Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Crossover With Locked On Rangers Featuring Brice Paterik

Episode Date: March 19, 2020

This crossover with Locked On Rangers features Brice Paterik and D.C. Lundberg discussing both teams' 2020 outlook, the 1996 Rangers team, as well as the legend of Ichiro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Yes, indeed. Time for another crossover episode here on Locked-on Mariners. Please remember to download, rate, and subscribe to this program on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or whichever podcasting app you care to use. Follow the show on Twitter at L-O-U-U-U-U-S-Mariners, and find me on Twitter as well at D.C. underscore Lundberg, L-U-N-D-B-E-R-G, if you're scoring at home. I'm rushing through the intro today because the conversation in today's

crossover ran very long. It was with Bryce Padderick of Locked-on Rangers, and here it is. Hey, Bryce, how's it going? I'm good. How are you, D.C.? Hanging in there. How is your Wednesday so far? Oh, it's pretty chill.

We're here to do a little bit of a crossover episode, as they say, and I don't know if you watch, do you watch BoJack Horseman? No. Well, there's this very funny, ongoing bit of these two TV stars. Whenever they run into each other in real life, they're like, what is this? A crossover episode? So if you do listen to Bojack Horseman, please let me know that you get that reference. But yeah, let's talk a little bit about some baseball, I guess, some Mariners and Rangers

baseball. The two, wait, were the two worst teams in the division last year? I don't know. Okay, no, Rangers were third. They were pretty close to the Angels with how the Rangers just kind of fell off a cliff in the back half of last season. And the Mariners fell off a cliff after May, so yeah. Easily the worst in the West last year.

Yeah, yeah, and I thought they had a worse season than they did, and I was looking like, all right, like maybe they'll get like a top three pick, but no, there were some really, really bad teams last year. Like the Tigers, 47 and 114, the Royal, like 200 lost teams in one division in the Central. The Royals had 103 losses. The Orioles had 108. which I liked a friend of mine who's from like Rangers Twitter used to work at BP just got a job with the Orioles as a scouting guy

and so we always like to see them like hey that Adley Rushman kid you know you should you should let him stick a catcher he seems pretty good other than that I don't really know what else you do for the for the Orioles but I feel like there was some like low-key good parts of Seattle season that everyone just kind of forget it's because they kind of fell off a cliff but what were some of the good parts of 2019 some good players that'll be around for for the future or some positive building blocks for Seattle. There were a few of them.

The first half of Daniel Vogelback season was certainly one of them, the second half, not so much. But I, everybody was very impressed with Kyle Lewis when he came up in September and just started hitting everything in sight and a lot of balls out of the ballpark, which was unusual. He hadn't shown that type of power in the minor leagues.

So I don't know if he will be a, I don't think that the home run power that he showed is going to be normal for him. I think he'll get a lot of doubles, and I think he'll hit. But the home run power, no, that's an outlier. What else? The pitching's not so much with the pitching staff. Go ahead. Fatsi, I'm on your baseball reference page, and I saw, like, one thing, like, toward the bottom.

I'm like, all right, who's the guy who's played the fewest games? And I forgot, Ichiro Suzuki played two games in 2019. Gosh, that guy is such a special player. And, like, if you're a baseball fan, you can't help but love him and all that he's stands for and all that he's been and all that he's meant to to the mariners like what was that like for you because i mean the rangers fans just had their own i guess equivalent of that uh with adrian belcher retiring just last year but it wasn't quite it wasn't the same as is itchiro because i feel like ichiro is one of those like he's like the derrick jeter like what jrick jritcher meant to the yankees

each row meant to the mariners because he was there in the good times he was there for the bad time he was there for so much and he just meant so much that community what was it like for for seattle having to deal with his retirement, even though you kind of knew it was coming for a little bit. Well, we knew it was coming, I think, and so I don't think sort of dealing with the retirement is a decent way to put it, because it was kind of taken in stride. Felix Hernandez leaving as a free agent almost was, I mean, everybody knew that that was coming to, so maybe that's not quite accurate, but, you know, this, it's no question that the team was getting younger, and each year old just doesn't quite fit into that

type of team. Plus, as much as I hate to say it, it doesn't look like he can hit the fastball anymore. And rather than play out this season and put up subparred numbers and take up a roster spot from a kid who's trying to earn a job for the future, he stepped aside and took a front office position and said, I'm done as a player, I've done what I can do, and I'm going to step aside and let the kids go at it. I remember when he came over. In 2001 was his first season here. I was 16 years old. And Ichiro is, I mean, he's kind of hard to equate to any other contemporary big league player because his skill set was so unique for the time. And he was almost a mythical figure.

