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On today's starting nine, Jake joins us from a water park.

Carl's back in the bar school, Chicago office, and we've got Colin Cooper on the ones in

Tuesdays out in New York. It's a huge day for starting nine, getting caught up on a ton of

stuff. We're on the weekend. Series previews, some awards seasons, whatever guys. It's Tuesday.

Let's have a great show. Let's have a great day. Action!

And welcome back to starting nine. It's Carl here in Chicago. Jake, I'm just going to say if you're

subscribed to our YouTube, you are well aware, you look ridiculous, Colin. It's good to see you.

Man, hey, look, you're bald. You need a tilly hat. If you like the fish, you like to be outdoors.

I just, for some reason, I've got a blade with me. I've got, I've got a bad birdie shirt on.

I feel good about it. It's a good setup. The kids are working the slides right now.

It took a little break. We hit the buffet this morning. It's been a blast. We stayed last night,

staying tonight, and then we'll get back to reality tomorrow.

How many days you're at a water park? How many days you're at a water park?

Yeah, yeah. Well, so we had a shitty showing in the tournament this weekend. We went to and

we know we handle business. We played a really good team. The first game beat them four to two.

Second game, we played at nine U majors team and we're 10 U. We beat them like 14 to two.

And then we came out, came out yesterday and played our nine U outlaws team. We're the 10 U

outlaws. We played the nine U team. So it was a big game for us. It's like you can't, it's almost

a lose-lose situation. You can't lose to the nine U team. But then do we start our best pitcher,

or one of our best pitchers? Like how do we handle that? So we started one of our better guys.

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