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Speaker 1: All all right, Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. There's no tying.

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Speaker 1: There's no tying in baseball. Well, in spring training there

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Speaker 1: I don't have a cool animation for that, but you

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Speaker 1: About tomorrow night, We've got Eric Kratz coming on the

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Speaker 3: Yes, Top of the Morning threw you Derek Steve Colin

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Speaker 3: from Farmington, Maine. Derek, I, I you're weighing on something.

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Speaker 2: I know you played some baseball. I played a little

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Speaker 2: bit of college baseball, and I played the outfield and

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Speaker 2: if you can run, you can judge a ball. If

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Speaker 2: you can catch and you can throw, you can play.

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Speaker 3: Any outfield position.

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Speaker 4: What's this boloney about.

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Speaker 2: He's only a set of fielder.

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Speaker 3: He has to learn left field question.

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Speaker 1: Mark, interesting call. The angles are different at different positions.

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Speaker 1: I think it's easier to play centerfield than it is

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Speaker 1: to play one of the corner spots because you got

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Speaker 1: to contend with the foul territory area the corners, You

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Speaker 1: got to contend with the ball slicing things like that.

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Speaker 1: In centerfield, it's always kind of moving away from you

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Speaker 1: unless it's hit directly at you. That's the toughest play.

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Speaker 1: If you're playing centerfield and they smoke it directly at you.

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Speaker 1: In centerfield, typically the ball will be knuckling. So I

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Speaker 1: have a baseball here. If you throw a knuckleball, okay,

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Speaker 1: the ball does this. It just kind of flutters right.

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Speaker 1: If you scorch a baseball and hit it completely square,

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Speaker 1: it will do the same thing, right, And that happens

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Speaker 1: the most on line drives directly to center field. I

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Speaker 1: know that because I used to do it. When I

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Speaker 1: would hit I would smoke it right at centerfield because

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Speaker 1: I was always trained you know, in the batting cages

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Speaker 1: and stuff, and VP hit the ball right back to

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Speaker 1: the pitcher whatever. My swing was built to hit line

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Speaker 1: drives up the middle, and if I would just get

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Speaker 1: under it a little bit, I would hit one of

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Speaker 1: those fluttering knuckleballs to center field that was just scorched.

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Speaker 1: But it would almost always get caught right. But it

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Speaker 1: feels great to hit. It's very difficult to catch. But

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Speaker 1: as far as the corner outfielder spots go, it's really

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Speaker 1: just about the angles and about the ball, like diving

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Speaker 1: and things like that. As far as Jordan Montgomery, I

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Speaker 1: really like him as a pitcher. I was I was

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Speaker 1: the resident of the Jordan Montgomery fan Club. But I

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Speaker 1: think that Arizona's gonna be really good. They could unload him,

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Speaker 1: but again it's going to depend on the money. He

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Speaker 1: makes a lot of makes twenty million dollars and the

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Speaker 1: Yankees are already at a limit where they don't want

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Speaker 1: to spend more. They're getting some money back for you know,

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Speaker 1: the cold contract insurance, so maybe there's some work that

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Speaker 1: can be done there. But again, this is one of

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Speaker 1: those situations where I don't think the angles are going

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Speaker 1: to take on the money.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Derek ard Am, we're here from New York. I

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Speaker 3: just want to make a point about third base and

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Speaker 3: also injuries on third base. I go back a long time,

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Speaker 3: and you know Nettles and even further back with our

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Speaker 3: friend Cleete Boyer from those great Yankee teams in the

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Speaker 3: sixties who didn't have much of a bat, but boy,

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Speaker 3: he could he play. And it's hard to find somebody

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Speaker 3: like Nettles again. But I'm still in Paraza for defense.

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Speaker 3: But I hope they can still keep him. That's number one,

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Speaker 3: because he's going to be lost if we can't make

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Speaker 3: the roster. He's out of options. A second, can you

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Speaker 3: give us some insight of what you think about the

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Speaker 3: injuries overall throughout the roster? We were dealing with so

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Speaker 3: many nice to get updates on them. And then what

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Speaker 3: we do with DJ at Lemasa when he shows up again?

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Speaker 3: What happened there?

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Speaker 1: All right? So I'm gonna stop you there. That's about

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Speaker 1: as many questions as I can keep in my head. Piazza, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's out of options, but his defense plays. Right.

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Speaker 1: If the Yankees decide that he's not gonna be their

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Speaker 1: starting third basement, they should trade him because there is

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Speaker 1: value in that glove, and he's a major league defender.

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Speaker 1: Don't know if he's gonna hit. He hits a lot

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Speaker 1: of choppers to short, a lot of choppers to third base.

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Speaker 1: Been doing it his whole career. Did it again today?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: And then, oh man, I already forgot what this is?

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Speaker 1: Why three questions I have difficulty with? All Right, I

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Speaker 1: forgot what else you said? But all right, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that that's where let me go ahead and fast forward

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Here, see if I can find Nope,

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Speaker 1: I can't do it. Oh well, it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we're gonna call it a day. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for tuning in, and we will see on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow Night night, got Eric Kratz joining for Yankees over unders.

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Speaker 1: layout type stuff. I haven't finished all of these things,

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Speaker 1: but so we'll begin. These are gonna be some of

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Speaker 1: the over unders. We're gonna talk about Wells home runs,

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Speaker 1: Dominguez home runs, Judge, Homer's Bellinger, we'll talk about Goldsmith

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