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Speaker 1: But Keith, something quick cool happened to you today, didn't it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you traveled across the country. I traveled down the

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Speaker 4: Parkway Turnpike. I went back home for my first ever

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Speaker 4: career day at my high school, which was a blast

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Speaker 4: from the past. Walking back into my high school was

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Speaker 4: weird because I don't know the last time I went there.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure I went at some point after graduation, but

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Speaker 4: it's probably been at least a decade plus.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And you know, walking the hallways, I'm like, the lockers

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Speaker 4: look smaller, the classrooms look smaller, and like, I guess

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Speaker 4: I was a smaller person. But you know, sitting down

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Speaker 4: in front of a thing that said Keith McPherson's sports

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Speaker 4: talk radio host and meeting these kids that they weren't

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Speaker 4: even born when I graduated, right and they're asking me

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Speaker 4: how I got from where they are to where I

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Speaker 4: am now. It really gave me a different perspective of like,

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Speaker 4: like It makes you go back in your mind and

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Speaker 4: think about them high school days and going to class

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Speaker 4: and playing football and going to practice, but even going

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Speaker 4: to dances and stuff. I told one of the dudes

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Speaker 4: think about girls that I used to crush on, and

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Speaker 4: I don't think about them at all now. I done

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Speaker 4: forgot all of them now. But yeah, it's always good

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Speaker 4: to pay it forward and give back. Shout out to

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Speaker 4: Ocean Township High School and you know all the young

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Speaker 4: and you know, spent some time today telling them my

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Speaker 4: could do it. If I made it out of here,

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you could get back and speak to the kids,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm all about that, so I want to

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Speaker 1: share that. That's awesome, all right, rob G speaking of

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Speaker 1: school in somebody. Jason Tatum at a performance last night

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he had been struggling, you know, might have struggling

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Speaker 5: Yesterday, in a potential Finals previews, Jalen Brown Jason Tatum

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Speaker 5: They beat him pretty soundly. And now it's got a

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Speaker 2: Keith, where are you on the Celtics.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm in New York. I'm around these Knicks fans.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna pooh pooh the Knicks and This was supposed

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Speaker 4: The Knicks are looking good right now, but the Celtics

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Speaker 4: right who knocked them out last year. They felt like

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Speaker 4: that was a fluke. Tatum got hurt.

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Speaker 1: Well, remember they've missed seventy five out of one hundred

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Speaker 4: It is in their DNA. They look up at banners

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Speaker 4: Tatum and Brown have been doing this for a long

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Speaker 4: time now. I don't think we realized like they've been

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Speaker 1: They've been together this in just three or four years, right,

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Speaker 4: And Tatum's not himself. Tatum wants to, you know, chuck

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Speaker 4: Having Tatum is better than not having Tatum. Watch out

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Speaker 4: for the Celtics to get back in the Eastern Conference

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Speaker 4: Eastern Conference Finals. I know people had the Knicks penciled in.

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Speaker 4: You know, they fired the coach and they said this

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Speaker 4: there's somebody in the way again. And it's not the Pacers,

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Speaker 4: but it's the Celtics who This is what they do,

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Speaker 1: It is hard not to look at the Celtics and think,

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Speaker 2: Remember, they got rid of all the veterans.

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Speaker 1: They looked like everybody thought they were gonna punt singers.

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Speaker 4: They traded away who else think holiday al Hoard for exactly.

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Speaker 2: They got rid of all those guys.

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Speaker 4: So it's like Luca because Louke Cornette told him that

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Speaker 2: Cornett him out of there, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of people are punted on the Celtics

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Speaker 1: figure and it's just, you know, it's just going to

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Speaker 1: be you lose your star player, not that Jalen Brown

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Speaker 1: and they're really stars, both of them. You're right, But

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Speaker 1: but people didn't have this figured out. And when they

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Speaker 1: I argued he thought the addition of Taitum would mess

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Speaker 1: get better as time goes on. You talked about his

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Speaker 1: mean basketball, as you know, you just have to. It's

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Speaker 1: that game was a wake up call for people, especially

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Speaker 1: coming against OKC. Right like, oh, and I know everybody thinks, okay, see,

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Speaker 1: you know it was a cake walk to the finals.

