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Speaker 5: I like that. I could go with that. I've been
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Speaker 5: No, I've never been arrested for anything and pulled over
Speaker 5: a few times. We've we had those conversations hand cuffed
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Speaker 5: There's you got NFL game tonight and uh, and then
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Speaker 5: Well, you've got you got the World Series starting tomorrow, Steve,
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, I've been I wouldn't say bad
Speaker 5: mouthing the Dodgers, my Dodgers, but I've been very not
Speaker 5: confident that they would get here right right, and and
Speaker 5: they're here, and I'm just saying that I'm a little
Speaker 5: surprised that that they made it.
Speaker 3: I think you gave them the jay HECKX, you said
Speaker 3: they're not going to get there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it must have been you know, maybe that yeah,
Speaker 5: a little a little reverse, little reverse psychology on that,
Speaker 5: because I just didn't think all year that they had
Speaker 5: the pitching staff have to do it. But what went
Speaker 5: on in the uh, you know, both in the in
Speaker 5: the Division series and then the Championship Series. You know,
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts just managed that pitching staff incredibly. A couple
Speaker 5: of bullpen games that they won, They a lot of
Speaker 5: shutout innings, and they're pitching obviously they hit the hell
Speaker 5: out of the ball because they were, you know, scoring
Speaker 5: ten runs a game almost, but more than that, just
Speaker 5: the way the pitching, the way he handled the pitching.
Speaker 5: I think they can win it. I'm not going to
Speaker 5: sit here and say they can't. They will. They are
Speaker 5: the favorite, They're favored. Yeah, there are plus I think
Speaker 5: like plus one twelve or something like that to win it. No,
Speaker 5: they're favored over the Yankees.
Speaker 3: I just have a fifty foot walk to the Yankees then, because.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Yankees are underdogs, and you know what, that
Speaker 5: would be a bad bet. Look, I'm an Arizona, an
Speaker 5: Arizona fan for life, right, We're used to getting to
Speaker 5: here and then having our hearts broken. So that's what happens,
Speaker 5: and and so you know, not so much. Yeah, well
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, you've been to the World Series a few times.
Speaker 5: But you know, as as an Arizona fan, I'm used
Speaker 5: to getting my heart broken when I get my hopes up.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of what I'm expecting this in this series.
Speaker 3: I was told by a Bernie that you're going to
Speaker 3: be on the road tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Yes, we bit the bullet, you know. My my incredible
Speaker 5: wife was just said go.
Speaker 4: You need to go.
Speaker 5: You know, my my brother ed Immediately, he's a huge
Speaker 5: Oger fan, you've met him, texted me after the game
Speaker 5: said if you can go, you need to go.
Speaker 4: Just go. Whatever it's going to cost, just go.
Speaker 5: And I and I'm watching the postgame show and they're
Speaker 5: talking about how the tickets are going to be record prices.
Speaker 5: So immediately went on the on all the sites and
Speaker 5: they were over a thousand dollars. Eleven hundred dollars was
Speaker 5: the cheapest ticket. I saw no upper deck seats for
Speaker 5: eleven hundred bucks. Fifty thousand dollars for the good seats seats, Yes,
Speaker 5: fifty grand a ticket. So I text her Mac, I said,
Speaker 5: there are eleven hundred bucks. I'm not going. He said,
Speaker 5: there's any way you can do it.
Speaker 4: You need to go.
Speaker 5: So the next day, I'm working at home. I've got
Speaker 5: the Dodger the replay of the Dodger game on. My
Speaker 5: wife and I are sitting there and we're both working,
Speaker 5: but the game is on.
Speaker 4: Do you have a tear in your eye?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, And I laughed. I said, I said, you
Speaker 5: know my brother Edward telling me we need to go.
Speaker 5: And she goes, what do you mean? I said, well,
Speaker 5: and I read the thread. She goes, then go, You said,
Speaker 5: then go? Are you out of your mind? She said, no, go,
Speaker 5: So I have money for you. Yeah, And so I
Speaker 5: text my son, I go, you want to go to
Speaker 5: the game. He's like, what game could you possibly be
Speaker 5: talking about?
Speaker 4: So you want to go to the World Series game?
Speaker 4: He goes.
Speaker 5: First he says, holy cow, and then he said we're texting.
Speaker 5: Then he says, are you serious? And then he said,
Speaker 5: asked how and I said, it's all your mom. Oh okay,
Speaker 5: And we got tickets twelve hundred bucks apiece, and.
Speaker 3: We're going nice. It's a nice day trip with the sun, trip.
Speaker 4: Of a lifetime.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Well, he's you know he you know, we went to
Speaker 5: the we went to the US Open and Peddle Beach
Speaker 5: a few years ago. To me, I thought, that's as
Speaker 5: good as it's going to get, you know him and
Speaker 5: I and he said, Dad, we may never do anything
Speaker 5: better than this.
Speaker 3: So that's one of your deals. I'm going to be
Speaker 3: gone next week. I'm not gonna have a show on
Speaker 3: Thursday or Friday because I'm doing my bucket list.
Speaker 5: I'm going to the Breeders oh Man yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'm leaving Thursday and getting there Friday for the
Speaker 3: first day, and then second day you can sear a
Speaker 3: friendly over that we've already talked. Yes, I'm looking to
Speaker 3: talk to Baffert and all those guys. Congratulations. That's cool too,
Speaker 3: That's very cool. So yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 5: So we were just there we go, just a couple
Speaker 5: of old guys getting some checking some things off the list.
Speaker 3: Right we have we're running out of time. You don't know,
Speaker 3: we've run it out of time. You got to get
Speaker 3: those things up. Hey, good, good to have you here.
Speaker 3: And the show has been a kind of crazy week. Uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know where you're at with the football team.
Speaker 3: What level of disappointment. Yeah, but there's a lot of
Speaker 3: people now it's become disappointing. Well I'm not talking about results,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about how they've played.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well both Steve, you know, I'm disappointed and
Speaker 5: how they've played.
