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Welcome back to another episode of Baseball in the Bible.
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I'm Rebecca DeMutson here with my father Roman DeMutson, and we're back for another episode.
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Hope you enjoyed the little promo video that we did there at the beginning.
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Or not a promo, but just a recap uh from the Brewers trip uh to the Little League World Series.
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Uh last Sunday, played the Braves there.
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And so hope you enjoyed that.
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Again, if you haven't been paying attention to the Little League World Series, you definitely should.
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But we're going to talk a little bit about it tonight today and uh just recap what's happened at this point as this is airing, as is typical with when we're recording a little bit in advance.
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Uh this airs on the day that the World Series comes to a conclusion.
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So we'll find out if you're watching this on Sunday.
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We'll find out who the winner is, but uh and then we'll recap it next next week.
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But it's been a fun Little League World Series so far.
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Again, the the Little League World Series classic where the MLB teams come and play and hang out with the Little Leaguers is always a cool thing.
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And um Braves again, Braves Brewers, Braves beat the Brewers that night.
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Um but uh just a fun thing.
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So we wanted to spend a little time talking about the Little League World Series, right?
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Yep.
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We uh we did.
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And just I enjoy uh looking back and seeing those pictures of the uh MLB players like Jacob Mizarowski, you know, just hanging out with all those.
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Yeah, the Miz was a big deal there walking through.
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Um there's a little video clip of him playing ping pong with one of the kids, and so again, just a real cool thing.
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And yeah, they were showing uh clips of some of the guys, Christian Yelich, Jake Bowers.
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Most of what I saw was from the brewer's perspective, just of when they were little leaguers, and it's just cool again to see that, and then some funny interviews with with the current little leaguers, and you know, I saw one where they were asking a guy, you know, anybody on your team gonna go pro?
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And he was like, Oh, yeah, like it's like several of us.
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That's just again, that's one of those things 15 years from now.
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We may look back and he was right, but it's just funny to see uh just the confidence there.
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But again, it's again it's fun.
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Uh, you got the the American side, battling at 10 teams on the American side, 10 teams on the international side.
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Uh obviously, local product, Bernie, Texas team, which made a run a couple years ago in 2024, uh got eliminated.
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They were, I think, considered a favorite coming into it, and they lost their first two games, so they got knocked out.
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But just a quick recap of what's happened to this point.
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Um, so there as of today when we're recording, again, this tips our hat to a winner recording, but tomorrow night uh would be that the the undefeated teams are playing.
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So so far you've had uh Tacoma, Washington, and the team from Iowa.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Nevada, and a team from Iowa that are uh undefeated and doing good, and they're gonna play coming up.
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The other team uh that's been kind of stealing the show, and we've been pulling for a little bit.
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They won today, and they're three and one heading into they're still in the elimination part of the bracket, but it's Alabama, right?
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Alabama.
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And there's a specific reason why.
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Yeah.
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Fear the ribbon, baby.
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Fear the bow, fear the bow.
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Fear the bow.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Ken's Kenley Rasmus uh has been probably one of the biggest storylines.
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The young lady, she's at this point tied the record, I think, uh, and she probably will pitch again.
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I don't know what what her pitch limit is at this point, but she's tied Monet Davis, which was a few years back.
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Monet Davis was a huge deal in the Little League World Series, a girl that pitched, and uh so she's tied her record at this point with 14Ks uh through this point.
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And she's also hitting, you know, she's hitting well.
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Uh so they've been a fun, fun story.
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So we'll see how that I didn't realize until we were looking, you know, looking at some of it.
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I didn't realize I'd heard her name and watching her play, but I didn't realize she was the daughter of Corey Rasmus and the niece of Kobe Rasmus.
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Uh Kobe Rasmus was a top prospect for the cards for him, supposed to be the guy that you know he had a good career.
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He played, but it didn't pan out to be he was supposed to be the next franchise kind of guy, but uh pretty cool to see his niece, Corey's daughter, in there and uh doing well.
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So we're kind of with Texas being out, kind of kind of pulling for out there a little bit.
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But the the some of the kids uh from the Iowa and uh Nevada teams, so like I'll just say this.
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Iowa, there's a kid named Cooper Thyssen.
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I don't know if I'm saying that correctly, but he took over the game when they played uh California.
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He led off with a home run.
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They won one to nothing.
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Led off with a home run and he struck out 15 while throwing five and a third no-hit interest.
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Yeah.
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Uh and then they followed that by dominating the previously unbeaten New Jersey six to nothing.
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Anthony Johnson struck out 15 and blasted a three-run home run the six.
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Um again, Nevada has been good.
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So we'll see.
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I mean, the Iowa team has had some some stud performances there.
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And then on the international side, uh Nicaragua has has been looking good.
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Carraso looking good.
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Um and so we'll see.
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And the biggest the biggest story so far have been Iowa's pitching and probably Kinley Rasmus.
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Yeah, for sure.
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For sure.
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Uh just always fun.
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You know, it's one of those places that we want to try to get to to Williamsport and check out a a World Series.
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And now again, now you're kind of getting to that age where you're the same age as some of these some of these players, and so kind of fun to to see them out there.
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You're not in a league that would allow you to Okay.
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Yeah, that makes me feel better.
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I'm like, dang.
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Well, you're you're not.
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I mean, but because you have to play in a little league system to get you where you'd be like an all-star player to qualify for those kind of things, and so doing the tournament ball thing uh doesn't line up with that.
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But uh but again, these guys are really good players, stud performances, so it's fun to watch.
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So again, today, if you're watching this early in the morning on Sunday the 30th, encourage you to watch the championship game and see who wins it.
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We'll come back next week and and kind of recap it, uh, see who won the the whole thing.
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So any other thoughts on the Little League World Series?
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No.
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Fear the bow.
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Fear the bow.
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Not the ribbon.
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Not the ribbon.
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You don't have to fear the ribbon, but you should fear the bow.
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Yeah, she's been dominant.
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Go Bama.
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Pulling for her.
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All right.
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Um, so that's that's been going on again.
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You had the Little League Classic, and then also simultaneously, obviously, the season is continuing on.
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And so we're just uh gonna go through the league, uh, the big leagues real fast.
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Um and again this week, as we're recording, a big series is starting.
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Uh potential playoff series, potential playoff seeding, you know, thing.
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If you get into some tiebreakers, but you've got the Braves and the Dodgers kicking it off this week in Truis at Truest Park.
