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Brent Blum checks in from Ireland, Lee Sterling's Weekly Picks including Iowa State/K-State & the Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two, Millery Condon, welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
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Network, about 15 minutes away from first pitch, Game 5,
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Brewers and the Cubs. Cubs have won the last three
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games. We'll get to the Cubbies in a
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second. Capra, good to talk to you,
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brother. How are you first of all?
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I'm good, I'm good. I'm headed to Denver, Co
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Actually getting into an Uber right now to fly from Go to
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O'Hare family reunion in Denver. 21 of us, nice.
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My kids are coming. It's to be super cool.
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And then we're seeing the Goo Goo Dolls at Red Rocks.
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Have you been to Red Rocks before?
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Never, and I hear it's on our bucket.
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List. Yeah.
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You'll be so glad you were there.
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It's spectacular. It really is.
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That's what I heard. No, it is.
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It's all true. You know, before we get to the
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Cubs and the bears. Just the breaking news from this
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morning, man, they ran. Pat Fitzgerald won't.
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That's not a good look. Obviously, the lawsuit settled.
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I get it's bear season, it's Cub season, so maybe Northwestern
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doesn't move the needle, but but boy oh boy, that's a bad look
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for Northwestern. Oh, horrible.
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And I guarantee you he got paid big time because I think the
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lawsuit, you could check the numbers online, but I think the
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lawsuit was 140 million. And that's what yeah, with
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damages and everything. Because that guy, I have a good
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friend whose son played for 5th and I was with him one night.
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I ran into him at a restaurant. I still may ask you a question.
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If you had a son, would you let him play for Northwestern?
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For Pat? He said seven days a week and
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twice, twice on Sunday. It's the most ridiculous thing
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he's ever seen. And he was on those teams.
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So I love Fitz. I'm a huge Pat Fitzgerald guy.
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And his son now at the University of Iowa, which is
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incredibly weird because when he got taken out of that Rose Bowl
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year, it was Iowa. He thought it was a dirty play.
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And yet here he is. And maybe be the heir apparent
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to Kirk Ferrets. Maybe something to file away for
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another day. Let's keep on the football theme
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because Cap, I told Ken on Monday I was ready.
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I was sold a bill of goods again on the quarterback position by
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him. He sold me and it wasn't going
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to work. And then I saw Sunday night and
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Caleb Williams look like completely a different guy.
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How much did the tenor change after, at minimum, a very
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inconsistent camp for Caleb Williams and what you guys
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walked into Sunday night into Monday morning?
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OK. I'm not coming down on you,
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Trent, but I'm going to ask you a question.
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Yes, When you say an inconsistent camp for Caleb
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Williams, where are you getting that from?
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From reports from the people that are there for media members
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that were there a lot of off script plays, a lot of it was
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the penalties more than anything where 6 fall starts and those
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kind of things where that's not the consistency you're hoping
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for out of your quarterback. OK, so a lot of the narrative
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that's coming out about Caleb in camp are from people like my
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friend Chris Canty, who have been at exactly 0 practice.
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Now, has he had some up and down moments?
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Yeah, I guess we could say that as they learn a new offense.
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But that's what practice is. You're learning to do things and
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you're going to fail and practice.
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But Caleb Williams has had some sensational moments.
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And I did a long 40 minute interview with Kevin Byard on
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Tuesday night because he works on our channel.
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So his first show of the year, we intercepted him instead of
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him. His show is called Intercepted.
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He's the, I think the fourth or third leading interceptor right
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now in the National Football value of active players.
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And so we sat and talked before we went on the air, after we
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went on the air and a 40 minute on the air, which is on our
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channel right now. It's a great watch.
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And he said you guys have no idea how good Caleb's looking.
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He said, I don't know where this national narrative is.
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You know, my friend Chris Canty said I wouldn't be shocked if
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he's the 6th best quarterback drafted in that class.
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And then all these different people who have seen exactly
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combined 0 practices and you saw what he did the other night
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against Buffalo. And I don't care if that was the
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first team, the second team, guys who work at UPS.
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That dude was dialed in and he's had a good week of practice and
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we'll find out what he does tomorrow night against the
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Kansas City Chiefs. But he's been better than he's
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getting credit for. Maybe the the news that I think
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resonated throughout Bears Kingdom, if you call it that,
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whatever they call it yesterday was Tyson Baigen's extension and
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his reaction to getting paid and what it meant to his family.
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Cap a lot of positive, I guess X or Twitter if you want to call
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social media. Just people may be realizing for
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the first time who Tyson Baigent is and obviously got rewarded in
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what it means to him to get that contract.
