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

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  Speaker 1: We are live at St. John's where tonight it is
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  Speaker 1: the Irish American Baseball Society, Irish Wolfhounds. And we'll take
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  Speaker 1: you inside on the field here at St. John's.
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  Speaker 2: We love our brotherly, sunny, green, and warm. And tonight
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  Speaker 2: they take on the court officers.
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  Speaker 1: Live at St. John's, a beautiful night and you can
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  Speaker 1: actually see the Irish flag in the distance there, pink
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  Speaker 1: flying over Jack Kaiser Stadium, home of the once again
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  Speaker 1: Big East champion, St. John's Red Storm. And we are
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  Speaker 1: underway here in Queens. I feel very connected to this
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  Speaker 1: team right now. Where is this place at, Alex? We're
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  Speaker 1: right here at St. John's University. We're in Jack Kaiser Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: home of the two-time Big East champion St. John's Red Storm.
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  Speaker 1: So they won this past year. And I got to
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  Speaker 1: meet Mike Hampton, the coach of the St. John's Red Storm,
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  Speaker 1: right on this field. And who did you interview today?
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  Speaker 1: I've interviewed, here's the pitch. One of the coaches from St. John's,
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  Speaker 1: from the Irish.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: One of the Irish coaches I interviewed. I saw that
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  Speaker 1: video actually on Instagram. And they played the Irish National Anthem.
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  Speaker 1: So you can hear that. I'll post that on my
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  Speaker 1: TikTok as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see that. I'll check it out.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny, Linz. You're Italian, and I am 5% Irish,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the best part of me because I'm German,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Russian, and I'm a few others, but the Irish
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  Speaker 1: is what sticks with me. Even though it's 5%, it
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  Speaker 1: just makes... I like to find me a little bit. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's the pitch. Walked in, and we are now a
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  Speaker 1: one-room ballgame. The Irish have the bases loaded now with
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  Speaker 1: one out. The Irish, here at St. John's University. That
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  Speaker 1: one's hit, and it all. Dumped it for a base hit.
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  Speaker 2: 20 run score. And they're gonna mob them.
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  Speaker 1: That's between first and second.
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  Speaker 2: And Irish Baseball wins it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with members of the Irish Baseball team.
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  Speaker 3: What a win tonight, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about tonight's game.
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  Speaker 2: I think we had.
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  Speaker 1: Four innings at the bases loaded and we stranded it.
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  Speaker 1: How many pieces of gum did you have? We won.
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  Speaker 1: We won big time. Love it.
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  Speaker 3: What's it like to wear the Irish on the chest?
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  Speaker 1: What's that like for you guys? Aaron go brah, man.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron go brah.
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  Speaker 1: Love it, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good luck the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Here with Rob Delaney of the Irish here
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  Speaker 1: at St. John's University.
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  Speaker 3: What a win tonight.
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  Speaker 2: What's it mean to bring Irish.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball to Queens? Oh, it was a great opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: us to come here and get a win.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's always nice to win.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what's it mean to wear the Irish across your chest?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what's the goal with this program?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a great amount of pride to have
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  Speaker 3: this on. Just, you know, let everybody know what we're
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  Speaker 3: about here and getting Irish.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball up and going.
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  Speaker 1: And shout out to John Fitzgerald, right?
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  Speaker 2: Very much so.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to John for organizing this and getting us going here.
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  Speaker 3: All right, awesome. Thank you, Rob.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to meet you. All right, bases loaded.
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  Speaker 1: Canelli with the game-winning hit.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like for you? Felt good.
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  Speaker 3: First A, B, and A go as planned, but got
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  Speaker 3: the job done in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: It was quite a game tonight, back and forth a
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  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Just playing at the St.
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  Speaker 1: John's University Field.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like for you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was incredible. I mean, to win on
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  Speaker 1: a walk-off, you.
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  Speaker 3: Can't make it up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I know a lot of these guys range from
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  Speaker 1: different levels.
