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All right, So last night the Columbus Blue Jackets eliminated

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from the playoffs. It took eighty one games. And by

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the way, this is a team that the pundits at

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the beginning of this season had in the last five

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spots come this time this year for this season. Well,

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clearly that was not the case. And so the final

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game of the season is tonight at nature Wide Arena

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versus the Islanders, and as of yesterday that game for

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tonight was sold out. So I exchanged one text with

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the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Bob mcgalligan

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last night, and it was after Montreal slammed the door

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and they won four two and overtime, not overtime in regulation,

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good lord. And so yeah, I ended up finding the

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game on at like, I don't know, halfway through the

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second period, so I was watching it. It was tied

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for quite a while and so on. So let's bring

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him in the radio voice for the Columbus Blue Jackets,

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Bob mcgelligan, and h Bob, welcome to the show. Your

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thoughts on.

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Everything had disappointing my thoughts on everything. Yeah, and this

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is what happens when you don't control your own destiny,

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and you have to rely on other people in any

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facet of life. Don't ever rely upon other people. You

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can't do it yourself. Screw them or they'll screw you.

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Yeah, that's pretty accurate, I think. I mean a lot

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of people now are going, Man, we always say this,

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and it seems like it's true and well a lot

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of sports, but especially in hockey, you know one or

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two games, you know, they win one or two games

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along the way, and this is a different outcome given

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everything plays out the way that it just played out. So, man,

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missed it by that much, as they say, I mean,

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so dagon close and correct me if I'm wrong here.

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But was it if the Jackets would have pulled this off,

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If Montreal would have lost last night and then the

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Jackets would have won tonight and they went on into

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the playoffs, it would have been the first time in

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NHL history to come back from what was it like,

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down ten points or twelve point something like that.

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Yeah, yeah, it would have been the first time to

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erase the deficit that they were in, or for Montreal

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to for a team to blow up lead with the

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six point leader with three games left or something like that. Yeah.

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Yeah, you know, when you since you've had a night

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to sleep on it, do you feel any better today

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than you did last night?

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I can tell you the answer to that is no. I can hear that. He's Bob. I'm feeling real.

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I had the opportunity to go to work today the

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face what is arguably would have been arguably the biggest

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game in the history of this franchise in twenty five years. Instead,

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I'm going to watch the Blue Jackets play the Islanders

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and then it's over for six months. So no, I

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don't feel any better about it. I'm you know, there's

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not that I could have done to change it. But you know that's frustrating in its own right. But it's no,

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I don't Why would I feel good.

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About it today?

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Oh I didn't say you feel good? I just said you know better than you did last night?

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And you know no, well, yeah, last night I was

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screaming expletives and shutting television off with every Montreal goal.

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So yeah, I guess better than that.

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Yeah, I still hope it's packed in there tomorrow night.

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I mean you know this, Yeah, today it was. It

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was a disappointing conclusion, but I'm proud of that. I'm

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proud of them forgetting this close. I wish there was

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one more.

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Well, that's where I was going. That's where I was going with him. I was going to say, you know,

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is it too soon? And I know management and the

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players and all of that, I don't know. You know

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these guys so well, Bob that do they are there?

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Moral victories for some yes, for some no? And I

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don't know who's who with regard to any kind of

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victories or the positivity that you take away from this.

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But I think the farther we get from the ending

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this eighty seven second game tonight and then we have

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some time time heals all wounds, as they say. But

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I think what will happen is a lot of positives

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will be taken from this season. There's no question about that,

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because there's a lot to pull away from this. Just

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off the top of my head, and you know, I have a small brain. The Stadium series this year was

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historic for the Jackets, and then to do what they

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did as far as you know, beating Detroit like that

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twice and you know there and then here, I mean

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just stuff like that if you can do and then

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I don't know, it's too early to start talking about

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who's gonna be back and who's this and who's that.

