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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl recap the MLB trade deadline news.

Among many other big, big shocking deals.

We're also joined by Cardinal starting pitcher, Jordan Montgomery, and what might be

the most legendary interview ever conducted by starting nine. Let's have a great show. Let's get

into it boys. Action. Welcome back to starting nine. I got two hot dudes on my screen in front of me,

Tom Cooper in New York City in obviously Jake. Area out of steam. Sonnet, you look great, Jake. As

always reactions the yesterday, how you feeling? Yeah, well, we did the Jordan Montgomery

interview on feeling great, by the way. And we're just talking before the show started.

Wish that that would have transpired. The trade would have transpired during the podcast. That would

have just been really, really cool. And we talked about there was a moment where you saw him kind of

look up and you might have thought he got the nod of potentially getting the trade. Whether that

happened or not, we don't know we can reach out to him. But I think that he fits extremely well

in in a St. Louis carnival's uniform. And it's kind of it's it's a it's a big league trade. You know,

hey, like you said, we need a now fielder. We need a starting pitcher. Boom. There it is.

Right. And the way that comes together is is different than a lot of these trades where

prospects is in that superstar. What does it mean over the next five, six, seven years?

The Montgomery Bayter trade is just like we need a little help here. You need a little help there.

Let's just let's just get a deal done. And this is good for both parties. So we do the interview with

Monty. We're going to we're going to run that in a little bit. And it's a cool conversation

because it's a lot about the Yankees too. So if you're a Cardinals fan you'll like it because you

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