Speaker 4: I'm disappointed and how they've been coached.
Speaker 5: Right, I'm disappointed that because because where Arizona, they're going
Speaker 5: through all these injury issues and all these things that
Speaker 5: are happening that that are working against against the program,
Speaker 5: and it's I mean I'm disappointed, But Steve, I'm kind
Speaker 5: of like I knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, it's because you're used to it four times, four times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for the four previous uh no, three previous, uh
Speaker 5: this fourth Yeah, four previous ten win seasons have been
Speaker 5: followed by not so good season season. Certainly not a expectation.
Speaker 3: If you have not listened to me at all, Jake,
Speaker 3: I said, this program is cursed, and this is another
Speaker 3: example that it's cursed. Whether it's coaching, whether it's performance,
Speaker 3: whether there's kids, whatever, it's just unbelievable what's happening. Because
Speaker 3: you could point this is kind of you can point
Speaker 3: to a lot of different things, right, if not all
Speaker 3: of them, Right, are the issues?
Speaker 4: They all add up to this. Everything adds up to this, right.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned the coach, and I totally agreed there's
Speaker 3: something there or not there. The players aren't living up
Speaker 3: to expectations or playing up to expectations. Uh so that's
Speaker 3: part of it. Yeah, maybe maybe maybe we all and
Speaker 3: included he overestimated this team with the new coach, with
Speaker 3: a new.
Speaker 5: Coach and some key holes to fill that are being
Speaker 5: very a lot tougher to fill.
Speaker 4: Than maybe we expected.
Speaker 5: Right, the Jonah Coleman leaving, right, well, they got some
Speaker 5: running back, Jacob Cowing him being gone, Uh, Jordan Morgan on.
Speaker 4: The line, you know.
Speaker 5: And then now you've got these injuries you got you know,
Speaker 5: Jacob Manu and and Gunner Maldonado and and and.
Speaker 4: Tragan Stukes and all the guys. Right, you got a
Speaker 4: lot of injuries, you know.
Speaker 5: To me, another big one was Bill Norton leaving the
Speaker 5: the nose tackle who left and went back to he
Speaker 5: went to Texas. So, uh, you know, I think those
Speaker 5: those holes have turned out to be bigger than any
Speaker 5: of us thought. Combined that with a new coaching staff
Speaker 5: and unfamiliarity, Combine that with you know, I don't know
Speaker 5: if what's going on with no Flafiita has more to
Speaker 5: do with system, or to do with over confidence, or
Speaker 5: to do with a belief that he can do more
Speaker 5: than he can anyone of a number of things.
Speaker 3: All three are very visible because everyone thought highly of him, right,
Speaker 3: So if you're thought highly and he can play, we
Speaker 3: see him play, right, We know he can play. It's
Speaker 3: just not doing it right. And it's not just him.
Speaker 3: The team mackets him with everybody with everybody. You know,
Speaker 3: you just see some balls that look, we're easy balls.
Speaker 3: Last year, you know, overthrows interceptions again, then you know
Speaker 3: this the whole thing of trying to do too much
Speaker 3: and those are leading to interceptions and fumbles and mishandles
Speaker 3: and things and just it's and it's all adding up
Speaker 3: to right now, with three and four seasons, what would
Speaker 3: you put your finger on as the most troubling.
Speaker 5: The most troubling is is the inability to scoringy points
Speaker 5: with the talent that they have. Yeah, okay, and again,
Speaker 5: how many aspects are there to that, right?
Speaker 4: How much of that is coaching? How much of that
Speaker 4: is system?
Speaker 5: How much of that is uh, you know, the personnel, right,
Speaker 5: the personnel losses and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: It's the case of and everyone talks works sometimes negative
Speaker 3: or whatever, but it's the case of Arizona. You can't
Speaker 3: have it all.
Speaker 4: What we don't The problem is, Steve, we never get
Speaker 4: any of it.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's consistent because you had a great last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get to have that, but that's all you get.
Speaker 3: Right, It's gonna take a while to get back to
Speaker 3: that level from year, right, because once you start losing,
Speaker 3: how do you how do you put the you know,
Speaker 3: the holes in the diet?
Speaker 5: Well, and this fan base is already losing its mind, yes,
Speaker 5: right again, it's it's it's it's a time of social
Speaker 5: media and and everybody gets to have a platform. But
Speaker 5: you know, there are even some people who you feel
Speaker 5: should know better who are saying stupid stuff because they can't,
Speaker 5: because they can't, because they can't, well, because they can,
Speaker 5: and get some gets people listening to that, right, It
Speaker 5: gets people listening to their podcast and reading their stuff.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: Again, the whole lack of journalistic professionalism that you and
Speaker 5: I have talked about many years. You and I would
Speaker 5: be covering this team differently from some of these other
Speaker 5: guys who are covering the covering and be more straightforward
Speaker 5: and asked the questions and get the answers and let
Speaker 5: the columnists provide the opinion.
Speaker 4: Right, No, I hear you, you know.
Speaker 5: But but the fan base, you know, people are already
Speaker 5: saying he needs to be fired right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, Like I've said with you and maybe others all week,
Speaker 3: is how much money you have in your pockets are
Speaker 3: gonna help?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: They're not gonna do there, right, They're spending other people's.
Speaker 5: And you fire here, and then what yeah, if you
Speaker 5: fire him, and then what who do you who's gonna
Speaker 5: come here? These are to a program where they fired
Speaker 5: the coach staff for seven games. It's not that bad
Speaker 5: that he needs to be fired right now. If it's
Speaker 5: like this in two years now you start thinking about it.
Speaker 3: This is the same people that don't contribute to nil,
Speaker 3: right to the collector or whatever.
Speaker 5: Look, am I incredibly disappointed in in in in the
Speaker 5: in the the performance of the coaching staff and the team.
Speaker 4: I absolutely am.
Speaker 5: This team should not be three and four, at least
Speaker 5: we certainly didn't expect him to be three and four.
Speaker 4: But there could be a multiple multitude of things causing that.
