OVERCONFIDENT: Team USA’s Stunning WBC Failure | Will Aaron Judge STOP Choking in Big Moments?

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The US once again fails at winning the WBC.

At the final score of three to two, once again, to a team that they should have beaten.

I was mistakenly calling Team USA the Yankees throughout most of our episodes the last

couple of days just because I was so enthralled and excited about this entire tournament.

Feeling like I was a fan, like I'm a fan of the Yankees.

And without watching this entire championship game, it felt like I was watching a Yankee

playoff game.

They did absolutely nothing.

They refused to hit against the pitcher.

They had an absolute advantage over and should have hit and didn't get things going until

really pressure time came late in the game, major belief for a second, and then broke

your heart all over again.

This was embarrassing.

And I'll tell you this from the start.

This team came in with a very cocky, overconfident attitude about itself in parts rightfully

so because of the talent that was on this roster, but they didn't deserve anything.

And they came in.

They nearly didn't make it out of the group stage.

If we all remember that, that cabaco, I guess if I want to call it, they almost didn't

make it out of the group stage.

This roster, again, almost didn't make it out of the group stage.

This is the equivalent of like, I don't know, Spain not making it out of the group stage

in the World Cup in a few months.

And yet, this is what they, they, they, they, they waltz their way.

They had a decent path.

They beat the Dominican Republic in a dramatic fashion.

And this game had everything about the Germanics that you possibly could have saw, right?

I mean, Bryce Harper with that home run, which was, by the way, if, if any Yankee fan watching

this show didn't get the sense of dear God, he should be a Yankee.

I don't know what more could convince you.

One of the most beautiful pressure packed swings you've ever seen, I'm in the moment, talk

about a guy who has the flair for the dramatic, unlike the Yankee captain and the USA captain.

An absolute unbelievable no doubt or bomb.

And by the way, if you don't like celebrations when home runs, check yourself, please, because

that was one of the coolest around the base paths moments I think I've ever seen when he steps

on third base and salutes and then taps the USA patch.

I mean, that was so damn cool, whether you're in a, whether you're an American fan, not

whatever.

If you just as a sports fan to not find that cool, I don't know, I don't know what you

got going on.

To immediately give the run back immediately and can't walk people against this, against this

bullpen that was fried in the day before, where the major league teams that had these players

basically informed them as well, yeah, they're not pitching.

And Polensio was basically told they're he's not pitching unless it's a safe situation.

Well, you're hanging out.

Swarr has made it a safe situation and look around up happening.

I mean, it's honestly, it's devastating loss for the team, but they went into this whole

tournament, super cocky, super overconfident, I think they were just going to waltz to a championship

and that's not what happened to storylines.

I want to take out of this before I get your opinion.

Mark Dorosa shot every chance of being a manager in the future for either team USA or a

major league club ever and he should never be a manager.

I mean, he made some brood, it actually made Aaron Boone look like Casey Stangle.

He was completely out of some of these games.

The one situation I have from this game, and this is not the only situation because there

were plenty of situations where he just was horrible throughout this entire tournament.

The one situation in this game and the sixth inning would have run or on.

The event team Venezuela brings in a right handed pitcher.

You have a left handed catcher on the bench that had 60 home runs last season and finished

second MVP.

His nickname is the big dumper, a home run there, ties the game and you leave in Will Smith

who's a right.

I was wondering, was was Raleigh even there because why wouldn't they put him in?

It made, I know Will Smith, did you see him in the dugout?

I'm just asking because I was, he was okay, he was, we'll Smith had a dramatic home run

on the world series last year and that's probably what Dorosa is going to tell you that

and he's got to flare for the dramatic.

Cal Raleigh hits left handed, he's a switchhead everybody, hits left handed, they brought

in a righty.

Instead you left in Will Smith who is not typically known as a power hitter.

You left in Will Smith to face a righty on righty matchup when you could have had a righty

lefty matchup with Raleigh who again, it's 60 home runs last year.

To not see that in the, when you're down to nothing and a runner just got on is insane

to me.

That just means, to me that just means your head is just not in the game and the game

is well and manager is playing chess and I don't even need all of those things.

They showed Dorosa a couple times, you know, do these guys know like, I don't know about

you, but when you're at a game, I don't know if it's just me, but even if I'm at a game

sitting in the upper deck, I don't do anything that's going to make me look like a moron

on TV.

