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ONELEGUPALEX VISITS WITH THE IRISH WOLFHOUNDS BASEBALL TEAM AT ST. JOHN’s on 8-15-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: We are alive at Saint John's where it's tonight it
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  Speaker 2: is the Irish American Baseball Society Irish Boat Foundains and uh,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take inside on the field here at Saint John's.
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  Speaker 3: Think and tonight they take on the courtoic.
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  Speaker 2: I have at Saint John's a beautiful night and you
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  Speaker 2: can actually see the Irish flag in the distance there
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  Speaker 2: flying over Jack Kyser Stadium, home of the once again
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  Speaker 2: Big East champion Saint John's Red Storm. And we are
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  Speaker 2: underway here in Queens.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I feel very connected to this team right now. Where
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  Speaker 2: is this place that Alex? We're right here in St
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  Speaker 2: John's University. You were in Jack Kuiser Stadium, home of
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  Speaker 2: the two time Big East champion Saint john d Redstorm.
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  Speaker 2: So they won this past year and I got to
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  Speaker 2: meet Mike Hampton, the coach of the Saint john Dred Storm,
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  Speaker 2: right on this field.
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  Speaker 5: And who did you interview today?
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  Speaker 2: I've interviewed, Uh, here's the pitch one of the coaches
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  Speaker 2: from Saint John from the Irish Saint n one of
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  Speaker 2: the Irish coaches I interviewed video actually on Instagram and
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  Speaker 2: they played the irishnational anthem.
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  Speaker 1: So you can hear that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll post that on my TikTok as well. It's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Lind's You're Italian and I am five percent Irish, but
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  Speaker 2: it's the best part of me because I'm German and
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  Speaker 2: Russian on a few others. But the Irish is what
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  Speaker 2: sticks with me, you know, even though it's five percent,
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  Speaker 2: it just makes I led to find me a little bit. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: here's the pitch, walk them and we are now a
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  Speaker 2: one room ball game. The Irish have the bases loaded.
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  Speaker 2: Now with one out, the Irish you're a queen at
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  Speaker 2: Saint John's University.
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  Speaker 1: That one's him and at all stop go basement when
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  Speaker 1: he runs good and I'm gonna mob him at the three.
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  Speaker 2: Version second.
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  Speaker 1: And Irish ball.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday, I'll remember the Irish baseball team wounds.
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  Speaker 1: What a winsa night?
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  Speaker 2: Guys, talk about tonight's game.
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  Speaker 3: Walk off guy, yeah, goals.
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  Speaker 2: To fit about. I think we have four innings to
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  Speaker 2: the basis loads that we strainded it.
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  Speaker 1: With how many pieces going.
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  Speaker 2: You want? I wasn't for me to wear the Irish
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  Speaker 2: on the chest.
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  Speaker 1: What's that like for you all, guys?
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  Speaker 2: Aaron, I love it, guys, well, good luck's the way
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  Speaker 2: all right here with Rob Blaney of the Irish. You're
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  Speaker 2: at Saint Johns University.
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  Speaker 1: What a win tonight? What's you mean to bring Irish
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  Speaker 1: baseball to Queen's.
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  Speaker 5: It was great opportunity for us to come here and
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  Speaker 5: get a win exactly. You know, it's always nice to win.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's you mean to wear the Irish across the yests? Like?
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  Speaker 1: What what's the.
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  Speaker 4: Goal with this program? Uh?
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's a great amount of pride to have
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  Speaker 5: this on just you know, let everybody know what we're
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  Speaker 5: about here and getting Irish baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Up and going and shout with John Fitzgerald.
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  Speaker 5: Right, very much, so thanks to John for for organizing
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  Speaker 5: this and getting us going here.
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  Speaker 4: All right, awesome, thank you Roving.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to mean to you all right. Bases loaded Kennelly
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  Speaker 2: with the game when he is What was that like
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 4: Felt good first day being and goes playing, but you
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  Speaker 4: got the job don in the second a bit.
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  Speaker 1: It was quite a game tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Back and forth a little bit, but just playing at
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  Speaker 2: the same john University.
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  Speaker 1: What did I like to do?
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  Speaker 5: I mean it was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna win our walk off. You can't make it
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  Speaker 2: out now I know a lot of these guys range
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  Speaker 2: from different levels.
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  Speaker 1: Did you play bogeball or we're sentis shoving in high school?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to college ball now, but no way, we're
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  Speaker 2: oh Brookdale. Yeah, very cool.