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Yeah, it was super cool. I was texting with his dad
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today. His dad, Travis is the world Arm
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Wrestling champion and he has got a big personality just like
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his son does. Tyson, I've gotten to know him
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pretty well because he's come over and done a show at my
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YouTube studio and I asked him back then, this is got to be two
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months ago. He was doing an offseason
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football camp for kids and he wanted to promote it.
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So we came in and did a whole bunch of stuff with us and I
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said, let me ask you a question. If they offered you an
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extension, would you take it? He said first I want to make it
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clear, I think I can be a starter in this league and I
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think I can be a really good football player in this league.
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But I also want to learn from this guy Ben Johnson.
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So yes, if they offered me that, he goes, you're talking to a guy
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who came from nothing. His dad did not have running
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water till he was a 9th grader, no running water.
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And he said, where I come from in West Virginia, nobody has any
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money. They just exist and you're going
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to give him 10 million guaranteed dollars?
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Yeah, it was super cool to see his emotions.
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The Bears went out and fixed the interior their offensive line.
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It was a necessity after the disaster a year ago, but they're
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still young out at the tackle positions.
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As good as you can feel about those middle three guys and I
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think it's going to be elite. Where are we with the tackle
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positions of the young guy, particularly with Braxton Jones
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out on the left side of their his importance obviously to this
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offensive line. Where are you with this group
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after we get to the tackles? Yeah, you're right.
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The interior looks really good. Drew Dallman, Joe Tooney and
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Jonah Jackson, if they stay healthy, that's as good an
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interior group as there is in the National Football League.
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But you know, you're paying through the nose for it, too.
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It better be, you know, you're paying Joe Tooney big money.
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You extended him. You extended Jonah Jackson.
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He's getting big money. And Drew Dallman got a huge
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contract to leave the Atlanta Falcons.
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So those three guys better play at that level if healthy.
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I think this is a big, big year for Darnell Wright.
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I love the offensive line coach Danny Rocher, who was at
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Northern Illinois after I coached there.
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But I got to know him because we're both Huskies at heart.
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And I talked to him and he's he's just very honest to the
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media, to the player. Yeah, that wasn't good enough.
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I love what you did here. That's not good enough.
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And he'll tell the player and then he'll tell the media.
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He will call the player out, and I love that.
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And then at the other tackle, it's Braxton Jones.
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Now Darnell Wright was the 10th pick in the first round, so you
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expect him to play at a Pro Bowl level.
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Braxton Jones was a fifth round draft pick who's coming off
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ankle surgery, so we'll see what we get.
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I think he's going to be the opening night starter though
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all. Right, Cap, let's get to the
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Cubs. Kyle Tucker back in the lineup
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today. Revelation that he does did have
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a fracture or something in in one of his fingers that
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potentially was one of the reasons he's just been so awful
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as as of late. But that aside, Owen, Casey been
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good. He's on the bench today.
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Matt Shaw has been unbelievable. He's not going to play today.
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Council pinch hits Justin Turner for O and Casey a couple of
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nights ago. I didn't understand that move
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after the day Casey had had and of course, Turner filed.
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I think you lined out the second base.
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Anyways. Regardless, it didn't work out.
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Great counsel. Is he worth the money?
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Look, I don't know if any manager moves the needle at that
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level at 8 million a year for five years.
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I'm not telling you he's not a smart, good baseball man.
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For me to say that would be just stupid.
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Do I think he's overrated? Yes, I do.
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I think he's he's fine. He's a manager.
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I do not understand why you're sitting Matt Shaw today.
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Now, their analytics may tell them something different.
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They may know something that we don't.
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All I know is Matt Shaw had a big game last night.
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He First of all, that guy runs hard like the.
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Rd. Brand love it.
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He made a play on a little chopper, a little rolling bunt
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and gunned the guy out. And I picked by Michael Bush at
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1st and then he hit a big home run, which turned out to be the
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difference in the ball game. So I'm a huge match off.
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And why he's not in the lineup, I don't know.
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Owen Casey, I would have sat Tucker until tomorrow.
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I would have said you're not playing, get on the plane
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tonight's California, catch your breath and then you'll be in the
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lineup Friday night. I don't understand why Owen
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Casey's not in the lineup. As far as pinch hitting the
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other day, I'm against you on that one.
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Ashby, the lefty coming in is a crossfire guy who throws 99
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miles an hour lefty on lefty. I don't think I'm putting on
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Casey in the best possible position there.
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It was a righty different story. And then if I have Justin Turner
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on my team and he hasn't had the best year for sure, but he's a
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great leader in that room and he's going to be there, I got to
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use them. I mean, that's the situation
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that I signed him for Lefty on righty.
