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Speaker 1: All right, but tip it is Sunday, August tenth, and

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Speaker 1: recap and your reactions coming up next. This is Pinstripe

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Speaker 1: Territory shom to talk catch albody kill me. I'm getting

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Speaker 1: tough day for the Yankees. Let's start off real quick.

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Speaker 1: They placed a Mad Rosario on the injured list, so

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Speaker 1: now of their trade deadline acquisitions, Bird is in the

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Speaker 1: bolstering here, DK. This just feels like one of those

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling about it?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't think we're making the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: It feels a lot like twenty twenty three to me,

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Speaker 3: And just say they can't get it together. Just they

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Speaker 3: can't go on a run. And I don't know how

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Speaker 3: the rest of the way. There's been a large enough

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Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. I mean, to me,

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Speaker 1: Got it going. As you can see the game notes,

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Speaker 1: We had a nice running catch by Chisholm. Walker made

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Speaker 1: he has kind of been struggling for a few months now.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the numbers. He left after five innings,

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Speaker 1: Yankees down four to nothing. The Yankees did get a run.

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Speaker 1: Devin Williams absolutely dominated the sixth inning. That's here for

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Speaker 1: pressure coincidence, I think not. Yankees didn't even get their

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Speaker 3: Particular microcosm for the season, just lifeless doesn't look like

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Speaker 2: You know, And I think a lot of I think R. H.

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Speaker 3: Not like angry when they lose, you know, it's kind

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And Aaron Boone once again gets tossed. I

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Speaker 3: I think that he's a career two eighteen hitter. He's

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Speaker 3: I just don't I'm not. I really hope the Yankees

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe. So I'm gonna put you on the spot.

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Speaker 1: What's your outfield for next year? I mean, do you

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Speaker 1: they'll stick with Volpi again at shortstop next year, no

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Speaker 1: I twenty five home runs. I mean, that's very good

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Speaker 1: Wells's sumitt bats, which is obviously not ideal for one

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Speaker 3: You know what, Derek, All I have to say is,

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Speaker 3: of course Devin Williams struck out the side when it

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Speaker 1: Just of course, of course, of course, when the chips

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Speaker 1: He's definitely gone. It's gonna be interesting to think about

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Speaker 1: back to Philly probably. I mean there's just not a

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Speaker 1: you block as you block Lombard. It's just it's gonna

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's really frustrating because I think the whole

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Speaker 2: And I kind of like was thinking about this.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, they put in all the new rules

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Speaker 3: but like, who did you play? Played the Guardians and

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Speaker 3: Soda on your team who's no longer Yankee. So that

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Speaker 3: because it validated what this front office was doing. Like, see,

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Speaker 3: we made it to the World Series. But it's like, really,

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Speaker 1: Cyberdino eight says, why talk about next year? What about

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of my weekend predictions hit. I

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Speaker 1: this week, the Yankees play the Twins Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: and they always beat up on the Twins, almost always. Not.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Twins will get him every once in

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Speaker 1: Are you are you? Are you feeling like all hope

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Speaker 2: I really don't think that they're making the playoffs. I'm

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Speaker 3: Try to put lipstick on a pig here. I'm watching

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Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker set the market, right, And who do you

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Speaker 3: not even a guarantee that he's coming back, man, and

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Speaker 1: But yeah, i'd approach him with an extension. But but

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Speaker 1: it's just such a tricky situation that the Yankees are

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Speaker 1: we rag on Cashman a lot, but to do this

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Speaker 3: First of all, it's the Twins, all right, So the Twins,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, TK, tough day for the Yanks. We're

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Speaker 1: probably tomorrow afternoon. I'll go live with that, and then

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Speaker 1: post games on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Thursday, we'll do

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Speaker 1: some kind of another voicemail show on the off day

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Speaker 1: and then you know, basically a stay of execution here

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Speaker 1: until until Friday, I think. But uh, tough, tough series

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