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We thank you for joining us on this Friday, March 28th, 2025.

Can't believe it's still March and baseball has started. We've got it whittled down to a final 12 in the NCAA. It'll go down to an elite eight tonight. So we'll see how that rolls. And I'm going to start off with why sports happens to be great.

It's why it commands the rights fees that it gets from all the networks.

Because there's nothing like it.

There's nothing scripted.

And when it comes out as if it's scripted, it becomes so

magnificent because you know it's real. And by that I mean, the end of the Met game yesterday,

that was Hollywood. That was pixie dust.

That was everything there for you and won it back.

Everything that you had dreamed about as a Met fan.

Everything that you dreamed about as a Yankee fan.

All happening in one moment, one eye blink.

A scriptwriter came up with an amazing ending.

The Mets came into the ninth inning down three nothing to the Astros.

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