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Meshing One Leg Up With Fanatics Friday For the Love of Baseball · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, with the awful baseball season that
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  we've had this year, I wanted to say maybe we shouldn't be so jated
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  as baseball fans, because as last night proved every year, I mean every
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  year, last year with Aaron Judge's sixty two homers and last night more history.
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  Did you catch this? More history was made in the Major's thanks to
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  Ronald A. Kunja Junior. Take a listener, Ronald had assist center less
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  history and Ronald A. Kunja Junior just made history. He has Major League
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  Baseball's first ever thirty sixty season, and he does it in great fashion.
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  And what could very well be a playoff preview, The Braves and Dodgers squared
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  off in La last night, and A Kuni Jr. As you hear from
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  Braves on b Balley Ballet sports, made history thirty homers and sixty stolen bases,
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  and yes it was openly August thirty first. Now I'm looking up here
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  because obviously the king of stolen bases, Rickey Henderson, I mean Ricky Henderson,
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  who set a record of one hundred and nineteen stolen bases in nineteen eighty
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  two. And I don't know if a kune'll get there. But he didn't
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  have that pop you would think, oh, a stolen base record. Maybe
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  it's it's Ricky Anderson that that did something like that. I don't I don't
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  think you ever did. But roonoo Kunia Junior to make history last night.
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  It's just a message to Yankee and met bands who are so terribly jaded because
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  our organizations are a complete mess, that there's still baseball going on, there's
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  still playoff races going on, there's still history being made. So let's expand
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  our horizons. Let's do our own call up, if you will. Let's
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  expand our own roster of watching baseball. If our teams aren't doing it,
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  let's look out. We'll swear hell else. Steinburner looks like he's gonna look
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  elsewhere to evaluate this team. Why don't we look elsewhere to look at for
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  some baseball fund this September and maybe history. You know, my dad's favorite
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  team, the Cubs. They did not look like they were going to get
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  to the l Central to win the NL Central. Well, I'll be damned.
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  Here we are September first, and the Cubs are only three games out
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  of the Inno Central, and then of course we look in that Central still
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  and Harrison Bader. We're gonna miss him here in New York, but he
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  got picked up by the Reds and they're in a playoff race two. And
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  then my other I'm really keeping an eye on the Phillies because I just I
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  haven't infinity for Philadelphia. So it's always fun to see them do well.
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  It's always fun to see them win. And they're ahead in the wild card
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  race right now, up four and a half in the let me get this
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  right now, in the actual wild card they're actually the first wild card team
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  of the three. So this is gonna be a fun month. Let's not
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  let let's not let the disaster that's been the Mets and the Yankees twenty twenty
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  three year spoil the rest of baseball for us. That's my message here on
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  Fanatics Friday. Let's not let baseball be spoiled because the Mets and Yankees have
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  just totally disappointed and totally shocked us with their poor performance. We didn't expect
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  the million dollars arms of Verlander and Surgery get trained into the deadline, but
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  they were. You didn't expect Aaron Judge to go down for three months on
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  June twod but he did after crashing that gate in LA and the Yanks didn't
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  recover since. And their only hope is that they can end up over five
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  hundred at the end of this season. That's what their goals should be.
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  And maybe the kids calling up at Jason de Minguez and the Mets calling up
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  Mauricio, maybe they can provide some fireworks and some spark this month. Maybe
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  Old Timer's Day in that nineteen ninety eight weekend. We'll bring back those memories
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  of twenty five years ago. But the problem with New York sports is that
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  they rest on their laurels. I tell you all the time, I go
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  to the Masson's Wicker Garden and all they talk about is nineteen ninety four the
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  Rangers. There's gotta be a better way. And you know what, you
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  want to make this sitting nostalgic again, win again. You want to make
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  the city think about the great times, make the great times again. But
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  while we're at it, let's just not mope around this September. Let's appreciate
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  baseball for what it is. This is exciting sport. The Meritors Finny shot
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  up in August where they won twenty one games. They lead the division.
