranted. But

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man, your head's spinning, and
who knows the proper protocols? Yeah,

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winning the American League in that moment, getting on a stage on you know,

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visitors tour, did either of you
notice? And I don't know who

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these women were, but it was
a line of about ten women, and

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I thought they were possibly wags of
the Astros because they were all in Astros

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gear. Because they filed out left
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and they all turned to the Rangers
faithful right there behind the dugout and were

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light clapping, go congratulations, guys. You know, I thought that was

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really it. Those are some older
women. I don't know who those are,

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Like, I think that office owner. Okay, got hurting and yeah

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kind of that was cool. Grau, Yeah, yeah, I thought that

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was really nice. There was a
when I was we were going down to

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the lower bowl. You know,
they were not fully green lighting it,

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but they were kind of letting people
in, right, but they weren't fully

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going. And then Mike and Danny
just finally go and Danny goes, Danny

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and Danny goes, Mike Soroy goes
through. He stops me and he goes,

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you guys have tickets for this section, And I pointed, uh to

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Kevy Oh, who's still in his
uniform, and then I go, I

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go, kevy Oh has him on
his phone and the guy and Kevo grabs

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his phone and there were our sections
not even nearer where we're trying to access.

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The guy looks at him and he
goes, you're fine, Mario,

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and just like he lets him go
through. That kind of the where I

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just kind of stop and look at
my phone. I'm like, if I

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don't do anything, this guy's you
know, he's ready to get to the

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line of people behind me. Yeah, so I just kind of go I

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didn't have a plan. My mind
went blank for a minute. Huh,

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And I was gonna looked at my
phone and went head down, and he

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goes, come on, Mario,
you missed that well, because yeah,

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you powered through. You did the
right thing, and that's why you pointed

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me and say he's got him and
I'm already down and the yeah, He's

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like go ahead, yeah, yeah, you don't point the guy behind you

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say Mario's got it. Well,
look at if I pointed Mario or KEVEO.

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And then I get to go on
through and whatever happens to Kevio,

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well that's his problem. I'm lost
in a sea of blue and red.

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Try finding me because I'm not.
I'm no longer dressed as a cow.

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JJ. Can you get that audio
from the guy from Game seven? I'll

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call for that in a second,
the guy that I got in the concourse.

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friends. It is the Let's Freaking
Chill movie series. So me and Mikey

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kind of went up for a little
stretch, get a beer, take a

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wee Wii. This is kind of
after all the really the first hour and

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a half of the game was really
tense, the first three innings. So

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this is about the top of the
fourth bottom of the fourth inning, and

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me and Mikey went for a walk, just kind of stretched out. I

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was sweating bullets too, as Mario, so getting out and getting some space

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whether than me cramped in, was
nice. But a listener stopped us and

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his name was David. So this
is our brief interaction with David, a

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listener who we motivated yesterday. Hey, it's me and Kevio. I ran

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into David. Oh David, where
are you from? Uh? Parlston?

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So what's your story? Man?
We were in the concourse goofing around.

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Well, you said hey and stopped
us. Well, I just had to

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say that you guys were my inspiration
to be here in Houston today. At

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eight point thirty this morning, I
pulled tickets, came home, told the

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wife, I'm coming in like a
hurricane and we're going to He just tend

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to watch the game. Baby,
where's your wife? Mat She's in the

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bathroom, mauth I wait, actually
she's right here. Hi, it's me

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Cavio, Hi Cao. Welcome to
Game seven. Thanks David. Yes tomorrow,

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I gotta work tomorrow, but I
have my own business so I don't

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have to worry about it. I
called the shots wanta bases there anything you'd

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like to say to Dingo? Uh? Hey, then go what's up with

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the pig? We all want to
know you won't say it. Thank you

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so much, David rock On,
Hey, he love you guys. That

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was awesome. I love it.
He goes, Hey, it's a meat

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caveo. So what are you guys
doing? Just go in the baseball game?

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Normal KT American voice. Oh that's
great. Yeah that was I think

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three people said that they heard us
yesterday mornings and screw it. I'm doing

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the same, David n I got
a text involving Corey Seeger and Marcus Simmons

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at interesting one. At least,
what's more likely Adoles continues this incredible heater

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or Simeon and Seger both show up
with their full capabilities or bonus both of

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those things, Daddy, both of
those things would be nice. But if

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Adolis does anything like what he just
did in the ALCS, uh, we're

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gonna have a bigger party in about
ten days. I mean, you can't

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maintain record breaking performance like you had. I mean, fifteen RBIs the I

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think, the most in any postseason
series ever, Yes, by any player

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ever. I mean, and I
said it's a cash a few games ago.

