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Why Won’t Biden Admin Have One Leg Up on Terrorists? ; Dad Recognized by Wrigleyville and the Chicago Cubs · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, this music is meant to
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fire you up, right, So I'm gonna give you something to be fired
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up for on this Sunday. As we are under a month from the honoring
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of September eleventh, can you imagine a world where the terrorists and the mastermind
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behind nine to eleven gets a plea deal? Get this? The Biden administration
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is email is mailing out and then notifying nine to eleven families that there are
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possible plea deals with alleged attack planners. And this is the society you weren't
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What have I told you before? You're an Alex Garrett podcasting? What have
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I told you before? We are not being tough enough on criminals, and
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unfortunately it goes from making fifty two percent or more of felonies misdemeanors in the
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city to now bigger issues where we're saying, hey, let's give a plea
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deal to the masterminds that took down our twin towers on the nine to eleven
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attacks. It's not just the administration, it's a They're listening to a societal
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viewpoint which I don't really understand. Shouldn't we be hard on crime and shouldn't
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be shouldn't we just be I hate to say, burning these masterminds alive,
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but we shouldn't be giving them plea deals. They shouldn't be getting any kind
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of role or release of any kind. How soft is that? So what
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the people who went in the tower, his first responders go in there for
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only twenty two years later to see, oh, while the masterminds could be
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out of jailing back on their own two feet. And no, that doesn't
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make sense and should incense you. And this isn't the only time the bidens
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have ripped apart the wounds of nine to eleven. I would say the withdrawal
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from Afghanistan ripped the wounds open again, ripped the scabs open again. And
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this is adding to it. And then you notify the families, You notify
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the families. Come on, Biden administration, you can't be that anti American?
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Can you? But get Trump? But indict Trump. And look,
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I'm not saying what Trump did was American. What he has in certain ways
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it's very Unamerican, but not to that point, not to the point of
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you persecute the former president. But you release and say, hey, guys,
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that took down our own twin towers. Go your merry way, plea
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deals, give me a flipping break, Give me a flipping break. And
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then on top of it all today and I was feeling a week behind here
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today new fares rolled out for the MTA, and am I a happy camper
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about it? Well? Not if the service is gonna be slipshod delayed.
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It always as always, But how about this, because I've seen it now
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today and other times over the weekend where my own girlfriend who's in a power
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wheelchair could not even make it on three subways due to inaccessibility. It's one
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thing to make the announcements about accessibility, but it's another to then say,
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hey, we're gonna raise fairs even on half fare cards and you need it
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to so you're not jumping the turnstile. Well, we're not trying to jump
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to the cernstile. We're just trying to get from A to B. Can
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that be possible? So with this fair increase, I'm gonna say it,
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as I said in the actual messages to the NYCT Subway Twitter page, please
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use this fair increase to include ramps in the budget, like the LR ramps
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and bridge plates. So that people with disabilities of all kinds of chairs,
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not just wheelchairs, but I don't know power chairs. Is a four hundred
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pounds or more could easily navigate in what we call the boarding areas, which
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I don't even feel like accessible boarding. But on the flip side of that
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coin, if you're a passenger today and you're confused about the fairs and upset
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about the fair raise, and maybe we're not uninformed about it, don't get
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on the case of the tough ticket collector. They're just doing their job.
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Be mad at the authorities they report too, not to the average person who
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may be that ticket collector, who may have a family to get back to,
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who maybe, like you and I, hard working blue collar Americans just
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trying to make a living. Those aren't fool we should be getting mad at
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during this time of change. Be right back on the Alex Garret podcast.
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What I had a calm down there, because I have a lighter note now
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involving my dad's beloved Chicago Cups. In fact, what do they say in
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Chicago? What do they say they say? And by the way, not
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for another but since my dad passed, the Cubs have been kicking ass in
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the n L Central. They're right in the playoff race. They're actually in
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the wild card positioning here and that that is fun to see with the talent
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they got in Chicago. But I asked them an interesting question, uh Cubs
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customer fan customer service. I said to them, is it possible? Because
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I had put my dad alone, without my stepfather, Vic and my mom.
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We had put my father's ashes in these little cups. And I said
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to the Cubs fan assistance, is it possible that you guys can take a
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couple of my dad's ashes back to Wrigley. That didn't seem like a healthy
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or safe thing to do, so they said this. They said to us,
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well, we can send you a letter of condolence, and what's your
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best email and mailing address, I should say, And I gave him my
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address, and sure enough, today the Cubs sent my family and I this.
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It's pretty amazing, this letter on behalf of the Chicago Cubs. Would
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you like to hear it, Dear Alex, The Chicago Cubs are very sadden
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to hear about the passing of one of our biggest fans. Your father,
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your dad was an incredibly low Cubs fan, and we are honored to have
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had him as part of our baseball family. We wanted to take this opportunity
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to offer our condolences to your entire family. For more than one hundred years,
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there's been a unique group of people called Cubs fans. Some people become
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fans after hearing the first crack of the bat on the radio, or maybe
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after seeing the first glimpse of green ivy on the outfield wall. For others,
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being a fanlis or tradition passed down from one member family member to another.
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Most people, however, would say they were just born Cub fans.
