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We can all die happy, normal
and innocent men and women because we've been

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waiting for this for a lot of
our lives. It's finally done. The

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Texas Rangers are the World Series Champions, and the downbeat is here. To

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start off your morning drunk, Let's
talk baseball DFW. Danny's dressed up as

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a cow. So you're always wearing
a Ranger shirt. I wouldn't be caught

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dead wearing There's so many designs on
your shirt. I believe it was a

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giveaway park one day. But I
put it on. I'm like, dude,

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all right, I'll just see how
this looks. And I put it

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on. I was like, oh
my god, I look incredible. This

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is from the Laborman collection. But
I haven't one extra button down to show

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a little bush. You are showing
up. I can't talk. You're showing

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up your chest. Fubes. Thank
you. You need a medallion, bro,

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like a big gold Yeah you have
a gold chain. Damn. This

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is gonna be a weird one today. Are we doing all this stuff we

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said yesterday? If we want to, If we don't want to, I

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know, I'm gonna take another hit
of this champagne, This Star champagne.

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That you brought up here. We're
loosely authorized to just get hammered all day.

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I think it was Actually they consider
firing us all the time. Sober

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so right? Is this champagne blowed
everywhere? That's what I'm set the trash

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count. I don't think it's like
it is in the movies. Did you

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shake it up? Yeah? It
was in his backpack. This cow outfit

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is gone. You got your social
media. It's too hard. You just

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danced with these two champagne bottles and
you humped the air for thirty seconds.

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So yeah, it's shaken up.
Maybe maybe I here you go. I

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don't think this is going to be
as exciting as it is on the TV.

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Okay, Oh you're gonna make such
a mess. Oh yeah, that

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was a good one. Hell is
all right now? Speech toast? Uh

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yeah, I would like to introduce
the longest tenured Ranger fan in this room

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to properly talk about the magic of
the last month, the last six months.

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It was typically last night. Here's
Danny Bayless, a guy who definitely

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has bally here. Don't open up
all we're gonna drink all day. Yeah.

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One the time I had two of
these nice glasses. By the way,

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this is crystal. This is worth
as much as your car, Kevin,

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is this Weatherford crystal? Dude?
It might be this is like some

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family hand me down that I didn't
even know I had. You know,

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I have glasses way in the back, and You're like, what is that

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for? I've never seen that.
Who needs a glass? I go straight

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from the tap, my man,
my guy, two of these Jack Sparrow,

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kind of stumbling around right for your
own due. It is weird buying

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a champagne. I've never I don't
ever really bought champagne either. What's kota?

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Is that kaipa champagne? Anyway,
there was like different categories, and

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I asked you, I'm like,
allright, is this just this is regular

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champagne? You looked at this way
more than I did. And then I

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was that I was squatting down to
the lowest rung that you of the cheap

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stuff was, you know, because
I mean it gets up to I don't

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know, I guess they're Champagne.
It's thousand dollars. I have no idea,

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but I mean their upper level stuff
was sixty seventy bucks, and I'm

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like, well, I need at
least three bottles, so that stuff is

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right out. The cheapest was like
eight bucks. What'd you go with?

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What price? Point twelve? Okay? So bad. It does smell like

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that bit that comes up in your
mouth right before you're gonna vomit. Yeah,

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that's why it's great. So I
lude cheers. We did it.

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I mean they did it. They
did. We didn't do anything they really

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just honestly, it's just a bunch
of strangers wearing the same uniform if we're

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being honest. Yeah, from I'll
never meet him or get to know them.

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Many cigarettes, Yeah we have cigarettes? Okay, JJ did bring us

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a cigar? I know, one
cigar? Like tiny trouble if we have

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just empty bottles in here all day. But if we fi up with cigar

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in studio, that's probably gonna be
frowned upon. Right. My brother knew

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what it was. He was like, I got a cigar. If one

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of the boys wants it, that's
very sweet. Cool, n I need

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to get to know your brother to
get him on one day? What do

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we think boys? Time we go
to bed? That was Uh, that

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was wild. So for me,
it was the night of I was just

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gonna stay at home at about five
o'clock, I went, I don't think

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I want to stay home tonight.
I got a feeling or whatever it was,

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that little hunch you wanted to be
around your peeps. I don't have

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a lot of peeps. It's just
like you go somewhere. So we went

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and had a delicious quick dinner,
and then I went to ride or wrong

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from twelve years ago as I went
to the Barley House, That's what I

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thought when I saw your your post. Yeah, I couldn't really make out

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exactly where you were, but I
was like, that looks like he's at

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the Barley House. I was leaning
on the exact same stump I was leaning

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on twelve years ago when Game six
happened. Is that right? Yes,

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the same stump was there, and
that same pillar. You exercised the demon

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last night, Kevy. I exercised
the demons. Yeah, I did,

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and it was awesome. I was
so it felt it had to be there,

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it had to happen there. Did
you sleep at all a little bit?