Speaker 4: Well you're three and four. They could be very well
Speaker 4: four and three. But it's how they're they're not even
Speaker 4: being competitive.
Speaker 5: The lack of the lack of competitiveness in these last
Speaker 5: two games and in that Kansas State game.
Speaker 3: It's like, no, no will to play well.
Speaker 4: The thing is, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: No will, no no will to play well. And even
Speaker 3: if they added in them, it's not going to be
Speaker 3: even close. But the thing is, Steve, you know it's there.
Speaker 3: Well you can because of the way they beat Utah.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 5: Utah is not the Utah we thought they were. But
Speaker 5: they still went up to Utah and beat Utah. Where's that?
Speaker 5: That's only we've seen that one time, right. We didn't
Speaker 5: see it in New Mexico. We didn't see it against NAU.
Speaker 5: We didn't see it in the three losses or the
Speaker 5: four losses. We've seen it one time. Here's the problem,
Speaker 5: so we know it's there. You have four or five
Speaker 5: more games, right, it can continue?
Speaker 4: Can it can continue? Or it can turn?
Speaker 5: I think I think again, this game once again is
Speaker 5: going to tell us where this team's mind is. That
Speaker 5: if they come out and lay an egg the way
Speaker 5: they did against Colorado again, then that's.
Speaker 4: Who they are. Different, right, then that's who they are.
Speaker 3: It's funny though, that we're talking about this there three
Speaker 3: and four and we're still giving them a little a
Speaker 3: little slack, right, We're still hoping.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what, well, had they gotten their asses
Speaker 5: kicked by Utah, right, and now they're on a four
Speaker 5: game slide or five game slide and showing no signs
Speaker 5: of anything, then you would know who they are. But
Speaker 5: because of that Utah game, you think there's more there
Speaker 5: than we're seeing.
Speaker 4: Somewhere.
Speaker 3: It's in there somewhere. Steve, you know you're a guy
Speaker 3: who can never live without hope.
Speaker 5: Well, Steve, you know what, as an Arizona fan, if
Speaker 5: you don't have that, you don't have anything, right, You
Speaker 5: got to have that.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about our guests real quick. We're not going
Speaker 3: to take calls today, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah we can. No, we're not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can't take calls. We are gonna we are
Speaker 5: going to get on the phone with Francisco or Merril.
Speaker 5: He's the Spanish play by playing. That's a good for
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Speaker 5: to I wanted him on today just to be able
Speaker 5: to talk Baseball World Series tomorrow with somebody who's you know,
Speaker 5: around major League Baseball. I also want to be able
Speaker 5: to give um some crap about the Astros. Yeah, well
Speaker 5: this is your time. I hope he's still going to
Speaker 5: call it. You know, we we we we poke at
Speaker 5: each other very well, and he'll, you know what, he'll
Speaker 5: he'll poke back at me.
Speaker 4: Well, I've got I've got a more recent World Series
Speaker 4: than you do. Yeah. In fact, he's got two. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I gotta give him that.
Speaker 3: Then in the second hour, we're gonna have a former
Speaker 3: U of a guy, Lamont Huntley.
Speaker 5: Right, Lamont's gonna come in, come in here and be
Speaker 5: here for the full hour with us, join us, and uh,
Speaker 5: I'm sure he's got a lot to say.
Speaker 3: He does what we've talked, and he kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: he doesn't kind of know the game. He knows the game,
Speaker 3: and it's he's going through the same frustration as everybody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he is.
Speaker 5: And so we'll we'll get Lamont in here and pick
Speaker 5: his brain a little bit on what he's what he's seeing. Okay,
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Speaker 3: Jay has come back to follow me. I can't get
Speaker 3: rid of it.
Speaker 4: I love it. J came back.
Speaker 7: J came back because the donors made it.
Speaker 5: Well, there's a little of that too, and I also
Speaker 5: want to poke you a little bit on that, Francisco,
Speaker 5: but I won't put But you know, as the Astros,
Speaker 5: as the Astros played by playing, I just tell us
Speaker 5: a little bit about, you know, your thoughts on how
Speaker 5: their season went. Obviously some disappointment, uh you know, with
Speaker 5: how the playoffs turned out, but a little your perspective
Speaker 5: on on the Astros and and how things went for you.
Speaker 4: Guys. We're losing you. We're losing.
Speaker 5: We've lost you a little bit, Francisco. Okay, we got
Speaker 5: your long getting a better spot.
Speaker 7: Okay, But I was saying that with the answers to.
Speaker 4: You are you're still hold on.
Speaker 5: We're still breaking up a little bit. I don't know
Speaker 5: what the what the issue is here, I don't know,
Speaker 5: all right, keep going okay and nope, yeah, we're still
Speaker 5: not getting you this.
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 7: I can hear you?
Speaker 4: All right? What about much better go outside?
Speaker 7: Okay? Okay, But what I was saying is that the
Speaker 7: games have to be played no matter who you are,
Speaker 7: and the Answers have a very strong team. I think
Speaker 7: it could have still made it all the way to
Speaker 7: work here, But Having said that, you know, things happened.
Speaker 7: We lost five started and started. That's no huge because
Speaker 7: every team goes through that, and so it's just we
Speaker 7: started slow and then we were kind of like the
Speaker 7: best team since from April twenty seven until the end,
Speaker 7: and we were down at like twelve games under five
Speaker 7: hundred at one point in time, and in June the
Speaker 7: Accents were ten games on their first you know, behind
Speaker 7: the sale on Rarners. But it was a tough one.
Speaker 7: But you know, I did well at night. I've been
Speaker 7: with the Assens when they lost one hundred, I've been
Speaker 7: with them when they won one hundred. I've been with
Speaker 7: the acwer when they look the World Series. I've been
Speaker 7: with the Accers when they win a World Series. So
Speaker 7: we've seen everything. And so it's baseball and we just
Speaker 7: have to enjoy the riots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So what is Jay's going? So what is what
Speaker 3: can he expect to be a fan of out there?
