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Speaker 2: Here we go, all right, let's let's get all the

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Speaker 2: Sports Network shop, Great to see you. How are you?

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Speaker 3: One of a few copies left in the world of

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Speaker 1: I'm I am transfixed by this. I cannot stop reading

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Speaker 3: Yeah, real life for us.

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Speaker 1: Go look at this man.

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Speaker 3: What Scott looks like in the offseason.

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Speaker 4: Scott Scott has said it you should talk about that book,

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Speaker 4: and he said he would. He said Knerico would pull

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Speaker 4: and he would read from it. Is that true? He

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Speaker 3: He would just open it to any page. It was

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Speaker 3: I don't really know, but they were made for a

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Speaker 3: great book. And listen to someone that's own Hawks since

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Speaker 1: How many players do you know put their nickname on

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Speaker 2: That is cool. He is the definition of a renaissance

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Speaker 2: man to me, Yeah, got the story. You're right, You're right.

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Speaker 3: I am oh, I didn't know if you Ozzie automatically

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Speaker 3: We went out to dinner Friday night, Mark and I said,

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Speaker 3: I don't care how the White Sox do, but watching

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Speaker 3: you and Ozzy after they lose every game is must

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Speaker 3: watch TV. I would stay up and watch it, just

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Speaker 3: so I could see what kind of antics that you

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Speaker 3: hair looks great because it was gray. So the off

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Speaker 3: season has done you well, Chuck. So it's getting ready

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Speaker 3: know when you know Frank would be on, he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a great season for the show. Unfortunately

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five storylines for the White Sox. Homework

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Speaker 2: is four storylines. Number one. It can't get worse, question mark, right,

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Speaker 3: to that, okay, because Cratz is that's the five year

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Speaker 3: Robert Jr. Has all the ability in the world. Two

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's five years. Are you putting

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Speaker 3: It's always five year plan. It's a five year plan.

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Speaker 3: It's a five year plan. So you know we're in

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Speaker 4: AJ said the five year plan.

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Speaker 3: You're like five years? We said, have four more.

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Speaker 1: Well, Fortunately I do have experience covering a White Sox rebuild.

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Speaker 1: What I'm looking for this year is not so much wins.

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Speaker 1: Good question. I don't have the answer to that one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, gosh, you're such an optimist. You are just I

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Speaker 1: You know what you are.

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Speaker 3: You're a fan at socks Fest this past weekend, Chuck.

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Speaker 3: Just you were with fans, sitting there in the middle

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Speaker 3: I am.

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Speaker 1: You know what I am. I'm an optimist slash realist.

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Speaker 3: That'd be the biggest jump of any team in baseball

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Speaker 1: I do think it's possible because watching how this team

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Speaker 2: The best way to go from bad to really freaking bad.

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Speaker 2: It's not that much of a bullpen. Could have signed

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Speaker 3: Didn't get better. Their bullpen didn't get better from last year.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying it get proved.

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Speaker 3: They want to I want to see what they have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're an indie ball pitcher and you think

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's why he's that's that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah's been a great sport. You got, Chuck. We got

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know what's funny is that when they

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Speaker 2: Bullpen? That's true.

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Speaker 1: I I see, like, you know, you could spend a

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Speaker 3: Chuck, Well, you don't want hot takes from you. We

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Speaker 3: you're our Chuck. And Kratz said it best. He wants

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Speaker 3: can witness the drama with you and Ausie. That's it,

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Speaker 3: That's really it. I didn't say that, Kratz said it.

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Speaker 3: I didn't say that I want him to win every game.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to go one hundred and sixty two and.

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Speaker 1: Well, it is true that many of our best postgame

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Speaker 1: The easiest thing to do on a postgame show is

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Speaker 1: We just tell you, tell like it is, tell you

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Speaker 3: And we'll be watching.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we will be watching, don't worry, and we'll be

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Speaker 2: talking about it here, Chuck, thank you, good to see it.

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Speaker 1: Great seeing you guys, even Aj