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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? We are creeping closer and closer

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Speaker 1: to spring training. Got a little bonus content for you.

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Speaker 1: I had a conversation with rayfon Seka. He's an actor,

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Speaker 1: he's from Queen's He's been on a number of daytime

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Speaker 1: TV shows, Big Yankees Fan, and we just kind of

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Speaker 1: wanted to talk about who runs New York. I also

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Speaker 1: made a recent appearance on foul Territory where we talked

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Speaker 1: about the major things that are facing the Yankees this

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Speaker 1: year as they try and get back to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: So after my conversation with Ray, I will air that

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Speaker 1: interview a little interlude in between and now without further ado.

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Speaker 1: Rayfon Seka wanted to talk, that's all.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of Yankee podcasts, Yankee Fan, Cass, Yankees,

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Speaker 2: Yankees Dad, and I've found a lot of them to

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Speaker 2: be no more credible than a random Instagram post, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, I'm not going to sit

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Speaker 2: there and listen for thirty five minutes about why we

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Speaker 2: might get when they're not getting, you know, And I

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Speaker 2: feel like, I don't know if it's because you started

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Speaker 2: with the recaps that you kind of wait for things

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Speaker 2: to be worth talking about before speaking on them.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not a journalist, right, so,

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Speaker 1: like a lot of people go out there and try

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Speaker 1: and be journalists, but they didn't go to like journalism school.

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Speaker 1: They have no sources. But I've been watching the Yankees

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Speaker 1: and reacting to it my whole life. So I was

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Speaker 1: just say, I react to the news. I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't break the news, right, so, and and because of that,

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Speaker 1: I've had more access to the news now and sometimes

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Speaker 1: I want to break stuff, but I'm like, ah, my

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Speaker 1: mom is a fan of the soap. She watches you know,

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Speaker 1: One Life to Live and all that stuff, and uh

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Speaker 1: all the daytime General Hospital all that, so she probably

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Speaker 1: has seen you a few times in your appearances.

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Speaker 2: I went through your Yeah, I was on I was

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Speaker 2: on All my Children for like seven years and then

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Speaker 2: Days of my Lives like nine years. Yeah, I'm like

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Speaker 2: one of those few people that could be like, I'm

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Speaker 2: not a doctor, but I played when I'm TV.

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Speaker 1: So doctor Drake Romore.

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Speaker 2: If I had a nickel for every time somebody said

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Speaker 2: like Joey on Friends, like, I could probably like buy

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Speaker 2: a share of the Yankees, you know, but it's always

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Speaker 2: kind of been something that I appreciate because I get

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Speaker 2: to be on set every day do what I love

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Speaker 2: to do, you know, act, tell stories, be creative, all

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Speaker 2: those kind of you know, different aspects of the game.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, I can go to Target

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Speaker 2: and nobody knows who I am, and it's kind of glorious,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's like the best of

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Speaker 1: You know, I hear you there. So I live in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina and I've been recognized from the podcast maybe

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Speaker 1: three or four times. I went to Yankee Stadium and

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Speaker 1: I spent like the whole time posing for pictures. I

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Speaker 1: let me get a selfie, or people recognize me from

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Speaker 1: you you're the YouTube guy. They didn't know my name,

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Speaker 1: they didn't know what the podcast. Yeah, I've seen you

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. So yeah, it's kind of cool being anonymous,

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Speaker 1: you know, I got reck. It's also kind of cool

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Speaker 1: being recognized. Once in a while. I went to UPS

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Speaker 1: And then once it Bonefish Grail guy was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I know you. So so I've been recording this whole time,

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Speaker 1: so we can just fire away if you want. I

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Speaker 1: saw that you're from Queens. What did you make of

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Speaker 1: the whole Wan Soto saying that New York is a

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Speaker 1: like the only part of that whole thing I felt offensive.

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Speaker 1: I felt was offensive to me, like, if you want

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Speaker 1: to just take more money, just do that. Like if

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Speaker 1: you want to be the guy on your team, go

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Speaker 1: do that, But don't diss the Yankees on the way out.

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Speaker 1: The Mets are not even in the same stratosphere as

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Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 2: And I felt the same way with aj Minter signing,

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Speaker 2: And I forgot who posted, but I had just written.

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Speaker 3: Agents press right exactly, be honest, right.

