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College baseball connoisseur. DII/NAIA/DIII rankings for @pgcollegeball . Check out my college baseball podcast the 123 Inning Podcast where ever pods are sold!

Omaha, NE
Joined October 2010
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Despite having near zero carpentry skills I cobbled together a right field line inspired bar for my basement primarily using old pallets as my COVID project. I used 335’ down the line in honor of Rosenblatt Stadium.
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St. Xavier was the only school to give him an offer. His senior year he was the closer and starting right-fielder for the Cougars.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Top college baseball programs by overall draft picks since 1999: 1. @ASU_Baseball (153) 2. @RiceBaseball (140) 3. @FullertonBSB (139) 3. @TexasBaseball (139) 5. @GatorsBB (136) 6. @StanfordBSB (135) 7. @OSUBaseball (133) 7. @GamecockBasebll (133) 9. @AggieBaseball (132)
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
The 2019 NCAA Division II @PGCollegeBall baseball preseason rankings. Complete list and capsules at
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Total MLB draft picks from DII programs since '99: 1. @UT_Baseball (79) 2. @MocsBaseball (47) 3. @CSUSB_Baseball (46) 4. @APUBaseball (30) 5. @FPUBaseball1 (27) 6. @SeawolfBaseball (26) 6. @NSU_Baseball (26) 7. @BaseballCPP (24) 8. @BarryUBaseball , @UMOBaseball , @CalStateLABB (23)
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Nick Herfordt
10 years
My son is in a slump. What is the proper combination of elbow sleeves, wristbands, eye black and dry fit gear to make him a better hitter?
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
The Rays have a DII player (Joey Wendle, @WCU_Baseball ) an NAIA (Nick Anderson, @msu_baseball who also threw for DII’s @SCSUHUSKIES_BB ) and a DIII player (Josh Fleming, @WebsterBaseball ). Play for an opportunity, not the name of the school.
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
You don't need to play Division I to get noticed and drafted. If you're good, they'll find out.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
Look at these teams that got left out: Dixie State 35-19 North Georgia 33-20 Western Oregon 30-13 Columbus State 31-20 Texas A&M Kingsville 30-20 Wingate 33-20 USC Aiken 32-22 Southern Indiana 30-21 Malone 33-18 Shepherd 36-16 Each would be no worse than a three seed in the east
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Fans were permitted to attend the @CPBL game today. Health precautions: - max 1,000 spectators - fans were spread out - no changing of seats - masks required - no concessions - body temp taken at entry - guided entrance/exiting
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
The Washington Bears were a strike away from eliminating @CoeBaseball , but then...
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
If it were up to me (and frankly it should be) here are the eleven additional schools which I would invite to the NAIA national postseason along with an explanation why:
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
When my wife says, “You can enjoy your weekends now that you don’t have to do so much baseball stuff”
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Nick Herfordt
2 years
Since 2009 I’ve covered small school baseball and provided rankings and reporting for the game at the DII, NAIA and DIII levels. Unfortunately I think the coverage has come to a close. There is a lot of work involved in providing coverage and I don’t have the time and energy to
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
The full 2019 NAIA @PGCollegeBall College Baseball preview is now up with the complete Top 25, team capsules and the top 30 prospects by @B_Sakowski_PG .
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
I wrote a thing about the NAIA's obscene gifting of an autobid to Lewis-Clark St to their World Series:
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
Remember a couple years ago when every team had like six alternative digital camo jerseys? Let’s not do that again.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
The NCAA DII baseball tournament started today and I’ve gotta admit never been as lethargic as this year about the results. So many quality teams, players and coaches were left home by the ridiculous regional selection process that’s it’s really taken the gas out of me.
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
Lewis Clark St had a little more gas left in the engine at the end. It was almost like they were better rested for the tournament.
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
Imagine how stupid it will be if a guy like this doesn’t get drafted just because he plays in the NAIA.
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
My son is in a slump. What is the proper combination of elbow sleeves, wristbands, eye black and dry fit gear to make him a better hitter?
