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Jim Penders - Villanova May 16 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: You know, you the senior day. I had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of emotion there for the guys who are going to
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  Speaker 1: do this for the last time at home. But you
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  Speaker 1: fall behind quickly, two runs, then four runs. Never easy
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  Speaker 1: to come from beyond, even in any sport, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: in baseball even harder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just I mean, the the park was
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  Speaker 2: playing offensively today, and I thought we, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: we could hold him, we were gonna come back. And
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  Speaker 2: then it get a couple of another big inning and
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  Speaker 2: then it was gonna be a lot tougher. We have
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  Speaker 2: not done a great job of coming back on people
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  Speaker 2: all year, and and you know, they got out ahead
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  Speaker 2: of us pretty pretty well there, and just we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have enough to get it done. I liked what we
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  Speaker 2: had coming up in the ninth inning. I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of hoping they stuck with there with more and because
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  Speaker 2: I thought this, I mean not that he wasn't affected.
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  Speaker 2: He was, but I felt like the second time our
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  Speaker 2: guys would see him, we we'd get better swings. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Jackson, Jackson had some nice cuts. He's been
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  Speaker 2: so great, and you know, he hit the ball hard.
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  Speaker 2: Just what are you gonna do with double play ball?
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  Speaker 2: And but we had our right guys up and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it just didn't didn't happen today, And can't
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  Speaker 2: tarnish you know, it stinks to not you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: playing for the number one seed and and we don't
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  Speaker 2: get that done for the second time, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: two years. But it can't tarnish the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: know one nine of our end was nine of our
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  Speaker 2: last ten Bigies games something like that, and close the
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  Speaker 2: season strongly. I would have liked to have played much
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  Speaker 2: better at home. You know, we had a great crowd
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  Speaker 2: today and sent him home. Disappointed that was that was
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  Speaker 2: a bumber, But I mean we've got It's the first
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  Speaker 2: time we've had a losing record at Elliott Ballpark. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't even close to losing records in the years past.
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  Speaker 2: So that's disappointing. But again, it can't tarnish we've got it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a big game to prepare for if Xavier,
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  Speaker 2: I guess Xavier's ahead, if they hold on, yeah right now,
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  Speaker 2: so you know we'll have a home home game at
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  Speaker 2: the Xavier Invitational.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that means they're gonna play at night. If
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  Speaker 1: you play Xavier, right you're under the lights, we'll have
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  Speaker 1: the night game. Does that matter if getting us getting
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  Speaker 1: the first game and in a tournament like that, or
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  Speaker 1: getting the game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I think we've won it both ways. I
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  Speaker 2: think we've won it playing the first game of the
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  Speaker 2: day on Wednesday and also in the second game, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. So no, it can't matter. It's Xavier's
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  Speaker 2: good ball club. I mean, it could be creating to
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  Speaker 2: who knows who's gonna win that game. But we got
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  Speaker 2: four quality ball clubs in in Prosco Park and we've
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  Speaker 2: beaten them all. You know. We we we took two
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  Speaker 2: out of three against two of the two of the teams,
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  Speaker 2: and we owe Saint John's one. We let one get
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  Speaker 2: away against Sint John's. But there are all three quality
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  Speaker 2: teams that we're gonna have to play well better than today,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if we're gonna win a champion another championship.
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  Speaker 1: It's up to pick a favorite next week. But let's
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  Speaker 1: get back to this game for a second. Oliver Pudvar
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  Speaker 1: and you're starting Trio fourteen starts each solid pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every single time, but not today. You know, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: want to see it every day, but it doesn't happen today.
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  Speaker 1: As you're sitting in the dugout, are you seeing something?
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying, boy? I don't know, Maybe he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have it. Maybe I gotta go get him what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a one pitch guy for the most part. Today.
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  Speaker 2: He just couldn't locate his secondary stuff. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: threw a couple of good secondary pitches in the first
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  Speaker 2: inning and he got bald on him the umpire a
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  Speaker 2: couple of really close ones, and and that can't affect you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it affected him. But when they when
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  Speaker 2: you don't see him called strikes, maybe there's not as
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  Speaker 2: much conviction behind the pitches. I don't want to say that.