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I just feel like the future is bright for the

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Jackets right now, and I love what Dean Evison coach

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Everson has done with regard to the the locker room

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and everything that the Jackets are Now.

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It'll get better, Yeah, it'll be better tomorrow. Yes, there's

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lessons that have been learned, and this is going to

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go a long way and that stuff. There's no question

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about that. I mean, this is this is an experience

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they had to go through. It just I think just

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it hurts so much ago to the last day, you know,

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a week or so ago, when we were talking and

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they were dead in the water, I was ready. I'm like,

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you know what I told Zach Wrenski, I said, you

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know what, it's been a great season. I love watching

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you guys. It just sucks at it's ending this way where now you just have totally fallen apart, and he goes, yeah,

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I agree with you, and then they get back in it.

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So you know, it's that's what's hard because you're right there,

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You're right there to the very end. And and what's

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even worse than that, I think if they get in

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they make noise. And I know Montreal feels that way too.

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I don't. I don't feel that way about Montreal. I think Washington beats them, but I think the Blue Jackets

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could have taken the capitals. So he you know, but

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who knows, and we'll never know. But it's just yeah,

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it's the raw motion of the day, and it'll things

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will change, and tomorrow they'll have their exit interviews and

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Don Woodell will talk and Dan Everson will talk, and

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they will talk about all of those things that you

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just said about going in the right direction and having

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the right personnel and needing to get more personnel and

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blah blah blah blah blah. But that's tomorrow. This is today,

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and today stinks.

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Yeah, Bob, Bob, what do you do with yourself for

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the next six months?

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Now?

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I mean you won't be you won't be on doing

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your games. What what occupies your life when you're not

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doing the Blue Jacket stuff?

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I hibernate for six months.

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Really, did you see Vince Vaughn in Wedding and Wedding Crashers?

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That's he's Vince vaugh He's eating cereal in a robe

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like no, shall oh, whoops, that was Will Ferrell. Sorry,

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that's it. Sorry, whoops, I screwed it up. But you

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know what, you get the.

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Gest what I was just trying to get. I look

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forward to his next six months of doing something that

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maybe makes him happy, that he just enjoys doing. So

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I feel I'm I'm being sincere with you. I feel

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bad for you right now because I hear the disappointment

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in your voice, and you're such a lively guy and

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I've enjoyed listening to what you do, and it just it makes me feel bad that you're so down about this.

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Well, I'll be at Huntington Park soon Collum baseball at

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a much slower pace than than I'm used to going so.

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And I laughed, because slower paces, that's generous. I mean,

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it's just like compared to what you do, You're gonna

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have to probably have an ivy of coffee, you know,

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to stay with it, man, because now.

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That is much.

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I literally one time when I was in Syracuse, we

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were playing a series against the Wolkesbury's Grant and Penguins,

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and it was Game five. It was a deciding game, and I knew that we might you know, you could

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possibly lose that game. And either way, there was no

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game the next day, and I was doing baseball as

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well at the time, so this is when they were crossing over. But I rode the bus with the hockey

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team to Wilkesbury because I was afraid if we lose

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that game, it'll be the last go around with the boys,

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and you want that one last trip home. And unfortunately

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that's what happened. We lost, and I drove all the way,

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rode the bus all the way back home. Was back

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at the baseball stadium the next morning at eight o'clock

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to get on a bus and go to Scranton, which is like fifteen minutes from Wooksburg. So and h and

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I remember our head coach, carry Agnew at the time

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called me or sent me a text or I don't

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know how much were you texting back then, I'm not sure, but either way the message was not the same as

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you are now. Do you go from doing hockey last

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night to doing this? Here comes a three to one pitch?

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Yet? All for so, I never heard you do the

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Clippers games, but I'm telling you, I've got a picture of Bob Youuger in my mind right now. Now he

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just he's that. That's the the image that you have

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created just from the time I've had a chance to.

