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Speaker 1: Ladies and juggle.

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Speaker 2: Welcome through that.

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Speaker 3: All right, good morning, everybody, welcome back. Today is August twelfth.

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Speaker 3: I always think of August twelfth as the day that

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Speaker 3: the baseball season ended in nineteen ninety four, and the

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Speaker 3: Yankees had the best record in the American League. The

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Speaker 3: Expos had the best record in baseball in the National League.

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Speaker 3: But I felt like the Yankees had a really good

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Speaker 3: chance to win it all that year. And this year

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Speaker 3: they have the best record in the American League. They're

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Speaker 3: tied with the Baltimore Orioles at seventy and forty nine,

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Speaker 3: and the Oriols have done their best to kind of

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Speaker 3: let the Yankees have the division, and the Yankees just

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Speaker 3: haven't seized the opportunity. I thought the Ools would be

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Speaker 3: playing a lot better than they have. Yankees have more

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Speaker 3: run scored and less runs allowed. They have a better

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Speaker 3: think these next few days could make a difference. The

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Speaker 3: Yankees are playing the White Sox. The White Sox, as

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Speaker 3: we mentioned yesterday, are twenty eight and ninety one. That

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Speaker 3: is not good if you're not a baseball person. That

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Speaker 3: is a winning percentage of zero point two three five,

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Speaker 3: so they win less than a quarter of their games.

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Speaker 3: And tonight you got Ky Busch going against Luisa Luis

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Speaker 3: Hell looking for win number thirteen as he marches towards

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Speaker 3: the American League Rookie of the Year. Something else I've

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Speaker 3: been thinking about lately. Can Judge and Soto combine for

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Speaker 3: one hundred home runs together? That would be wild. Judge

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Speaker 3: has forty two, so he needs eighteen to get to

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Speaker 4: That would do it.

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Speaker 3: Sixty and forty best two three combo I've ever seen,

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Speaker 3: maybe the best in baseball history. If the Yankees don't

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Speaker 3: play down to their competition over the next few days,

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Speaker 3: they should sweep this series. Realistically, I hope that they

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Speaker 3: don't let their foot off the gas because a lot

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Speaker 3: of times it feels like, you know, when the Angels

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Speaker 3: keys don't really.

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Speaker 1: Go all out.

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Speaker 3: If you just, you know, put in the effort over

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Speaker 3: the next few days and try to really crush this team,

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Speaker 3: you can come away with three wins and be in

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Speaker 3: first place at the end of the series. So we'll

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Speaker 3: see if the Yankees can capitalize on a few days

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Speaker 3: of playing an opponent that's really struggling and you know,

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Speaker 3: hopefully come out of this series on top. All right,

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Speaker 3: let's get to your voicemails. By the way, reminder to

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Speaker 3: tune into foul Territory today. I'll be on live at

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Speaker 3: one thirteen pm. It's on all your Bally's TV regional

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Speaker 3: networks and it's on YouTube, so tune in for that

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Speaker 3: and we'll have some fun announcements.

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Speaker 1: You know, York Steady, I cannot believe at the ball,

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Speaker 1: but do it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Derek Frank from Southern California.

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Speaker 5: A great show.

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Speaker 2: Looking for the new announcements. And I'm also impressed with

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Speaker 2: DJ Lemayhew first to third on a base hit that

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Speaker 2: was big. Hopefully I signed his foot field better, hopefully,

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Speaker 2: And if the team's coming together, we're going to go

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Speaker 3: So DJ Lemayhew very quietly has begun to wake up offensively.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's ever going to be a

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Speaker 3: in the first place. But once you have foot problems

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Speaker 3: be on your feet for nine innings every day it

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Speaker 3: he can still provide good defense. And if he can

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Speaker 3: constantly hit ground balls, he can get you the big

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Speaker 3: hit now. And then he had the Grand Slam not

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Speaker 3: too long ago. Six RBIs on that day yesterday, he

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Speaker 3: I do think that Jazzism has taken over the third

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Speaker 5: Hey, Derrek Nick from South Carolina just one that I

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Speaker 5: dropped my two cents on yes, yesterday's game. You know,

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Speaker 5: it really exposed a lot of the problems that we

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Speaker 5: still have in our bullpen. You know, Clay Holmes is

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Speaker 5: being a closer, people who have more of a strikeout

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Speaker 5: I don't think that would be an issue with him.

