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Hey, this is Craig, and welcome to this week's episode of the Full 60, and I am excited,

and I'm looking at them because we're on Zoom, which makes us so much more fun.

I'm excited to reconvene our arch rivals at ESPN, Greg Wischinsky, and Emily Kaplan.

Dom and I have been talking about doing this and getting everyone back together to talk about our preseason list.

And we're not going to rehash it too much, Greg, about our rankings or our tiers versus your guys' top 100.

But we do want to use it as a way to touch point middle of the season as we are past the trade deadline looking

forward almost to say like who has not performed up to our standards and who was and actually

really more more or less to say who was right between us I think before we start it's important

to establish how you feel about us do you see us as sort of the Parlance, the Gary's Old Town Tavern to your cheers?

Do you see us in video game parlance as the Wario and Waluigi to your Mario and Luigi?

How does it work?

I know exactly.

I know how we use us as the most intense competition because he didn't even let us know beforehand what we were going to talk about. Yeah. Yeah. There was no prep times. He thought we were coming in talking about the trade deadline. That's all my prep. So I'm coming into this cold. Do you want to talk about, I'm so sick of the trade deadline. I'm talking about trades that I don't even think I have it in me. I would be happy

to completely change gears. We could change, we could do whatever you want, Craig. But I agree with

Emily. I mean, there was a certain amount of obfuscation in this, in this setup. I mean,

we came into this. Yeah, we came into this blind. Well, in our defense, Dom just woke up and didn't even know who was doing this.

So I wouldn't say we're over prepared on team athletic.

I would say I look at you guys.

I think the Cheers is a good, although I think Cheers loses all the time to Gary's old.

Isn't that the stick where they never beat them at softball or bowling? So I would do not look at you. I don't think we're taking constant levels over here. Plus at some point if memory serves will have to bring on Kevin McHale as a ringer to try to beat you in some sort of basketball game. I don't know. I used to watch a lot of cheers when it was on it late night. Can we make, is there a reference that maybe Dom? Because Dom's over there going, Gary's old time, this is an immediate, even the Super Mario, well, maybe Dom. Aren't me and Emily the same age? What? Dom me and Emily around the same age. I'm a little lost, too. It's okay.

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