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Speaker 1: December twenty first, and it seems like the Yankees have

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Speaker 1: some breaking news. Ricky Henderson. It sounds like has passed away.

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Speaker 1: So I want to send my condolences to the great

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Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson, whose birthday is on Christmas. And it's a

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Speaker 1: the post I make every year because I always remember that.

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Speaker 1: But rest in peace to Ricky Henderson, one of the

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Speaker 1: all time greats in baseball. But let's talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Paul Goldschmidt. The Yankees picked him up. You

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Speaker 1: guys saw my brief two minute reaction video. I was

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Speaker 1: taking my wife to go see The Lion King, the

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Speaker 1: new one. Absolutely amazing, just the way they can do

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Speaker 1: these three D movies all animated. Everything looks real now,

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Speaker 1: great music and all that stuff. But I loved it.

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Speaker 1: Paul Goldschmidt seems like a stopgap. He's thirty seven years old.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at his stats last year, two

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Speaker 1: forty five twenty two home runs, he still stole eleven bases.

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Speaker 1: He's got a three h two on base percentage. Not

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Speaker 1: it is worth noting that the Yankees will have both

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two MVPs on the team next year. They're

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Speaker 1: the National League. Now, judge probably the only one who

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Speaker 1: baseball talent, and having those guys on the roster, even

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Speaker 1: Paul gold Schmidt over there at first base. Now, gold

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Speaker 1: Schmidt battle league average defender at first base. Right now,

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Speaker 1: still has massive power. I mean some of these home

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Speaker 1: So maybe age hasn't quite caught up with him yet.

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Speaker 1: You hope that he has one more good year in him.

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Speaker 1: suspect it's gonna be Paul Goldsmith's good friend, Nolan Aronato,

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Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty two he had thirty home runs,

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Speaker 1: guys think about Aeronato as a possible final piece to

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Speaker 1: the plan b that Brian Cashman seems to be working

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Speaker 1: I've still got a Ricky Henderson figure. This is and

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Speaker 1: He never cashed it, right, he just stuck it on

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Speaker 1: He just framed it. So there was another story where

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Speaker 1: We were on the same team. So Ricky Henderson a

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Speaker 1: look at Ricky Henderson's career stats, because at sixty five

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Speaker 1: eighty nine. Look at these numbers, I mean two eighty

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Speaker 1: So rip to Ricky Henderson, one of the great sook

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Speaker 1: right this is the time of year for hope. Let's

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