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Speaker 2: But if we did, no one would ask what his

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Speaker 2: And because of that, like my friend's dad's had Mets

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Speaker 3: So we take them to the games, they take us to games.

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Speaker 2: We was just to love a baseball, right, And I've

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Speaker 2: always kind of felt like Jeter nailed it with the quote, right,

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Speaker 3: It's just a Mets you know.

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Speaker 2: And I don't mean that to like trigger Met fans

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Speaker 2: I mean, if the Knicks played in Queens, you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: So it's just something I just feel like eas up

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Speaker 3: For the Mets, for New York against the.

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Speaker 2: whereas I feel like it sort of feels like betrayal,

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Speaker 3: Are rooting for them, and it's like they go, how.

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Speaker 2: Come you have it won so long? It's like, well,

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Speaker 2: Like how about rooting for New York?

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Speaker 1: But whenever people ask me, you know, what do I

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Speaker 1: I am going to follow what happens with Wan Soda

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think Mets fans are prepared for

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Speaker 2: All of my friends that are Met fans, like you know,

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Speaker 2: like we've been, you know, lifelong friends, right, Like we've

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Speaker 2: Like you know, Like it's it's so like the ribbing

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Speaker 2: cool man, there's another post coming out tomorrow. Though, like

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Speaker 3: I like to say, hate us because they ain't us.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like so many people now generationally are

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Speaker 2: born after our last title, haven't seen us when a title,

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Speaker 2: And I've always just kind of felt like, you know, like,

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Speaker 2: let the Mets be the Mets, Let the Yankees be

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Speaker 2: time we met in the world series didn't work out

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Speaker 2: so well for you guys, right, So let's stick to

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Speaker 2: like the resumes, you know what I mean, and not

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Speaker 1: It was, it was it was like seven point nine,

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Speaker 1: just be honest. Seven hundred and sixty five million dollars

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Speaker 1: is a overpay for that man as a baseball player.

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Speaker 1: They had to.

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Speaker 3: Play planning a Rod three times. At the same time, he's.

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Speaker 1: Getting paid twice as much as Judge. You cannot tell

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Speaker 1: me in any universe where he's worth twice as much

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna be even while once are those supposedly

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, supposedly on the tail end of his prime.

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Speaker 1: I'll still take Judge's stats over Soto's prime stats despite

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Speaker 3: Right. It's like, you know, would we finish eighty two

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Speaker 2: Three, right and made one hundred and seventy nine million

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Speaker 2: dollars more than the Dodgers, like over two hundred million

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Speaker 2: more than the Mets, like you know, the whole brand thing.

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Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, let's you know, we went through

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Speaker 2: Took seventy six years to win the first thing, and

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Speaker 2: feel like, for as great as Consoto is, no one

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Speaker 2: would be lying if he said that, if Juan Soto

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Speaker 2: she was like, Okay, we're gonna be about to do

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Speaker 2: some damage right now. Because he's he's might be the

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Speaker 3: Not the best runner.

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Speaker 2: I think I could play it right, feel better than

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Speaker 2: Haun Soto, But that's besides the point. Not a great runner.

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Speaker 2: Not you know, he's healthy all the time, he's in

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Speaker 2: often kind of feel like, you know, we're spoiled in

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Speaker 2: a way, right, Like especially like you say, what.

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Speaker 3: Forty one or forty two, right, I'm forty four or whatever,

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Speaker 3: Like we kind of grew up on this time where

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Speaker 3: it was like too.

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Speaker 2: Young to kind of acknowledge, hey, we kind of stink

436
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Speaker 2: right now, Oh we have Don Maddingley or whatever. And

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Speaker 2: then it was just like, you know, the rest of

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Speaker 2: the thirty four straight years would a winning record where

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Speaker 2: we have a shot every year, and we didn't have

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Speaker 2: the luxury tax with George and he was the only

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Speaker 2: one doing that, so it was like we made us

442
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Speaker 2: the evil empire. But now everybody's sort of like skirting

443
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Speaker 2: and making MEAs for the thing, and it's like I

444
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Speaker 2: understand what, where, how it's coming from. It's like, I

445
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Speaker 2: don't think when Yankee fans say, why aren't we letting

446
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are signing everybody? We're just letting everybody go

447
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Speaker 2: to them, And it's like it's not our responsibility to

448
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Speaker 2: sign everybody too. It's like the other teams are supposed

449
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Speaker 2: to be paying guys and signing free agents and they're not.