It was almost like the Beatles coming over from England in 1964. There was that much hype around it. Yeah. And in Japan, Ichero might be bigger in Japan than Michael Jordan was here in the mid-90s during the Chicago Bulls Hayday. He is absolutely a legend over there. Yeah, and I remember, because the Rangers have their own history with Japanese players and in New Darvish, who was an absolute megastar when he came over.

And I'm still not over losing him. Like, I will never be over losing him. And the thing that I hate the most is how much criticism he got out here. Like, I don't know if you saw it from just like baseball overlap. Of all this stupid crap of, he's not an ace, he's not a real number one. He doesn't get to shut down. all these stupid nitpicky crap things that were totally unfair and just downright stupid criticisms of U Darvish. When he was consistently like one of the better pitchers in baseball for like a long stretch and his just raw stuff, he's just incredible to watch.

And so and seeing like all the Japanese media that covered him, like even like the minor Japanese players like Japanese media is like no joke. Like they roll out in mass. Oh yeah. Or just about everybody. And I'm sure, like, 70% of the media from, like, 2001 to, like, 2008 was, like, Japanese. Because, yeah, Ichiro is absolutely no joke. And let's you forget, Kazuo Sasaki was also a member of the Mariners at that time. He came over in 2000.

So the Mariners had two of them. And Seattle has a huge Asian population, which added to it. I mean, they came out to support Ichero. They came out to support Kazuo Sasaki. they were, it was so much fun. The Japanese flags waving in the stands and that the kanji, people writing signs in kanji for those two, it was, it was, nothing like that's ever going to happen again, I don't think. Yeah, that was pretty incredible.

I thought that there was some overlap in A-Rod and A-Rod and Ituro being on there, but I'm realizing that A-Rod was in Texas by then. Yes, he was. Yeah, was that the first year? that he was in Texas? Yes, it was. His last season as a Mariner was 2000, and then he signed,

let's just say, the free agent contract because we may have different opinions. We may have very different opinions on this. What is your opinion on, that it was a bad contract, a good contract, or what? Seattle fans generally are not fans of Alex Rodriguez,

and I'll leave it at that. Oh, no, no, Rangers fans aren't either, because... Not for the same reason. No, not for the same reason, but because he took up so much money. And he was actually worth every penny of that, but the Rangers' ownership was so broke that they couldn't afford to go get any other player. That's why I thought it was an odd deal to go to the Rangers because when I saw this, he just wanted the money. He just wanted the money.

And that's why we don't like him because we knew he was chasing the money. No, I want to go to a winner. I want to go to a winner. That was complete bonk. He just wanted the money. I was wondering at the time, who was going to pitch for the Rangers? And obviously it was a lot of guys who were not major league pitchers at that time. The answer was nobody.

And for another like eight years after that, it was still nobody. But now the Rangers have their pitchers. Like this is kind of like the Rangers right now have the reverse team of what everyone usually thinks. Yeah. Of the Rangers having is like, oh, they've got a really, really good rotation. But their offense is kind of questionable. Like they've got three guys who could legitimately contend for a Cy Young this year. Honestly, Lance Lynn last year should have finished top five in Sy Young voting,

and Mike Miner should have too. Mike Miner kind of fell off of the back half, and since the Rangers weren't competitive, like, that's why. I mean, the Sa Young voting was stupid. Like, the fact that Garrett Cole didn't win it, like, it still makes me mad. Like, oh, look, look at what Justin Verlinder did when he was, like, 40. Like, I don't care.

Like, Garrett Cole was phenomenal, absolutely unhittable. Like, did they not watch the same Garrett Cole that? He was their number one. Like, that's not a question for me. Like, it was just, like, old school baseball people like, oh, we pitch more innings. Like, that's, like, literally the only thing that he led Cole in.

