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Won't be talking much of baseball in the show.

I'm going to start with football.

But I did love the Schadenfreude out of Washington, D.C.

The nationals are into the postseason.

Congratulations to them.

I hope you win the wildcard game.

You'll lose to the Dodgers.

But good luck.

Good luck there in the wildcard game.

It's going to be, it looks like the nationals and the Brewers and the National League Wildcard game.

But the unadulterated, Shadenfreude of Bryce Harper, who left Washington after being offered a big contract to go to Philadelphia.

The timing could not have been better.

And I realized the Phillies and Nationals are in the same division.

They play each other like 20 times a year almost.

But for the Phillies, the elimination game, the elimination game of the Phillies to be against the nationals.

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