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Hey, Rich, how are you?

Good.

Happy Fourth of July.

Happy Fourth of July.

I'm sitting on the top of the world here.

After a surging first couple of months of the baseball season,

my life has become rooting for rainouts.

And we got one last night.

So I'm good.

The Yankees haven't been doing well either.

So I've been trying to resist just reveling in the Mets slump.

The series against Pittsburgh Pirates is something to behold.

But this is always my take on the Mets.

I really haven't followed it very closely, but the pitching's kind of imploding, right?

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