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Speaker 1: Hey, We've got our friend Tricia Whittaker joining us right now.

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Speaker 1: Apple TV Friday Night Baseball sideline reporter. We'll talk a

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Speaker 1: little national topics, we'll hit a little race storylines. Good

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Speaker 1: to see you, Tricia. You excited to get rolling with

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Speaker 1: the full schedule, the road travels the whole Neal.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited.

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Speaker 3: I think our Apple TV schedules coming out soon and

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Speaker 3: I cannot wait.

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Speaker 2: I'm sick of the snow.

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Speaker 3: I teach in Indiana in the off season at Indiana University,

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Speaker 3: and I am so excited to have some warmer spring

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Speaker 3: weather for baseball.

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Speaker 2: So, yes, you hit the nail on.

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Speaker 4: The head scut professor.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Do you.

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Speaker 4: Write your name on the board any cursive?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I do.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I'm one of those weirdos.

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Speaker 2: I write in half cursive half like print. Sometimes it

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Speaker 2: really is people.

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Speaker 3: But you guys are welcome to come in as guest

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Speaker 3: speakers anytime you want.

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Speaker 2: They would love it. I have some huge baseball fans and.

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Speaker 5: There, come on, what do you what do you teach?

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Speaker 2: I teach sports broadcasting. So it's capitalist.

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Speaker 1: She needs you for calculus?

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Speaker 5: You in.

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Speaker 4: What if you think she taught?

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Speaker 2: She could be an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, she could be like something biology are they?

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Speaker 3: Are they physics and with a heavy emphasis on physics. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's what I teach.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I need help. I'm going to come to class,

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Speaker 5: so I need to up to wants to be a student.

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Speaker 5: I mean I.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, in might accept it.

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Speaker 4: I'm in anytime. Let us huge huge baseballs making fun

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Speaker 4: of the Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Next Wednesday. We're all next Wednesday. Yeah, let us know.

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Speaker 1: Seriously, just just let us know one of us are

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Speaker 1: in not crafts because that spring training. I'll take first

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Speaker 1: DIBs and then we'll go from there. Seriously. All right,

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Speaker 1: we're doing business on the show. Now, let's get to

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Speaker 1: business on the field. First off, Yankees' facial hair policy dropped.

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Speaker 1: What was your thoughts on it before? Okay, there, exactly,

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Speaker 1: thank you. We're going to do our own segment on

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Speaker 1: it soon. But give me your perspective on what we saw,

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Speaker 1: because Tricia, for years you covered a raised team that

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Speaker 1: would not have been a big fan of that policy.

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Speaker 1: They were very loose fun Exactly do.

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Speaker 3: You think Andrew Kittridge, who went out there looking like

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Speaker 3: a frickin woodsman, would be a fan of that policy?

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Speaker 3: When if he ever had to play for the Yankees. No,

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Speaker 3: I didn't like that policy. I'm a facial hair girl.

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Speaker 3: I love the beard. It's a great look. I think

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Speaker 3: it's just a very manly, masculine look. So I like

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Speaker 3: the facial hair look. I love that they did away

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Speaker 3: with it because it was always funny to see guys

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Speaker 3: go to the Yankees, who they were like known for

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Speaker 3: their facial hair, and then they had to shave it

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Speaker 3: all off and then they looked like a naked mole

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: So now they won't have to do with that. But

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Speaker 3: I love it. Get rid of that policy. It's archaic,

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Speaker 3: and I think you should let guys be themselves. There's

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Speaker 3: there's something to be said for facial hair. There's it's

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Speaker 4: Did you say a naked mole rat? I don't even

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Speaker 4: think you know. If you saw a naked mole rat

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Kim Possible on Disney Channel. I'm

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Speaker 3: pretty sure her sidekick is a naked mole rat. That's

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Speaker 3: what a guy looks like when he shaves off of

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Speaker 2: Look it up.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to look that up. When I asked

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Speaker 4: Ken Rosenthal when he was on before, I said, Ken,

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Speaker 4: where were you when you saw your first So that's

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Speaker 4: what it looks like. Oh my god, every.

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Speaker 1: Eye they call it naked. It just it looks naked,

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Speaker 1: more so than most animals, exactly.

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Speaker 2: And that's ask any girl.

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Speaker 3: She will tell you they when a guy who should

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Speaker 3: when like, beards are like makeup for men, you know,

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Speaker 3: it covers up part of their face that probably shouldn't

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Speaker 5: James Harden went out of beard. It's not exactly, not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I get it. I get it. I think

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Speaker 4: men should wear makeup and women shouldn't. But that's a whole, completely,

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Speaker 4: completely different topic because men are ugly, especially this guy

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Speaker 2: To thirty five seconds in, we're off the rails. This

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Speaker 2: is going great, We're off the rail.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I wasn't talking about Todd. I was talking about JT.

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Speaker 4: But my question for you is the exact same question

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Speaker 4: I asked Ken Rosenthal. Where were you when you saw

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Speaker 4: your first ABS challenge in a Big League quote quotation

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Speaker 4: marks game? And was it just so epic?