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  Speaker 2: And you got to talk to him, but he just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't himself today. Just you know, he left a couple
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  Speaker 2: of balls up, and he is a flyball guy. When
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  Speaker 2: the wind's blowing out, it's not exactly great conditions, but
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  Speaker 2: he has he has pitched effectively with the sinking fastball too,
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  Speaker 2: So that's something that he really needed and he developed
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  Speaker 2: for the second half of the year. Today it just
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  Speaker 2: wasn't sicking enough and a couple guys got some good
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  Speaker 2: swings offer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's never fun.
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  Speaker 2: And then when we got you know, we'd get the
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  Speaker 2: three back, and then they have another beginning and it
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  Speaker 2: was a real momentum killer. So and then Shaw wasn't
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  Speaker 2: really sharp either. With a bright side the bright spot
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  Speaker 2: today two outings in a row. Garret Arbinski's usable, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and more than more than that, he found a sinker
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  Speaker 2: in the second the last part of the year, and
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  Speaker 2: he's usable, and we're gonna need those. We're absolutely gonna
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  Speaker 2: need that those ground balls in Prosco Park.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny you say that as I think of Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hurley during the basketball season once in a while saying
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  Speaker 1: to a guy, you're not playable right now. I can't
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  Speaker 1: play you. You know, the coaches play guys are gonna help.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys make out the lineup, I don't. They
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  Speaker 2: make out the rotation, I don't. And they have to
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  Speaker 2: understand this performance base. That's very difficult for some guys
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  Speaker 2: when they first get here, especially freshmen, have a hard
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  Speaker 2: time with that because it's just it's like they've always played,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and they've never used to get being on
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  Speaker 2: the bench, and even you know, travel ball, they're used
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  Speaker 2: to getting their two at bats, even if they stink.
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  Speaker 2: And his dad's check, as long as it doesn't balance,
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  Speaker 2: is good enough for two at bats or three innings pitched.
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  Speaker 2: And so some guys have trouble with that early. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we have anybody on our roster right
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  Speaker 2: now that has trouble with that. You know, I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to go out there with twenty seven. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have thirty four players, which is great. Twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: will be eligible for the games, and I'll have a
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  Speaker 2: big dugout and I'm excited to see these guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: see what they can do, you know, in games that
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  Speaker 2: are with our backs up against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one play to review in my mind, the play
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  Speaker 1: to end an ending. Y're on defense and you throw
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  Speaker 1: from short to third to get the last out of
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  Speaker 1: the inning. And at first, when it happens, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like no problem. Yeah the guy is gonna be out.
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  Speaker 1: But then the ball gets fumbled. You don't get an out,
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  Speaker 1: you give up a run. Sometimes baseball is a strange game.
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  Speaker 1: But do you have to play it by the fundamental
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  Speaker 1: theory of let's get the out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not be trying to short. Yeah he short changed it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't even ask Robbie. You know, I've
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  Speaker 2: got a ton of respect for him. He's a gamer
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  Speaker 2: and a warrior. And I think he made a mental mistake.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I think he knew the outs. I
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  Speaker 2: think he knew there were two outs. He's just like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a short, we'll just go there. You know, that
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  Speaker 2: kid's one of their fastest runners. He's coming in the
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  Speaker 2: third base powerfully. He's having a really hard slide, which
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  Speaker 2: is exactly how you should play baseball. And the ball
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  Speaker 2: it's away from Delana, so there are two screw ups
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  Speaker 2: on it. You know, ball's got to be secured, but
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  Speaker 2: but Robbie can't throw it there. Robbie's got to throw
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  Speaker 2: it the first base for the for the last out
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  Speaker 2: of the inning. So that costs You're right, it cost
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  Speaker 2: us a run. Thankfully, Garrett made some pitches a couple
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  Speaker 2: of pitches after that where it didn't. It could have
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  Speaker 2: cost us two more with a single there, but he
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  Speaker 2: stopped the bleeding and gave it. I was very impressed
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  Speaker 2: with him. I thought he was pitching with confidence and
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  Speaker 2: it was fun watching him compete. So that's the positive
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  Speaker 2: taken out. And you know, I mean We did some
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  Speaker 2: things early. We had some two out knocks. We had
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  Speaker 2: a three run inning started with Gabby Toronto single and
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  Speaker 2: and had nobody on two outs and managed to score
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  Speaker 2: three runs. So that bodes well for the coming tournament.
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  Speaker 2: But we needed a couple more crooked numbers and innings
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't get them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, your Cup falls nine to six thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Jim Penders. We'll see you in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Thank Let's go get him. You got it.
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  Speaker 1: All get to is win the first one, then the
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  Speaker 1: second one.