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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. We have position players rolling into camp,

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Speaker 1: side show with Marcus Stroman continues. Apparently he's not very

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Speaker 1: happy with his role. Also, we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: that and more. Welcome back to baseball season. This is

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Speaker 1: Pinstripe Territory.

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Speaker 2: Wanted to cook.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, Welcome back, everybody. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: good to be back. Good to break out the fun

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Speaker 1: hat on the day that the position players report to camp.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to be increasing the cadence of these

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Speaker 1: podcasts now that baseball is officially underway. Pitchers and catchers

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Speaker 1: last week. Now we got position players in camp.

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Speaker 1: Do shows on either Tuesday and Wednesday of this week,

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Speaker 1: and then again on Friday. Yankees play Friday. But I'm

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Speaker 1: started a few things. Number One, a lot of you

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Speaker 1: have left kind messages for my folks. My parents both

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Speaker 1: So hell yeah, glad to have them on the mend.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate all the kind words. And Number two, tonight, I

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Speaker 1: how you like it first. But everybody's in camp right now.

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Speaker 1: to it. Let's talk about your twenty twenty five New

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Speaker 1: York Yankees. This was a interesting offseason to stay, to

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Speaker 1: strange start. I predicted multiple times last year that Juan

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Speaker 1: unsubscribing because I said something that apparently they were too

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Speaker 1: So the Yankees were forced to go to Plan B,

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Speaker 1: and the jury is still out as to whether or

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Speaker 1: don't know how you get tennis elbow other than playing tennis.

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Speaker 1: You know, Jazz rolled into camp today with his classic

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: He looks like another guy who despite only playing you know,

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Speaker 1: He did have that little injury after the Yankees got him,

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Speaker 2: Just be healthy.

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Speaker 1: You're more valuable in the lineup than you know, running

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Speaker 1: And I think the Yankees are American League champions. The

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Speaker 1: Clayton beat Her, he's gonna be pitching exclusively as a

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Speaker 1: You know, when the Yankees got him from the Cubs

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Speaker 1: confident about the Yankees this year. I think they're a

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Speaker 2: Or ninety six wins.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna find out over the next six

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Speaker 1: months here on Pinstripe Territory, So tune in after every game.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, the last two teams that lost

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Speaker 1: Juan Soto got better the following season.

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Speaker 2: It was surreal.

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Speaker 1: Seeing him in Mets camp today with the you know,

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Speaker 1: I want him to hit two forty with fourteen home runs.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little bit about Devin Williams

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Speaker 1: clean shaven. I hate that that was the big story

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Speaker 1: MLB or sorry. MLB Network has this thing called the

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Speaker 1: Shredder where it ranks all the different players, all the

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Speaker 1: and all that, and they have Devin Williams as the

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Speaker 1: Roderick Aris. And of course they're hitting against other minor

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Speaker 1: league pitchers, you know, because the starters for the opposition

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Speaker 1: aren't going deep into games either. But it's still good

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Speaker 1: to get a feel for who these guys, are we

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Speaker 1: got to comment here? From BHD collapse, it says Bryce

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Speaker 1: Cunningham is going to be a stud.

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Speaker 2: It's all right there in front of us. I feel

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Speaker 2: good about our prospects.

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Speaker 1: I know we don't have a great system, but we've

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Speaker 1: in terms of rankings, but we've produced some good players

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Speaker 1: in recent years, and I think that will continue over

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Speaker 1: the next few Last time we spoke it was about

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Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman. I know it's been a few days. I

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Speaker 1: was with my folks at the hospital. As I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: my mom back home today, Dad going home tomorrow. I'm

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Speaker 1: grateful for that. But in that time, Marcus Stroman has

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Speaker 1: reported to camp and he has made a statement. He

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Speaker 1: said he's a starter. He's going to not pitch out

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Speaker 1: of the bullpen. I should better way say this. He

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Speaker 1: said he's not going to pitch out of the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: Look, he's got an eighteen million dollar option if he

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Speaker 1: throws a hundred forty innings, you know, and without an

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Speaker 1: injury on the staff. I don't think he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: that opportunity. So he can see that eighteen million dollars,

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Speaker 1: you know, slowly vanishing. It's like Marty and back to

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Speaker 1: the future where he looks at the photo and he

