Drunk Kicker Chaos And Our Bracket Takes

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Quick Welcome And What’s Ahead

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FSU Declines The NIT Invite

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The North Florida support networks as we get on. We're gonna make our prediction. Go over the end of the season for F2. Baseball! World Baseball Classic included Order State Baseball. Big series win since we talked last, so we'll touch on it all. Touch it. Touch it! Touch it all, man. Try to touch it. Haven't asked you about the Duke game. That was a close game.

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You gotta talk to you!

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I know. I don't know what it. We're gonna talk about FSU declining an in uh possible invitation into the NIT. So their season ends at 17 and 14. 18, I'm counting the tournament win.

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18 and 14. 15, we're not counting them. That's right, 18 and 15. Count the win, not the boss.

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Yeah, 11 and 9 if you wanna, you know, but 11 and 8. What do you think about them not going to the NIT? Whatever.

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Players didn't want to go and don't go.

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Yeah.

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Whatever's the NIT. Yeah. You know? Kinda wish Norvell would have had the same foresight a few years ago in the orange. Right. Yeah, it who cares? Yeah. I do get a kick out of teams like SMU and NC State losing in the play-in game. It's like, yeah.

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Well, there you go. I mean.

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Right. Either one of those teams deserve to be there anyway.

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Nope. Nope.

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But I'm I yeah, I'm fine with it. I don't I don't really care. I mean, I would have liked to have seen them keep playing, but if the players don't want to play, then I'm not, yeah, you don't want to go out on a note, like losing it some like mid-major.

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Right. You know, on a bad note. You gotta assume them.

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Either without players or with the players half-assed it.

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If they're not in it, then no, I like the fact that they made let them vote on it. I kind of wish they voted to play. Uh, but something tells me there's no bonus or anything for it, so it's just like, let's just move on with our career.

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I think it is just it it pales in comparison to what it used to be. Right. A lot like bowl, regular bowl games and football.

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It used to be at the garden, man. You know, the final four was in the garden.

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Yeah.

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It was on ESPN. Right. It was it was like the nights that the tournament wasn't on during the tournament.

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Yeah, and you'd get legitimate NC8 AA tournament snub teams that would be in the NIT. Yeah, they would play a good basketball team.

Final Four Picks And Upset Talk

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Now it's just with the NIL, it's just no one's gonna risk it. Right. And FSU declines. So that's the end of their season, the tournament underway. Um my final four, I got Houston in the south, Duke in the east, and then the I got Arizona and Michigan. So three one seeds in a two.

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I'll just pick all the one seeds, man. There you go. I don't, you know, uh even know what the bracket is, but well, Florida, um, they're gonna I already know Florida's gonna be there because it's what I've got in four bracket. Yeah, I don't want it to happen, so it's guaranteed to happen.

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Nebraska is a four-seed in Nebraska in that bracket. I have them losing to Nebraska. Well, there you go. Um Miami's playing the mayor, Fred Hoyberg.

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Yeah, Miami playing Missouri.

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Yeah. I got Miami losing. It's gonna be a good game. It's in St. Louis.

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Right, it's in St. Louis. I still don't know if they got anybody that can deal with Renault.

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Yeah, yeah, you're probably right. I didn't think they can deal with it.

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I think Miami is better than a seven seed.

World Baseball Classic Surprise Winner

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I do too. I do too. Uh right. Um, baseball, the world baseball classic ended. Venezuela is your champion. How about that?

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Yeah. I mean, I mean, is that spiritual?

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It was a pretty fun event. Yeah, I think it all was an upset. I think the favorite was Japan and the United States by far. Really? And then Dominican.

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Yeah, I would have I would have had the Dominican or Dominican.

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Venezuela would would be that next tier. I because they still have a kuna and they got a lot of good baseball players. Who does America have? Well, it's it's down to it comes down to pitching. And then if and then you're playing like a single elimination type tournament.

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Yeah, I'm more surprised Japan didn't win it. Right. They got the best player in the game.

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Yeah, and they Venezuela beat them. Yeah. They beat the United States and Japan. So you gotta tip your cat to them.

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United States is full of anti-clutch players. So Aaron Judgment.

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They're accumulators, season accumulators. And contract. In that game, you want guys that are gonna make contact, and you want guys that are gonna do the fundamentally guys that are gonna run like Ronald Okuna ran. Yeah, and then pitchers that are gonna bring it like that closer did. Yeah. So Venezuela, it meant something to them. That crowd sounded like it was in Venezuela. It's in Miami.

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Yeah, well, I mean, you know, there's I I would not be surprised if other Latin American fan bases were pulling for Venezuela. I know some of them don't really get along with each other, um, but you know.

