Get some facts and come back and seebe. Get some facts and come back
and seebe. Don't throw out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no mouns. We don't need no cats. We need more dolls.
Why you're not a detain Oh you're not that detained. We weren't good.
There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling you.
We laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for you.
He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg. That's all I
have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break it down
for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. We have
to figure it out. And we went eight show down, final hower of
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Tigers did not play yesterday. They get the Pirates in back to back
games today and they get two firebawlers. I made a lot of Paul schemes
yesterday, and for good reason, because I think the dude is you know,
he's thrown it at one hundred and two miles an hour. The guy
throwing in Game one for Pittsburgh, Jared Jones, is just as effective with
his heater. Let's see how the Tigers do against them double dip today at
Comerica Park. Meanwhile, on ice, Panthers use overtime to beat the Rangers
three to That series is even at two apiece. I said this before Sam
Reinhardt scores one to twelve into the overtime. It's a sixty fifth goal of
the year. He scores three. He's got thirty one power play goals this
year, at twenty seven during the regular season by far and away the most
in the NHL, and now with the postseason added, he's got thirty one.
Also this the Panthers are eighty one two and six when leading after forty
minutes of play. That's amazing. Minnesota shows some amazing forty two. May
beat Dallas one toh five to one hundred to stay alive. It's three to
one in the series of the Western Conference Finals in the NBA. Dallas is
up. The NBA is off today because Boston swept Indiana. They are waiting.
Let's see if the weight hurts them. You know, it's always rest
versus rust in sports. Let's go back to the Meyer hotline. Eight six
eight three eight forty eight forty one three, Ben, who's waiting for us?
Yeah, we got Freddy on the line. All right, Freddy,
hope you had to get a good weekend. Man, what's up you too,
Chep. I forgive me for calling, but when you're reading my text,
the platform kind of cut out, so I I ain't here here half
of it, and I kind of wanted to finish the conversation. Yeah,
what would I forget? Which text was? We've had some text? Yeah,
I mean this whole situation is kind of a funnling to me. I
mean, no one's righting, no one's wrong it just I guess you know
what I took out of yesterday was for me, I kind of want to
put the owner to the side. Okay, forget this, Just forget about
the owner in this situation. You know, you know I've heard for years.
Number one, I've heard three years from guys that turn out of MIC.
I've heard from fans. Owners need to hire smart guys and just get
out of the way. You know, if Tom Gorge would even do that,
that would be that would be great. But we've seen it in the
pass where owners I've hired smart guys and just got out of the way.
So that's why I kind of want to take Chris out of the equation for
a second. Is I'm a little confused why Scott Harris was brought in.
Now, I understand Avila had to go. That was I was one of
his fans. But I understand he had to go. So they probably are
Scott Harris. And where I'm confused is I don't tell me if I'm wrong.
From what I heard yesterday was yesterday I heard more of, Hey,
these young batters are struggling in Major League Baseball because of the pitchers that they're
seeing nowadays, and they're doing, they're doing so hard that they can't get
that in the minor leagues. So when I sent you the text day,
they said, Okay, well we'll call up all these young kids and bring
them up. If your plan is not to make the playoffs this year,
bring them up and see what you got for the next two years. That's
where I'm kind of confused with Scott Harris is he's been here, I think
almost two years, and he's made a couple of trades, but he's really
feeding off of feelos guys. So you know, the beginning of this year,
I think what happened was they really think on Parker Medals to be that
leadoff hitter. It's got and hetorical seem to be that number three or four
hitter, and they brow up in their face. So now they have nowhere
because he's got a feelis guys. I don't know if they're right or wrong,
but that's where I'm confield, is why is Scott here is brought in
if he's just sitting there with a Felix guy, whos are being made,
whether it's a trade or bringing these guys because you just got done saying that
in the minor leagues. He don't see the same pitching as they do in
the major leagues, and it's not enough for them. That's where I'm okay,
yeah, no, I get it. First of all, you can't
take the owner out of it. When the president has basically said we've got
to have the foundation before we spend money. You can't take the owner out
of it. When the payrolls at one hundred and six million dollars and in
ranks twenty fourth. It is all part of the process. So that's number
one. Number two. Their plan was never to have Parker Meadows be the
leadoff guy. They didn't. He didn't show that in the minors that he
was necessarily a leadoff guy or leadoff capable. He was more of a bottom
of the order guy. That was never the That was never the plan.
