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Speaker 1: That's what's happening in baseball. It's happening with the Bearcats.

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Speaker 1: We will see all of this and so much more

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Speaker 1: covered at Bearcat journal dot com, which is the domain

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Speaker 1: of Chad Brendall.

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Speaker 2: Who's with us now?

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Speaker 3: Hi, Chad, I'm how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well, although I'm doing better than I was

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Speaker 1: watching much of that game on on Tuesday night. With

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Speaker 1: that going to be a recurring.

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Speaker 2: Theme all season?

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's probably gonna rear its ugly head.

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Speaker 3: it under control. We've had these conversations after you know,

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Speaker 3: they turned it over a ton today. If he had

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Speaker 3: Probably the concern with Arizona is the things that they

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