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It's like Arci is very feast or
famine, and we are feasting.

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The feast has been very fun and
very fulfilling. So to maintain that as

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a dream. But man, I
don't know how long a hot streak can

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last, and he is. It
usually seems like a series to series proposition

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where a guy will get hot in
a series. Because we talked about in

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the comparisons Nelly Cruise are very apropos. You didn't see Nelly take that into

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you know, the next the next
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don't want to say he disappeared,
but it was nothing like he was against

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the Tigers. Yeah, and crazy
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but it's Monday or it's Tuesday.
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Friday. Like that's a big enough
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when you do what he did Sunday
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for remember four strikeouts, golden sombrero. I knew like that was That's the

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famine part of adult these Garcia.
You rarely see the feast and the famine

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happen in the same damn game.
Yeah. Yeah, And I think that

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these guys, you know, the
longer you have the playoff run obviously the

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Last Ones World Series, it ends
there no matter what for everybody. But

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the longer you go, I think
then the sample size is large enough that

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you end up overall being who you
are. Like for example, I mean,

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how Touvy. At one point they
showed his batting average last night up

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on the screen, and his batting
average for the postseason was four fifty.

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Yeah, that's ridiculous. I mean
that's insane. You would just you would

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assume that had they advanced and went
onto the World Series, that he would

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have gone cold just to be who
he is. Yeah, you know,

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I just don't know how how big
Bumbino can just sustain that well A Seegar

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has gotten lumped in with Simeon unfairly. I think I think that's just because

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things were going bad Friday when we
end up blowing the lead and going down

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three to two, and you're just
feeling the thing that Rangers fans feel sometimes.

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But Simeon to me, and I
think it's stats pulled over your Simons

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playoffs. Uh three thirty three average
on base Okay, let's just do ops,

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which is great. League average OPS
would be eight hundred. He's eleven

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twenty seven. That's Simon's OPS for
that's for the playoffs. Okay, three

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thirty three. That's three home runs
six RBIs I mean for the playoffs?

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Like five doubles? Like he hits
the ball hard almost every time. He's

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alcs was worse than it was against
Baltimore Tampa. All right, fine,

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Simeon, and this is where you, like, I think legit conversations could

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be had next year your leadoff hitters
Evin Carter, So it's that's gonna happen.

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Simeon. One ops of five hundred. Okay, this is where the

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argument comes into play. I think
he'll get it together because he's, yes,

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Marcus Simeon, who is a beast
of a player. But dude,

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man, this is an extended cold
street. But he on Sunday night,

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he was two for three with two
walks, and that is that the game

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where he had that smoke liner that
got caught. Yep, yeah, those

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are hard. Maybe he's coming out
of it and he's had diving stop that

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saved two runs. And he was
one for five last night with with a

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walk like it's not and he's going
to run like it's not nothing though it's

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not nothing. And he's a good
hitter and you need his glove too.

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Write yeh, it's interesting. How
interesting how much they have moved the lineup

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around, at least in this series, a little bit of shuffling movie guys

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up and down. I think they're
comfortable, like Boach, you knows they're

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comfortable doing it. So it's like, I mean, when John Smoltz asked

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the very pointed question do the Rangers
speak Boach, he said, yes,

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they speak. They go about their
business, do they speak. I think

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they can kind of handle it if
they were to move things around. I

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don't think they need to. I
mean, he's put fifteen hits or whatever

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they did against the Astro. I
don't need to change anything. But if

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Simeon gets going, even if Adulays
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bit good lord, and I now
I look, I largely ignored Phillies and

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Diamondbacks. I watched the end of
one of those games, I think game

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three or four. Pretty locked in
tonight. Yeah, and we need to

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get some sleep, boys, because
tomorrow night Dallas Maverick's opening Night in San

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Antonio, and you can hear that
game here on ninety's Haven won the Freak.

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And that's an eight thirty tip.
Actually it's probably like an eight forty

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one tip, because on ESPN maybe
it's eight thirty. I'm convinced that after

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the last I don't know two weeks
that I'm never going to sleep eight hours

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in a row ever again. You
won't, Yes, you will? When

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when is this gonna happen? When
he dies? Sleep forever? Dingy man,

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Well, hey, we'll sleep,
ding move, Ding move you see.

