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A lot of stuff happened in the NFL. A lot of stuff happened in general. We're at a great time for

sports. Cousin Sal is on the line from Brooklyn. They're doing a whole week of Jimmy Kimmel live shows

there that start tonight and you probably have a spotty self service, but we're going to fight

through this. How are you? What's happening, buddy? How are things by you? Well, you went to two

meds games. I thought the cubs were going to kill the meds in this series. This is why I don't bet

baseball. The cold, but awesome, right? It was cold. It was great. You know, because I was at the

end of the game in LA. I don't like to brag. I really don't, but I was at the end of LA and we were

miserable. It was like 92 degrees. And then we came here. I think it was a high of 38 last night or

a low of 38, but it was a terrific feeling. And I really do. I don't want to say I feel bad for

the cubs because this series is not over by any means, but it does seem like once you go from

the second week in October to the third week in October, it really could affect teams,

bats on both teams. To the point where you get zeroes across the board for once. I mean, the

cubs were unstoppable. Yeah, it's just completely different. Harvey and Cinderguard were great,

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