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Speaker 1: They had two series that win seven games. It wasn't

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Speaker 4: And I think the Celtics are still young too. The

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Speaker 4: a long way from it being an NBA Finals with

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Speaker 4: Boston versus OKC, but for a little litmus test like that, right,

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Speaker 4: beating the team with the best record in the NBA

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Speaker 4: in your building, Hey, something to talk about on sports

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Speaker 4: talk radio on TV. I think people are definitely talking

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Speaker 4: then even the pieces around them, Peyton Pritchard or Sam Howser,

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Speaker 4: credit in here, Brad Stevens somewhere lurking in the background,

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Speaker 4: somewhere saying we weren't taking a year off. You thought

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Speaker 4: And now Joe Mazzola is like, take our time, take

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Speaker 2: And it's hard to play.

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Speaker 1: I mean it looked like it because of this shedded

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Speaker 1: all those players, but you're right, it gave younger players

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Speaker 1: a chance to develop and get better, Jalen Brown to

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Speaker 1: lead that team. And now you've got putting the band

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Speaker 2: So now you're you're in. You're gonna be in full strength.

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Speaker 2: And here's the other thing is while the.

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Speaker 1: Knicks have won lately, right, they've been winning, Okay, don't

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Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel the same.

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Speaker 4: No, should have got you, honest, the piston.

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Speaker 2: We're rolling, then they hit a dry patch. So you

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Speaker 2: looked at them.

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Speaker 1: This shooting is not good enough for me, Like they're

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Speaker 1: at the bottom three point shooting, perimeter shooting. You look

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Speaker 1: at a lot of games, they're five for twenty five, Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna win Duncans in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Where you can't make threes?

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Speaker 1: And what was the other team that I was thinking of?

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Speaker 1: And the Calves?

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Speaker 2: You just don't know.

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Speaker 1: If James Harden finally puts together one postseason, they could

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Speaker 10: You gotta say, hey, you got to lock in the

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Speaker 1: So you were betting, man, If I said, I want

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Speaker 1: Rob Okay, that's fair deal, all right, appreciate that, Thank you,

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Speaker 1: All right, so coming up next, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: with Gary Sheffield Junior, who is the host of Yankees

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Speaker 1: Unloaded podcast.

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Speaker 2: Will do that. Also, shop talk is coming up, But

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Speaker 2: first let's get you caught up.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: What because Tom Brady would have been the first player

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Speaker 1: in NFL history to get Social Security, a pay check,

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Speaker 1: and his pension all at one time, and the league said,

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Speaker 1: no way, no, how on Tom Brady?

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Speaker 2: How's that?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, Rob Keith back to you appreciate it? Yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: It is the odd couple on a TV theme song Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker Keith McPherson in for Kelvin Washington. We're here

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Speaker 1: live in New York, not in Los Angeles as we

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Speaker 1: usually are. Appreciate you guys being a part of the show.

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Speaker 1: And now let's welcome in Gary Sheffield Junior, who, of

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Speaker 1: course is the host of the Yankees Unloaded podcast, one

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Speaker 1: of the nice young baseball minds in the game.

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Speaker 2: Gary, what's happening? Say hi to Keith McPherson. What's up.

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Speaker 13: I'm good Keeeth?

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Speaker 10: What's up?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 10: Yo?

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Speaker 4: It's good, bro, I was saying before. We haven't met yet,

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Speaker 4: but I feel like I know you from Yankees Twitter.

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Speaker 4: All these years we've interacted a bunch, So I go

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Speaker 4: to connect with you over the phone on the radio.

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Speaker 13: Hey, yeah, yeah, I'll see you soon, no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Well let's start with, of course, the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 1: We know Judge, the golden Samborough fo strikeouts and five

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Speaker 1: at bats, YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 2: We know that.

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Speaker 1: But the Yankees put it on the Giants and Webb

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Speaker 1: beaten Webb and the opener seven nothing in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Do you like the way this Yankee team is constructed?

