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Happy Spring Metroplex. Yes, a
top four season of the year springs today.

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It begins. I've been glad to
believe that you can get a free

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small ice cream cut of dairy quid
today. So the TV just told me.

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I'm Kevin Turner with Dandy Baylist,
Mike's Roy JJ Jackson. We are

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here for a good time, Kevin. We are here for a long time.

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We're here for a hard time.
If you're going through that, we're

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hard men for hard time. Down
me. Hell yeah, I'm gonna say

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what's on the show. All right, I'm gonna lob a grenade, Big

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d Bracket Part two, eight o'
five nothing. That music venue in McKenny,

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the Sunset Amphitheater, that's coming.
And when it's coming, it's coming

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hard, It's coming big, It's
going big. Twenty thousand people, loads

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of people, people, tons of
people. What you know, you're the

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one that makes it weird. I'm
just saying I said one word. I

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said, I Kevin, no,
and you snickered and threw your hands in

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the air and just look at me
like I'm some child when I'm just trying

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to, you know, elevate the
topic. It's off in its own little

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it's off in its own little kind
of like sack of the Metroplex, and

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that sack is getting fuller every month. It seems like people just keep moving

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to that. That's okay, Now, who's next? At Fouck Value you

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might be like, why are you
guys having on CEO of a company called

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Notes Live at nine o'clock by the
name of J. W roth Ira.

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The reason we're having J. W
roth On, who you've never heard of,

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is because, as I just said, he's the CEO of Notes Live

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and this new Amphitheater. And when
we did that story last week, we

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had questions. We sat there and
made the Tim Allen from Tool Time,

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how are they gonna keep the turf
cool? Add Tim Allen to your list?

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So I emailed it, Actually don't. That was great. We need

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to hear from him again down the
road. Tim Allen, Yeah, you'll

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get more specifically when talking about tools, masculinity or the Detroit Lions. He

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might not have answers, but he
also might have answers. Have answers well,

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one of their claims CEO are Yeah, but Kurt, he wants to

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He wants to get the word out
about this place and how awesome it's supposed

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to be in One of their claims
is that they can keep their lawn turf

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at a cool what was it seventy
degrees or something. Yeah, because it's

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some cooling technology. We want to
find out what that means. And I

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will fully say ninety five percent of
that is because I do think the audience

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might be interested in a new,
huge music venue come into the Metroplex,

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and a lot of our listeners reside
north of the Loop. But five percent

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of that is what if we hit
it off and he hits you with a

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big show in town. Oh,
like he tells you who the openers is

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going to open the venue. Maybe
he breaks that news accidentally, maybe just

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talking. Then he's like, and
then we can't wait. Have flogging Molly,

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I mean oops, flogging Molly.
Look, this is about Kevin developing

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relationships to get free ticket at Dave
Matthews and act like it's not I mean,

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Dave's not the ones I'm going to
Dave no matter what, and likely

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paying to upgrade my ticket to get
closer. You're befriending the CEO of opening

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large music venue for the station.
Yeah, this is opening doors to potential

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clients. I'm Kevin, and I
approve this message. It's opening doors to

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a VIP wristband, is what it's
opening doors to. And you know what,

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You're not off to a great start
with all your big sack comments.

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Just a minute ago. I can't
believe you went down that road. Yeah,

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it's just n I've never sat VIP. I don't even know what you

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guys are talking about. I believe
that yet you should not yet. I

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don't have it like you guys have
it. It is your dishwashers and ovens.

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Kevin. Roofs. Yeah, roofs. Yeah, roof that roof.

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Get a roof. Cool roofs that
aren't held together by blue tarp. Thirty

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minutes, we're going to tell you
about this wild ass bug. Not a

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stomach bug either, although the neurovirus
has been rising in Texas, causing lots

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of vomiting and diarrhea. Bike Today's
spring when your kids, Spring is the

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one I'm sorry. Summer and winter
are the two seasons that you go Jesus,

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this is the one. Summer off
winter, get a two week break

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from school plus Santa. Yeah when
you get when you turn into an adult,

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everything changes. You're thinking about tax
returns, you're thinking about bills you

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have to pay, You're thinking about
the week that your kids are off from