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I saw it on Twitter like raid
as I was fluttering to bed last

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night that Dusty Baker made I don't
think he retired last night, but they

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said that he's basically okay. Manager
Dusty Baker eyeing retirement plans for twenty twenty

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three season to be his last.
I read something else that said it,

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and this is who knows conflicting reports
maybe, but it was that he was

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not necessarily retiring, but he I
thought it would be his last year in

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Houston. Now. He had some
comments before the season started towards their new

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general manager and ownership, like can
we get some more players? And one

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of the big stories of the trade
deadline, as hard as we've been on

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rold As Chapman, one of the
big stories of the trade deadline was the

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Astros did not go get any lefty
relievers. They could have used a good

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situational lefty to get a seeger out
here and there like that could That was

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a big storyline that, like the
Rangers made bullpen moves and the Astros did

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not. Say what you want about
Chapman too, He's he's a bender,

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but he hasn't. I've been fearing
it this entire run. The floodgates have

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yet to open for him. Yeah. Can I say this too, at

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the risk of like making any Razor
fan roll their eyes or make the jo

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motion with their hand. I thought
it was awesome last night when Chris Young

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went up there. First of all, loved that he's just going the pullover

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in jeans. But I thought it
was awesome that Chris Young mitched John Daniels.

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He gives credit, said to Ray
Davis, who deserves credit. By

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the way, Ray Davis spending all
this money deserves credit. I talked s

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about that man for years, for
him to spend all the money he did,

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but for Chris to mintioning John Daniels, who I think Chris never really

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wanted John to go. I think
John was going to move on after last

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year anyways, just to kind of
do something else in life. Maybe not,

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I could be wrong, but to
men, because there are things that

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have happened that do involve John that
are good. Not even talking about what

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happened ten years ago, the twenty
ten to twenty eleven World Series that John

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is largely responsible for. True,
Dude, Ben Rodgers did this yeah,

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part of a segment last week about
the acquisition of lists the players and most

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of Yeah, Yeah, it was
John Daniels call or one of his you

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know, heavy influence in saying,
look at the free agent market in the

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next couple of years. It's early
for the rebuild. And he went to

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Ray Davis and said, let's go
get Corey Seeger and Marcus Simeon. Those

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are good building blocks. Let's see
what we got to do to get him,

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because the middle winfield prospects are not
free agents're gonna be there. The

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trade for Nate Lowe, trading Elvis
Andrews for jonah Heim. Yeah, I

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mean you start looking at some of
these moves and you're like, dude,

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he's kind of deserves a lot of
credit for being the architect. Yes,

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of course, and Chris Young should
get a ton of credit to and Chris

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Jong you can tell. I mean, we we've known forever because we know

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him, what a good, good
dude he is and smart dude. I

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think that's badass for him to mention
it. Right when he mentioned John Daniels,

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there was Ranger fans right by me, right to my right. You

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guys were to my left. Yeah, and he goes, if John Daniels,

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I don't get it, he didn't
win S. I don't get it.

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I'm like, WHOA didn't win S? Yeah, you know, he

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took him to back to back World
Series as we are right now. He

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didn't play right field in twenty eleven, you know, he he he wasn't.

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He didn't come out of the bullpen
to close the game in twenty eleven,

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and so you're you're a couple of
things inches away from winning that World

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Series, and the narrative completely flips
on him. So I don't want to

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hear that crap. That is nonsense. Yeah, but John Daniels didn't do

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anything while he was here. Seventy
five percent of the team that you saw

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do what they did last night is
because of him, you know. Also,

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like we gotta we gotta goal quay. I hope we don't live in

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this world where you do have to
lose for five or six years to be

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good at baseball, like Mike.
The Astros did this first right like set

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Out and then Dynasty, and it's
like, oh, crap, do we

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have to be bad and not do
business for five or six years? Tank

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Galli's pison, We're gonna see it. Jack Lider and Kumar Rocker, who

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knows what they'll be. But Josh
Young has proven to be great and then

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white length are nice thing. So
it's a lot of things. Maybe we'll

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side that for later in the week. We need to give Boche some love

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next. Yeah, he has barely
been mentioned a lot. Dude. The

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talkbacks are lit. I got a
ton of talkbacks. We'll hear that your

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