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So that'll be fun to watch and see who who comes out there.
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Uh big series.
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But uh quick trip around the league.
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We'll look at some standings as of today.
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You do still have the Brewers up top in the central, and you do still have the Braves, excuse me, up top in the east.
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Uh Philly has closed that gap, three and a half back there.
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And so they're they're playing playing really well.
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We'll get into Philly in a second.
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Dodgers up nine and a half uh on the Padres, and so they're doing good there.
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And the American League East, we have Tampa Bay, three and a half up on the Yankees.
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Uh White Sox, two and a half up on Cleveland, four and a half up on Minnesota, and then the Rangers right now are in first, a half game up on the Strows and three games up on the Mariners.
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In the wild card, again, you have the Cubs still, Philly, uh, Padres, Arizona, Miami, and I'll just mention St.
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Louis, although the odds are now looking harder after a tough weekend series last weekend against the against the Philz.
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And uh it just wasn't pretty.
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Not pretty at all.
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And now we have Mason Wynn on the I.
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L.
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I Mason Wynn on that.
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It's one of those, you know, we've been playing above our heads all year, kind of above expectations, and part of that has been we haven't had any real injuries.
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And now you got win, but then you also had two, right in that start of that Philly series, you had two guys, two pitchers, starting pitchers go on the IL, which hurt uh messed up the rotation for that series, and uh pitching was a problem against Philly.
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I mean, we had the one game where we got rocked, but the other two games it was the bullpen.
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The last game of the series where you're at least trying to salvage it.
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You're up 4-0 with two outs in the ninth and blow it, and Schwarb ends up, they give up six runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs.
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Schwarber hits home running, and that was the ninth win in a row for the Phillies.
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They were obviously rolling that.
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I think they they didn't, they've lost it a little since then, but still hot.
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So um they're in good shape again.
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Cards really have to try to catch the Padres.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Your World Series prediction might come to fluition.
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We'll see.
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We'll see if they can stay hot.
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I just you don't want to peek at the wrong time and pick a little too soon, but they are a good team and they've got some good players for sure.
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So we'll see.
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Uh again, cards struggling, playing Baltimore and Pirates this week, but um see what happens.
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Uh in the AL wild card, so don't forget it.
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The Yankees are in good shape there, Boston in good shape there in the second wild card, Cleveland is holding down the third with the Astros a half a game back, and Minnesota and Toronto two games back, Baltimore two and a half back.
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So even Seattle, three back.
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So, I mean, all those guys are as we've talked about in the past, you just have one you know hot week to ten days, and you can be right right back in the hunt or in a wild card spot.
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So any thoughts on those races?
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No, I just hope the Cardinals can crawl their way back.
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Uh a couple other things just around the league.
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You know, again, you had some injuries.
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I had a little Tempers Flair incident uh this week with the D backs in the Cubs over some sign stealing.
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Merrill Kelly.
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Again, sign stealing is a part of baseball.
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Uh but he felt like it was the third base coach was you know was relaying signs.
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Um, and so it got a little got a little heated there.
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So that was some breakout or just just jawing, no, no, like I mean it benches cleared and stuff, but nothing nothing major.
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Um you had other injuries, obviously, besides win woodruff injuries or injured Freelick is coming back uh for the Brewers, so that's a it's a cool thing for them.
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Uh also had Kyle Riley.
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I mean, we've talked about him a lot and how his season has struggled, so I would do want to give him some love because uh he's the one that they beat the Phillies, they ended their nine-game winning streak, and he had three home runs in the game.
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So as much as he's been struggling, he he finally erupted and hadn't had three home runs.
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So hopefully for him, he can finish the season on a little bit of a run and get ready for next season.
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But pulling for him.
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So um I'd like to see him back for my uh rookie card sake.
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Yeah, a little selfish reasons.
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Maybe.
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Yeah.
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Um yeah, I think that's it around the league, and we'll see again how this how this week plays out, see what happens between the um the Braves and the Dodgers.
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And we'll start to get into some of this.
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We we kind of hinted at it last week.
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There's been a little more talk this as we're getting closer to the season as far as the MVP race, and so we'll we'll get into that.
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Uh even some guys in the American League that might be trying to to make a run at Jordan Alvarez and see if they can take him down as the MVP.
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Would he's still got a firm hold on it, but we'll see what happens there.
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Uh he actually has a shot at the triple crown.
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Um I think he's leading in all three categories right now home runs, RBIs, and and batting average.
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So uh I'm not surprised.
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Yeah, so that could be that could be fun if he's able to keep that going and we can watch that down the stretch.
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So all right.
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I think that's it around the league.
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We're gonna get into a little devotion right now.
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And uh set the stage there for us, Rugger.
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Okay.
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Uh our verse of the week is Nehemiah 8.10.
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Do not grieve for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
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Brett Phillips has never been the biggest name in baseball, but he's known across the league for his courageous joy and uh contagious joy and uplift and uplifting spirit.
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His laugh, which sounds like a bizarre mix between a donkey and a squeaky toy, went viral while he was with the Milwaukee Brewers.
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It's so memorable that his teammates try to make him laugh just to hear it.
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With a career average of 186, Phillips isn't a star by the numbers, but you wouldn't guess it from his energy and attitude.
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His joyful spirit was on full display during one of the most unforgettable moments of his career.
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Game four of the 2020 World Series, with two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Phillips came through with a clutch single to win it for the Tampa Bay race.
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As his teammates swarmed the field, Phillips busted out a signature airplane celebration while wearing a giddy smile.
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He was just being himself, but everyone couldn't help but laugh along.
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Phillips' joy doesn't come from personality alone.
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It flows from his faith in Jesus.
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Phillips gave his life to Christ in seventh grade, and that decision has shaped his life and the way he carries himself and plays baseball.
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As he explained, I have learned the consequences to loving, respecting, and giving joy.
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And giving energy is a lot better than being disr than being disrespectful or angry all the time.
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We can't always control what life throws at us, but we can choose how we respond.
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Some days bring pressure and pain, other days feel routine and just plain forgettable.
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No matter what the moment, we can lean into the joy that comes from God.
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The joy of the Lord isn't temporary like service-level happiness.
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It runs deep because it's rooted in trusting God's promises and belonging to Him.
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Planted by the Holy Spirit, it shows over time as we walk with Jesus.
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Joy isn't just for the winning moments, it's for the quiet and challenging stretches, too.