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Talk to you. You know what, Chuck, it's kind of

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relaxing to go over there because it's you know, I

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work with Ryan Mitchell, who's a good friend, and I like a lot, and I get to be the number

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two guy. I don't have to be the lead guy.

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And you know, I'm like you working with Blazer. That's

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got to be maddening for you, but for me, it

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ye jacket, but uh yeah, I'll do that. There'll be

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blue jacket stuf throughout the course of the summer.

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And do you do you do you have any migelegate

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for the Clippers like flap tacks on affairs or kJ

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all day.

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Do you have any of those for the c on

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the home run baby?

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Okay, yeah, that's pretty much it. I don't know, it

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all depends what you're feeling or whatever.

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I mean.

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I mean, Juan Brito's back this year playing second base.

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I like when he hits home runs if it's Miami because I can say going going wan you know.

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Okay, all right, what's going on? I got you one?

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Uh one last thing about tonight and the Jackets in

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the eighty second game and the final one and it's

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home ice and all that. Do the gut because this,

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to me would be and and you might be completely

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obos in the way you think of this. It feels to me like this would be the hardest for them

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to go out and leave it all on the ice tonight. But do they make an e is it an exclamation point?

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And do they send the Island packing with a loss?

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And you know, I mean, are there thoughts of are

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there conversations about you know, for Johnny and I don't

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know any of that stuff.

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No, it's going to be a it's gonna be a

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regular game. They're going to go out and try to win. I know that they know the building is going to

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be packed tonight and they want to have a good showing in front of the home fans one more time.

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The Islanders are notoriously horrible team to watch. They're terrible,

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boring the way they play, which is always a it's

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it's always a challenge to play against them. And they're

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still going to be picked off about what happened last

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time that the team's played, where that goaltender interference call

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took away the goal in the third period with nine seconds left, which had that, had that remained the Blue Jackets,

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we would I would see it's ticking off today. I would have been over this three days ago.

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If if I remember right, Elvis took a stick to

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the face earlier in that game, which basically somewhere like

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actually estimating that that might be why there was kind

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of a a.

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Lot player took a stick in the face and was broken open and should have been a four minute power

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play from Montreal last night, but it wasn't too so

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we could have this conversation all day.

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Well, no, that's what I'm saying, Like the Islanders can

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just they can put that in their pipe and smoke it.

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Yeah, well they're just again, that's just the way they play.

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Look Patrick Laws, their head coach. He's not gonna want

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to lose tonight the last game. But there I hate

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the Islanders. I just hate the way they play. It's

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so boring. It'll get me ready for baseball.

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Actually it'll slowly right down. Well, uh, we'll have a

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good have a good game tonight, man final one. Leave

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it all on the mic, as they say, or I

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don't know if they say that.

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Because then somebody's going to clean that up.

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Now, we got to go to Clippers games to annoy

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him sometimes.

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Look, there's there's not enough high price club seating there

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for Lazers.

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Yeah, oh, would you knock it off with that? I'm

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I know what's No, we're going to end up up

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there with him. Watch, we'll go up. We'll go up

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and hang with him up there. He knows, he knows

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everybody there's security. I don't stand a chance.

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I'm just telling you, no, we'll see, we'll see Bob

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a lot. He's going to be around.

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I'm a bugg him. He's gonna have to come and hang with us here in the studio just for no

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reason whatsoever, just to come in and and shenanigans, because

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that's what he's good at.

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So are you going to I am not.

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I was unable to land tickets.

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Do you have any non? God damn all right.

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I came to the game to the manager of the Louisville Bats. Okay, so there you go there.

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That's good though, That's as good as any I suppose.

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But we'll be we'll be listening and watching man tonight

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for sure.

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Everybody.

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Bob mcgalligan, who is the radio voice for the Columbis

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Blue Jackets. Thanks Bob, appreciate you man. Fantastic season, Thanks.

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Brother, Thanks all right, all right, there he goes.

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All right.