And like Dorosa sitting there is like scratching his eye, he looked like he wasn't even

paying attention to what was happening in the game.

And I just thought to myself, don't you realize that there are cameras all over the place

and they love getting people doing things on the camera?

Like he just look completely bored.

Like he wasn't even, well, but that's a problem though because, you know, say what you

want about Joe Gerardi old is here as Yankee manager, but when you looked at him in the

middle of a game, whether they were winning, losing, tied no matter what it was, Gerardi

looked like he had the, the pressure of a, of a war on him.

Like you'd seen on his face at all moments.

And yet with the way the USA team was carrying on, you would think that they were going into

war.

So why weren't they acting like this was like they acted like it was the most important

thing they've ever done in their lives, but then when it came down to it, when they

were playing, it didn't seem like it was.

Yep.

And for all the cocky attitude, we're in the hockey jerseys into the, into the building

before, listen, the hockey team won.

And you guys didn't guys lost to a team that you were definitively better than the hockey

team was not a minus 300 favor going into their championship game.

You were.

And lost that game.

That's pathetic.

I don't want to get on Nolan McLean.

I actually thought he was awesome.

Yeah.

He did.

He did a great.

He's, I like watching him, actually, especially when he's pitching to righties.

He has that pitch that kind of floats toward them and then goes right over the plate.

It's, he's, yeah, man, he's going to be a problem for a while.

What is that?

I'm bad at pitch recognition.

We're going to sweeper the one that goes away across the zone.

Yeah.

It's ridiculously late movement.

It's a tremendous pitch.

Yeah.

That's hilarious for a long time coming.

The last thing we have to mention because we wouldn't be doing our show due diligence.

It's an actual narrative for a good reason.

Judge doesn't hit in big moments.

And whether it gets in his head and whether, you know, people like us and radio hosts and

podcast hosts and news reporters, the more we talk about it, the more it gets in his

head and the more it's a narrative, I'm sorry, judge.

It's a narrative.

It just is.

I want to put a, I want to, you know, pull it back a little bit because people, I saw

a lot of social media posts start this game saying that judges the king of homering

in a five-nothing game and that doesn't matter.

That's not true.

Right.

There's probably a big moment.

Plenty of clutch moments in the regular season.

Right.

But when it comes to games that matter and it comes to postseason games, I'm sorry.

He crumbles up.

He just does.

And I don't really need to him.

We need him to have an A-Rod in O-9 offseason postseason at some point.

Because last year, obviously, it wasn't it because it was only one two rounds.

He needs to have an A-Rod 2009 postseason for people to feel better.

That's the catch 22 years.

You can get away with the bad play early on in your career if you do what A-Rod did because

A-Rod erased all the narrative prior by having that 2009, by then winning the championship

and being great.

But judge needs to have one of those years and he hasn't.

And again, the narrative of he doesn't get it done in any big moments and he's the king

of the late.

That's not true.

He has plenty of big hits in that.

If you have 130 RBI's in a regular season, you're going to have big hits in big moments.

So I don't want to get on that narrative.

Yeah.

But in the postseason throughout his career, he's not a good hitter.

He doesn't get things done in the big moments.

And it showed up here too.

Judge was awful in this game.

So was Glaver Torres, by the way, if another Yankee, former Yankee.

But Judge was awful.

He was.

He was not engaged.

He took pitches that were right there.

Plenty of plenty of plays and I'm sure you're watching where you're like, I'm on.

It really stinks to have a moment like that at a Bryce Harper and have it ruined by

the team losing that game because my nights ruined absolutely.

So, you know, it just, it stinks to watch moments like that.

It really does.

And I think the downfall of this team, they came in way too cocky way too cocky way too

overconfident.

And there was a reason for optimism and excitement with Wow, this lineup, look, I'm not going

to blame that.

But they came in way too cocky and thought they were just going to waltz to a title.

And one last thing I want to mention, while I believe these guys, that it's important

to them.

And while I also believe them that there is an honor to wear your country's letters across

your chest, all good and well.

I don't want to hear the narrative of how this means more than anything.

This is the most important thing I've played in.

This is more important than a world series.

And I can keep going on with the quotes of how much this meant to the players.