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Speaker 1: Because a lot of people are like, well, they haven't

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Speaker 1: done a lot of stuff. The team won ninety four

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Speaker 1: games right last year without Garrett Cole, And I think

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Speaker 1: I like what the Yankees are.

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Speaker 2: I think they have enough pitching. I do. Where are you?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you.

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Speaker 13: And part of that is there a ninety four win

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Speaker 13: team after the deadline. So it's not really the same

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Speaker 13: team as last year. It might be the same team

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Speaker 13: as the second half team. But when you're adding Garrett Cole,

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Speaker 13: you're adding Capierra for the whole year, and you're not

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Speaker 13: getting Anthony Vopi for one fifty nine. Right, You're talking

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Speaker 13: about guys like Cam Schlitzler, who's pitching Game two. He

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Speaker 13: was here for about fifteen minutes, and you saw what

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Speaker 13: he could do against Boston that elimination game in the

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Speaker 13: Wild Cards. So as far as I'm concerned, I expect

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Speaker 13: the Yankees to win the division. But I think Keith

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Speaker 13: and I are on the same page when it comes

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Speaker 13: to this. The Yankees have to prove that they can

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Speaker 13: do it when it actually matters. Can you put the

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Speaker 13: ball in play? And I think Opening Day was actually

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Speaker 13: a good sign. Didn't hit a single home er won.

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Speaker 1: Seven or nothing, and I want to follow Keith before

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Speaker 1: you jump in. A lot of people were like they

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Speaker 1: didn't want Trent Grisham back and this and that. That

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Speaker 1: dude had a really good year for the Yankees last year,

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Speaker 1: and here he is with a triple. I don't know

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Speaker 1: why people that guy won a Gold Glove. He's a

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Speaker 1: really good player. I'm not saying he's a superstar and

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Speaker 1: All star, but he's good.

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Speaker 2: No good.

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Speaker 13: But it's another thing. It's Spencer Jones, it's Jason Amingez.

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Speaker 13: People want to see the kids. I don't know the

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Speaker 13: infatuation with Yankee fans in their prospects. I think part

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Speaker 13: of it's the core for they just make the assumption

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Speaker 13: that every prospect it can always work out in a

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Speaker 13: Hall of Fame trajectory. But reality is is proven vets

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Speaker 13: are just as good as young rookies on cheap contracts.

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Speaker 13: Like what does it matter what they make to us?

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Speaker 13: So I get it. Treig Grisham boss' career year.

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Speaker 3: I liked it.

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Speaker 13: He's back. I just don't love the dollar.

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Speaker 4: Amount, right, Okay, I got to ask you about the pen.

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Speaker 4: You know, when they talk about running it back, I'm

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Speaker 4: not even using that phrase any anymore. The pen is

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Speaker 4: completely different. When you look at last year, Devin Williams

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Speaker 4: himself blew about ten games, Luke Weaver another five. Just

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Speaker 4: subtract those two guys and you figure they'll be better.

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Speaker 4: So what do you think about this bullpen? I think

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Speaker 4: it's going to be one of those ever evolving, changing organisms.

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Speaker 4: You know they're gonna tweak it and change it as

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Speaker 4: we go. But do you feel better about the Yankees

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Speaker 4: bullpen this year? I feel like you got to.

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Speaker 13: I actually really like it. And I was watching your

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Speaker 13: covers of the WBC and I was watching you talk

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Speaker 13: about Dovall. I was watching you talk about some of

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Speaker 13: these names, and Devall is really the guy that sticks

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Speaker 13: out to me. It's really the bridge. How do we

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Speaker 13: get the ball to Bednar And when you're talking about

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Speaker 13: a guy that's going to be in high leverage seventh

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Speaker 13: and eighth inning to bridge that game, Devall can do that.

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Speaker 13: He was not throwing strikes. That's why San Francisco gave

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Speaker 13: up on him. The Yankees believe that they're pitching coach

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Speaker 13: and Matt Blake can fix them, and so far, so good. Actually,

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Speaker 13: it started to look good. Towards the end of last year.