But that's another diversion. But, yeah, I mean, the Rangers have, like, Joey Gallo and then a bunch of question marks offensively. Joey Gallo, people kind of forget. Do you remember how good Joey Gallo was in the first half of that season? I remember him having a batting average over 210. Uh-huh.

Yeah, he had two-75 for the... No, that's fair. I've been a Joey Gallo stand since, basically since the Rangers drafted him. This guy is a special player and the adjustments that I've seen him make. And it pissed me off how people were like, oh, it's a little badding average. I'm like, shut up, shut up. It's not 1910 anymore. Like we have other metrics besides batting average.

But, yeah, like the numbers went up. He was on top three MVP pace before he got hurt last year. He had a 3.1 war in 60 games. It's kind of insane. He was on pace for like 60 home runs and just honestly doing work. He hit 250 for the whole season, even with the last, like, I don't know, the second half when he played only like 10 games or so and he hit like 110 and just clearly wasn't himself.

But yeah, there's some real question marks. But Willie Calhoun is another like constant. And I don't know if you saw the scary face injury that he had taken a pitch, a fastball to the face, like 95 miles an hour. broke his jaw, but thankfully, like, he's going to be ready for when the season starts. So, yeah, and Elvis had a really down season last year. O'Dore had another down season. The Rangers' catching situation was literally, like, abysmal.

There were 86 games of Jeff Mathis, who, let me reuse some of Jeff Mathis stats, and you're going to want to vomit, because I wanted to vomit every time I saw him at the plate. No offense, Jeff Mathis, I'm sure you're a wonderful person. But his batting average was 158 on base of 10. 209, slugged 224. His OPS plus was 11. 11. It was bad.

What did you say for slugging 224? 224. 224 is OPS total was 443. There are pitchers with better OPS numbers than that. There are a lot of pitchers with better OPS numbers. Not that I'm thinking of Madison Bumgarden or anything, but... Like literally mediocre pitchers, like mediocre batting pitchers. Yeah.

Who I probably didn't bat in college either. Probably not. We're running a little bit late for a commercial break, so we've got to read this ad copy and then come back. So we'll continue this. Let's go ahead and do that. Ladies and gentlemen, do you hate stepping on the scale? Maybe it's because you haven't met the right one. A company called Withings produced the world's first smart scale, and they are still the best.

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Thank you very much. One more item going into break. A Mariners and Rangers trivia question which might interest both audiences. Franklin Gutierrez holds the Major League record for most chances in a season in center field without making an error. He broke this.

record from a Texas Ranger who set the record in 1996. Who might that be? And that silence means, I think we'll think about it over the break. And break we shall. Right at this exact moment, we shall be back in a few minutes or whenever. All righty. And we're back with this crossover episode between locked on Rangers and locked on Mariners. D.C. left us with a true question coming in. And I think I might have the answer. My guess is, Rusty Greer. Oh, no, that's incorrect. What's the answer?

Daryl Hamilton previously held that record. Interesting. I liked watching Hamilton play. That 1996 Texas Rangers team was very interesting. You said that this version of the Rangers is not what people think of the Rangers are with good pitching. That Rangers team also kind of was out of character, so to speak, for them, because their defense was really good. I mean, obviously they had the offensive numbers, which is what the Rangers were known for. But in 1996 anyways, was just a crazy offensive season for the American League in particular.

But they also had some very good pitching that season, didn't they? Yeah, they really did. I mean, Pudge Rodriguez is one of the best. Like, in my opinion, like, I don't care if I sound biased, but I think he's the best catcher of all time. He's definitely one of the best defensive catchers of all time. Like, I know there's that guy in the Cincinnati Reds. He was okay. but for me it's Pudge because of how long he did it

his arm was incredible it's absolutely incredible there's this Pudge story that I like to tell it's actually Pudge's story there was this time back when I was an intern with Fox Southwest we were doing a documentary about Pudge when he was getting inducted in the Hall of Fame and so I got to be there in the room for this little sit down interview and he had the story about when he got scouted

and so he was never really the guy that people were looking for, he wasn't like the major prospect of the time. He was kind of, he was pitching, I think, at the time. But the Rangers Scout, who was there to see some other guy, saw him, like, make a throw from either right field

or from, like, pitching or whatever. They're like, they saw just his arm. They're like, hey, you want to try, like, catcher for a second? And he's like, yeah, I caught a little bit. And so they tied him on a pop time. And it was sub-2. It was like 1.8. 8-8-something, like, literally, like, elite.