The other part is Spencer Torkels. Yes, I think they thought he was
a middle of the order guy. They perhaps may maybe they still do.
Think he's a middle of the order guy four or a five. Three,
probably not. Riley Green would probably be more of you, your two or
your three. It shows you, I think, just our conversation here,
Freddie, it shows you the lack of talent this team has to fill those
specific spots. I'm not going to sit here and try to tell you that
the ultimate leadoff guy is the ultimate leadoff guy back in the day when I
watched baseball as a kid and Ricky Henderson, I don't think. I think
things change. Okay, it's just like basketball. I mean there's no you
don't have to have Isaiah Thomas. If you have Luka Doncic handling the basketball
and you know he's six' nine, six' ten, that's okay.
That's the way base that's the way basketball is today. You don't have the
pocket passers in football. Always you got guys who roll outside the pocket and
so on and so forth. So I don't think there's that standard. Here's
your leadoff guy's got to be fast and got to be able to bunt and
have a great eye. And then number two is this and number three is
that you want your best hitters getting as many at bats as possible. And
I don't think Detroit has an of really good hitters where you and I would
say I gotta have these three guys getting the most at bats. That's part
of the problem. Well that that's fair. And then the Parker metals thing.
I think more. I think they were banking on him playing, even
if it was bottom of the word batt in two fifty two seventy, getting
on base to cause some having and playing good well well, bet look,
batting, getting consistent at bats and and being the leadoff guy are two different
things. You said they were banking on him being the leadoff guy, and
that's not necessarily true. That's number one and number two. I don't know
that in a perfect world they would love for him to be a two seventy
hitter, Freddy. He wasn't a two seventy hitter in the minor leagues,
So why would you think he was going to be a two seventy hitter at
the major leagues? That they're not. They're not so naive to the fact
that the expectations people have outside the clubhouse is all that different from those who
I have expectations from who are inside the clubhouse. They didn't think he was
going to be a two seventy hitter. No, No, he's a two
forty five hitter in the minors. Just okay, okay, okay. But
my thing is, I'll be honest with you. I'm with him saying Okay,
let's build a foundation before we spend money. I'm with Okay, I
totally agree with that. Okay. The problem is for me is why did
you bring Scott Harrison if you're still gonna be playing with a Vilas Polker.
Well, because you can't. Here's the reason. I gotta let you go,
because they got to go to a break. And I'll address this afterwards.
You can't just read an entire roster. You can't just take everybody and
wipe them out and bring new guys in just because he's a new president.
You have to He's got to see what he has and we'll get to that
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opinions, no doubt on a lot of things that we are talking about here
today, if he didn't have them yesterday. You know the other thing we
have to remind ourselves. And we just got done with with Freddie who called
in and wanted to know why Scott Harris is and he's what's the point of
bringing him in if he's just going to use Alavila's players. Well, you
know, there are certain things in baseball you have to you have to understand
on how you go about a process. You want Max Clark, and you
want Kevin McGonagall, and you want Time Matten, and you want all these
different guys. You know, you do have to make you do have to
adapt to a forty man roster too, Like none of those guys who you
mentioned are on the forty man roster, and I think the Tigers have been
for years have been way too protective of their forty man. If you got
rid of a certain guy, made him available. There's a lot of teams
they're not taking certain players. They're just not. But you still would have
to make room for those three guys. Okay, now who would you keep?
If you're Scott Harris, do you just want to if you're just saying,
like Freddy said, if all you're gonna do is going to use your
guys, then you might as well get rid of the certain players on the
forty man. Say goodbye to bow Briski, Say goodbye to Alex Fayato,
Say goodbye to Wilmer Flores. Say goodbye to Jason Foley. Say goodbye to
Tyler Holton. Actually you brought Tyler Holton in. Say goobye to Alex Lang.