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Speaker 13: I expect him to be great this year. It's not

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Speaker 13: gonna be Devin Betansas and the Hall are very good,

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Speaker 13: but it will be something that we can actually rely

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Speaker 13: on and you don't have to say, where's Luke Weaver?

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Speaker 13: Where are these guys who? Really it wasn't just Devin Williams.

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Speaker 13: Weaver wasn't good last year either.

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Speaker 12: So.

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Speaker 13: Talking about dude, these guys and I was rooting for

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Speaker 13: Johnny Low. He wasn't healthy, he wasn't good, right, No,

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Speaker 13: none of them were good, and so no Yankees are

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Speaker 13: going to be better this year. It's just a matter

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Speaker 13: of October.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you the guy who I think is

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Speaker 1: going to be a Hall of Famer, I just do

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Speaker 1: because he's going to get to five hundred home runs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: John Carlos Stanton, who's had because because people what I

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Speaker 1: don't think people understand is for him to have as

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Speaker 1: many home runs and has missed as many games as

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Speaker 1: he has tells you about how.

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Speaker 2: Good he is. It really does.

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Speaker 1: It's not the other way around where you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: this guy can't stay healthy. He's won an MVP and

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Speaker 1: last year Gary, you know this he battled like two

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Speaker 1: eighty for most of the year, like he won just

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Speaker 1: a home run or a strikeout. He was actually putting

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Speaker 1: the ball in play. And what does he do the

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Speaker 1: first game of the year, He gets two hits, knocks.

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Speaker 2: In a run, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: He was running without a home run when he scored

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Speaker 4: that for him, like he can run.

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm just like, if.

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Speaker 1: You can get a guy who can bat like he's

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Speaker 1: not twenty five home runs batting two thirty, if he

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Speaker 1: bats two seventy five or eighty and puts the ball

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Speaker 1: in play like that, that would be a big time

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Speaker 1: for the Yankees.

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Speaker 13: No, it would be great. And a lot of why

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Speaker 13: he's remembered the way he is is availability. And you've

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Speaker 13: obviously already you've hit the nail on the head when

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Speaker 13: it's talking about his availability. But when you're the best

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Speaker 13: employee in the building and people can't necessarily show up

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Speaker 13: to work and rely on you being there every single day,

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Speaker 13: people start to look at you a little different. And

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Speaker 13: when you're talking about career numbers, John Carlo, as far

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Speaker 13: as I'm concerned, people told my dad, they told plenty

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Speaker 13: of other baseball players in history. You're a Hall of

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Speaker 13: Famer if you get the five hundred homers, we can't

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Speaker 13: now change. You can't change, and now move the goalpost

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Speaker 13: because Jean Carlos Stan was essentially being hurt half the

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Speaker 13: season and still made it to that point. So as

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Speaker 13: far as I'm concerned when it comes to Geohan Carlo

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Speaker 13: Jean Carlos Stan, I'm going to try and I know

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Speaker 13: Keith World as well as who covers the Yankees for

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Speaker 13: a living. We're going to try and help people understand

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Speaker 13: what we just saw because this isn't a traditional career,

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Speaker 13: a Hall of Fame path. This is a guy who

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Speaker 13: plays like sixty five seventy percent of games during this

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Speaker 13: and he puts up numbers every time he's on the field.

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Speaker 13: He's a tough player to cover.

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Speaker 2: He really is.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think people if you look at

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Speaker 1: his postseason home runs, he has a ton of postseason

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Speaker 1: home runs and yeah, he also what was the other

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Speaker 1: part that that he's done is his home runs per

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Speaker 1: at BET He is in the top ten. It's in

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Speaker 1: a top ten all time.

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Speaker 13: The Rose Arena. If they had moved on from Tampa

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Speaker 13: in the COVID season, you're talking about John Carlos Stan

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Speaker 13: setting the all time home run record in the postseason.

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Speaker 13: We talk about mister October. We talk about all the

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Speaker 13: clutch home runs that guys have hit in this game.

