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Speaker 1: You were listening to the hammer and Nichel show him

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Speaker 1: a You're gonna have to break this down for me

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't get it. So this is baseball,

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Mets announcer Gary Cohen not thrilled with

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Speaker 1: a Cubs player that missed the game on Sunday to

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Speaker 1: attend the Charlie Kirk service in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: So the player in question is rookie Matt Shaw. Charlie Kirk,

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Speaker 2: for those who don't know, was a big Chicago Cubs

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Speaker 2: fan and he would text with Matt Shaw on the regular.

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Speaker 2: And Matt Shaw's a rookie having a pretty good year

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Speaker 2: for the Cubs. Had a home run last night, as

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Speaker 2: a matter of fact, but he missed the game Sunday

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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati to attend the funeral service of Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 2: The Cubs are playing the Mets right now in a series,

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Speaker 2: and he came to bat two nights ago. And this

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Speaker 2: is what the Mets announcer Gary Cohen had to say.

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Speaker 3: Matt Shaw leads off of the Cubs. He had a

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Speaker 3: base in his first time up. Shaw had Cubs World

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Speaker 3: in Atsizzy this weekend when he was not here for

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Speaker 3: the Cubs game with the Reds game they lost one nothing,

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Speaker 3: and in which his lack of presence was felt. It

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Speaker 3: was later revealed that he had been given permission to

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Speaker 3: attend Charlie Kirk's funeral. And I don't want to talk

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Speaker 3: about any of the politics of it, but they thought

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Speaker 3: of leaving your team in the middle of a race

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Speaker 3: for any reason other than a family emergency really strikes

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Speaker 3: me as weird. Now, that.

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Speaker 1: Little diatribe strikes me as weird. He it was revealed

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Speaker 1: that he went to Charlie Kirk's funeral. The war revealed

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Speaker 1: like is some sort of admission of guilt or something

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Speaker 1: like that, right, Like, he, what is this? I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get into the politics of it, but.

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Speaker 2: No, you clearly do, Gary Cohen, want to get into

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Speaker 2: the politics of it. And first of all, Cubs fans

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Speaker 2: were not in a tizzy. You know why, because the

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Speaker 2: Cubs have already clenched a playoff spot.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you that.

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Speaker 2: Now they're fighting for home field advantage in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: They're up two games on the podres. It was four

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Speaker 2: at the time of the game that he had missed

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Speaker 2: with just one week left to go in the regular season,

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Speaker 2: but it's not like it was win or go home.

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Speaker 2: Cubs had clenched a playoff spot, and he bats back

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Speaker 2: in the lineup. He's a rookie. He bats anywhere from

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Speaker 2: eighth or ninth now he's pretty good. But he's also

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Speaker 2: been a friend of Charlie Kirk's and apparently the widow,

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Speaker 2: Erica Kirk, had reached out to him and asked if

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Speaker 1: It was revealed Cubs player Matt Shaw met with Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin and was discussing ways they could defeat the Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: That's what it sounded like. That's exactly what it sounded

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Speaker 1: like to me. Holy God almighty, What does the Mets

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Speaker 1: announcer care? Right if? I mean, I couldn't even see

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Speaker 1: the Cubs announcer saying something like that, something like that. No,

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Speaker 1: but what does he care if the Cubs player? The

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Speaker 1: Cubs were in a tizzy, and it was revealed nobody

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Speaker 1: was in a tizzy, everybody, it was. It was kept secret,

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Speaker 1: but it was revealed that he went to Charlie Kirk's

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Speaker 2: He told his team like his team was supportive, His

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Speaker 2: manager was supportive. He was asked about this after the

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Speaker 2: first game of this series. Here is a Cubs third baseman,

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Speaker 2: Matt Shaw.

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Speaker 4: His wife Erica had texted me asking me if I

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Speaker 4: would if I would come to the funeral, and you know,

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Speaker 4: I felt as though it was something that was really

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean absolutely, I'm not concerned at all though.

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Speaker 5: You know, my connection with Charlie was through our faith.

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Speaker 5: That's something that drives me every day.

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Speaker 4: That's the reason why I'm able to do what I

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Speaker 5: You know, whatever backlasch comes is okay.

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Speaker 4: You know, I feel strong about my faith and that

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Speaker 4: what was meant to be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's what Charlie Kirk did with his thing

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Speaker 1: don't want to say it wasn't stick, but that was

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Speaker 1: his way to witness the people. That was his conduit

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Speaker 1: to reveal his faith and witness to people that did

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Speaker 1: not know the did not know Jesus. Correct to me anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's my opinion. I don't think so. The first time

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Speaker 1: I've heard that. That to me is like so so

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Speaker 1: Matt Shaw, which is awesome that he was not afraid

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Speaker 1: and or apologetic whatsoever. Right said he doesn't care about politics.

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Speaker 1: Politics was Charlie Kirk's conduit to get people to come

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Speaker 1: to Christ.

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Speaker 2: And when you watch all these visuals that have taken place,

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Speaker 2: whether it was the one on the Circle, the one

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Speaker 2: you went to in Zionsville, yes, it wasn't about politics.

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Speaker 1: Never. It was about faith.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's what it was about. It was about faith.

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Speaker 2: The only person upset here is Gary Cohen, the METS announcer,

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Speaker 2: for some.

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Speaker 1: Reason revealed he was with the Shaw, he was with

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Speaker 1: Good Lord, anybody he was. He was with the Comanian,

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Speaker 1: he was invited with the Taliban.

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Speaker 2: No, he was invited by the widow. When you are

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Speaker 2: invited by a widow to a funeral, not just Charlie Kirks,

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Speaker 2: but in general, this is like a life lesson. If

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Speaker 2: the grieving family invites you to a funeral, they want

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Speaker 2: you there to be part of the healing process. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and good on Matt Shaw. And you know what, good

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Speaker 2: on his teammates. I heard Pete crow Armstrong, another one

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Speaker 2: of the Cubs All Stars, do an interview sticking up

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Speaker 2: for his teammate and said, hey, this was something he

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Speaker 1: It was important to him. Charlie was a friend of

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Speaker 1: his side. Note, what's the status of the Cubs? Your

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Speaker 1: Cubbies in the playoffs? So they are in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: The question is will they have a home wild card

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Speaker 2: series or on the road and they play the Mets

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Speaker 2: later on tonight. The magic number is two.

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Speaker 1: I know what you're watching tonight, So two.

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Speaker 2: If the Cubs win or the Padres lose a number

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Speaker 2: of two, that means the Cubs clinch that home field

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Speaker 2: advantage in the Wildcard round. Now, Cincinnati redfans, you can

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Speaker 2: go a long way by beating the freaking Pirates. You

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Speaker 2: swept my Cubbies in Cincinnati, and I was there and

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Speaker 2: I had to take a lot of and people were

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Speaker 2: sweeping brooms at me and Chris Hammer, including my dad.

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Speaker 2: But you had the advantage. And now you're one game

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Speaker 2: back because you can't beat one of the worst teams

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Speaker 2: in the league at home, the Pirates.

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Speaker 1: So come on, Reds