If some of you are not willing to play in the championship game, it doesn't really

mean that much to you.

Tariq School Bull at the end of the day wants to win a world series with the Detroit Tigers

or whoever he signs his massive contract with.

If this meant more to him than a world series, he would have pitched in this game.

He would have said, screw the contract, screw the world series of the Tigers, I'm pitching

in this game.

And he didn't.

And what if you the brief amount of time, because we went live there after the brief

amount of time that I got to watch in post game of the Venezuelan players who are in

literal tears, which by the way, congratulations to them fully deserved it.

And honestly, like when you see their reaction, you got to be as a human being, you have

to be happy for those players, because the way that they're talking about how their

whole lives getting out of the country, making money for their family, getting them out

of horrible situations and baseball was there out and out of win a championship with those

letters across their chest has to feel unbelievable.

So good for them, really.

But to hear what they were saying about how they did this for their country and their loved

ones back home and what their country is going through.

Like that is so special and so important and the US handed that to them.

So I don't want to hear about the US players passion and how much they love the country

and they're doing this for the country.

It meant more to them as well.

It just did.

And it meant more than a Dominican Republic and it meant more to Mexico and it meant more

to Japan.

The other teams, I'm not sure.

I'm sure there were teams that I'm more passionate for it, but it absolutely meant more

to team Venezuela than it did to USA.

Just did.

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So the day was really exciting before the game started and I guess ended.

The Yankees revealed some crazy, pretty unexpected news, right, Stacy?

Yes.

Okay, so I went to bed really late Monday night and I woke up.

Yeah, yeah, I'm a night owl.

I go to sleep four or five a.m. now.

And so I missed the news.

I woke up a little late and then I saw the news on my phone and I thought my eyes were deceiving

me.

I didn't have my glasses on because I don't sleep in them.

And I thought that I can't be seeing Garrett Cole pitching an inning on Wednesday, as in

tomorrow, as in what?

So yeah, he's going to pitch one inning against the Red Sox is going to start the game pitch

the first inning.

I'm flabbergasted.

This doesn't mean he's coming back early and they did say he was going to get into a spring

game, but I thought as spring training kept going and going, nobody didn't really hear

anything about anything.

I didn't think that he would, but he is and good news for everyone.

It's going to be on yes and it's available on MLB TV.

So it's actually a game you can watch.

Yeah, which is really exciting and really cool.

This is awesome to see Garrett Cole throwing an inning now again, not to get your hopes

up.

He is not coming back earlier than expected to be throwing an inning.

He would probably be doing this in a bullpen or to live batters with the Yankees on

another field.

They happen to have a game that day.

So hey, throw them in there and let them pitch.

I like it.

I have a feeling this is motivated by Garrett Cole telling the organization like, hey, I want

to pitch here.

I want to get any game.

Which is really cool.

I'm glad he seems excited to come back.

He's such a bulldog.

I love him.

Yeah.

He's all about the big moment and wants to be involved, kind of unlike Team USA.

So I'm really excited to see Garrett Cole get out there.

Honestly, like I'm so ready after after how tonight went.

I am so ready for baseball season to start.

This was a great precursor to baseball season.

I'll give it that.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, I know the outcome of the game wasn't great, but it was a great final

game when you think about it because it wasn't, you know, all the pool play games were

like crazy with like mercy rules and, you know, teams walking off in the seventh inning

because they scored 12 runs and the past few games were tight games and they were better

to watch.

I'll be ready.

I'll be ready to admit that.

I'll be ready to admit that in like a month or two.

Right now it's way to like we're we're 15 minutes, oh, it's morning.

Like I can't right now I cannot admit that that was a good game.

Like it just that game stunk in every level.

I'll admit it.

And again, when you asked me in a month, I'll admit it to you.

It was a good game.

But like right now that was not that was not fun.

I did not.

I mean, I get that also, I need to get you, Henny O Suarez's hair routine because his

hair is, I love it.

Can I ask by the way, like, how did he go so long without getting signed?

And then how did he want to put a one year deal with the red?

This guy 49 home runs last year between two different teams.

He was one of the prized possessions at the trade deadline.

It's probably and then he just because of message it because of the fact that he

only seems to hit home runs, his averages and high.

Like that sort of thing possibly could be the reason why.

But I mean, he didn't do it in this.

I'll tell you that.

