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on the parkway.

Yep.

And so I shut off my podcast that I was listening to.

I heard CMAQ for maybe five minutes complaining that people that want to eliminate the

intentional walk.

Yeah, I don't know that he heard us as much as he heard Lugie,

which came from the conversation with Evan and Tiki, which came from you.

Got it.

So an extension of it for sure.

And again, CMAQ gave it another terrible example.

This is the problem that I've had with it.

No one is able to give me another example in sports that is equivalent

to the intentional walk. Because there's not. Yeah, CMAC goes, that's like when Randy Moss was

really good double covering him. It's not, though, because I could still decide to throw the ball to

Randy Moss. Yeah, but there's not another comparison. Yeah, there isn't one. But there's also not a

solution to it. It is what it is. There's not a, well, I mean, keep in mind one thing, there was one person that sent us a, I think you were on it too, that sent us on, on X. The whole idea of just putting the four fingers up was to speed up the game because people thought it took too long.

Like baseball took too long. We have a pitch clock. I love the rhythm of the game. Now, I really do.

I think the games are for the most part, two hours and 45 minutes mostly, unless you play 45

innings. There is, you don't have the 17 throws over to first base anymore. You don't have the 18 mound visits.

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