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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl sit down with the voice of baseball and the Los Angeles

Dodgers, Joe Davis about taking over for Vince Goli in his personal rise to the world series booth

before and after that. We get into some major news. There's a huge contract or is it big enough?

Some questionable comments, defensive comments, someone say. We're going to talk a little bit

about the Yankees, a great pitching matchup and so much more. It's a great day to have a wonderful

starting nine. Let's get into it. Action! Welcome back to starting nine. You look good,

tie-dye. Carl here in Chicago. Yeah. Jake, you look...

A little amorty shirt. A merely shirt I've had this for... Damn, like six or seven years and

if you can see the house, so we're in the house now. We've been in for three days completely.

And there's just... There's boxes stacked to the ceiling in the garage, clothes and baseball memorabilia

and shoes. So we got to slowly but surely go through all that. I'm operating on like three outfits,

which is standard for me. You see me in shorts and a tank top and cut off sleeves. So...

Very minimalist right now and it's kind of nice to not have to think about what to wear. Just

grab a t-shirt, shorts and move about your day. So yeah, everything's good. The kids started school

today. I'm very exciting. I didn't fall asleep until about two, two thirty. I was up late,

plan poker and you know, I'm like, whatever, I'm gonna... I'm gonna try and grind this out. I was

down a little bit of money and trying to win it back and I'm looking at the clock. I know I got

to get up at six with the kids but it is what it is. So the kids are off to school. Cooper and

Palmer were up and they're like, hey, can we set our alarm for 5.30? I'm like, well, you can do

whatever you want. Just don't wake me up till six. So they're up. They're very excited. Cooper had

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