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  That AO West Division is incredible right now. You look at it. You
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  look at it, Seattle, Houston, Texas all in the running. But
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  we don't know that because we're too fed up with how bad our teams are.
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  But man, this is why I get Finnac's jerseys, because there's always
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  a team to root for. Call me fair Weather, call me bandwagon,
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  call me whatever. But maybe having a rotation of jerseys is not the worst
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  thing of the world because then you know, if one team tanks, you
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  can always pull out another jersey. Finanks had a great bit about the the
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  guy that put on the raised jersey because of Saint Louis Cardinals weren't doing do
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  good. And it's like, man, we should have playoff jerseys and regular
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  sites in jerseys. That way we don't get two bummed out about baseball because
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  it is our national pastime. And again, when you have moments like this
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  in LA history, I remind you, it just reminds us how great this
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  game is. Ronald has this so that center less history I had, Coon,
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  You Junior just made history. And what I like about that is Ronald
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  couldn't your Junior's health worries have been on and off, so it was good
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  to see him finally have this kind of season where he can make history and
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  be healthy and power the Braves. Look, we also don't highlight it because,
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  quite frankly, Met fans and Yankee fans are supposed to hate on their
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  division rivals. I don't hate the fact that the Orioles are killing it right
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  now. I think there are a fun bunch to watch. I don't hate
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  that Ronald couldn't you made history just because the Mets are in the basement or
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  so to speak, Yeah, they literally are. Because this is beyond petty
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  rivalry. It is beyond rivalry. Well that's not a petty rival but it's
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  beyond rivalry. It's about how do we keep interested in the game, and
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  if a late night game like last night in LA can be historical, we
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  just gotta stay awake. We gotta keep our eyes open because there's plenty of
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  baseball history to be made and we're not even done yet. It's only September.
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  First Enjoys this month. I know it's not looking good for our baseball
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  teams. I know that the Giants and Jets start up a week from Sunday
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  in a week from Monday night. But don't let disastrous seasons on the home
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  front ruin your love of the game, because there's always something going on in
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  this sport, and that's why I love it and that's why I'm committed to
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  following a little more. I think when when our teams have down years,
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  we just shut it down the rest of the league. We do, but
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  maybe we wouldn't be so miserable about it if we just opened our eyes and
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  said, oh, there is other playoff baseball. There is something else to
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  root for, And you know, I think it out. I think if
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  the Cubs were to make a run here for the division, that would be
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  special. I tell you, I do believe my dad's engineering something up there.
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  Because the Cubs were almost out of this by what May, and now
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  they've climbed right into it. They kept Cody Bellinger, they made a run
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  at this, they didn't trade anybody the deadline, and they are a playoff
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  contender. And that's smart baseball to keep your hitters where they are not tray
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  around and try and figure it out. So they are a team who definitely
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  keep an eye on. And then Philly, I guess myself. Spot with
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  Philly is that you know, Rob Thompson is still managing down there. They
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  just have a group of fun group of guys to watch. And for Baltimore,
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  Adlee Rushley and and this Gunner Henderson. I mean, those two guys
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  have been powering this Oriol team eighty three wins. What did we ever think
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  we'd see that? I was member the first eighty three and fifty. That's
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  baseball. And I know people got offended when Tampa was like, wow,
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  we can't really worry about the Yankees. We gotta win a division. And
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  look, people might be offended at the Raisers saying, oh, the Yanks
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  are not of our concern right now, but that's twenty twenty three. That's
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  the reality we're in. The Yankees are not concern to these playoff contenders.
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  And that's why how Steinburnner is now bringing outsiders to evaluate how to be competitive
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  again kind of strange, kind of worrisome. But do I dare say?