Speaker 7: You know what, Jay's going into a great situation. First
Speaker 7: of all, forty three years ago the same matchup happened
Speaker 7: with another one in front of the mouth. But besides that,
Speaker 7: it's two teams that are historically the most popular teams.
Speaker 7: If we could say in baseball, and they're going at
Speaker 7: each other. They've been building. They were both in the
Speaker 7: New York area and Brooklyn and in the Bronx. So
Speaker 7: it's going to be a great atmosphere. Plus you've got
Speaker 7: two great teams out there, talk about the best three
Speaker 7: players for each team. Come on, it's going to be amazing.
Speaker 7: So this is what I people tell me who you're
Speaker 7: going for. I tell them, I want to see a
Speaker 7: tiny hit a home run. I want to see Cold
Speaker 7: track them out. I want to see Cold get you know,
Speaker 7: I want to see somebody hit a home run up here.
Speaker 7: All I want to see Mookie bed steel a base
Speaker 7: I want to see Mooky bed get caught feeling. So
Speaker 7: for me, it's going to be great baseball. So I
Speaker 7: will enjoy the world.
Speaker 5: Clare as a fan, I mean, you know, stepping aside,
Speaker 5: trying to get a little bit out of my Dodger shell.
Speaker 5: But if you're a fan, you have to you have
Speaker 5: to love this. Yeah, there's those there's the people out
Speaker 5: there who feel like, well, they bought the you know,
Speaker 5: they bought these teams and that's why they're in because
Speaker 5: they have the most money. But in the end, Dodgers
Speaker 5: Yankees historically has been, you know, the matchup that people
Speaker 5: you know look for, you know, going into every year
Speaker 5: if your team doesn't get there, Right, I think the
Speaker 5: excitement of this of this series is off the charts
Speaker 5: and you have to love it if you're a fan,
Speaker 5: and I mean I get better when my team doesn't
Speaker 5: get there. But I'm pretty sure that if I was
Speaker 5: an Astros fan or a Padres fan or something like that,
Speaker 5: I would still want to see this series. I mean
Speaker 5: you you, as somebody who's in baseball, you have to
Speaker 5: feel that way, don't you.
Speaker 7: No, I do it, And to be honest with you,
Speaker 7: this is great for our industry because, first of all,
Speaker 7: the ratings is going to be very high. The marketing
Speaker 7: power that will be obtained by the two teams playing
Speaker 7: the World period will also benefit all of us. And
Speaker 7: I see baseball as you know, major League Baseball, as
Speaker 7: a company and all of us working in a different
Speaker 7: department because we're all one. I mean, we're in the
Speaker 7: industry and we want to see succeed it no matter
Speaker 7: what team plays. Yes, of course I love the ass
Speaker 7: I'm not only an employee of the Ashes, but I
Speaker 7: also root for the asses, and it's my team, the
Speaker 7: team that I'm a fan of. But but yes, you
Speaker 7: are absolutely right. You have to be gracious the teams
Speaker 7: that are paying each other because of all the other
Speaker 7: things around it marketing wise. You know that how many
Speaker 7: kids are going to become fans of baseball just because
Speaker 7: of this series, and so it's gonna be a great one.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you saw them a number of times.
Speaker 4: Each team.
Speaker 3: Uh do you know the records against the Astros? And
Speaker 3: what do you see in each team?
Speaker 7: In each team? Okay, think about this. The the Dodgers
Speaker 7: achilles heel was their pitching and take out their pitching
Speaker 7: during the postseason. Right now, the Yankees have a lot
Speaker 7: of power. Look at Stanton. Stanton strikes out of time.
Speaker 7: He was the m v P. So you're seeing different things.
Speaker 7: And this is what you call adjustments in baseball. In baseball,
Speaker 7: you adjust what happened to a tiny when he went
Speaker 7: off for sixteen or for eighteen. He's a great actor,
Speaker 7: so he had to make the adjustments because they already
Speaker 7: had his side, They already had a way to get
Speaker 7: him out, so he had to make adjudgments to come
Speaker 7: back and start hitting again. So it's a Hiss game.
Speaker 7: And what I love about baseball is that there is
Speaker 7: a game within the game that you must understand and
Speaker 7: follow in order to really know what's going on. So
Speaker 7: those are the things that are happening. I don't want
Speaker 7: to stay behind the scenes, but they're happening every day.
Speaker 7: He's making adjustments, and once you make adjudgments, you make
Speaker 7: more adjustments in order to be successful.
Speaker 5: So I did get to see a Dodger game this
Speaker 5: year during the summer, and you know, when shoe Hey
Speaker 5: comes to the plate, the buzz that he creates is incredible.
Speaker 5: You probably you saw that with the Yankees. I'm sure
Speaker 5: a few times. What's it like when Aaron Judge comes
Speaker 5: to the plate?
Speaker 7: Look, yeah, you hear that. And you know what, I
Speaker 7: don't want to bash into the Yankees. They're a great team,
Speaker 7: but being with the Astras into twenty twenty two, the
Speaker 7: extra swept them in the in the Alcs And so
Speaker 7: I mean you talk about when Aaron just s comes
Speaker 7: up to bad, it's like when you're not about it
Speaker 7: from the actual stumps up to best and you know
Speaker 7: you're gonna you're gonna feel you're gonna see this the
Speaker 7: day when you go to the game tomorrow. It's such
Speaker 7: a different buzz, the world serious buzz. It's something that
Speaker 7: just stays with you forever. I'm glad you're going to
Speaker 7: experience it because it's just something out of this world.
Speaker 7: People were telling me all the World Baseball Tlassic is
Speaker 7: better than the World Series. Now, believe me, there's no
Speaker 7: feeling like being at the World Series. It's a different animal.
Speaker 7: And I'm gonda you're going to enjoy it because it'll
Speaker 7: be great. And I'm glad. I wait herry fans would
Speaker 7: enjoy our World Series with their team because that's what
Speaker 7: the payoffs that from the players to the fans. That's
Speaker 7: what it is, and it'll be great. You're you're just
Speaker 7: gonna come. I mean, whether your team wins or loses,
Speaker 7: it's just a different feeling.
