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Sonny Gray Discusses His Timetable To Return · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Holly and Mobile said it could have been a lot worse.
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  Yeah. I mean it's called for what it
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  is. It sucks.
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  I think yesterday was more was more frustration and also like
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  not like a ton of concern but also like a little concern,
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  right. Because you, you know, I mean
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  you walk off the field of the training and you're like no
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  matter spring training or what you're trying to be overly
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  cautious or what. I just, I I just threw that one
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  pit And then I was just trying to process of like what's what
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  do I do next? Do I just throw, do I keep
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  pitching and just say you know what's not that bad?
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  Do I just do I just throw And then I was like crap, no I don't
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  need to do that. And then I asked CBI was like
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  CB, can I throw one And he's like for what I was like I have
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  my hamstring grabbed on me a little bit and he was like and
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  then by that point I knew it was probably, I knew I would
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  probably done for that particular day.
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  So then from there just kind of talked to Adam, how I felt, what
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  I felt this and that and went to the locker room, training room,
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  did like a quick little evaluation.
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  My strength was was great. My range of motion was great.
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  It just felt a little, just a little tightness and was kind of
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  like, OK, so then we went and got an MRI last night and that
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  came back good. Nothing major, nothing major
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  concerning. Just, yeah, just a little
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  hamstring tweak on the right side, which, which is it, is
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  what it is. I mean, I don't think I I felt
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  felt prepared, I felt confident. My stuff was really, really
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  sharp and I think that was the frustrating part was I felt
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  like, you know you had thrown a game and now you had a full week
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  of getting into another game you you, you know and and I just
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  felt really crisp and really sharp and normal let's just say
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  normal and then you throw a pitch and that grabs on him.
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  You're like daggone it. But the good thing is it's not
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  like just talking to the doctors and reading Mr. Is and getting
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  evaluated this morning. It's not a thing where I'm going
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  to where I get completely shut down.
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  I don't think I'll throw for today and tomorrow and then pick
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  up a baseball again after that, which is somewhat normal for me
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  anyways. I don't throw the day after and
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  then with the off day tomorrow, I wouldn't have thrown that day
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  anyways and then we'll just kind of progress forward from there.
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  It's not, it's not overly concerning on my end, on the
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  trainer's end, on the doctor's end.
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  So those are all good things. But I mean there is a small
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  little strain in there as well. So that's just kind of where
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  we're at right now. But overall, yeah, you can say
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  overall I guess you could say it happened and it is best case
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  type scenario of of that, you know, I mean you knew it was I
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  knew it was something. I knew it wasn't going to wake
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  up and be like OK everything's everything's fine, you know
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  because I knew it was something. But overall best case scenario
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  of the something. I know you can't predict the
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  future, but opening day is 3 weeks from Thursday.
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  Do you still see yourself as a candidate for that Possible.
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  I I don't know. I think talk again and three to
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  four days and I think everyone in everywhere will have a
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  probably a better understanding of where we're at there.
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  I think everyone is under the same in the same boat under the
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  same impression of it is something that it is still, it
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  is still spring training, early, middle ish part of spring
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  training and fortunately there is 3 weeks until the regular
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  season, Regular season happens. But I do understand also how a
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  build up works, right? I've thrown 2 innings in 40
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  pitches and then yesterday I threw, let's just call it two
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  winnings again. So I do understand that in order
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  to long term success throughout the course of the season, there
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  is a proper build up that goes into that.
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  I guess it'll just be let's see how this progresses over the
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  next day or two and how quickly I can get back on the mound with
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  the with the exams like you know you're not going to if you're
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  going to take an extra day. Now if you if you feel like you
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  can throw a bullpen let's say on Monday, then you know you'll
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  probably throw it on Tuesday or Wednesday.
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  So I I don't know I I don't know how that how that shakes out at
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  this point. If it's in the cards for me to
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  to to to still do that, then obviously I'm going to do
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  everything in my power to to to make that happen.
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  But at the same time, having an understanding of this is the
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  thing like I'm I I still feel comfortable, confident in making
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  30 to 33 starts this year and then going into the playoffs.
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  And if that means that I don't go the first cycle through the
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  rotation, if that means I don't go the first two cycles through
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  the rotation, we have to be OK with that.
