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It is draft week, folks.

We're here.

We're here.

We're just a few days away.

And in fact, later this afternoon, I'll be heading over to the VMAC to talk to John

Schneider and Mike McDonald about the draft.

They do their pre-draft press conference today.

So we'll see if anything interesting comes out of that.

You know, they're not going to give away trade secrets.

But I think it's pretty interesting how things go for John Schneider, least in the draft week because as you guys all

know I've done a bunch of charity through this venture dating way back to 2010 and

John Schneider and Tracy Schneider when they've done their Ben's Fund event,

often it's happening the week of the draft, not the week after the draft,

the week of the draft.

And I was always kind of amazed that he was, and John would go to these things,

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