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Speaker 2: You want to talk at all. Today is Thursday, August eighth,

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Speaker 1: Dude that change your.

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Speaker 2: Call me back? How's it going? Everybody? Welcome back. The

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Speaker 2: best comment that I saw while the opening credits were

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Speaker 2: god it's over. I feel the same way. I'm actually

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Speaker 2: kind of astonished that they played this game. But really,

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Speaker 2: anybody who's blaming the weather for the Yankees' loss has

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Speaker 2: to realize that both teams have to play in the

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Speaker 2: same weather, both teams have to face the same conditions,

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Speaker 2: and the Yankees were very uncompetitive tonight, pouring rain all

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Speaker 2: night long, guys slipping and sliding all over the place.

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Speaker 2: Apparently the concern was what was that the Angels would

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Speaker 2: have to come back to Yankee Stadium at the end

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Speaker 2: of the year. Oh no, not come back to New

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Speaker 2: and be paid tens of thousands of dollars. No, let's

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Speaker 2: play in a frickin monsoon. It's not like they were

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Speaker 2: being sentenced to hard labor in Siberia. They were gonna

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful, but it was not to be. They played

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Speaker 2: the Yankees, and it was very much aligned with how

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Speaker 2: the Yankees have played this summer. Claber the Phillies and

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Speaker 2: gonna actually show up. Horrible start for Nestor Cortes, nasty

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Speaker 2: And the Yankees had no answers for Tyler Anderson, somebody

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Speaker 2: some of the left handed and are some of the

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Speaker 2: Yankee starter eras since June first. Marcus Stroman six point

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Speaker 2: That's his entire era this year, Luis Hell four point

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Speaker 2: Cortez five point six to eight. He's been atrocious lately, atrocious.

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Speaker 2: Worst of all. Orioles lost to the Blue Jays, So

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Speaker 2: the Yankees missed an opportunity to take over first place again,

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Speaker 1: What's up, Derek, is Brian Upstate New York? The tom

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