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spring break and you're not, and
how to figure that out. Jesz,

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that sounds terrible. Spring and Fall
of the best two seasons by far,

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and I think Spring gets number one
in twenty days from the Masters. Yeah,

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it didn't feel like spring when I
woke up and took the dog out

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this morning. It was forty two
degrees. Yeah, I had a beanie

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up this morning, a little chili, all right, though HI have seventy

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today. Great. Spring is great, it's the number one. I mean

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it falls good too, though.
The springs springs the best. I think

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springs number one. Now it's the
most likely season that your house will get

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ripped away by a tornado, but
take what chances. I think just because

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of football, fall for ramuns,
because you could say the Master is fine,

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but the A Playoffs is badass.
Yeah, no tournament. There's nothing

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like making it through the gauntlet of
summer and then football starts and the weather

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breaks. It's just the relief,
because there's something better about the relief than

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the impending doom, which is summer
now being one step closer to our face.

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I think we'd have a different opinion
had we had just a ballbuster win

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or two, and it was pretty
mild overall, it's basically been really nice

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for months. Yep. Yeah,
after a large predictions that it was going

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to be terrible and cold. Well, that was your models, not mine.

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That was a farmer's almanac. My
models have been broken since last summer.

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It got too hot. Kevin's reference
what Kevin's reference material is a book

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that's one hundred and seventy five years
old. Yeah, they nailed that it

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was going to be a wet,
wet winter as it was, but it

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was mild. He said, My
model has been broken since last summer.

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It got too hot. It is
because he does in the breaks, he's

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always fiddling with his models when his
laptop trying to get him to work,

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and then he like hits the side
of it his computer with his hand.

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Come on, restart, throw out
the lead. Why don't you just a

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little whiskey on it, Maybe that'll
wake it up. Why don't you just

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tell the truth and let the world
know that you don't have any models that

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you're just saying, it's a spring, it's a time for new beginnings right,

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and we suggest you begin a period
of your life where you don't lie.

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See Mikey turned over a new leaf. Unce he was shamed numerous times

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into being being a truth teller,
Danny hasn't had to remind me to oh,

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to stop lying in a long time. I've tried to make myself better,

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and I do it in front of
people. I do it in public,

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publicly tell the truth. No improved
to try to improve, Like I

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had a problem lying. Example,
I was a liar and then Danny kept

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realizing it and telling me to stop
lying. And then one day I did

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see people can change. They can
Hey, Mike, I walked in today

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and Danny goes, are we cover
any more Players Championship. I've been seeing

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a lot of Players Championship stories.
I don't know if they're any good,

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but the audience, it's not just
me and Mike. That's not up for

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me to decide. And look,
I saw some headlines. There's maybe there's

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something there, maybe there's not.
But I just I feel like today,

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you know, after everybody's had twenty
four hours kind of absorb and write their

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articles, that there's just a few
little things that I thought, uh,

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I'm not opposed to a golf follow
up. Okay, that's all I'm saying.

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And you guys are passionate and very
fun when you talk golf, and

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I don't ever want you to shy
away from that, thank you. Golf's

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a tricky one. And I had
this conversation with sweet Raphael, who you

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guys know, who shows up to
our remotes at Oatmeal Peacha there Saturday night,

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and I was talking with our other
buddy Blake about the players. It

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was Saturday night. We're talking about, like I said, gun in your

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head, would you take scottis Shopper
to come back and win this thing?

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We both pretty much like, probably, yeah, I think we would.

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And look and Raffael's like muttered to
carry something like oh yeah, let's talk

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golf, and I said hey,
and I snapped and I pointed at him.

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You know, it's dangerous, Raphael. And this goes for everybody listening

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and for your whole life, not
even just about on the radio. Never

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say this, Oh nobody wants to
hear about blank. Yeah, don't say

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that. You're fool, you damn
fool, because everyone does want to hear

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something. Everyone wants to hear something, and just because you are passionately against

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golf, for instance, yeah it
might. There might be more of you

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in that circumstance than if you said
football. Fine, but don't generally speak

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that. No one wants to hear
about blank, No one wants to hear

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about golf. That appens you don't. Yeah, and look, I'm guilty

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of it. Maybe we all are
to some level. When you you don't

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like something, it's just like a
crutch to say, yeah, oh,

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everybody hates this music or everybody hates
this movie, or nobody wants to hear

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about this, and it's just a
silly thing to say because it's not true.