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And when it comes from God, it tends to overflow.
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Just ask Brett Phillips.
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So that's our devotion for this week.
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Um I like that part where i it says that he when he gave his life to Jesus in the seventh grade, it fully like shaped, like reshaped his entire life.
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That's just kind of one of those things.
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It just it's powerful because he did it at a pretty young age, not much younger, not much older than what I am now.
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And that one little, hey, I give my life to you, I believe in you, changed his entire life.
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So I just thought that was that was cool.
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It is cool, and it does change your life no matter what age you do you do it.
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Um but for him to make that decision at an early age and and let it shape his character and his personality as he grows and matured.
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Uh yeah, I mean that's what leads to that kind of joy.
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Because you can't fake joy, and especially in difficult situations, it has to come some from somewhere that's you know deep inside of you, you know, sometimes rooted in you.
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Uh and that's again a lot of times when when our real faith and our real belief is tested.
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And so for him to you know to come to that realization at an early age, it just allows that those roots to run deep even as he gets older.
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So pretty cool story again, just even from a baseball perspective of just somebody he's not you know, he's not going in the hall of fame, uh, but had his moments, played in the league, had his moment uh there in the in the World Series game.
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But uh it'd be pretty cool to be even to be known for your laughter, you know, and so uh just uh the kind of a mark you want to leave.
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Because not everybody, no matter what team you're on, not everybody is the best player, but you can always be the best teammate, right?
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Yeah, I love I love that.
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And and joy is a big part of that.
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So but real joy, not fake joy, not because sometimes we can you can try to do things that appear like we have the right attitude, and but all that will be exposed at some point.
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But if it's coming from the real real joy, then even in the highs and the lows people that are around you, your teammates, your family members, they see that and they say it's real.
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Any other thoughts on that?
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Uh not many other thoughts.
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Uh just I like the uh whole message of like I I just love the fact that even though, you know, he didn't have a numbers-wise Hall of Fame career, uh, he was just known for being one of the best teammates.
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So our devotion.
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Uh what was our verse of the week again?
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Uh Nehemiah uh Nehemiah 810.
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Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
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Let that be your verse as you go through this week.
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Uh and now we're gonna transition into a little something that we started last episode where we're going through the top uh baseball movies of all time.
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Yeah.
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And basically at the end, Riker's gonna do his his his top five list, but there's some that we haven't seen on there.
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So we've we started the the process this week of watching the first two.
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So what did we watch and what were your thoughts on that?
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Uh we watched The Natural and 42.
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Which is why we have Jackie's jersey hanging up here just as a beautiful jersey.
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Homage to that.
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But uh so we watched the natural and 42, two that you had not seen yet.
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And so give us your your thoughts on the natural first.
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Let's talk about the natural.
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Uh the natural was uh uh an immediate.
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I don't want to say immediate, but it was a quick favorite for me because uh just the way that, you know, it has it's suspense, drama, action, and there's even some parts where I laughed during it.
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Um but, you know, just that well-rounded, you know, you know, all the blackmail stuff that goes on within it.
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When uh he comes up to the mountain, he's like, give him what you got.
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He's like, no, give him what you got.
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And then he starts.
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But it was it was a great movie.
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I I loved it for sure.
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Wonderboy.
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The Wonder Boy, um the the part where at the end, again, if we're ruining this for anybody that hasn't seen it, but if you haven't fast forward and go watch it.
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But the end when the Wonder Boy breaks.
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It starts raining, sparks.
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No, no, no, when the bat breaks.
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Oh, when the bat breaks.
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And it's the Sabboy special.
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Yes, yeah, and he goes to the bat boy and says what?
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G Pick Me Out of Winner.
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Pick Me Out of Winner, a classic line.
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Ah, so good.
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Then he's rounding because he hit the light and it starts running.
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Yes.
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Sparks.
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The classic image of him running the bases with the sparks.
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The music.
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The music, iconic music.
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Uh, it is a great movie.
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Again, I was worried, if you haven't seen it, I I didn't know for sure how you would react to it because it is an older movie, and it is there is definitely more drama in it.
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Um with the the blackmail and and the the romance and the different things, and so I didn't know for sure if you would like that.
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But yeah, but all that drama kind of just just to me made it feel like an action movie, you know.
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Just all the you know, he's like fine for what he believes in.
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He's like, give me one more game.
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I'll play one more game, then I can walk away.
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One more game.
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Like that that whole scene was just like wow, you know, like he that actor did pretty good.
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I I loved, again, I love the movie.
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I can't stress that enough.
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This great movie, again, it's one of my favorites, so we'll see where that ranks at the end.
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Um, and then we're gonna get into 42.
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Before we get into 42, uh, I did want to show a little a little clip here because one of the movies that's on our list, you've already seen it, is Rookie of the Year.
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Pictures Got a Big Butt.
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Pictures Got a Big Butt.
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Like that movie, but um we saw something this week where that's part of why you're wearing the bananas jersey, where yeah the actor that played uh played the pitcher in Rookie of the Year was at Wrigley.
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I think it was a couple weeks ago, but uh we wanted to share this clip since we're talking about movies, and they kind of recreated the scene there at the at the end of that movie.
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Uh and again, that's that's a movie that's in the conversation as far as one of the best for you, one of the best baseball movies.
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It's a kid's movie, but yeah, it's a kid's movie, but uh still pretty good.
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But it's good.
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And so they recreated it.
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We thought it was hilarious.
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So since we're talking about movies, we wanted to share that.
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So before we get into 42, let's watch this clip right here.
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That was cool.
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I I thought in the I think that was the uh party animals that they were playing.
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Or was that the tailfight?
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No, it was the firefighters.
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Firefighters, okay.
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Firefighters.
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So just the that the guy back there totally reenacting the with the the tongue and the whole thing.
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I mean, it it did a good job of recreating it.
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Uh pretty cool.
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Lofted.
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Yeah, just lofty.
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He does, and it just shows that clip of him like you know, up there.
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And then he smokes it in into the outfield.
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So uh but funny.
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We enjoyed it, and again, since it's the movie theme and the bananas, we felt like we show up.
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But now let's get into our review of 42.
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All right.
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Uh it was it was more of a uh serious movie, definitely not a comedy, but it was cool to see, you know, back then how like what he had to deal with, you know, breaking that that color barrier, you know, uh, and just watching how uh, you know, they were able to that he, you know, that he was luckily they were able to take the chance on him, and you know, that changed the game of baseball forever.
