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MLB Updates: Dodgers' Dominance, Cy Young Race, and Ohtani's Season Highlights · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Ninja balloons and baseball TikToks.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Head to the back and I'm stepping with a purpose.
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  Grip on the back and you know it get to work.
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  V Shaq swing got the whole field nervous.
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  Pitch coming fast but I'm turning into search.
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  Crack of the bet.
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  Yeah.
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  You heard that sound sending to the fist now.
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  They looking around.
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  Coach like, damn, how you hitting like that?
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  I just point down like V Shaq.
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  I mean, now I don't chase hits.
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  I create that contact.
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  Barrel it up.
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  Let me show you the man.
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  Launch like a perfect.
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  I'm sending it back.
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  Out of the park, I'm stacking up stands on the cage to the game.
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  I'll never fall off.
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  Every swing down then, I don't never feel lost.
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  Hindsight low away.
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  It don't matter at all.
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  If it's
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  Welcome back to the scene project sports network.
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  I'm your host Bubba Starts.
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  You're here tonight for seven eight nine, our weekly baseball roundtable.
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  I'm joined as always by my cohost, big b.
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  B, what's happening, buddy?
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  Not much.
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  Your your start of the week, my kinda in the middle of the week with the work schedule.
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  But, hey, I know we're gonna talk about the props to getting the call.
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  Colt Emerson, you know, welcome to the big show.
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  So good luck up there.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  Great.
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  Well, let's bring in Shady.
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  He's joining us today as well.
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  Shady, what's going on, buddy?
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  Hey.
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  Another good week, boys.
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  A lot hey.
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  Some controversy.
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  Maybe a little maybe a little drama in the MLB right now.
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  Maybe a little Cy Young award, little packed like the PGA was.
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  Lot of good things in baseball.
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  Got to catch a Charlotte Knights game over the weekend too.
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  Nice.
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  Nice.
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  So we're gonna get to all that too.
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  Let's bring in Pods joining us from the beautiful West Coast.
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  What's going on, Pods?
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  Not a whole lot, man.
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  Not a whole lot.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, a lot to cover.
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  My Cubs have been sliding back the wrong direction after their second 10 game winning
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  streak of the year.
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  They got walked off today by the crosstown rival Chicago white sox.
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  That was tragic.
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  This is why I don't follow baseball until July.
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  It's too early to have my heart broken.
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  I should be more like b
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  Welcome to Minnesota.
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  At the game.
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  Yeah.
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  have BSTAC as part of the Scene Project Sports Network family.
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  Dodgers still sitting atop the NL West.
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  Nothing changing out there.
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  Pods, I know you gotta go, so I'm gonna let you just kind of cover anything that you want to
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  real quick, and then we'll let you dip out.
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  Okay.
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  So just to make this as succinct and good as possible, Dodgers are still on top.
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  They just got done giving the belt to the ass to the angels.
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  15 to two last night.
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  Last time I checked the score, it was the top of the eighth.
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  It was eight to one.
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  So
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  Finished 10 to one.
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  Mhmm.
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  Close enough.
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  There you go.
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  Close enough.
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  So that's not changing, and that series win, I think, was a sweep at this point.
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  That's solidified their position, at least for this week at the top of the NL West, which I
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  think helps them move just a little bit closer to the Braves and the East for that number one
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  overall seed.
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  But I don't know if we gained much on them.
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  Then the Angels, as you can tell, after this big series loss, getting swept is dropped in
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  the AL West rankings.
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  Then you've got the Padres still keeping pace too.
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  Like, honestly, I I say this all the time, But if the Padres and the Diamondbacks were in
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  other divisions, they'd probably win it every other year or consecutive years.
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  The NLS is just so tough, and so is the, you know, the NL Central right now too.
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  So there's just a lot of ball going on in the West Coast.
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  But like Bubba said, you know, it's not even July yet.
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  So there's a lot of things that are gonna happen between now and then because we haven't
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  even got to the trade deadline.
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  Bring that back up, b.
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  Yeah.
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  I
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  know.
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  Dodger baseball's boring.
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  Actually, the the fact that is I grew up they were
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  like my NL team, you know, because I like the old guys in the eighties and nineties.
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  But just now, I mean, it's just one of those things where it's just that's all you hear
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  about on ESPN is them and the Yankees and this and that, and they can't do that.
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  ESPN doesn't
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  know how to cover
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  Well, no.
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  They don't know
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  how to cover anything unless it is the popular sports.
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  Oh, man.
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  The
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  only people who care about baseball who work for ESPN, I can't name them because everybody
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  only coverage I watch is MLB Network, and I like, you know, Mark DeRosa and all of them and
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  watch that because they actually know what the hell they're talking about.
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  Yeah.
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  I
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  don't wanna listen to Steven Ago, the Yankees are the Yankees.
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  Like, brother, you watched maybe two games all year.
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  Relax.
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  Go for it.
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  I I will say, though, when the Yankees and Dodgers and the Braves are good Good.
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  It's good for baseball.
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  Are up there.
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  I I will give it that.
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  So
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  It's just tough.
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  If they're not starting till 07:30 local time, that's 09:30 my time, man.
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  Like, I'm in the hell.
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  I'm not I'm not But,
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  like, let me give a
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  West Coast base.
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  Let me give context, bro.
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  Like, if it's the here's the other team I'll throw in there because it's true.
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  If the Cubs are good, that's good for baseball too.
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  Because people love the Cubs.
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  It it's not just the Chicago thing.
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  That's like a that's like a global thing for the Cubs.
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  Like, there's Cubbies fans.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So but right now, as far as what's going on West Coast is that's pretty much it.
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  Dodgers, Padres keep doing their thing.
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  Angels are sliding.
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  But I will say this, it's looking like early way too early.
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  It's looking like Dodgers and Braves and the NLCS if this keeps going.
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  Maybe.
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  Yeah.
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  Probably.
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  Alright, Pods.
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  That's enough fun of you.
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  Have a good night, buddy.
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  Probably.
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  It will be.
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  See you.
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  Yep.
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  That's what you get for disrespecting the host and his oh, you forgot who ran this stream.
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  Love you, Pods.
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  Have a
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  great time, man.
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  Thanks for
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  You're good.
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  Well done.
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  All all the help this week with our coverage of the PGA Championship over on the scratch
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  project.
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  I really appreciate you.
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  Obviously, just giving you a little bit of shit today.
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  Appreciate you, Pods.
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  Have a great night, buddy.
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  You know what?
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  Your Dodgers can put the belt to the ass on the rest of the NL West.
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  That's fine.
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  When they play a real team, we'll give them some more coverage.
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  The
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  Dodgers are two behind, and they're winning.
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  The Dodgers could be
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  I pulled them off.
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  I didn't give them a chance to rebut.
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  You want a rebuttal after that?
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  I thought you were going to eat supper.
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  The series that I wanna see, if we're gonna talk about playing real teams, I wanna see how
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  the Dodgers stack up against, like, the Cubs or the Pirates or the Braves at this point.
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  Because I feel like that's the real competition.
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  Dealt them a, a couple of losses in their series on
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  And the braves kicked our ass.
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  Actually, I'd like to see the dodges against the young, exciting, athletics.
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  I think it would be
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  Sure.
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  Could be a good series.
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  But alright, gentlemen.
