August 6, 2026 • 30 mins
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sound dumb on trivia questions. But one of the baseball
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games tonight, before we get to Jerry Jones and the
thirteen billion dollar conundrum, is in Seattle. They had a
really cool giveaway capturing our hearts and minds and the
thoughts of America. No, I mean, La is still the
leader in the rat race, but we have Jimithy. Yeah,
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the raccoon that runs around like a ball spinal issue
and looks like it's something. Should I have a cartoon
or a horror movie, depending on which way you want
to take it? For two winners over Detroit tonight. But
tonight they gave away twenty thousand Jimothy cards, including serially
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numbered to one hundred and a vaunted one of one,
which was actually procured by a thirteen year old girl.
They came with a cool briefcase and opened it up
and presented it to her. Very cool. But the silver
Parallel is going for three hundred and fifty bucks right
now on eBay. I don't know what the one of
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one will get in the open marketplace, but it's a
very handsome card. So all of my friends and listeners
there in the greater Seattle area, if you procured any
of these, I'm interested. He's got a little photoshop Mariners
had on him. It's great, brought to you by Farmers.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, it's really goal.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I love that we're getting into wildlife cards. I mean
we got bobbleheads, we've got chains, We've got I think
there's a celebratory night for any person ever born, no
matter what your nationality and or place of origin. I
think there's a jersey to be had on the West
coast here in the next month. It's very cool. And
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now we have a Jimithy.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
So.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
One of my first jobs in media in two thousand
and nine, I was the number two broadcaster for the
Trent and Thunder DOUBLEA affiliated the Yankees. They're nice fun year.
Basically an intern. I got paid eight hundred dollars a month.
I worked fifteen hour days, made sales calls during the day,
called the games at night. And that's minor league baseball
in a nutshell. But my favorite part of that experience
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was being a part of planning the promotions. And the
minor league promotion is obviously much different than major leagues.
You don't have as much money. It's a little bit more,
you know, I would say community based. But they've gotten
really creative. Like the stuff we were doing back in
two thousand and nine was you know, Cultural Nights and
Asian American Heritage Night, Oldish American a like that kind
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of stuff. It was great. I love that you get
all the food and all the culture and it was cool.
But they've gotten super creative with these giveaways and how
they package them and promote them. And we've talked about
this before with the Dodgers, it's kind of it kind
of overshadows the game which time later. Oh that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I mean there's that secondary market which has been robust.
I remember going to the Oaklanawameda County Coliseum all those
years ago when the Barry Zito, Mark Mulder and Tim Hudson,
Miguel Tahaa and Eric Chavez. There's guys they were running
a buck and they'd have Bobblehead Night and you'd have
all these people coming off bart coming off public transport,
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getting in line two hours before the game, getting their
bibblehead and going home. And for some of them, you had,
like for the Javas, I remember it was one of
the first to have a Chase variant for his gold
glove the year before, so five.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Hundred of them. His goal is the whole body was cool.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Right, So you had that, and now they do that
all the time, different color variations, uniform, home road, whatever.
But look, it's a way to get more sponsorship dollars engaged. Right,
certainly the minor league facilities. We were talking about it
just for college football and the G League earlier in
the show. Common theme how do you find and extract
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more money from people's wallets and accounts? And that's one
of it, right. I mean, once upon a time we
did a deal on fantasy football mail bag things I
was doing where they did a bobblehead of me, and
I was showing you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's in the bibblehead had a Bible honor. Yeah, it's
in the babblehead Hall of Fame. What was really cool
was that year we did a mail bag piece, so
if we used your letter, and it turned out we
did a lot from folks and military installations. So I
became kind of like a not quite so flat Stanley
to where I'd get pictures from folks like here you
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are in Paris, here you are near a battlefield in
and it would be redacted like it was cool, Like
it was just a very strange kind of circumstance, but yeah,
I have a couple of them left. I kind of
look more like that bubble hit now than I did
for a while. The meat, the meat, the meat. Fatherhood
and stress got me for a while. Well. Now, the
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thing that they're doing, Mike, which I think is genius,
is it's not necessarily sports related anymore. No, Yeah, And
what it's doing is it's bringing it Like, for example,
I would be willing to bet that more people in
America know about Jimothy than they do can name a
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Seattle Mariners player. Like the average person is very online
these days, and Jimothy was a thing for it was
I would say, viral for like a good month. So
odds are you walk up through an average person on
the street and they're not necessarily a baseball fan. They're
just an average American. They probably know they probably can
name Jimothy and not a Mariner's player. So the fact
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that teams are becoming much more creative with getting people
into the ballpark I think is a positive for baseball
because then they're at the game, and then they watch
baseball and hopefully they fall in love with baseball in
some capacity. But the Jimothy is what gets them through
the doors. I gotta get him in the door. Whatever
the giveaway is, right, they're doing the Angels, are going
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to do a K pop Demon Hunters. They've got one
great Wace actor going to do a song. Last week
they had a SpongeBob jersey night. It's pretty good looking jersey,
by the way, But it's just that trying to find
those angles and tie ins, no question about it, as
we try to do here with the random bits that
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attach to our sports stories. And that leads us to
Jerry Jones, because you want to talk about the p. T.
