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This week, what else?

The Hunter Biden pardon.

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Hey, Rich. How are you? Good, Andy. How are you? Good. Very nice Thanksgiving. Hope you guys

did too. Yeah. Yeah. I've been getting trolled by my colleagues about the golden at bat of those rule change for

Major League Baseball, which is too far even for me. It's the first.

Wow. I'm very relieved to hear that because speaking with Dominic, the great Dominic Pino, among others, we really did think that we'd have to drum you out of the core if you were going to go for this one.

Yeah, I think turning over the lineup and the integrity of the lineups are pretty important thing.

But I think that the pitch clock has been a total triumph.

There's something I've been meaning to post on the other day.

A stat I saw on Twitter on percentage of games that go over three hours.

I think it's down to like 17 or 18 percent of games when just a few years ago it was over 50 percent.

Yeah.

Well, I agree with you on that, but not all progress is

progress. Someone at National Review once told me that, I think. All right. So we got big news

right in the core competency of the McCarthy report, the Hunter Biden pardon. And I hate to be a

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