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  We'll see you, Pods.
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  See you, Pods.
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  See you.
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  Alright, guys.
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  Now that we got rid of him, let's all talk shit on the Dodgers.
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  Just kidding.
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  Poor Dodgers.
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  Just take a quick look at the standings as we do every week.
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  Just kinda give it a quick gloss over the Tampa Bay devil race out in front on the AL East, but
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  it's May, so that's pretty typical.
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  You gotta think the Yankees will will come and challenge them at some point.
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  They're not too far back anyway.
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  Nothing nothing crazy there.
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  AL Central, twins, hanging around.
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  Hanging around.
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  How they're doing it.
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  I do not because it's as well as say, they go on a three game winning streak somehow and you
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  know, the thing is is they're not losing blowout games.
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  So, I mean, something's going to click either a major trade, somebody get called up.
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  I mean, they're they're just hanging around.
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  They're they're toying with Minnesota hearts like all Minnesota teams do.
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  What are the
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  vibes in the I know that you're not in the city, but in kinda twins fandom right now?
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  Because the team wasn't supposed to be good, and they're not, like, blowing the doors off of
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  anyone.
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  They're twenty one and twenty six, obviously, under 500.
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  But if they keep sniffing around here, are you going to have fans that are now clamoring, not
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  necessarily to add at the deadline, but to not tear it down to the studs and trade you some of
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  your best players
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  Well, then
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  and the
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  Bucks then.
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  Well and that's the thing is the first thing around it, we got a fighting chance.
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  Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of fans that's just like, come on, just add that one more
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  piece.
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  Add that started to go with the guys we got.
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  Go go out and get a good middle relief guy.
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  You know, somebody, know I mean, they're they're gonna be clamoring, but, you know, the
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  one thing with the pull ads is they don't like giving up a lot of their farm guys to get that
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  one or two pieces, you know.
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  I mean, they they had it last year, and then they went out and gutted the team.
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  I mean, I think they trade had 10 trades and moved, like, 15 to 16 players and got, like,
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  four back.
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  I think it was.
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  I mean yeah.
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  It it was ridiculous last year.
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  So everybody's worried about that.
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  I mean, honestly, if they if if they do sell, I mean, they do are sitting in the middle of a
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  pack at four and a half a day, you're like, you know what?
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  Let's just boxing will be gone.
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  You know, if flu stays healthy, he'll probably be gone.
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  I mean, you know, I mean, boxing is really consistent right now.
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  That's I I I just I just have a feeling that the they're gonna do the same old twin stop,
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  and they're gonna sit in the middle, and they're gonna just either close by and claim
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  that they couldn't get the guys they wanted because they everybody wanted too much, or
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  they're gonna do what they did last year and just be like, you know what?
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  We're we can't make a big trade to bring somebody in, so let's just move Bucks to let's
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  move Joe Ryan.
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  Let's move, you know, whoever healthy right now.
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  And yeah.
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  Oh, the I kinda agree.
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  I mean, at this point, it's still early in the season barring barring no injuries.
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  You know?
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  At this point, they're winning at the expense of, like, god, I hope nobody gets injured right
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  now.
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  You know?
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  That's, like, the only thing.
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  Like, we're really we're hanging in there.
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  Like, god forbid.
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  But, yeah, I would say that's about the only thing.
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  But Buxton's on fire.
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  Buxton is on fire right now.
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  And, you know, and that's the thing is, you know, there's been many stats out there that if
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  Buxton's in the lineup, the twins are winning.
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  I mean, it was a few years ago, but, like, 70% of the games when he's in the lineup.
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  And they're, like, 500 or less when he's out of the lineup.
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  So a healthy Bucks did equal some w's.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you know what?
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  I don't care.
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  I'm still pissed at him.
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  I was out in the center field bleachers when we went to a game a couple years ago.
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  He had at least four chances to throw a ball to me up there, and he just completely ignored me.
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  So I'll never forgive him.
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  No.
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  I'm just playing.
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  Well, and the and the thing is to oh, I just lost my train of thought now.
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  Oh.
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  All good.
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  That's While while while while we're talking about the twins, how about Ober's performance?
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  His last start, 84 pitches, a complete game shutout.
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  So Oh, I didn't hear about this.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll I'll I'll pull it up like that.
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  Yeah.
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  For real.
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  That's that's
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  Yeah. Been
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  Been Yeah.
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  They they
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  were comparing it to Maddox type of outing.
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  Yeah.
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  That don't happen.
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  You don't get under a 100.
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  No.
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  No.
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  No.
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  That's And I was almost floored when I heard that.
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  I'm just like, what?
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  A 20 I think Maddox was 85.
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  It was more than that.
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  84 is, like, less than Maddox.
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  Yep.
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  Let's see here.
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  Game by game, game log.
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  Which, I mean, why are looking this up?
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  If y'all haven't looked it up, anybody listening, go look up the Cy Young race.
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  I don't even care if you take it for the whole league.
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  So it was against the Marlins, three nothing, nine innings, two hits, zero across the board,
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  seven strikeouts, and 89 pitches he had.
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  Yeah.
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  That's that's pretty much.
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  I think Maddox was 85.
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  So, yeah, I mean, first pick, work ahead pitchers.
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  Yep.
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  That's why.
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  Yep.
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  Work ahead.
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  First pitch strikes.
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  So so you wanna go look at the Cy Young race?
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  Oh, it's everybody.
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  I mean, it's so packed right now.
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  I'm I'm putting my money on Christopher Sanchez.
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  Only reason for anybody says Keynes, Bryce Harper took Kings Yard tonight.
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  We've all been waiting on that one.
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  Let's all give an applause.
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  We've been waiting on that money shot for a hot minute.
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  Power versus power, baby.
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  Bryce Bryce finally got one.
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  But, I mean, Paul, Christopher Sanchez, Chris Sale, Jacob Mizorowski, Mason Miller, you throw
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  him in there.
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  I think I keep going there, I'm missing somebody.
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  Are you just talking to NL, or are you talking, like, all our
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  just the NL.
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  I just know those guys because I'm looking at the teams right now.
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  Yeah.
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  Because right now, you got Sanchez or Philly.
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  What's his record here?
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  Five and two with a 1.8 ERA burns for
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  six and three.
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  Chris Sale for Atlanta, six and three.
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  He's hovering around two.
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  Skeez hovering around two.
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  Shohei forgot.
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  Point zero eight one e r a or some crap.
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  Yeah.
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  But he's gonna have to get some innings in there to get for the gut there.
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  I agree.
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  But it's tight.
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  What about what about the reliever for Milwaukee ash Ashbine?
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  Oh.
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  21 games, eight and o with a 2.7 or 2.17 ERA.
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  I mean, granted he's all pitched 29 innings, but talk about coming in and getting those w's
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  when needed.
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  Hey.
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  Get that sound bite, clip it, tag him.
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  He would appreciate that because I know he's right now going, thank god somebody's saying
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  it, bro.
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  I thought I was the only one.
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  I'm on a tear right now, b.
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  Thank you.
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  Hey.
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  You can send it.
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  I'll take I'll I'll take a check or I'll take a signed hand.
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  I I like signatures.
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  You give me a signed hand or something.
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  What's his name?
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  Ashburn?
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  Yeah.
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  Hell, they don't even have to be signed.