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I mean, I get home.
I didn't drink too hard during the

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game last night because of our job. Afternoon drive Kevin would have been sleep.

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Yeah, there's yeah, but you've
never been afternoon drive, So,

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sir, many years, many years
of great success in afternoon drive, not

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many people know about No one knows
about it, the same people who think

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ever been first I'm hearing I'm a
great friend of yours and I'm like in

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this industry and I had no idea. So yeah, no, no one

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knew. Well, yeah, but
you're selfish. You just kind of think

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about yourself and that I am narcissistic. I'm not self Okay, you take

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that back, but it was.
It was great to look at me.

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Is my shirt look great? It
does look good? Okay, So when

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it's over, it's over, Like
right after it happens, there's always jumping

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around and everything that people are doing. I was just kind of like,

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it's five. Nothing kind of knew
this is gonna happen here. There's five

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nothing we knew. But then I
got a call from my dad and my

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parents living only and it's my mom
my dad, and my dad never does

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FaceTime, doesn't I ever? Your
dog died from when you were a kid.

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I never had a dog. Thank
you for bringing that up. In

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fact, I was it shouldn't hurt. German shepherd raped me at the age

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of six. But that's why I
have a bit of a dog complex.

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But today a whole other thing.
Go Rangers. It was my mom,

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my dad, my brother, his
wife, his two daughters or three of

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them. One's a baby and they
like face timing and they're like, all

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we're in Ranger stuff and they're like, hey, it was I was just

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starting. Yes, baby, I
know, I know a bit of a

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puss, but it was awesome right
there, back against the stump. They

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had added a type of big outlet
you know, that made it really uncomfortable

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to the USB ports, some voltage
box. It's tough to really lean back

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the whole game. Was there anyone
else leaning on it? You asked them

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to move? There actually were a
couple of frat bros. Like he was

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like, hey guys, a little
space please, this is I need for

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me. I need the spot,
And uh yeah, one kind of cool.

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You went and leaned on the same
pole. I don't know why,

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just had a feeling at five o'clock
because you could have been like, well,

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why wouldn't you, Why would you
do that? Do you think they

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were gonna win? What are they
lost last night? And you're going to

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lean on the stump? But it
just ended up that way. I watched

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the game inside, and the ninth
inning, I walked out to the stump

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and leaned, what'd you guys do? Uh? Yep? All alone?

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Responsible man? Yep? And was
it for dinner? La bank katta?

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Okay? So I did my favorite
I wanted my favorite meal and if it

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were to happen, and I wasn't. At no point have I been so

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elated thinking that it's gonna happen and
so confident. But I also haven't been

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fatalistic about it, thinking they're going
to just you know, lose. Anything's

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possible. Yeah, I only think
that when Chapman comes in, I mean,

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yeah, it's always a wild ride. I think I had one tweet

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about this game until last night,
for the whole playoff run, if I'm

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not mistaken in it was about is
there a collective groan of no when they

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announced or when he pointed to Chapman
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this may have been in the Tampa
Bay series for all I know. But

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I didn't get like, I didn't
activate or get super immersed in, you

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know, the participation on social media
like we did in twenty eleven, where

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just every pitch is life or death. And I don't know if that's a

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better way to watch the game.
Where your emotions are just bipolar every five

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seconds during a playoff run. It's
taxing. I know that. But this

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year was different. Man. But
like I said last night online, man,

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when it actually happened and you start
reflecting and it all comes back to

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you, it was emotional. I
mean, I don't and you know what,

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I don't feel embarrassed for having feelings
about a dumb baseball team. And

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like Kevin said, a group of
strangers all wearing the same clothes. But

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I don't know, it really hit
me. And I think when the waterworks

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really came on last night is when
they interviewed, very briefly, Mike Maddics

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and the guy that's been in the
game a million years, he's been here

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before. He knows about the history
here, he knows about this organization.

