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Talkin' Sports with Tommy Krysan · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  Welcome to Tigs Bits. This week we're going to talk a
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  little sports. With football season closing in
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  on US Major League Baseball heating up, I thought, look, we
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  need to we need to take a dive into it.
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  Get some take some predictions from one of the best authorities
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  that I know in sports media. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
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  back to TIGS Bits. Mr. Tommy Cry Sand.
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  TK, thank you so much for coming on today, Coming back in the
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  studio with us. You've been doing all right.
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  You ready? Are you ready?
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  I'm ready. I'm always sitting on ready and
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  I appreciate you having me on. It's always fun to visit with
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  you on the show and off the show.
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  So, hey, the sports world's full speed ahead.
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  Oh man, is it not? It is.
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  It is absolutely, absolutely wide open.
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  It's like you go the whole summer, things just drip.
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  You get a little bit here and there.
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  You hit August and it's wide open, which I I love and I know
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  you do too. But before we, before we dive
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  into all of that and I want to let everybody know, yes, Tommy
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  and I are going to talk a little bit about LSU, but no, this is
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  not going to be an all LSU show. I wish it was.
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  I could talk about it all day, but I know that we have
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  listeners and all across the United States and the world.
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  Now, Tommy, it's insane. But I want to just want to make
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  that clear. We're going to talk a little bit
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  about the Tigers, but I want to talk about the SEC as a whole,
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  kind of get your thoughts and predictions, talk a little
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  baseball, of course, I know that you love baseball.
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  I do too. And then and then talk a little
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  bit about the NFL as well. But before we start Tommy, I
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  have to remind everybody you were on the show last October
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  and you made some bold predictions you know and they
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  were bold at the time especially.
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  And looking back we're not even a year removed from this and you
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  made the prediction you said Kill Mulkey, Jay Johnson and
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  Brian Kelly would all win national championships within
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  their tenure at LSU. Well we're we got two out of the
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  three out of the way with in less than a year.
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  Unbelievable. Just.
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  But but I knew you meant it at the time, too.
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  And wow, they really have. They really, they brought it.
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  Coach Mulkey's brought it. Jay Johnson and the boys, of
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  course, was unbelievable. But great job on predicting
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  that, TK. Well, in a way I I don't want to
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  say it was easy and it it was bold and it was going out on a
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  limb a little bit. But here here's what got me to
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  that. One of the things that got me to
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  that, you know, there are a lot of good football coaches, good
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  sports coaches in in this country at all levels.
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  There's a lot of great coaches. You know, in high school,
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  college, professional, minor leagues, I mean there's some,
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  there's some absolutely great coaches, all sports, men, women,
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  it's there. Then there's a small group of
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  what I describe or I agree, I agree with the description of
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  there are elite coaches, Okay. The best of the best.
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  Kim Mulkey is an elite coach. Okay, there's not many like her,
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  a lot of great coaches. She's elite.
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  Jay Johnson is an elite coach. There's not many like him.
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  There's a lot of great coaches. Brian Kelly, I believe, fits
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  that category of elite coach. He won 4 / 40 football games
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  with Ian booking quarterback at Notre Dame.
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  I mean, come on. So he's now got it.
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  Says a lot. He's literally got probably
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  being being realistic. He's got 25 to 30% better
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  talent. Than he had at Notre Dame and he
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  won a lot of football games at Notre Dame.
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  He pushed a lot of guys into the NFL.
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  Yeah, OK, so he has an elite coach and I and I've said this
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  before, I think he's sitting up there in South Bend.
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  He says, well, this guy named Les Miles won a title.
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  This guy named Ed O is wrong. Won a title.
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  I'm smarter than both of them guys put together and cubed.
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  OKI got to get down there. I got to get this talent.
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  I got a coach at LSU. Got a coach in the SEC?
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  Because he thinks he can do it, and I believe he will now will.
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  He followed a magical second year thing that Kim Mulkey and
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  Jay Johnson did. That remains to be seen, but
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  don't rule it out. But it remains to be seen.
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  But I guarantee, you know, as I said last October.
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  He'll win a national championship at LSU.
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  I just can't tell you the exact year.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  Well, as a fan, I hope it's this year and that'll that will lead
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  us into into talking about the SEC kind of as a whole.
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  You know what at you're an expert.
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  What are you seeing in the SEC? I mean, it looks like the usual
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  suspects Georgia, Alabama, LSU, but are there any, are there any
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  other teams that that people should be paying attention to
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  this season that can maybe upset that guard, if you will?
