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All right. Welcome back to starting nine episode seven.

I'm your host that right there, that man in the green hat.

That's Dallas, Braden. What's up, Dallas?

I'm doing well, Jared. How are you doing, my friend?

Doing awesome. I feel invigorated by this, this 21 game winning streak by the Cleveland

Indians. We also have Justin Havens, our producer alongside as always with us.

I love day baseball, but I most certainly love day baseball when there's history involved.

And we were lucky enough today to have the 12 o'clock start here on the East Coast, Dallas.

That was a little early for you. But nine AM baseball.

No, no, nine AM already reminds me of when the A's went out to fucking Japan.

And I had to wake up at six in the goddamn morning to watch Brandon Moss hit bombs

in the Tokyo dome. Right. And little did you know that you'd be working with me 10 short years later?

Yeah. Yeah. That was a, I was quite an experience for me.

I'm sure it was more interesting for you, but it's going to be an interesting experience

for the grounds crew because, you know, I don't give a fuck if you're an Indian's fan or not.

If you love the game of baseball, you have to be captivated by this story of the Cleveland

Indians is 2017 team, which really their story doesn't even begin in 2017.

It doesn't begin with the winning streak and began last year with a team that was very much underrated,

very much underappreciated during the regular season and even more so in the post season.

And I was one of those guys. I mean, I pumped the shit out of their tires last year.

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