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Welcome in. It is our two and it is a Friday.

J. Mack, how lucky are we?

I got to take everybody behind the curtain a little bit here.

I don't want to spend too much time on this.

But a couple years ago, I felt baseball felt before they brought in the pitch clock and the defensive shift,

I felt baseball was really stagnant, had about a 15-year stagnant run, and I didn't

talk about it a lot. And Caitlin Clark hadn't arrived yet in the WNBA, and I felt the show was almost

too much football. It was like 70% football, and I've never wanted to work at the NFL network.

They do a great job. But I like talking about college football. I like having a lot of different

topics. And the fact that the WNBA, Caitlin Clark, is a regular segment, and we monitor the segments.

You don't turn away.

And the fact that baseball, Dodgers, Padres' rivalry four times this week we talked about it is a gift.

I feel very, very lucky is that, you know, I love football. And if I was a

sports talk show host in the UK, I would talk Premier League 75% of the time. I understand how

popular the NFL is. But in the off season for six months, I love the variance. I love having

all these topics. So this has been a really, really fun week for me. And I hope, I think

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