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  Well, you know, in the East it's all about Georgia.
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  You know, in Tennessee, there's a lot of expectations, a lot of
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  hope in there. South Carolina could get
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  dangerous. Kentucky and could get dangerous
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  because they got quarterbacks. OK, it's all about quarterbacks.
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  You know, and then I I think LSU wins the West.
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  I mean, I know the media over there in Nashville picked them
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  to come in second behind Bama. But LSU beat Bama in overtime
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  last year. LSU is a much better team.
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  Bama's not the same team. They don't have a Bryce Young.
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  They they don't have the same exact team that they had.
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  And somebody says, well, the game's in Tuscaloosa.
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  Well, LSU does better in Tuscaloosa against Bama than
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  they do in bat against Bama. So I I clearly think they'll win
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  the West. I think LSU's toughest football
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  game is the first one against Florida State, who's a much
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  better team than the team that beat LSU by one point in the
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  Dome last year. And they have a quarterback.
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  You keep going back to quarterbacks, we get a
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  quarterback. Brantley, Let this sink in.
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  Okay. In 2003, LSU won a national
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  championship. Matt Mark 50A quarterback, 2009.
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  Matt Flynn, 50A quarterback, 2019.
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  Joe Burrow, 50A quarterback, 2023.
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  All odd numbers. By the way, 2023 Jaden Daniels
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  is in his sixth year due to COVID.
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  That experience matters. That experience is a difference
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  in winning in college football. So, I mean, are they going to
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  win it? I don't know.
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  I mean. If you somebody likes to bet,
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  you might want to bet 100 bucks on them winning the title and
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  just see what happens. I don't know.
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  I I think they're going to win the W I I really think they're
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  going to win the West. And of course they do that.
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  In all likelihood they're playing Georgia in Atlanta early
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  December and if they win that they're in the playoff.
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  But the FCC as a whole is really good.
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  You know Ole Miss you can't kind of Lane Kiffin.
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  I'm a fan of Lane Kiffin Okay, and he, like LSU, has loaded up
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  on the transfer tool. He and he can coach.
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  He's in. You know he's he's borderline
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  elite coach. He hasn't won championships yet
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  but but he kind of. I think you got to pay attention
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  to him. You know Mississippi State, very
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  tough situation with the passing of Mike Leach.
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  They're not going to be real good this year.
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  But are they good enough to beat somebody they're not supposed to
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  beat? Absolutely.
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  Florida's not going to be real good.
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  Can they win a game that nobody thought they were going to win?
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  Yes, they can. It's the SEC.
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  You know, every team is going to put 1214 guys in an NFL camp.
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  Now they might not all stick on a roster or even a practice
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  squad, but they can get it in the NFL camp.
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  It's the best college Football Conference in America, hands
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  down. So I think the FCC is primed for
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  unbelievable season. It's the last year of East and
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  West divisions because when Oklahoma and Texas, and by the
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  way, Oklahoma and Texas are biting off way more than they
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  can chew. OK, I'm not going to say they're
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  going to be banned to build. They don't know what they they
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  think they know what they're getting into, but they don't
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  know what they're getting into. When you have to play an SEC
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  team eight times, you know you got to go on the road for those
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  times every week. In front of the greatest crowds
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  and the best stadiums, I mean, Oklahoma and Texas, you you
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  might want to go back to the Big 12.
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  I'm just saying. But but they're not.
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  It's going to be a it's going to be a rough ride for them, man.
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  You know, and and crazy as this sounds you know Vanderbilt can
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  spring an upset. We've every other year or so
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  they knock somebody off or they play somebody down to the wire.
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  You know somebody beats with a field over the end when they
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  were 19 point favorite over them.
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  You know. So I mean, it's SCC football and
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  the minute you think you can't get beat, you will get beat.
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  By you know, Arkansas has got KJ Henman.
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  This dude makes it happen again. We bring up a quarterback.
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  The common denominator is quarterback, and there's a bunch
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  of them in the SEC. And here's his one more last
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  thing, Jaden Daniels. OK, I think he's going to have a
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  major breakout year. And if he's in the Heisman
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  conversation in November, I don't mean when the Heisman.
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  I don't mean be one of the three or four guys go to New York.
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  I mean, if he's being talked about as a potential to win it,
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  that will mean LSU is kicking butt okay.
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  And if he is, has a Heisman Trophy winning kind of season or
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  close tour. He's one of the finalists.
