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<v Speaker 1>Here we go, Here we go. It's another episode of

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<v Speaker 1>First eleven Dave Johnson with Bruce Murray. Yes, we have

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<v Speaker 1>DC and I a Columbus trew coming up on Saturday.

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<v Speaker 1>Click local home radio if you're not going to the

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<v Speaker 1>game on Apple TV. Of course, we're on iHeartRadio, the

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<v Speaker 1>iHeart Radio app and iHeart Sports DC and Bruce Murray.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think there have been enough opinions about the

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<v Speaker 1>US men's national team, so we need the weigh in.

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<v Speaker 1>And you, as a US Soccer Hall of Famer, you

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<v Speaker 1>as the one time all time leading scorer on the

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<v Speaker 1>US men's national team, we need to listen to you

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<v Speaker 1>listen to be eliminated by Panama, which has always been

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<v Speaker 1>for whatever is in a difficult side, just unacceptable. A

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<v Speaker 1>year from the World Cup, everyone is saying that what

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<v Speaker 1>is your takeaway?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm one hundred percent with him. Landon Donovan came out

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<v Speaker 2>with it with a great take and he said, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm tired of the Golden Generation. And he said, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>these guys are at the big clubs because of the

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<v Speaker 2>people that came before them, and now the American players

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<v Speaker 2>cheap labor, so they work hard and all that stuff, so,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, for for for us to keep going back

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<v Speaker 2>to this great generation. I I watched Canada play and

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<v Speaker 2>I said to myself, man, that looked like the teams

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<v Speaker 2>I played for in the nineties, right, just willing to

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<v Speaker 2>you know, you know, lay it on, you know, leave

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<v Speaker 2>it on the field, right. You know, if I passed out,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I got I died on the field, I'd

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<v Speaker 2>take it, you know. But that's what Canada plays like,

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<v Speaker 2>and that's how we used to be, and it's just

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<v Speaker 2>so disappointing. The other thing, Dave that bothers me is,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we have this rotation of hundreds of players

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<v Speaker 2>it seems like coming in all the time, and there's

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<v Speaker 2>a new flavor of the month. Get rid of that

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<v Speaker 2>nonsense and stick to a group and give those guys

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<v Speaker 2>ten games together, do something. But you can't just go

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<v Speaker 2>around and around, and it's just not That is not

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<v Speaker 2>going to work. And right now the alarm bell should

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<v Speaker 2>be ringing because the United States has to figure out

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<v Speaker 2>a way to play that's going to be successful. I

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<v Speaker 2>watched the game yesterday. Sorry for the long day answer,

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<v Speaker 2>but I watched the game yesterday. I watched Israel play

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<v Speaker 2>Norway and I watched the Israeli team and the Norwegian

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<v Speaker 2>team taken on players for fun and if they lost it,

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<v Speaker 2>other guys would be there trying and recuperate the ball.

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<v Speaker 2>We are stale. We get a chance to run at

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<v Speaker 2>somebody with the ball and we're panicking and we give

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<v Speaker 2>it to the next guy. Stop passing the responsibility and

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<v Speaker 2>take on the responsibility. If you're not good enough, it'll

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<v Speaker 2>show right.

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<v Speaker 1>And by the way, it's still a great generation of

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<v Speaker 1>talent and players, but that doesn't always equal to national

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<v Speaker 1>team's success. You can point to several other countries England, Belgium, Spain,

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<v Speaker 1>they talk about a golden generation. Often that is a

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<v Speaker 1>sure sign that they're going to underperform. That's not a

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<v Speaker 1>great moniker, it seems when you talk about a golden generation.

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<v Speaker 1>I think what you're getting at here is there's two

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<v Speaker 1>different things there. There's talent, and it's great that you're

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<v Speaker 1>having all these players all of these places at big clubs.

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<v Speaker 1>But we're talking about winning the World Cup and having

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<v Speaker 1>a national team, and so those are two separate issues.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, no question about it. Uh, the way we're

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<v Speaker 2>playing right now and we're gonna we're gonna struggle to

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<v Speaker 2>get out of of you know, the group. In fact,

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<v Speaker 2>it would have been tough for us to qualify it

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<v Speaker 2>unless we were you know, obviously we're hosting the World Cup.

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<v Speaker 2>There has to be an immediate fix, and it has

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<v Speaker 2>to you know, go back to the what what is

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<v Speaker 2>the United States best at? Right We're best at working

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<v Speaker 2>or we will work out work anybody. But I don't

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<v Speaker 2>see that with this group right now. And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>people can chrish now you're an old guy and used

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<v Speaker 2>to play on the team and all that nonsense. Here,

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<v Speaker 2>you guys, that's not true because when I played on

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<v Speaker 2>this team, there was guys that would work their socks off,

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<v Speaker 2>but there was also guys, uh you know that could play.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you got your Cat Ramos, you had John Harks,

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<v Speaker 2>you had Eric Wanalda. You know, you always have players.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you watch Canada and you watch Panama, they

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<v Speaker 2>they are they're trying to win every single ball. And

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<v Speaker 2>it just seems to me that we're not that team.