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Speaker 5: I think he may have some success.

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Speaker 3: I would say that Mark Lighter is somebody the Yankees

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Speaker 3: But god Ian Hamilton coming back, got Nick Birdie coming back.

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Speaker 3: Last week on the show, we talked about how they

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Speaker 3: the playoffs begin, and then hope to ride them through

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Speaker 3: the postseason. I don't know what the answer is at closer,

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Speaker 3: but I agree with you. I don't think it's Clay Holmes,

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Speaker 6: Hey, Derek Johnson, California, I got a good nickname for

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Speaker 6: Clay Holmes. Full pack, like full pack of cigarettes.

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Speaker 7: That was what the Earl Weaver managed for.

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Speaker 6: The Orioles called don Stanhouse. That was how many cigarettes

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Speaker 3: It should be noted that smoking has been known to

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Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't rule out smoking as a cause.

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Speaker 3: So Clay Holmes really trying to kill Aaron Boone, who's

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Speaker 7: Hey, Derek's John. I got a little bit question for you.

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Speaker 7: So obviously, you know, all season long we've been talking

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Speaker 7: about Juan Soto is gonna be a free agent. He's

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Speaker 7: going to command a humongous contract. And I'm all four

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Speaker 7: guys getting getting paid, But I'm not four guys getting.

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Speaker 1: Ridiculously overpaid like this whole Oh the next guy's got

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Speaker 7: It's it kind of.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense to me, especially because like how far.

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Speaker 2: Is that going to go?

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Speaker 1: But considering that the Yankees have basically the two best

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Speaker 3: I asked Ken Rosenthal the same question when he was

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Speaker 3: It's Juan Soto's eight. Sodo's going to be a free

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Speaker 3: agent at twenty six. Aaron Judge was a free agent

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Speaker 3: at thirty, So you know, you're getting those extra four

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Speaker 3: his prime. He's having his best season ever. He's going

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Speaker 3: to have a nine war season. He's going to probably

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 3: Do I think it's worth seventy million dollars a year?

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Speaker 3: I do not, But I think he's going to get

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Speaker 3: fifty to fifty five million dollars from someone, And I

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Speaker 4: Hey, Derek. It is Eric from Sweden. The country Sweden

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Speaker 4: by the Arctic Circle boon pulling Cole on Saturday Night

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Speaker 4: with a classic example of over relying on pitch count management.

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Speaker 4: Cole was pitching an excellent game. Now. It's true that

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Speaker 4: pitchcount management is popular all around the major leagues nowadays,

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Speaker 4: but just because every other team is jumping off a

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Speaker 4: The Yankees have always been a pioneering baseball team, and

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Speaker 4: they can change questionable practices in the sport, and over

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Speaker 4: relying on pitchcount management limits the effectiveness of strong starting

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Speaker 3: Normally, I would agree with you that pulling a pitcher

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Speaker 3: after ninety pitches could affect their self confidence. I don't

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Speaker 3: think that's the case with Garrett Cole. I think it's

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Speaker 3: strictly they're trying to be careful with this guy. He

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent. He missed a couple of months with

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Speaker 3: an elbow injury. He's clearly starting to age and not

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Speaker 3: be as reliable physically as he has been early in

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Speaker 3: his career, and the Yankees are trying to prolong his

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Speaker 5: Can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't have him be injured for the playoffs. Yankees

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Speaker 3: are not gonna win the World Series without Garrett Cole

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Speaker 3: for the playoffs. And we're too close now to take chances.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna bite Aaron Boone's head off for

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Speaker 3: that one. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be back

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Speaker 3: after the game. Also, tune into foul Territory today one p.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen and I'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: You put.

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Speaker 3: The today's no Stra Derek Prediction. John Carlos Stanton will

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Speaker 3: homer for the third consecutive game. He likes to have

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Speaker 3: these little streaks, and they're gonna be facing Kay Busch,

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Speaker 3: a left hander with a six point seventy five e RA,

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Speaker 3: and John Carlos Stanton Hammer's lefties. So John Carlos Stanton

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Speaker 3: is my Nostra Derek pick for tonight.

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