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Welcome back to Smallball with Kenny Beacham.

I'm titling this one, our pre-flu game.

Yeah, MJ had the flu.

I'm not really a stomach bug.

And he went out there and he dominated at NBA finals.

This is my pre-flu game.

Do I get credit for producing an episode, putting out an episode the day before the real sickness hits?

The only reason I'm saying that is because my daughter is fighting and what I'm going to just call the cold as of right now.

And as a dad, I got to do my due diligence to make sure she feels good.

Which means I'm holding her, coddling her.

And when you're that close to the germs, to the viruses, I just know tomorrow I'm going to wake up and feel a lot worse than I do today.

And I'm already feeling it right now.

So if I get a little bit stuffy throughout this episode, if I'm even more scatterbrained

than usual, which would be saying a lot, that is because this is my pre-pre-flue game.

All right.

On today's episode, I kind of want to go through the teams that I deem to

be contenders before the season started. Has anything changed? Have we seen some teams jump up?

I also want to go through our biweekly. We're going to call it biweekly power rankings.

But before we do all of that, I want to talk about some news. Now, this was not originally on the

run of show that I curated, but when I walked into the office here, I checked my Twitter.

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