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Speaker 2: So how many guys do you want him to sign?

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Speaker 2: You know, Like it'd be great to have a leadoff hitter.

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Speaker 3: I don't care what he be. Is he a leadoff?

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Speaker 3: We need a leadoff hitter, right, I don't care about

454
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Speaker 3: the metrics the stats of this, right.

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Speaker 2: Johnny Damon was never that great of a player, but

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Speaker 2: he did his job, and he did it well enough

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Speaker 2: where he served his purpose.

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Speaker 3: Go get me that leadoff hitter, and you know, then

459
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Speaker 3: the lineup can get going.

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Speaker 2: But when you have Rizzo batting leadoff, and then this,

461
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Speaker 2: and then the lineup changes every day.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone knows what their job is

463
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Speaker 3: day to day.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm hoping he can take over as the

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Speaker 1: leadoff guy this year. He he seized it last year,

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Speaker 1: but then he relented, and I'm hoping that he can

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Speaker 1: keep it up for a full year. We'll see. But

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Speaker 1: how are you feeling about the team. You know, we

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Speaker 1: got a few minutes left. How are you feeling overall?

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Speaker 1: Do you think we're better than last year? I think

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Speaker 1: that we're solid. I think it's gonna be a very

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Speaker 1: different brand of baseball. I think we have potential to

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Speaker 1: win more close games because we're gonna have better defense

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Speaker 1: and a better bullpen. But I just don't know if

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be is electrifying without the Sodo judge tandem.

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Speaker 2: It was something that I heard you mention the other

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Speaker 2: day where it was like, you know, look, during those

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Speaker 2: Dynasty years, I think we maybe had one forty home

479
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Speaker 2: run hitter to those Seatino that one year where he

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Speaker 2: won the home run derby, and kind of like that

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Speaker 2: went off right like O'Neill, my guy, Okay, like twenty one,

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Speaker 2: twenty two home runs, Bernie twenty three, twenty five home runs,

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Speaker 2: Like everybody just did their job. And I feel like,

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Speaker 2: let's try and make the team a baseball team, right.

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers can sign everybody in the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 2: bring him back to life and sign them. I'll still

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Speaker 2: take a team that's made like a baseball team. And

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Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, if you have a leadof hitter,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna do leadoff hitter things, and then the two

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Speaker 2: hitter can move him over and.

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Speaker 3: Do those things. You can manufacture runs.

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Speaker 2: And if they're in the same spots every day, you

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Speaker 2: know your role and you don't look at it like, well,

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Speaker 2: I gotta have the launch angle like this, I gotta

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Speaker 2: do that. It's like just be able to play baseball

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Speaker 2: because baseball is gonnack and the ball finds you right, okay.

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Speaker 3: But if you're in a different.

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Speaker 2: Position every day, well, on Monday the ball didn't find you,

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Speaker 2: but on Tuesday it might have. If you were in

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Speaker 2: the same spot in the lineup, are in the field,

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Speaker 2: and now you don't get that chance to get in

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Speaker 2: your groove because now you're over here, you're over here,

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Speaker 2: you're over there, And I feel like, you know, that's

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Speaker 2: the only thing I don't care for about Boone is

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Speaker 2: I feel like there's too much tinkering and I can't.

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Speaker 3: Locate the source of it, right, Like, is it the

507
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Speaker 3: metrics guiding it? Is it their patterns? Who's hot who's not?

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Speaker 3: And I feel like, put a guy in the two hole,

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Speaker 3: he gets hot. No, it's moving to the five hole

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Speaker 3: and bring somebody else up.

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Speaker 1: It's like, Yeah, young players when they come up, they

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Speaker 1: play one day, they have the next day off, they

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Speaker 1: play another day or two in a row, and then

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Speaker 1: they have two days off. That's my biggest gripe with Boone.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't let young players get into a groove. It's

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Speaker 1: so essential for young guys to get those reps, those

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Speaker 1: daily reps, not only to figure out major league pitching

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Speaker 1: and get into a rhythm, but for their confidence. Right.