And by the way, the reliever for Ben as well, a Machado, he's going to get a

major league job somewhere real quick.

Like this, this, this event does do a good job of helping people that are trying

to get their way to the major leagues, kind of give him a showcase.

This absolutely gave Machado.

Like that kid's getting a job somewhere and he's going to be coveted.

Oh, one more thing about, I know we're supposed to be talking about the Yankees.

Yeah, I just swear.

I'm sorry guys.

But I, I don't know why I love the combination of that really nice

blue that Ben as well, where's with the bright yellow.

I just love that color combination so much.

I don't know why it is jarring when it's when it was Perez, though, behind the

plane.

A lot.

Yeah, his catcher gear was a lot, but like the uniform combo is beautiful.

I agree.

Yeah, I think all the actually, you know what, all the uniforms are really nice

this year.

No, I'm trying to think is some of them were some of them were like great

Britons is brutal.

Oh, well, there's just, there's this horrible, but at least they're, at least

their font was better than it was, how many years ago was it, was it three

years ago?

They had uniforms where everyone was making fun of the font because they're like,

yeah, have you ever made a baseball uniform before?

Yeah, they used, they used times New Roman.

What did you, what did you think of the USA uniforms?

The white or the blue?

Would you like better?

I actually like the blue.

I actually like the blue too with the blue with the white pants.

Yes.

Not the blue, not the blue with the gray pants.

The blue with the white pants.

I thought was a really cool look.

Cool.

Yankees to wear.

I want the Yankees to wear blue with the white pinstripe pants.

The dark blue with it, but they'll never do that in regular season.

They only do it in spring.

The harboring job.

Less, less things.

Please, less things.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

I had a, I had the perfect segue.

You know, you did.

And we can go back to it.

I promise.

Okay.

The, the, the harp, the Harper home run like, like looking back, you knew, you knew

it was coming.

Did you feel it in your bones?

Because I felt it in my bones.

We were, we were talking like I was watching my sister's boyfriend and my sister.

We were saying it like, you know what?

You guys got a flair for the dramatic, like he didn't really do much in the tournament.

So I was thinking to myself, I'm like, he's going to hit a home run here.

And I mean, he, he crushed that ball like, I mean, I crushed that ball.

Mm-hmm.

What a pretty swing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did it, did, did you, like, how long did it take you to have that feeling of like, should

be in pinstripes?

Oh, I think the second ball left the bat.

It was like, it was like, it was like a half a minute.

It was like 30 seconds.

So as soon as that ball made that sound, I was like,

I could be doing this in Yankee Stadium.

Yeah.

Like, like, I celebrated and got up and cheered and we were going crazy.

But like, in that, like, right as it was happening, I was like, like, he should, he

should be like, he could easily be playing for the Yankees for $25,000,000 right now.

Like, like, it just, that is one of the biggest misses in free agency history for the Yankees.

It really is.

But you move on.

I'm sorry.

He should be teammate.

He should be teammates with Garrett Cole.

So this is what, and judge, but Garrett Cole, because we're talking about him.

That's what you're doing.

So this is, this is what Aaron Boone said.

He said, it's definitely exciting.

Obviously, I think everyone's been excited just how good he's looked.

The fact that he's getting into a game now just indicates where he is and how well it's

going.

He added, I don't necessarily want people to think we're speeding this up or anything.

That's not the case.

It's just he's ready to do this.

He's been in lives, live batting practice.

That's what that means.

And so it'll be good to see him out there for an inning starting a game and just seeing

our ace out there.

Yep, and a really good sign really excited to watch him.

I mean, it's, it's again, I do think it has a lot to do with what you were saying.

Like it's Garrett Cole with that bulldog mentality.

They just wanted to go out there and pitch, but hey, we've got to love that kind of stuff.

We'll warn pitched.

Okay, listen to this.

You know, I love this.

Yep.

Four innings against the raise on Tuesday gave up one run on four hits with one walk

and four strikeouts.

Yeah, one, four, one, four, one, four, one, four.

Got to love it.

If you're not a regular watcher of the show, this is how her brain operates.

Like anything that that goes in a pattern, she appreciates it.

Yeah, I can't help it.

Okay.

This is what we deal with for the regulars and me.

I know.

I'm so sorry.

JC Scar hit a home run, 438 feet, by the way.

