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Speaker 1: in my opinion. Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of

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Speaker 1: Bear Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. Alana,

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Speaker 1: good to see you. We have a lot to discuss today,

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Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting because at the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the season, Ken, We're like, wouldn't it be funny if

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Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays had to play the postseason games

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Speaker 2: at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Well, where they sit right now, Ken,

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Speaker 2: that is a real possibility. What more can you tell us?

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Speaker 1: It is a real possibility simply because they are playing

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Speaker 1: That's the best record in the Majors, slightly over the

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Speaker 1: as I wrote today, you see it right there. The

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Speaker 1: Rays and MLB have had preliminary talks about possible home

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Speaker 1: is because the Rays are playing this season, of course

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Speaker 1: No question. And that matchup yesterday was one that had

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Speaker 1: They obviously have traded one starter already, Aaron Savali. They've

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Speaker 2: The first question comes from Armand, Hello, Armand, great to

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'd like to go where Armand is hearing

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Speaker 2: All right, can let's give somebody your praises? Who is

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Speaker 2: it this week?

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Speaker 1: Wan Soto? I believe now, Alana, everyone can calm down.

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Speaker 1: Jan is still a really great player. He is not

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Speaker 1: in an amazing depression over leaving the Yankees, which was

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Speaker 1: what some people were saying when the Mets played the

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Speaker 1: Yankees earlier. No, he's one freaking Soto Okay. Last line.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seventh multi homer game breaks Jimmy Fox's record for

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Speaker 1: most multi homer games before the age of twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: He has ten home runs in June. That's tied with Ajohano, Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: and cal Raley. He has five home runs in his

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Speaker 1: last five games. His OPS is up to eight ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: He now ranks twelfth in the majors. Hello, there's your

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Speaker 1: due to the week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if, in the words of Taylor Swift, you need

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Speaker 2: to calm down, all right? Mine goes to a girl

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Speaker 2: I have known for a very very long time. Way

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Speaker 2: to go, Emily. This is a young lady that has

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Speaker 2: been a Colorado Rockies fan her entire life. I met

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Speaker 2: her when she was probably six or seven years old. Recently,

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers were playing the Rockies Show. Hey, Otani hit

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Speaker 2: a dinger at Coursefield. That is not the exciting part.

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Speaker 2: What's exciting is Emily has been to eight hundred and

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Speaker 2: thirty three Major League Baseball games and that is the

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Speaker 2: first home run that she has ever caught. And she

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Speaker 2: is now the first base woman at Adams State University.

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Speaker 2: She plays softball there at Adam State in Colorado. She

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Speaker 2: is number seventeen after Todd Helton. She has been to

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Speaker 2: so many games. She is a baseball fanatic. I'm so

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Speaker 2: happy for her. I've known her her entire life. She

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Speaker 2: caught that home run. Bald number three hundred for Showe

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Speaker 2: in terms of the home runs that he's hit in

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Speaker 2: the US and Japan. Congratulations Emily. You are my due

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Speaker 2: debt of the week. All right, time now for the

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Speaker 2: John Fisher Dork of the Week, do you I.

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Speaker 1: Could give it to John Fisher and his cohorts who

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Speaker 1: are out there in Vegas doing whatever they were doing

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Speaker 1: the other day.

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Speaker 2: But by the way, where's Trevor got lost in.

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Speaker 1: The min I'm going to go to a higher power,

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Speaker 1: the league itself, Major League Baseball, and it's a different

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Speaker 1: kind of dork of the week. And the reason I'm

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Speaker 1: giving Major League Baseball the dork of the week is

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Speaker 1: because what we saw this week yesterday ms Rawski versus Skeens,

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Speaker 1: the debut of Chase Burns. It reinforces yet again the

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Speaker 1: value of a starting pitcher. How we need as a

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Speaker 1: sport to bring back the starting pitcher. Now, we had

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Speaker 1: in the December a report issued by Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: a study that they commissioned that pointed out to many

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Speaker 1: of us the reasons why injuries are taking place at

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Speaker 1: such a high percentage. A lot of us knew what

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Speaker 1: was the reason or the reasons were, but this report

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Speaker 1: kind of identified it. Velocities span all these things, all

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Speaker 1: the max effort. Okay, that's great, but what have we

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Speaker 1: done about that? Since what has the league done about that?

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Speaker 1: Since where are we with this bringing back the starting picture,

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Speaker 1: keeping pictures healthy? Nothing has happened as far as I

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Speaker 1: can tell. That's why MLB is dork of the week.

