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What about hot cakes though? I want some hotcakes. Now here's your host, ready to jump into the thick of things. Duane calendar.

Hello everyone, so happy to be back on the air again I want to give a shout out to

all the folks who were asking about when I was coming back the well wishes for those

asking about my recovery for my knee surgery so do thank you all for the

support over the time out but quick a quick nod to all the

Mets fans out there on happy Bobby Bonilla Day with this being July 1st.

We're gonna split up the show

just because there's so much to cover

that there's no way I'm going to get to at all.

And first show back, definitely not going to rush things either,

trying to squeeze everything into one show.

So, yeah, let's do a little bit of levity here because it's going to

get very depressing coming up shortly for Nix fans when I basically do my victory lap I told you so. So that's coming up before you

before you know it but yeah a little bit more background history on Bobby Bonilla Day explaining why the

hell the Mets still continue to be an annual punchline year after year for another give or take 16 years by my account on July 1 every year. So for those of you who do not remember Bobby Bonilla

uh... Bobby Bonilla has not played a professional baseball game in 18 years.

And you may be saying, did the Mets lose some kind of injury settlement case? So what is the significance of Bobby Bonilla Day?

Basically going back to 1999.

Yes, this is before, this is the last millennia.

Last millennium, we're going back to here folks.

The Mets were a playoff team and because the Willpons, the owners of the Mets, are such

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