Beautiful, beautiful.

I was like, wait, who hit a 438 foot home run?

And Boone also said that if the regular season started today, i.e. Tuesday, he

feel comfortable with Ryan McMayan starting a short stop, which I thought, uh, I'm not.

Yeah, neither am I.

After if you did, did Boone watch the same spring training game that we watched?

Or he had like two errors in the first four innings.

Yeah, he looked like me trying to play short stop.

And he's like, this is again, typical Boone writer.

It's like everyone's great.

He's amazing.

Like no one does anything poorly.

It's ridiculous.

All right.

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This really feels like we're getting into baseball season because we're doing a live

live stream after a Yankee at well, through a world USA game.

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Yeah.

And Shohei Otoni will be making his first pitching appearance later on Wednesday for the Dodgers.

So he's not the only, uh, Garrett calls not the only pitcher who hasn't pitched yet in a game.

Yep.

Otoni's going to be pitching.

This is really cool.

That Dodger team is just absolutely loaded.

If you guys want to get into it now, I mean, boy, oh boy, oh boy.

The only one that's not going to make his season debut, I believe, is Snell.

Oh, right, right, right.

Um, but again, they don't, why rush him?

No, I mean, yeah, they have a bunch of guys that can pitch, uh, speaking of pitching, former Yankee,

Tommy Canley signs a minor league deal with the Red Sox.

That happened on Tuesday.

Yeah, we'll see if he wants it.

He's been around the league a bit for the last couple of years.

Uh, we'll see if he can get something done.

He's been, you know, trying to find his way as an older pitcher into the major leagues.

He's not giving up on his career.

Good for him.

Uh, I hope he does not succeed with the Red Sox.

I hope he knows where else it has a good time, but not with the Red Sox.

Or like if you go to the Red Sox, you know, don't do well against the Yankees.

Yeah, they don't need, but they don't need more bullpen help between Darryl and Auroles Chapman.

Uh, they're good.

By the way, um, if you guys tune in, I believe next week, yeah, next week, next week, actually,

uh, locked at MLB is putting out, uh, it'll be on our channel too, uh, the AL East preview.

And I, I appeared as the Yankee representative in that show, uh, Gabby Malgian, uh, locked on Red Sox.

Thanks to all his Chapman's going to have a poor year.

It was a little bit of a pain for you guys.

Yeah.

So if he does, I'll be very happy.

A little bit forwarded Gabby won the NCAA tournament bracket last year.

So I tend to listen to whatever she says about anything.

So she might actually be right about that.

So keep that up to hear that from Gabby.

Yeah.

Um, Sayas Suzuki has a PCL train in his right knee.

That's the posterior crucian ligament because I didn't even realize there was a PCL in the knee,

which I should because I bad knees and, you know, out of a part of the knee, out of a part.

Yeah.

No, I know that.

Yeah.

So it's his right knee, uh, the Cubs will see how he progresses in the next few days, uh, before deciding whether or not he will require season,

and a season opening stint on the IL.

I first, when I was reading it, I was reading it really fast.

And I thought it said season ending surgery.

And I, I, I don't know why, because why would I think season ending instead of season opening?

But that's just what my brain went to.

And at first, I went, oh, and then I was really that he, that's not it's a bummer to see these kinds of things,

especially if you get through spring training fairly unscathed,

going to get injuries and then you get it now opening day.

That's brutal.

You're, by the way, a week before opening day.

Yeah.

On Netflix.

That's wild.

By the way.

Yeah, we're going to be watching games on Netflix, Apple, right?

Amazon, yeah, yeah, NBC, Fox, ESPN.

Yes, the Gotham sports app peak is, is peacock still going to be, well, they're an, they're an NBC affiliate.

So if you're, well, if you're watching the game on NBC, you can also stream it on peacock.

So, okay, yeah.

Am I missing anything?

I don't feel like I'm missing something.

I don't know.

Probably are because there's a lot of serving services, so many options.

There's, you know, and for me, it's fine.

I have all that, you know, you got Netflix, right?

Netflix for opening day, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I have all that.

But I feel bad for the older people who don't.

And they're going to be missing games, you know, I mean, they could listen on the radio.

But my mom has a 90 year old friend named Sandy who loves watching Ganky games.

And she gets so angry when she can't find them.