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Well, um, Florida State baseball, big series win at weight with the sweep. The sweep. Yeah. Yeah, really big win. Big win. Two really strong pitching performances from your top two stars.

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Right. Wes I mean, Wes Mendez is has been solid the whole year. Um and you knew coming in that because you got you you saw him pitch last year, so you were kind of counting on him to be the guy. Trey Beard, though, threw on Saturday. Like that. I don't know if he's gonna be like that the whole season.

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He's gotta if he can throw that change up for a strike.

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Yeah. Through, you know, one hitter, combined one hitter, uh, 14K's and six and two thirds.

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That that's the equalizer, man. If you have a good changeup, yeah. I mean, from a lefty two. Right.

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And they were, you know, Wake was throwing their guy, Chris Lavonas. He struck out eleven.

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Right.

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And it was basically yeah, it, you know. They ran into a home run and then got another one across in the the top half of the ninth. But man, that that yeah, and to win the Sunday game, it was just kind of a slug fest. That was a big sweep. You know, Wake Forest coach said that the Saturday game was the most disappointing loss they've had in quite some time. Um you just you don't really hold Wake Forest to that. You know, you shut him out two, two to I mean, you know, you run rule on the thing. Yeah, you run rule on Friday. Yeah, you shut them out Friday and Saturday. 10-0 and then two to nothing. Two to nothing two to nothing. So it it yeah, it was a big one. They got another test this weekend, though, man. You got NC State coming in, another top ten team.

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That's gonna be fun. Big matchup there. What's NC State bringing to the table?

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Pitching. Um, you know, they got you know, still got one of Trott Nixon's kids. Um you know, they lost a game to BC. They've lost to a couple teams that are that are you know have losing records on the season. So you they're kind of a you know, when you were looking on paper, Wake looked like they were gonna be a bigger, a bigger test, but you know, NC State is always hard.

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Yeah, Elliot Elliott Avon. Yeah, there's a lot of familiarity.

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Yeah, familiarity they, you know, Chris Hart, former Florida State pitcher, he's their pitching coach. Yeah, they do a lot of running, they got speed. So it'll be a toughie.

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It'll be a real toughie. It'll be a good series to get out to if you have the chance to do so. Yeah, it's gonna be hot. All right.

NC State Series Preview And Matchups

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Nice and warm, mid-80s. Yeah. Oh yeah. What else we got? Uh kicker got arrested.

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Oh yeah. Right. Is this the Australian guy?

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No, this is the Irish police kick. The Irish kick didn't want to leave a bar down in Miami during spring break. All right. It's not the Blarney Village police you're messing with here. I mean, these these spring break cops are already on tilt. So they got beat up a little bit. Suspended. They'll probably plead it now. I who knows? Who cares? It's the most fight they've shown in a few years. Yeah. Last time we had a drunken Euro kicker, we went undefeated. Remember that? It's been a while. That's right. You laugh at that.

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Fire!

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He's fired. Yeah.

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You think it'll keep his job?

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The kicker?

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Yeah.

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I mean, we don't have anybody else. All right. Yeah. You got a kid that was arrested last year.

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You don't hear like this, like stories of kickers getting arrested unless they're good.

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No, dude, he's yeah.

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He's 6'3.

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Yeah.

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Right.

Kicker Arrest Story And Fallout

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That's what I'm saying. They tried to make him leave. He said no. They called the cops. The cops tried to make him leave. He started a fight. He's an Irish kid, man. He's not leaving yet. Don't drink it.

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Make kicks. That's what you need to do.

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Right. Make kicks. Don't make him. I mean, who cares? Honestly, like who cares?

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Yeah.

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They'll put a team out there. They'll compete in the games. Like the games will happen. That's about all we know.

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Alright, so if you had to pick one team under a five seed to win it all, who is it? Under a five seed?

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That's a good question. What is Arkansas? Are they a five? Or a four? Shit.

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Yeah.

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They're my dark horse. Yeah. Just because of Acuff.

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Well, they got, yeah. Callipery does that.

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Yeah, but that I mean, dude, it's a tournament of guards. Yeah, they got a guy. For the f yeah. That dude is ridiculous.

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Yeah.

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Out of Detroit. Seven mile neighborhood.

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Um I Miami kind of scares me. Yeah. I picked them to lose, but they they could get they get the right matchups because they have. It's all gonna come down to threes, though. They hit threes, which they haven't been able to do consistently, so Right. What Miami team's gonna show up.

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Right. The one that looks really good, or the one that got housed by Virginia in the ACC tournament.

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I like Virginia. I do. I think they're gonna give to the Elite Eight.