Say goodbye to Matt Manning. Good Bye to Casey Mice, Goodbye to
Reese Olsen, good Bye to trek School, good Bye to Will Vest,
Goodbye to Joey Wentz. These guys are all those are Alavila guys. You
think that Scott Harris's job, Freddy is just to bring in guys that he
is supposed to sign or draft. No, but he does have to add
two and decide which guys are going to stay and not. Buddy Kennedy doesn't
move my needle. Eddie's Leonard doesn't move my needle, but he brought him
in. Gee Orchella doesn't move my needle. He can't play all the games
with just the Matt Verlings of the world and the Markannas of the world because
they were quote unquote his guys. Now, has he done enough to filter
in the necessary talent to go with some of the younger guys. That's a
question that you have to ask yourself, and I'm sure most people would say
right now. No. Back to the phone lines and the Meyer hotline.
Eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. What's up, Ben?
Who do we got? Yeah, we got Robin Rockford Rockford rams Hey,
Rob, how you doing good, chef? How you doing this morning?
You seem a little tense. You need someone there to give you a
hug because you just seem a little tense. And I just want to kind
of offer my opinion on some of this stuff. Uh, go ahead,
I know I'm frustrated. I'm a frustrated Tigers fan this year too, and
I just think it's, you know, it takes. It's been a rebuild
for quite a long time, but frankly, the first rebuild, I don't
you known, just wasn't going to work. And they brought in Scott Harris
to bring the Tigers into twenty first century. And that's not just with players,
but also analytics and all that other stuff that they're using. They've always
been behind on that stuff that other teams have used for quite a few years,
and that's where why Scott Harris is brought in. He's bringing in a
certain type of player. It's going to take a while, though. You
know, some of these other players at of Vila got fors. They're going
to be there, Guys like Riley Green, Cole keyth not so sure about
Toorkalson and stuff like that. But some of those guys will be there and
they will be the foundation. But he's only had one draft and those guys
are all at double or High A and Single A right now. It's going
to take a couple of years for them to fill trump there. That's just
the way it is. I know, it stinks. I'm tired of rebuilds.
Myself. Three out of our four teams are still rebuilding, and it
gets frustrating. But I think they're on the right track. Yeah. No,
I think when you look at a baseball team that is spending one hundred
and six million dollars and you feel like they could spend a little bit more,
I'm not asking to double the amount of money. I'm asking you to
be in the middle of the pack. I don't think that's too much for
Tigers fans to ask. That's where the conversation began. And as far as
as far as Scott, yeah, yeah, and you're right, Scott Harris
came in. Analytics was a big part of it, for sure, But
this is would you agree this is one of the weaker divisions in all of
baseball? I would have agreed before the season started. All right. Now
you got Cleveland playing just great baseball and even Kansas City, and I think
that's where a lot of Tigers fans are frustrated. They see a team like
Kansas City who's yell stunk last year, they've been rebuilding now they're up there.
They see a team like Baltimore who was drafting and getting ill stunk for
a while. Now they're up there and then they see the Tigers and nothing
much has changed. But I mean, Cleveland is just playing lights out.
I can't believe they're playing this good. I thought when they lost Francona,
you know, they would go take a step back. And frankly, if
Cleveland keeps playing like they are the rest most of this year, it ain't
gonna matter. We're not going to touch them. So but I was,
I agree, I thought going into was a weak division. I'm not thinking
that anymore. I understand that because of Cleveland, And you're right Kansas City's
surprise success. I mean, this is a Kansas City team. That is,
they were last in twenty twenty three, they were last in twenty twenty
two, they were second to last to twenty twenty one. But people look
at Minnesota, who in twenty twenty one finished in last place in the Central
Division. Okay, and then the following year they made an increment and they
were middle of the pack. And then last year what did they do.
