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Speaker 1: I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my

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Speaker 1: this old fact that baseball umpires used to call games

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Speaker 1: These umpires got paid, and they put on these new

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Speaker 1: We we're talking rules and changes in sports, all right, Mango,

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Speaker 1: we got one last fact each. What's your last one

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