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Speaker 1: How's it going? Everybody? Welcome back? Big game tonight in

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Speaker 1: the Bronx. Garrett Cole making his return to the Yankees

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Speaker 1: rotation feels like Opening Day all over again. We asked

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If I don't know quite, I don't quite know how

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Speaker 3: That, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: All right, good morning, everybody, Good morning, good morning. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think we can all kind of put down the

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Speaker 1: kool Aid Cyanide cocktail. Sounds like Aaron Judge is gonna

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Speaker 1: be okay. Last night, after the game, I uploaded the

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Speaker 1: up Twitter, and I saw all the messages and comments

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Speaker 1: about Aaron Judge and how his scans were negative, how

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Speaker 1: was a huge, huge relief, huge relief ended up sleeping

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Speaker 1: much much better. I don't know if he's going to

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Speaker 1: It's going to be sore. And as much as I

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Speaker 1: the average person, I think it might be better just

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Speaker 1: to give them the day off. I know you guys

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. Let him heal up, hand

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Speaker 1: the ball to Garrett Cole and say, hey, put up

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Speaker 1: some zeros so that Judge does have to get in

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Speaker 1: the game. But Cole back on the mound tonight. Reminder,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be live on the channel during the time

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Speaker 1: when he's in the game, and then after the game,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have Eric Kratz on to break down his start,

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Speaker 1: everything that he's seen from a professional catching perspective from

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Speaker 1: Garrett Cole tonight. So subscribe to the channel. You don't

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Speaker 1: want I miss that. We're over thirty nine now, closing

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Speaker 1: in on forty thousand second straight day that we've done

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Speaker 1: live voicemails in the morning. I don't know how often

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, but we've built the structure out

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Speaker 1: given day, the Judge News I think overshadowed a few

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Speaker 1: things from last night before we get to your voicemails.

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Speaker 1: Clay Holds, excuse me, did something he rarely does, and

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Speaker 1: that is give up the long ball. But he continues

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Speaker 1: to make me nervous. There's something that bothers me about him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's ineffable, it's intangible.

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Speaker 1: And there's people who throw these stats at me. You know,

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Speaker 1: Derek Mariotta Rivera gave up contact too, and you know

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Speaker 1: Holme strikes out a batter per inning in YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 1: But call it a spidy sense, call it whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: I just get nervous when he has to close out

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine New York today if it had been

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Speaker 1: If you believe in the multi universe or multiverse theory,

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Speaker 2: Hey, Derek Nick from South Carolina, good news, Judges. Judges

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Speaker 2: is seriously hurt. I just saw it this morning. I

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Speaker 2: We need, we need a closer. Our bullpen is literally

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Speaker 2: and we have to we have to strengten our bullpen somehow,

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Speaker 2: find a way to get more reliable relievers in there

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Speaker 2: and our closer is the real question. You witnessed it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I agree with you. The bullpen definitely falling

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Speaker 1: Tommy John if you ask me, and he has not

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball rookie mistake. All right, let's get to Chain.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Derek Chain, I was just calling. I'd like to see,

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Speaker 4: the good work, very calculator.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call home. All right, So let's start with

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Speaker 1: the intentionality of that pitch. To Judge, I disagree. I

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Speaker 5: Yo, this is Mo from Jersey. I'm living in Florida

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Speaker 5: right now. But my question is I'm pumped up Cole

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Speaker 5: see this team go up. Yo boy, Mo Pace, I

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Speaker 1: Think the word question means what you think it means, Mo,

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Speaker 7: I don't think av should have his number of retired.

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