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  They got a great shot to beat Georgia and be in the playoffs
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  and and look, you know, if I thought LSU was going to go six
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  and six, I'd say that. But I think this team is loaded.
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  Absolutely. The front seven is going to be
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  as good as any front seven in America.
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  They might could play without the cornerbacks.
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  I mean, that's how good that front seven is going to be.
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  I'm being facetious there, but and trust me, Brian Kelly's in
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  charge. Everybody in that football
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  building knows who's in charge, unlike previously.
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  So I think you've been LSU friends.
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  You got a lot of reason to be optimistic, and if you're a
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  foot, you're an SEC fan. I don't care which team you pull
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  for. Every weekend, somebody's going
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  to win that wasn't supposed to. Somebody's going to get run out
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  of, get blown out, you know, I mean, it's it's going to be,
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  it's going to be fun. Put your seat belt on.
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  It's going to be a hell of a ride.
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  Hell yeah it is. Do you have do you see any team
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  going undefeated in the SEC, including including Georgia, who
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  seemed to have the easiest path? They have a soft schedule.
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  We go back to quarterback they got.
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  They're going to have an unproven, unexperienced
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  quarterback now that he won't be good.
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  He might end up being all conference.
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  I don't know, but I'd rather start with the likes of a
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  Henderson or Daniels or or somebody that's been there, done
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  that. You notice I left A and M out.
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  That's a train wreck, you know that?
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  That's just not going to be anything again.
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  That we get, We look at worth our time, Tommy.
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  Well, before Christmas that we look at a new coach, you can
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  take that to the bank. So you know, I don't, you know,
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  it's going to be, it's going to be fun.
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  I don't think anybody can go undefeated.
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  You. I'm not just saying this.
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  The only, yeah, the team has the best chance to go undefeat is
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  LSU. If they get by Florida State and
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  that's a big one, man, that is. That is a tough way to open for
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  both schools. But I think at the at the end of
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  the day, whoever wins is going to be in the catbird seat.
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  Whoever loses, if it's a close game, you lose a close one.
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  It's your season isn't over. And it's a non conference game
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  for both of them. I mean, if LSU is 11 and one
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  with a loss to Florida State, they're in the playoffs.
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  Oh yeah. Especially especially Florida
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  State, you know ends up 10 and two or they end up 11 and they
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  take your business. We're in the playoffs.
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  Even if you lose in Atlanta and that's what the four teams just
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  waiter the next, that's right, 12 easier to get in.
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  Oh it is, man, it totally is. We had a head coach of the Troy
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  Trojans, John Summerall, on the show here recently and and
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  that's one of the things that I was kind of teasing him, that I
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  look forward to the 12 team playoff.
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  Because teams like Troy will then be, you know, they're going
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  to work their way in and be like the 12th seed or whatever and
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  play in an LSU or play in a Michigan or somebody like that.
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  They're going to be, if they're going to beat them, chaos will
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  ensue. And he kind of likened it to
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  that March Madness that that's going to.
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  It's going to be a lot like March Madness and I think he's,
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  I think he's right. Look folks, we had a little bit
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  of a technical difficulty, a little technical issue with
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  doing the show at this point. Tommy and I talked for another
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  10 or 15 minutes about Major League Baseball, the NFL and
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  that kind of stuff. But I can kind of recap what we
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  talked about for us to, to close out the show.
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  Basically, I came in and talked about the NFL and I said, look,
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  it seems like same old story again.
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  The Bills, the Chiefs, the Bengals and the AFC.
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  The NFC seems to be a little bit more open.
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  And we talked about the Saints and in the Whodat Nation for a
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  minute and especially with Derek Carr coming in at quarterback,
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  kind of tying all that back into what he talked about with the
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  with college football. That those guys, the guys who
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  are experienced quarterbacks, those are the Cats who are going
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  to rise to the occasion. He really likes the Saints in
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  the NFC. SI do too.
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  For the record. I mean, it's a they have a
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  softer schedule as far as the NFL goes.
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  He alluded to. That is something that I didn't
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  didn't know. The Saints don't play a playoff
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  team until Week 10 of the season, which that's that's
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  remarkable that it would be, you know, that you would go that
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  far. So, I mean, there's no soft
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  schedule in the NFL, just like there's not a soft schedule in
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  the SEC. But you know, hey, if there is
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  one, then, then the Saints, it looks like on paper that they
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  have it. And for me, a Saints fan, that's
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  what I'm pulling for. But it does look to be wide
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  open. Philadelphia, Dallas, they look
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  like they can get in the mix, you know, Detroit, Detroit
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  playing, they start the season with Detroit, with Detroit.
