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Into hour number two, I'm Jim Rome in Southern California. So I said we'd go back to back, so that's exactly what we'll do.

We'll go back to back.

My thanks to Alex Golish, man, if you're not impressed with him, you're not paying attention.

That is such a good coach.

That is one of the best young coaches.

He's only 40.

One of the best coaches in America.

All right, let's talk some baseball. Let me change up on you right now.

Again, if you're on hold, you want to stay there.

If not, get on hold.

Hit me up. 1-800-6-36-86.

We start hour number two.

We are joined right now by the general manager and the executive VP of Baseball Ops for the Kansas City Royals. In fact, he joined that team back in 2006 as the director of player of personnel.

He was promoted to GM in September of 2021. The Royals are a great story. They're 82 and 70.

They're in second place in the A.O. Central. They wrap up a series tonight with Detroit.

We are joined right now by JJ Piccolo. JJ. Great to have you on the show. How are you?

Doing great, Jim. Appreciate you asking me to join. I really appreciate you saying yes after we

asked you to join. So as I mentioned, the Royals are a great, great success story. Listen, I understand

you've got all your goals still in front of you, JJ, but how gratifying is it to see what this team

has already accomplished with

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