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And uh, you know, just it you know, there were several parts where it was kind of like you know, when he runs back into the dugout after the Phillies manager was coming at him, and he just starts like breaking down.
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It had me there.
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It had me, you know, on the verge of tears, but you know, and then seeing how like he defends his wife, you know, like he was very uh protective of all that.
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Um that like even because there's a scene where like a guy walks up to him and he's like, Oh shoot, this guy might like hurt me because, you know, of what I am and like his first reaction wasn't let let's all go, but he puts his wife and his kid by him, like don't mess with them, come at me, you know.
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But you know, just um it's definitely one of those things like you need to have thick skin to get through what he did, you know.
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Well, yeah, again, and nobody at that point had had done it.
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And so that's I think the movie does a good job.
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Obviously, Chadwick Bozeman is the guy that plays Jackie Robinson, who's this is before he becomes Black Panther.
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Uh and so uh he does a great job in the movie.
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But I I thought one of the also the great performances is uh is Harrison Ford as uh Branch Ricky, you know.
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Yeah, for sure.
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And I thought again, I think it did a good job of like you know, even in the movie uh Branch Ricky, I mean it he wasn't just doing it for because it was the right thing to do, you know.
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He wasn't doing it for a civil rights movement, he was doing it for m well for money, you know.
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He was like, win me a championship because championships bring in money.
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Right.
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And so uh but he also knew that you know he could bring in new uh new fans.
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So I mean it was it was money driven, but he also I I thought to your point of saying the thick skin, I mean I thought the part where they're trying to figure out who the guy was, you know, and and knowing Jackie's um you know fight that he had.
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And so because that's one of the things you said after the movie was like just he wouldn't he didn't back down.
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No, he never did.
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Uh and so but you had to have that kind of you had to have that, but also be able to walk that line and not snap because if he snapped and then everyone's gonna be like it's all because I branch Ricky said it, like you fight back, they're only gonna say you assaulted him.
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They're not gonna say he instigated and he held his own.
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Right.
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They're just gonna say you fought him.
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Right.
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So I think they did a good job of of trying to highlight that and the challenges.
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So it just I think it's a great movie, a great baseball movie.
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And it's based on a true story, and that's the other part that's yeah.
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You know the the part where he's like uh he's they're you know, the the house that they're riot is about to get like you know, attacked because no one wants him in the game.
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And they're driving and he's like who who are they?
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What are why are we here?
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He's like, uh, well, Branch didn't Branch told me not to say this, but uh people are gonna essentially come.
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And he's like, Oh, great.
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I thought you were telling me I was gonna get kicked off the team.
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He thought he was getting cut.
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So he starts like laughing.
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Yeah.
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Like, you're a strange man.
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So of the two that you've seen so far, where would you I was we're not gonna do like a a moving ranking because we don't as we're going through it, so but uh you liked both movies that you saw.
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Oh, they were both amazing.
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Okay, amazing.
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So you would recommend 42 and the natural.
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Yes, for sure.
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Absolutely.
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Okay, and they're in the conversation in the top five.
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They're definitely in my top five conversation.
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I'm having trouble because there's so many good baseball movies.
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We talked about doing top ten, but we're gonna do top five just to make it more uh hard on me.
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Yeah, more difficult.
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So those are the two that we watched this week.
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So this week, our homework assignment is we're gonna watch A League of Their Own and Bad News Bears.
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And Bad News Bears, the original Bad News Bears.
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Not the new one.
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Not the new one, but the one with Walter Mathow.
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So the the old school one.
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Uh so we're gonna watch Old School Bad News Bears and A League of Their Own.
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Two more compared to the natural and 42.
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These are a little more lighthearted comedy movies, uh, but also classic baseball movies in their own right.
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So we're gonna watch those this week and then we'll come back next episode and then you can give your your feedback on those two.
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Okay, got it.
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All right.
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So that's our quest for this this week.
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Bad news Bears, League of League of Their Own.
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So if you haven't watched some of these movies, encourage you to do it.
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Again, they're great great baseball movies that uh you know, some of them full of nostalgia and uh I don't feel that nostalgia.
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I was born in 2014.
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I don't I don't have that nostalgia.
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I just mean the flashback to baseball and then that nostalgia.
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Not nostalgia from bringing you back to your childhood, but nostalgia from just old baseball stuff.
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So um so yeah, we'll watch those this week.
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We'll watch and see what happens in the Little League World Series and come back and report that as well and see if Kenley Rasmus and the Phoenix City, Alabama team can can pull it off, or if Iowa or Nevada, one of those teams, continues to dominate and wins wins the Little League World Series.
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We'll be back to you with that.
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Alrighty, baseball season is up and running.
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So for all those guys I know uh here locally tournaments are kicking off.
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Your tournament, uh first tournament of the year is about two weeks away.
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Uh so we'll even start reporting on on some of that as tournaments kick off.
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But we know tournaments have started, so if you're playing, good luck to you.
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And uh it's a fun time of year as fallball has has started.
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It has begun.
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So all right, any other any other thoughts?
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Uh I'm just gonna bring it back to the natural real quick.
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I was saying, you know, we I was you know, bragging about some of the acting choices that they had.
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I did not like who they casted as Babe Ruth.
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I personally didn't like that.
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Well, they didn't refer to him as the babe.
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It was the whammer.
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The whammer.
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But he was supposed to be a like a babe Ruth kind of guy.
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Okay.
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So he wasn't.
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He looked like Babe Ruth.
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He did, but he wasn't supposed to be.
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He was they didn't call him Babe Ruth.
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Sure.
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So he was just the whammer.
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So they can you can get away with that.
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Sure, sure.
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But uh on that note, pray us out.
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Pray us out.
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Lord, thank you for this day.
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Thank you just for the uh podcast you blessed us with, Lord.
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Uh I just pray that you would continue to help us uh grow and reach more people uh to minister your name.
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But Lord, I uh thank you just for the ability to have fun when we do this and talk about you and the game that we love so much.
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Uh I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Have a great week.
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Remember to have joy in everything that we do.
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Correct.
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Welcome back to another episode of Baseball in the Bible.
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I'm Rebecca DeMutson here with my father Roman DeMutson, and we're back for another episode.
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Don't forget to like, subscribe, share, and comment.
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Yes, please like, subscribe, help us uh promote the pod.