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
To have eight teams in the NCAA DII east region and only six in both the southeast and south central is such an absolute injustice. Brutal to see teams like North Georgia, Columbus State and Dixie State not get to play because of bad format. Absolutely crushing.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
🚨Attention college coaches 🚨Uncommitted right handed pitcher for fall. Lots of raw talent. Fastball pushing upper teens. DM for additional.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
Updated @PGCollegeBall DII/NAIA/DIII rankings now up at , featuring unexpected exponential rise of @Jessup_BASE in to the NAIA Top 25 thanks in part to breakout closer closer Tyler Fujimoto.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Colleges whose draft picks (since 1999) produced the highest MLB WAR (w/ highest player): 1. @LBDirtbags 213 (Longoria) 2. @UCLABaseball 142 (Utley) 3. @ASU_Baseball 151 (Pedroia) 4. @LSUbaseball , 139 (A Hill) 5. @FullertonBSB 128 (J Turner) 6. @MizzouBaseball 128 (Scherzer)
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
@IchabodBSB 's Brock Gilliam ( @brockgilliam21 ) is listed on of the 2020 NCAA Division II Top 30 Prospects by @perfectgame ! See the complete list here:
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Total MLB draft picks from DIII programs since '99: 1. @ChapmanSports Panthers (13) 1. @AmherstBaseball Mammoths (13) 3. @BSCBaseball Panthers (12) 4. @CLUBaseball Kingsmen (11) 5. @UWWBaseball Warhawks (9) 6. Pomona-Pitzer @SagehenBaseball (7) 6. @TrinityBaseball Banthams (7)
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
The DII baseball regionals are based on conferences. Twelve of the top 13 teams in RPI are in the South or Southeast, meaning only two - at most - of these schools will advance to the final eight.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
My son’s first little league at bat! I’m proud to say he got a single/out/home run. Coaches please do not inundate my inbox with scholarship offers at this time. We will start to review our options after the weekend.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
BREAKING: Joe Biden has promised that his administration will look into ensuring college baseball teams have better road dining options than Subway.
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Nick Herfordt
8 years
BREAKING: @CoastalBaseball 's @captndap (Andrew Beckwith) has been named the 2016 Gregg Olson Award winner for Breakout Player of the Year.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Here is the @PGCollegeBall DII Preseason Top 25. Go to to read more on the teams.
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Nick Herfordt
8 years
Don't tell anyone, but I've been secretly covering the DI College World Series while wearing a DII team's shirt.
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Nick Herfordt
1 year
For the first time @Mside_Baseball has been included in @PGCollegeBall Top 25 NAIA rankings. That makes THREE teams from the @GPACSports in the mix with @DoaneBaseball and @cunebaseball . I could see @MMULancersBSB also making the NAIA Opening Round.
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
In 115 1/3 innings @Parevalo12 has 114 strikeouts with only six walks. That's disgusting. 🤮
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NAIA Ball
3 years
New Orleans Bracket (2) Keiser defeats (3) Oklahoma City 8-0 Pablo Arevalo: 9 IP, 0 R, 14 K (Three straight 9 inning shutouts^ 🔥)
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
The absence of @saintleobase is 100% grade A baloney. Lions are 36-10 while playing in the Sunshine State w/ strong non conference schedule. Take away games vs Tampa and NSU and they are 36-4. Of those four, two were in mid Feb, one in extra innings and other to Florida Southern.
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6 years
New @NCAADII South Region rankings are out and @DeltaStateBSB rise to No. 2! #TraditionNeverSlumps
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
I've never met @Aaronvford9 . Got no stock in him or @TwuBaseball but I think NAIA should explain why he's omitted from All American status.