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  I'm not saying that that's what's going to happen.
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  I'm just saying If however, it ended up shaking out, we'll
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  probably know more in the next two to three days.
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  But All in all I I physically feel OK and it's it's it sucks
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  that it that it happened but at the end of the day it's it's
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  it's not that bad. Sonny, when you came out, you
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  were on the bench for a little while there, it seemed.
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  It seemed fairly calm and all. We talked to you, Dusty.
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  Talked to you. What's what's going through
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  there? I mean is there something
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  optimism at that point? Is it too early for that?
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  Is there some fear? What what's running three and
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  what sort of things are they telling me at?
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  That point, I was just trying to get everything out that I just
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  felt there for Ollie and Dusty and Adam, they all had the
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  proper information like in in in the moment of like, hey, this is
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  what I felt that way. So now today when we discuss
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  when you get an MRI and you evaluate like, hey, this is what
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  I felt this is. So we were just talking about
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  what I felt. And then, you know, I was like,
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  I just didn't think I should have thrown another pitch.
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  Could you? I said I think I could have.
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  I just, I just didn't know if I should have.
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  That's kind of just what we were talking about.
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  I I didn't in the moment. I didn't.
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  I I I wasn't like, crap. This is bad, you know, So I was
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  calm in that aspect of it as I didn't think it was it was bad,
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  but I also was like you know it, but I felt a little something
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  and and that was it. And then that was that was that
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  was kind of just what we were going through.
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  You right now when you talk about sort of the progression is
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  how long of a pause is that pretty much going to determine
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  you think how soon you can do, I mean like I guess if you could a
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  longer pause and maybe you have to build back up shorter pause
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  and maybe not so much of that sort of what you think going to
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  be the terminating factor going forward?
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  I think the determining factor is today I woke up and didn't
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  feel worse, felt a little, felt a little better than than I
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  probably than they probably expected.
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  Then I probably expected a little bit.
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  And where I'm at, honestly, where I'm at right now is I woke
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  up today and I hop on a bike and I can do stuff.
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  And we're already doing strengthening and stretching and
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  that stuff. And it's just like for me
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  really, within the next two to three to five days, it's just
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  about making as as much of an improvement on an individual day
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  as I can. And today from what it is, is,
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  is a, is a, is a, is a good day, is a good feeling.
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  And then just to make as drastic improvements at the beginning of
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  this thing is possible. But I, I, I I don't know.
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  It's just literally for me it's like having a good day and then
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  tomorrow having a good day and then the next day having a good
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  day and just evaluating each day on an individual day right now
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  and then come up with probably after the off day coming up with
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  OK where we're at and then maybe we can come up with some type of
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  plan moving forward of of what it's going to look like any pain
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  today a little bit but but nothing crazy you know just a
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  just a just a just a little you. Went through a couple of these
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  in 22. Yeah, I went through the same,
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  told them. That the paint's not.
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  Not as bad as it was then. No, it's not.
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  I remember doing this in 2022 of making a start in Boston and
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  same thing, right, Threw one pitch, felt a little grab in a
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  very, very, very similar spot. And I think yesterday that's
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  kind of. But also in that one I I went
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  ahead and threw like a couple more pitches made it through and
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  then I was kind of like I can't do this anymore.
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  I think that think maybe that was the initial yesterday was
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  like crap I've done. I felt, felt this before,
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  probably should just stop now and I think I was back in a big
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  league game 21 days after that. Obviously I made a couple like
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  make a rehab start before that and threw a couple bullpens
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  before that. Not to say that, hey, I'll be
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  back in 21 days, not not sitting here saying like I'll be back in
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  a big league game in 21 days, but that was it is somewhat of a
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  similar feeling. So I physically, I feel like I'm
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  in a much better spot now than I was then, which is a good thing.
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  And yeah, so he's in a busy morning.
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  That's that's just where I'm at. But I I I feel.
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  I feel OK. Sunny just that season ended
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  with a similar thing. Would you have pitched through
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  it if it weren't that point of the season?
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  Do you? Yeah, that season ended.
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  We were 20 games under 500. We weren't making the playoffs.
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  I felt OK when that season ended.
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  Because it was the same thing, right?
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  Sure. O'Connell.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
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  All right. Thanks, honey.
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  Appreciate it, man. Thank you.