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Had a good one last time. Couldn't do one last week

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of you guys show up and take advantage of just getting some Q&A and just some good conversation.

So anyway, 730 Eastern Time on Thursday. As you can see, I'm joined by Bram Weinstein, the voice of the commanders

coming off what felt like a little bye. It was nice to have a weekend off where you felt normal.

Did you feel normal, Bram? Are you at the Washington Spirit game?

Yeah, I'm not quite, I'm not quite back there yet, but I think it was necessary. And I think it was, you know, we talked about this for a couple weeks that like this team needed a bye week bad.

And the schedule kind of didn't line up very well for all of that.

And it showed, especially Thursday night late for sure.

And then, but you know, I feel pretty good.

Yeah, I did do the spirit match over the weekend.

Congratulations to them.

They're on to the NWSL championship.

That had Harold Mary feels all over it.

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