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He's an old school dude. And
to see him tear up, that's that's

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when I lost. Yeah, it
was Maddox. And then this morning,

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you know, I woke up,
I got four hours, maybe four hours

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of sleep, the alarm went off, and it's just that immediate, Oh

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my god, I'm so tired.
And then I woke up for two seconds

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and realized what today meant and what
last night meant, and the energy is

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just okay. It's better than coffee. Yeah, sorry, Java, John,

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wherever you may be. It's better
than coffee. And I feel great.

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And I'll be damned if sitting in
here Kevy Oh was out of the

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room, and I pulled up on
Twitter the Eric Nadell radio call, which

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somebody had synced up with the the
telecast, and it hit me again.

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And I'm sitting in here this morning
by myself at you know, five forty

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five in the morning with tears welling
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yeah, there's nothing to be ashamed
of shedding a tear or two for a

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I don't know. It's it's pain, but it's also elation as well.

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It's all of it. It's just
emotion. It's just pure emotion. And

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lean into it because it hadn't happened
ever before and it could possibly never happen

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again. There's never guarantees in this
thing. No matter how good or bad

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your team is, you just don't
know. And I'll be damned if it

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didn't happen for this freaking city last
night, and I'm still on cloud nine.

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But there's a part of me that
still doesn't even freaking believe it.

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Manns from Hell. I can have
a big problem with a lot of like

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team sports mentality and life that gets
there out there a lot, because there

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are times when that's bad. But
this is like one of those few things

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in a world that continues to be
divided and all that, it's one of

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those things we're still kind of all
in that together. You hang out with

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people you had nothing in common with, don't agree on anything else about sure

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what the Rangers to win, you
know, or the MAVs or Cowboys or

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whatever you know, and that is
still cool and will always be cool until

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sports no longer exist when they replaced
us with AI. But that's future.

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We need to get too far down
that rabbit hole today, and that's why

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it's cool. Did this feel for
you guys? You know lifers more relieving

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or this celelation like I remember even
me, like when the MAVs won,

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I was, I mean I I
sports cried for sure, and I had

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a baby sports cry last night,
but it was it was some reason.

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I mean, it was three seconds
after the last strike but it was when

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was it low baby KK? Was
he the one on the TV? Whoever?

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They announced Joe Davis? Yeah,
oh, even Joe Davis. And

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he just said it's over when he
said scream Texas Rangers are World Series Champions,

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which is like nothing. It's just
a basic sense, you know.

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And I don't know why that it
hit me with you whatever. But then

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I thought of you guys, and
I thought of everyone, Like the most

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I ever cries when I watch a
group of people be happy, like I've

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had friends run in marathons and stuff. Not me. Not just no,

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you don't need to, don't need
to that body you see this, so

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I need to take another button down
off this shirt. Some of those marathon

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people have weird bodies too. But
if I stand at the end and watch

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like a friend of mine complete a
marathon, I I'll ball, Oh my

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idea, like that's I can't even
I wear sunglasses. I can't do it.

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I'm well en up thinking about it. So I did. I thought

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of all you guys and all the
people that everyone that I know here in

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town. I'm like, oh my
god, this is just an incredible moment

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of collective happiness, which I think
is almost what sports is. It's this

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rare opportunity for whether it be sixteen
thousand or one hundred and eight thousand,

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however many are sitting together in a
stadium and then extrapolate it over the entire

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area where you live and just you
know, for that one brief moment that

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ninety six percent of them are all
just collectively happy and you can almost feel

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it. And that made me emotional. But that said, I was only

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briefly emotional. I definitely sports cried
pretty hard when the MAVs won, and

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I felt like that was more elation, and I don't know for you guys,

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this was more just like relief or
it just feels good like it was

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it different than when the MAVs won. Let me say this about the MAVs

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real quick. I was the same
way. It was elation, But like

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you said, you connect, you
connect with the people that maybe this is

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more deeply affecting and that's what brings
on the emotion. And for me,

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yeah, lifelong MAVs fan since nineteen
eighty, you know, followed that Ding

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Dong team for years and years and
getting so close in two thousand and six.

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But I think for me, the
emotion came out last night. Mike

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Maddics triggered it, and the emotion
I felt was basically when Dirk ran off

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the court, I was like,
oh my god, I'm so happy for

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that man. I love that man
so much and he's meant so much to

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me in this city, in this
organization for so many years. Skinny little

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kid. We all know the story. I don't need to revisit that,

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but it was. It was seeing
Dirk affected by it is what triggered it

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for me. It wasn't necessarily about
me for myself, you know it was.