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I'm going to take a shot. It worked couple Sundays ago
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when he hit a game-winning walk off home run.
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It didn't work this time. Ashley stuff, he's really good
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reliever, really good. So I didn't have a problem with
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that one because I understood the crossfire.
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Lefty lefty rookie veteran so I was cool with that I would have
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had Owen Casey in the lineup today.
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What I want to know is remember the movie a few good men.
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I want to know who did the code red on Craig Counsel because
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Sunday you can find the tape, you could play it on your show,
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he said. Owen, someone said why is Owen
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not in the lineup Friday, Saturday and Sunday against
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three right-handed starters for the Pirates?
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Look, I'm going to play the best guys and he's going to have to
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understand that. That's why we wrestled with
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bringing them up and I'm playing my best guys.
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Tucker Hap and Crow Armstrong. 24 hours later, Owen Casey is
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starting both games of a doubleheader.
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He said in his first career home run, he drives in four on the
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day, three in game one and the home run in Game 2.
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And Kyle Tucker's out for days. DAYS, plural, according to
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Craig. Somebody got to that dude.
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Somebody did a code red. And I don't know if it was Jed.
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I don't know if missus counsel when he came home said you look
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lifeless what's going on here? Because his pregame make
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availability on Monday before game one of the doubleheader.
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Go watch that and tell me that's the same guy.
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The Game 5 minutes away from first pitch.
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I hate to overstate a regular season game, but after the three
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consecutive wins, you make it four in a row, you get it.
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The difference between 5:00 and 7:00, it just, it feels massive
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to me. Is it overstating a cap that
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this is? If they're going to chase them
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down, today is a must win to get it done, to get this thing back
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within 5. Yeah, I'll never use the term
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must win unless you're eliminated if you don't win.
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But I'm with you, Trent. It's a massive game because you
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win today, you send them home only 5 up and all of a sudden
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you have won four in a row over the Milwaukee Brewers.
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You've already got the tiebreak, you already have that.
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Yesterday did that, winning the series.
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But you also, they lost on Sunday to the Reds.
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They won on Monday. They would have lost four
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straight to us and five of six. So all of a sudden, they're not
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the invincible Brewers. They're a good team.
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I love their manager. But guess what?
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The Cubs are a good team, too. And so if they can find a way to
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win my mantra, you know that grab a cup of coffee, find a way
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to win a baseball game. That's it.
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I don't care how you do it. Find a way to get on your jet to
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LA to play the Angels tomorrow night, five games back.
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Capo, where are you in Palencia? Does look maybe like, I don't
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know if it's fatigue, the wheels coming off.
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He's not as dominant as he's he got the job done last night,
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thankfully. Nico Horner what what a play in
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second base. But Palensi's kind of been, I
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don't want to say Rod Beck, like, but kind of get her on
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fire lately. Yeah, he has.
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Now you go back and look at his game log.
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He pitched on August 6th, didn't make an appearance again on
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August 13th, so I'm not sure if there's something barking in his
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body somewhere. Then they said he was sick so he
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missed a little bit of time but his velocity.
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Last night I was watching the game of my father-in-law and I'm
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like this dudes throwing one O 2.
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So if you're throwing one O 2, you're healthy.
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So we'll see. Maybe it's pitch mix, I don't
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know, but we'll see. I, I, I do like him.
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Last night, I think is a game that has to pump him full of
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confidence that he was able somehow to navigate that.
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Taking a look at the remaining schedule and there's a lot of
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different ways that you can measure it, But the measurement
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that I'm looking for right now is the Cubs only have two series
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left after today's game against teams that even are above 504
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games against the Reds, three against the Mets and that is in
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Milwaukee. On the other hand, still has a
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series with Philly and with Toronto and with San Diego and
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with the Reds. It feels like advantage.
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Cubs here. Again, back to kind of the
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original point here, but that remaining schedule, do you get
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into schedules for baseball cap? And certainly when we're getting
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down here to the final five weeks or so of the season, is it
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something that you believe is important or as a baseball and
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anybody can win on any given day?
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I think it's a combination of both, Trent.
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I think it's anybody can win on any given day because Major
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League pitchers can beat Major League hitters.
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I don't care. The White Sox were the worst
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team in the history of the sport last year.
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They still found a way to win 41 times.
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And I remember they beat the Yankees.
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And I went how in the like, if you're a gambler and I like to
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gamble on baseball, you're gambling.
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You're like, OK, how did the Chicago White Sox win that game?
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How did the Colorado rock three in a row?
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And they're a horrific team this year.
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So yes, anyone could beat anyone on any given day.
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The Cubs have the second easiest schedule remaining.