Speaker 3: I'm just hoping he brings me a souvenir, like someone
Speaker 3: should have brought me a souvenir from the Astros.
Speaker 7: I got a cowboy hat here for you.
Speaker 3: I still haven't sent me promises promise.
Speaker 5: I'm imagining Steve wearing a cowboy hat, no shirt, maybe
Speaker 5: some boxer shorts and some cowboy boots.
Speaker 4: What what would that look like? I would have had
Speaker 4: to have lost a major so so Francisco.
Speaker 5: You know, we lost a great friend this year, this
Speaker 5: last couple of days, Fernando val And I call him
Speaker 5: that because I feel like what he did for baseball
Speaker 5: and what he did as as a Dodger, and but
Speaker 5: like it's a baseball.
Speaker 4: In general, it was like he was everybody's friend.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 5: There have been some players through the years who have
Speaker 5: been like that. I saw that you had a picture
Speaker 5: on social media, but you had a chance to see
Speaker 5: him at a at a non baseball related the event.
Speaker 5: I got to meet him right before his rookie year.
Speaker 5: He was I was at a spring training game and
Speaker 5: he was going to the Dodger's bus and he was
Speaker 5: walking between a bunch of cars and I'm the only
Speaker 5: one that saw him, and I ran over there and
Speaker 5: I got an autograph, and I shook his hand and
Speaker 5: I spoke to him for a second. Uh you know,
Speaker 5: so you know, you had an experience with him, But
Speaker 5: what he meant to baseball and certainly what he meant
Speaker 5: to the to the Mexican American community, tell us a
Speaker 5: little bit about your thoughts on him, and and maybe
Speaker 5: you're I don't know if I'd call it a relationship
Speaker 5: with just your thoughts about him over all these years.
Speaker 7: Oh, Jay, you know what I got. When I was twelve,
Speaker 7: I spoke to English. Not that I sick English right now,
Speaker 7: but I spoke. I spoke to English. And so we
Speaker 7: wanted to listen to Tornando's games, and we I think
Speaker 7: I've told you the story before my brother found Kati.
Speaker 7: He remember for fourteen, Hey, we used to call three
Speaker 7: four four. I was a number when we used to
Speaker 7: come for that. For the course, we didn't listen again.
Speaker 7: I still remember that number. And so Fernando meant more,
Speaker 7: uh than it was. It was more than baseball. Right
Speaker 7: at the end of the day he was. Fernando was
Speaker 7: a social movement at that time in LA and California.
Speaker 7: You would hear a lot about repretations and Davadatta program
Speaker 7: had just finished and so a lot of people were
Speaker 7: getting deported and and and you would see that. But
Speaker 7: when when I came into the picture and you see
Speaker 7: somebody whose picture language would look like you, and and
Speaker 7: you know, he becomes a star. He goes into the
Speaker 7: White House, person called the maya right away. And and
Speaker 7: so you didn't see that before, uh, And so he
Speaker 7: he was a movement, not only in baseball, because the
Speaker 7: movement in baseball he he had what ten to fifteen
Speaker 7: thousand more people per stadium when he played right. And
Speaker 7: I've heard of all the GM saying that they wanted
Speaker 7: for another picture in that series when they visited the
Speaker 7: Cubs or the Reds or the ass Or or the
Speaker 7: Eggs or actually wanted him to pick up in Canada.
Speaker 7: You know, they act that he could pitch on that series.
Speaker 7: But uh, and then as a social movement, uh, he
Speaker 7: just moved massive. He gave people a lot of hope,
Speaker 7: He gave people opportunities, and people were became the only
Speaker 7: baseball fan, but became they became Fernando fans. And you know,
Speaker 7: if he could do it, what couldn't anybody couldn't couldn't
Speaker 7: anybody else do what they wanted to do? And so
Speaker 7: and the other thing is that around Latin America, not
Speaker 7: only in Mexico, but he he made a lot of people,
Speaker 7: a lot of kids and fans of baseball and out
Speaker 7: of and so nowadays they can still recite that lineup
Speaker 7: of nineteen eighty one for the Dodgers. And I mean
Speaker 7: I grew up a Dodger fan. I grew up a
Speaker 7: Fernando fan. I grew up coming a Turtle fan. You know,
Speaker 7: I knew the names that Tom Nidden's he or Jay
Speaker 7: Johnson who were not even started, but I knew every
Speaker 7: name on the roster that year. And then we go
Speaker 7: to trickle Kags in Tucson. I mean we could get
Speaker 7: the gum and we would get the Angels cart and
Speaker 7: the Dodgers cart. Remember that? Yeah? No, nice?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice. I think you said the word movement, which
Speaker 3: is a perfect movement.
Speaker 4: You don't.
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen very often. Yeah, a few people right
Speaker 3: in the NBA you had insanity.
Speaker 5: Well, let's say Kaitlyn Clark, right, I was gonna say
Speaker 5: if he was he was that for those of you
Speaker 5: who don't didn't see for nandomania. But you've seen Caitlyn
Speaker 5: Clark and when she's done, that's that was for nondomania
Speaker 5: right back in the day. Uh, if you were a
Speaker 5: Reds fan, I mean what you're you know, what was
Speaker 5: your Oh he was a vision of him.
Speaker 3: Just fantastic because they were the rivals, right, they were
Speaker 3: in house or in conference rivals. Uh No, fantastic. Having
Speaker 3: grown up in Santa Fe. You always wondered when he
Speaker 3: was gonna pitch. You wanted to see him and the
Speaker 3: motion that he threw because you didn't know.
Speaker 7: What he do like that?
Speaker 4: Who who didn't do that motion? Playing in the yard.
Speaker 3: If if if your brother here would gain them maybe
Speaker 3: seven inches uh in height and was the picture he'd
Speaker 3: be Fernando. He's talking about you. He's got he's got
Speaker 3: the gut.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, my brother, my brother Jean, is here.