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Hope you enjoyed the little promo video that we did there at the beginning.
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Or not a promo, but just a recap uh from the Brewers trip uh to the Little League World Series.
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Uh last Sunday, played the Braves there.
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And so hope you enjoyed that.
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Again, if you haven't been paying attention to the Little League World Series, you definitely should.
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But we're going to talk a little bit about it tonight today and uh just recap what's happened at this point as this is airing, as is typical with when we're recording a little bit in advance.
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Uh this airs on the day that the World Series comes to a conclusion.
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So we'll find out if you're watching this on Sunday.
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We'll find out who the winner is, but uh and then we'll recap it next next week.
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But it's been a fun Little League World Series so far.
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Again, the the Little League World Series classic where the MLB teams come and play and hang out with the Little Leaguers is always a cool thing.
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And um Braves again, Braves Brewers, Braves beat the Brewers that night.
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Um but uh just a fun thing.
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So we wanted to spend a little time talking about the Little League World Series, right?
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Yep.
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We uh we did.
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And just I enjoy uh looking back and seeing those pictures of the uh MLB players like Jacob Mizarowski, you know, just hanging out with all those.
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Yeah, the Miz was a big deal there walking through.
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Um there's a little video clip of him playing ping pong with one of the kids, and so again, just a real cool thing.
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And yeah, they were showing uh clips of some of the guys, Christian Yelich, Jake Bowers.
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Most of what I saw was from the brewer's perspective, just of when they were little leaguers, and it's just cool again to see that, and then some funny interviews with with the current little leaguers, and you know, I saw one where they were asking a guy, you know, anybody on your team gonna go pro?
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And he was like, Oh, yeah, like it's like several of us.
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That's just again, that's one of those things 15 years from now.
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We may look back and he was right, but it's just funny to see uh just the confidence there.
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But again, it's again it's fun.
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Uh, you got the the American side, battling at 10 teams on the American side, 10 teams on the international side.
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Uh obviously, local product, Bernie, Texas team, which made a run a couple years ago in 2024, uh got eliminated.
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They were, I think, considered a favorite coming into it, and they lost their first two games, so they got knocked out.
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But just a quick recap of what's happened to this point.
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Um, so there as of today when we're recording, again, this tips our hat to a winner recording, but tomorrow night uh would be that the the undefeated teams are playing.
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So so far you've had uh Tacoma, Washington, and the team from Iowa.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Nevada, and a team from Iowa that are uh undefeated and doing good, and they're gonna play coming up.
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The other team uh that's been kind of stealing the show, and we've been pulling for a little bit.
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They won today, and they're three and one heading into they're still in the elimination part of the bracket, but it's Alabama, right?
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Alabama.
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And there's a specific reason why.
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Yeah.
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Fear the ribbon, baby.
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Fear the bow, fear the bow.
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Fear the bow.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Ken's Kenley Rasmus uh has been probably one of the biggest storylines.
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The young lady, she's at this point tied the record, I think, uh, and she probably will pitch again.
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I don't know what what her pitch limit is at this point, but she's tied Monet Davis, which was a few years back.
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Monet Davis was a huge deal in the Little League World Series, a girl that pitched, and uh so she's tied her record at this point with 14Ks uh through this point.
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And she's also hitting, you know, she's hitting well.
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Uh so they've been a fun, fun story.
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So we'll see how that I didn't realize until we were looking, you know, looking at some of it.
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I didn't realize I'd heard her name and watching her play, but I didn't realize she was the daughter of Corey Rasmus and the niece of Kobe Rasmus.
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Uh Kobe Rasmus was a top prospect for the cards for him, supposed to be the guy that you know he had a good career.
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He played, but it didn't pan out to be he was supposed to be the next franchise kind of guy, but uh pretty cool to see his niece, Corey's daughter, in there and uh doing well.
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So we're kind of with Texas being out, kind of kind of pulling for out there a little bit.
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But the the some of the kids uh from the Iowa and uh Nevada teams, so like I'll just say this.
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Iowa, there's a kid named Cooper Thyssen.
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I don't know if I'm saying that correctly, but he took over the game when they played uh California.
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He led off with a home run.
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They won one to nothing.
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Led off with a home run and he struck out 15 while throwing five and a third no-hit interest.
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Yeah.
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Uh and then they followed that by dominating the previously unbeaten New Jersey six to nothing.
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Anthony Johnson struck out 15 and blasted a three-run home run the six.
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Um again, Nevada has been good.
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So we'll see.
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I mean, the Iowa team has had some some stud performances there.
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And then on the international side, uh Nicaragua has has been looking good.
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Carraso looking good.
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Um and so we'll see.
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And the biggest the biggest story so far have been Iowa's pitching and probably Kinley Rasmus.
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Yeah, for sure.
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For sure.
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Uh just always fun.
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You know, it's one of those places that we want to try to get to to Williamsport and check out a a World Series.
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And now again, now you're kind of getting to that age where you're the same age as some of these some of these players, and so kind of fun to to see them out there.
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You're not in a league that would allow you to Okay.
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Yeah, that makes me feel better.
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I'm like, dang.
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Well, you're you're not.
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I mean, but because you have to play in a little league system to get you where you'd be like an all-star player to qualify for those kind of things, and so doing the tournament ball thing uh doesn't line up with that.
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But uh but again, these guys are really good players, stud performances, so it's fun to watch.
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So again, today, if you're watching this early in the morning on Sunday the 30th, encourage you to watch the championship game and see who wins it.
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We'll come back next week and and kind of recap it, uh, see who won the the whole thing.
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So any other thoughts on the Little League World Series?
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No.
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Fear the bow.
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Fear the bow.
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Not the ribbon.
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Not the ribbon.
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You don't have to fear the ribbon, but you should fear the bow.
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Yeah, she's been dominant.
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Go Bama.
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Pulling for her.
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All right.
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Um, so that's that's been going on again.
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You had the Little League Classic, and then also simultaneously, obviously, the season is continuing on.
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And so we're just uh gonna go through the league, uh, the big leagues real fast.
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Um and again this week, as we're recording, a big series is starting.
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Uh potential playoff series, potential playoff seeding, you know, thing.
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If you get into some tiebreakers, but you've got the Braves and the Dodgers kicking it off this week in Truis at Truest Park.
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So that'll be fun to watch and see who who comes out there.
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Uh big series.
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But uh quick trip around the league.
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We'll look at some standings as of today.
