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Speaker 1: catchers reporting to spring training. So in this episode, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a look at the state of the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna grade the offseason. Plus we got some drama

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Speaker 1: between Brian Cashman and Tiger's infielder, Labor Torres. This is

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Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back, everybody, welcome back. We're just days away,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees tonight. Joining me out there from Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: is Terrence Kim. He's a little bit under the weather.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know his voice was messed up. Terrence, do

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Speaker 1: you have the strength to make it through this episode?

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Speaker 3: I absolutely do have the strength to make it through

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Speaker 3: the episode.

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Speaker 2: If anything, it'll be a little bit more like like

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Speaker 1: A little ASMR there. Yeah, all right, So I'll try

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk through a few things tonight. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about the Nolan Ernato rumors that have popped up

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Speaker 1: again over the last twenty four hours. I don't think

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Speaker 1: gonna grade the offseason, what things look like for the

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Speaker 1: take a few comments, talk a little CC sub at

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Speaker 1: the little Martian number change. But let's begin with Nolan Ernato. Terrence,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that this trade makes any sense financially.

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Speaker 1: He's on the downside of a contract. To me, this

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Speaker 1: be leaking that. Okay, let's say the Yankees are interested, right,

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Speaker 1: So it would make the two salaries of Eronado and

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Speaker 1: Stroman roughly the same for the next two years if

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Speaker 1: the Yankees decided to pull this trigger. But there's another

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Speaker 1: there's a third year of Eronato after that, so you

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Speaker 1: don't want to pay for that, and he's declining and

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Speaker 1: he only pulls the ball. What am I missing? TK?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, he's still a great defender, so we'll get that

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Speaker 3: But I don't like it.

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Speaker 2: I also heard some rumors about the Dodgers being interested,

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Speaker 2: so that could be a possibility, but I don't really

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Speaker 2: And the only way I think the Yankee should do it,

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Speaker 2: if at all, you have to get Stroman in the

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Speaker 3: That's the only way it happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I maybe even le Mayhew. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just don't think this makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: And look, I don't know what's available out there other

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Speaker 1: He hit over three hundreds a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: John Carlos Stanton, I got in the cleanup spot for now.

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Speaker 2: the two hole is fine. In the modern day of baseball,

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Speaker 3: It's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: so as we take a look at the ledger for

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Speaker 1: the additions and subtractions. The major additions Max Freed obviously,

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Speaker 1: Devin William I think is going to be a bigger

434
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Speaker 1: ad than Yankees fans are talking about. I mean we've

435
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Speaker 1: talked about it several times. Just not having Clay Holmes

436
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,959
Speaker 1: blow thirteen or fourteen saves, whatever it was, will make

437
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 1: the Yankees better. Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt, and Fernando Cruz

438
00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,240
Speaker 1: another guy who I think is underrated. He's got some nasty,

439
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,639
Speaker 1: nasty strikeout stuff, and you pair him with Matt Blake,

440
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,160
Speaker 1: I think you might see some dangerous stuff. Subtractions obviously

441
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Speaker 1: Benedict Soto, Clay Holmes, Alex Radugo, Anthony Rizzo, Galbra Torres,

442
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Speaker 1: Jose Travino, and Tommy Kinley. And the Yankees are counting

443
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 1: on improvement from Volpi, Wells, Chisholm, Dominguez, Stanton, hopefully Louisa

444
00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 1: Goa who they just resigned, and Ben Rice who contributed

445
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,679
Speaker 1: a little bit last year but struggled a little bit.

446
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: I still think they could use one more infielder, preferably

447
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Speaker 1: a lefty bat, and go ahead and post your grades

448
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Speaker 1: for this offseason in the comments. But what's your grade?

449
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Speaker 1: You know, eight to F on the offseason.

450
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Speaker 2: I feel like a very solid and I'm going with

451
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Speaker 2: pure instinct first thing that comes to mind right now,

452
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Speaker 2: very solid B. I think I would give it a

453
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Speaker 2: very solid bee. You lost one Soda the Mets.