Speaker 5: He said he got mistaken for Fernando. But I think
Speaker 5: everybody in our family did everyone.
Speaker 3: To just everybody had that kind of looked right, had
Speaker 3: that uncle, yes, had that uncle.
Speaker 7: Hey. But you know my brother was born in nineteen
Speaker 7: seventy nine and when he was three or four years old,
Speaker 7: we made him a lefty. He made a plo as
Speaker 7: a lefty, as a Fernandober we made it. Yeah, we
Speaker 7: made him a lefty. There you go and he and
Speaker 7: I think you talk about Fernando Mania. You still go
Speaker 7: to Disneyland and he's see Fernando Vealezuela's jerseys all over everywhere.
Speaker 3: Sure everywhere. You don't want the thing that's not talked
Speaker 3: about with him? You could hit yes, silver slugger. I
Speaker 3: wanted to say silver sluggers and stuff. Yeah, he would,
Speaker 3: he would pinch tack and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, absolutely, and.
Speaker 7: He liked hitting and my my broadcast partner, I had
Speaker 7: a podcast with him last night, so followed my podcast
Speaker 7: called Beyond the Mic on Facebook. I talked to Alex
Speaker 7: last night about Fernanda because they were battering me. Uh,
Speaker 7: Alex was a catcher and Ananda was that was a picture.
Speaker 7: Talk about some stories about him and some of the
Speaker 7: story of that going up to the mountain talking, but
Speaker 7: he said another it never wanted to leave the mount
Speaker 7: even though he was looking by four or five rounds.
Speaker 7: He said he was perfect.
Speaker 3: Well, he had a lot of shut off. Hey, Francisco,
Speaker 3: we gotta take off. We gotta take a commercial break.
Speaker 4: Appreciate Francisco.
Speaker 5: Thanks a bunch, man, And I know you'll be watching,
Speaker 5: so I'll wave to you from the from the upper
Speaker 5: deck where I'm at.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, heyay, I'm serious. Enjoying the heck out of it, man,
Speaker 7: I'm glad you're going. I appreciate it, joy, I know
Speaker 7: you will, and it'll be a lifetime experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were looking at it that way. Thank you
Speaker 5: for now to appreciate that for them though for now,
Speaker 5: Thank you Francisco.
Speaker 4: Well we'll see you appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, it's
Speaker 4: all right, Jay, are you guys looking? We do?
Speaker 5: We do, especially you. You'd like you to I did
Speaker 5: get mistaken from them by some kids one time. All right,
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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's send the schools somewhere.
Speaker 3: I saw you guys earlier this week because we'll talk
Speaker 3: plenty about football next hour. What did you guys make well?
Speaker 3: You specifically your brother Shure about the men's basketball team,
Speaker 3: and I didn't realize what you guys go through. But
Speaker 3: it's kind of, oh you heard us, It's kind of
Speaker 3: crazy change.
Speaker 5: It's like a yeah, my brother Jean, I guess said,
Speaker 5: who I mentioned is here. He's uh, he's sitting next
Speaker 5: to me at the games calling, uh calling the stuff
Speaker 5: on the court, and I put it into the computer
Speaker 5: and uh, yeah, these guys are getting the first hand look
Speaker 5: of what that sounds like.
Speaker 4: And it's it's it's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the numbers, numbers, and you don't there's
Speaker 3: no way you have.
Speaker 4: A chance to watch the game. No, I see very
Speaker 4: little of the game.
Speaker 5: Jene gets to watch it all because he's he's got
Speaker 5: to see it all, he's got to call it all.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I don't. I don't see as much
Speaker 3: of the game as people think. I know that the
Speaker 3: listeners don't give a crap of what I'm just going
Speaker 3: to say. But your venue has changed, your your location
Speaker 3: is right, it's gonna be a little different.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were thinking we may well not not me
Speaker 5: because I'm not the one that needs to see, but
Speaker 5: Jean needs to see, and so the far end of
Speaker 5: the court is pretty far. So we're going to bring
Speaker 5: binoculars to the next game and see if we need those.
Speaker 5: But we did, right, you know, I think we called
Speaker 5: a perfect game.
Speaker 4: I really do.
Speaker 5: I think we we didn't. I don't think we missed it.
Speaker 5: I don't think we missed anything. A lot of it
Speaker 5: has to do with actually what the uniforms look like,
Speaker 5: you know, things that you notice it on on on
Speaker 5: on Eastern New Mexico's jerseys, the numbers on the front
Speaker 5: were really small. So there are a couple of times
Speaker 5: that we Jeane had to hesitate to give me a
Speaker 5: number because it took a second to see it.
Speaker 3: Right clearly the lenses time or two. Yeah, So what
Speaker 3: did you what did you what didn't you see? Because
Speaker 3: you did see, but there's I didn't see more creevious,
Speaker 3: and I'm wondering, what the hell is going on? Well,
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, they're resting him. They got to get
Speaker 3: him ready. High ankle sprain apparently, is that what that is?
Speaker 3: High ankle sprain? But the and and he'll fit in, right,
Speaker 3: he'll get in. And yeah, the guy that I've said
Speaker 3: this a long a long time. I love the way
Speaker 3: Henry plays. I just hope he gets an opportunity because
Speaker 3: he can play. He can stretch you know, the stretch four,
Speaker 3: stretch five. And the kid who couldn't miss Townsend?
Speaker 4: Where did that? Very impressed by him? Where did that
Speaker 4: come from?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, again, you have to be careful because it
Speaker 5: is an exhibition game. The defense maybe not what he's
Speaker 5: going to see, those kinds of things. But when he
Speaker 5: hit the first four to three pointers, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: you have to be able to shoot, to be able
Speaker 5: to hit that, right, to hit that four times.
Speaker 3: In a row, Well, it gives you another option, right,
Speaker 3: because they have they have Love, they have kJ Lewis,
Speaker 3: they have Bradley. Now they have this kid, right, and
Speaker 3: they have Henry to stretch him out. I mean, they
Speaker 3: have more weapons. Well, and then I can't the the
Speaker 3: orso is that number three?
