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Wow! What a weekend off will do to a man, as you could hear E. Casey Leiden fired up for the return of the UFC and even the return of Bellator

MMA. Yes, UFC Vegas 97 at the world's most famous apex, Bellator heads back to San Diego and as you could see

Two pretty damn good main events. We're gonna talk about those two fights and much more on today's shows we welcome you to the UFC Vegas 97. Vegas 97 in Bellatour San Diego preview show here at MMA Fighting.com. Hello there, I am Mike Heck.

We got the crew, of course, you heard EKC line already on the ones and twos. You'll see him a little bit later on as we answer your questions. But joining me, my fellow New Englander, fellow Red Sox fan, he is the great Jose Young's joining us from beautiful New York City.

There he is.

What's up, my man?

Not the Red Sox runs scored, to tell you that much.

I swear to God, if we lose to the White Sox once this upcoming series

Just sit everyone let him heal up and just play for 2025. I swear to God if we lose to the White Sox

We're the first this is the first Red Sox team in the history of baseball to be swept by the Mets in a regular season and I swear to God if we lose one game to the White Sox, it's the worst season in Red Sox history.

And that, 2012 was abysmal.

This will be worse if we lose one game to the Sox.

Yeah, it's, at this point I'm kind of in the the mode of like let's just get to that point where we can

Here's the problem here's the problem here's the problem and everyone's gonna love this part of the chat because they heard to talk about baseball obviously.

We keep losing but so to the Royals.

So we're not out of it, which is annoying.

Just put us out of our move, like, like Bobby Wood Jr. just needs to go on its air

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