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Speaker 2: It was game six of one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 2: and the Yankees were trying to remain unbeaten in twenty

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Speaker 2: facing off against Zach Gallen, one of the best pitchers

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Speaker 2: in the National League. My recap, your reactions coming up next.

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Speaker 2: This is and Why Why recaps?

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Speaker 3: Welcome dude, that yeah sick.

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Speaker 2: Pull me back, Welcome back, Welcome back, welcome back. At

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Speaker 2: least I didn't have to worry about fitting the fun

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Speaker 2: hat over the headphones tonight. Uh so, all good things

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Speaker 2: must come to an end, and the Yankees win streak

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Speaker 2: vanished like a fart in the wind. To borrow a

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Speaker 2: line from Shawshank Redemption joining me tonight, West Coast representative

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Speaker 2: of this podcast, mister Terrence. Can we call him TK?

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Speaker 2: This is the tough part of the job, TK. How

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Speaker 3: It's tough.

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Speaker 4: This game was just boring. It just was I mean,

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Speaker 4: they didn't really do much. I think the same three

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Speaker 4: nice at third base. Just wanted to highlight that. But

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Speaker 4: this is baseball. It's not like the other sports. Losses

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Speaker 2: Worst part about this is staying up late on the

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Speaker 2: Nestor Cortes. Uh, you know, just hit too many bats

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Speaker 2: once again, second straight game that he's put the Yankees

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Speaker 4: I've noticed he's not doing the like nasty nester, crazy

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Speaker 4: I want to say, like three or four. I'm not

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Speaker 1: He's before your time. I'm surprised, you're I'm surprised, you know,

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Speaker 4: Man, Dude, I ay a yankeeography, all the all that

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Speaker 1: I was just watching it, Dude, I love it. Dude's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I told Derek, I'm a freak. I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: That's great, man. So all right.

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Speaker 2: Volpi had a line drive single in the second Thing

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Speaker 1: Now it's X.

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Speaker 2: I guess you'd call it am. I nuts to think

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely last year. I mean, offensively, he reworked

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Speaker 1: I mean we saw it he does, you catch it. Hang,

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Speaker 1: You're right, he's gotten stronger. He barrels it up. He

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Speaker 1: And he had two zho nine last year, so you.

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Speaker 2: That would still put him at two thirty nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's looking like a three hundred hitter. Like there, you

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Speaker 3: He just is.

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Speaker 4: I don't care about the contract. I know the Yankees

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Speaker 2: Somebody posted earlier that he's a guest hitter. I one

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Speaker 4: No pitch identification with him is literally kind of falling

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Speaker 4: Where's he gonna play?

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Speaker 1: You good day, and next time is later today.

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Speaker 1: He's my West.

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Speaker 2: Coast guy, we're gonna be you know, it's just so

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Speaker 4: Actually, announcement about the West Coast. I will be going

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Speaker 2: You know, gotta lose sometimes, you know, sometimes you win,

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Speaker 4: I will say with cousins, Yankees acquired him for a reason. Guys,

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Speaker 4: He's a sink or slider guy too, right.

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Speaker 2: But again, you've got to hit your spots with it,

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Speaker 4: Oh no, the command. The command is definitely an issue,

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Speaker 1: So all right, let's do the wrap up dance because

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Speaker 2: So I gotta get out of here.

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Speaker 1: Show off your shirt, Show off the shirt.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you guys, four or.

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Speaker 1: Five shirt's good.

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Speaker 4: I got the Trucker hats and the un hats style

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Speaker 4: now available. I think that's brand new available. Looks good

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Speaker 4: and all right, be rocking it this season.

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Speaker 2: All right, man, thanks for joining, and everybody like and

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Speaker 2: subscribe and check out all the audio platforms and all

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Speaker 2: that good stuff, and we will be back after tomorrow's game, Terrence,

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Speaker 2: I'll see then.

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Speaker 3: See you dude.

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