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<v Speaker 2>And we've got to get a little bit of dog

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<v Speaker 2>in our game because right now, if we don't get

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<v Speaker 2>things fixed, we're going to be an early exit in

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<v Speaker 2>the World Cup.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, is there time to fix it, and is the

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<v Speaker 1>key develop a core group and develop an identity.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there is, there is time to fix it, but

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<v Speaker 2>it has to be a core group, and it has

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<v Speaker 2>to the experimentation has to stop. It's been going on

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<v Speaker 2>for the last six years. You know, I'm tired of it.

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<v Speaker 2>I know Landon Donovan was talking about the other day.

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<v Speaker 2>It's really easy to see. You cannot keep bringing players

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<v Speaker 2>in and that's going to be the new answer. That

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't work. You have to give these guys or a

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<v Speaker 2>semblance of the team that you want and shut the

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<v Speaker 2>shop off. Man. Okay, I heard this player is good

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<v Speaker 2>and he's playing over in Norway. Forget about it. We

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<v Speaker 2>need to go with the guys we got. We don't

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<v Speaker 2>have a whole lot of time.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's switch to DC and I. DC and I

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<v Speaker 1>coming off a loss, to put it mildly, to Orlando

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<v Speaker 1>and I, it was just a bad night, and for

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<v Speaker 1>head coach Toyla saying.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think that we were set up well enough

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<v Speaker 3>tonight to really be organized to prevent a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>the spaces that Orlando was able to find early in

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<v Speaker 3>the match. And I'll start there, you know, and that

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<v Speaker 3>man I take ownership of that. There's no doubt about that.

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<v Speaker 3>You know. I want the players to come back in

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<v Speaker 3>and be ready to fight and be ready to get

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<v Speaker 3>ready for Columbus next week. That's really what I care about,

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<v Speaker 3>because we have to have the type of self reflection

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<v Speaker 3>that's going to help us prepare for next week and

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<v Speaker 3>move past this, because honestly, there were some moments in

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<v Speaker 3>the game that I think we can build off of.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's not completely you know, it's not completely one

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<v Speaker 3>that we just move away from and say there wasn't

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<v Speaker 3>anything in it that we can show to continue to

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<v Speaker 3>build on. But in the end, Orlando City was much

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<v Speaker 3>better than us tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>You heard the College of troyl Is saying he was

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<v Speaker 1>talking about just not being ready in the right shape.

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<v Speaker 1>He did think there was some things to build off of,

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<v Speaker 1>but in general, just a bad night. So as you

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<v Speaker 1>try to transition to a tough opponent on Saturday, your

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<v Speaker 1>thoughts on how this team can be better prepared.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the things that really jumped out at me

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<v Speaker 2>was our full back play, which is which is one

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<v Speaker 2>of our strengths, actually became our weakness the other night

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<v Speaker 2>because we got caught up the field and so we

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<v Speaker 2>have to find out a way when we're playing these

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<v Speaker 2>teams that can really hit you on the counter. I

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<v Speaker 2>mean the Orlando is the second best scoring team in

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<v Speaker 2>the league, and they also remind me of Inner Miami.

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<v Speaker 2>Once they win the ball and they go, they go,

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<v Speaker 2>they're like, they're like in one hundred miles an hour.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got to figure out a way to get another

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<v Speaker 2>player into the middle of the field to slow those

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<v Speaker 2>things down. And we didn't do that, and our full

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<v Speaker 2>backs got caught up the field when these counters went,

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<v Speaker 2>so it was really difficult.

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<v Speaker 1>So learning lesson or should our alarm bells be going off?

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<v Speaker 2>No? No, I think it's a learning lesson because you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, you've got to see it before it happens,

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<v Speaker 2>so we'll know going forward if this happens. Wait, we've

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<v Speaker 2>got to count attacking team. Okay, let's do this. We

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<v Speaker 2>know what to do now. We got hammered that that

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<v Speaker 2>game back in Orlando. You guys, remember that game. This

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<v Speaker 2>is how we're going to do it. We'll say this though,

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<v Speaker 2>they've got four or five of the best attacking players

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<v Speaker 2>in the league, Dave, you know, in Muriel and Goulo

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<v Speaker 2>Paso Leach, I mean possibly scored a goal in Croatian.

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<v Speaker 2>You won't see a better goal this year. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>he cut Insigne on his left foot and just murdered

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<v Speaker 2>into the upper corner. Kim never had a chance. Kim

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<v Speaker 2>had a good game actually, because it wasn't for him,

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<v Speaker 2>it might have been a few more.

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<v Speaker 1>All right. The thoughts of Bruce Mario, the national team

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<v Speaker 1>DC A not in again. We're with you on Saturday,

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<v Speaker 1>us on first eleven,