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Episode one, oh, two.

Like my radar readings, Carobus.

Yeah, sure. If you literally juice them as much as fucking Brady Anderson in the 90s.

No, I just, I went and got my car wash just morning on the, on the freeway. I was going really fast.

Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.

We have, we actually had a great pre show. Our pre show is better than our actual show.

Yeah, production meetings, right? Is that what we call production meetings?

Yeah, a lot of a lot of interesting shit happening in baseball this week.

Or just the last time that we met each other.

One of them, obviously, the biggest story had nothing to do with baseball whatsoever,

but had to do with one of the most important figures in our game over the last two decades.

Plus period of...

David Ortiz.

This is one of those things and you guys know because you're always following baseball news.

Obviously, when you have these like Latino players that go home to their native countries.

And sometimes there's news that comes out of there that it's just like, well, that was completely inaccurate.

That just never even happened at all. Or sometimes like, there's a little bit of truth to this.

But not exactly how it was originally reported.

So I was, I was, I was in this past week.

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