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tuesday morning 21st day of July, 2026, back in the saddle for D&R here on ESPN, New York.

Dan and Rick, hanging out with you here on this Tuesday a.m. at 800 911-19-1-9-3-7-76.

RJ vacationing.

So I return from my vacancy, the great Harvey Cruz, who's hanging out with us today, who is in World Cup morning, Rick. You know, now some 48 hours after the tournament has ended. We've got no more World Cup soccer for Harvey to digest. He goes back to the MLS viewing. And, of course, my friend Ray Santiago, I see him, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I don't see you, but I feel you. How are you? Please tell me you open the show with no microphone on. Yeah, you know, all the levers and buttons that I hit there, you think I'd want to have the main... Back in the saddle. You think I'd want to have the main host mic up, but... No, stop laughing because it's not my fault. Ray is taking the hit, yeah. It's all... You know what? My fault, distracted, thrown off by the fact that you're there and you're there. You know, stuff has allowed. It would have been perfect, though. Fresh off of vacation to Turks, back in the saddle, baby. Tuesday morning, D.H.R. No microphone on. You would have to translate everything that I said while the mic was off. I probably could have blamed technical issues and you would have believed me. But you know what? I'll take that. I mean, Rick's not wrong because I have had my issues over the years in terms of not turning on the mic and this and that. It happens you think all right you're back from vacation you're not necessarily in the flow of things yet but

no that one wasn't on me i was ready to go listen it's it's not on you it's 100% on me and hey

nothing like starting the show when you come back hey forgetting to make sure that the host

microphone is all the way up where it needs to be. So how are you?

How's everybody?

How are things? What did I miss? You know, what's new? I see the Mets still stink. That hasn't changed. Yeah, Mets still stink. Red Sox don't lose. Oh, my God. Jazz is heating up. Harvey is in mourning. He thought that the Argentina performance in the World Cup final was a disgrace.

He didn't like it at all.

A lot of people didn't.

I mean... Harvey is in mourning. He thought that the Argentina performance in the World Cup final was a disgrace. He didn't like it at all. A lot of people didn't. Disgusted by it. Watch the game. How could you think otherwise? Yeah, so he went home and sat with his mom and his 12 cats. And then he's back on Monday. Do you really have 12 cats, by the way? The number keeps changing. It keeps changing. I'm not sure why. It always been five. You have five. Wait, timeout. Time out. Time out. Here we go. Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

I, have 12 cats by the number keeps changing it keeps changing i'm not sure why it's always been five you wait time time time out time oh here we go yeah yeah no i mean this this warrants a time out i i i've

known you i've worked with you like like very closely for years how come i didn't know about the

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