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You do still have the Brewers up top in the central, and you do still have the Braves, excuse me, up top in the east.
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Uh Philly has closed that gap, three and a half back there.
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And so they're they're playing playing really well.
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We'll get into Philly in a second.
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Dodgers up nine and a half uh on the Padres, and so they're doing good there.
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And the American League East, we have Tampa Bay, three and a half up on the Yankees.
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Uh White Sox, two and a half up on Cleveland, four and a half up on Minnesota, and then the Rangers right now are in first, a half game up on the Strows and three games up on the Mariners.
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In the wild card, again, you have the Cubs still, Philly, uh, Padres, Arizona, Miami, and I'll just mention St.
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Louis, although the odds are now looking harder after a tough weekend series last weekend against the against the Philz.
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And uh it just wasn't pretty.
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Not pretty at all.
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And now we have Mason Wynn on the I.
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L.
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I Mason Wynn on that.
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It's one of those, you know, we've been playing above our heads all year, kind of above expectations, and part of that has been we haven't had any real injuries.
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And now you got win, but then you also had two, right in that start of that Philly series, you had two guys, two pitchers, starting pitchers go on the IL, which hurt uh messed up the rotation for that series, and uh pitching was a problem against Philly.
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I mean, we had the one game where we got rocked, but the other two games it was the bullpen.
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The last game of the series where you're at least trying to salvage it.
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You're up 4-0 with two outs in the ninth and blow it, and Schwarb ends up, they give up six runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs.
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Schwarber hits home running, and that was the ninth win in a row for the Phillies.
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They were obviously rolling that.
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I think they they didn't, they've lost it a little since then, but still hot.
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So um they're in good shape again.
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Cards really have to try to catch the Padres.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Your World Series prediction might come to fluition.
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We'll see.
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We'll see if they can stay hot.
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I just you don't want to peek at the wrong time and pick a little too soon, but they are a good team and they've got some good players for sure.
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So we'll see.
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Uh again, cards struggling, playing Baltimore and Pirates this week, but um see what happens.
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Uh in the AL wild card, so don't forget it.
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The Yankees are in good shape there, Boston in good shape there in the second wild card, Cleveland is holding down the third with the Astros a half a game back, and Minnesota and Toronto two games back, Baltimore two and a half back.
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So even Seattle, three back.
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So, I mean, all those guys are as we've talked about in the past, you just have one you know hot week to ten days, and you can be right right back in the hunt or in a wild card spot.
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So any thoughts on those races?
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No, I just hope the Cardinals can crawl their way back.
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Uh a couple other things just around the league.
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You know, again, you had some injuries.
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I had a little Tempers Flair incident uh this week with the D backs in the Cubs over some sign stealing.
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Merrill Kelly.
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Again, sign stealing is a part of baseball.
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Uh but he felt like it was the third base coach was you know was relaying signs.
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Um, and so it got a little got a little heated there.
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So that was some breakout or just just jawing, no, no, like I mean it benches cleared and stuff, but nothing nothing major.
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Um you had other injuries, obviously, besides win woodruff injuries or injured Freelick is coming back uh for the Brewers, so that's a it's a cool thing for them.
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Uh also had Kyle Riley.
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I mean, we've talked about him a lot and how his season has struggled, so I would do want to give him some love because uh he's the one that they beat the Phillies, they ended their nine-game winning streak, and he had three home runs in the game.
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So as much as he's been struggling, he he finally erupted and hadn't had three home runs.
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So hopefully for him, he can finish the season on a little bit of a run and get ready for next season.
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But pulling for him.
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So um I'd like to see him back for my uh rookie card sake.
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Yeah, a little selfish reasons.
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Maybe.
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Yeah.
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Um yeah, I think that's it around the league, and we'll see again how this how this week plays out, see what happens between the um the Braves and the Dodgers.
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And we'll start to get into some of this.
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We we kind of hinted at it last week.
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There's been a little more talk this as we're getting closer to the season as far as the MVP race, and so we'll we'll get into that.
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Uh even some guys in the American League that might be trying to to make a run at Jordan Alvarez and see if they can take him down as the MVP.
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Would he's still got a firm hold on it, but we'll see what happens there.
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Uh he actually has a shot at the triple crown.
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Um I think he's leading in all three categories right now home runs, RBIs, and and batting average.
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So uh I'm not surprised.
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Yeah, so that could be that could be fun if he's able to keep that going and we can watch that down the stretch.
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So all right.
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I think that's it around the league.
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We're gonna get into a little devotion right now.
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And uh set the stage there for us, Rugger.
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Okay.
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Uh our verse of the week is Nehemiah 8.10.
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Do not grieve for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
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Brett Phillips has never been the biggest name in baseball, but he's known across the league for his courageous joy and uh contagious joy and uplift and uplifting spirit.
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His laugh, which sounds like a bizarre mix between a donkey and a squeaky toy, went viral while he was with the Milwaukee Brewers.
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It's so memorable that his teammates try to make him laugh just to hear it.
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With a career average of 186, Phillips isn't a star by the numbers, but you wouldn't guess it from his energy and attitude.
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His joyful spirit was on full display during one of the most unforgettable moments of his career.
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Game four of the 2020 World Series, with two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Phillips came through with a clutch single to win it for the Tampa Bay race.
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As his teammates swarmed the field, Phillips busted out a signature airplane celebration while wearing a giddy smile.
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He was just being himself, but everyone couldn't help but laugh along.
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Phillips' joy doesn't come from personality alone.
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It flows from his faith in Jesus.
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Phillips gave his life to Christ in seventh grade, and that decision has shaped his life and the way he carries himself and plays baseball.
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As he explained, I have learned the consequences to loving, respecting, and giving joy.
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And giving energy is a lot better than being disr than being disrespectful or angry all the time.
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We can't always control what life throws at us, but we can choose how we respond.
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Some days bring pressure and pain, other days feel routine and just plain forgettable.
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No matter what the moment, we can lean into the joy that comes from God.
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The joy of the Lord isn't temporary like service-level happiness.
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It runs deep because it's rooted in trusting God's promises and belonging to Him.
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Planted by the Holy Spirit, it shows over time as we walk with Jesus.
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Joy isn't just for the winning moments, it's for the quiet and challenging stretches, too.
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And when it comes from God, it tends to overflow.
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Just ask Brett Phillips.
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So that's our devotion for this week.
