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To me, the whole thing with the finger under between the legs, antiquated.

I'm scared.

And weird.

The whole thing is freaking silly.

It's Felger and Maz.

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From the Town Fair Tire Studio, Philgren-Maz, here in 98-5, the sports subs,

simulcast on NBC Sports Boston, courtesy of presenting sponsor, Draft Kings.

We'll wrap up the week here on an agenda-free Friday with No Felger, No Mazz, Jim Murray, Matt McCarthy, our usual crew producing.

Behind the Glass, Jimmy Stewart, Kevin Majori, and you at 617779-0985, agenda-free Fridays.

They're brought to you by Catches Law, New England's injury attorneys since 1986, over 2 million 1 and 50 attorneys that live in the same communities that you do. Schedule a free consultation now at Ketchislaw.com. Agenda Free Friday, if you don't know by now, means that you, the people, set us up on whatever you'd like to discuss. And also, if you don't know by now, when you got me running point during the summer, that means we'll take your calls on literally anything. Anything. You've got a W-W take or an AEW take for Jay Stu. We'll take it. You want to bitch about traffic? We'll take it. Whatever. 617-779-0-985. That's a long way of me saying it doesn't necessarily have to be about sports, but it's a sports show and a sports station. It's the dog days of summer. And I'm about talked out on certain topics, parenthetically, Jalen Brown and a lot of the Patriots preseason stuff. But in the meantime, we'll get to opening takes. Matt, why don't you start? Hi, Jim hi jim how are you wonderful would you like to engage in a pleasantry today have you had a nice week everything been good yeah it could be better there's some stuff i'll get to do off the there's so it could be better i'll just leave it at that but you know hey look i'm alive for today so it's good listen here's. I'm going to, you know how you were jotting down the other day? How many times somebody was going to call in and say the Patriots didn't really want DeAndre Hopkins? Yeah, yeah. I am also doing my own little calculations today. How many segments do you think that we're going to do today would piss off Mike and Tony? Oh, it's, I put the over under at 14 and a half. 14 out of 16, I'd say. I would take the over. I'm already calculating this segment. We engaged in a pleasantry. We didn't get right into the program. That's one right there. I've already jotted it down. Opening take. How about that? Leonel Messi. Oh, Leonel Messi. You know what? Actually, we're going to circle this one. They're going to really hate it. He makes his debut for Inter Miami tonight. Have you heard about this? I actually got the alert from because I pay for Apple TV. I got the alert. I got the, like, Messi, you can watch them tonight. Like it's all over the internet too. How many times until the last few weeks did you ever heard about Inter Miami? Never, actually. This whole experience is a game changer for MLS. And that's not what I'm here to talk about. Like, MLS, sure, whatever, it'll be a game changer in Eddie City he comes to. They play a playoff game here. Who the hell knows? I mean, I'll be there if Messi's playing, that's for sure. I'm here to talk, though, about the importance of star power in sports. Because doesn't Leonel Messi prove everything you need to know about the importance of star power in sports? This guy's literally the biggest athlete on the planet. You here in Boston are hearing. you're getting notifications about Intramyani, a team that three weeks ago,

did you even know existed?

I really, on the planet. You here in Boston are hearing, you're getting notifications about intramy

a team that three weeks ago, did you even know existed? I really didn't. And it's not like, look,

I don't pay too, too much attention to MLS unless, you know, the revs are in the playoffs or whatever,

but I do know of other teams, like sporting Kansas City because they draw the Sounders in Seattle?

Like there's teams I know about because they were drawn MLS.

But honest to God, like until he signed there, I was like, I'd never heard of that team before.

This is what Star Power does for franchises, it's what it does for a sport overall.

And doesn't it make you realize that say the Patriots starting next week? They really have any star power on that team?

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