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Greg and I talk about the upcoming free agents who may be

rangers and that's a long very long five-star question channel uh let's get to the show so here is mark

messier and uh here we go all everybody it's everybody. It's Mark Messier,

and you're listening to Blue Church Breakway,

the number one Rangers podcast.

Hey, Blue Shoements. We're going to...

And Gregory, say hello.

That, even by your standards, that's a tough one.

I'm on like four hours sleep, Max.

Max.

And, uh, real quick story since we usually start the show with stories. Uh, I went to go see, uh, Jeff Rosenstock and Pup over the weekend in Brooklyn, really great show. And then like a unicorn, I tweeted about it, but like a unicorn, someone walked past me with a Jake Lecision jersey. And I went, I think I know I've had a couple beers, but I think I'm hallucinating. And then they walked past me again and I stopped them and I said, is this a, do you know what you, can you tell me why you're wearing this? Like, do you know what you're doing? And they turned to me and said, yeah, I'm a huge Jake Lecision fan. I followed him when he was a knight, and he's incredible in the H.L, but he's one of the worst NHL players I've ever seen. And I went, so you do know. And then they responded with, yes, it's game worn, and it's one of many I have. Many? I still feel like that was a, yes, I still feel like that's a fake interaction I had.

Like, I don't know if that was real. I, I really wasn't on drugs, but my God, it sure felt like it.

God bless that. I just, it's my point. I have a lot of questions. Can I hit you with my top two?

Please.

Question number one, there's no way that person doesn't have a restraining order placed on them from Phantom Jake, right?

Like, told them I host the number one Rangers podcast and I think we've probably talked shit to each other on Twitter at some point.

And I mentioned Phantom Jake and they were like, oh, yeah, the nickname.

I was like, that was us.

Yeah.

That was us.

My bad.

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