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Now here's your host, Cousin Sal, and his good, good pals, Dave Damachach and Martin Weiss.

All right, welcome to the Extra Points podcast, part of the Extra Points Podcast, that we're Cousin Sal coming to you on a Thursday morning. Yeah, spaghetti and meatballs are here, fiddling with the knobs, as always. Babyface, Joel Solomon is producing this mess. And joining me, as always, my dear, dear pals, Dave Damashick, Martin Weiss. I got to say, I get excited. Thursday is when I get excited in the week, right? Obviously, we have a game.

Everything's turned. Everything's a mad scramble to get all this football talking. And now there's

baseball check. And, well, we'll get to all of it. But theres met this is the one this is the one I feared I

didn't want to play a week early I didn't want to play the Padres I know this is your pick to win

it all yep well I you know I I really did when I made that pick I really thought like okay

the Braves are making their back half push here, but the Metropolitan's will hold them off.

I'm a little scared for you.

I don't love the matchup for you.

And I also don't love the fact that you have your one and two superstars having to be

burnt now.

But like we talked about, the ray of sunshine is maybe the teams that have their feet up right now are going to get a little stale.

This is a weird rhythm to 162 games.

Now, hey, take off three or four days, guys.

Maybe they'll cool off.

I don't know.

The Dodgers seem to be playing late into October every year and after 115 wins.

What was it? Like 200 and 200 and 15. What can I do? But that's all I'm off.

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