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  I saw a reel yesterday where they were asking Terry Bradshaw if he knew how much one of his
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  cards was worth, and he was like, $4, $8.
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  Get the hell out of here.
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  More than that, it was like $472,000.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Aaron at at by a righty or no.
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  The lefty.
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  That's right.
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  Yeah.
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  Sitting there with 44 k's, 2.17.
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  So
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  yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's
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  Oh, a lot to go there.
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  Alright.
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  Well, we'll be seeing a lot of the brewers.
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  At least my cubs will this week.
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  They start a series tomorrow with the brew crew in Milwaukee, and then they get the bottom
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  feeding Houston Astros after that.
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  So maybe a little reprieve, try to get back in the win column.
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  Had some injuries, had some just power outages with their with their batting lineup,
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  especially down in No.
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  They're in Chicago.
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  They're not in Milwaukee.
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  They're in Chicago.
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  Oh, are they in Chicago?
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  Yep.
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  Well, I don't know how to read a a schedule.
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  Doesn't matter.
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  Well, no.
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  I I was just making sure because I know the twins announced that that Milwaukee was leaving
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  here to go to Chicago.
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  So
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  Oh, nice.
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  Yeah.
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  I just glanced at it real quickly.
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  I do zero preproduction for this show, guys, if you haven't noticed.
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  Athletics, this whole AL West, who wouldn't wanna play out there this year?
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  My goodness.
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  500 ball, and you're gonna get a playoff spot.
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  Must be nice.
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  The braves, obviously, top of the league, top of their division.
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  The Phillies going on a little bit of a run.
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  Didn't they fire their manager a week and a half ago since our last or before we did our
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  last show?
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  I think they let go of their manager, didn't they?
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  Been on
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  a team.
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  Back in the win column seven.
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  I was
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  gonna say Don Malin took over.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  So, obviously, Don still got some magic left in his hat.
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  Philly's getting back in the win.
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  So you you couldn't have gone any further back.
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  Right?
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  To to give up eight games to the Atlanta Braves as well as they're playing ball right now,
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  You're gonna be chasing that team the entire season, borrowing borrowing catastrophic
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  injuries.
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  And right now, look at the NL Central who have both wildcard teams coming out of here.
• 17:29
  Cubs at the top of the division, Milwaukee Brewers, and
• 17:33
  And they're all on the industry right now.
• 17:34
  Just over fourth down.
• 17:35
  Are half game back.
• 17:37
  So you have, and I think that's gonna be this way pretty much all season.
• 17:41
  It depends how these shake out, how these two teams beat each other up down the stretch
• 17:45
  because they're gonna play a lot of ball against one another.
• 17:48
  And, I mean, as well as these teams will too, but it it really seems like the NL Central's
• 17:54
  just gonna be a a war of attrition for everyone.
• 17:58
  That's why you love to see it when my cubs go on the streak.
• 18:01
  If they're gonna be streaky team all year, I'm okay with that.
• 18:04
  Right?
• 18:04
  It's finding a way to quell the losing streaks when you have if you go 10 and o and then you
• 18:10
  have a stretch where you go four and six on the backside of that, that's okay because you're
• 18:14
  still fourteen and six in your last 20.
• 18:17
  Right?
• 18:17
  So you're you're still sitting in there.
• 18:19
  It's when you get hot, can you stay hot for long periods of time?
• 18:23
  Can you go out there and pop another 10 to 12 game win streak during the season that allows
• 18:29
  you to separate yourself and play 500 ball or close to it in between those spaces?
• 18:34
  I think you're okay.
• 18:35
  They staved off the sweep against the braves.
• 18:38
  They staved off a sweep Yeah.
• 18:39
  Against the rangers.
• 18:41
  You're facing good teams there too.
• 18:42
  I didn't see where the rangers were in the AL.
• 18:45
  Very good.
• 18:47
  So Yeah.
• 18:48
  We're
• 18:48
  We're not a bad team under 500, but not a not a terrible bottom feeder.
• 18:53
  So can can we can we start there?
• 18:55
  Can we just store off the rumors or the chat mail?
• 18:59
  See, this is why they need to realign the divisions because anybody from the NL Central
• 19:04
  would be leading the NL West because of how bad they are.
• 19:09
  So Yeah.
• 19:10
  The worst team in the in the the worst team in the NL Central would be in the lead in there.
• 19:16
  The West.
• 19:16
  Yeah.
• 19:17
  That that's pretty wild.
• 19:18
  And I don't know if it finishes like that.
• 19:21
  You know, obviously, a lot of baseball left to go here, not even oh, would we just passed the
• 19:27
  quarter way point, essentially.
• 19:29
  Right?
• 19:30
  Or I guess been past the quarter, about a third of the way through the season right now.
• 19:33
  Right?
• 19:34
  Games in, or close to it in a 160 game season.
• 19:39
  So you're approaching this week that one third mark.
• 19:44
  Mhmm.
• 19:44
  Yeah.
• 19:45
  It's it's crazy.
• 19:46
  It's really wild.
• 19:48
  I don't know that you can shake up the divisions.
• 19:50
  They are the way they are because of travel purposes, and you're gonna play extra division
• 19:54
  games.
• 19:54
  I understand that part of it.
• 19:56
  But, yeah, it it's pretty wild that you have some really good teams.
• 20:03
  Some team in the NL Central is going to have a great season Mhmm.
• 20:07
  And miss the playoffs.
• 20:08
  Right?
• 20:09
  No.
• 20:09
  You And that's but that's the
• 20:11
  game winners in that division, and only two of them make the playoffs.
• 20:16
  Well, and and that's where the talk is gonna begin, especially when we get close to the all
• 20:20
  star.
• 20:20
  So it's like, we need to talk about realignment because look at this.
• 20:24
  Or we, you know, just take the best whatever team from each division.
• 20:28
  I think I think it's more of the latter.
• 20:30
  I think they just say, hey.
• 20:32
  We're done with this division leader, the division game.
• 20:35
  You can keep the division and play mostly against division opponents, but you have to win
• 20:39
  against nondivision and nonconference opponents to make the playoffs.
• 20:43
  And you take the top, what, seven teams of each league or Oh.
• 20:49
  Six or seven?
• 20:50
  I can't remember what it is.
• 20:51
  Is it eight?
• 20:52
  No.
• 20:53
  Seven.
• 20:53
  Right?
• 20:53
  Because the top he gets a buy and then the other the other ones play each other.
• 20:57
  So you take the top seven leagues from each division, in which case you would have a better
• 21:03
  product going into the postseason.
• 21:07
  Right?
• 21:07
  Because at at this point, kind of if I can get all of them.
• 21:11
  So right now, the three
• 21:12
  way the three way three
• 21:13
  The cubs, the brewers, the cardinals, the dodgers, the padres, and, you know, one of
• 21:20
  these teams, the pirates, reds, or Phillies possibly battling it out inside of that.
• 21:25
  Right?
• 21:25
  And then you figure out seeding from there.
• 21:28
  Yeah.
• 21:28
  So they took the top eight, which I think they actually take because I think the one and two
• 21:32
  see get buys, and then I think so I think it's the top six go.
• 21:37
  So you got the Braves, the Dodgers, Cubs, Padres, Brewers, and the Cardinals will be your
• 21:44
  sixth the bigger one or your sixth playoff teams if they went just by record.