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Speaker 1: If you go zero for three and then have to

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Speaker 1: sit on it for two days, that's just tuning your

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Speaker 1: It's horrible for you. Yeah, if I have a bad podcast,

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Speaker 1: I have something screwed up on the screen. Like the

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Speaker 1: next morning, I'm planning the next podcast, Like I want

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Speaker 1: to get going again, right. It's like you got to

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Speaker 1: get back on the horse. Right. So I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's Boone's biggest biggest fault is that he.

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Speaker 2: I think it also starts at the lower levels, like

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Speaker 2: you know, like I feel like other teams. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: call me naive perhaps, but it just seems to me like, oh,

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Speaker 2: our star went down. Here comes this twenty two year

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Speaker 2: old kid that's batting three maybe that month, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: what where are the Yankee guys that can do that?

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Speaker 3: And I feel like, if you're going to sign someone

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Speaker 3: at sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Years old for five million dollars and you have them

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Speaker 2: in your organization from sixteen or seventeen years old, if

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Speaker 2: they're not ready to fill in just at twenty two,

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Speaker 2: we have a problem, right, And our guys aren't ready

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Speaker 2: to fill that in. And I feel like, if you're

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Speaker 2: not preparing them, don't baby these guys. Get them ready

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Speaker 2: to be pros as quick as possible, and you weed

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Speaker 2: out the guys that never will make it that far.

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Speaker 3: And that's how we'll know, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm okay with Cabrera starting at third base to start.

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Speaker 1: I am too, Oh, totally or Parazza just let them play, Just.

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Speaker 2: Let them play exactly, exactly if he has a couple

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Speaker 2: of bad games, Hey, Blu, Grin and Barrett and I

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Speaker 2: feel like this is the year to do that, and

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Speaker 2: I think we'll agree. You said it like, I don't

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Speaker 2: remember the last time the American League on the whole

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Speaker 2: was this week to.

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Speaker 1: Start the season. If I have no problem with them

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Speaker 1: going with Parrazza or with Cabrera to start at third base,

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Speaker 1: but if they go two for nine to start the season,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see DJ Lemayhew in there. I

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Speaker 1: just mean, that's that's what happens, and we got to

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Speaker 1: get away from that pattern. All right, final question before

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Speaker 1: I let you go here, Yankee said, ninety four wins

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Speaker 1: last year, ninety four and a half wins over or

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Speaker 1: under this year over. I agree with you. I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. I think just by not blowing thirteen say,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win ninety six ninety seven games.

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Speaker 1: I predicted ninety one the other day. But I'm also

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Speaker 1: kind of counting on the more I've been thinking about it,

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Speaker 1: I'm really counting on a big year from Demingez. I

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Speaker 1: really think he's going like I keep seeing these highlights on.

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Speaker 2: So I've had this kid in my na spot since

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Speaker 2: he's sixteen years old, you know what I mean. Like

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Speaker 2: he's the guy and I've never seen anybody just show

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Speaker 2: up and take Justin Verlander in a Cy Young Award

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Speaker 2: winning the year first pitch you see, now, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: put you like I'm gonna hit the train on my

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Speaker 2: first swing. Like he's special and like a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: I feel like got a little too dramatic over his

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Speaker 2: performance in the left field last year. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: you're trying to play catch up. You know you're a

577
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Speaker 2: better player than Verdugo, but you know he's gonna start.

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Speaker 2: It's like I don't want to, like, you know, I

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Speaker 2: want to fit in. I want to be a part

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Speaker 2: of this team. But you know, I've seen.

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Speaker 3: Everybody drop a ball out in left field.

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Speaker 2: It's the hardest left field in Imajor League Baseball probably,

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Speaker 2: So I don't judge him too much on that. The

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Speaker 2: only thing I'd say about him is that I really

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Speaker 2: like two things. I really like the see him in

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Speaker 2: center and Bellinger and left just because I feel like

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Speaker 2: any shortcomings he may face in the field, having Bellinger

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Speaker 2: in left to meet him and cut the distance down.

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Speaker 3: I can judge on right exactly like you.

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Speaker 2: Have two dynamic awesome like Golgo of caliber outfield, there's one.

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Speaker 2: And the second last thing I'll say about him is

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Speaker 2: that I just really hope that they don't stuff him

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Speaker 2: in the leadoff spot when you need him to with

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Speaker 2: the switch hitting, I need him in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the order. I need him between Judge and Stanton or

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Speaker 2: after Stanton.

