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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl report live with administrative assistant Cooper,

Arietta. From Los Angeles, we're out here for the home run derby, the All-Star Game festivities.

It's a loaded week. We get some big interviews coming up. But for today,

just a light touch and go get ready for the All-Star festivities. You got Jake and Carl live

here in hotel in the go. Let's have a good show here, boys. Action!

Hey, welcome back to starting nine. Carl here, Jake here, Cooper here, we're live.

Exciting. Exciting to be here. We weren't really, it was kind of touching go there for a while.

Didn't think we'd make it. Didn't think we'd make it. I would have put it 30-70.

That we didn't make that we were 70s. We don't make it.

We have to be here, though. Now that we're here, it feels good. You just feel in the air.

Excited to see a lot of these guys in the derby tonight.

Dr. Stadium. When you picked out at the number one stadium away from Riggly and...

Yeah, I just think it is. You know what the history here,

Kirschah is starting the game. I think it's going to be entertaining to see pool holes in the

Homer derby. I don't know how he's going to, he's going to fare. Nothing against him, but

he's been doing this shit for so long. So this will come out after the derby, so I'll just make a

bowl of Perticherry and I, they get all the pools, he's going to win it. Come on.

Care if I look like an idiot when this is published. Yeah. He's got, this is a baseball, this is

a real man. I have to be a romantic. Kids, it's a romantic sport. Pools, like if he hits 70 tonight,

no. It's an endurance thing. Right, 70. It's an endurance thing. He's got the swing to do it,

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