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San Diego has the easiest. The Brewers have the 10th
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hardest schedule remaining. So if you win the day, you find
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a way to win a baseball game, all of a sudden you're 5 back
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and they still got to play those series you mentioned with the
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Padres and the Phillies and the Blue Jays and the Reds.
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They're done with the Cubs. You can run them down 100%.
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Will they? That's going to be a great bit
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of theatre. Your hours changed this week,
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capital. You've got news that's going to
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happen early September 6 tonight.
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Not like you're up, right? I mean, I'm already up, so it's
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not going to be a big change in my life.
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But you know, yes, they called us into this emergency meeting.
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Hey, so here's what's going on. They have put out the press
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release, the whole deal. So we're 6:00 to 9:00 in the
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morning. So we'll just, the only change
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we'll make is instead of meeting, we always have a
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meeting at 6:15, 6/30 when everyone's in.
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We're going to do our meeting the night before.
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That's it. We'll be ready to roll, get in
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the car, grab my coffee and find a way to do a radio show.
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Have fun in the Mile High City cap.
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We'll talk to you next Wednesday.
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Thanks for jumping on buddy. I look forward to it boys.
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Thank you for that. So I'm looking at tankathon.com.
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That is where the schedule breakdown is for strength to
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schedule the rest of the way. Cubs have the second easiest
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schedule of playoff. Teams period, period, period.
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In Major League Baseball remaining this is just strictly
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by what your opponent's win percentages.
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The only team below them are the Padres, and the reason it's
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because they have seven games left with the Rockies.
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Yeah, because even then. Taken two or three of the
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Dodgers. The Cubs have two series left
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against teams 500. Better.
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I mean, ridiculous, right? What do they finish?
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What? What's their finishing stretch?
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Do you have it? I can get it if you don't.
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I can get it up here because the the Padres still have three with
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Milwaukee, three with the Dodgers, three with the Mets,
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three with the Mariners and three with the Reds.
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I understand the seven against the Rockies.
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Still, I think the Cubs doesn't take a whole lot to say they
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have the easiest schedule remaining.
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Are you with me? The difference between.
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So you think that they that the Cubs are still?
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If they win today, yes, I believe five.
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With that schedule compared to what Milwaukee has, they still
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got the Phillies, the Blue Jays, the Padres, the Reds.
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So when will the Cubs see a team, a playoff team again?
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Not till Cincinnati on the 18th of of September and that's back.
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And they're a team on the outside looking in.
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Right now they are, yeah. They got beat last night.
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Is he November the Mets at the end of the year and is that?
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Finishing with Saint Louis. One of those two teams might be
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out of it, might have played themselves out.
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For sure. We look a month forward.
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And I don't think they play Tampa, but I don't think Tampa's
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got enough to get back into it. OK.
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Yeah, this thing's not over, but I think today.
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Well, these last three games have obviously they've put them
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back in at least position. And we come in Tuesday after the
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rain out Monday night, and that was the best news.
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They got rained at beat 7UP then earlier.
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That day and they look lifeless. Kate Horton got hurt.
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It was awful. And then they squeak one out and
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they get another. And then they do it last night
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and all of a sudden. Meet Mizuroski.
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What's going on with him? Fatigue.
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I think I think you're right. That's what I saw.
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I thought it's a guy that is trying to be too fine and he was
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wild. He's that's, that's been the
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story of his career, even coming up through the minors.
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He was. Bad.
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For a couple of stretches and the other side, Colin Ray, Colin
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Ray, he got out of it right. Trying He's 10:00 and 5:00.
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That's ridiculous. Colin Ray.
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Yes. 10:00 and 5:00 and they put they did set him up for the 6th
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inning so. I think maybe I got one out in
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the six. But anyways, regardless of that,
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unbelievable, unbelievable. The Cubs have not named their
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starter tomorrow night. They've named Kate Horton on
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Thursday or on Saturday, rather, to go in Game 2 of that Angel
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series. I thought he had a blister.
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What? Isn't that why he left the game
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the other night? Was that what it was?
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I don't. Remember, it was a finger they
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were looking at. I just assumed blister.
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Well, we'll see. We'll take a time out.
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I want to. This Northwestern story drives
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me crazy. Yeah, I mean, they just
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completely ruined his. That's his school.
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He's the face of that program, no doubt.
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Right? Yes.
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No offense. What's the guy's name?
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David Braun. It was a great story, year one.
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I mean, taking that team and what they did with it, but for
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them to and apparently it was the student newspaper that was
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the ones that were spreading what these falsehoods and and
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painting Fitzgerald as he knew about the hazing that was going
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on and he encouraged it and and looked the other way and it was
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under his watch and he knew and then it comes out he didn't know
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Jack. He took them.