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Speaker 3: Or however that goes.

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Speaker 2: I just, I just, I just wish that we would

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Speaker 2: just build a real baseball team and not a stat driven,

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Speaker 2: you know, metrics team where everybody has a long changle

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Speaker 2: on this and that, like just get on base, drop,

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Speaker 2: move the guy over, hit a butt like, you know,

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Speaker 2: treat every inning like there's a ghost runner on second,

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Speaker 2: and probably wouldn't have held a lot of games that way.

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Speaker 1: As of right now, I think I'd probably go with

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Speaker 1: him in the lead off spot if Volpi doesn't seize

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Speaker 1: it just because of the switch everything. You won't have

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Speaker 1: to change it day by day. You can stick him

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Speaker 1: up there and just leave him there. And the way

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Speaker 1: he takes.

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Speaker 2: Any I'm with you, right because at least it's every

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Speaker 2: day the same thing, and he can get used to it,

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Speaker 2: and soa can everyone else that follows him.

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Speaker 1: All right, right, well, we'll look for you at the

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Speaker 1: movies and on General Hospital if they bring back Doctor Drake.

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Speaker 1: Vermore here, but that was fun special thanks to Ray

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Speaker 1: for coming on. You can find out everything that what

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Speaker 1: Ray was in by visiting his IMDb profile. He was

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Speaker 1: in one called eight forty six, which is about nine

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Speaker 1: to eleven, which is definitely worth watching. I watched that

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Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime not too long ago. Anyway, we are

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Speaker 1: at forty seven thousand subscribers right now. We would love

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Speaker 1: to get to fifty thousand before the season, So go

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Speaker 1: ahead and hit that like and subscribe. It'll help other

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Speaker 1: people find the channel. Next is an interview I did

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Speaker 1: with foul Territory on I want to say it was Thursday,

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Speaker 1: where we talked about some of the major storylines facing

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Speaker 1: the Yankees this season. I've already on a podcast about

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Speaker 1: the storylines that are facing the Yankees this season. It's

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Speaker 1: out there, you can find it, but this is a

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Speaker 1: more concise conversation and Eric Kratz and Todd Fraser are

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Speaker 1: both a part of this, so enjoy I think Plan

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Speaker 1: B is going to be a fun team to watch.

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Speaker 1: They're going to win, hopefully in a different way.

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Speaker 4: Hey, we know this guy, Derek Lewandowski joining us right now,

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Speaker 4: the host and big man of Pinstripe Territory. So Derek,

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Speaker 4: good to see you. And obviously, before we get into

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Speaker 4: the Yankees team storylines, which we felt like was the

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Speaker 4: natural fit of team for you to cover on this one,

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Speaker 4: I just want to shout out the work you do

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Speaker 4: behind the scenes, specifically even with these team storylines. So

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Speaker 4: if you want to lay out how we're going to

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Speaker 4: end up having one for every team and that people

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Speaker 4: can just kind of roll through one by one if

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Speaker 4: they missed any of.

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Speaker 1: Them, well, you know, as somebody who covers one team,

647
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Speaker 1: I just find it useful when there's recaps of all

648
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Speaker 1: the other stuff that goes on in the league. And

649
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Speaker 1: who better to provide that than us. So we've got

650
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Speaker 1: this playlist set up that you can go find right

651
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Speaker 1: there on our Foul Territory homepage that's got team previews

652
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Speaker 1: for everybody we've done so far. Rangers, Diamondbacks, White Sox, Reds,

653
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Speaker 1: et cetera. And Yankees will be obviously added to that

654
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Speaker 1: today and we're going to roll all of these thirty

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Speaker 1: teams out over the course of the next month, so

656
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Speaker 1: that headed into the season, everybody can be up to

657
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Speaker 1: date on all the major storylines that we're going to

658
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Speaker 1: be covering here on Foul Territory this summer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there are people that'snoos in the off season, although

660
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Speaker 4: less and less these days because it's so easy to

661
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Speaker 4: follow with a number of different platforms insiders working every

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Speaker 4: day for you. But still, if you feel like you

663
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Speaker 4: need a refresher course on who's on what team and

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Speaker 4: what the pressing storylines are, that's what we're here for.