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
Rule one of hitting, keep your eye on the ball:
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
Its safe to say there won't be a new number one in the next DII rankings. @RamsASUbaseball has two mercy run wins this weekend over a very good Wayland Baptist club. Today's finsher was a walk-off grand slam.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
That was kinda like the Jeter play, but like the complete opposite.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
Great news! I have fixed the D-II baseball region problems. Anoint me the omnipotent yet benevolent commissioner and I will create a 64 team, 16 regional bracket. This is what this season's would look like:
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
To the dudes coming back for the extra bonus year of playing ball - don’t you waste that year academically and professionally. Complete your degree, start a masters program, do an internship. Your baseball career got a year back but life is moving on.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
Missouri Baptist has a player named General McArthur. Like not as a nickname, but his straight up name. He's good too, batting .413 so far. I'm guessing he was not recruited by @TrumanBaseball based on my history lessons.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
Guy sitting behind me at CWS last night wasn’t baseball savvy; didn’t know what a K or F-9 meant on scoreboard, but that’s 100% ok. HOWEVER, he also stated Keanu Reeves was in a movie called “Ted and Bill’s Amazing Adventure” and that is unacceptable.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
With the latest @PGCollegeBall DII rankings are picks for midseason awards: MVP: Chase Sudduth ( @4CHASEY ) @UNGBaseball Outstanding Player John Michael Faile ( @jm_faile13 ) @NGUBaseball Outstanding Pitcher Garrett Hutson ( @Hutty__24 ) @CMUMavsBaseball
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
Perfect Game Small School 2021 🏆⚾️Pitcher of the Year DII: Zach Parish, @MSSUBaseball NAIA: Pablo Arevalo, @KeiserBaseball DIII: Matt Mulhearn, @WebsterBaseball
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
I'm really going to miss @kylekelsh5 of @taylorbaseball this season. Dude stole 59 bases over the past three seasons while getting only 1 AB per year. One of my favorite one tool players of all time.
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
My picks to advance to the D-II Baseball Championships: Atlantic: @SHGriffBaseball Central: @Mules_Baseball East: @SNHU_Baseball Midwest: @Baseball_UIS South: @UT_Baseball Southeast : @NGUBaseball South Central: @RamsASUbaseball West: @APUBaseball
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
Per my calculations the top DII teams are: ━━━━━━ ┃ CO Mesa ┃ ┃ N Grville ┃ ┃ Tampa ┃ ┃ Colmbus St┃ ┃ Quincy ┃ └━━━━━ ┘ 7┃ 8┃ 9┃ / | ━┛━┛━┛━┛ 4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + | ━┛━┛━┛━┛ 1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ =┃ ━┛━┛━┛━┛
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
In a non College World Series note I just want to say that the @Exp_League , a summer collegiate wood league, has teams with awesome team names and logos. I need to get out of city and see the @FremontMoo since they're only about an hour away.
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
The @CMUMavsBaseball teams is headed back to the DII CWS. Mav pitchers only allowed five total runs in four games to win region.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
The latest @PGCollegeBall DII rankings have been posted. See the complete list at: . The North Grenville Crusaders have been ranked in top two entire season thanks to a perfect balance of holdovers, transfers and recruits.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
SWEET MOTHER MARY OF JESUS THIS CATCH IS INCREDIBLE!
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Florida Southern Mocs
6 years
Hey @espn , do you think this robbed HR is good? We think it's pretty good. FYI, this saved the game, no biggie. @MocsBaseball @D2SSC @SportsCenter @ESPNAssignDesk @NCAADII @MLBNetwork #SCTOP10 #LetsGoMocs #D2Baseball
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Congratulations to @Josh_Elvir95 of @RamsASUbaseball . He is on USA Baseball's 55-player preseason Golden Spikes Award watch list. It is the beginning the process of identifying the top amateur baseball player in the country. Josh is the only DII player on the list.
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
I want to give a shout-out to the 99.9% of you for the overwhelming positive feedback for the NAIA/DII preseason rankings which were released this week and over the years. It’s your enthusiasm and appreciation which fuels the effort. It couldn’t be done without your support.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
With our country as divided as it is these days, it’s nice to know that no matter what your political beliefs are, we can all agree that Kevin Cash really screwed the pooch.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
With the latest @PGCollegeBall NAIA Top 25 rankings are picks for mid-season awards: MVP: Cameron Pope, @TaborBaseball Outstanding Player: Austin Sojka @OKWUeagles_BSB Outstanding Pitcher: Evan Gillespie ( @Evan_Gillespie ) @FaulknerBases
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
From the @PGCollegeBall final DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: DII Most Valuable Player – Will Dixon, @CMUMavsBaseball In 28 relief appearances he earned a nation-leading 16 SVs and held opposition to a 0.66 ERA. Threw a SHO to advance Mavs to title game.