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It's nothing you can really explain. It's just something you feel in your own
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heart. We're guessing that's exactly how your dad would have described his devotion to
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our greatball club. On behalf of the Chicago Cubs. Please know that your
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family is in our thoughts. I mean, this is a professional Major League
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Baseball organization, let alone being the Cubs. If any organization did this,
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I would be wowed beyond belief. But this is the Cubs. My dad's
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favorite team. He would take me to the cub met game almost every year
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since I was born, and my my girlfriend and I continued that tradition last
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week when they were here at City Field. Yeah, the Mets did win
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the series, but it was fun just to continue that tradition. I planned
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to him outside of City Field before one of the games, say pop.
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He made it again in one form or another, but but it just prommed
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me to tell you the story of how an Oklahoma boy became a Cubs fan
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in Minnesota. He told me the story of how he just I think he
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did listen to radio, believe it or not, and he just got hooked
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on Chicago sports. I think the Blackhawks were first, So the Cubs were
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first, then the Blackhawks and then the Bears, and those three have been
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his core teams. And as far as the Cubs go, when the met
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when they were in town in nineteen ninety five, I want to say,
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my dad had me go up to the broadcast booth. I got a picture
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with Harry Carey. True story. At one of my first memories traveling.
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For some reason, I remember seeing the Pirates on deck Circle at Wriggley Field
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because we had Harry Carey signed to that picture in the broadcast booth at Wriggley.
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And I also remember, and maybe if you know me long enough.
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You remember, my dad used to dress me up with this little Cub one
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zs in these Cub shirts over the years, and then I hadn't really one.
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I remember with the big Cubs logo on the chests, and I fell
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in love with that jersey. I've had one almost ever since I was a
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kid, thanks to my dad. And for the Cubs to recognize him means
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a lot. And I always thank Bryant because see, when Chris Bryant was
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coming up through the ranks, I had done a series that they should promote
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him to the major leagues. Sure enough, his rookie season, he got
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there. I believe I was fifteen Onn't you know it. About a year
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later, since Chris Bryant's entry into Major League baseball, Bryant Terrizzo the moment
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that everyone baseball fan or not will remember as Anthony Rizzo put that ball in
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his back pocket and the Cubs had broken a one hundred and eight year curse.
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I always thank Chris Bryant, though, for making that curse, for
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breaking that curse, because if it wasn't for his energy, for his hitting,
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for his timely hitting, his clutch hitting, I don't know if the
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Cubs were in that position in twenty sixteen. But I remember watching that series
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of my dad and sure, and of course we had seen the Year in
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two thousand and three with Bartmann twenty years ago. He had seen year every
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year before that or the Cubs just disappointed. But in twenty sixteen, a
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week before the biggest election that would change everything, the Cugs went first and
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they made history by winning that World Series. I mean it was it was,
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of course rain delay riddled and everything like that, but I'm slap my
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dad got to see a World Series win from the Cubs in his lifetime.
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And hell, I'm glad sister Jean, who throughout the first pictures a few
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weeks ago, got to see that win. She's one hundred and three years
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old. And so for those who lived through the forties, fifties, sixties,
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seventies, eighties, nineties, and the almost of two thousands, that
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twenty sixteen when had to mean much more than we realized. My dad said
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he became a Cub fan in the late forties, early fifties, and sorry,
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guy, if I didn't get that quite right, but that's what I
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believe was the case, and always wanted our minute a guy from Oklahoma who
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went to school and taught at Minnesota University as a Gopher became a Cup fan.
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It was always fascinating to me that he actually just went totally cross states
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to become a Cub, a Chicago fan, but he did, and going
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in twenty eleven was specially I mean, the Yanks won that day, but
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that was special. Two to be the friendly come by at wrigley Field,
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Wrigleyville, but for Wrigleyville to come to Queen to Port Washington in that note,
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for Wrigleyville to embrace my entire family in their organization, just through my
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dad means the world. And my girlfriend I we wear the Cubs and cheer
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for them a lot, especially since my dad passed. And maybe this year,
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somehow they'll pull it together and do it again. I do believe that
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would be my dad's wish and my dad's will over above. I mean,
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you can't explain a nine or ten game win streak multiple times since it's passed
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away. It just feels divine. But thank you for Chicago Cubs. Many
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have called it a class act and I would say the same, and I'm
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glad I get the chance to read that letter. To you here on the
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Alex Scaret Podcast Network, and it seemed like the Cubs are there for you,
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even if they're busy competing. They have a community outreach all the way
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to New York City. And one last story, we took hours upon hours
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upon hours and sleeping in the train station up in Utica nearer Cooperstown just to
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see justice see Ryan Sandburn being inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame
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in Cooperstown. I remember that day like it was yesterday. But that's how
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much Cub fan is. He wanted to go see Ryan Sandberg being duct into
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the Hall, and so it's it's fitting as much as we followed the Cubs
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almost everywhere, even in Philadelphia, but they will come back home to Long
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Island and Queens and where my family is and help us feel like part of
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their Wrigleyville. Can't wait to get out there again and be part of the
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Cub fans. Have a great day on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network, and
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we will talk to you very soon. Let's hear it one more time.
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