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Up at the crack and dawn top stories of the morning while you're yawning, grab your coffee, rises, shine with 8.80m. This is drop time. We provide highlights from your favorite teams. Got David Rick making plenty of picks. It's rule 76. Well, the gang is back together. D&R with you, ESPN, New York, as we sit here in a really just a very busy time in the world of sports. He's Rick DiPiatro. I'm Dave Rutherberg. We got R.J. We have Raymond. Then R.J. said in his email yesterday, he thinks it's the first time in about a month that the four of us have been here doing a show together. So good morning. Good morning. I'm happy. I thought you were gone this week. When did you find out I was here this week?

Yesterday. Yesterday. I was telling Cassie on the way we were at, we'll talk about it, I'm sure at some point. We're at Ripkin over the weekend. And then I kind of got the, like we all do, once your vacation starts to get to the end, you start getting like the oh god i got to go back to go back to work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, that's fine. You, Dave, I was like, no, Dave's not here this week. Because I just like, I forget, I thought you said the 17th, something, whatever you said to me at the beach bash, and then we normally usually take this week off with nothing going on with the big with face post office.

As you're sitting here today, it's like, you know what?

Remind me, RJ, remind me next year.

This is a week that's just, I mean, listen, there's some stuff going on with France and Spain and the home run derby.

But this is, you know, Bart saying wild stuff that he thinks Gino Smith is could be better than Jackson Dart.

But this, remind me next year, this is a week I'd like to take off. Listen, the beach bash happened when the beach bash happened, right? Let's just be happy that we made it through the 115 degree weather. And we get times worked out where it's like, okay, this makes sense with the Fourth July and everything else. So listen, we love these kind of shows. We say it all the time. Yeah, no, these are good bouncy shows.

We got Buster.

He's going to be fun to talk to, right?

So there is some stuff going on.

But yeah, I mean, next year, RJ, if you could pleasantly remind me that, hey, this is, remember, this is the week you'd like to take off. I think looking the way that you look right now, no hat, hair done.

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