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Nick Herfordt
10 years
I bet @HailStateBB 's Wes Rea eats baseballs like apples between innings. http://t.co/IpmmOeYda5
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
Is my math wrong or do two of the top eight leaders in American League batting average come from NCAA DII schools? @NSUStatsInfo @NSU_Baseball @WCU_Baseball @WCURamsBaseball
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
The last two seasons Kelsheimer has played in 84 games, but only has two at-bats. His sole role is to be a pinch runner and steal bases, an assignment he has done successfully 42 times while only being caught three times.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
Here is the pitch that would have put @AbbeyBaseball into the DII Championship Series. If this was called a ball Crusaders would have been walk off winners. Instead @CSUCougarsBSB won the game and forced a winner-take-all finale.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Top MLB WAR from DII/NAIA/DIII players drafted since '99: 1. JD Martinez - @NSU_Baseball @ 2. Jordan Zimmerman - @UWSPbaseball # 3. Freddy Sanchez - @ocustars ^ 4. Kevin Pillar - @CSUDHbaseball @ 5. Brendan Ryan - @lcwarriors ^ 6. Matt Joyce - @MocsBaseball @ @ DII # DIII ^ NAIA
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
8. EMPORIA STATE HORNETS - @ESUBaseball returns 5 position starters and added oomph in xfer @brycefischer3 from OK St. Top two starting pitchers are back on mound in @Seth_Holman16 and @tcairns13 . They’ll reacquaint with five of the top six arms out of the last year’s bullpen.
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
Mason Schwellenbach of @CMU_BASEBALL . 14-1, 2.26 ERA, 113 K in 87 2/3 and .381/.439/.673. Led team to second place finish in NAIA. @MasonSchwelly
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CollegeBaseballHoF
3 years
Who are you rooting for to win the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award? #CBFAWARDS2021 🗳️
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
Finally got my handmade warning track bar set up in my basement. The accompanying artwork is by the amazing @gypsyoak .
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Nick Herfordt
10 years
Seen too many tweets about bat flips in a positive manner lately. If showing up a pitcher is cool then getting beaned is gonna be super rad.
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Nick Herfordt
1 year
1. NORTH GREENVILLE CRUSADERS @NGUBaseball Before @LandonPowell10 was hired the Crusaders sputtered to an abysmal 8-35 record and finishing last in their conference. Since then, the team has won nearly 3/4 of games and advanced to the NCAA postseason the past five full seasons.
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Nick Herfordt
5 years
I don't feel like we as a society as talking about @taylorbaseball 's @kylekelsh5 enough. He is a baseball presence not seen since the days of Herb Washington who was the Oakland A’s "designated runner" in the 1970‘s.
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Nick Herfordt
4 years
1. @FHU_LIONS - There are no weaknesses on the Lions' roster. @joshsears34 and @_willard24_ provide power in the lineup. @AlexHuey1 , Jacob Sawyers and @austin_steel give @jestes34 three experienced SPs. @connor_creasy11 rounds out the rotation. @Landhoe10 is a heckova closer.
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Nick Herfordt
6 years
6. MERCYHURST LAKERS - @HurstBaseball lost little in offseason and will tangle with WCU for conference and national crowns. Hurst has 4 SPs back who collectively K’d 252 in 198 IP w/ sub 3.00 ERAs capped by @Valli_Swag7 & @Russwith2Ls . Drew Delsignore is top returning hitter.
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Nick Herfordt
7 years
DII Busted Bubble Region 1 Belmont Abbey 2 Franklin Piece 3 North Alabama 4 North Greenville 5 Central MO 6 Florida Tech 7 Western Oregon
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Nick Herfordt
3 years
Now.
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