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Um I like that part where i it says that he when he gave his life to Jesus in the seventh grade, it fully like shaped, like reshaped his entire life.
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That's just kind of one of those things.
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It just it's powerful because he did it at a pretty young age, not much younger, not much older than what I am now.
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And that one little, hey, I give my life to you, I believe in you, changed his entire life.
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So I just thought that was that was cool.
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It is cool, and it does change your life no matter what age you do you do it.
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Um but for him to make that decision at an early age and and let it shape his character and his personality as he grows and matured.
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Uh yeah, I mean that's what leads to that kind of joy.
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Because you can't fake joy, and especially in difficult situations, it has to come some from somewhere that's you know deep inside of you, you know, sometimes rooted in you.
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Uh and that's again a lot of times when when our real faith and our real belief is tested.
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And so for him to you know to come to that realization at an early age, it just allows that those roots to run deep even as he gets older.
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So pretty cool story again, just even from a baseball perspective of just somebody he's not you know, he's not going in the hall of fame, uh, but had his moments, played in the league, had his moment uh there in the in the World Series game.
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But uh it'd be pretty cool to be even to be known for your laughter, you know, and so uh just uh the kind of a mark you want to leave.
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Because not everybody, no matter what team you're on, not everybody is the best player, but you can always be the best teammate, right?
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Yeah, I love I love that.
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And and joy is a big part of that.
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So but real joy, not fake joy, not because sometimes we can you can try to do things that appear like we have the right attitude, and but all that will be exposed at some point.
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But if it's coming from the real real joy, then even in the highs and the lows people that are around you, your teammates, your family members, they see that and they say it's real.
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Any other thoughts on that?
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Uh not many other thoughts.
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Uh just I like the uh whole message of like I I just love the fact that even though, you know, he didn't have a numbers-wise Hall of Fame career, uh, he was just known for being one of the best teammates.
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So our devotion.
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Uh what was our verse of the week again?
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Uh Nehemiah uh Nehemiah 810.
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Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
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Let that be your verse as you go through this week.
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Uh and now we're gonna transition into a little something that we started last episode where we're going through the top uh baseball movies of all time.
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Yeah.
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And basically at the end, Riker's gonna do his his his top five list, but there's some that we haven't seen on there.
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So we've we started the the process this week of watching the first two.
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So what did we watch and what were your thoughts on that?
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Uh we watched The Natural and 42.
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Which is why we have Jackie's jersey hanging up here just as a beautiful jersey.
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Homage to that.
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But uh so we watched the natural and 42, two that you had not seen yet.
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And so give us your your thoughts on the natural first.
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Let's talk about the natural.
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Uh the natural was uh uh an immediate.
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I don't want to say immediate, but it was a quick favorite for me because uh just the way that, you know, it has it's suspense, drama, action, and there's even some parts where I laughed during it.
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Um but, you know, just that well-rounded, you know, you know, all the blackmail stuff that goes on within it.
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When uh he comes up to the mountain, he's like, give him what you got.
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He's like, no, give him what you got.
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And then he starts.
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But it was it was a great movie.
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I I loved it for sure.
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Wonderboy.
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The Wonder Boy, um the the part where at the end, again, if we're ruining this for anybody that hasn't seen it, but if you haven't fast forward and go watch it.
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But the end when the Wonder Boy breaks.
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It starts raining, sparks.
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No, no, no, when the bat breaks.
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Oh, when the bat breaks.
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And it's the Sabboy special.
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Yes, yeah, and he goes to the bat boy and says what?
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G Pick Me Out of Winner.
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Pick Me Out of Winner, a classic line.
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Ah, so good.
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Then he's rounding because he hit the light and it starts running.
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Yes.
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Sparks.
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The classic image of him running the bases with the sparks.
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The music.
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The music, iconic music.
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Uh, it is a great movie.
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Again, I was worried, if you haven't seen it, I I didn't know for sure how you would react to it because it is an older movie, and it is there is definitely more drama in it.
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Um with the the blackmail and and the the romance and the different things, and so I didn't know for sure if you would like that.
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But yeah, but all that drama kind of just just to me made it feel like an action movie, you know.
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Just all the you know, he's like fine for what he believes in.
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He's like, give me one more game.
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I'll play one more game, then I can walk away.
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One more game.
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Like that that whole scene was just like wow, you know, like he that actor did pretty good.
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I I loved, again, I love the movie.
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I can't stress that enough.
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This great movie, again, it's one of my favorites, so we'll see where that ranks at the end.
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Um, and then we're gonna get into 42.
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Before we get into 42, uh, I did want to show a little a little clip here because one of the movies that's on our list, you've already seen it, is Rookie of the Year.
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Pictures Got a Big Butt.
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Pictures Got a Big Butt.
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Like that movie, but um we saw something this week where that's part of why you're wearing the bananas jersey, where yeah the actor that played uh played the pitcher in Rookie of the Year was at Wrigley.
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I think it was a couple weeks ago, but uh we wanted to share this clip since we're talking about movies, and they kind of recreated the scene there at the at the end of that movie.
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Uh and again, that's that's a movie that's in the conversation as far as one of the best for you, one of the best baseball movies.
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It's a kid's movie, but yeah, it's a kid's movie, but uh still pretty good.
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But it's good.
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And so they recreated it.
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We thought it was hilarious.
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So since we're talking about movies, we wanted to share that.
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So before we get into 42, let's watch this clip right here.
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That was cool.
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I I thought in the I think that was the uh party animals that they were playing.
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Or was that the tailfight?
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No, it was the firefighters.
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Firefighters, okay.
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Firefighters.
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So just the that the guy back there totally reenacting the with the the tongue and the whole thing.
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I mean, it it did a good job of recreating it.
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Uh pretty cool.
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Lofted.
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Yeah, just lofty.
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He does, and it just shows that clip of him like you know, up there.
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And then he smokes it in into the outfield.
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So uh but funny.
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We enjoyed it, and again, since it's the movie theme and the bananas, we felt like we show up.
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But now let's get into our review of 42.
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All right.
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Uh it was it was more of a uh serious movie, definitely not a comedy, but it was cool to see, you know, back then how like what he had to deal with, you know, breaking that that color barrier, you know, uh, and just watching how uh, you know, they were able to that he, you know, that he was luckily they were able to take the chance on him, and you know, that changed the game of baseball forever.
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And uh, you know, just it you know, there were several parts where it was kind of like you know, when he runs back into the dugout after the Phillies manager was coming at him, and he just starts like breaking down.