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Places that been Trent, he did it.
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As a player, he. Did it as a player in the late
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90s and then as a coach. This was a laughingstock.
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And what is it again? A laughingstock with a better
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building, yes, right. But unbelievable how they just
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And now he's getting paid. What did Cappy say?
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He sued for 125 million. So he didn't get that.
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Much. You wouldn't think so.
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But he got 10s of you said something interesting.
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Did you see it? What?
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No, you said something interesting.
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Could I see it? Could you see?
21:45
Yes, Kirk. Yes, they have a successful
21:47
year. Yes, he rides off.
21:49
Into the sunset. I don't know about this year.
21:50
I don't. Know when he's going to retire?
21:53
I don't either. You say this year you could say
21:55
5. Years I could see, yes, yeah.
21:59
And. How would that go over?
22:02
I think in general the fan base would.
22:04
Love to enthusiastic thumbs up is how I see it.
22:08
He had them ranked. He took them to bowl games, to
22:12
conference championships. Players got to love playing for
22:16
him. Oh.
22:16
Absolutely, there's a lot. And to do.
22:19
Yet he hates Iowa so much. Or at least that was the
22:22
narrative. You could tell him and Kirk
22:24
respect each other. He wouldn't be sending his son
22:26
to Iowa if there wasn't that kind of respect.
22:29
Chad Deal I believe was the offensive lineman that cut him.
22:33
Memory serves. It left the bad taste.
22:37
I get it. It should, absolutely.
22:39
But it was also, you remember what Barnett was pushing at that
22:42
time, right? Beat Hayden Fry and beat Iowa.
22:45
That's because they weren't looking at Michigan and Ohio
22:48
State. They were looking at Iowa.
22:50
That is something attainable. We can do that.
22:52
We can't beat them because we don't have the money of them,
22:54
right? We don't cheat like them.
22:55
We can't beat them. But what we can be is we can be
22:58
Iowa. And then they did it.
23:00
And then when you get injured against that team, you can
23:03
understand why there was a bad taste.
23:04
Without a doubt but. There are going to be jobs open.
23:07
There might be 1 N of Chicago and Wisconsin.
23:12
I don't want to see that one. No.
23:14
No, no, no. Because I'm, I'm sure he wants
23:16
to coach again, despite the fact that, I mean, I don't know how
23:19
much he he had to, he broke the bank on this thing.
23:22
First to come out there was all made-up.
23:25
And that Northwestern, I mean, they got, I mean, they did him
23:28
wrong. I get it.
23:30
I mean, you hear that all the time, right?
23:31
When there's two sides and the person that's guilty, it wasn't
23:36
his fault. And it turns out that, yeah, it
23:37
was. This was one that completely
23:40
different. But could he be the heir
23:43
apparent at the University of. We'll see.
23:46
All right. We'll take a time out.
23:48
We'll come back. Continue on here.
23:50
Trent's plays of the day, circus sports, we'll sponsor those.
23:54
Trent coming off an O and two yesterday, so tries to get back
23:57
on the positive side of the Ledger.
24:00
Miller and Condon continuing on here, you're listening to Des
24:03
Moines sports station one O 6.3 KX&O.
24:12
Miller and Condon, welcome back to the Iowa Sports Radio
24:15
Network. Trent and I with you until just
24:16
before the top of the hour, coming up at 2:00 off the bench.
24:22
Lucas and Sean, by the way, it's 6:00 tonight.
24:24
Travis Hines from Dublin, Eugene Repay from wherever he is in
24:29
central Iowa, he will. Those guys will be part of
24:33
Cyclone Insider. It goes tonight at 6:00.
24:35
So Cyclone Insider back for another season.
24:38
Just got this note sent to me. The Brewers are 14 and O and
24:43
they're in Priester's last 14 starts.
24:45
Wow. How about that every his last 14
24:48
games he started they've won. Now he's won them all.
24:51
But the team is plays pretty well behind them.
24:53
It is zip zip as they're playing in the top of the second inning.
24:58
The Brew Crew has a man on Menaga against Priester.
25:02
I'm at the Cubs this afternoon. You are.
25:04
Yeah, laid the -136 now after I saw I heard that one. 14 The
25:11
last 14 there come out victorious when he starts.
25:14
Got a couple more plays coming up a little bit later on back to
25:20
Pat Fitzgerald. Yep.
25:22
So as we were going to break, there's a tweet put up by his
25:26
son, and in that tweet he just had a little color splash the
25:31
squares, black and gold. Imagine that.
25:36
It is a quote tweet of him with his dad and the announcement of
25:40
what came down. I look, I don't know if there's
25:45
any smoke at all. Maybe we're just trying to see
25:47
smoke, right? I don't know.