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Speaker 3: That sucks.

455
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 2: The plan B was pretty well executed. I feel like

456
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Speaker 2: you got one of the best available pitchers on the market.

457
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Speaker 2: You got a very versatile athletic player, and Cody Balinger

458
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 2: a lefty bat that you needed.

459
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Speaker 3: His dad was a Yankee, which is kind of cool.

460
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 2: And Devin Williams literally literally, I think arguably the best

461
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Speaker 2: closure in the game, if not top three. So those

462
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Speaker 2: three moves right there are very solid. I do think

463
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Speaker 2: Fernando Cruz is going to be lethal. I just kind

464
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Speaker 2: of have a feeling. You know, sometimes they like a

465
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 2: choir guy and you're like, who is this and he

466
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Speaker 2: just ends up being sick. Like I just kind of

467
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Speaker 2: think that Matt Lake is gonna sprinkle some of that

468
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Speaker 2: magic on there and he's just gonna be lethal for us.

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Speaker 3: I just feel that way.

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Speaker 2: So I think the bullpen is going to be much

471
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Speaker 2: better than it was last year.

472
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Speaker 3: Losing Sodo sucks. You move on.

473
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Speaker 2: I don't think the offense will be as good, but

474
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Speaker 2: the pitching is going to be. I don't think we've

475
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Speaker 2: ever had a pitching staff this good, like all around, honestly,

476
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Speaker 2: in a long time.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, ever, it's a long time. Yeah, We've

478
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Speaker 1: had some good ones. I'd say this is the best

479
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Speaker 1: pitching staff since ninety.

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Speaker 3: Nine Judge era.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, in the Judge era, yeah, yeah, definitely in

482
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Speaker 1: the Judge era. Yeah, I'd say it's the best pitching

483
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Speaker 1: staff on paper since ninety nine. Now. To grade their

484
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Speaker 1: offseason properly, I have to kind of set like what's

485
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Speaker 1: an AF season and what's an F offseason, So like

486
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Speaker 1: an A off season would be the Dodgers, obviously, I

487
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Speaker 1: mean they you know, they got everybody right. The Yankees

488
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Speaker 1: have only had maybe a couple of A off seasons

489
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Speaker 1: in my life. I would say the eight to nine

490
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Speaker 1: offseason where you got the three big free agents Burnett,

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Speaker 1: uh and Sabati and t Shera, you went out and

492
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Speaker 1: traded for Nick Swisher, that was obviously an A off season.

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Speaker 1: I thought so, even before they won the World series.

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Speaker 1: You know, it couldn't go much better, but they don't

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Speaker 1: have They haven't filled that last infield, right, you know,

496
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Speaker 1: they still need and and even Cashman said yesterday it's incomplete.

497
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Speaker 1: I think he would grate it as incomplete. I'm giving

498
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Speaker 1: it a B minus right now. I think there's room

499
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Speaker 1: for improvement. I think they could have done more. To me.

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Speaker 1: An A is if you sign Soto and do everything

501
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Speaker 1: that they also did, like get Max freed and definite.

502
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Speaker 1: There's no way they're gonna do that. I mean they

503
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Speaker 1: could have. They could afford it, They could absolutely afford it,

504
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Speaker 1: but they're not gonna go that far over the luxury

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Speaker 1: tax that would have been a I think that I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give him a B minus. You know, if they

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Speaker 1: add a competent, like if they signed Bragman, I get that,

508
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Speaker 1: that would contradict what I said earlier about blocking some guys,

509
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Speaker 1: that would push it up to a B plus. For me,

510
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Speaker 1: it would have to be a pillow contract. I'm not

511
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Speaker 1: giving him six years. I'm talking like two years, like

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Speaker 1: they opt out that Peter Alonzo just got. Yeah, the

513
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Speaker 1: ped Alons I would I would give the ped Alonzo

514
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Speaker 1: deal to bragmant in a second in a nanosecond, and

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Speaker 1: that would give it a B plus off season for me.

