<div><div dir="auto"> Damn, the rich keep getting richer! By my calculations, if G. Bay wins tonight Mr. Winick will also take over the lead in the football pool! Congrats to Jeff. I thought you had this one John, but fate can indeed be a cruel mistress\u2026..</div></div><div dir="auto"> Rick</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM JOHN FRUIT <<a href="mailto:jtfruit@msn.com" target="_blank">jtfruit@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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seems it's all over but the crying, so Congratulations, Jeff! Again, a great year with an exciting finish......now, let's Go Brewers!!</div>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Sunday, September 28, 2025 10:31 AM<br>
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<p>Maybe the best year ever. Of course, my opinion might change depending on today\u2019s games.</p>
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<p>Congratulations to you and Kerber for an awesome season. And condolences to Mark Blocker who it appears has failed in his annual Drive for Five.</p>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Sunday, September 28, 2025 10:29 AM<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Win, lose or draw, was an entertaining year. Good luck to you, Kerbs and Mark B. today.</span></p>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Sunday, September 28, 2025 9:27 AM<br>
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<p>John,</p>
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<p>Don\u2019t give up just yet. You\u2019re not out of this either. There remain all kinds of interesting (and, at least for me, horrific) possibilities.</p>
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<p>Good luck today.</p>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Sunday, September 28, 2025 9:25 AM<br>
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<p>The real race is the battle for 3rd place!</p>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Sunday, September 28, 2025 8:46:21 AM<br>
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<p>That made me do a spit take with my morning coffee. If I\u2019m going to be a villain though, I\u2019d rather be the six fingered man.
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<p>Jeffrey H. Winick</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">It \u201ccasts\u201d Jeff as . . .<br>
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> On Sep 28, 2025, at 8:22</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">\u202f</span><span style="font-size:11pt">AM, MARK KERBER <<a href="mailto:springkerb@aol.com" target="_blank">springkerb@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">\ufeff</span><span style="font-size:11pt">Like Wesley in The Princess Bride, the Nukes are not all dead\u2014only mostly dead. So I\u2019ll hold off on the concession email. And who knows, perhaps
like Wesley, they\u2019ll rise up to defeat the forces of evil in the end. (I like this analogy\u2014particularly because it vasts Jeff as Prince Humperdinck.)<br>
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