• 21:49
  Philly and anybody behind them would be out.
• 21:52
  Wow.
• 21:53
  So it's only 12 teams total.
• 21:55
  Yeah.
• 21:55
  12 team back end divided equally between the American and National Leagues.
• 21:59
  Each league top three seeds are division winners, and the next three are wildcards.
• 22:02
  Top two division winners receive a first round buy, and then the other ones battle it out in
• 22:07
  that series.
• 22:08
  So Yeah.
• 22:09
  I think you could expand that, go to a 16 team playoff, and ditch the division winner deal and
• 22:17
  just reward the top eight teams and freaking have at it.
• 22:20
  Do two five game series to start and then seven from there on out.
• 22:25
  They they would have to shorten the season somehow.
• 22:28
  Think they should.
• 22:29
  I think Well,
• 22:29
  I think they could too.
• 22:30
  I mean I think you
• 22:32
  I mean, we're getting into what?
• 22:33
  Mid November?
• 22:35
  Shorten it to a 150.
• 22:37
  Top eight seeds.
• 22:38
  Seed them however you want to.
• 22:39
  Even if you just wanna say seven.
• 22:41
  Whatever.
• 22:41
  Give somebody a buy in there.
• 22:43
  Fine.
• 22:43
  Give the top team in each conference a buy.
• 22:46
  Let the other six seeds figure it out and and then run a a longer playoff.
• 22:53
  I think you sell more tickets for those top teams, which they have profit sharing in this
• 22:57
  league.
• 22:58
  Right?
• 22:58
  Like, all the
• 22:58
  money Yeah.
• 22:59
  Is getting divvied up anyway.
• 23:01
  All the rights and all those things are happening.
• 23:03
  That's why you can have these bottom feeding teams that have no one in the stands that
• 23:07
  continue to survive year over year.
• 23:10
  Shorten the shorten the regular season and and longer playoffs, I think that would be better
• 23:15
  for the game.
• 23:16
  Well, I think they don't even need I mean, I I'm okay with the short season, but they still
• 23:21
  want 162 games or whatever.
• 23:24
  Then you go back to old school where you have scheduled doubleheaders on Sunday.
• 23:29
  You know, make that we consider the four gamer and roll with it.
• 23:33
  You know, you still get your one sixty two, but the season should wrap up middle of or the
• 23:38
  September.
• 23:39
  That will just put the kibosh on the doubleheaders.
• 23:42
  Speaking as someone who played a ton of doubleheaders in my high school American Legion
• 23:47
  career Yep.
• 23:49
  Freaking brutal when it's 95 degrees outside.
• 23:51
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:52
  I get it.
• 23:52
  And we only played seven inning games.
• 23:54
  Right?
• 23:54
  Like, yeah.
• 23:55
  That's that's just brutal, and you're not gonna shorten the games down to that.
• 24:00
  I I think they find some way.
• 24:01
  Because what you can't beat the tension of playoff baseball.
• 24:07
  And when you get to September with these, you have half the teams that are trash, and and you
• 24:14
  have a, you know, 12 teams that are battling for the playoffs.
• 24:18
  Right?
• 24:18
  And I I think shortening that season so that if you get to September, just give those bottom 12
• 24:25
  teams the rest of the thing off.
• 24:27
  Start just just get the playoffs going.
• 24:29
  Yeah.
• 24:30
  Right?
• 24:30
  Send them home.
• 24:31
  Hey.
• 24:32
  You know what?
• 24:32
  You guys are done.
• 24:33
  Because what happens when guys get injured in that time?
• 24:36
  That affects their next season.
• 24:37
  Right?
• 24:38
  Yeah.
• 24:38
  You're out of it as a as a nonplayoff team, and you go out there and and blow a freaking
• 24:45
  Achilles stepping on first base or something stupid that takes you out of a good part of
• 24:50
  next year, I don't think there's probably any worse feeling, for a player than that.
• 24:55
  Mhmm.
• 24:57
  No.
• 24:57
  You're pretty spot on.
• 24:59
  Don't know what the number would be.
• 25:01
  I don't know how many games triple a plays.
• 25:04
  It's gotta be around one twenty, one thirty.
• 25:07
  But you wouldn't have to drop that many, but it's probably the right number.
• 25:10
  Just end it with triple a.
• 25:12
  Playoffs would end the same time.
• 25:14
  Because their playoffs would end, yours would yours would begin.
• 25:17
  The Sioux Falls Canaries who I'm gonna shout out in a segment here in a second as well
• 25:22
  because the operation combating veteran suicide, the foundation I'm the director of
• 25:26
  marketing and PR for, are working with them to bring out their hero of the game.
• 25:31
  They play a 100 games in a hundred and sixteen days.
• 25:34
  Yeah.
• 25:35
  That sounds about right.
• 25:37
  That Northwoods league that we've talked about, the amateur league, they play 72 games in,
• 25:44
  like, less than eighty days.
• 25:46
  It is crazy.
• 25:47
  I remember one team I played well, we played against when I was playing amateur ball.
• 25:52
  They played close to a 150 games, but their their roster was pretty much like a Major
• 26:02
  League roster.
• 26:03
  They had 25 to 30 guys show up every game, and that would that I mean yeah.
• 26:11
  They take the field and the dugout's still full, and it's just like, we show up with 10
• 26:15
  guys.
• 26:15
  It's just like, yeah.
• 26:16
  We're done for.
• 26:17
  I mean Yeah.
• 26:20
  Especially playing a doubleheader.
• 26:22
  Yeah.
• 26:22
  You know what I mean?
• 26:23
  Where you're just like, nope.
• 26:25
  It's over.
• 26:26
  Don't have pitching.
• 26:27
  We don't have it.
• 26:28
  Nope.
• 26:29
  Yeah.
• 26:30
  We don't have it.
• 26:31
  Shady, you went to some baseball this weekend.
• 26:34
  How was it?
• 26:35
  Yeah.
• 26:36
  Triple a, Charlotte Knights.
• 26:38
  They were playing the well, I didn't even do the things like a seahorse.
• 26:42
  I don't know.
• 26:42
  Jackson Holiday, Hurston yeah.
• 26:45
  Hurston Kerstad is on the team.
• 26:48
  There was a couple other guys that I was seeing come up and down.
• 26:51
  I know the Gonzales kid for the white or, yeah, the White Sox.
• 26:54
  He's a Charlotte Knight.
• 26:58
  The Knights beat the crap out of him.
• 26:59
  Jackson Holiday is struggling.
• 27:01
  He's not doing well.
• 27:02
  Like, a 108 yeah.
• 27:03
  One eighty batting average.
• 27:05
  No home runs.
• 27:06
  Hairston could have tied it up.
• 27:09
  He wasn't looking too good.
• 27:11
  I mean, hey.
• 27:12
  If this is the White Sox farm team and this is what's coming up, I mean
• 27:16
  At one point, did the White Sox half of their prospects were sons of former Major League ball
• 27:23
  players?
• 27:24
  Yeah.
• 27:24
  I would say most of these guys.
• 27:26
  Yeah.
• 27:26
  I mean, I know we're getting into that area now to where Yeah.
• 27:30
  We grew up watching their dads play.
• 27:32
  Now their kids are playing.
• 27:33
  So it's I mean, it's kinda cool.