Barnum of the National Football League, he would be wearing
that hat. He'd be looking around like Hugh Jackman, singing
the Greatest Showman as it were. And for years and
we watched the valuation of NFL franchises go up. We
found out a little more than a week ago that
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the national revenue split was nearly a half a billion
dollars per team four hundred and fifty seven though million
or thereabouts. And we got that because of the disclosure
from the packers. And now you're talking about a Dallas
Cowboys franchise. We've seen some other franchise moves. So the
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estimate is some thirteen to fifteen billion dollars for Dallas
right now. And historically Jerry Jones has been very reticent.
Up we're not interested in partners. We're not interested in
anybody taking on an investing role. We have the people
that we do.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But Mark Cuban told that was in an interview and
talking about the Harbinger Fund. That's a sports partners business
that's put together. That's three quarter of a billion dollar
private equity fund. Tim Rashawn William, Steve Cannon, and Jonathan
Mariner and.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Jerry Jones seemed at least amenable to hearing the pitch quote.
That's exactly what if you're me, you would open it
because of the man. Have all the respects in the
world for him, and I know what he did for
the Mavericks and what he's done for basketball. He's an
additional financial boat streams of your team. You want to
associate with the highest quality of a person who loves
the game and also at the same time wants to
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do something about it. Mark leads the way in that,
which is kind of funny because once upon a time
he said everybody was going to get slaughtered in the
National Football League because it had gotten too big. Evidently,
seeing the fuzzy math add a few more zeros here
and there and everywhere, you recognize that anytime you can
jump on board one of these franchises and Live Sporting
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being the last bastion for sponsorships, partnerships, all of these things,
including a Mike Harmon bobblehead, that you should get on
board when you can. Yeah, I think that is probably
the best investment that anybody could make, is getting into
these professional sporting leagues, and now it's becoming college football,
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and you're seeing private equity become a big factor in that.
The Packers release was interesting. So of course, the Packers
being the only publicly traded company in the NFL, they're
they're the only ones that sell stock, so they have
to release an earnings report, which I'm sure they fudged
a lot of the numbers, but it was interesting to
see them cry poor. I did not think that was possible.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, that was pretty fun. That was some good fuzzy
math in accounting. Well, we're gonna write down this guy's bonus.
We're gonna write down these old contracts and lo and
behold you were able to get to a negative even
though you were staked to a four hundred and fifty
million dollars sir, when your salary cap is less than
three hundred million.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Absurd that a team in today's NFL can cry poor,
like are they not charging us enough for Sunday ticket?
Are they not making enough on the tickets and the
merchandise and the TV revenue and the way that they
just gouge the prices these days. Try to go into
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the Jets and the Giants have one of the worst
home records in the NFL over the last decade. Good
luck to the average income family taking your group of
four to a Jets or Giants game on a Sunday.
You're spending a thousand bucks minimum. So I think we
have reached the point in the NFL. And don't get
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me wrong, we should be charging a fair price to
get into the game, not saying we should be giving
the tickets away. But I think we've reached a point
in the NFL where there's no way you can cry
poor anymore. It's just it's one thing for you to
need more income. I get that everybody wants more money,
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but to come out and say that you're having trouble
with your finances is a completely different argument than let's
find ways to make more money. It was a unbelievable
admission coming from a professional sporting league in the NFL
though last the league that is literally the Filet Mignon
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of sporting leagues. I think there's got to be Unfortunately,
I think the only solution is that they have to
sell part of the team and part of that publicly
traded front facing and I don't know how the exact
business structures lined up. I'm not an expert on it,
but I'm assuming they can either a issue more stock
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for people to buy, or be get a private equity
firm like we're seeing with these college teams like Utah
just had a pe that just came in and gave
them a boatload of money because they're obviously really having
liquidity issues in college football because they're paying everyone. I
think that's the answer for the Packers, But I'm assuming, right,
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it's fair to assume that, like Mike, that if the
Packers are going through it, then other teams are going
through it as well. Yeah, I mean, the Packers had
a number of circumstances.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
As I read the brief coming out, and because I'm
a nerd that because I found it very interesting because
it was their first loss in I want to say
it was thirty five years or thereabouts, and it was
based on a number of financial moves to bring in
say Micah Parsons and deals of that, but also some
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write offs of old contracts and whatever like. It really
gets down in granular, but in the end, one thing
that was certain was once you included all of their
local revenue tickets and everything else, they were their revenues
were in excess of three quarters of a billion dollars
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and they still claimed to be in the red for
the year based on some funny accounting. And again it's
one of those reminders as you think about your taxes
and whatever else and you know who you are out
there in terms of the the extra expenditures. Well, I
had to buy dinner because I had to work. Did
you did you at that point?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, we get it's got all the time, Mike. Yeah.
As a millennial, the answer to being poor is, well,
you're you're spending too much on your eight dollars lattes.
That's why you're poor.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well, but in this particular case, it's what did you
What are you trying to write off? Is more of
the question not true? Well, I mean the the other
may not be one hundred percent, but there might be
some truth and some fact to be trimmed as not
just literal on your person, but in your budget. I
think we all can use a little refining now and again.
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But in this particular case, it's funny to me that
at a minimum you were at four hundred and fifty
million dollars, and that's if you paid every penny to
the salary cap that was in place this last year.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
There's no excuse for an NFL team to even read
remotely in the red zero.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I got to know how many middle managers you have there.
