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Speaker 1: FC Cincinnati plays tonight.

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Speaker 2: You'll hear him next tour on Fox Sports thirteen sixty

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Speaker 2: in action against O and MFC of the Dominican Republican

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Speaker 2: the first leg of the Cocky Cab Champions Cup Round one.

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Speaker 2: Tom gallettter, the voice of FC Cincinnati, kind enough as

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Speaker 2: always to join us good afternoons, sir. How is how

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Speaker 2: is like your two and a half week off season?

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Speaker 1: Well, it was nice, you know, I gave my voice

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Speaker 1: a little chance to recover and ready to go for

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Speaker 1: another eleven months and you know, hopefully it's another forty

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Speaker 1: five or more games for f C Cincinnati this season.

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Speaker 1: But excited to get these number eleven going. It's hard

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Speaker 1: to believe, is that it is?

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Speaker 3: It is? Really? How would your daughter?

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Speaker 2: She'll be nine in May.

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Speaker 1: Al right, so this is the team the little older

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Speaker 1: than her. My younger son's little older than the club.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's crazy, but that's their life, right. They've

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Speaker 1: grown up with his team and it's.

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Speaker 3: Just a regular part of what they know. And it's

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Speaker 3: pretty I'll hope with her.

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Speaker 1: Saturday will be great and another season for this team

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Speaker 1: to try to win some trophies.

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Speaker 2: And did you know in my daughter and FC Cincinnati's history,

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Speaker 2: they have never lost a game that she has been

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Speaker 2: in attendance for.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I think they knew that because I think I bought

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Speaker 1: her season tickets five minutes ago.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, yes, yes, she's gonna be in every game.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna sit with me in the booth for some

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Speaker 2: of those games.

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Speaker 3: That'll be fun. That's that's fine.

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Speaker 1: If we can keep it rolling, then nobody will have

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Speaker 1: a problem.

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Speaker 3: Donating her tickets. I can tell you that much.

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Speaker 2: I feel like a year ago at this time, we

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Speaker 2: were we were too busy talking about all the stuff

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Speaker 2: swirling around the team than actually how they were going

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Speaker 2: to perform, and that Vander had just gotten here and

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Speaker 2: the Lucho Acosta thing kind of went sideways. This feels,

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Speaker 2: by comparison, like a lot more serene, right.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, no, I would agree more.

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Speaker 1: I think that's been the biggest storyline of the last

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Speaker 1: now five or six weeks. They reported, you know, early January,

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Speaker 1: and spent the good portion of pre season down in Florida,

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Speaker 1: and got down to the Dominican Republic yesterday for the

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Speaker 1: match tonight. And I think that drama free might be

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Speaker 1: the way to put it Last year, you had a

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Speaker 1: couple guys holding out, You had the whole Lucho Acosta

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Speaker 1: situation playing itself out. You kind of felt like a

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Speaker 1: Vander was coming, but you couldn't move on a Vander

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Speaker 1: because you had to get rid of Luto first, So

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Speaker 1: they had to make the move then use some of

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Speaker 1: that money too and more to go get a Vander

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Speaker 1: who was an MVP candidate last season. You know, Luca

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Speaker 1: and Yuyao were late coming into camp. There were other

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Speaker 1: guys that were late, and I think the continuity has

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Speaker 1: been really important and something that patent in and really enjoyed.

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Speaker 2: This year, they're gonna play a lot of games early,

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Speaker 2: as many as nine in the first five weeks. What

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Speaker 2: are you looking forward to finding out here over the

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Speaker 2: next month plus.

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Speaker 1: I think that there's been a lot of talk about

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Speaker 1: the attack and maybe bringing some new ideas into the group,

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Speaker 1: and Noon talked about training a little bit differently and

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Speaker 1: just looking the way they attacked a little bit differently.

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Speaker 1: I think that's been the disappointing part, and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people feel that if Cincinnati with a

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Speaker 1: little more attack over the last couple of years, probably

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Speaker 1: have a couple more trophies in various competitions if they've

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Speaker 1: scored a few goals here and there and swung some results.

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Speaker 1: So I think that everybody will have I Kevin Denka

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Speaker 1: obviously has a huge spotlight on him. That's what happens

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Speaker 1: when there's a sixty million dollar transfer, shev and you're

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Speaker 1: one of the highest played players on the team.

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Speaker 3: I think a vender will perform in a big way again.

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Speaker 1: But by all accounts, as we talked to Pat this week,

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Speaker 1: he raped about the way that Kevin attacked this preseason

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Speaker 3: So I look for Kevin to get hot early in

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Speaker 1: I looked for the attack to be more consistent and

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Speaker 1: new ideas in the way that she Sincinnaty approaches their matches.