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Speaker 1: can see his family just kind of disappearing because his

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Speaker 1: mom's in love with him, and if she falls in

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Speaker 1: love with him, she'll never marry his dad, and that

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Speaker 1: means his family will never exist. Marcus Stroman is starting

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Speaker 1: to see those see that eighteen million from his bank

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Speaker 1: account just disappear on his banking app But I still

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Speaker 1: think that he could be traded. But we did get

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Speaker 1: an interesting voicemail about that that will play in just

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Speaker 1: a few minutes. I have a real problem with him

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Speaker 1: saying that he won't pitch out of the bullpen. You're

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Speaker 1: getting paid to pitch. You're not getting paid for a

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Speaker 1: specific role. There ain't Yankees right now. If they have

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Speaker 1: five starting pitchers better than you, then guess what you're

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Speaker 1: in the bullpen? And right now, Garrett Cole, Max Fried,

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Speaker 1: Luis Hell, Carlos Rodin, and Clark Schmidt are all better

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Speaker 1: than him.

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Speaker 2: They're all better.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, you're not gonna send Clark Schmid to

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Speaker 1: the bullpen. Not when he pitched to a tune of

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Speaker 1: a two point eight five era and eighty five innings

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Speaker 1: last year. He was outstanding before he got hurt. They

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Speaker 1: love him, they love his stuff. You're not gonna send

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Speaker 1: Rodin to the bullpen. He makes too much and he

482
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Speaker 1: won sixteen games last year, led the staff and wins

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Speaker 1: Louis Heal Rookie of the Year as a starter fifteen wins,

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Speaker 1: had a three ish ERA until the final weekend of

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Speaker 1: the season. He's not going anywhere. Max Fried and Garrett

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Speaker 1: Cole non starters. That's the wrong way to say that.

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Speaker 1: It's a non starter to move them to the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: That was That was a silly mistake on my part.

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Speaker 1: But the conversation is a non starter. They are the

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Speaker 1: number one and number two in the rotation, so that

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Speaker 1: leaves Marcus Strowman as the.

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Speaker 2: Odd man out. And I'm sorry if you're you know, if.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to pitch in the bullpen's that's that's

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Speaker 1: tough break, man, that's tough break.

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Speaker 2: You gotta do what you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: But I still think that there is a trade out

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Speaker 1: there to be had, all right, So we got a

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Speaker 1: All right, so before you get to your voicemail, one

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Speaker 1: of the things I'm gonna do more this season is

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Speaker 1: just kind of talk more about what's going on in

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Speaker 1: my life, what I've been doing and stuff, because I

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Speaker 1: think it makes an interesting story. I mean, sometimes there's

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Speaker 1: just not a ton of baseball to talk during the year.

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Speaker 1: You might have a game where it's like one nothing,

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Speaker 1: Yankees lose, there's no offense whatever. I so I will

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Speaker 1: dig into more of the stuff that you guys like

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Speaker 1: to talk about. I've been hearing that you guys like

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Speaker 1: the personal touches. So I wanted to give a quick

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Speaker 1: movie review. I got invited to go see a premiere

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Speaker 1: of a movie called The Monkey. It's about this killer monkey.

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Speaker 1: It's by Osgod Perkins. He is the son of Anthony Perkins,

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Speaker 1: who played Norman Bates in Psycho, and it's about this

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Speaker 1: toy monkey that causes catastrophe wherever it goes.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I just thought, like, you know, a week ago, and

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Speaker 1: I just got an alert to rate it and it

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Speaker 1: popped up while we were on the commercial, so I

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Speaker 1: wanted to mention it. I do as an artist. I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's important to support other pieces of art

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Speaker 1: that you enjoy. So I want if you guys agree

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Speaker 1: with my sense of you know, my sensibilities. I guess

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Speaker 1: you'll probably like that movie. The sense of humor and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. Very dark, very gory at times, but

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Speaker 1: not overly so, but just a really really good movie

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Speaker 1: and funny. Will Carrius is glad your parents are doing better.

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Speaker 2: Me too.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad my dad's gonna get to leave the hospital tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We almost got him out of there today, but they

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Speaker 1: want to, you know, keep him one more day, so

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Speaker 1: I hope he doesn't mind me talking about it, but

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Speaker 1: we'll hopefully have him home soon.

