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Welcome back to starting nine episode 288.

We're done with the first leg of three.

Whoa, in this world series. Why do you have to throw that out there?

I'm just saying.

I'm just saying we've played two baseball games.

We've made our first stop. I'm hoping that there's three stops.

I feel like I'm just saying I feel like you're using the word leg out there.

I feel like that was an indirect shot at Charlie Morton.

Well, no, I wouldn't do that. I love Charlie Morton.

The fact that that motherfucker went out there and still got three outs given the circumstances

and not only that, but apologized to his own teammates.

Savage Re.

Savage Re.

I didn't know he got down like that.

What do you mean? Like, like, had that kind of, had that kind of grit?

Yeah, like, I didn't know that, like, I feel like if you took out Charlie Morton's name

and substituted it with Mac shares or his name, you'd be like, that makes sense.

Yeah, for sure, but that's what this time of year is all about.

But Jared, like, I'm going to be real dude.

For better or worse, the shit that baseball players grind through.

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