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Speaker 1: All right. Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back Friday, September fifth,

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Speaker 1: and we have got a big, big, big series tonight,

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Speaker 1: Yankees taking on the Toronto Blue Jays. Yankees are three

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Speaker 1: Gauntlet us off to a pretty good start. The Yankees

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Speaker 1: feel like there was an opportunity to sweep there. Going

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Speaker 1: to Devin Williams in Game two was a mistake. Umpires

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Speaker 1: And now all the coaches, all the players will take

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Speaker 1: You will say, take it one day at a time,

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Speaker 1: You gotta go for the kill. I remember back in

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Speaker 1: I think the Yankees need to go for that kill

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Speaker 1: It's just a reaction. Let's get your voicemails here. This

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Speaker 1: first one is about Trent Grisham.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Derek, First of all, love the show, first time caller.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully just gets played during the video. But honestly, Trent Grisham,

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Speaker 4: when he if he If he doesn't he resign, I mean,

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Speaker 4: what do you think about this idea? Trent Grisham stays

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Speaker 1: If you can make the money work, one hundred percent

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Speaker 5: Hey, Derek, this is Day from North Georgia, just calling.

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Speaker 4: In about that whole incident with the bat.

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Speaker 5: It's Friday afternoon. I'm just reflecting on last night's game

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Speaker 5: wasn't going to affect that particular game. Just this whole

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Speaker 5: thing was just done to shame these umpires, to say

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Speaker 1: First of all, I love that you did that. That

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Speaker 2: By Derek Kendall from New Jersey. Great win by the

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Speaker 2: Yankees Tonight's probably their best win of the year in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, because they showed so much fight in emotion

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Speaker 2: As far as the offense. If Aaron Judge can start hitting,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't count on that last part. I wouldn't count

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