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Well, I'm pretty sure nobody had this in their predictions for game one of the

World Series.

And yes, we'll get to the NFL and we'll get to the big college football games and

the latest on the Sean Watson situation.

But Charlie Morton throws 16 pitches on a broken leg, apologizes that he couldn't do better.

And the Braves still end up winning game one going away, despite the fact that morton is now out for the entire series

we're off we're off and running in this one if you saw if you saw a a hundred and two

mile an hour pitch shot off his right fibula in your if you had that in your game predictions

congratulations to you you win the jackpot

but wow what a weird start i i have a feeling that it probably um it was like some kind of

hairline fracture we'll find out and then it just you know it got worse and worse and he showed

how tough he is and and what's interesting about char Morton is a couple of things. One, he has

become one of the great big game pitchers of his time. That's one thing. And he's one of the few

real starting pitchers left in baseball right now who actually goes deep into games. And Mitch,

you know, it's funny when you said off and running I

thought of an expression my late father-in-law used to use well running like a herd of turtles

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