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Speaker 1: We need more of what we saw this week. That's

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Speaker 1: what we'll make the sport thrive at a level beyond

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Speaker 1: even where it is now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just look at the attendance in Milwaukee for that

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Speaker 2: unbelievable matchup. It is about the starting pitcher and the

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Speaker 2: dominance of that starting picture. Okay, for me, it's about

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Speaker 2: that idiot fan in Chicago that decided to yell at

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Speaker 2: Katel Marte, say hi to your mom and can tell

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Speaker 2: Marte's mother unfortunately passed away in a car accident in

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. So now this idiot, twenty two year old

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Speaker 2: kid than he is, he's a kid, and maybe he

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Speaker 2: made a mistake, but he's a twenty two year old

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Speaker 2: that is now banned from every single ballpark in Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball because of his insensitive remarks. And that's just

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Speaker 2: not something. You don't have the right to say that type,

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Speaker 2: And don't tell me for one second this kid didn't

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Speaker 2: know what he was doing. He knew could tell Marte's

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Speaker 2: mother had passed away, and those insensitive remarks deserve him

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Speaker 2: to be banned from every single Major League Baseball park

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Speaker 2: for the rest of his life. And that's a long life,

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Speaker 2: because he's only twenty two.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: For our friends, now, our new friends over at Nesson,

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Speaker 2: we say goodbye to you for now Sports and at

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and NESTA Nation, we appreciate you, guys. We'll see

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Speaker 2: you soon. For the rest of you, we'll be right back,

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Speaker 2: all right, guys. For those of you that are back,

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Speaker 2: we appreciate it. Ken you have Philly at Atlanta Saturday

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Speaker 2: on Fox. But let's discuss another NL power. And I

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Speaker 2: know Aj Piersinski is psyched because he believes he has

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Speaker 2: the better game can the Cubs. He has the Cubs

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Speaker 2: and the Astros. But the Cubbies they're looking pretty good.

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Speaker 1: They are looking good. And I wrote this week Alana

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Speaker 1: about how urgent their situation is relative to the deadline

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Speaker 1: with the clock teching on Kyle Tucker in Chicago. The

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Speaker 1: Cubs can't go halfway at the deadline. And actually it's

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Speaker 1: more than that. It's this year and next year. Now,

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Speaker 1: this year is perhaps their only year with Tucker, he

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Speaker 1: is eligible for free agency. But even more alarming, they've

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Speaker 1: got four major players, four important players, I should say,

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Speaker 1: who are eligible for free agency after twenty six. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about Seya Suzuki, Ian Hap, Nico Horner, and Matthew Boyd,

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Speaker 1: as well as Jamison tay On. Those guys are part

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Speaker 1: of a core of what they do right now. They're

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Speaker 1: hugely important to the Chicago Cubs. So what you're looking

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Speaker 1: at the next two years, Even if you lose Tucker

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Speaker 1: this year, you've got a good chance to win next year.

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Speaker 1: But then after that, who knows where this goes. So

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Speaker 1: the Cubs are going to need to be aggressive at

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Speaker 1: the deadline. In my opinion, they already are canvassing the

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Speaker 1: market for starting pitchers. They've shown interest in the two

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Speaker 1: Miamis starters, Sandy al Contidra and Edward Cabrera. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what they're going to do. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: this is all going to turn out. And obviously, if

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Speaker 1: they signed Tucker, they've got him in PCA for the

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Speaker 1: next five years at least, and that's the way to go.

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Speaker 1: But I don't expect them to sign Kyle Tucker. So

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Speaker 1: this year is urgent. Next year is urgent, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to see just what the Chicago Cubs do under

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Speaker 1: their President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer and general manager

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Speaker 1: Carter Hawkins in the weeks ahead.

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Speaker 2: And quickly, we only have about a minute left in

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Speaker 2: the show, Ken, what is your take on PCA as

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Speaker 2: the National League MVP over show Hey, because you know

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Speaker 2: Showhy is going to be in that conversation, of.

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Speaker 1: Course, and PCA right now is the exact kind of

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Speaker 1: player who would mount a serious threat to show Hey.

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Speaker 1: An all around player. Not only does he does it

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Speaker 1: offensively or do it offensively, he does it defensively in

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Speaker 1: center field, and he runs the bases extremely well, even

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Speaker 1: though he forgot the number of outs this week out

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Speaker 1: in center field. So he is a worthy challenger to

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Speaker 1: show Hey. We'll see how show Hey. Which is the

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Speaker 1: rest of the year that's going to be telling for

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Speaker 1: this kind of race?

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Speaker 2: All right, Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal is done for

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Speaker 2: the day. Foul Territory is Next Guy's guest host. Wit Merrifield,

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Speaker 2: who recently announced his retirement, joins Aj Pierzinski and Scott Braun,

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Speaker 2: Jake Cronenworth, Dalton bar show, and Dan O'Dowd also stop by,

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Speaker 2: and then Dodgers' Territory follows after the Dodgers game today.

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Speaker 2: For Ken Rosenthal, I'm Alana Rizzo. Will see you next time.

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