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  And how we trust? I guess we have to, right, I guess
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  we should. And it's tough for me because I know the Steinburner family is
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  so damn well and their connection with my family and eye and to see the
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  Steimerers struggling through this, trying to make it work. Now having to go
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  to the outside route. It's kind of sad. But in twenty twenty four,
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  I think we'll allot of these stimmers owning the Yankees. And obviously yesterday
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  Jerry Ryansdorff saying we're going to keep owning the White Sox as bad as that's
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  bid for Chicago Rhymes. Orf's not giving up. And when it comes to
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  ownership, I still think of the A's a thirty nine and ninety five season
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  so far, bumbling, plundering, bumbling around. What are they gonna do?
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  Fans show up and say sell the team. Unfortunately we've seen that too
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  here in the stadium. Not so going to sell the team fire catchment.
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  But you know, if the Ngngstones start winning, there's gonna be those calls
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  here too. Maybe this is just a blip on the radar, but don't
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  get two down on the game, because if you keep your eyes open,
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  you'll see history being made. Thirty Homer's sixty soling bases for the Atlanta Braves,
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  his own Ronald and Kuney Jr. And I don't care if he's a
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  division rival you're supposed to hate the braves, respect it, respect that kind
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  of history. Thirty homers, sixty soul on basis, I can only imagine
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  what September is going to bring for this game of baseball that we should all
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  still law and a door. One final thought on this show today, and
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  I will drop it in the links because of the one leg up feature.
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  I could with this in sports, but sometimes sports bleeds into my one leg
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  up feature and that's fine. Uh. I also thought this week, can
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  we have what I'm calling a changing of the guard in Washington? Can these
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  aids and doctors and people that are supposed to look after these elderly politicians tell
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  these politicians you're not unhealthy enough to do this? How does the How does
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  a doctor sign off that Mitch McConnell, after freezing up twice now is medically
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  cleared to do his job. There are too many yes people down in Washington,
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  and it's not giving the new guard a chance to thrive. And maybe
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  we should give that changing of the guard an opportunity. Maybe the political old
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  guards should go away, because, as I write on my blog at alex
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  GNYC dot com, what you're seeing the link below it's sickening to me that
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  they're letting these elderly politicians literally have health episodes in the middle of our right
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  in front of our eyes. Biden's bumbling around, mumbling around them, falling
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  around equated the MAUI fires to a kitchen fire of what these people are not
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  right well? And I know that the new generation is daunting. I know
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  that VIVIC is coming off as immature at times, AOC comes off as immature
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  at times. The supposed leaders of AN even today. Biden defended Mitchell McConnell's
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  health just now. But these other leaders newsome Verse Desanders. Neither of them
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  are liked. But we can't keep holding onto that old guard till they die.
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  That doesn't work and benefit Washington at all. And so that's where we
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  are. Politics is literally frozen in time, and we the voter, could
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  change that frozenness, that frozen nature. Maybe we will, highly unlikely,
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  but maybe we will. Maybe God'll wig us all up somehow and say,
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  oh, we gotta vote these people out because hell, Washington is not given
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  itself term limits. So now we have to each and every one of us
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  is out of making memes and complaining about it, get to the voting box.
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  Put your vote in. Change it, change the guard, or we'll
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  be stuck in this frozen nature for a very long time, and that's not
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  going to help us progress in this world. On that note, I'm Alex
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  Garrett. We'll talk to you soon with more interviews and more thoughts. But
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  please don't let a rotten season from the Yankees and Mets ruined your love of
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  baseball. Don't become too jaded so that you can't appreciate history on the diamond.
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  One more time before I leave you today, Ronald had us a solt
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  Center less history, and little La Kunja Junior just made history. Hello,
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  we can enjoy Aaron Judge's sixty two home run run last season. We can
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  ensure as heck, give props to Ronald Kuni Jr. For his journey on
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  the braves that's finally been a healthy one. Have a great day and enjoy
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  September. It's here baby, football, baseball, hockey coming up soon.
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  A little bit of everything. Kind of exciting if you think about it.
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  So let's not be jaded on September one. Talk to you later.