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  Speaker 2: Did you play college ball? Well, I just finished up
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  Speaker 2: in high school.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to college ball now at Brookdale. No way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Brookdale? Yeah. Very cool. So a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a taste of college ball here, I guess, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it felt good.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, what's it mean to represent the
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  Speaker 1: Irish on the chessboard?
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  Speaker 2: It means everything, you know?
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  Speaker 1: This is where.
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  Speaker 2: The Irish flag and the sleeve, it means everything. And
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  Speaker 2: for those that see this and.
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  Speaker 3: Want to join, what should they do?
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  Speaker 1: What should they do? It's a program worth joining, isn't it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great program.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much, and congratulations again. Thank you. Coach Lawley,
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  Speaker 1: you're now in your jersey. So let's talk about this
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  Speaker 1: game tonight. Before the game, we were just talking about
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  Speaker 1: being here, but then.
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  Speaker 2: You win it tonight. Talk about the win.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what a way to win it. The way
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  Speaker 3: it happens is obviously you can't script it as more
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  Speaker 3: exciting of a finish there. Getting to the finish was
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  Speaker 3: a little dicey. We kind of gave away a few
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  Speaker 3: innings in the middle there, but for our guys to–
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  Speaker 3: Stop it before it went the other way. Put us
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  Speaker 3: in position to just have the winning run at third base.
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  Speaker 1: We had that top inning with the three runs or
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  Speaker 1: four runs on one hit. And then you make the
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  Speaker 1: change and then boom, things just happen from there.
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  Speaker 3: Things started to happen from there. Our guys put up
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  Speaker 3: tough at-bats. I really think the whole night. We really
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  Speaker 3: didn't give any at-bats really away. And then keep yourself
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  Speaker 3: in position. have a guy like that, like Henley off
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  Speaker 3: the bench, come in, and in his second at bat,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hit the game-winning hit, which is, again, you
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  Speaker 3: can't script it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you work alongside Joe McEwing. What's that like?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is he part of this program as well?
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  Speaker 3: He is. You know, I have not gotten a chance
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  Speaker 3: to coach with him just yet. You know, I had
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity to work with some of the other, you know,
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  Speaker 3: big leaguers and having Ron Delaney in the dugout tonight and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, guys like Shane Spencer and, you know, Sean
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  Speaker 3: Casey and guys like that have coached, you know, some
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  Speaker 3: Wolfhounds game over the years. It's just... it's great to
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  Speaker 3: see it get attention from guys with that, that caliber.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully we can keep growing this thing.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously the WBC is on our radar.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if that happens, right?
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  Speaker 2: Always is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's, there's a, you know, growing that sport in, uh,
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  Speaker 3: growing this sport in Ireland and having more Irish kids
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  Speaker 3: play over here and over there, you know, is, uh,
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  Speaker 3: most important, but yeah, there's no doubt that WBC is
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  Speaker 3: definitely something.
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  Speaker 1: And one last thing I didn't mention as well, but
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Sherrill is architect of all.
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  Speaker 3: Guy does it all.
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  Speaker 2: Guy does it all.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, he does it from a million miles away,
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  Speaker 3: but still gets every aspect done.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: He thinks, you know, he's, mailing me flags to get
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  Speaker 3: up today. You know, the guy thinks of everything. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, blessed that he's got faith in us to
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  Speaker 3: keep bringing us back and work with these kids and
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  Speaker 3: young adults.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get the clinic.
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  Speaker 3: So you got to get a 14 year game. We
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  Speaker 3: did a 12 year clinic. We had the game. We've
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  Speaker 3: been out here all day wearing this Irish gear. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a privilege.
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  Speaker 1: I asked you earlier what to mean to represent the Irish.
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  Speaker 3: It's just incredible, you know, to see it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: grow to what it is and to see the potential
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  Speaker 3: of what it could become. I had the chance to
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  Speaker 3: go over there last year, and hopefully I'll get over
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  Speaker 3: there again next summer. And watching the impact the game
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  Speaker 3: has on kids that have never seen it before is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Coach Lally, thanks so much for joining me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.