Speaker 5: He has a nice little shot. He's got he's got
Speaker 5: a little shot too. It looks I mean, it looks
Speaker 5: like they have some options. Now again, what's that going
Speaker 5: to look like when the defense is Kansas, Houston, Texas Tech,
Speaker 5: Iowa State.
Speaker 3: Sure, no, no, you're you're right. Though, when the competition
Speaker 3: gets steep, we'll see there's a lot to like.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 3: They're finished, they're picked finished fifth, right, yeah, twelve, Ye
Speaker 3: happened this week?
Speaker 4: Good luck?
Speaker 3: And you might want to prepare the fans to temper
Speaker 3: their emotions.
Speaker 4: Well they need We've been saying that.
Speaker 5: Look, Arizona, nobody's going eighteen and two in the league, right,
Speaker 5: you're not?
Speaker 4: You know you you you might win the league.
Speaker 5: I think they play twenty games, right, I think you
Speaker 5: might win the league with five losses. You got to
Speaker 5: you got to understand that you're going to lose some games,
Speaker 5: especially on the road. Uh, You're not going to go
Speaker 5: to You're not going to just go walk in a
Speaker 5: Kansas or Iowa State again those ones I mentioned, Houston,
Speaker 5: Texas Tech wherever and just walk in and beat those
Speaker 5: guys like you were beating Washington State and Cal and
Speaker 5: Stanford and Oregon State.
Speaker 3: What people also have to realize that McHale is a
Speaker 3: tough place to place, right you want to compass in
Speaker 3: the West, a great venue to play, and it may
Speaker 3: not even be the toughest place to.
Speaker 5: Play in the in the league, right And and they're
Speaker 5: you know, Kansas is used to playing in those venues.
Speaker 4: All these teams are states. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: They some people say that Iowa State is the hardest
Speaker 5: place to the hardest place.
Speaker 3: To play, especially when they're good. Yeah, and they're gonna
Speaker 3: be good. There's there's five teams that could actually win
Speaker 3: the league. Houston's picked to win at all, yeap, Kansas
Speaker 3: is right behind them, Kansas, Iowa.
Speaker 5: State's up there. And I think it's Kansas State, right,
Speaker 5: aren't they? Aren't they the other Yeah?
Speaker 3: And Texas Texas going to be there, right So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, again, Arizona fans have been spoiled
Speaker 3: all the way dating Steve all the way back to
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight when Arizona just ran through that through
Speaker 3: the league.
Speaker 5: That year they went seventeen and one three or four times.
Speaker 5: You know in the league that those those days are
Speaker 5: way over and people have to understand that and coming
Speaker 5: to grips with that, and come to grips with the
Speaker 5: fact that, well, look, Washington State came out here in
Speaker 5: be Arizona. Mchael's I understand that of Kansas and Iowa State,
Speaker 5: those teams are going to come in expecting to win.
Speaker 3: You talked about tickets with the World Series. I'm hearing
Speaker 3: too that the Duke tickets are going to be at
Speaker 3: least a couple of grips. Really depends on where you're at.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's good again, that that's gonna be a
Speaker 5: fun one. That's that could be the highlight of the season,
Speaker 5: you know, but.
Speaker 3: That's look put in perspective. If you're saying highlight of
Speaker 3: the season with others teams with this big twelve coming in, rightly,
Speaker 3: crap you, this is the time you need season.
Speaker 4: Dates, right yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: If you don't have them, good good luck, good luck
Speaker 5: getting you know, getting tickets to that game.
Speaker 3: Someone texted me, I don't know tuesdays, just Steve, can
Speaker 3: you help me. I'm trying to get tickets and I'm
Speaker 3: thinking you're about five months too late.
Speaker 4: Where you been?
Speaker 3: I realized now it's gonna be a big year. I say, well,
Speaker 3: where you've been?
Speaker 4: What rock were you living here?
Speaker 6: What do you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? What were you thinking?
Speaker 5: Look, we told you that, we told you this was coming,
Speaker 5: so you know, absolutely, you know, But Steve, I'm you know,
Speaker 5: it's exciting. First of all, you know, getting to the
Speaker 5: arena on Monday night, I thought, what the hell am
Speaker 5: I doing here?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: It's it's it's still October and we're and we're playing games.
Speaker 5: There's there's a degrees right, there's another one coming up
Speaker 5: this coming Monday, you know, and then then the stuff
Speaker 5: gets going.
Speaker 3: But let me throw another thing at you, and not you.
Speaker 3: A best men's basketball idea is going to be under
Speaker 3: the radar, wet. I'm not sure she likes it or not,
Speaker 3: but it's a great spot to be in.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, again the fan base has gotten behind
Speaker 5: the program. Okay, you hope they stay right. It was
Speaker 5: a tough year last year, but you know they got
Speaker 5: into the tournament and and and uh, you know they
Speaker 5: were they were very gutsy with the situation they're faced
Speaker 5: with with you know, personnel and all that. She's put
Speaker 5: a team back together, got a lot of new players.
Speaker 5: You know, we'll see what they look like. But I
Speaker 5: think for a DA, it's a you know, it's a
Speaker 5: moving to a new league. We'll see what that league
Speaker 5: looks like, look as opposed to the way the men's
Speaker 5: the men's league was. The women's league in the Pact
Speaker 5: twelve was you know, hardest league, arguably the hardest, the
Speaker 5: toughest league in the country. Now they're not in that anymore,
Speaker 5: but let's see what they got.
Speaker 4: Right, No, no questions, gonna have to play. It's funny.
Speaker 3: We have PG Brown on it yesterday the day before
Speaker 3: and it's the same with the women as it is
Speaker 3: with the men.
Speaker 4: It's tough, physical.
Speaker 3: Uh, you have to have some guts to play in
Speaker 3: it because it's it's a totally different league. It's not
Speaker 3: finesse anymore. Yeah, yeah, no, I I hear you.