I mean, that's a zero excuse. That is absolutely impressive.
But Jerry Jones, potentially Mark Cuban coming on board. We'll
see at Jared Smith Betts is where you find and
find me over at Swallend. As we continue, we've got
a receiver in a new spot already, one of the
would be sleepers in the NFL. We stay in that
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Speaker 3 (17:39):
That is right.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Hall of Fame game later on tonight, we're talking to
NFL as the hour rolls out. We're talking about Mark
Cuban potentially teaming up with Jerry Jones taking some piece
of the Dallas Cowboys. He's still mad that he's not
in charge of the Mavericks. Uh So, you know, trying
to figure out he's got lawsuits there and everything else.
But we look around the NFL and we got a
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lot of injury news and notes from around camps, a
big contracts being signed by John Robinson, the chief among them,
lots of other things going on in Atlanta. Good thoughts
to the Uldricks, and you know, the injuries that they've
sustained there. I mean, there's just a lot that they're
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trying to piece together in a new season. But we
look at the Commanders. They're bringing in Stefan Diggs as
he heads back into the NFC East here in Washington,
a squad that has been I think a little bit
of a darling in the larger prognostication of trying to
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find a team maybe a little off the grid, trying
to reclaim a little bit of glory here. Remember the
run up a couple of years ago, fall back in
twenty five, and now when we look at the season ahead,
so many questions swirling in Philly and Jalen Hurts always
at the heart of it, a guy that I don't
I don't know how much more he needs to do
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to get any modicum of respect. In terms of column writing,
I think people just like clicks click click, click click,
so they know they're gonna get it. And let's face it,
the city of brotherly love. Sometimes isn't the Cowboys great offense? Defense?
Will they rise up? And if they meet them part
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of the way, well we've got some chaos. And you
know you do you look at the Giants with Harbaugh
coming in, are Scatterbo and Jackson Dart? What's the over
on there? And games that they're on a field? Have
you got that prop that yet?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But you want to make a market, especially if mister
Scattabo keeps doing backflips.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
That's pretty good though, right, I mean I like that
he tried. Harbaugh did everything outwardly the a maybe stick
the landing next time, but the von Diggs heading to
the commanders as they shuffle up and deal in their roster.
We watched Deebo Samuel after one year in Washington, he
heads back to the Bay Area and the forty nine ers.
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Forty nine ers just a little tangential note with these
substation accusations of task, but they missed twenty guys in
practice today.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, here's my thing about the substation, and I'll get
to I do have some thoughts on Dicks.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You want to play the X Files theme in the background,
because that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, let's let's play it, because here's the thing about
the substation. And I've talked to I'm not a doctor,
but people, Yeah, I do sometimes playing on the radio,
but I've talked to many people in the we'll call
it the holistic wellness space. Frequency is a big thing.
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I'm convinced this is why the pyramids exist. I'm convinced
that the pyramids are a giant frequency tuner and the
top of the pyramid is where the king or the
pharaoh would sit, and they there. They found these coils
recently under the pyramids that serve as these like tuning forks,
I guess. And so electrical frequencies matter to the human body.
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We're all made up of them. I don't know what
impact it has, but let's say it does have an impact.
Here's how you can prove it either does or it doesn't.
Move your freaking practice somewhere else and see what happens
for a year. You know, It's funny, is no way
that in an NFL society where all this money and
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all this opportunity and all this access, the niners can't say, hey,
for one year, let's move our practices here and see
what happens.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
There's a lot of space over where they built, and
so happens.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But look, that can happen, right.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I went to Santa Claara for a couple of years,
worked at YAH when I was up in the bar area,
and what we would do when it was particularly vexing
time or we needed to talk some stuff out, there was.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
A driving range.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
We spent many an hour over there, long lunches, meetings
and just hitting buckets and balls. I'm wondering when the
effects of that area come back on me, maybe I'll become.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Like high intensity workouts because I think what it has.
Have you seen my swing?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That is a lot of work man, So I have, but.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I used the m I think it's less about a
one off. And to be fair, I don't know how
many times that you played, but I think it's more
about the recovery and going through that recovery while in
the shadow of a giant frequency generator.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Oh yeah, No, I don't dismiss it at all. There's
the way it has zero impact.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It might not be causing the injuries, but I think
it has a lot to do with recovery more so
than causing the injuries, not just it.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Right, there's a lot of things that in afflictions you
may have and they're like, well, do you do this
that the other? Do you smoke, do you drink whatever?
And it's like, well, no, that wouldn't be a cause. Yeah,
but it sure is helene helping.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, And I think that's what guys are all weak
at some point. They go through points in the season
where they're weaker than usual or they're having a rough
week physically, And I think what the frequencies do is
they prevent you from recovering properly, so then you're not
recovering and then you're continuing to play at a decreased
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level and then the injury happens. Right, It's like the overcompensation.
Those injuries are more common because your legs a little
banged up, so you're cutting more on one side than
the other, and then that side goes. And I think
that is a bigger part of it than anything else.
Is if your tissues are soft and not healed properly,
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you're going to overcompensate in other areas and then the
injuries are going to take.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Now, the other thing with San Francisco, we would be
remiss if we didn't at least add this to uh
some factor in this algorithm.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
They're old, they're old. There's a lot of age reps.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And yeah, I like I said, I can't, I can't
dismiss it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It's like trying to tell me that the fields in
New York, New Jersey and Chicago don't matter exactly right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
They're bad. They're bad.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Now, what will you give up in the next CBA
to get grass fields? I can't wait to see those negotiations.