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And I think that's like you said, it's a connector. We talk

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about things that are negative that can
happen to us as being great equalizers,

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like diarrhea. It puts us all
on the same playing field, no matter

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who you are, what you believe. When you've been there, you know

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it. And I'm no different than
Brad Pitt when it comes to that,

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We're on the same playing field when
it comes to diarrhea. On the other

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side, sports elation and that communal
thing that puts us all on the same

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playing field too, it all puts
us as equals where no matter what you

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believe, no matter what color you
are, what age you are, what

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sex you are, for that that
moment, no matter what else is going

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on in the world and what you
may think about it, there's one thing

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that you can all agree on is
that's badass. Yeah, I love you

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and I love you, and let's
have some champagne and take her clothes off

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and do the helicopter with our junk
and just go effing bananas. That's what

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it's about. It's the connecting element
of it that it equalizes us all and

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kept almost ten o'clock on the nose
last night almost everyone was happy together.

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Yeah, and that's just that's incredible. And dude, yeah she said that.

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I mean, I mean, yeah, well, just about being relieved

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related because it's the same thing almost
in terms of having your chance and not

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getting it and then waiting for the
MAVs five years for it. But that

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was still about Dirk, yes first, and it probably maybe it should have

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been about the MAVs first, but
had become the MAVs. So yes,

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I agree. And last night,
what connection like you're you could like this

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team and follow this team, but
some deep connection with any of these players.

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I mean, dude, your longest
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twenty five. Yeah, like,
so it was about and what got me

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one the moment that got me as
I thought about a bunch of people real

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quick, your longest tenure didn't even
play in the game, and some people

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don't even care that he, you
know, was on the team a month

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ago, right, I thought.
One thing that got me has got me

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tiered up last night is there's a
video where Martin Perez hands the World Series

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Trophy to Adrian Beltray, who's there
up where like a media passed or just

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behind the scenes. He's hanging out. I don't think he's employed by the

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Rangers either. I meant think he
shows up the spring training as a consultant.

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He'll go to games and they play, you know, and the Angels

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where he lives. But they gave
him the World Series Trophy and he kind

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of he held it for a minute
and he took a picture, and he'd

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tell he was like a little embarrassed
by but he looked at it for a

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minute and I just was, Oh, it's for him, and it's for

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Michael Young, and it's for Eff
and John Daniels who built a lot of

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this and will never get credit from
it from half the fan base. I

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texted him last night and I just
said, thank you. I love you,

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bro, like he did a lot. Does it still sit on red

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it does? He did not read
it, No response, no response.

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He'll get back to me once he's
done just celebrating or coping. However he's

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going to handle it, you know, complicated for him. I would imagine.

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I thought about obviously easy with your
family. You think about people who

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have died that you know who would
have loved this, list them? Well,

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you know there's a lot of people. No, I think you're absolutely

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right, starting Granny Green. She
had a huge crush on Tom Greeve,

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and baseball is more like that,
I think than Annie. You know,

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you think Eric who missed months of
this season dealing with some demons and some

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mental health stuff that you know,
he's been ballsy enough to talk about it.

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A lot of it and some of
it we still don't know. But

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he missed a lot of the season. I mean, I told I told

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Rocks. I was driving home,
told Rocks last night. I said,

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I hope if he wants to,
I hope he retires and goes to Colorado

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and lives a peaceful life. They
might and they just give Jared Sandler the

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job. But if he wants to
come back and do it, great,

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But I hope that, like he's
just because he's straight to THEO of horsecrap.

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He has been through the one hundred
and seven degree Sunday afternoon two thirty

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game that you're hoping if this game, maybe, if maybe it could be

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a picture's duel and we'll be out
of there by five point fifteen and I

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can have a normal Sunday night.
And instead, no, no, the

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Rangers get rocked and they throw it. They put ted Todd Vin Poppel in

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the game, and then it's this
four hour, four and a half hour

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game and you're not home till seven
or seven thirty or eight. How many

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of those days he went through.
It's just like Chuck Morgan, all those

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people, we're a part of it. I love that and I totally agree.