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Speaker 3: Well, I haven't seen one yet, but I mean, obviously

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Speaker 3: I've read about him, right, But I I if you're

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Speaker 3: is what you're asking, obviously, I think it's a really

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Speaker 3: great idea. I think the only thing that I've kind

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Speaker 3: and that's definitely a downfall of it.

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Speaker 2: But I think overall it's a good idea.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the biggest thing, you know, I when I

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Speaker 3: Why can't they see it? And we would usually look.

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Speaker 2: At it on the iPad, and a lot of the

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Speaker 3: So I think that this definitely helps with those types

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Speaker 3: of complaints. I don't ever want to take the human

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Speaker 3: that it's that it's time for that, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's a It's a good thing, and I think overall

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Speaker 3: from what I've heard from players, they like it and.

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Speaker 2: I like it too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man are gonna love it. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: very fun for them to chant for the challenges. So

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Speaker 1: four questions for Tricia on Tampa Bay. Get ready for

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Speaker 1: that open air vibe. Minor league SciFi is a very

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Speaker 1: famous term on this show when someone has bad connection

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Speaker 1: but they do literally have minor league WiFi. Junior Camonaro

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Speaker 1: his first full season. And Mac is back. See mcclanahan's awesome,

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Speaker 1: So I think people obviously forgot about him, but he

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Speaker 1: a couple of years back. And albast it's a very

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Speaker 1: good division. It looks like it got better. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's start at the top here, Tricia. I know you

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Speaker 1: Yankees park's pretty swag, it's nice, and it gives some

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Speaker 1: go otherwise. How do you think this is all going

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Speaker 3: I actually don't think it's gonna be as bad as

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Speaker 3: people might think it's gonna be, because, I mean, nobody

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Speaker 3: really liked the Trop, right, Players don't like the Trop.

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Speaker 2: Fans don't like the Trop.

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Speaker 3: Ask anybody, and if they tell you they like the Trop,

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Speaker 3: it's total team talk, right, So I don't think it's

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Speaker 2: I've said this before.

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Speaker 3: I said it, you know, in Fair Territory the other day,

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Speaker 3: People don't come to Saint Pete for the games, and

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Speaker 3: that hasn't changed since nineteen ninety eight, right, and the stadium,

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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be in Saint Pete.

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Speaker 3: And so I think it's gonna give people a taste

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Speaker 2: And so I think it's going to be I think

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know that obviously in Florida, every single

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Speaker 3: But I think it's going to be fun for them.

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Speaker 3: I really don't think it's going to be as bad

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'll tell you when someone's going to say

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Speaker 4: we missed the drop, it's going to be right after

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Speaker 4: and you're like, pitchclock, who I want to drop?

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Speaker 3: No, you're right, but that's what you have to have

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Speaker 4: So someone who's not going to care is Junior camen Aro.

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Speaker 4: He has got a starting starting spot, thank you. He

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Speaker 4: has got a starting spot at third base.

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Speaker 2: That's perfect.

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Speaker 4: I need it, I definitely need it. But he's got

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Speaker 4: to start at third base. What's the what's like, what's

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Speaker 4: the outlook? Are they looking for him to be this

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Speaker 2: I think I think.

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Speaker 3: It's fair to say both, right, I think you can

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Speaker 3: say both. I think they're looking for him to be both.

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Speaker 3: And I I think that the Winter League Championship was

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Speaker 2: I loved covering Junior. He's a good kid. He's an

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Speaker 2: at least from what I saw. Obviously, there can be.

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Speaker 5: Another fan that we are big on is young Shane McClanahan.

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Speaker 3: Jane McLanahan is a beast on the mound. He's intense

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Speaker 3: He just does because he does. He was throwing ninety seven,

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Speaker 3: He's intense. He's not gonna be wont He's not gonna

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Speaker 3: Coach Kryle Snyder and Kevin Cash to talk to him,

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Speaker 4: I love watching the best arms face the best lineups.

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Speaker 2: You know, let's see.

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Speaker 3: When Brandon Lowe is hot, he's hot. When he's not,

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Speaker 2: They were really really good.

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Speaker 1: Surprisingly, we did power rankings yesterday and there were quite

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Speaker 1: But they did not deserve to be in the top ten.

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Speaker 1: Let's be real, no, no, no, no, no right now.

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Speaker 2: Hey what about us? Rightfully, so, because let's face it, when.

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Speaker 3: They do well, they don't get a ton of coverage

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Speaker 2: Talking about them?

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Speaker 3: They are very, very good, especially when you consider their

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Speaker 3: this year potentially not valid with what you were talking about, Scott,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fair under the radar, no doubt about it. Trisha,

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Speaker 1: you are the best. Thank you so much. Great to

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Speaker 1: see you, and we'll all see you in class for

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes. My scenes are gonna be so excited.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna clip this and show them. They're gonna be pumped.

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Speaker 2: We're in.

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Speaker 4: We're in.

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Speaker 1: Hey class, Hey fam, Thanks Trisha, talk soon, guys.

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