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It had me there.
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It had me, you know, on the verge of tears, but you know, and then seeing how like he defends his wife, you know, like he was very uh protective of all that.
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Um that like even because there's a scene where like a guy walks up to him and he's like, Oh shoot, this guy might like hurt me because, you know, of what I am and like his first reaction wasn't let let's all go, but he puts his wife and his kid by him, like don't mess with them, come at me, you know.
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:25.039
But you know, just um it's definitely one of those things like you need to have thick skin to get through what he did, you know.
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Well, yeah, again, and nobody at that point had had done it.
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And so that's I think the movie does a good job.
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Obviously, Chadwick Bozeman is the guy that plays Jackie Robinson, who's this is before he becomes Black Panther.
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Uh and so uh he does a great job in the movie.
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:52.799
But I I thought one of the also the great performances is uh is Harrison Ford as uh Branch Ricky, you know.
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:53.759
Yeah, for sure.
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And I thought again, I think it did a good job of like you know, even in the movie uh Branch Ricky, I mean it he wasn't just doing it for because it was the right thing to do, you know.
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He wasn't doing it for a civil rights movement, he was doing it for m well for money, you know.
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He was like, win me a championship because championships bring in money.
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Right.
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And so uh but he also knew that you know he could bring in new uh new fans.
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So I mean it was it was money driven, but he also I I thought to your point of saying the thick skin, I mean I thought the part where they're trying to figure out who the guy was, you know, and and knowing Jackie's um you know fight that he had.
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And so because that's one of the things you said after the movie was like just he wouldn't he didn't back down.
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No, he never did.
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Uh and so but you had to have that kind of you had to have that, but also be able to walk that line and not snap because if he snapped and then everyone's gonna be like it's all because I branch Ricky said it, like you fight back, they're only gonna say you assaulted him.
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They're not gonna say he instigated and he held his own.
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Right.
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They're just gonna say you fought him.
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Right.
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So I think they did a good job of of trying to highlight that and the challenges.
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So it just I think it's a great movie, a great baseball movie.
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And it's based on a true story, and that's the other part that's yeah.
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You know the the part where he's like uh he's they're you know, the the house that they're riot is about to get like you know, attacked because no one wants him in the game.
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And they're driving and he's like who who are they?
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What are why are we here?
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:50.640
He's like, uh, well, Branch didn't Branch told me not to say this, but uh people are gonna essentially come.
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And he's like, Oh, great.
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:54.480
I thought you were telling me I was gonna get kicked off the team.
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He thought he was getting cut.
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So he starts like laughing.
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Yeah.
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Like, you're a strange man.
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:16.319
So of the two that you've seen so far, where would you I was we're not gonna do like a a moving ranking because we don't as we're going through it, so but uh you liked both movies that you saw.
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:17.759
Oh, they were both amazing.
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:18.720
Okay, amazing.
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:21.200
So you would recommend 42 and the natural.
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:22.559
Yes, for sure.
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.359
Absolutely.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:27.599
Okay, and they're in the conversation in the top five.
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They're definitely in my top five conversation.
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:33.440
I'm having trouble because there's so many good baseball movies.
00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:38.720
We talked about doing top ten, but we're gonna do top five just to make it more uh hard on me.
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:39.920
Yeah, more difficult.
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:42.799
So those are the two that we watched this week.
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:50.640
So this week, our homework assignment is we're gonna watch A League of Their Own and Bad News Bears.
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And Bad News Bears, the original Bad News Bears.
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Not the new one.
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Not the new one, but the one with Walter Mathow.
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So the the old school one.
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Uh so we're gonna watch Old School Bad News Bears and A League of Their Own.
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Two more compared to the natural and 42.
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These are a little more lighthearted comedy movies, uh, but also classic baseball movies in their own right.
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:19.039
So we're gonna watch those this week and then we'll come back next episode and then you can give your your feedback on those two.
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:20.799
Okay, got it.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:21.519
All right.
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.400
So that's our quest for this this week.
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Bad news Bears, League of League of Their Own.
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So if you haven't watched some of these movies, encourage you to do it.
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:41.119
Again, they're great great baseball movies that uh you know, some of them full of nostalgia and uh I don't feel that nostalgia.
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I was born in 2014.
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I don't I don't have that nostalgia.
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:48.799
I just mean the flashback to baseball and then that nostalgia.
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Not nostalgia from bringing you back to your childhood, but nostalgia from just old baseball stuff.
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So um so yeah, we'll watch those this week.
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We'll watch and see what happens in the Little League World Series and come back and report that as well and see if Kenley Rasmus and the Phoenix City, Alabama team can can pull it off, or if Iowa or Nevada, one of those teams, continues to dominate and wins wins the Little League World Series.
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We'll be back to you with that.
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:24.960
Alrighty, baseball season is up and running.
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:28.800
So for all those guys I know uh here locally tournaments are kicking off.
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.960
Your tournament, uh first tournament of the year is about two weeks away.
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Uh so we'll even start reporting on on some of that as tournaments kick off.
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But we know tournaments have started, so if you're playing, good luck to you.
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:46.400
And uh it's a fun time of year as fallball has has started.
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It has begun.
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So all right, any other any other thoughts?
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:57.519
Uh I'm just gonna bring it back to the natural real quick.
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I was saying, you know, we I was you know, bragging about some of the acting choices that they had.
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I did not like who they casted as Babe Ruth.
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:08.159
I personally didn't like that.
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:10.719
Well, they didn't refer to him as the babe.
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:11.920
It was the whammer.
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The whammer.
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:15.519
But he was supposed to be a like a babe Ruth kind of guy.
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:16.000
Okay.
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:16.559
So he wasn't.
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:17.440
He looked like Babe Ruth.
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:19.119
He did, but he wasn't supposed to be.
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:20.960
He was they didn't call him Babe Ruth.
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Sure.
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:22.639
So he was just the whammer.
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So they can you can get away with that.
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Sure, sure.
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But uh on that note, pray us out.
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Pray us out.
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Lord, thank you for this day.
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Thank you just for the uh podcast you blessed us with, Lord.
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Uh I just pray that you would continue to help us uh grow and reach more people uh to minister your name.
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But Lord, I uh thank you just for the ability to have fun when we do this and talk about you and the game that we love so much.
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Uh I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Have a great week.
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Remember to have joy in everything that we do.
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Correct.