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It doesn't fit unless you're talking about
hockey. Number one, how do

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you, boy? I felt about
three to four fists just clinch in the

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Metroplex. Four The stars are damn
good. I know, and I love

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I like playoff hockey, but I
just I'm not doing all every few nights.

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It would be nice to have the
option too, though, Yeah we

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don't. You know, it takes
work, just take work. So anyway,

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if we do talk a little golf, it's okay. Yeah, we

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talked some formula one. What you
just said though I always I try to.

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I try to, and I'm not
always one hundred percent on this.

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I try to do that too.
It just saying usually it goes to music

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or a or a movie or a
TV show and saying something sucks because someone

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probably really likes it, you know, yeah, and created a new rule

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that truly probably unfaired. I don't
always addhere to it is that if if

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you don't, if you can't name
five of the songs from that band,

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maybe you shouldn't be allowed to say
that they suck or wear their T shirt.

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You should have to go to prison. I will say this though about

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like the niche topics, and you
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is kind of like North Texas weather. Like if you're hearing us talk about

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something and it's not up your alley
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Number one, we're not going to
linger on it too long. Yeah,

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and number two go ahead and give
it a chance because number one, you

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Number one, it's one A.
You might be entertained because I think,

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by and large kind of a funny
show. Number two you might learn something.

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Yeah, just what's wrong with that
open mind? Right? Just don't

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hear the word golf. Go don't
golf. Nobody cares about golf. Look,

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we get it. Not everybody cares
about but not nobody cares about golf.

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Yeah, and we don't talk about
golf that not at all. It's

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a day after the Players Championship and
that's a big one. Yeah, I

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agree, or the day of the
Players, Like could you count last week?

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And things are happening in the world
of golf. A lot is happening

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in the world of golf. Let
me go down this list. I have

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of twenty five things happening in the
world of golf. But I think people

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should be made aware of Come on, I don't have it, I do

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have We don't want to have that
conversation and then jump into a little bit

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of golf rock, do we?
Is that not good? Man? You

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want to segue? We could put
it into some sports. Oh you're sitting

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to push it over here and then
come back yeah, Oh, I like

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what you just did there for people
to forget that they didn't want to hear

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about golf, and then bam,
next thing you know, they're looking like

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what the I thought we were done
with this? They're talking about golf right

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now? Golf it's so stupid.
It is for a sport golf. Okay,

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I'm golf Wilson. You don't often
think about, I mean, golf,

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any sport. They're all dumb.
How did they How did it get

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its name? How did they all
get their names? How did they get

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so popular? There they define all
of us, and it's like all we

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are, and there's like a yelling
about this thing that they're trying to smack

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the hell out of this little ball, whether that be golf or baseball,

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and this is what matters, and
this makes my life. It's really a

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bizarre conversation that sports is as popular
as it is in this country and in

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the world world. But it's just
as we need something to collectively band together

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and cheer four. I think you're
not all really at World War right,

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you know? Yeah, I mean
that's the whole thing. Humans. A

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portion of humans inability to understand that
we are all one together like you would

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think, and for the most part
think a team sports mindset is pretty bad.

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I think it creates a kind of
a wicked form of tribalism that can

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create anger and altercation. But there
are plenty of humans, many in leadership

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positions who have failed to realize or
really embrace the idea. God knows what's

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out there. Humans should at least
ban together and stay on the same team

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no matter what happens. They're not
going to do that until our existence it

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becomes essential, depends on it.
It feels like a simple base thing that

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we should Yeah, but we're together. There should never be war, but

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you know there is because of egos
or power dynamics. It's usually power and

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greed, honestly is usually what it
is. Money religion. Point though,

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is, Look, you can have
people on both sides that differ in every

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way, but if they're both Liverpool
fans, there's a commonality, there's a

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shared interest and they're gonna be best
friends talking about Liverpool. It doesn't matter

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what they care, you know,
yea, what their personal political lines in

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our country. You didn't even think
about it, No, I mean there

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are people who are so different politically
and would scream their faces off, but

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they would scream collectively for the Mavericks
or stars or obviously cowboys, and I

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guess that's good. It does give
you something to talk about it. You

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know how many woke clibs, You
know how many woke libs and hardcore conservatives

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celebrated a World Series victory for the
Rangers this year together high five to each

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other. When you look at it
that way, it's pretty good. Maybe

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it's, but it's just weird that
we wake up and a significant portion of

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your day is like, all right, who's gonna be the Ranger starting lineup?