• 27:35
  I mean Yeah.
• 27:35
  I mean, Jackson's been here for three years.
• 27:37
  I don't know if he is in a slump or what's going on, but he's struggling.
• 27:41
  But either way, it was good ball.
• 27:44
  I mean, dudes on the mound were popping at 95, 96, 97.
• 27:48
  Con just it it looked good.
• 27:50
  So it's bright days for the White Sox, hopefully.
• 27:54
  Maybe.
• 27:55
  Maybe.
• 27:55
  I'm rooting for Chicago.
• 27:57
  Good luck.
• 28:00
  I wanna take a minute.
• 28:01
  I mentioned the Sioux Falls Canaries.
• 28:03
  Really happy to pair with them with operation combating veteran suicide this year.
• 28:09
  We are looking for 50 veterans and their families to come and fill the stands with us.
• 28:14
  We have tickets for four to every home game this year to honor a veteran.
• 28:19
  During the game, you're gonna be recognized after the third inning.
• 28:23
  Really amazing opportunity that we have here, and and I'm thrilled to share that with the
• 28:28
  world.
• 28:28
  It's a great organization at the Sioux Falls Canaries and a way for us to activate inside of
• 28:35
  the stadium and drive awareness, not just around our foundation, but the plague of
• 28:39
  suicide that has been an epidemic in our veteran community for a long time.
• 28:44
  So really, grateful to the Canaries for allowing us to, be their recruitment arm, to
• 28:51
  find these veterans and to put it out there.
• 28:53
  I have a calendar link if you guys are interested in nominating a veteran or, you
• 28:58
  know, you yourself are interested in coming to the game as a veteran, then we will, we would
• 29:04
  love to have you.
• 29:06
  You can get ahold of me, by going to any one of the social media channels here at the Scene
• 29:11
  Project Sports Network or find me online, Facebook, Bubba Starts, or on Instagram as
• 29:17
  well.
• 29:18
  Truly grateful for the opportunity to serve those who have served out there, and we got a
• 29:23
  lot of tickets to give away.
• 29:24
  So, guys, please get ahold of me.
• 29:26
  We would love to send a veteran of your choice and their party of three out to a game this
• 29:33
  season in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• 29:35
  So come and enjoy a game, and let's salute our veterans with the hero of the game.
• 29:41
  Clip that.
• 29:42
  Yeah.
• 29:42
  Okay.
• 29:44
  Alright, boys.
• 29:47
  Very nice.
• 29:48
  Yeah.
• 29:48
  That's great.
• 29:50
  Hagrid Grimes.
• 29:50
  That's that's how I, that's how I produce my that's how I produce my commercial so I don't
• 29:56
  have to do it extra.
• 29:57
  That was great.
• 29:59
  First take's always best.
• 30:01
  Yeah.
• 30:01
  That's what I found, Shady, for sure.
• 30:05
  Padres beating the Mariners.
• 30:07
  That's the only game going right now.
• 30:08
  Top fifth.
• 30:12
  Okay.
• 30:13
  Yeah.
• 30:13
  Cal's out on the injured list.
• 30:15
  I guess Harry Ford's catching now who's he's a good prospect.
• 30:21
  Yeah.
• 30:22
  Cal, he's
• 30:25
  Need some time off.
• 30:26
  You're good.
• 30:27
  Just giving Beastak a quick quick shine here.
• 30:30
  No.
• 30:30
  No.
• 30:31
  You're gonna be this
• 30:32
  thing in the backyard, man.
• 30:34
  So so what are we gonna hear?
• 30:35
  Some of the experts say that, see, this is why Cal didn't win the MVP last year because look
• 30:41
  what he's doing this year.
• 30:42
  I mean, is it a?
• 30:44
  I mean
• 30:46
  I'm sure there is.
• 30:48
  But, I mean, bottom line, like, I don't know.
• 30:51
  If you watch it, I mean, cow doesn't let a ball pass.
• 30:54
  So I'm just like you know?
• 30:57
  Yeah.
• 30:57
  I mean, MVP talk was fun, but more or less, it's I mean, they invested a lot of money in
• 31:03
  the guy.
• 31:03
  Let's just make sure he's alright.
• 31:05
  Everything's alright.
• 31:05
  You're gonna you're gonna have ups and downs, and, you know, not everybody's gonna have a
• 31:10
  career like Tony Gwynn or Pete Rose where all they do is get up there and one for one for
• 31:16
  three is an off night for them.
• 31:17
  I mean, you know, so
• 31:19
  That'll strike out.
• 31:20
  Yep.
• 31:21
  Nice box.
• 31:21
  Color red again?
• 31:24
  They don't?
• 31:25
  They do.
• 31:27
  She's probably got more knowledge than us three all put together.
• 31:31
  Mhmm.
• 31:32
  Yeah.
• 31:32
  She's working on her third bachelor's right now.
• 31:35
  Oh my god.
• 31:36
  Minors.
• 31:37
  Yeah.
• 31:37
  We were discussing it today, and she's like, you know, I used to think of, you know, some of
• 31:42
  these teachers that have all the degrees on their wall and what did it take to do there.
• 31:46
  And then she starts to look at her own stack, and it's like, well, that's how you do it.
• 31:50
  Like Yeah.
• 31:52
  Right.
• 31:52
  How how many, how many bachelor's degrees do we have here collectively, fellas?
• 31:58
  You got one, Shady?
• 31:59
  I do.
• 32:00
  Honorary from your school?
• 32:02
  Or
• 32:03
  Yeah.
• 32:03
  No.
• 32:04
  No.
• 32:04
  No.
• 32:04
  I couldn't
• 32:05
  I couldn't even pack clown college.
• 32:06
  So
• 32:07
  What what'd you get it in?
• 32:08
  Sports management or something?
• 32:10
  Business science, business administration, marketing.
• 32:15
  Danielle has one of those.
• 32:16
  Yeah.
• 32:17
  I feel you, Danielle.
• 32:18
  That's damn one of them, Yeah.
• 32:21
  Sports You only
• 32:22
  you only need one.
• 32:23
  I don't think it's worth too much as the on the open market.
• 32:30
  I Yeah.
• 32:31
  Go go get a, yeah, go get a bachelor's of science in business administration, and you can
• 32:35
  work on a used car lot oh, no.
• 32:37
  New car lot.
• 32:37
  Sorry.
• 32:38
  It don't matter.
• 32:39
  Either or.
• 32:39
  Either or.
• 32:40
  You'll do great.
• 32:42
  You'll do great, kid.
• 32:44
  Go chase it.
• 32:44
  Yep.
• 32:45
  Killing it.
• 32:46
  That's our that's our all star.
• 32:48
  If I only get one vote, you already know.
• 32:50
  That's not just to keep her from hitting me with that crossbow.
• 32:53
  She won it bingo.
• 32:54
  I promise.
• 32:55
  No.
• 32:56
  She's she's a hall of famer in my book.
• 32:58
  So
• 32:58
  There you go.
• 32:59
  Be giving her hall of fame status already, hon.
• 33:03
  Look at that.
• 33:03
  Hey.
• 33:07
  Yep.
• 33:07
  Her, her bachelor's of business administration actually gave her a leg up to move into a
• 33:13
  different position at her school, so not for nothing whatsoever.
• 33:17
  Touche.