25:50
I mean, nobody's pushing ferns out.
25:51
I I don't think I don't want to take that their take away from
25:55
this little dissertation that we're on right now.
25:57
But I like it on the surface. I mean, there's going to come a
26:00
time, is there? Well, I think.
26:05
Are we sure? Well, not really, right, But
26:08
there's going to come a time and and you mean, obviously you got
26:10
to have that that little list in her drawer somewhere, potential
26:16
coaches and who's on it. All right, this isn't the story
26:19
for this week, but it's going to be a story that dominates next
26:22
week. And and it absolutely deserves
26:24
to be. So.
26:25
In fact, the the hype may start on Friday night with a special
26:28
on ESPN, Lee Corso, his final week next week.
26:31
And there's a really good article if you subscribe to The
26:34
Athletic about some of his former colleagues.
26:36
I did not realize Tim Brando was part of Game Day.
26:39
Did. You know that way.
26:40
Back in the day, like maybe like the first days, yeah, that's
26:42
what it was. I didn't remember that.
26:44
Mm hmm. That he was part of it.
26:45
But they talked to the Bear. They talked, obviously the
26:48
current group, David Pollock, just some of the Maria Taylor
26:53
when she was part of it, some of just their stories about coach,
26:57
Coach Corso. And I think people are right
27:01
when they and 'cause I don't think that they're blowing this
27:03
out of proportion when a number of folks believe in part in
27:08
part, that the popularity of college football, It can't be.
27:15
It's not that it can be traced, but he certainly enhanced
27:19
college football, the brand that it is, in part because of the
27:22
headgear, in part just how crazy he was in that whole show.
27:25
You I think would be a good test case for this because the way
27:30
that I remember it as a kid, it was so regionalized and it still
27:34
is to a certain extent. I mean, more than any other
27:37
major sport that we think of, and regionality is still an
27:40
important part. But because of that, I just
27:43
always had the thought in my mind, taking away, you know,
27:47
Iowa and the local connections and those kind of things, that
27:50
it was just this little niche for every kind of part of the
27:53
country. The Northeast didn't care at
27:55
all. I mean, in a certain extent,
27:58
that's still the case. The Southeast, it was different.
28:02
The SEC, if we think of today, that was not the case for a
28:06
long, long stretch. It was looked at at times poorly
28:11
and now we come to this and I think a huge part of that is Lee
28:14
Corso a building it to a national.
28:16
Brand I I totally agree. Let let me stop on on on the SEC
28:20
and I don't disagree with what you're saying is, is the fact
28:23
that it was kind of big 10 PAC 10 dominant for one reason,
28:28
January 1st, right? And and everybody knew it and it
28:32
was appointment TV and the girls were watching the parade before
28:35
the game. It it just seems from where I
28:37
come from, right, that was the one kind of quote, national game
28:41
of the year. And people paid attention to,
28:43
yeah, the coastal part of it, component to it, the people from
28:46
the upper Midwest making. Yeah.
28:48
Because going from Knoxville, TN down to Florida, Yeah.
28:52
OK, right. But you're coming from Michigan,
28:54
right. And going to LA on January 1st.
28:57
And it also elevated what it was and, and we don't know in the
29:01
grand scheme of things what it looked like.
29:02
But also look at the SEC back then in terms of simple things
29:05
like NFL draft picks. It was different for Big 10.
29:08
For a long time, it was the Big 10 that was kind of the gold
29:10
standard when it came to that and, and the way that they've
29:13
elevated themselves. But Lee Corso is a huge part of
29:17
that, of making it from this hockey underdog to what it is
29:20
today. It is the second most popular
29:22
sport in America with all the goofiness, all the stupidity and
29:27
what this dumb sport makes us love.
29:30
The NFL is number 1, and college football is more than the NBA.
29:34
Yeah, more than Major League. And it's.
29:35
Closing the gap on the NFLI mean people will tell you that.
29:39
And the people that I listen to when it comes to that are people
29:41
that work in Las Vegas. That Saturday was in a lot of
29:43
ways, just like another day. Yeah, but Sunday was it, right?
29:47
But now it's not the case. I mean, Saturday's a big, big
29:49
day in LV at books around the country.
29:53
Good stuff. All right, Trench plays of the
29:55
day. They're coming up.
29:56
It's a light day of baseball here tonight.
29:58
It is. There's a couple of NFL games.
30:01
I, I, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
30:02
I'm going to because I'm not going to get into Yanks socks.
30:06
I don't think. I don't think.
30:08
It's down at the top of your list.
30:09
No, I don't think it is. And the NFL games, it's Week 3.