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Speaker 2: All right, quick voicemail.

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Speaker 5: Man as a lifelong Yankees fan, it really is looking

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Speaker 5: like Cashman kind of backed himself into a corner with

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Speaker 5: this Stroman deal. A few years back, he got got

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Speaker 5: caught with the old foot and mouth disease when he

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Speaker 5: basically said he didn't want to trade for Stroman because

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Speaker 5: he didn't view him as a excuse me didn't view

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Speaker 5: him as a playoffs quality starter. And fast forward to

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Speaker 5: when they overextended and signed him to this ridiculous deal

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Speaker 5: they signed him to. They weren't even able. I don't

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Speaker 5: think he's here one inning in the entire playoffs, So

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Speaker 5: he's not a playoff starter starter on this team, or

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Speaker 5: even a playoff pitcher on this team. And now he's

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Speaker 5: kind of got himself between a rock and a hard place,

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Speaker 5: and I don't know what he's really what he plans

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Speaker 5: on getting as a return for him, if we were

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Speaker 5: even able to trade him. At this point, looks like

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Speaker 5: they're crossing their fingers and hoping that they stay healthy

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Speaker 5: and somebody else gets hurt on another team. But at

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Speaker 5: this point, it's really not looking good, and they're either

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Speaker 5: going to have to eat a lot of money or

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Speaker 5: just kind of accept them and move on. I wanted

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Speaker 5: to hear your sucks, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so if you let him go this year,

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Speaker 1: you're eating eighteen million. So I don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do that. He's obviously not gonna throw one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty innings if everybody's healthy, so I wouldn't count on

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Speaker 1: that extra money. One thing that's a possibility, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: is somebody getting hurt from another team and then you

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Speaker 1: go out and make the trade. But you kind of

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Speaker 1: need it to be a contender that's already trying to

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Speaker 1: spend a lot to win, because I mean, if somebody

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Speaker 1: gets hurt for the Marlins, they're not gonna trade for

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Speaker 1: an eighteen million dollar pitcher, right If Paul Skeens gets

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Speaker 1: hurt for the Pirates, they're not gonna trade for Marcus Stroman.

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Speaker 1: They're just gonna say, well, I guess Skeens is out.

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Speaker 1: What you really need is somebody from a contender to

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Speaker 1: lose a couple of starters and get desperate, right, and

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Speaker 1: then they might trade for Marcus Stroman. But as of

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Speaker 1: right now, he is a Yankee and he should act

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Speaker 1: like it. Look somebody had commented that he did sign

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Speaker 1: a role to be a starter, I'd have to see

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Speaker 1: that contract. The way I understand contracts is you sign

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Speaker 1: a personal services contract and then you're you know, you're used. However,

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Speaker 1: you're used, and they put bonuses in for things like

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Speaker 1: starts right or options, and he has a vesting option

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty innings pitched. You know some

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Speaker 1: people have options for a number of starts whatever. I

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Speaker 1: think innings pitched is a good way to do it

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Speaker 1: because then you're not like opening or whatever. You have

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Speaker 1: to put in the work to earn that option. And

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Speaker 1: it's just not going to happen with the Yankees this

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Speaker 1: year unless they have an injury, so anything can happen.

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Speaker 1: As always, again, reminder to subscribe all that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: I want to get out of here before the SNL thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to battle SNL. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are tuning in for that the SNL fifty.

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Speaker 1: My wife wants me to come watch it. Wanted to

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Speaker 1: give a shout out to the audio platform. Go ahead

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Speaker 1: things this year. We were really picking up steam this winter.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's kind of died down over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of months. We haven't been doing shows as much, but

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Speaker 1: once the season starts. We do like eight or nine

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Speaker 1: do three to four voicemail episodes a week, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll usually do one or two conversations a month just

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Speaker 1: people who work with me on the channel, you know, players,

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Speaker 1: things like that. So as always, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for watching, and I'll be back either Tuesday or Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I got some more technology coming to the studio. I

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Speaker 1: hope you guys like the sound of the new mic.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go listen to it on my TV see

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Speaker 1: how it sounds. But once again, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Get well soon to my folks. Get well soon to

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Speaker 1: Stanton and Trent Grisham and Clayton Beeter and Jake Cousins,

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Speaker 1: and let's go win Championship number twenty eight. I'll see

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