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So we kick off the weekday programming here at Fox Sports Radio for a brand new week.

Tadda!

And we begin with a trade.

Now, I'm excited.

This is a week I look forward to because the trade deadline is the middle of the week. And why is this year different than all other years?

I can recall there is no second Fugazi trade deadline.

It is one and done.

That's it, finito.

If you don't get your trades in, by Wednesday afternoon, that's it.

Caput.

The trade deadline is, today's our Monday show, so you get through Monday, Tuesday, and

part of Wednesday, and then that's it.

No more trades. Whatever you have, whatever kind of slop is on your roster is the slop that

will be on your team the rest of the way unless they find some weird trap door to release a player and allow a player to go to some other team,

which I wouldn't put it past.

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