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I thought of John Blake, John
Blake, Oh my god, Yes,

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just a wing nut and a wild
dude. And we make fun of

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him sometimes when he's in the background
of a press conference. That dude's been

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there grinding, yeah, doing his
job forever. And that would make me

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cry, just to think of a
guy who knows he never played and doesn't

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matter, but to feel like we
did it. I did it, you

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know, I did good enough,
whatever that means, and it all works

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in concert to get you there.
Maybe one of the closest I don't know,

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relations to us that we have more
of a day to day or week

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to week connection to Emily Jones,
think about all of the I did,

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the ridiculousness that that poor lady's had
to deal with on the field and somehow

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makes it fun, you know,
still still enjoys your job and makes it

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fun and all. And how she's
always connected with the players on that team

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and been able to get access to
them and which otherwise, you know a

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lot of us would not be able
to do. She's got a real unique

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perspective on this as well. And
I'm sure she'll be heard from at some

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point today, but happy for her. So many people like you mentioned Nadell

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seventy nine is when he started.
Is that right? Yes, so you're

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looking at forty five years give or
take. Yeah. Unbelievable. And I

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wonder if he's I would imagine,
is he long the true longest tenured Tom

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Greeve technically because he was a member
of the Washington Senators franchise and still as

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I mean he I guess last year
was his final year of doing any TV

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broadcasting and he was doing a paired
down schedule. I'm sure they have him

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on the payroll in some form.
Yeah, I probably agree, consultant whatever

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it is. And even even like
Chris Young, who had a great career,

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pitched here and it's just a damn
good dude because we've all known him

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a little bit throughout the year years. You know, there is so many

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people. There's so many people who
are involved in this, and guys who

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missed their chance in twenty eleven two
being dude Nelson Cruz who is still in

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the league hanging on, you know, and a lot of people just have

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It's been a punchline. I hope
that goes away. You know what they

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talked about when the Cubs finally won
THEIRS a few years ago, that Bartman

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stuff stopped. Yeah, if only
stopped getting death threats he had to May

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he was finally able to move back
to America's hiding in a matt Lower cave

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in Romania. We should call Bartman
this morning. We should call reactions,

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get his thoughts. You can get
Bartman on the phone. Get what does

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this mean to you? Steve?
I don't know. I didn't watch.

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We should say if anybody wants.
None of us speak Romanian so well.

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He speaks English. He lives in
Romania, he lived there, he's I

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don't speak Romanian, and neither is
Danny. Kevin. Did you learn Romanian

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last night? Kevin? That's always
spent my night. I sent my name

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on Romanians. They have their own
language. They basically just copy Russia due

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lingo doesn't even have that as an
option, a lingo. I like her.

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She's a good pop star. Okay, the official language of Romania's Romanian

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has their own in your face.
The more you know, we should open

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it up at some point or all
day, even if you want to just

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you know, man, don't be
don't bogart the phone, you know,

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bowguart the airtime. But if you
want to shoot your load, Jesus and

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range, this is gonna be wheels
off all day, right, Yes,

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given that I'm half a bottle of
champagne, and yes, and this appears

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to be a California twelve percent Mike, I'm mandy to just swill of that

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because this crap I bought is not
good. Doesn't it taste like bile?

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Yes, it does. It tastes
like heartburn ish. Yeah, it's cold

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enough. That's golf, Andre my
Man fantastic two and four seven seven eight

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seven nine seven one All damn day. Jj'son there. Should be watching your

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phones, patrolling, have something you
know, have an angle, but WA's

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you far away and we have to
talk backs in the iHeartRadio. We'll probably

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ditch the hot mop like we normally
do it. We'll probably just air them

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all throughout the day because it's there
for you and I sell ye Mondale,

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do your best world serious champions in
Romanian. Get out of here, Get

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out of here, right out of
here. That's for Bartman. I wonder

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if Bartman's on Facebook. Leave him
alone. That's where you start. We

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don't need to get Bartman on the
phone for no reason. I think we're

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having up Rico on it. Eight
o'clock. Yeah, we have special guests

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today. We might have giveaways today. You never know what songs are going

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to be busted out today. Yeah, uh, hell, we may play.

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We may unearth a new Beatles haunted
what there's no way you have that

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it is an all morning party,
isn't it? Boys and girls. Let's

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see what JJ was doing. Was
she awake, rocking it, crying like

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the rest of us are just sound
asleep, and like I don't care.

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She was tweeting? Was she yep, she was tweeting, she was watching.

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I don't even know are we do
we even have the most important thing

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in the world, or that's just
all day long? Can I tease an

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angle? Yeah? I want to
talk about how I really do believe that

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what happened last night heals all open
wounds from what happened in twenty eleven,

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because I think that that ghost is
buried. I think that that demon has

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in fact been exercised. And I
want to talk about why I think that.

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