• 33:17
  Now go back to get your homework done because somebody's gotta pay the bills.
• 33:21
  Podcasting isn't getting there yet.
• 33:24
  I promise you, boys.
• 33:25
  Good things are happening, though.
• 33:27
  Good things are happening.
• 33:29
  Lot of big moves.
• 33:31
  Obviously, got ourselves into the baseball stadium now with the foundation.
• 33:34
  We got our golf shows and everything.
• 33:38
  Aw.
• 33:38
  Wife said she's screen recording that comment.
• 33:42
  Go ahead.
• 33:43
  You you need more motivation for me.
• 33:45
  I'll give it.
• 33:45
  I just don't listen to it myself.
• 33:47
  So
• 33:48
  Motivation would be be today.
• 33:49
  Bee Bee will pump your tires there.
• 33:51
  And, honey, you get him on first form and in some Zyaklose and working out.
• 33:58
  And get shot on the golf course here soon too.
• 34:01
  I know this is our baseball show, but Skunk is so good to us.
• 34:04
  I wanna shout out a really cool tournament that they're doing this summer, June 27 for a great
• 34:10
  cause.
• 34:11
  A coed charity tournament, the Skunk classic to benefit the Minot Public School District up
• 34:18
  there in Minot, North Dakota.
• 34:19
  Really happy.
• 34:20
  We got a team in for operation combating veteran suicide in the scene project sports
• 34:25
  network.
• 34:26
  My wife and I will be up there, and we don't know who the other two are yet.
• 34:30
  We're seeing who can who can get here the fastest.
• 34:32
  I know, you know, Shady doesn't fly, so he'll have to take three days and drive up if he
• 34:38
  wants to play.
• 34:39
  And, yeah, I don't see the country, though.
• 34:41
  That's that's what they say, Shady.
• 34:43
  Well, then, man.
• 34:44
  You guys can get signed up too if you're in
• 34:46
  the I know you guys found the chat.
• 34:49
  You know, I need I had a interview tomorrow for a new position, so there might be a small
• 34:55
  We're excited about that, man, because you have the car because coach won't make it unless
• 35:00
  you're driving.
• 35:01
  So we've already kind of established this out.
• 35:04
  You know, the Airbnb is reserved right now.
• 35:07
  We need a sponsor that we can pay for it.
• 35:09
  Wink wink to Treasure Island.
• 35:11
  Maybe they need a little extra play with North Dakota.
• 35:14
  Talk to the marketing department over there.
• 35:17
  Shady, still unemployed?
• 35:19
  Maybe you need a job.
• 35:20
  Maybe we'll get you to do some sales for SPSN.
• 35:22
  Peer support, but, yeah, you know, unemployed.
• 35:25
  Yeah.
• 35:26
  So there's a small window of opportunity that I could possibly go out there and shake a few
• 35:32
  balls.
• 35:34
  Oh, I'm always down to shake some balls.
• 35:36
  Oh, I can't wait.
• 35:39
  Anything from you guys on the baseball today?
• 35:42
  I've already been online for an hour and a half today.
• 35:45
  Well, I know what Shady said.
• 35:46
  He's got some controversy stuff, a lot of the talk
• 35:49
  about it.
• 35:50
  Yeah.
• 35:50
  What do you what what controversy you got for us, Shady?
• 35:53
  Are the Astros son stealing again, everybody?
• 35:57
  The question we all wanna know, America's most hated team, those cheaters.
• 36:02
  Question at hand would be the strikeout Jose Altuve had in the last series where the Dodgers
• 36:09
  went to play the Astros.
• 36:11
  And you kinda see Shohei catching on that something's not quite right with Jose's timing.
• 36:19
  Just seems like he's, I guess, on it.
• 36:21
  But, anyways, like, the way the story goes is pitch is pitch called.
• 36:25
  So coach calls fastball, catcher throws down fastball.
• 36:29
  Shohei says, gotcha.
• 36:31
  Fastball doesn't throw a fastball, throws a slider.
• 36:34
  This thing starts, like, three feet outside, and then catcher has to lay out and catch it.
• 36:39
  Jose Altuve was standing like this.
• 36:43
  Front foot this way, back foot back here.
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  Brother.
• 36:47
  Brother.
• 36:48
  You know something's coming.
• 36:50
  He knows something's coming.
• 36:51
  So, like, either a, somebody's either they're doing it again because he was he was set on a
• 36:57
  fastball.
• 36:58
  He was gonna get down, get through this pitch if it was outside.
• 37:01
  It was outside, but
• 37:01
  it was about a week ago, Shady?
• 37:03
  Yeah.
• 37:05
  You got the vid?
• 37:07
  Yeah.
• 37:07
  I'm gonna I'm gonna share the screen right now and hit it because I think I got it here.
• 37:11
  Yeah.
• 37:11
  The slider outside and hold me
• 37:13
  I think this is it.
• 37:14
  You'll have to tell me when we see it or not.
• 37:17
  But, yeah, it's it's it's us.
• 37:20
  And anytime the Astros do anything, you know, I don't wanna come off as that guy.
• 37:23
  Of course, I wanna come off as that guy.
• 37:25
  They're cheating.
• 37:26
  That's all they do.
• 37:27
  They're cheaters.
• 37:29
  Well and the thing is is when, I mean, when
• 37:33
  they won the series or cheated to win the World Series, I mean, there's clear evidence that oh,
• 37:40
  Tuba is saying don't rip off my jersey or whatever when he walked off.
• 37:43
  Watch, Katie.
• 37:45
  Go for it.
• 37:47
  Oh, that looks right already, but, yeah, should be.
• 37:51
  Yep.
• 37:52
  Oh my god.
• 37:53
  And he swung at that?
• 37:55
  Now watch.
• 37:55
  Now watch.
• 37:56
  Wait a minute.
• 37:57
  Let's see.
• 37:57
  Keep it going.
• 37:59
  Oh, it's not gonna show the reaction?
• 38:01
  It was just a clip from MLB.
• 38:04
  Well, that was from MLB specifically.
• 38:06
  I'll I'll try to dig that up again.
• 38:08
  Well, I just wanted to get a look at the pitch.
• 38:09
  I didn't see it.
• 38:10
  Okay.
• 38:10
  Gonna see if we
• 38:11
  can find someone out not giving they're not giving contact.
• 38:14
  Because if you go back and watch Shohei's look, Shohei's doing this.
• 38:17
  He's looking around, looking at their dugout, looking back at his dugout like there's nobody
• 38:21
  else.
• 38:23
  What are y'all doing?
• 38:26
  So I'm with Shohei.
• 38:27
  Got your back, Shohei.
• 38:28
  They're cheaters.
• 38:30
  I I gotta admit.
• 38:32
  I think they are too.
• 38:33
  I mean, you know and again, the old saying is that if you're not cheating, you're not trying.
• 38:39
  I get that.
• 38:40
  But again, I mean Is
• 38:42
  is sign stealing cheating?
• 38:44
  Yeah.
• 38:44
  Exactly.
• 38:45
  I mean, how many times did people you know, when I pitched, you know, me and my catcher
• 38:49
  always had a thing.
• 38:50
  If somebody got on a second, I'm waving off
• 38:53
  Yeah.
• 38:53
  Yeah.
• 38:53
  Yeah.