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Yeah? No, cowboys, what
are we doing it? It's okay,

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I'm not going to draft a running
back or are they going to bring

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Zeke back? It's probably just a
release valve, and it's it's probably healthy

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that we have it. It is
healthy that we have it, because like,

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what are you gonna do if you
if you just eliminated them all snap

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of a finger. It's like then
the stresses of real life compound in your

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head. I suppose you need releases. But it's just where they become as

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popular as they have worldwide, and
they've done it in almost every country separately,

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different pockets. It's increded different sports, you know. I mean the

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Cricket World Cup to some is all
that matters in their life, and we

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don't even know when it is.
I mean, think about those soccer people.

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Yeah, insane, it's amazing how
it's kind of been a cutoff to

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I'll say four, I think three
really major sports in America. And I'm

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not shafting hockey when I say that
hockey huge. It's the four major sports.

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But it's also wild that college basketball. People who are huge college sports

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fans, are really loyal to their
alma mater, love it. They're in

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on college basketball. It's not a
mainstream sport here in America until this week,

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and it's huge. And that's just
a gambling element. It's a or

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a game element or whatever that is. It's just incredible to me because I

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could watch no college basketball be fine. Now I do. I have enjoyed

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having a team, you know,
like people who watched the EPL enjoyed having

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a team, or how you might
enjoy pulling for an F one driver.

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I've enjoyed that following Texas Tech in
college basketball. And then you get to

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it's like, wow, how is
that the biggest thing in the world at

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the end of this week? Well, people now make people make it bigger

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than probably it needs to be,
because I think in the essence of sport

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is to provide a wonderful distraction from
a place that if you allowed your mind

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to entirely reside in, which is
the real world. I think you can

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pretty have a pretty fatalist view of
our existence where sports takes you away from

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now. Now. There are people
that take sports way serious, and they

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think of sports with the same gravity
that you would what's happening in the world

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and in our lives and how difficult
it is just to survive for most people,

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you know, and when they kind
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importance to sports, I don't do
that. I don't think any of us

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do. Where it's just your team
is just life. Baseball is life.

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The Dolphins are life. No,
they're they're fun. They're fun distractions,

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and we get sure, we get
worked up and fired up about it.

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Yeah, because it takes us away
from the stuff that's real. It is

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real, it's fun. It's not
my life. But I really like it.

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No, I did too. Yeah, Like, but you have to

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realize that it doesn't. I always
it's very cynical, but I always think

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this, like, what's the greatest
thing in sports it could ever happen to

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me? And that would be the
Dolphins winning the Super Bowl? Right,

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And I mean, look, I
got another twenty thirty years on this planet.

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Whatever. Oh, I guess you
know, mathematically, maybe it really

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maybe it won't happen, but it'll
maybe probably be close to happening, you

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know. And if it doesn't,
I don't, I don't, it won't

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matter that much. But if it
does happen, like my thing, the

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ultimate cry, I'll sports cry.
It'll provide me joy for at least a

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moment, you know, I'll put
my single number one finger in the air

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and just think, man, my
little life that you're in for this.