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Speaker 1: I think all the pieces are there that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be strong defensively again, and we all know that

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Speaker 1: if they do what they're capable of defensively, they're going

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Speaker 1: to be a position to win games. The attacking piece

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Speaker 1: has to be there, and I think that's where a

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Speaker 1: lot of people focus their attention tonight, Saturday and over

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Speaker 1: this very busy stretch to start the season.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Saturday the first MLS tilts against Atlanta handicapped

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Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference for me because last year it was

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Speaker 2: wide open.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, and Miami did what. You know, I

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Speaker 3: think people didn't think they would.

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Speaker 1: Sure, they had a lot of talent and probably the

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Speaker 1: most talent, and in the end they were deserved champs

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Speaker 1: found their form at the right time. They played so

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Speaker 1: many games, I think everybody just kept waiting for that

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Speaker 1: shoot to fall and for them to fall to form,

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Speaker 1: and they did in so they deserved to win MLS

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Speaker 1: Cup last year. Obviously, they came to TVL Stadium and

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Speaker 1: defeated f c Scincanaty soundly in that run to winning

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Speaker 1: the championship, and they reloaded. And I think everyone's chasing

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Speaker 1: Miami to start the scene just because they're the defending champs,

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Speaker 1: so they have the biggest target on their back and

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Speaker 1: they have some new guns in there that are going

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Speaker 1: to help that team. But don't let me count out Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: They're very strong and they're coming off with a border shield.

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Speaker 3: Colum.

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Speaker 1: Although I'm a little interested to see what they're gonna

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Speaker 1: look like because Wolford Nanci of course left and then

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Speaker 1: got fired even before training camp started, which was one

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Speaker 1: opened training camp, and the timing just didn't work out,

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Speaker 1: if that was even the thought. But they're gonna look

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Speaker 3: But Columbus will be solid.

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Speaker 1: They have good management up there and very good players

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Speaker 1: and said he's going to be very good, and I

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Speaker 1: expect them to be in that top four competing to

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Speaker 1: I believe under bj Callahan to come together. So I

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Speaker 1: the powerhouses, the Miami, Philly, Cincinnati, Columbus will still be there.

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Speaker 1: And it made like I thought the Eastern Conference was

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Speaker 3: It might be even better this year.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I don't like that one of the friend Nancy

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Speaker 2: guy because of how he complained during the Columbus series

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Speaker 2: against Cincinnati last year. So the hell with him?

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Speaker 3: There's my thoughts on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, hey, listen, he went to Scotland for

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Speaker 1: a month, and I don't think any of those guys

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Speaker 1: whole lot of money and tsering him over there. So

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Speaker 1: so I don't know where he is right now. He's

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Speaker 1: probably on holiday somewhere. I would be if I, Yes, youse,

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Speaker 1: guys raced to get other jobs. Like, look I get

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Speaker 1: there a little waer differently than you and me. But

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Speaker 1: like if if somebody paid me a whole lot of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have sun treet on. I want to know

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Speaker 3: where my phone is. I'll be on the beach somewhere.

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Speaker 2: So to that end, how and maybe the answer is

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Speaker 2: it's not very rare at all. How rare is it

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Speaker 2: to have the continuity with Albright and Noonan that FC

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that it's big.

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Speaker 1: I think that I think it is rare in Major

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Speaker 1: League Soccer because they have a great situation here.

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Speaker 3: And people ask, you know, where's Allbright? You know, would

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Speaker 3: he leave or where?

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Speaker 1: With newnon leave, I don't think there's a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of better situations, not domestically for them. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we just saw with Wilf Pronounci it's not so easy

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Should he have gotten more time probably, but that's the

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Speaker 1: reality over there, right that if you go there and

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Speaker 1: you don't succeed from the start, there's an immense pressure

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Speaker 1: their ten years haven't lasted very long. So I think

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Speaker 1: since he's incredibly blessed to have a general manager and

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Speaker 1: with each other in the way that that Albright builds

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Speaker 1: a team and Newton coaches the team and been the

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Speaker 1: four straight playoff appearances and the Eastern Conference finals, Sir,

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Speaker 1: everybody wants more and the team is going to work

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Speaker 1: for that this year and try to win trophies. But

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Speaker 1: they are in a really good spot that I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams in the league would fight for.

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Speaker 1: And then let's not forget. Then you have an owner

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Speaker 1: who's wanted to spend money and help you improve the roster.

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Speaker 1: I mean, ownership group is been unbelievable in giving Chris

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Speaker 1: all the resources to get pat the players. So you

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Speaker 1: have top nine facilities, you have money from ownership, you

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Speaker 1: have a great GM and a great head coach. So

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Speaker 1: I think this situation is pretty darn good in the

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Speaker 3: Awesome stuff.

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Speaker 2: Have a great call tonight and all season long, and

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Speaker 2: we'll bother you again soon.

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Speaker 3: Man, thanks so much. All right, let's get your daughter

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Speaker 3: out of the stadium and get this thing roll