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Speaker 2: a series tonight against the Orioles and Dream Weaver. Luke

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Speaker 2: talk about the state of the Yankees. Called in with

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Speaker 2: How you doing? How you doing? But in this particular

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Speaker 3: Hey, Eric, I just wanted to say that I'm very

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Speaker 2: Listen, I don't want to be super negative, but I

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Speaker 2: the Yankees made a choice. They decided that shortstop was

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Speaker 1: The best thing about yes yesterday's game was the Jazz

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Speaker 2: Going to swing it back to Boone.

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Speaker 5: What's going on, Derek. Hopefully we can flush this past week, honestly,

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Speaker 5: not saying exactly who, but somebody throws absolute gas, try

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Speaker 2: he is not the answer. He is not the answer.

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Speaker 2: He's barely hitting at double A. He's hitting less at

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Speaker 2: this doesn't look good. So he's hitting two twelve at

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Speaker 2: Come on, guys, let's be realistic. Let's be real realistic.

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Speaker 2: You are not going out and moving Anthony Vopie and

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Speaker 2: says you should make a poll on vope. He's such

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