They went up and they won the division and they don't, like fans do
not see Detroit doing the same. Now, you're right, you have to
be somewhat patient with some of the younger guys, but you can still add
players who can make a difference for your team while helping the young guys along
at the same time, and this organization has not been able to do that
very well. Well. I think some of them, you know, tell
you the truth. Like Yo, you didn't mentioned Matt Chapman, and I
like the guy. I think he's a good player, But I just don't
see guys like him unless they don't have a choice. They're not going to
come to Detroit. Number one. That ballpark's not going to fit his style
of play at all far as hitting goes, and they just don't see Detroit
I think as a destination yet, you know, yeah, get that ballpark
a little more. It's a little more conducive to guys with the right handed
pull power, and I think that just you know, turns people off and
then they just they have to get that foundation built. I look at a
team like Houston, Matt, you know, for seven years they make the
Championship Series, but they never sign a big free agent. They always build
from within. When Korea leaves, they get Tanya, When Springer leaves,
they go out and get They have Kyle Tucker ready to replace him. That's
where Detroit has to get to be to be a long time, long time
consistent contender. Yeah, signing guys is great, but man alive. I
saw a lot a lot of guys last teams last year, signed all these
big free agents, and hardly any of them did much. Well, that's
why I said, world, That's that's why I said, you don't You
don't have to spend a lot of money to win. And thanks for the
phone call, Rob, I think you have to spend it wisely. The
only thing I would say about the Matt Chapman thing is the San Francisco ballpark,
especially because of the wind and so on and so forth. That's not
conducive to him either. Okay, So if you're looking at home runs,
for example, San Francisco and it's a beautiful ballpark, it gives up the
fewest home runs, fewer than co America Park, at least so far this
year. Eighty home runs in San Francisco, eighty five at co America Park.
So I I maybe you're maybe you're right about the destination for Detroit.
I've never been a big fan of that phrase, because I think players will
to go where they can win. And I think that says something about what's
going on too. But it's a good conversation. I appreciate it very much.
Twenty seven after the hour, I'm not stressed at all. This can
be an emotional issue, and I think there are certain things that you can
and cannot do as an organization. The Meyer Hotline eight six six eight three
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go. Hey, welcome back. Glad you're with us. I appreciate Robin
Rockford, yeah, kind of lending a helpful hand there because he said,
you know, you sound a little stress. It's not stress, it's emotion.
There's a difference. I want this team to win. I've said this
for a long time. You know, forget what what happened to me with
that team. It doesn't take away the fact that you want him to be
to be successful. You want the city to be successful. I want every
Detroit team, every Michigan based team, to have success. There's no doubt
about that. How do you go about that. How do you gain that
success? And I don't think I'm I'm an impatient person. It's been a
long time, you guys, It's been a really long time, and I
think Tigers fans deserve better, that's all Ben. Do we have any more
techs? Do we have any more phone calls the moment? Okay, okay,
let me shift gears here, because we've spent the entire show talking about
this. I think it's been a really good discussion. I've enjoyed it very
much, but I want to bring this up. I really like Jason Kelsey.
He's the former center played thirteen years, I believe with the Philadelphia Eagles.
I really like him. He's going to shift moving from player to broadcaster,
which is pretty commonplace today, and he's going to be part of the
Monday night football pregame and postgame show or pregame show on ESPN, part of
their Monday night countdown and so on and so forth. And one of the
things he'll have to do, knowing that the Dallas Cowboys will be a topic
of discussion, is he's going to try his best to put his if you
want to call it a bias, he doesn't use that word aside. He's
going to have to be able to have conversations about a team that he simply
hates. And he said this, He goes, I have no bias.
I just don't like them. I give them their props. There's a rivalry.
But the reality is, even though I hate the Cowboys fan base,
I was at a charity golf outing not too long ago and there was a
kid there and he said, Hey, I'm a Cowboys fan. And Kelsey
said, oh, are you from Dallas? And he said no, I'm
from Philadelphia. And Kelsey said, what are you? A Lakers and a
Yankees fan too? Like, what are we doing? We're just picking whatever
team we want. That's where we're at. I like Jason Kelsey. I
would tell him, first of all, the Cowboys being hated by so many
is almost to compliment. Don't you think has Detroit or the state of Michigan
ever had a team that was universally hated? And if so, how did
you feel about that? The team that comes to mind, there's two teams
that come to mind. One is, of course, the Bad Boys Pistons.
