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Mason and Ireland. All right. Hey, Dumdums, 877-710 ESPN. Got a couple of lines open today. Yeah, two of them.

We never have two lines open, but they're open now. 877, 710 ESPN. Jump in here right now. Let's go. Ernest in L.A. You're our lead-off hitter today. Ernest you're on sports graffiti go.

Yesterday John you asked Emily a question how that roommate came about. Her mic was muted the whole time so we never got that answer. If we could hear that, that would be great. Okay. All right. So how did you and, M, how did you and Parker end up being roommates? Because we are. Co-workers. Co-workers. That's how we became roommate. Yeah. It's not complicated. Yeah, I had my old roommate, lost his jobs. I moved moved back home to San Diego and I needed a roommate. Parker wanted to move up to L.A. from Long Beach and that's how we gave you. And the rest is history.

Chad in Lagoon and a Gale. Hey, Chad, you're on sports graffiti. Go ahead. Hey, guys, how you're doing today? Love your show.

Thanks, man. Hey, quick, uh, quick today? Love your show. Thanks, man.

Hey, quick thing about load management.

Here's the only solution, as I see it.

Baseball, like any other thing, is a business.

And the owners have allowed the players, and business is about leverage, and the owners have allowed the players and business is about leverage and the owners

have allowed the leverage to swing way in the favor of the players and as a result

the players feel like they don't have to do anything because they make so much money so the

only way I can see this this getting solved is the owners are going to have to lock out

the players and they're going to have to break the union, which the NBA union is kind of

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