30:12
I don't think we're going to see too much of anybody.
30:15
So I think I'll just get back into America's team.
30:18
You're going to try and get as many in as I can.
30:20
You're going to love the next two episodes.
30:22
Well, I love the. 1st 2 It's incredible.
30:27
I am excited and I'm the same thing.
30:29
And we got a super busy day. We got back to school night
30:31
tonight, meeting the teachers. We got softball practice, but
30:34
I'm already counting down the hours until all the kids are in
30:36
bed. So let me stop you about meet
30:38
the teachers. Yes, when you were a.
30:39
Kid were your was that the thing for your parents to?
30:42
We never had. I don't remember that at all.
30:44
I don't either. Now, I'm also from a small town.
30:47
And you knew all the teachers for the most part.
30:49
Maybe that was a part of it. Yeah.
30:51
But no, we didn't have any. We didn't have any.
30:53
We would. Go to the front of the school
30:57
and taped on the window on the inside was teacher's name and
31:03
the class. Yeah, and that's how we would
31:06
find out. But there was no such thing as
31:09
meet the teacher's name. No, none of that.
31:11
We. I remember knowing before him
31:13
before school started, but how that was done again, we didn't
31:17
have Internet in the 80s, I don't know.
31:19
Or the 60s did. Did they mail maybe a letter
31:23
that had your teacher? We would.
31:24
Find out by riding our bikes to the school and looking at the
31:27
window of the front doors of the school.
31:29
That's how we found. Out I still vividly so.
31:32
Jack will be starting Kindergarten Monday.
31:34
And here we are 40 years later. I vividly remember August of
31:39
1985, my first day of kindergarten.
31:43
You do. Vividly I get on the bus.
31:46
I lived in a little town by Osage of 40 people.
31:49
My friend Jackie Grimm she told me sit down next to me.
31:52
OK no clue. We go we get to school, she
31:56
pushes me on the swing for like 3 minutes before the bell rings.
31:58
Jackie. Had a crush on you?
32:00
Jackie was great. Jackie's still a great person.
32:02
I love Jackie, she was one of my favorite people and still is
32:05
growing up. And she was a year older than me
32:08
though, so she walks in. We didn't even, we weren't in
32:11
the school we were in. Do you remember these things
32:14
that they used to have? There are these side buildings
32:16
that weren't part of the school. It was like put up my 2 by fours
32:20
and a couple of pieces of plywood.
32:21
That's where kindergarten was with Missus Hendrickson.
32:23
But I still vividly remember that all year round.
32:26
That's where we were. So we went to lunch or went to
32:30
the library or went to gym class.
32:33
We had to walk from this outside little building right inside.
32:37
That school's no longer around, I bet.
32:39
I think it was condemned. I.
32:40
Guess wild All right, take your time out trench plays of the day
32:43
are coming up next. So there is NFL, is there WNBA?
32:47
I had not got there. I do have a preseason play that
32:51
I really like. It's the same kind of handicap
32:53
that I had on Monday. So there's one there.
32:55
There is some WNBA tonight. When?
32:57
Was the last time you watched the WNBA game that you didn't
33:00
bet on? Well.
33:03
Well, Caitlin's been out like 14.
33:04
Games. It's unbelievable.
33:06
Talk about out of sight, out of mind.
33:07
Apparently the television numbers are still decent.
33:11
Could have fooled me because. I saw Becker's had a monster
33:13
night at 44 or something, Right? Rookie record there, but it does
33:17
not happen. Maybe that's why we're watching
33:20
so many documentaries. That's a good point 'cause last
33:21
summer we were not. We were locked and loaded.
33:23
Yup. What a disappointing year for
33:26
this Indiana franchise, the WNBA.
33:28
Oh my God. Well, take your time out.
33:30
Trench plays of the day there next.
33:32
Miller and Condon talking sports with you.
33:33
Thanks for being with us, the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
33:36
Miller and Condon, welcome back. Final LESS segment here on a
33:39
Thursday tomorrow a football Friday.
33:46
How about that Bama Bob's going to join us.
33:48
Mike Palm will join us. Kay, Kurt, Heather live from
33:53
Dublin. So the pep rally is going on
33:56
when we start the show about noon hour time.
33:59
So she's going to go to that and then she'll join us about 1:30.
34:03
Mitch will be with us. I think this is I shouldn't say
34:06
that, his final week of daily training camp reports.
34:10
We'll find out. Anyways, be grateful for the
34:12
Holtis to join us all season long, but got a couple of games
34:16
to opine on. Tomorrow we will do that.
34:20
Point spreads 3. Totals 49.
34:24
Possum. Muddy line.