That's because everybody in the country took their cue from Michael Jordan, so
that's the first team that came to mind. I think Detroiter's and Michigan Anders
embraced it. I think they loved it. They love the fact that our
team are the bad dudes, we wear the black hat and everybody is against
us. I think it's part of the reason those t shirts of Detroit versus
Everybody is there. The other team is based on a different reason. And
people didn't like the Pistons because they felt like they were bullies. I think
people didn't like the Red Wings over a stretch of time because they were so
successful. Outside of Detroit. The red Wings success is a big rea.
Like it was great when they won when they beat the Flyers to win the
Stanley Cup, to snap that you know what a fifty year drought whatever that
was, people were thrilled. I think nationwide people are like, wow,
that's really cool hockey worldwide, that's really cool. An original six team that's
been without a Cup for that long, that's awesome. Then they win another
one. Wow, that's you know the storyline there with Vladimir Constantinov and some
and so forth. Pretty Then they went a couple more in that stretch and
people are like, Okay, the time to move on outside of Detroit.
Of course, Dallas is universally hated, just like the Yankees are universally hit.
Now, there's many people who tell you they're universally loved too. You
can go to a ballpark when the Yankees come to town and there's a ton
of Yankees fans. Are they from that city? I don't know. Are
they transplants? I'm not sure. The people love success, so you're going
to have a lot of people who are fans of that team outside of Texas,
outside of Dallas. I think it's quite a compliment. But I guess
my comment to Jason Kelsey would be this, where have you been? There's
plenty of people who are in a certain city supporting a different team that might
be a rival of their city's team. Unfortunately, now you can't tell people
who to root for, right You can't sit there and say you've got to
be a Tigers fan, you've got to be a Lions fan. If you
don't vote, if you don't root for the Pistons or the Red Wings,
so on and so forth. You can't do that. But my hope is
that there's a lot of parents out there who have their kids and they're saying,
hey, you know what, you root for whoever you want, but
this is our hometown team. I have that debate with my brother in law.
My brother in law has a young son. His favorite basketball team is
the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. His favorite football team is San Francisco forty nine
Ers. He has jerseys of those two teams. So, being the smart
Alec uncle, oftentimes, when the Niners played the Lions in the NFC Championship
game, I said to him, how in the world can you root for
the Niners. We had a fun little conversation. Sometimes it's for no reason
at all. You know how kids are. It might be the colors of
the uniform, might be one specific player. As a kid, I loved
George Gervin. He's one of my favorite players. I loved George McGinnis and
Julius Irving. But I wouldn't have rooted for the Sixers over the Pistons,
even though I don't think guys like Eric Money and Kevin Porter could beat them
or John Mengelt. But I would have rooted for the Pistons against them,
right. But I didn't have a problem with the Sixers at that time being
successful. I didn't have any specific reason to like George McGinnis or well,
a lot of people like doctor J. Same thing with san Antonio. It
wasn't because Wow, George Gervin played at Eastern Michigan. No, it was
I liked the way George Gervin played the game of basketball. I liked Alex
English and the way he shot the basketball with the Denver Nuggets. Doesn't mean
no, it's a huge Nuggets fan. Just meant I liked that specific player.
So I found it interesting that Jason Kelsey was surprised at that based on
what that young boy said to him at a charity golf ounding. But the
other thing is I just to have a team that is so universally despised because
of their success. I think that's a primary reason for it. Maybe I'm
wrong there, but maybe it's two because of the attitude of their fan base
that could be part of it too. Are there are they teams? Is
there a specific team in this state or in Detroit that you feel warrants that
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get more credit than they probably deserve, things of that nature. On top
of all that, speaking of football, I saw an article that ranked the
NFL's most vulnerable division winners coming up. Which division winner is most susceptible to
losing their perch in their division. My thought immediately was, Okay, I
want to say where the Lions are ranked here. Because we love the fact
that Detroit finally wins the division, they get to the NFC Championship game.