But let's get back to the business at hand here, right, Look, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Sorry, no, no, no, no, that's a good no.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
No, no, that's that's a good one because we wrap
it all up into a big hug. I brought up
Deebo Samuel. It's my fault and it made.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
For great substation. I love this brain went off the road.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I have read a lot of stories and theories about
the substation.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I didn't have Twitter account. Yeah, I didn't quite get
the Pyramids into things.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
But we gotls and Shimothy into the hour.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
They've done Yeoman's work.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Here at Fox Sports Radio. Now put your football hat
on for a moment. Yeah, put your helmet on like
you're Aaron Donald and strapping on here. Pal Uh Stefan
Diggs joins Darry McLaurin, UH and Luke McCaffrey. As you're
outside receivers, You've got uh a fortified offensive line. We're
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looking for Tunsil and Connorley to lead things. Alligretti comes
in uh to to be the center, to be the anchor.
But for Daniels, Bill Krossky merrit don't call him Jacory
Rashad White comes over from Tampa that they're they're looking
at trying to reclaim a spot. And when we look
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at the nfcas like I said, I think everybody looks
for a reason to stay away from the Eagles, thinking
that the Sirianne thing implodes. You look at the Dallas
Cowboys and their history, and I just remind folks most
teams it's kind of like when folks mocked the Steelers
or what they did.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I know that you want to get over the.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Hump, but I think if you're winning consistently somewhere between
eight and eleven games most franchises, you're pretty happy with that.
As a long suffering Bears fan, I'm hoping Ben Johnson
Camplin Williams find that answer for a long time to come.
I like one, ops, they're exciting, but you know what,
a little bit of consistency would be good too. But
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what do you expect from Diggs going into this offense?
How much does it help?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well? I I think it helps because Deebo obviously wasn't
capable of being like the receiver that Washington needed. He's
kind of a Swiss army knife. I kind of think
he needs the perfect system to be successful, and the
Niners might be that. And I'm glad that he was
able to reconnect with his old floy Yeah those six
to eight carries a game or whatever. Yeah, the body
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and yeah, the gadgets and the gizmos, and so Washington's
in a unique spot because they kept their head coach,
but everyone else is new, and I think that gives
Jayden Daniels an opportunity now helps a big factor and
only played really a handful of games last year, but
his success rates through the roof when he's on the field.
And David blown new OC. I like the hire. It's
(27:36):
a promotion from within to a new, young, fresh perspective. Right.
He's never been a play caller in the league before,
but he's played in the league and he had a
pretty decent college career, so I think he has a
good offensive mine and from what I'm hearing so far,
the transition has been what I was gonna do if
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I was the OC for the Akron Zips for one drive,
play action under center and a lot of motion that
that is the cheat code for quarterbacks. Why is it
a cheat code for quarterbacks? When you move players in motion,
the defense has to tip their hand. If they move
as a unit, they're in zone. If they if a
man follows that player in motion, you're in man coverage.
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So you're getting the answers to the test before you
have to take the exam. Play action obviously holds the
linebackers at the single level, and when you're under center
in play action, it really manipulates the linebackers. So I
like when offensive coordinators come in and their calling card
is I'm going to put this quarterback under center and
use play action with a high degree of motion. That
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is how you deceive defenses in the NFL in the
year of r Lar twenty twenty six. The problem with
Jayden Daniels is he's never run that kind of offense before.
What has he been his whole life? Shotgun read option,
get it on the edge, bootlegs, getting outside the pocket.
That is not a pro style system. Now he's capable,
I'm sure of playing in a pro style system. But
(29:02):
how is that transition going to take place? Again? Last
year was the Cliff Kingsbury offense. Now we're in the
David blow offense. So what that transition looks like is
going to be very intriguing. I like Diggs as a player, obviously.
I like McLaurin, obviously. I like the other weapons they
have around him. I think the defense is good enough
with Quinn kind of pushing the buttons. The question is
(29:24):
can Daniel stay healthy, can they get ceiling production out
of digs? And is this new offense going to congeal
quickly enough for it to matter. I don't have the
answer to that last question. But I'm intrigued because I
do like the system they are moving towards to make
me feel even older.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
David Blout, thirty one years old, your offensive coordinator in
Washington at Jared Smith. Betts is where you find him.
Find me over at Swollen.
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sound dumb on trivia questions. But one of the baseball
(01:14):
games tonight, before we get to Jerry Jones and the
thirteen billion dollar conundrum, is in Seattle. They had a
really cool giveaway capturing our hearts and minds and the
thoughts of America. No, I mean, La is still the
leader in the rat race, but we have Jimithy. Yeah,
(01:37):
the raccoon that runs around like a ball spinal issue
and looks like it's something. Should I have a cartoon
or a horror movie, depending on which way you want
to take it? For two winners over Detroit tonight. But
tonight they gave away twenty thousand Jimothy cards, including serially
(01:58):
numbered to one hundred and a vaunted one of one,
which was actually procured by a thirteen year old girl.