They're like, we're signing this guy right now. Like, that's it. That's the whole thing. That one little sequence there. And turns out he was a pretty darn good catcher for the Rangers. But, yeah, looking back at that defensively, Will Clark was really solid defensively. Mark McLemore, they call him the doctorate defense. Dean Palmer was all right.

Rusty Greer and left field was a much better fit. And Darrell Hamilton, obviously, has pretty good defensively as well. Yeah, and Kevin Elster at Shortstop was a very good defender. Yeah, I was not paying attention back then because I was a wee baby boy. Yeah, I know. I know. I know.

I figured I wanted to bring it up anyway, but the Brages. He also had 24 home runs as a shortstop, which they didn't really do that at shortstop back in that day. No, and he wasn't a home run hitter per se. I don't know if this record still stands, but he drove in 94 runs from the number nine spot in the order, and that's, at least at the time, was a major league record. Honestly, that sounds like, that is the Rangers team. Like, I don't really remember much of Dean Palmer, but he had 38 home runs that year.

That was a typical Juan Gonzalez year of 47 bombs. Mickey Tettleton was in there popping in his many, many bombs. But, yeah, Pudge actually had 47 doubles that year. Kind of insane. He was a great hitter. I mean, Pudge Rodriguez, you mentioned him probably the best. He might be, Mike Piazza and him, they're the two best offensive catchers, I think, of all time. Pudge, obviously, the much better defender than Piazza was, particularly than when it came to arm strength.

But I'll give Piazza the edge on offensive catcher. Like, that's okay. But Pudge is definitely right there at second. You want to know something incredible from that season? Like, I remember that Pudge had some really great play discipline. He didn't walk a whole bunch. So he only had 38 walks and 685 plate appearances at that time. That was 153 games that he probably caught all of them.

But he could hit anything. You know how many strikeouts he had that year? Not too many. He had 55 strikeouts. 55. That's insane. It's insane, but at the same time, it doesn't surprise me because he could swing the bat anywhere, and he'd make contact.

Yeah, he would. I don't know why they have his OPS was 814 that year. They have OPS Plus is 100, which was just league average. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you call Pudge League average in anything. How dare you? Like I said, 1996 was a crissue. crazy offensive year for the American League that season.

And Juan Gonzalez was the MVP, if I recall. Yeah, I think he was. Let me double check that, just to make sure. Yeah, he was 26 that year. Oh, my gosh. His OPS was 10-11, which I think was right around where Mike Trouts was. Yeah, 196 MVP. That was one of his two MVP years.

He also won it in 98, and then Pudge won it in 99. Oh, that's right, yeah. The Rangers had three MVP's in four years. And nobody ever talks about that. They really don't. I feel like in 99 there was some controversy about who would win the, oh, it was Pedro. People thought Pedro should win the MVP that year.

No, that was stupid. Yeah. It was stupid. There was more controversy over the gold glove. I think it was 1999 where, and this is a Ranger, so I apologize. But Raphael Palmero won it. But he was mostly a full-time to age. I think he played like 40 games at first base.

and still got the gold glove. Yeah, the gold glove is always questionable, especially at first base, I feel like. They're like, oh, yeah, you can hit it, so therefore you're a good defender. Like, no, that's stupid. Like, it took Mitch Morland so long to win his first gold glove, and he was an incredible defender.

Yeah. But he never got the gold glove award because he didn't hit well enough, which is just stupid for a defensive award. It is something of an offensive award that I've never kind of given, well, this player won such and such gold glove awards, Well, fine, but it's kind of voted on, isn't it? And if you don't have any offensive output, if your name's not Ozzy Smith, you're not going to win it.