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You'll be on a high for a
week or so. You'll you'll get the

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Super Bowl hoodie and the cap and
all that stuff, and then you're gonna

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be just like me and Kevin,
where we kind of forget that the Rangers

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won the World Series and when we're
reminded, we're like, whoa, yeah,

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that happened. Yeah, Like,
what's the best. I don't think

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about it every day. I don't
think about it every day. I don't

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think about it. There's weeks that
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the World Series. But boy,
when it's happening and they're fun, I

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almost wonder if the true joy is
is not doing it. You know what

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the bliss of just not giving a
rat sous about sports. No, no,

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still having that thing out there,
the carrot. Seth Meyers said this

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about the Red Sox and doesn't four
he when they won the World He's a

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big Red sxtions with they win the
World Series and doesn't four he like almost

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like quit watching baseball, right,
Like like if you have it your whole

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life, Like that's the thing,
and it's a collective demon that you all

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your friends have. You kind of
embraced the identity of being the loser,

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right and that's what made the Cubs
and the Red Sox like that the lovable

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loser or whatever. And it's fun
to be Like it's not fun. But

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even Cowboy fans, they're been a
long time now. The cows are weird

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because you still have it in your
heads that we are the greatest. You

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guys just are forgetting for a while. Yeah, but if they win the

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Super Bowl, the Cowboys, yeah
they're not. I don't know. And

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everybody knows it, Mike, Everyone
knows everything. Everyone knows its. I

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just think that the chase is the
real fun and the explosion of excitement,

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like once you win it fine,
that is something it's real and you guys

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would know this as the ranger thing
right now? Absolutely, was it as

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good as you always imagined? No, And the reason it wasn't is it

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didn't feel as communal as it did
And because TV situation, I think that's

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a big part of it. I
think it's a big part of it.

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Now. It was great, and
yes, a tear was shed. Yeah,

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and I went into a landmark where
I saw it ripped from my cold

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dead hands in twenty eleven and leaned
on that perch at the Barley House,

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right. But was it worth a
lifetime? No, of not misery,

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because it wasn't misery. It was
excitement, it was dreams or whatever.

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It was a lot of bad years
and I did think about a lot of

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that stuff. But there are a
lot of There are a lot of key

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people that I thought should have been
involved here. You're in military, Michael

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we Uh, John Daniels, there's
some empty parts of it for me.

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You didn't have the connection to this
team that you did to the ones then,

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because the city didn't have this connection
to this team. Yeah, I

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don't think they did either. And
I think a lot of that had to

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do with the fact that most people
couldn't watch them on a day to day

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basis. It wasn't part of my
daily routine like it was in two thousand

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and nine through twelve or whatever.
This is a weird example, but I

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was at a bar the day that
we learned the Josh Hamilton Sherlocks incident.

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Okay, I was at a bar
and Danny, you won't remember this,

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but you were there and it was
me and you and Groubs and a few

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other people. But like, that's
out whatever you were to say. That's

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not some great Josh Hamilton moment.
I mean, from a punchline standpoint,

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I guess it is. But like
that is something that we experience together,

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and he won't remember it because I
was there. That's forgettable. I guarantee

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you, Danny thinks the first time
you two met was the first show we

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did together. That's true. I
think I get to choose to decide that

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whether I remember or not. Yeah, you won't remember. Well, I

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agree those years were far more I
don't know, like the connection of the

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team. I totally agree. But
then also baseball got weird for a bunch

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of years, where their games get
long and kind of weirdly unwatchable and do

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you think there is something too and
it's more cynicism, but just the money

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too. And yeah, I don't
know how they paid for no, just

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how I mean how much money they
all make. It's so so much more

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than even it was then and then
God forbidden we were kids. Yeah,

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and then if you think, look, I mean their Angels is just going

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to sell so much merch because of
this World Series and that's why they're really

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happy. Like the organization, we
fought together hard and we did this for

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the city of Arlington. Dude,
you're right, dude, if we lost

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the World Series last year, we
would be pretty amped for this year.

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Yeah, in twenty eleven we were
amped. We lost in twenty ten.

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We'd also grown that thing after crappy
years, a couple of trades. You

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felt like, you do this guy
ors L listen to this team's on the

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come, and there's a little bit
of the washed thing is just a connector

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you know all these things. You're
right, man, and this almost felt

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a little bit even though it was
unexpected, A part of it felt a

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little paid for because it was,
you know, some of it earned through

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tanking. Let me bring it back
to y'all Jesus perverted first sixty seconds of

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this segment. It's exactly like that. What's better the build up, the

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anticipation, the act, And yes, there is a incredibly satisfying explosion of

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joy and then you're just kind of
sitting there. And with that, we'll

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tell you about the Skeeter Eaters.
What's with all these mayflies? Next?

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The most important thing in the world