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Speaker 13: It's a long history, over one hundred years. John Carlos

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Speaker 13: Stan would have been a part of history. So people

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Speaker 13: need to remember what this guy's done. I just I'm

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Speaker 13: trying to be more understanding of why they don't. They're

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Speaker 13: not exactly consuming what he's doing. Because when you're gone

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Speaker 13: and you have your GM saying hey, he's going to

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Speaker 13: be hurt for half the year, it changes the way

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they gotta have the kid gloves, they gotta do

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Speaker 4: the scheduled rest. And John Carlstan himself is very accountable.

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Speaker 4: He says it's not acceptable when he missed his time.

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Speaker 4: He knows how much he gets paid, but actually he's

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Speaker 4: getting paid less this year. So my hope this year.

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Speaker 4: And this is gonna be long winded, but I'll get

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Speaker 4: to the question. He didn't hit a home run in

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Speaker 4: the postseason last year. Austin Wells didn't have a good

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Speaker 4: postseason last year. Ben Rice had one home run, but

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Speaker 4: he disappeared. Trenton Grisham was a zero a zero, and

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Speaker 4: I feel like the Yankees ran it back because they

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Speaker 4: felt like, what's the chance is that this team again

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Speaker 4: gets to October and all of these guys don't show up.

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Speaker 4: If anything that I took from last night was not

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Speaker 4: that Judge doesn't come up in big spots. Last night

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Speaker 4: wasn't a big spot. That's one on one sixty two.

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Speaker 4: It just happened to be the only game. But what

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Speaker 4: I took from last night seven runs, not one home run,

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Speaker 4: and they didn't need Judge to do anything. Do you

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Speaker 4: think this could be the team that Web pitching against

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Speaker 4: Logan Webb, who was in the World Baseball Classics, so

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Speaker 4: they were just with each other. But do you think

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Speaker 4: that this could be the Yankee team that they constructed

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Speaker 4: that could carry Judge across the finish line and not

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Speaker 4: be just so reliant on Judge has to save.

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Speaker 13: Us you, Keith, I used to look at a lot

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Speaker 13: of what Judge is doing and saying he's got to

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Speaker 13: be the superhero. I used to look at, well, why

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Speaker 13: can't Mike Trout get over the hob When's he going

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Speaker 13: to be superhero? And Superman? And you start to realize

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Speaker 13: there's a reason that Shoheo Tani went to the Dodgers.

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Speaker 13: There's a reason that Mookie Betts he gets traded over

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Speaker 13: to the Dodgers. He agrees to that extension right away.

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Speaker 13: It's about the others. You can't win a World Series.

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Speaker 13: I don't care how good Aaron Judges. I don't care

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Speaker 13: if he plays as good as he did this last

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Speaker 13: postseason or he plays the way he did two or

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Speaker 13: three years ago. This team has to play better. Austin

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Speaker 13: Wells can't be in nothing like you just said. You

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Speaker 13: can't look at Ben Rice and Ben Rice has a

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Speaker 13: good game and all of a sudden he's sitting for

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Speaker 13: Paul Goldschmith. We see a quality writing and we don't

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Speaker 13: see Ben Rice again. This team has to be better,

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Speaker 13: not just Aaron Judge. So if the Yankees are going

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Speaker 13: to win anything, those guys on offense, in Trent Grisham,

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Speaker 13: the table set up up top of the lineup has

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Speaker 13: to be better. Garrett Cole can't just be good. He

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Speaker 13: has to be Garrett Cole. And I think if they

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Speaker 13: do that, they're gonna have no They're going to have

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Speaker 13: no problem. When in the Al their issue is going

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Speaker 13: to be running into the Dodgers, who did fix their

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Speaker 13: biggest problem at the back end of that both him.

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Speaker 1: One last thing Max Freed since coming to the Yankees

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Speaker 1: is magnificent. I was in San Francisco saw I'm in

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Speaker 1: trouble first and third and the first inning. You know,

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Speaker 1: good pictures if you don't get them in the first

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Speaker 1: inn and you let them get out of it. He

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Speaker 1: got out of it, and then six and a third

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Speaker 1: and he made it look easy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's really really good.