They came with a cool briefcase and opened it up
and presented it to her. Very cool. But the silver
Parallel is going for three hundred and fifty bucks right
now on eBay. I don't know what the one of
(02:20):
one will get in the open marketplace, but it's a
very handsome card. So all of my friends and listeners
there in the greater Seattle area, if you procured any
of these, I'm interested. He's got a little photoshop Mariners
had on him. It's great, brought to you by Farmers.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, it's really goal.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I love that we're getting into wildlife cards. I mean
we got bobbleheads, we've got chains, We've got I think
there's a celebratory night for any person ever born, no
matter what your nationality and or place of origin. I
think there's a jersey to be had on the West
coast here in the next month. It's very cool. And
(03:02):
now we have a Jimithy.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
So.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
One of my first jobs in media in two thousand
and nine, I was the number two broadcaster for the
Trent and Thunder DOUBLEA affiliated the Yankees. They're nice fun year.
Basically an intern. I got paid eight hundred dollars a month.
I worked fifteen hour days, made sales calls during the day,
called the games at night. And that's minor league baseball
in a nutshell. But my favorite part of that experience
(03:30):
was being a part of planning the promotions. And the
minor league promotion is obviously much different than major leagues.
You don't have as much money. It's a little bit more,
you know, I would say community based. But they've gotten
really creative. Like the stuff we were doing back in
two thousand and nine was you know, Cultural Nights and
Asian American Heritage Night, Oldish American a like that kind
(03:52):
of stuff. It was great. I love that you get
all the food and all the culture and it was cool.
But they've gotten super creative with these giveaways and how
they package them and promote them. And we've talked about
this before with the Dodgers, it's kind of it kind
of overshadows the game which time later. Oh that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I mean there's that secondary market which has been robust.
I remember going to the Oaklanawameda County Coliseum all those
years ago when the Barry Zito, Mark Mulder and Tim Hudson,
Miguel Tahaa and Eric Chavez. There's guys they were running
a buck and they'd have Bobblehead Night and you'd have
all these people coming off bart coming off public transport,
(04:36):
getting in line two hours before the game, getting their
bibblehead and going home. And for some of them, you had,
like for the Javas, I remember it was one of
the first to have a Chase variant for his gold
glove the year before, so five.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Hundred of them. His goal is the whole body was cool.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Right, So you had that, and now they do that
all the time, different color variations, uniform, home road, whatever.
But look, it's a way to get more sponsorship dollars engaged. Right,
certainly the minor league facilities. We were talking about it
just for college football and the G League earlier in
the show. Common theme how do you find and extract
(05:18):
more money from people's wallets and accounts? And that's one
of it, right. I mean, once upon a time we
did a deal on fantasy football mail bag things I
was doing where they did a bobblehead of me, and
I was showing you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's in the bibblehead had a Bible honor. Yeah, it's
in the babblehead Hall of Fame. What was really cool
was that year we did a mail bag piece, so
if we used your letter, and it turned out we
did a lot from folks and military installations. So I
became kind of like a not quite so flat Stanley
to where I'd get pictures from folks like here you
(05:55):
are in Paris, here you are near a battlefield in
and it would be redacted like it was cool, Like
it was just a very strange kind of circumstance, but yeah,
I have a couple of them left. I kind of
look more like that bubble hit now than I did
for a while. The meat, the meat, the meat. Fatherhood
and stress got me for a while. Well. Now, the
(06:16):
thing that they're doing, Mike, which I think is genius,
is it's not necessarily sports related anymore. No, Yeah, And
what it's doing is it's bringing it Like, for example,
I would be willing to bet that more people in
America know about Jimothy than they do can name a
(06:37):
Seattle Mariners player. Like the average person is very online
these days, and Jimothy was a thing for it was
I would say, viral for like a good month. So
odds are you walk up through an average person on
the street and they're not necessarily a baseball fan. They're
just an average American. They probably know they probably can
name Jimothy and not a Mariner's player. So the fact
(06:57):
that teams are becoming much more creative with getting people
into the ballpark I think is a positive for baseball
because then they're at the game, and then they watch
baseball and hopefully they fall in love with baseball in
some capacity. But the Jimothy is what gets them through
the doors. I gotta get him in the door. Whatever
the giveaway is, right, they're doing the Angels, are going
(07:19):
to do a K pop Demon Hunters. They've got one
great Wace actor going to do a song. Last week
they had a SpongeBob jersey night. It's pretty good looking jersey,
by the way, But it's just that trying to find
those angles and tie ins, no question about it, as
we try to do here with the random bits that
(07:40):
attach to our sports stories. And that leads us to
Jerry Jones, because you want to talk about the p. T.
Barnum of the National Football League, he would be wearing
that hat. He'd be looking around like Hugh Jackman, singing
the Greatest Showman as it were. And for years and
we watched the valuation of NFL franchises go up. We
found out a little more than a week ago that
(08:00):
the national revenue split was nearly a half a billion
dollars per team four hundred and fifty seven though million
or thereabouts. And we got that because of the disclosure
from the packers. And now you're talking about a Dallas
Cowboys franchise. We've seen some other franchise moves. So the
(08:21):
estimate is some thirteen to fifteen billion dollars for Dallas
right now. And historically Jerry Jones has been very reticent.