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Speaker 4: So let's hit the Yankee storylines. Police. The four big

666
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Speaker 4: ones we're going over today is rebuilding post one year

667
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Speaker 4: of on SOO with additions like Bellinger and gold Schmidt

668
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Speaker 4: in the lineup, Aaron Judges response after not getting the

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Speaker 4: job done in the postseason, and the big drop in

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Speaker 4: the World Series. We've got the emergence of Jason Dominguez

671
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Speaker 4: to cover and Max Freed year one in that starting rotation.

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Speaker 4: So Derek, let's start with the big storyline. It was

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Speaker 4: Mets versus Yankees for Juan Soto and our Free eight

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Speaker 4: or our storyline's front ends. Our animation that goes into

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Speaker 4: this always starts with a very painful image of Sodo

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Speaker 4: in a Mets uniform. So what did you think of

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Speaker 4: all of that? And do you really believe that the

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Speaker 4: New York Yankees are a better club without Juan Soto?

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Speaker 1: First off, what a beautiful introduction. We should give the

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Speaker 1: guy who made that a raise, that Sodo graphic and

681
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. But you know, I was, as I

682
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Speaker 1: mentioned last time, I was not on the side of

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Speaker 1: giving him seven hundred and sixty million dollars. I just

684
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Speaker 1: thought it would handcuff the Yankees. We We're already hearing

685
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Speaker 1: steinb complain about other teams spending, so we know if

686
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Speaker 1: he gives out a huge contract like that to Juan Soto,

687
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Speaker 1: he's not doing anything else. I don't know if we're better,

688
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Speaker 1: but I think Plan B is going to be a

689
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Speaker 1: fun team to watch. They're gonna win, hopefully in a

690
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Speaker 1: different way than they won last year. A more complete

691
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Speaker 1: team that doesn't necessarily rely on the explosive tandem at

692
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Speaker 1: the top of the order, but maybe mixes in a

693
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Speaker 1: few more veteran bats. You know, Bellinger and Goldschmidt are

694
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Speaker 1: going to shake things up, for sure, but they also

695
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Speaker 1: need some of the younger guys to take a step forward.

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Speaker 1: Austin Wells had a two month period last year where

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Speaker 1: he was outstanding ops around nine hundred. Can he maintain

698
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Speaker 1: that a little bit more this year? Anthony Volpi was

699
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Speaker 1: hitting around three hundred. In June, he had a thirty

700
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Speaker 1: four game on base streak. He seized that leadoff spot,

701
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Speaker 1: but then he relented it as the season went on.

702
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Speaker 1: You know, the training wheels are off. This is year

703
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Speaker 1: three for Anthony Volpi. Will he be able to step

704
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Speaker 1: up and recapture that leadoff spot and be the guy

705
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Speaker 1: that we've all hoped he would become to that spark

706
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Speaker 1: plug at the top of the order. Another guy I

707
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Speaker 1: know we're going to talk about later, which is Jason Dominguez.

708
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Speaker 1: He's replacing Alex Verdugo in left field, and he's been

709
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Speaker 1: one of these guys who's been hyped for years, partially

710
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: because of me, but I really believe in him, and

711
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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, the conglomerate of all of

712
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Speaker 1: these guys could put the Yankees in a position where

713
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Speaker 1: they're very close to what they were last year, if

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Speaker 1: not better.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And that kind of goes in my next or

716
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Speaker 5: next topic. What we're talking about the Martian Dominguez. Everybody

717
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Speaker 5: has expectations going into every year. What are your expectations

718
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Speaker 5: of him? And is he going to live up to

719
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Speaker 5: those expectations.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I've been following Domingez for a long time.

721
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Speaker 1: Yankees gave him almost their entire international bonus pool budget

722
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Speaker 1: right around the time I was starting a podcast, So

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Speaker 1: he was somebody that I kind of fixated on, like,

724
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Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna follow this guy. I had this

725
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Speaker 1: whole thing called the Martian Tracker. He was getting comps

726
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Speaker 1: to Mickey Mano and Mike Trout, which is not unusual

727
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Speaker 1: for prospects. But you know, he comes up to the

728
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Speaker 1: major leagues and in his first week he does things

729
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Speaker 1: that only Mickey Mantle did in his first week in

730
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Speaker 1: the major league. So the hype seemed real for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Then he gets Tommy John surgery. He missed almost all

732
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Speaker 1: of last year, but if you look at his minor

733
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Speaker 1: league numbers, they got better and better and better. And

734
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Speaker 1: from what we hear scouts talk about this guy, he's

735
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Speaker 1: one of these people who learns very fast and adapts

736
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Speaker 1: very quickly. Now, he had some issues defensively last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm more worried about that than I am his offense.