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  And Kansas City, I believe is the first game of the season on
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  Thursday night. So we'll see what they're made
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  of. Of course, the Saints have now
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  acquired Jamal Williams from Detroit, losing one of their one
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  of their horses up there. So we'll we'll see.
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  And then Tommy and I talked a little baseball and one thing
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  that I do know about Tommy Christen, he absolutely loves
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  baseball. He knows baseball, he knows the
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  game, knows it, knows it well, and we agree.
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  In the American League, it's really just a battle of
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  positioning. As far as that goes, it seems to
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  be pretty much locked in. You've got the Orioles, who've
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  been red hot all year long, pretty much Texas currently
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  leading the ALW. We'll see what happens there.
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  Minnesota leading the AL Central.
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  You have Tampa Bay, Houston and Toronto.
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  As of this recording that it that would be in the Wild card
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  but you have Seattle and Boston nipping at their heels.
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  So really that's it. Those are the teams that are
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  that are going to be in the American League it looks like.
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  And then in the the the National League it's a lot more up for
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  grabs. You have Philadelphia, San
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  Francisco and the Cubs currently as Wild Card teams and Atlanta,
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  the Dodgers and and the Brewers leading the divisions.
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  But he thinks that the Atlanta Braves are the best team in
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  baseball. I happen to agree with him
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  there. They really they they're really,
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  they're strong. They've got it all.
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  They have pitching, hitting, fielding.
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  They score so many freaking runs.
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  They're a lot of fun to watch. The Dodgers are super hot.
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  They're they've, they've gotten hot.
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  They've gotten really hot. And they're starting to run away
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  with the West over there. And then that the the most
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  drama, I guess really that you could say is, is in the NL
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  Central with the Brewers currently leading as of this
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  recording and the Cubs just being just being like, I think
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  they're 2, 1/2, three games out, something like that, but they're
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  right there on their heels. And then the Cincinnati Reds who
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  were absolutely red hot but after the Allstar break, no, not
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  not so much. So those are the teams
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  currently, you know that. Really you're in it.
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  You have Miami. Miami has a good shot there.
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  The as of this recording, the Cubs, Reds and and and Marlins
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  are all tied for that wild Card spot with the Cubs having the
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  the upper hand. But that could of course change
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  Arizona not too far back San Diego.
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  If they could get hot, they could make a little run.
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  So a lot of baseball left to play just about 40 games left in
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  the season. So we're getting down to that,
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  that last stretch of of the season, right on into football
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  and all of that. So I mean, man, what Tommy and I
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  really love is it this time of year.
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  It is just an explosion of sports.
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  You've got Major League Baseball, you've got the NFL,
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  you've got college football. And then not too far away you're
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  going to have women's college basketball and men's college
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  basketball get started as well. So a lot happens in the fall,
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  man, a lot of fun and and can't wait, can't wait to see what all
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  happens this season with all these different teams.
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  and all of that. And we've been having a blast
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  putting these things out Jr. the handler and Mr. Chad Blasi Blasi
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  the one man posse unable to to join us today but that's OK Jr's
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  on the road with Justin Moore. I think Blasi's somewhere on the
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  road no telling what he's up to but hate that they weren't able
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  to join us. I'm very thankful to Tommy for
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  coming on once again. It's always nice to have TK come
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  in and he'll be back on. He has agreed he it's always
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  nice to have him come in but he has agreed he'll be coming back
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  on hopefully around the into baseball season to talk a little
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  bit of the NLCSALCS that kind of stuff kind of get a pulse of
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  where we're at in the football season with with some of these
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  teams and all of that. So just kind of a follow up
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  show, if you will, but appreciate Tommy coming on.
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  If you haven't or you don't follow Tommy Christand, it's
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  Tommy KRYSAN, Tommy Christand and that is his handle on
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  Twitter or X, I'm sorry, it's Tommy at Tommy Christand.
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  It's the same on on on Instagram And the other socials, just
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  search his name, you'll find him.
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  He has a podcast talking sports with TK and he does sports
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  shorts daily with Ronnie Rants. And look, Tommy is everywhere.
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  Just just Google his name, follow his shows, listen to his
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  shows, share his content. Tommy is an absolute media
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  legend man, so appreciate him coming on, apologize for having
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  a few technical difficulties, but don't worry, we'll make it
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  up with more conversation with Tommy in the future.
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  So with all of that said, thanks for tuning in.
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  We'll see you next week.