Nothing against Ozzy Smith. Obviously, he's, you know, he is who he is and needs no introduction. And he wasn't a bad offensive player. I mean, Elvis Andrews should have had at least one or two gold gloves that Derek Cheater had. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. I'll leave it at that. Yes.

But circling back to baseball in 2020, what do you look at? for the mariners. I know there's, the manors have a pretty deep farm system. They didn't really have it a couple years ago, but some, some tides turning and lots of, lots of trades made. A lot of trades, yeah. The farm system has been stocked up. So what do we have to look forward to for mariners of the future? Because I know there's a couple studs there on the farm. Mariners of the future and mariners of this year are probably two different subjects. I don't think that this year is going to be much in win-law. And, yeah, I mean, I'm not trying to be funny.

That's just the way it is. The Mariners are not going to be much in terms of win-loss percentage this year. I think that their win-loss percentage probably will be similar to what it was last season. I'm looking for a good season from Kyle Lewis, probably the everyday left-fielder, maybe in right field since Mitch Hanager is going to be gone for who knows how long. I'm interested to see what Tom Murphy can do, kind of as a full season as catcher. He kind of came out of nowhere last year. Although Scott's service has said he's going to catcher.

catch maybe 55% of the time, and Aaron Nola is going to catch, pardon me, Austin Nola, will catch 45% of the time. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they are brothers. And the complete wildcar to me is Evan White, who has not played Major League Baseball at all, played all last year at AA, Arkansas, and still got a six-year Major League contract, was pretty much named the everyday first baseman, had a pretty good spring training. He's talked about as a future Gold Glove Award winner because he's just a crazy he's got good range. If he wasn't a left-handed thrower, he'd make an excellent third baseman.

Because he's got the range, he's got the arm and he's got the glove. Can play the outfield, too, from what I hear. I'm interested to see what he can do. And somebody, and my, this is the third time I've said this this week, so Locked on Mariners' listeners, I apologize, but I'm interested to see what Justice Sheffield can do because my opinion on him is changing. I was not very high on him at first

because he put too many runners on base. his fast bubble is too hit a bowl. He walked too many guys. The control is better this spring. He's gotten rid of the four seamer, and he's gone to a two seamer, which has more movement to it. I'm excited to see what he can do,

cautiously optimistic there. Okay, yeah, what do you think about J.P. Crawford? Because he's a guy who definitely had some hype as a prospect with the top, like, five prospect overall in, like, most circles. Back in, like, 2016 or whatever, or he first came up. But he kind of fell off there. I don't really know what happened,

because I can't say I follow the Phillies too closely. but what do you think about him and his potential to be an everyday kind of guy? I think he will be an everyday kind of guy. That was the name I was going to mention next, but time constraints and all that. But I like J.P. Crawford. He is fun to watch play shortstop. He's got the range. His glove is improving.

Two years ago in Philadelphia, his glove was very much below average. Last year, in terms of glove, he was exactly at league average, and the range was the same. So obviously an improvement there. I think he'll continue to get better. As I said previously, I don't remember if it was on this program or another one that I recorded, that he faded down the stretch last year for the Mariners. I cannot speak with this time in Philadelphia because I don't follow them either. The Mariners wanted him to get stronger to be able to last a full season.

And he did that. He worked at it. And he did not have the best offensive spring training, but those numbers may as well be thrown out the window because we may have another training camp coming up in somewhere between six and 53 weeks. Who knows? But, yeah, J.P. Crawford's one of my favorites. I like to watch him play, and I think he will be a good shortstop,

particularly on the defensive side of the ball, which it's shortstop, which to me is still a defensive first position, but he'll hit too. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's good. I feel kind of bad for Mariners. Because I didn't grow up, and I wasn't making attention to baseball back when the Mariners were good, and so there were a lot of Mariners fans who were loud and happy,

and good about their team. I just kind of know the Mariners fans that are sad and beat down. And, you know, we've got a baseball team here, and it's okay. I kind of like baseball, I guess. And just kind of more sheepish. So I have nothing but love for Mariners fans. Well, we appreciate that. Thank you, sir.

That's good. Yeah, I feel like we're definitely well over, but, you know, it's baseball talk. So you can never have enough of it. And, you know, we've touched on the important things, the 96 Rangers defensive abilities, looking for the future in Seattle and all kinds of different stuff. And we've definitely got some Ichero talking here. So I'm glad that we did that because he always needs some Ichero talk with Mariners.