738
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Speaker 1: The right side of the bat, could you know, right

739
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Speaker 1: side of the plate could use some work. He's a

740
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Speaker 1: switch hitter, but he's much better from the left side.

741
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Speaker 1: But look, you know, we're setting high expectations for him,

742
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Speaker 1: and the Yankees are putting a lot of eggs in

743
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Speaker 1: that basket. There's no safety in net here. He's got

744
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Speaker 1: to go out and get it done. I'm hopeful that

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Speaker 1: he will get it done. You know, to borrow a

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Speaker 1: phrase from the UFO poster. You know, since we're talking

747
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Speaker 1: about the Martian, I want to believe.

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Speaker 6: Well. I want him to do well so that your

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Speaker 6: show does well. Since you you have brought the Martian

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Speaker 6: to the people, I appreciate hearing that. A right. A

751
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Speaker 6: Ron Judge. Aaron Judge wins a third MVP this year

752
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Speaker 6: and struggles in the playoffs again. Will there be a

753
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Speaker 6: breaking point for Yankees fans or will it not matter?

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Speaker 1: As someone who interacts with Yankees fans on a daily basis,

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Speaker 1: I could tell you that last year seemed like it

756
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Speaker 1: was pretty close to the breaking point, if not over

757
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Speaker 1: the breaking point. I'm interested to see the reception he's

758
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Speaker 1: gonna get this year, especially if he gets off to

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Speaker 1: another slow start like he had in April of last year. Look,

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Speaker 1: Judge is statistically elite, He's a physical anomaly. He's an

761
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Speaker 1: amazing representative of the Yankees franchise. He's probably gonna hit

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Speaker 1: five hundred or more home runs, but he's in danger

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Speaker 1: of being one of those great regular season players who

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Speaker 1: never wins a title. Griffy Bonds another Yankees captain, don Mattingly,

765
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Speaker 1: but Donnie Baseball had one shot at the postseason and

766
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Speaker 1: really performed well. Judge got off to a couple of

767
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Speaker 1: decent starts in the postseason early on in his career,

768
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Speaker 1: but as his statistics have gotten better in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: he has faded a little bit in the playoffs, and they've,

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Speaker 1: you know, basically, the Yankees fans have grown frustrated with that.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I'm really interested in in watching

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Speaker 1: as a fan and covering as a podcaster is if

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Speaker 1: there's a tangible shift in how Aaron Judge goes about

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Speaker 1: his business. He's always very stoic, you know. I want

775
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Speaker 1: to see that Tiger Woods on Sunday with the Red

776
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Speaker 1: shirt attitude. I want to see Jordan against the Pistons

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Speaker 1: in ninety one. I want to see that side of

778
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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. I want him to prove that he's one

779
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Speaker 1: of the all time greats by having that nine a

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Speaker 1: rod postseason this year and putting the Yankees on his back,

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Speaker 1: because I keep saying, one of the things that really

782
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Speaker 1: hurts Judge and really affected him last year is that

783
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Speaker 1: the Yankees lost Game three of the ALCS. You remember

784
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Speaker 1: he had that big home run against Emmanuel Classe to

785
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Speaker 1: tie the game. Stan puts him ahead with a go

786
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Speaker 1: ahead home, but they blew the game. If they had

787
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Speaker 1: won that game, I feel like the entire universe could

788
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Speaker 1: have shifted in a different way for the Yankees last year.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he could have gotten hot. He would

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Speaker 1: have been emotional and riding that high and the pressure

791
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Speaker 1: would have been off. But the next day the pressure

792
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: was back and he struggled, and so the pressure continued

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Speaker 1: until the final game of the World Series. And look,

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Speaker 1: I just want to see how he approaches it this

795
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Speaker 1: year with all of this, I guess negative response over

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Speaker 1: how he performed in the postseason.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for the perfect lead into my next question. We've

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Speaker 6: got new guys on this roster. They get to look

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Speaker 6: right to Aaron Judge and say, Wow, this dude crushes

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Speaker 6: New York. He handles everything so well, the good, the bad. Howard,

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Speaker 6: Max Freed, Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt going to fare

802
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Speaker 6: in the I got it here the Bronx Zoo shirt on.