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Speaker 1: But right now as it stands, B minus is the

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Speaker 1: great Frankie. Let's clip that. All right, Let's move on

518
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Speaker 1: to the final topic here, just general discussion. I saw

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Speaker 1: that what you sent me. Sabbathia posted on an Instagram

520
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 1: post that letting a Lot Robinson canoe walk in twenty

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Speaker 1: ten or was it twenty I can't remember, twenty eleven,

522
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Speaker 1: something like that, May twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. It was

523
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: a long time ago. He when they let Canoe walk,

524
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Speaker 1: he said that it ruined their chemistry. But I mean,

525
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna sign Cano for that like ten years,

526
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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty million or whatever. I mean, it's absurd,

527
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Speaker 1: And he ended up making it about two thirds of

528
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Speaker 1: the way through the contract before he, you know, fell apart.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was the right baseball move, I think,

530
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Speaker 2: to let him walk, But Cec Sabathia was literally on

531
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Speaker 2: the team, so I kind of have to take his

532
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 2: word for it where he's in the room, so he

533
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Speaker 2: knows what the chemistry situation is. The post was a

534
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: photoshopped image of Bryce Harper in a Yankee uniform, and

535
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Speaker 2: it was like, what was the biggest mistake the Yankees

536
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Speaker 2: have made or maybe not made in the last like

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Speaker 2: twenty years. And for me, it's gonna be not signing

538
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Speaker 2: Bryce Harper. I mean it was like a no brainer.

539
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 2: People say, like we got Stanton said and he's been

540
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Speaker 2: awesome in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: Guess what.

542
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Speaker 2: Bryce Harper's like the best clutch postseason hitter of all time.

543
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Speaker 3: So I think it would have worked out fine. He's

544
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Speaker 3: left the eater.

545
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Speaker 2: He would have been at first base, So that's for me,

546
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Speaker 2: the biggest thing. And he's making twenty five year which

547
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 2: is nothing now nothing that's like a starting pitcher. Now,

548
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 2: it's like a C tier startings pitcher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Marshaan now wearing number twenty four, I think that's

550
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: a cool move. I was hoping that he would wear

551
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Speaker 1: number twelve. That's what he wore in the minor leagues,

552
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: That's what I wore, and I thought that that would

553
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: have just completed the whole Martian Tracker circle, you know,

554
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: where my number. But yeah, I'm glad that they're gonna

555
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: give this guy a little bit more respect this year.

556
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: That's kind of like a sign of hey, you are

557
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: the favorite to be on the roster to play left field.

558
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: Go out there and just have a solid spring and

559
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: stay healthy and you know, get your work in. You're

560
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: gonna be on the team. That's what it says to me.

561
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: I think he's already made the team. I think he's

562
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Speaker 2: on the team. I think it's more just go get

563
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 2: ready for the season. I'm happy about it. I have

564
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Speaker 2: a no last name number twenty four home Yankee jersey.

565
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool.

566
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Speaker 2: I got it for Robin's cano actually, but now it's

567
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 2: going to be a Domingus jersey. That's what I love

568
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 2: about Yankee jerseys, right, And honestly, I was wondering this

569
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Speaker 2: Parazas number ninety one. If he makes the team, is

570
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Speaker 2: he gonna get it like nineteen. I guess Birdie's not

571
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 2: on the team anymore. But like flip the numbers around.

572
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 3: Just in Yankee Land. It's funny.

573
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: It's like the one franchise because they have so many

574
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Speaker 2: retired numbers where this is like a thing where if

575
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: you get like a cool number, you get a nice number.