Up we're not interested in partners. We're not interested in
anybody taking on an investing role. We have the people
that we do.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But Mark Cuban told that was in an interview and
talking about the Harbinger Fund. That's a sports partners business
that's put together. That's three quarter of a billion dollar
private equity fund. Tim Rashawn William, Steve Cannon, and Jonathan
Mariner and.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Jerry Jones seemed at least amenable to hearing the pitch quote.
That's exactly what if you're me, you would open it
because of the man. Have all the respects in the
world for him, and I know what he did for
the Mavericks and what he's done for basketball. He's an
additional financial boat streams of your team. You want to
associate with the highest quality of a person who loves
the game and also at the same time wants to
(09:16):
do something about it. Mark leads the way in that,
which is kind of funny because once upon a time
he said everybody was going to get slaughtered in the
National Football League because it had gotten too big. Evidently,
seeing the fuzzy math add a few more zeros here
and there and everywhere, you recognize that anytime you can
jump on board one of these franchises and Live Sporting
(09:39):
being the last bastion for sponsorships, partnerships, all of these things,
including a Mike Harmon bobblehead, that you should get on
board when you can. Yeah, I think that is probably
the best investment that anybody could make, is getting into
these professional sporting leagues, and now it's becoming college football,
(10:03):
and you're seeing private equity become a big factor in that.
The Packers release was interesting. So of course, the Packers
being the only publicly traded company in the NFL, they're
they're the only ones that sell stock, so they have
to release an earnings report, which I'm sure they fudged
a lot of the numbers, but it was interesting to
see them cry poor. I did not think that was possible.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, that was pretty fun. That was some good fuzzy
math in accounting. Well, we're gonna write down this guy's bonus.
We're gonna write down these old contracts and lo and
behold you were able to get to a negative even
though you were staked to a four hundred and fifty
million dollars sir, when your salary cap is less than
three hundred million.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Absurd that a team in today's NFL can cry poor,
like are they not charging us enough for Sunday ticket?
Are they not making enough on the tickets and the
merchandise and the TV revenue and the way that they
just gouge the prices these days. Try to go into
(11:07):
the Jets and the Giants have one of the worst
home records in the NFL over the last decade. Good
luck to the average income family taking your group of
four to a Jets or Giants game on a Sunday.
You're spending a thousand bucks minimum. So I think we
have reached the point in the NFL. And don't get
(11:27):
me wrong, we should be charging a fair price to
get into the game, not saying we should be giving
the tickets away. But I think we've reached a point
in the NFL where there's no way you can cry
poor anymore. It's just it's one thing for you to
need more income. I get that everybody wants more money,
(11:48):
but to come out and say that you're having trouble
with your finances is a completely different argument than let's
find ways to make more money. It was a unbelievable
admission coming from a professional sporting league in the NFL
though last the league that is literally the Filet Mignon
(12:10):
of sporting leagues. I think there's got to be Unfortunately,
I think the only solution is that they have to
sell part of the team and part of that publicly
traded front facing and I don't know how the exact
business structures lined up. I'm not an expert on it,
but I'm assuming they can either a issue more stock
(12:30):
for people to buy, or be get a private equity
firm like we're seeing with these college teams like Utah
just had a pe that just came in and gave
them a boatload of money because they're obviously really having
liquidity issues in college football because they're paying everyone. I
think that's the answer for the Packers, But I'm assuming, right,
(12:50):
it's fair to assume that, like Mike, that if the
Packers are going through it, then other teams are going
through it as well. Yeah, I mean, the Packers had
a number of circumstances.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
As I read the brief coming out, and because I'm
a nerd that because I found it very interesting because
it was their first loss in I want to say
it was thirty five years or thereabouts, and it was
based on a number of financial moves to bring in
say Micah Parsons and deals of that, but also some
(13:17):
write offs of old contracts and whatever like. It really
gets down in granular, but in the end, one thing
that was certain was once you included all of their
local revenue tickets and everything else, they were their revenues
were in excess of three quarters of a billion dollars
(13:39):
and they still claimed to be in the red for
the year based on some funny accounting. And again it's
one of those reminders as you think about your taxes
and whatever else and you know who you are out
there in terms of the the extra expenditures. Well, I
had to buy dinner because I had to work. Did
you did you at that point?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, we get it's got all the time, Mike. Yeah.
As a millennial, the answer to being poor is, well,
you're you're spending too much on your eight dollars lattes.
That's why you're poor.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Well, but in this particular case, it's what did you
What are you trying to write off? Is more of
the question not true? Well, I mean the the other
may not be one hundred percent, but there might be
some truth and some fact to be trimmed as not
just literal on your person, but in your budget. I
think we all can use a little refining now and again.
(14:28):
But in this particular case, it's funny to me that
at a minimum you were at four hundred and fifty
million dollars, and that's if you paid every penny to
the salary cap that was in place this last year.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
There's no excuse for an NFL team to even read
remotely in the red zero.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I got to know how many middle managers you have there.
I mean, that's a zero excuse. That is absolutely impressive.
