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xmas74

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13. I kept hoping that

Reply to GusBob (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:56 PM

Jan 2025

Not making it to the WS these past few years was giving Jim something to hold onto. If we didn't win the WS it was because Ueck needed something to keep him going.

I heard it in his voice last season and I knew.

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