• 38:54
  Yeah.
• 38:54
  The pitches.
• 38:55
  Yeah.
• 38:56
  But
• 38:56
  when I nod, I'm doing the pitch that I waved off the prior year.
• 38:59
  So
• 39:01
  Yeah, bro.
• 39:01
  See, I was so good at patterns.
• 39:03
  So that's what made me the player that I was.
• 39:05
  Now granted, I wasn't playing at the top of any kind of leagues, but there, when I was on the
• 39:09
  base pass, I was figuring out your pickoff move immediately.
• 39:13
  Yeah.
• 39:13
  Yeah.
• 39:13
  Right?
• 39:14
  Oh, yeah.
• 39:14
  You always try to play around.
• 39:15
  Not
• 39:16
  bad.
• 39:16
  I mean, I was plenty fast, but I knew a pickoff move.
• 39:20
  So there was lefties that we played against from one of our rivals.
• 39:23
  And when they looked at you, they were going to the plate.
• 39:26
  And when they looked at the plate, they were coming to you.
• 39:29
  It was like the easiest freaking thing in the world.
• 39:30
  Right?
• 39:31
  So I would steal on them looking dead at me.
• 39:33
  They'd be looking straight at me, and I'm taking off because I'm like, you ain't throwing
• 39:36
  at me.
• 39:37
  I already know.
• 39:38
  That's how I got the Smoky Mountain boys respect.
• 39:40
  I just walked by them in one game.
• 39:42
  Nobody was having a good time.
• 39:43
  I just said three seconds, and everybody's like, what is he talking about?
• 39:46
  I said, every time he comes set with a runner on, if you count to three and run, you would
• 39:52
  already be breaking on his break.
• 39:53
  You'd be there.
• 39:55
  You look like you're reading the future.
• 39:56
  But, no, yeah, I just That's
• 39:57
  the other thing because I had good like, I could see our signs when I was in center field.
• 40:02
  Right?
• 40:02
  Like, I knew where my pitcher was going with the ball.
• 40:05
  So when I get on second base to somebody else's signs, it would take me a little bit if they're
• 40:10
  going first sign or last sign, whatever it was, easy to pick on.
• 40:13
  I'm always telling my guys.
• 40:15
  So I don't mind that.
• 40:16
  What the Astros were doing was well beyond that.
• 40:19
  When you are using electronic video, you are zooming in and stealing signs using other
• 40:25
  methods and and, like, that's a whole different ballgame.
• 40:28
  Right?
• 40:29
  That that's a completely different you know, you're signaling from the dugout because you're
• 40:34
  getting, you know, stuff beamed in.
• 40:36
  That's totally different because there's ways to combat the guy stealing a sign from second
• 40:40
  base.
• 40:41
  One, you could pick off, move to second base, and put one right in the middle of his back.
• 40:45
  Right?
• 40:45
  Do that.
• 40:46
  And I I wow.
• 40:47
  I was willing to take that.
• 40:49
  Right?
• 40:50
  I do that.
• 40:50
  Yeah.
• 40:50
  Bubba, I'm gonna send you one.
• 40:52
  They gotta
• 40:53
  That's the point.
• 40:54
  They gotta catch his view.
• 40:55
  I'm just sending it now a whole or a Ohtani's pitch.
• 40:59
  Gotta catch his view of it.
• 41:02
  So or an umpire view probably, but I just sent you a couple different shots where they show
• 41:07
  Otani walking off the mound just confused just like, what?
• 41:11
  Told you.
• 41:12
  Told you.
• 41:13
  The second one better?
• 41:15
  Yeah.
• 41:15
  The second one has the has the has the umpire view of it.
• 41:22
  Yeah.
• 41:22
  Anybody sees this video, let us know in the comments.
• 41:25
  Are the Astros back to their cheating ways?
• 41:28
  This episode of doctor Phil.
• 41:30
  And, again, we don't own it.
• 41:31
  We we found out YouTube and all that fun stuff.
• 41:35
  Yeah.
• 41:35
  This this is a shady speculation.
• 41:38
  Out the
• 41:39
  No.
• 41:39
  I'm I'm with you.
• 41:40
  I mean, I I think they are.
• 41:41
  I mean, how do you how are you a pro?
• 41:44
  You swing at that bad of a pitch.
• 41:46
  I mean
• 41:46
  Well, because you were you were swinging at it no matter what.
• 41:50
  Right?
• 41:51
  You thought something else was coming.
• 41:53
  Well, I mean, Touche and respect to Shohei because if he that's where I probably would
• 41:58
  have done the wrong thing, but he could have thrown it inside.
• 42:02
  Yeah.
• 42:03
  Alright.
• 42:04
  So this is the the video you sent me, B.
• 42:06
  Yep.
• 42:07
  Okay.
• 42:08
  Looks like a Maestro quote.
• 42:10
  Yeah.
• 42:10
  Yeah.
• 42:11
  Yeah.
• 42:11
  Yeah.
• 42:11
  Yeah, bro.
• 42:12
  Yeah.
• 42:12
  He's looking around like
• 42:16
  here
• 42:19
  it is.
• 42:22
  He's just he's just glared down from under there.
• 42:25
  Yeah.
• 42:25
  That's not that's not a, hey.
• 42:27
  I struck you out.
• 42:28
  Nuh-uh.
• 42:29
  That's a nobody in this stadium knew that was coming but me.
• 42:33
  And you still swung?
• 42:35
  The hell's wrong with you?
• 42:36
  Good good thing
• 42:37
  the catcher, he had some good reflexes because that could have been to second base.
• 42:40
  I mean
• 42:41
  I think he didn't care.
• 42:42
  I think he was trying to make a point because, like, that look was like
• 42:46
  Oh, yeah.
• 42:47
  What are you doing?
• 42:48
  Yeah.
• 42:50
  Well and you have that reputation.
• 42:52
  Right?
• 42:53
  Your team has made that reputation.
• 42:56
  It's well known, and he called you on it.
• 42:58
  Right?
• 42:59
  And he made you look stupid.
• 43:02
  And then after that, the look is classic, man.
• 43:05
  I know.
• 43:05
  Shohei is not gonna be someone I I don't believe anyway.
• 43:09
  Pretty classy dude.
• 43:10
  Even though he's one of the best in the world, he has every right to be plenty cocky and and
• 43:16
  braggadocious, but gave him that look like, I know what y'all are doing.
• 43:20
  And
• 43:20
  Yeah.
• 43:20
  And the thing is is
• 43:21
  I mean, I know he doesn't speak good English and stuff like that.
• 43:24
  But Yeah.
• 43:25
  That's fucking
• 43:26
  He's All is ball.
• 43:27
  Speak you.
• 43:29
  He is speaking loudly with his actions and his stats.
• 43:33
  And, you know, if you're gonna do this, I wanna do you one better, you know, and I'm gonna make
• 43:37
  you look like a fool.
• 43:38
  So, again, probably I will probably say he's probably the best baseball player I've ever
• 43:44
  seen.
• 43:45
  You know?
• 43:46
  Yeah.
• 43:47
  He's he's definitely a unicorn.
• 43:49
  He's not even 30 yet, is he?
• 43:53
  Actually, I think he just turned 30.
• 43:56
  Maybe.
• 43:56
  Let's find out.
• 44:00
  Six four.