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Speaker 4: Ever repenty, Well, what do you think about act two

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Speaker 4: for Max Reed?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I'll tell you right now. I did see

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Speaker 13: a different pitch mix. I was seeing seeing a little

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Speaker 13: cutter and Keith, I know you watch this, senior, you're

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Speaker 13: seeing the cutter. You don't see that. And when you

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Speaker 13: look at last year's pitch mix, he used the cutter

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Speaker 13: two percent of the time, and you look at last

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Speaker 13: night it was almost thirty percent. So I'm seeing a

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Speaker 13: lot of what I saw out of Garrett Cole a

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Speaker 13: few years back before the Tommy John where he was

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Speaker 13: working that cutter in and getting guys off that fourcing fastball.

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Speaker 13: Garrett Cole had a problem keeping the ball in the

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Speaker 13: yard as well, and Max freed had that same problem

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Speaker 13: the past postseason. I'm expecting a better Max freedo. When

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Speaker 13: you have a guy making twenty thirty million dollars, it's

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Speaker 13: easy to say, oh, I'll just be better. But him,

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Speaker 13: he and Matt Blake, they seem like they're in the

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Speaker 13: lab and they're actually trying to fix this.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: His name is Gary Sheffield. Check out his podcast. He's

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Speaker 1: the host of Yankees Unloaded. Always a pleasure Chef.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, my man.

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Speaker 10: I appreciate you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Keith, I'll be in touch, see you soon, all right,

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Speaker 1: coming up a little shop talk, can't wait, Rob Parker,

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Speaker 1: Keith McPherson.

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Speaker 2: Right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: It is the odd couple where we deliver insight, not noise,

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Speaker 1: It is the odd couple on a TV theme song

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Speaker 1: Thursday Live from New York, Rob Parker, Keith McPherson. Now

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Speaker 1: is one you could get into us say that easy,

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Speaker 1: right of course. I think Kelvin thinks this is his

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Speaker 1: the number one TV theme song. I think we like

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Speaker 1: Cheers a little bit more, but this is good.

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Speaker 2: Rob Parker, Keith McPherson.

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Speaker 2: All right, time for shop talk. Ain't nobody's nimping a

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Speaker 2: bom shopping you know that.

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Speaker 1: Ain't nobody you would talk about whoever, whatever whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to in the box, So why you not?

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Speaker 3: It's shop talk, that's right.

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Speaker 5: It is shop talk here on the a couple Fox

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Speaker 5: Sports Radio Secon where we talk about something that but

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Speaker 5: outside of the world of sports. This week's topic comes

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Speaker 5: to us from the restaurant industry. There was a big

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Speaker 5: expos by the Today Show concerning dry dining, which is

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Speaker 5: going out to eat and not ordering alcohol. According to

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Speaker 5: this poll, just over half of the people in America

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Speaker 5: do not drink while they eat, and restaurant owners are

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Speaker 5: saying it's a big problem, losing a lot of money.

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Speaker 5: One owner says, I could give free drinks away and

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Speaker 5: people still wouldn't take them. So, guys, here's the question,

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Speaker 5: are you yay or nay on drinking while you dine?

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Speaker 1: You know what, this is a great question because in

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Speaker 1: the old days, we used to drink right like that

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Speaker 1: when you would go out and get a meal. And

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Speaker 1: that's where the restaurants actually make all that money. Not

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Speaker 1: off the steak, not off the baked potato, right, but

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Speaker 1: the mark drink.

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Speaker 2: Right. It's big time.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge But you know this, being a younger guy,

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Speaker 1: ay think the drinks are so expensive, So people are like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay that much.

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Speaker 2: I could go get a whole bottle at my crib. Right.

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Speaker 1: Number two, health Wise, people are looking out. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to consume alchol Young people aren't drinking.

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Speaker 4: Like when I trending down, when I covered the.

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Speaker 2: Knicks, And I'm not saying I was an alcoholic thing.

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Speaker 1: But when I covered the Knicks and I was in

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Speaker 1: my twenties and I traveled America, we went out to

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Speaker 1: drink every night, you know what I mean. That's what

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Speaker 1: newspaper reporters adulturally. We did it every night. I had drinks,

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that we're there anymore. So when

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Speaker 1: you go out, you and your wife, do you buy

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Speaker 1: drinks or just to order a meal and eat.