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Speaker 6: How are they going to handle that press? Sure that

804
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Speaker 6: some people fade under? And is there one guy of

805
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Speaker 6: those three that you're like, I'm a little worried about

806
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Speaker 6: the pressure.

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Speaker 1: I don't really worry about the pressure of those guys.

808
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Speaker 1: It seems like, you know, Max Freed is built for

809
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Speaker 1: New York. He seems like a very confident guy. Paul

810
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Speaker 1: Goldschmidt's the consummate professional, he's been a steady rock. And

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Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger's playing for a contract. Devin Williams also a

812
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Speaker 1: new guy. I think he's probably facing the most pressure

813
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Speaker 1: because there's such little room for error as a closer.

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Speaker 1: You blow a couple of games early and that New

815
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Speaker 1: York crowd can turn on you and not everybody comes

816
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Speaker 1: back from that. But I think he'll do fine. I mean,

817
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: you know how nasty he is. I like the addition

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Speaker 1: of Max Freed. Everything I hear about him from the

819
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Speaker 1: guy's over at Hammer Territory is that he was a

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Speaker 1: fan favorite, that he'll handle New York just fine. There's

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Speaker 1: some concerns about his health, but I don't concern myself

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Speaker 1: with that because we can't control it, and every pitcher

823
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Speaker 1: faces health issues. Anybody could snap an elbow at any

824
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Speaker 1: given point. But I think that the pendulum has swung

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Speaker 1: for how the Yankees are trying to win from an

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Speaker 1: offensive team to a team that's more focused on pitching

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Speaker 1: and defense. And while they not, they might not be

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Speaker 1: as exciting to watch. I think they might do a

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Speaker 1: lot more winning of like close games and you know,

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Speaker 1: making big plays in the big spot. And I'm just

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Speaker 1: excited to see this team get back to playing baseball

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Speaker 1: again and not necessarily focused on being a home run juggernaut.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be a more aesthetically pleasing brand

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Speaker 4: of baseball for the Yanks.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't mean they're a better team than last year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: They're at least in that same range. But also, I

839
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Speaker 4: mean the American League should be at least a little

840
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Speaker 4: bit better. The Division should be a little bit better.

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Speaker 4: Let me finish with a bonus question here, because I

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Speaker 4: would take consensus from the crowd wanting to know your answer.

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Speaker 4: And I know you did an episode on this on

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Speaker 4: Pinstripe Territory, but let's get your quick thoughts here. What

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Speaker 4: did you think of al Steinberner's comments about, you know,

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers being the essentially big bad Dodgers. Now, it's funny,

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Speaker 4: just an ironic for me growing up in the New

848
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Speaker 4: York City area in Jersey right nearby and all these

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Speaker 4: Yankee fan saying, oh, we're the evil Empire. They're not

850
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Speaker 4: the evil Empire anymore. The Dodgers are.

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Speaker 1: Well. He said that a lot of us owners can't

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Speaker 1: do what the Dodgers are doing. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: interesting that he puts himself in there with other owners

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Speaker 1: when he's, you know, the owner of the most valuable

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Speaker 1: franchise in the sport that I just say, prove it.

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Speaker 1: I say prove it. If you want to prove that

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Speaker 1: you can't compete with the Dodgers, open up your books,

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Speaker 1: show us that you're not making money. I know the

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Speaker 1: Yankees have a large payment that they're still paying down

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Speaker 1: the stadium. It's like thirty million dollars a year. They're

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Speaker 1: still paying some old contracts, you know, Aaron Hicks, and

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Speaker 1: some bad investments and things like that, but they also

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Speaker 1: have an enormous amount of worldwide revenue. What I think

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Speaker 1: he meant to say, what a more precise thing to

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Speaker 1: say would have been, is that we can't do exactly

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Speaker 1: what the Dodgers are doing and make exactly the same

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Speaker 1: profit that we've gotten used to. I think that would

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Speaker 1: have been a much more accurate and honest answer. Hey,

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