576
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Speaker 2: It's like a sign of respect almost, you know, yeah,

577
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Speaker 2: you get number like sixty. I don't know eight, Dellan

578
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 2: Betants wore that, but it's like, as an infielder, you're

579
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Speaker 2: wearing number sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like have you ever seen that movie

581
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: for Love of the Game where they've got all the

582
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: Yankees on the field and they're all wearing like number

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Speaker 1: seventy three, number eighty five. It was like, clearly like

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00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: these are the extra jerseys that they had lying around

585
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: that they didn't want, like you know that they would

586
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: let the extras wear. While they were filming a Yankee

587
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: stadium that day, it was like, hey, what uniforms do

588
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: you got in the globousees going I got a number

589
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: eighty seven, I got a number six. That's that's how

590
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: Jay Ferrell says Bregman isn't taking that deal. Can't put

591
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: that on the front office. Just an unrealistic task. Yeah,

592
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: I think Boris has said, and to be fair, Scott

593
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: Boris doesn't have to tell us the truth. He's no

594
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,479
Speaker 1: obligation to tell us the truth. He said that Bragman

595
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: has multiple five and six year offers, which you know,

596
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: take it, take it if you've got it. I think

597
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: he's going back to the Astros. Although the Astros I

598
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: guess it was either their GM or their owner was

599
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: doing the yearly press event, and Chandler for Rome said

600
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 1: they kept referring to him in the past tense, like

601
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: I wish we could have gotten brockman or pregnant. But

602
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: he's gone, you know, and so maybe maybe he is gone.

603
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see if he ends up

604
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: without a job before spring training, which is only a

605
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: few days away.

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Speaker 2: I will say, uh, I guess this will be kind

607
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: of my final thought here.

608
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 3: I was talking to my.

609
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 2: Dad about this and he wanted to get this hot

610
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: take out there in the university case.

611
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 3: He's right.

612
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: He thinks that Aaron Judge is gonna challenge Barry Bonds

613
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: for the single home run season record singles because his

614
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: logic is, and look, it's it's sound logic. If anybody

615
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 2: can do it, it's Aaron Judge, Like, let's just get

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00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 2: that out of the way. And he just thinks that

617
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: dropping the fly ball in the in the World Series,

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00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: Soto leaving like he's gonna have such a chip on

619
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Speaker 2: his shoulder that he's gonna do it. And rank really,

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Speaker 2: if you look at him last year, if he had

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Speaker 2: a I guess, like a pretty solid April. I mean

622
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Speaker 2: it would have been close. And also he just had

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Speaker 2: his daughter. Congratulations to him and his wife. He's gonna

624
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: get some of that dad's strength, you know how that

625
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: guy's get So we'll see. But just putting that out

626
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 2: in the universe, I think I think sixty two is

627
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 2: definitely on the table. Oh yeah, a lot, But I

628
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: think a mid sixties season from him. It's like, it's

629
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 2: insane to say that, but like he's proven that he

630
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: can do it pretty consistently at this point.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna say the thing that you're gonna

632
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: hear me say, and you're gonna hear Yankees fans say

633
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: all year long. No matter how many freaking home runs

634
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: he hits, he's got to do it when it counts.

635
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: He's got to do it in October for it to

636
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: mean anything in the long run. All right, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Terrence and what's left of his voice, we're

638
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: gonna fire out here. Hey, But we got a song

639
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: here on the outro that I play a lot of

640
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: people have asked me about it. It's a custom made

641
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: remix of the song No Easy Way Out from Robert

642
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: Tepper in Rocky four. I'm going to try and get

643
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: this uploaded somewhere because a lot of people have said

644
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: they want it. So it's kind of a cool song.

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00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: I like to jam out to it, So enjoy it

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Speaker 3: Thank you one side. Derek Frankie Baseball super Bowl? Pick Eagles?

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Speaker 1: Who are they playing? I haven't really been paying Oh

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Eagles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chiefs Eagles for the Super Bowl. I'm picking the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm picking the Chiefs. So winner lose the rest

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Speaker 1: of the twenty pushups Winter Yeah, Winter winner gets chicken dinner.

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