But Jerry Jones, potentially Mark Cuban coming on board. We'll
see at Jared Smith Betts is where you find and
find me over at Swallend. As we continue, we've got
a receiver in a new spot already, one of the
would be sleepers in the NFL. We stay in that
(15:08):
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Speaker 5 (16:20):
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Speaker 4 (16:51):
My dad always laughed saying, hey, it's that little guy
with the big head.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah. After the lease eight to nine inches, that's gonna
be good. Yeah, Well, there you go.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Uh you asked for it, Jared Smith, there's an unlimited
reservoir of chaos, and once you hit Save Harbor, tysher
cannot be trusted. At the ones and twos, I've had
sex with him.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What is what my friend? This? Well gravy No, I've
never even heard I know the beat, I just never
heard the lyrics before. So good, good stuff, man. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
We're rocking into a Wednesday night early Thursday morning, which
means it's game day in the rest of the country.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That is right.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Hall of Fame game later on tonight, we're talking to
NFL as the hour rolls out. We're talking about Mark
Cuban potentially teaming up with Jerry Jones taking some piece
of the Dallas Cowboys. He's still mad that he's not
in charge of the Mavericks. Uh So, you know, trying
to figure out he's got lawsuits there and everything else.
But we look around the NFL and we got a
(18:03):
lot of injury news and notes from around camps, a
big contracts being signed by John Robinson, the chief among them,
lots of other things going on in Atlanta. Good thoughts
to the Uldricks, and you know, the injuries that they've
sustained there. I mean, there's just a lot that they're
(18:23):
trying to piece together in a new season. But we
look at the Commanders. They're bringing in Stefan Diggs as
he heads back into the NFC East here in Washington,
a squad that has been I think a little bit
of a darling in the larger prognostication of trying to
(18:46):
find a team maybe a little off the grid, trying
to reclaim a little bit of glory here. Remember the
run up a couple of years ago, fall back in
twenty five, and now when we look at the season ahead,
so many questions swirling in Philly and Jalen Hurts always
at the heart of it, a guy that I don't
I don't know how much more he needs to do
(19:08):
to get any modicum of respect. In terms of column writing,
I think people just like clicks click click, click click,
so they know they're gonna get it. And let's face it,
the city of brotherly love. Sometimes isn't the Cowboys great offense? Defense?
Will they rise up? And if they meet them part
(19:29):
of the way, well we've got some chaos. And you
know you do you look at the Giants with Harbaugh
coming in, are Scatterbo and Jackson Dart? What's the over
on there? And games that they're on a field? Have
you got that prop that yet?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But you want to make a market, especially if mister
Scattabo keeps doing backflips.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
That's pretty good though, right, I mean I like that
he tried. Harbaugh did everything outwardly the a maybe stick
the landing next time, but the von Diggs heading to
the commanders as they shuffle up and deal in their roster.
We watched Deebo Samuel after one year in Washington, he
heads back to the Bay Area and the forty nine ers.
(20:13):
Forty nine ers just a little tangential note with these
substation accusations of task, but they missed twenty guys in
practice today.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, here's my thing about the substation, and I'll get
to I do have some thoughts on Dicks.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You want to play the X Files theme in the background,
because that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, let's let's play it, because here's the thing about
the substation. And I've talked to I'm not a doctor,
but people, Yeah, I do sometimes playing on the radio,
but I've talked to many people in the we'll call
it the holistic wellness space. Frequency is a big thing.
(20:53):
I'm convinced this is why the pyramids exist. I'm convinced
that the pyramids are a giant frequency tuner and the
top of the pyramid is where the king or the
pharaoh would sit, and they there. They found these coils
recently under the pyramids that serve as these like tuning forks,
I guess. And so electrical frequencies matter to the human body.
(21:18):
We're all made up of them. I don't know what
impact it has, but let's say it does have an impact.
Here's how you can prove it either does or it doesn't.
Move your freaking practice somewhere else and see what happens
for a year. You know, It's funny, is no way
that in an NFL society where all this money and
(21:39):
all this opportunity and all this access, the niners can't say, hey,
for one year, let's move our practices here and see
what happens.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
There's a lot of space over where they built, and
so happens.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But look, that can happen, right.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I went to Santa Claara for a couple of years,
worked at YAH when I was up in the bar area,
and what we would do when it was particularly vexing
time or we needed to talk some stuff out, there was.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
A driving range.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
We spent many an hour over there, long lunches, meetings
and just hitting buckets and balls. I'm wondering when the
effects of that area come back on me, maybe I'll become.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Like high intensity workouts because I think what it has.
Have you seen my swing?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That is a lot of work man, So I have, but.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I used the m I think it's less about a
one off. And to be fair, I don't know how
many times that you played, but I think it's more
about the recovery and going through that recovery while in
the shadow of a giant frequency generator.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Oh yeah, No, I don't dismiss it at all. There's
the way it has zero impact.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It might not be causing the injuries, but I think
it has a lot to do with recovery more so
than causing the injuries, not just it.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Right, there's a lot of things that in afflictions you
may have and they're like, well, do you do this
that the other? Do you smoke, do you drink whatever?
And it's like, well, no, that wouldn't be a cause. Yeah,
but it sure is helene helping.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, And I think that's what guys are all weak
at some point. They go through points in the season
where they're weaker than usual or they're having a rough
week physically, And I think what the frequencies do is
they prevent you from recovering properly, so then you're not
recovering and then you're continuing to play at a decreased
(23:46):
level and then the injury happens. Right, It's like the overcompensation.
Those injuries are more common because your legs a little
banged up, so you're cutting more on one side than
the other, and then that side goes. And I think
that is a bigger part of it than anything else.