Oh, yeah, I have to put it on for my grandmother.

My grandmother watches every Yankee game.

And I have to put it on for her because there's not a prayer that she's going to find the game.

And she's not even going to put the effort in.

And I'd rather her get to watch it, the knockets watch it.

Right.

This is major league baseball.

And this is all sports leagues doing this.

Don't just blame baseball.

Football does it with basketball starting to do it too.

Yeah.

They're all doing it.

This is their professional sports leagues way of saying, hey, old people, we don't care.

Get with the times.

It's a young man's game.

That's what they're saying.

And, you know, they're after the younger fan and they're trying to appeal to people

that are in the younger generation, we know how to use those kind of things.

But yeah, that is what they're saying.

We don't care.

Figure it out.

Yeah.

So there's one more news item from around the league.

White socks, Rick, I'm a said rookie.

Righty, Mike, the seal will go under Tommy John's surgery.

Oh, brutal.

He's going to miss the entire 2026 season.

They announced that on Tuesday, he exited his most recent cactus league outing due to elbow

soreness went for imaging.

They found out you need Tommy John surgery.

His birthday is on Thursday.

This is not a happy birthday.

Not a good week.

Yeah, that's a brutal one.

You don't want to see that.

Yeah, yeah, that's sad.

What a terrible note to end on this was this was a really good show by the two of us,

but just on a on a bad day.

We started on a bad note and did on a bad note, but we had see it's like a like a tent pole

because you have the bad news of team USA losing.

You have the good news of Garrett Cole pitching and then you have the bad news of this poor kid getting Tommy John surgery.

I'm we're sorry, guys.

Yeah, we'll we'll we'll try to bring more joy in the next week or so.

Yeah, yeah.

Speaking of that, will we go live after opening day?

I don't see why not it's Thursday, right?

We're going to have to figure out some clerical things with fan mail Friday and see what we're doing,

but we will we will update you guys, I guess, as it goes on because the game is on Thursday, I believe.

Yeah, well, we can still do fan mail Friday, but we might have to filter it and just pick certain

questions because we can have a whole show of fan mail Friday because once we get into the season,

we can't do a full show of fan mail Friday.

It's only going to be a couple segments or one segment because we have other things to talk about.

The only exception is when they when they have the update for Thursday and the week, which happens often.

Well, we'll have to get back to everybody on that, but we will be going live after opening day for sure.

I don't what time is the game on opening day, actually, I don't know what time, what time of I don't remember what time it is.

Usually it's an afternoon game.

I'm trying to look it up right here because I don't know what time they're actually playing that game.

Um, imagine if it's not like a special time for actually, I could imagine because it's actually it's Wednesday and it's 805 p.m.

The game, I don't know what Thursday it's Wednesday, uh, yeah, so we'll be live next Wednesday night.

Oh, yeah, because right.

This show is Wednesday show, even though we're recording it on Tuesday and it's a week from today.

So it's Wednesday.

So Wednesday night.

So then we don't have to worry about fan mail Friday.

Family Friday will be fine.

Everything will be good.

So next Wednesday night will be live after.

Yeah, I'll see you next Wednesday around this time.

Yeah.

We'll see you at any other point before then.

Absolutely.

So thank you guys for joining us for this live edition.

Sorry, we couldn't really answer any comments or questions here, but, you know, so a lot of comments about how sad people are about the game, how happy they are about Cole coming back and, uh, yeah, I'm just, uh, I am really thrilled about Cole.

I just want everything to go well with him.

Yeah, no, and that mixed with Rodon.

He did announce to by the way, Rodon is not going to be appearing in a preseason game, but, uh, he, he's on track.

It's just there's no, you know, cause for it, which makes me think more than it's just Gary Cole being a bulldog, right?

Because he is also to, uh, to pop a rick right here, uh, he asking if someone will have a streaming schedule for this season, uh, tune into us.

We will be up to you guys every single day when we do game previews in the last segment.

Oh, yes.

We'll let you know exactly where it's airing.

Yep.

And I'll send that out also insiders every day.

I'll put it in the, uh, I'll put it in the insider texting system.

I'll put it on discord.

I'll put it in the newsletters, which I do every day.

You're going to have, you're going to be chock full of information.

You're all going to know what's going on.

It's going to be great.

Exactly.

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