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  Speaker 1: So a little bit of taste.
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  Speaker 2: The college ball here, Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt good.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned early, what you mean to represent the
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  Speaker 2: Irish on the chest?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Everything, you know, just.
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  Speaker 5: Where I Irish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna leaves out a night.
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  Speaker 1: And for those that one that see this in one joint,
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  Speaker 1: what should they do?
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  Speaker 4: Like, what would you show me?
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  Speaker 2: It's a program we're joining, isn't it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Great programming?
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  Speaker 2: All right, right, thanks so much to you. Congratulations again
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  Speaker 2: coach Bawling.
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  Speaker 1: Are now in your jersey.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about this game tonight. Before the game,
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  Speaker 2: we're just talking about being here.
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  Speaker 4: But then you win it.
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  Speaker 2: You guys talk about the wins. I mean, what a
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  Speaker 2: way to win it?
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  Speaker 4: The way it happens is obviously you can't script it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's more exciting of the finished there. Getting
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  Speaker 4: to the finish was a little dicey and know we
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  Speaker 4: uh kind of gave gave away a few and he's
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  Speaker 4: in the middle there but for our guys to stop
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  Speaker 4: it before it went the other way. Uh, put us
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  Speaker 4: in position and just you have the winning run at
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  Speaker 4: third way.
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  Speaker 2: With the three under four runs on one it one,
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  Speaker 2: and then you make the change of them Boom. Things
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  Speaker 2: just happened from there.
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  Speaker 4: I think he started to happen from there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: our guys put up tough at bets. I really think
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  Speaker 4: the whole night. You know, we really didn't give any
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  Speaker 4: at bets really away, you know, and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: keep yourself in the position to have a guy like
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  Speaker 4: that like Hendley off the bench come in and in
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  Speaker 4: his second at bat, you know, hit the game winning.
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  Speaker 4: It was just.
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  Speaker 1: Aside Joemy King, what's that like?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, is be part of this program as well?
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  Speaker 4: He is. You know, I have not gotten a chance
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  Speaker 4: to coach with him just yet. You know, had an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to work with some of the other you know,
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  Speaker 4: big leaguers and having Ron DeLine in the in the
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  Speaker 4: dugout tonight, and you know, guys like Shane Spencer and
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  Speaker 4: you know Sean Casey and guys like that have coached
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  Speaker 4: you know, some Wolfhounds game over the years. It's just
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  Speaker 4: it's great to see it get attention from guys. But
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  Speaker 4: that's that caliber and hopefully we can keep growing this.
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  Speaker 2: Thame and obviously the WBC's on our radar will see
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  Speaker 2: if that happens.
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  Speaker 4: Right always is you know, there's there's a you know,
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  Speaker 4: growing that score in uh, growing this sport in Ireland
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  Speaker 4: and having more Irish kids play over here and over there,
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  Speaker 4: you know is the most important. But yeah, there's no
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  Speaker 4: doubt that WBC is definitely somept The one last thing
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned, but John Fitzgerald's architect of.
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  Speaker 2: All of the Guy does it all.
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  Speaker 4: Guy does it all, and you know he does it
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  Speaker 4: from a million miles away but still gets every aspect. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's incredible. He thinks you know, he's mailing me flags
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  Speaker 4: to get up today. You know, the guy thinks of everything.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, blessed that he's got faith in us
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  Speaker 4: to keep bringing us back and work with these kids
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  Speaker 4: and young adults.
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  Speaker 2: And uh and made you get that could you take
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  Speaker 2: clinic today?
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  Speaker 1: So you got but again long now.
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  Speaker 4: We had a fourteen you game, we did a twelve
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  Speaker 4: yew clinic.
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  Speaker 2: We had the game.
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  Speaker 4: We've been out here all day wearing the Irish gear
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know it's a it's a it's a privilege.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I ask you earlier what you mean to
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  Speaker 2: represent the Irish there.
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  Speaker 4: It's just incredible, you know, to see it, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: grow to what it is and to see the potential
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  Speaker 4: of what it could become. And you know, I had
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  Speaker 4: the chance to go over there last year and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: I'll get over there again next summer. And watching the
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  Speaker 4: impact the game has on on kids that I have
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  Speaker 4: never seen it before.
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  Speaker 2: Is absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Well, coach, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks appreciate up now, thank you