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Speaker 2: hard to believe that we have reached the final week

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Speaker 2: to be an extremely crazy week. We've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of teams that are on the verge of just astonishing collapses.

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Speaker 2: to fucking bet the Mets taking on water and if

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Speaker 2: But we are here to talk about the Yankees, right

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Speaker 2: the big brother, always and forever in New York City.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees don't necessarily control their own destiny, but they

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Speaker 2: three and three, play five hundred ball, it's pretty simple. Well,

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Speaker 2: the Yankees will complete the comeback and be American League

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Speaker 2: Eastern Division champions. And we got some calls about that.

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Speaker 2: I don't expect it to happen. I think it's unlikely.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I expect Aaron Boone to probably put

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Speaker 2: out some punt lineups this week, no question about it,

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Speaker 2: as he tries to value rest over potentially winning the East.

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Speaker 2: But Armad Lauris c is right. There isn't really one

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Speaker 2: outstanding team this season. Get in and you can win one.

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Speaker 2: Correct he is riding by the stadium at this exact moment.

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Speaker 2: Nice Personally, I'm not excited about the prospect of facing

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Speaker 2: So I want the Yankees to come back and win

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Speaker 2: always said, and I believe this one hundred percent, that

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Speaker 2: it's the hottest. So to answer the question, how far

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Speaker 2: and we saw some really promising signs over the past

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Speaker 2: nine home runs. Now I was updating his numbers for

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Speaker 2: And the last time that I had his profile up,

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Speaker 2: went up, his home runs went up. His ops, he's

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Speaker 2: been playing well. John Carlos Stanton hit home run number

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Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty. He had been scuffling a little bit,

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Speaker 2: so it's good to get him going. We really got

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Speaker 2: you wonder how he's feeling right. I mean, he was

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Speaker 2: red hot when he came back, but this is a

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Speaker 2: could see the Yankees giving a couple of days off

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Speaker 2: to see some really positive signs from Ben Rice really

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Speaker 2: both of them just knocked it out.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it's gonna take. I have no

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Speaker 2: even Garrett Cole's only got four years left. I could

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Speaker 2: As far as the pitching goes, I mean, that's that's

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Carlos Rodn and Mareed have both been

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Speaker 2: throwing the ball well. They've both been pitching well, no

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Speaker 2: Just two starts to go six shutout innings or six

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Speaker 2: Ice cold Killer. I was on Foul Territory before the

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Speaker 2: the bullpen. The bullpen, And that's pretty much what he did.

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Speaker 2: we're at the point where the bullpen has struggled so

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Speaker 2: Two big question marks are the bullpen and whether or

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to beat the Yankees and they can

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Speaker 2: a few comments here, Rob amps Is, the lefties, Jazz Belly,

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Speaker 2: The Yankees do lead the league in home runs and runs.

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Speaker 2: Freed Rodin both been terrific. Judge fighting for his third

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Speaker 2: Freed has been worth every penny. He's got a chance

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Speaker 2: and if he gets hot, watch out for him in

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Speaker 2: more experienced to vote. Wells vote, and Wells have been bad. Right,

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Speaker 2: We're going into the playoffs and we got a chance

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Speaker 2: ninety plus games. I mean, if they go six to

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Speaker 3: Hey, Derek, this is Josh from Connecticut. And call me crazy,

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Speaker 2: Katie, Yeah, it's gonna be a fun week. Let's hope

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Speaker 2: Here's Eric from Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Derek, great show. I love your show. I wish

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Speaker 1: it was longer. Hey, this is Eric from Baltimore. Loved

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Speaker 1: the weekend of baseball. Here, listen, you gotta have the

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Speaker 2: Okay, So first of all, there is an actual belt

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Speaker 2: We got to comment here, rob Am says Derek. We

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of heavy lifting and losing that would

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Speaker 2: All right, So we got a couple of comments here.

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Speaker 2: Dom Di says Belly will be back. I agree with

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