Ichro talk is good talk. One thing that I remember about Ichero and the Rangers specifically, he loved to hit in whatever the name of the ballpark in Arlington happened to be at any particular time. It's the ballpark in Arlington. I will not address it as its former name. And I hate the new name, Global Life Field. and that's like, that's it.

Like, you were Global Life Park for like three years or whatever, and I'm like, okay, we get a new stadium, what's it going to be? Global Life Field. That sucks. Like, the name sucks. But I need to know one more thing before you go. Sure. How do Mariners fans feel now about Adrian Beltrae?

Because I know that there was definitely some animosity towards him when he left. Oh, there's no hard feelings. I mean, I think that was more the fact that he didn't deserve the big contract that he got. And he played up to his career. numbers when he was a mariner, but it just was not worth the $48 million that I think it was Bill Bavesey at the time signed him to. He played his final major league game as a mariner. I mean, we're, we like him. We like him. He's an obvious Hall of Famer and took off after his career with the Mariners, but we're used to that.

Yeah, just another really great left side of the infield player that did really well in Texas, you know, it just, it happens. I don't think the Rangers even expected him. to be what he was. I mean, because that kind of resurgence and like basically career years every year from like, I think 31 was when the Rangers signed him to like 38. He was incredible and he just like kept on trucking and kept on playing 150 plus games a year and was still elite until like 37, which is just kind of insane. And, you know, the Rangers really appreciated him.

And I feel like Mariners would have appreciated him more if he was, if he was who he was, or like showed his personality like he did in Texas. Because like the antics between Felix and Beltraig were amazing. Oh yeah, they totally were. Just flat out amazing. And so if he did that more, like showed that personality when he was in Seattle. And I think back then he was wanting to take baseball more seriously and not show like I can't look like I'm having too much fun because like I haven't been in baseball long enough

and I'm not doing well so I can't act like I'm just like joking around and not taking this seriously. but when he went to the ranger to you, he felt like more comfortable to be himself and show how hilarious and ridiculous he can be. I wonder if that's why he took off there. Honestly, it might be. I don't know. I think it's a combination of a lot of things, but... He certainly was a late bloomer, and, yeah, we're looking forward to his going into the Hall of Fame. It's going to be as a Ranger.

We know that. His time in Seattle was lackluster, but, yeah, we like him. We like him. Yeah, that's good. I needed to hear that. I need to know that because he is, like, one or two in like most Rangers fans like most beloved players. So I'm glad I'm glad that the hard feelings.

I think the friendship with Felix kind of sewed it up. And he just became like baseball's dad towards the end. Everyone's like, yeah, everyone loves Beltray. Like that's just kind of who he is. He's the vet, the funny guy that just don't touch his head or he'll hurt you. Yeah. Well, I feel like that's his good note to end on as any. D.C., where can Lock on Rangers people find your podcast and find you on the internet?

Well, they can find the podcast right here on the locked-on podcast network, as I like to say. The show's got a Twitter address at L-O-U-O-U-N-R-R-R-S. I am on Twitter as well at D.C. underscore Lundberg, L-U-N-D-B-E-R-G for those scoring at home. And for my audience, sir, where can they find you on the out there? That was terrible. I'm leaving it in, but it's terrible. It's fine. It's fine.

No judgment here. You can find the podcast has a Twitter, it has a mind of its own, even though it's just run by me. It's at Locked-on Rangers. You can find me on Twitter at Bryce Patrick. That's Bryce with an I-Patterick, P-A-T-E-R-I-K. Yeah, this has been a blast. We should do this more often. Hopefully there can be some baseball in the near future.

Absolutely. I look forward to it. Thanks, Bryce. Thanks for having me. Great conversation with Bryce Patrick of Locked-on Rangers, which again ran very long, so we're going to get out of here quickly. Please remember to download, rate and subscribe to Locked on Mariner's and Locked on Rangers on Google Podcast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or whichever podcasting app you care to use. Ask your smart device to play Locked on Mariners or Locked on Rangers or Locked on anything.

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