• 44:01
  Japanese kid.
• 44:03
  What?
• 44:05
  31.
• 44:06
  He he'll be 32 on July 5.
• 44:09
  Jesus.
• 44:10
  Yeah.
• 44:12
  Thank god for.
• 44:14
  Mike Trout's still healthy.
• 44:15
  Thank god for that as well.
• 44:19
  Gotta
• 44:20
  have it, man.
• 44:21
  Gotta have it.
• 44:22
  Well, fellas, always great to talk some ball with you.
• 44:26
  Fuck the Astros.
• 44:28
  I'm in that boat.
• 44:29
  They can kiss my ass too.
• 44:31
  Thank you.
• 44:32
  Yeah.
• 44:33
  Yep.
• 44:34
  Screw the Dodgers too for that matter.
• 44:36
  I don't really care about either one of those teams.
• 44:38
  Yeah.
• 44:38
  Bring my boy, Alec Thomas, back, y'all.
• 44:41
  What the heck, LA?
• 44:42
  Get him dirty.
• 44:44
  What's wrong with y'all?
• 44:46
  Oh, man.
• 44:49
  Good to see you, fellas.
• 44:50
  Shady, glad you had a good weekend.
• 44:52
  Sound like you had a full week, man.
• 44:53
  Lots of golfs, a Charlotte night scale.
• 44:56
  Like, yeah, you did a lot this weekend.
• 44:59
  Oh, yeah.
• 44:59
  Caught a home run ball too.
• 45:01
  I didn't mean to.
• 45:02
  Oh, it's not like I meant to do that.
• 45:04
  I was sneaking away to smoke a cigarette, and I heard, boom.
• 45:08
  And, like, I looked around.
• 45:09
  I was like, how close was that?
• 45:11
  And I was like, are people not catching five fly balls fly balls anymore?
• 45:14
  Nobody saw this coming in.
• 45:16
  I'm just standing here.
• 45:17
  Y'all out took me out.
• 45:19
  Little girl picked it up.
• 45:20
  I said, yes.
• 45:25
  Nice.
• 45:26
  Nice.
• 45:27
  What a, you know, what what a weekend, man.
• 45:31
  Can't wait to spend some weekends together with you fellas.
• 45:33
  A lot of great stuff coming from the scene, Project Sports Network.
• 45:36
  I did put in the Minnesota Twin Cities golf guy.
• 45:42
  I'll have to look it up.
• 45:42
  I'll send you a link, Shady.
• 45:43
  But they have a creator tournament that they're doing, these things.
• 45:47
  So I put in on a couple of different things, kinda checking it out.
• 45:52
  So we'll see if we get ahold.
• 45:54
  I think their first one is tomorrow.
• 45:56
  So May 18 tomorrow is the first one that they're doing.
• 45:59
  So I was checking that out.
• 46:01
  Hopefully, we get in for one of their tournaments.
• 46:02
  May 28 would be great timing for that.
• 46:04
  If you're listening, Twin City Golf Guide, that would be awesome because I'm trying to get up
• 46:09
  to Duluth on May 30.
• 46:10
  So, yeah, great stuff coming from us.
• 46:14
  So much baseball and golf coming from the sports network.
• 46:18
  Football season is gonna be a hot one for us.
• 46:21
  I'm talking to our guy, Rap, about getting in on Skullfest.
• 46:25
  He's really excited to work together with us.
• 46:27
  And, hopefully, bring him on to the Booms TV network as well and get some more Vikings
• 46:31
  content going out on the network over there.
• 46:35
  Just really awesome to continue connecting with other creators like yourself, Shady.
• 46:39
  You're doing some great stuff out there with your channel.
• 46:42
  Make sure everybody checks that out.
• 46:43
  Shady Golf on YouTube.
• 46:46
  Bee coming over from the coast to coast network.
• 46:49
  So, yeah, this is really cool to have you guys to lean on.
• 46:53
  For me, I wouldn't be here doing it if it wasn't for you guys.
• 46:55
  So I'm I'm just really appreciative that we get to get together, talk all kinds of ball during
• 47:00
  the week, and to keep growing now.
• 47:02
  The future is very, very bright for this organization, and lots of great stuff to come.
• 47:07
  Hell, yeah.
• 47:08
  Yep.
• 47:09
  No.
• 47:10
  Definitely can't wait.
• 47:13
  No.
• 47:14
  No.
• 47:14
  Definitely.
• 47:14
  I mean, just look what happened, me popping on a Vikings United show asking a lot of
• 47:20
  questions, and Bubba's like, hey.
• 47:22
  We're gonna send this guy a link.
• 47:24
  We're gonna get him on, and I haven't left yet.
• 47:26
  So Yeah.
• 47:28
  So it could happen to anybody.
• 47:29
  Yeah.
• 47:30
  Shady literally commented on one post in our shank it golf ambassador group and was like, I
• 47:35
  like shooting content.
• 47:35
  What you got?
• 47:36
  Waiting for that comment for,
• 47:38
  like, six months.
• 47:38
  I was like, here's somebody.
• 47:40
  Finally.
• 47:41
  Yeah.
• 47:42
  Which is crazy that they don't do more, but, hey, that's that's what we're here for and
• 47:46
  continue to get better at what we're doing.
• 47:49
  Yep.
• 47:49
  Forward to dragging this thing out live.
• 47:51
  I actually have the microphones.
• 47:53
  I got my camera set up with the laptop that we can do this show in a live setting with all
• 48:00
  around the table.
• 48:01
  Right?
• 48:01
  So got the cameras, got the things popping.
• 48:04
  We just gotta get shady up north here for a couple of games, some rounds of golf.
• 48:08
  We'll squeeze it all in.
• 48:09
  If you can spend a week out here with us, we can find somewhere to put you.
• 48:14
  There's a shed or something around up here.
• 48:17
  All all the ones in Southeastern South Dakota got blown the hell down or blown away into Iowa
• 48:22
  today.
• 48:23
  But, man, that's the the storm was wicked here.
• 48:26
  It's one of the worst that I've ever seen down here.
• 48:28
  Tornado warnings.
• 48:29
  The siren was going off for, like, twenty five minutes straight.
• 48:32
  Yeah.
• 48:32
  75 mile my house has been here for over a century, so it's like a rock.
• 48:37
  Like, our house didn't budge.
• 48:38
  They didn't creak.
• 48:39
  You could barely hear it outside, but
• 48:41
  you're looking outside and going, are we in a
• 48:44
  tornado right now?
• 48:45
  Like, is it like are we we ain't in Kansas anymore, but, you know, hearts go out to
• 48:51
  everybody who's dealing with any kind of damage, several blown down trees.
• 48:55
  We know there's some down tornadoes, and it's probably gonna be like that the rest of the
• 48:58
  night, as well.
• 49:00
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• 49:02
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• 49:12
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• 49:15
  I got some phone calls to make this week with our guy, Cole Quinell.
• 49:18
  So, really appreciate you boys tapping in with me today.
• 49:22
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• 49:35
  So appreciate you guys, Shady.
• 49:37
  Thanks for hanging out tonight, brother.
• 49:38
  I better let you get some sleep.
• 49:40
  Alright.
• 49:40
  Thank y'all, boys.
• 49:41
  Let's have a good week.
• 49:42
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• 49:43
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• 49:44
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