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On today's starting nine, we send our absolute best to friend of the program Liam Hendrix

amidst a recent news of his cancer diagnosis. We'll revisit our conversation with him from this

summer's All-Star game at the end of the show. Before, there's a startling new deal.

Another that simply won't get done. The first sign of Steve Collins were bucked in and

around up in the National League East. What's having I show for Liam? Action! Welcome back to

starting nine, Carl here in Chicago. Soon to be national champion Jake Eriello in Texas.

Good luck tonight. By the time this podcast comes out, you either be a winner or a loser.

Or a loser. Yeah, we'll know soon enough, man. It's a scary game, but it's a situation

that you're undoubtedly going to find yourself in when you're playing for a national championship.

George is a tough team. They're a scary team. They're looking to go back to back, which I don't

you know, I'm assuming that Colin, you can chime in. Was Alabama the last to do it?

Probably not that long ago. Yeah, it's going to be a test for us. Michigan was a test.

Absolutely a test and we overcame that. So we'll see. It seems like Destiny for TCU this year,

but all that stars aligning shit doesn't really matter when you step on the field. We'll see how it

goes, man. We're fired up. Cooper's fired up. We're trying to figure out what we're going to do

as far as watching, watching the game. Kevin Malar was going to have a bunch of people at his ranch,

which is about an hour away. So we might be doing that. But we'll see. We'll see. We're fired up.

Yeah, good luck. Good luck. I know what it's like is an Illinois fan. You know, we've got a story

of history of championships. I was in a live when they happened, but like Dick Buck is man rose,

both 63. That was a big fucking year. That was huge. All bullshit aside, though, we send the

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