Is if your tissues are soft and not healed properly,
(24:06):
you're going to overcompensate in other areas and then the
injuries are going to take.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Now, the other thing with San Francisco, we would be
remiss if we didn't at least add this to uh
some factor in this algorithm.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
They're old, they're old. There's a lot of age reps.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And yeah, I like I said, I can't, I can't
dismiss it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It's like trying to tell me that the fields in
New York, New Jersey and Chicago don't matter exactly right.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
They're bad. They're bad.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Now, what will you give up in the next CBA
to get grass fields? I can't wait to see those negotiations.
But let's get back to the business at hand here, right, Look, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Sorry, no, no, no, no, that's a good no.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
No, no, that's that's a good one because we wrap
it all up into a big hug. I brought up
Deebo Samuel. It's my fault and it made.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
For great substation. I love this brain went off the road.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I have read a lot of stories and theories about
the substation.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I didn't have Twitter account. Yeah, I didn't quite get
the Pyramids into things.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
But we gotls and Shimothy into the hour.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
They've done Yeoman's work.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Here at Fox Sports Radio. Now put your football hat
on for a moment. Yeah, put your helmet on like
you're Aaron Donald and strapping on here. Pal Uh Stefan
Diggs joins Darry McLaurin, UH and Luke McCaffrey. As you're
outside receivers, You've got uh a fortified offensive line. We're
(25:41):
looking for Tunsil and Connorley to lead things. Alligretti comes
in uh to to be the center, to be the anchor.
But for Daniels, Bill Krossky merrit don't call him Jacory
Rashad White comes over from Tampa that they're they're looking
at trying to reclaim a spot. And when we look
(26:03):
at the nfcas like I said, I think everybody looks
for a reason to stay away from the Eagles, thinking
that the Sirianne thing implodes. You look at the Dallas
Cowboys and their history, and I just remind folks most
teams it's kind of like when folks mocked the Steelers
or what they did.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I know that you want to get over the.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Hump, but I think if you're winning consistently somewhere between
eight and eleven games most franchises, you're pretty happy with that.
As a long suffering Bears fan, I'm hoping Ben Johnson
Camplin Williams find that answer for a long time to come.
I like one, ops, they're exciting, but you know what,
a little bit of consistency would be good too. But
(26:44):
what do you expect from Diggs going into this offense?
How much does it help?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well? I I think it helps because Deebo obviously wasn't
capable of being like the receiver that Washington needed. He's
kind of a Swiss army knife. I kind of think
he needs the perfect system to be successful, and the
Niners might be that. And I'm glad that he was
able to reconnect with his old floy Yeah those six
to eight carries a game or whatever. Yeah, the body
(27:12):
and yeah, the gadgets and the gizmos, and so Washington's
in a unique spot because they kept their head coach,
but everyone else is new, and I think that gives
Jayden Daniels an opportunity now helps a big factor and
only played really a handful of games last year, but
his success rates through the roof when he's on the field.
And David blown new OC. I like the hire. It's
(27:36):
a promotion from within to a new, young, fresh perspective. Right.
He's never been a play caller in the league before,
but he's played in the league and he had a
pretty decent college career, so I think he has a
good offensive mine and from what I'm hearing so far,
the transition has been what I was gonna do if
(27:57):
I was the OC for the Akron Zips for one drive,
play action under center and a lot of motion that
that is the cheat code for quarterbacks. Why is it
a cheat code for quarterbacks? When you move players in motion,
the defense has to tip their hand. If they move
as a unit, they're in zone. If they if a
man follows that player in motion, you're in man coverage.
(28:19):
So you're getting the answers to the test before you
have to take the exam. Play action obviously holds the
linebackers at the single level, and when you're under center
in play action, it really manipulates the linebackers. So I
like when offensive coordinators come in and their calling card
is I'm going to put this quarterback under center and
use play action with a high degree of motion. That
(28:40):
is how you deceive defenses in the NFL in the
year of r Lar twenty twenty six. The problem with
Jayden Daniels is he's never run that kind of offense before.
What has he been his whole life? Shotgun read option,
get it on the edge, bootlegs, getting outside the pocket.
That is not a pro style system. Now he's capable,
I'm sure of playing in a pro style system. But
(29:02):
how is that transition going to take place? Again? Last
year was the Cliff Kingsbury offense. Now we're in the
David blow offense. So what that transition looks like is
going to be very intriguing. I like Diggs as a player, obviously.
I like McLaurin, obviously. I like the other weapons they
have around him. I think the defense is good enough
with Quinn kind of pushing the buttons. The question is
(29:24):
can Daniel stay healthy, can they get ceiling production out
of digs? And is this new offense going to congeal
quickly enough for it to matter. I don't have the
answer to that last question. But I'm intrigued because I
do like the system they are moving towards to make
me feel even older.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
David Blout, thirty one years old, your offensive coordinator in
Washington at Jared Smith. Betts is where you find him.
Find me over at Swollen.
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Speaker 4 (30:29):
Thanks to the team. As we wrap things up, we've
got that tryout. Let's talk about that again. But from
a wins total, Super Bowl odds, all of that fun stuff,
the return of Aaron Donald emminent. How many games do
we expect? What's the over un draw on all of that,
we'll discuss it next. He's Jared in for Jason. I'm
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