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Yes, it is Brock or Salk here on Seattle Sports on 710 Seattle Sports dot com and the Seattle Sports application. It is a formal Friday.

Yep, I'm back. So got a little cough. That's not going away anytime soon, but I am here because well, there's nobody else. So I, you got me.

I'm here. No Brock, just me and more and Justin, as I said, a little Brock or Salk this week. Sorry about that. I feel terrible guys. I really do.

No, I'm not physically. I'm feeling a lot better physically. I feel bad. I didn't mean to miss as much time this week as is ended up happening. I wanted to be here on a lot to say.

And instead, I basically lay on the couch and my basement and some sort of a like fever dream for the better part of 48 hours.

That is the reason I took the opportunity to put together a montage of all the times you said the Rangers were.

Oh, that's nice. Thanks. And then I may I made a like an excuse letter for why you weren't here. Oh, that's nice of you. Thank you.

I thought that maybe I should share that. I appreciate that. Someone else told you. Wow, that's really nice of you. Thank you. Before someone else told you.

Yeah, no one had told me. No, I probably could have gone through life just not knowing about that and just kind of moved right through the world without that knowledge.

But thank you, Mora. I do feel better now. That is that does make it nice that I've come back to work. Wow.

I was like to make a certain Mike Salk will not be at work today. Wow.

Because I'm taking time to reflect. Yeah. Why I was in such denial over the range, you know, I still hate the freaking Rangers.

I hate the way they're built. I hate the way they I hate everything about them. And I've rooted against them every second of the way.

And it hasn't worked out so well so far. We'll see. See where it all ends with the whole baseball postseason thing has just been crazy.

I mean, like I mean, I had crazy fever dreams. Let me start there. I feel like Brock because I've been having crazy fever dreams lying in bed or in not even bed.

I like I have this couch in my basement. You guys have been down there at some point. And like I just like get like I make it home when I'm sick.

Like I don't leave it like I'm in this little nook behinds and air like I'm by myself. Nobody can get back there. It's dark.

There's very few windows. Like it's awesome. You're goblin. I am a goblin. Yeah, more than usual. And like I I had a dream.

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