Speaker 5: It's just, you know, it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 5: what what the what the what idea comes up with
Speaker 5: because it's it's been different every year.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: We know that she likes her teams to be tough,
Speaker 5: play hard defense. Uh, and if you don't play defense,
Speaker 5: you don't play you know, we were talking about the
Speaker 5: fact that, uh, you know what when one of her players,
Speaker 5: Maddy Connor, has gone on to TCU and she's you know,
Speaker 5: she's a star, right, Uh? I heard that she was.
Speaker 5: She was the player the TCU took for media day. Well,
Speaker 5: she didn't get on the court at Arizona. With all
Speaker 5: the offensive talent she had. She couldn't get on the
Speaker 5: court because she couldn't play defense. That's why she left,
Speaker 5: and that's why she left. And yeah, she's a star
Speaker 5: over their TCU. But how good is TCU? We don't
Speaker 5: know how. You know, Idea demands certain things and if
Speaker 5: you don't have those things, then you don't play. And
Speaker 5: it's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's go back to basketball. We can again. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have Littlemont Hunley at the turn of the hour
Speaker 3: here and we'll talk a lot about football, obviously with
Speaker 3: West Virginia coming in. You see, Well, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 3: this out to her before we go to basketball, that
Speaker 3: Saban's name was mentioned for West Virginia. Now, didn't I
Speaker 3: did not see that in a cursory kind of way.
Speaker 3: I don't know what maybe as an advisor who threw
Speaker 3: it out there. I saw it earlier today that somehow
Speaker 3: his name and had come up just to you know,
Speaker 3: because he's got a lot of coach he left. It's
Speaker 3: just not not the bs that he has to deal with.
Speaker 3: Everybody has to deal with it.
Speaker 5: But Steve, if he got out because of all the
Speaker 5: because of how college athletics has turned, I imagine it
Speaker 5: would be harder, Oh at West, at a place like
Speaker 5: West Virginia.
Speaker 4: But why would he want to get back into.
Speaker 3: You don't have that pressure of winning all the time
Speaker 3: and then bringing it back. Maybe bringing it back is
Speaker 3: the It was just a name. I mean, he's from there, right,
Speaker 3: it's just the name mentioned. I think he's from West Virginia.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I believe that's where he's actually from.
Speaker 5: And maybe that's maybe somebody thought that that was a
Speaker 5: natural thing, But I don't know. I I have a
Speaker 5: hard time seeing that well, I mean any more than
Speaker 5: I see you know, Andy Lopez or Mike and Dre
Speaker 5: getting back into this right because we've talked about that
Speaker 5: a million times.
Speaker 3: Okay, basketball won't last time anything else strike at you,
Speaker 3: uh that night?
Speaker 5: Now, you know, what you want to see is, you know,
Speaker 5: sort of a fluidity to to to what they're doing.
Speaker 5: You know, like like I I spend a lot of
Speaker 5: time watching jayde and Bradley handle the ball, breaking the
Speaker 5: ball up court, how the offense is running with him.
Speaker 3: I like him, you like him, But nothing's really changed
Speaker 3: with his game. No, it's still down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's still downhill. He's some might change it. Well,
Speaker 5: he's aggressive, all right, and he's gonna and and he's gonna. Uh,
Speaker 5: we got Vick in the house over here. He's gonna.
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna run the team hard.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 5: I was interested to see Caleb Caleb Love. He was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and Caleb Love again. I think trying to make his
Speaker 5: game better. He spent a lot of time going to
Speaker 5: the hole, right. He wasn't just taking just wandering out
Speaker 5: there and taking shots out there. He was getting the
Speaker 5: ball and he was going into the lane and and
Speaker 5: and and trying to make some shots. I thought that
Speaker 5: was interesting, that cut. That caught my eye.
Speaker 3: Well, there's lots of like they had their nine deep
Speaker 3: in terms of roster, with one hundred people on the
Speaker 3: side lines waiting to get that ain't gonna happen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see and Tommy, We'll see how Tommy handles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think more than anything, Tommy's got options, right,
Speaker 5: I think maybe more options than than than he had previously.
Speaker 5: You know, there were times where he felt like if
Speaker 5: Pela Larson and and and Keisha Johnson were out of
Speaker 5: the game, they were really limited in terms of physicality,
Speaker 5: right or uh, you know those games when when Kylin
Speaker 5: Boswell was having a terrible game, which he had a
Speaker 5: few of those, they were really limited. You feel like
Speaker 5: there's guys that can come in in situations like that. Uh,
Speaker 5: and again we don't know yet until we see them
Speaker 5: under the lights outside of an exhibition game and against
Speaker 5: a really good team.
Speaker 3: Well, what those guys are gonna look like? Even even
Speaker 3: for Martinez, Yeah, could come in and.
Speaker 4: I like him. I like the way, you know, again,
Speaker 4: a guy who doesn't.
Speaker 5: Appear to be caught, you know, overwhelmed, overwhelmed by it.
Speaker 5: He looks he looks a year older, ready to you know,
Speaker 5: play some meaningful minutes and and do some things and
Speaker 5: not just be a guy that comes in during scrub time.
Speaker 5: I I you know, he looked like a guy that
Speaker 5: I think now we we call him Rudy at the
Speaker 5: scorer's table.
Speaker 4: Okay, are we ready to go? We're ready to go.
Speaker 4: We're about We've got about another minute but I we're
Speaker 4: having fun up there.
Speaker 3: But if he gets five or six minutes a game,
Speaker 3: seven manes, I think that's good.
Speaker 5: But just somebody who can you know, or you know,
Speaker 5: a fall trouble guy or whatever. But I think he's
Speaker 5: gonna play. I've gotten the impression from day one that
Speaker 5: that Tommy Lloyd likes him oh a lot, very much,
Speaker 5: and I think I could see him get getting some
Speaker 5: getting some meaningful minutes. So I don't know, it's an
Speaker 5: interesting to see. All Right, we're gonna take a break.
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