They are one of those teams that should be threatened or be threatening for a
Super Bowl appearance. This is living large. This is living large right now
in the state of Michigan because our team has finally arrived. Don't put a
damper on it. Let's hope that their vulnerability ranks pretty damn low. In
other words, no one's going to overcome them. Here's the issue. The
NFC North is pretty good. Chicago got better, especially if Caleb Williams is
as good as people think he's going to be. But their defense was already
good. Green Bay deserves a lot of respect because of what they show a
year ago. Right, absolutely, they were really impressive. Detroit, of
course, Minnesota maybe not so much. So I wanted to know where the
Lions rank in terms of vulnerability among division leaders. So there are eight division
winners, ben, where do you think the Lions ranked in terms of vulnerability?
Number one would be the most vulnerable division winner, the team that is
in the most precarious spot that could be overtaken by another team within their division.
So where do you think the Lions of the eight where do they rank?
Somewhere around the middle of the pack. I think you're right, it's
right around the middle of the pack. Let me give you, in as
sending order how it goes. Kansas City is number eight, eleven and six.
A year ago. They've won eight straight division titles. Of course,
they won the Super Bowl, so people feel like, man, they're no
one's catching Kansas City at least this year. And of course, when you
have some of the players that they have, Chris Jones on the defensive line,
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelcey on the offense, of course they're going to
be reckoned with. But I think a lot of that has to do with
the fact that Denver is not going to be very good. The Raiders are
just kind of and the Chargers are not expected. It's almost by default.
With all due respect to Kansas City, not that they aren't great, because
they are, but their division is not all that great. Number seven is
San Francisco. Is this because they won the NFC a year ago and went
to the Super Bowl. Look, Rams were decent a year ago. Seattle's
Okay, Arizona might be better than you think because they lost a lot of
close games. They were outscored by one hundred and twenty five points, so
I think you do have to take that into account. You really do the
out scout boar one hundred. I mean, there's only three teams who were
outscored by more than the Arizona Cardinals. But San Francisco a lot of that
has to do the fact that they went to the Super Bowl last year,
so they are number seven. Number six is the Houston Texans. We're talking
about teams that are vulnerable to lose their division. Houston won the AFC South
a year ago by a game. They are the third most vulnerable or third
least vulnerable, I should say Jacksonville Indianapolis, Tennessee is how they finished a
year ago. Number five is your Detroit Lions, and here's what they write.
The Lions are unmistakable favorites to speak to the progress overseen by Dan Campbell
Brad Holmes regime, but patiently built around Jared Goff to the point the x
ramcap Off once again registers as a reliable borderline top ten starter. The balance
of their roster is enviable, with a dynamic backfield and explosive number one receiver,
not to mention a defense infused with fresh secondary talent. Why then aren't
they the slam dunks to repeat? Because every team in this quartet has reason
to believe they will be better. Packers may have an MVP type gunslinger at
Jordan Love Vikings are giving Ricky quarterback JJ McCarthy elite skill weapons and Brian Flores
led defense, and even the Chicago Bears with the number one pick Caleb Williams
have an upgraded offensive infrastructure. There you go. You notice they bring up
quarterbacks for all teams, which I mean Minnesota. Yeah, Brian Flores led
defense. Let's see, they've got some skill weapons. One of those weapons,
justin Jefferson is pretty pissed off right now, so you have to be
careful there. You're aware. Baltimore is number four, Buffalo number three.
A FC East is good man, it really is. Miami's Miami's dynamite,
right, You've got of course, You've got Buffalo. You've got some rock
solid teams. I believe in that division. I think it's really hard.
I don't want to say it's the best division, because I still think the
AFC North is. But when you see what could happen in the a f
C East, New England is terrible. I know the Giants, the Jets
are are one of those teams where so much rides on an Aaron Rodgers.
We talked a little bit about that yesterday. But Buffalo, Miami good battle
and many people feel like the Jets are really good. Number two is Tampa.
They are the second most susceptible in the NFC South, and without reading
too much into it, people probably feel that, you know, Atlanta's going
to be a lot better, and I get that. And the number one
susceptible team as a division winner is the Dallas Cowboys, and that obviously is
because Philadelphia is much better. And Philadelphia lost by just a game in that
division a year ago. I think Washington's going to be okay. Not great,
they'll be okay. Our thanks to Ben, our producer, and our
thanks to all the great calls that we had this morning, the emotional,
the well thought out. We really appreciate you taking some time to join us.
We appreciate the text as well. We hope you can join us again
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