34:26
That's what you're going to do. You know what if you, if you
34:29
like a side, you may as well, right?
34:31
Even though I think it's going to be a tight game if it is a
34:35
blowout. Iowa State.
34:37
You think so? They've done it.
34:39
Climbing can't blow out Iowa State.
34:41
You can barely beat them. Yeah, only one was what, 10-9
34:44
couple years back? Three years back.
34:45
Don't remember the score. I remember it was close.
34:47
It wasn't. Yeah.
34:48
And by the way, Brewers have scored a terrain we talked about
34:51
in the first segment that they can't get them out.
34:53
Well, they can't get them out again.
34:55
Two run, Homer, they're up to zip.
34:57
They're still batting. Actually, they are not.
35:00
They are now in the bottom of the second inning, but 2 nothing
35:04
Brewers. Get it done, Cubs.
35:05
Come on, give us a little hope. To get it down to within
35:09
striking distance, that would bring them back to five if they
35:12
win today and they've got the tiebreaker.
35:16
We'll see, we'll see. And then they go.
35:18
The Cubs go to the Angels for the weekend.
35:22
Speaking of the West Coast. You're playing there tonight.
35:25
I am. Give me your boy.
35:27
You were trying to make him quit baseball.
35:29
Who? Justin Verlander.
35:31
Just a month ago. He got his record now.
35:33
What a night. There you go.
35:35
Is ER as 4.23 all? Right, it's.
35:38
Doesn't get much run support. We're going to grab the plus 160
35:40
though. Tonight weren't anything Dylan
35:42
sees. Talk about a disappointment.
35:44
That's been a disease. Brutal.
35:46
Dress it is a. But you know, when you watch him
35:48
pitch, you're watching pitch 2 innings.
35:50
Oh yeah. Unhittable baseball.
35:51
Yeah. And then he'll run into trouble,
35:54
he'll walk a guy and is he a mental Midget?
35:57
You think that's what it is. He he kind of has that kind of
36:00
feel to him when you watch him, because you're right.
36:02
You watch one and he like, how does anybody get a hit against
36:04
him, right? And then it blows up and it
36:07
blows up often. So we got one in MLB, OK, one in
36:10
pre season. So what's?
36:11
The game in the NFL you love. It is the Giants and the
36:16
Patriots, OK? Not because of the 18 and O
36:21
ending at the hands of the Giants.
36:22
That has nothing to do with it. Because of what we've seen.
36:26
Jackson Tart. Yeah, he's been good.
36:28
And Jameis, yeah. He's been.
36:29
Good. And the quarterback position is
36:31
significantly a huge backup. Quarterback position.
36:35
Because it doesn't look like Drake May is going to play, It
36:37
doesn't look like on the other side hustle Russell is going to
36:39
be playing either. So it's going to be backups and
36:41
the advantage is significant on the Giants.
36:44
Side Joshua Dobbs. -6 1/2 I will lay it with the G man tonight in
36:51
one final game. We're going to go out, never bet
36:54
against the streak and we're not going to do that because the
36:55
Aces are playing incredibly well.
36:58
AJ Wilson has turned it back on and now her team mates are
37:01
finally helping her out. We will grab the Aces lay the
37:04
1:00 tonight against Phoenix in LV.
37:06
So can the Aces win this thing? I I don't think I think the
37:11
parts around her aren't good enough to be able to win likely
37:15
2 series against the Lynx as Collier might be back tonight.
37:21
That's one to keep an eye on huge.
37:22
And of course, the Liberty, I don't think there's enough there
37:25
around her to do it. But could they get to the final
37:27
four, get to the semifinals? Yeah, I think they're playing at
37:30
that kind of level. Cubs have runners on 1st and 2nd
37:34
with two outs in the bottom of the second as they try to either
37:37
get on the board or maybe perfect world, take the lead,
37:40
tie things up. We shall see where this one
37:42
goes. Right now the Brewers have the
37:45
lead. OK again, tomorrow, football
37:48
Friday, we're not making picks. Tomorrow you and I are.
37:51
Correct. No, we, if you have one that you
37:54
like, I mean, we can do that. Where do you, where do you fall
37:56
on Stanford? Hawaii's the number move too
37:58
much? I think so it's a 5 point swing.
38:01
Yeah, I'm on the buyback side. Our TV show, I'd grabbed
38:04
Stanford when it got to 2 1/2 I think.
38:06
Yeah, the buyback's been too big here.
38:07
Mm hmm, that's one that I'm definitely leaning.
38:10
I'll be playing too many games in week zero, I know that.
38:12
That's going to do it for us off the bench.
38:14
Lucas and Sean, they are next. Miller and Condon, Trent and I
38:17
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