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No, no, I'm not going to start and rip Kenley Jansen.

The man's got a bad heart. I'm not going to do that.

And plus the Dodger game is not over yet.

So we got live baseball action, which is surprisingly painful, actually.

Not painless, painful when there's a million walks,

and this is supposed to be the Savior, and he comes in and I'm telling you, the Cardinals have spies at Dodgers Stadium.

The Cheaton, the Cheaton Cardinals have spies at Dodgers Stadium i'm convinced of me they did in kershaw

a couple years ago they're they're a horrible franchise just i just a terrible franchise uh and

it's just despicable but i'm not going to go down that road i'm not there's other stuff going on

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