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Speaker 4: I used to drink heavy. I was just saying, how

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Speaker 4: you know, what happened to power hour, what happened to

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Speaker 4: taking shots? What happened like when I was coming up

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Speaker 4: in college, it was almost like a rite of passages

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Speaker 4: that you had to drink and get drunk. And now

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Speaker 4: you're like, I've grown out of it. I've aged out

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Speaker 4: of it. I don't drink. I don't go to the

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Speaker 4: liquor store anymore. We used to hit the liquor store

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Speaker 4: every Friday. And now when you talk about restaurants and

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Speaker 4: the younger generations, they are like the younger and younger,

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Speaker 4: they're not drinking and consuming alcohol as much because now

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Speaker 4: we know right. Don't you want to be able to.

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Speaker 2: Drive home, Roger?

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Speaker 4: Don't you want to be able to get up and

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Speaker 4: not be hung over the next day? Don't you want

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Speaker 4: to be able to just be a healthy, functioning like

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Speaker 4: I don't know, man, We're just we're getting we're getting

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Speaker 4: more smart and wise about you know, our health decisions.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, the younger generation doesn't doesn't need it. It

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Speaker 4: used to be attached to everything. But if you get

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Speaker 4: in some drinks, not anymore.

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Speaker 2: Rob g and Alex, where are you the guys drink?

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Speaker 2: Monthy too? I'm sorry, I know she.

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Speaker 4: Has thoughts on this. A manager would love to see

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Speaker 4: me coming.

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely having shots and cocktails with the girls. Oh

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Speaker 2: there's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah no, if I'm to eat, I'm having a

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Speaker 1: drink maybe three. But but you see where it is, though, Monty,

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Speaker 1: you doing You're still doing it. But a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: a lot of younger people, they don't drink like.

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Speaker 4: That because other things are legal as well. That's also

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Speaker 4: part of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what like chocolate chip cookies, the other things, certain

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Speaker 2: kinds of chocolate.

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Speaker 4: Before dinner that you can have before dinner and make

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Speaker 4: you feel alright. That's right, Alex, I think this is

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Speaker 4: easy for me.

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Speaker 6: I'm not a drinker and never been a drinker, and

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Speaker 6: never got into drinking, didn't care to drink, So everybody

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Speaker 6: else gets sloppy. In high school, saw how to make

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Speaker 6: them do unquestionable things and also saw the true characteristics

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Speaker 6: of people when they unlocked that inner demon.

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Speaker 4: So I knew to.

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Speaker 6: Myself, you know what, I'm gonna sit back, maybe smoke

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Speaker 6: a jay, just enjoy them.

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Speaker 1: What do they call that? The true it's a true seum. Yes,

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Speaker 1: when people start drinking, all of a sudden, they're real.

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Speaker 1: You comes out when you're intoxicated or angry. You see

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Speaker 1: some of those two things.

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Speaker 4: Either you want to love or you want to fight.

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Speaker 9: I am not.

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Speaker 1: Is a lover.

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Speaker 2: Ro rob g is the fighter. Go ahead.

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Speaker 5: But if I'm drinking, I'm drinking. So I don't like

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Speaker 5: to drink when I'm eating. So if I'm eating, I'm

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Speaker 5: there to eat food, I'm gonna drink. I'm gonna be

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Speaker 5: drinking heavy.

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Speaker 1: So you feel like the alcohol alters the taste of

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Speaker 1: your food.

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Speaker 2: One of those people.

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Speaker 5: There certain foods I think that are enhanced by like

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Speaker 5: usually you know, nextic food and beer but that's like

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Speaker 5: beer is not really a liquor. I'm not really getting

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Speaker 5: drunk off of beer, and if I want to drink,

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Speaker 5: I'm drinking liquor.

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Speaker 2: Right all right.

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Speaker 1: Our number three on this TV theme song Thursday, and

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Speaker 1: yes we're talking Dodgers on this opening day Stick and

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Speaker 1: Sande