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Um I gotta go in chalk, man.

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Yeah.

Dark Horses And What Wins March

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Purdue? What are they? Purdue's a two-seed? Or seven, right? Yeah. Because they finished like seventh or eighth in the Big Ten. Michigan State. There are two.

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Yeah. Well. I don't know. It's hard to see anybody. There's like eight teams that could win it.

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Right. You know, the Arizona and Florida game early in the season, first game of the season, could very easily end up being the national title. Yeah, Michigan rematch. Yeah.

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You know, those are your four one seeds. Both those games that they played were great games. Um those are your favorites. I don't know if Florida's got the guard play to do it. I think they're gonna meet match up with somebody who's got the bodies to bang down low with them. Yeah. Somebody's gonna get hot from three. I mean, you gotta someone's gonna have guards that they don't. Right. And uh that's gonna be because last year it was Clayton. Yeah, I mean that's the guy that won the tournament. And it's a guard tournament. You gotta have that, you gotta have that guy. And they're a they're a front court dominated team. Now they could do it, but I don't I don't see them getting past into the they might get to the final four because they're one seed, but I I don't think they have the guard play to do it. Um Arizona to me.

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Man, when they're firing at Pete Kid, yeah, like done and Houston, you know. Houston's the same as just Kelvin Sampson's guy.

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Yeah, they're gonna be tough. They're always gonna be a tough out. Yeah. They're gonna make it hard for a lot of people. So and then the tournament, that's what you kind of want. Yeah, I feel like the whistles kinda they try not, you don't want one of the officials to decide the game. So you want to have a physical team.

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Yeah, yeah. The especially the further you go right into the tournament, that as you advance.

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So Florida, they have the physicality. I just don't know if they have the guard play. Miami's a little thin. They have the those two guys, but I got they're too big, but like you said, like they're not they don't have the depth, I don't think too. And if they're not they're not hitting threes. Yeah. But I do think they're under they're five seven seeds too low. I think they should have got a five. Um yeah. Trying to think if there's like a 11 or a 10-11 seed that could do make a run. No. There's really not. Yeah, that that's what NIL has done.

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Yeah. Nobody's gonna there's there's no no guys staying there that, you know. I mean you look at you look at a team like Miami, Ohio, that one loss on the season and they're an 11th seed, and they they they they don't have the firepower. You're just thinking of a team.

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Yeah, and the team that's gonna like that's together and is experienced, they're not gonna be all the way down to the 10 line. So yeah.

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But that's why we played guys, man. We're gonna see. Yeah. We're gonna see upsets.

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We had to go. All right, is here. We gotta uh shut up.

Flag Football Heads To The Olympics

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Well, we gotta get on out of here before we go. Well, black football? Flag football? It's gonna be in the Olympics. Yeah. A lot of the NFL players are gonna be playing in an event this weekend. I think Brady's gonna play in it. I think don't tell me he doesn't want that.

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Right? Like, come on, man.

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Add that to the trophy case, the gold medal.

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I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest with you, man. I I I think it takes some different type of athletes to flag football.

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Yeah, it's blown up.

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Yeah. I'm talking about the guys like the old big rob days where you would have these crazy plays of like double backwards passes and and oh yeah, it's gonna be fun to watch, but I think that you're gonna get a lot of talent that wants to get a medal.

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Yeah.

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Because football doesn't have anything like that. No. I think Sacco Berkeley's playing.

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Uh but this isn't about like the what I wonder is like there used to be no spin moves in flag football. Right? Like you can't spin, you can't guard the flags.

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Like I don't know if they're I don't know. I gotta catch up on the rules.

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Right. How are these guys gonna gonna adjust? You know, like when you take the pads off and it's just about pulling somebody's flags, like how you know, like yeah, he's he's good, but you might want to be tiny. Little quick ads.

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It should be.

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Hmm.

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I think baseball's coming back.

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Yeah, it should be there. The soft they got rid of softball.

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That should be better. Definitely.

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Yeah. Um, no, man. There's not. I mean, if football was was big enough worldwide, then yeah, but it it's not. No way.

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Yeah, you can't that like rugby, you can't do that either. Right.

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It's it's too physical.

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Baseball is gonna be tough because pitching.

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Right, pitching. I mean, hell, soccer's hard.

What We’re Watching Next Time

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Yeah. All right. Well, it's that time of year. We still got March Madness. We'll watch the tournament play out. Baseball. We got FSU baseball, big series with NC State. We'll go over the sweet 16.

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See if Miles can can break his home run mark in this season.

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All of that next time.

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He's a right here on the North Florida Sports Network. He's a what? Nine. Nine bombs.

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