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Speaker 2: How's it going, everybody, Welcome back, Welcome back, off day

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Speaker 2: podcast here for you guys. Usually I would take a

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Speaker 2: intensely hyped since the Padres series or so, and the

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Speaker 2: way the Yankees just took two out of three from

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Speaker 2: starting to come together. And so tonight we're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: about how Wan Soto seems to hate the Mets. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's been the talk on all of the different news

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Speaker 2: stations today, all the different radio networks. They're all talking

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Speaker 2: Juan Soto and his body language, his sluggish weekend. So

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to comment on it, but honestly, I

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Speaker 2: feel like I have to. Then we're gonna dive into

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Speaker 2: the numbers for Plan B and see how Soto stacks

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Speaker 2: up against Goldie Max Freed and the suddenly red hot

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Speaker 2: We're gonna revisit, you know, how wells Volpie and Jason

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Speaker 2: have improved year over year, and then we'll finish off

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Speaker 2: with some voicemails. We have been having full disclosure some

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Speaker 2: issues with our voicemail service. I contacted them today. A

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Speaker 2: lot of voicemails just aren't getting through, but we did

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Speaker 2: get a few that came through today. So anyway, I

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Speaker 2: will I'll get to all that, all right, So let's

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Speaker 2: begin with Juan Soto, who absolutely had a horrible weekend

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Speaker 2: in the Subway series. All I was reading about today,

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Speaker 2: that Juan Soto has lost his swag, that he seems

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Speaker 2: genuinely grumpy about his situation with the Mets, and his

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Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was on par with the

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Speaker 2: body language that Devin Williams showed in his first couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks with the Yankees. We have not seen the

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Speaker 2: Sodo shuffle yet, and Mets fans are starting to get

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Speaker 2: on him a little bit. You know, we all saw

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Speaker 2: You know, he was celebrating in his jacuzzi. He seemed

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Speaker 2: now they have a better record than the Yankees. So

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Speaker 2: it's certainly not about the team not winning. I think

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Speaker 2: the quality of life as a Met is probably just

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Speaker 2: different than it was as the Yank as a Yankee, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, Derek Jeter said it best, it's just the Mets.

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Speaker 2: It's just the Mets. But just like Devin Williams had,

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Speaker 2: you know, undeniable bad body language, so does Juan Soto.

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Speaker 2: He was just going through the motions all weekend. He

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Speaker 2: that all that extra money doesn't really make a difference

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Speaker 2: in his life. He was already in the top one

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Speaker 2: and to get all that extra guaranteed money hasn't really

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Speaker 2: changed his life at all, except he's playing for a

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Speaker 2: team that's less important, less storied, gets less attention, And

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Speaker 2: I think he's finding out that having a suite at

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Speaker 2: don't know his situation, but it's obvious to me that

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Speaker 2: he didn't seem like the guy that we saw last year.

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Speaker 2: He seems unhappy and we all saw him celebrating in

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Speaker 2: was like a neutron despair bomb went off. Yankees fans

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Speaker 2: got to six hundred million, the Yankees should pass, and

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Speaker 2: ultimately I am glad that they did. I'm glad they did.

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Speaker 2: Some of you laughed at me, some of you said

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Speaker 2: that I was tripping balls, smoking that devil's let us whatever.

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Speaker 2: But already we've seen how spreading similar money out over

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Speaker 2: The base running is better, the defense is better, the

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Speaker 2: gonna zoom in on Plan B. We're gonna look at

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Speaker 2: each of the major acquisitions that the Yankees made this

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Speaker 2: winner in lieu of Juan Soto. We're not gonna look

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Speaker 2: about Dominguez, We're gonna talk about Anthony Volpi. No players

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Speaker 2: are perfect. Every player on every team has problems. But

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Speaker 2: we're gonna take an honesty valve of these guys. You know,

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Speaker 2: even the best players in the game that we've seen

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Speaker 2: Otani hasn't pitched in over six hundred days because his

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Speaker 2: Every player has problems. No players perfect, but we're gonna

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Speaker 2: do an honest evel, honest evel. Let's begin with Plan B.

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Speaker 2: So as you can see, Juan Soto, his numbers actually

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Speaker 2: two forty six average, eight home runs, three seventy nine

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Speaker 2: weird that he's not doing the swag, the shuffle. I mean,

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Speaker 2: something is definitely up with the guy. And you look

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Speaker 2: at the production we've gotten from the three Cats that

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Speaker 2: we replaced him with, Paul Goldschman hitting three thirty nine

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Speaker 2: So it's clear to me that Plan B has worked.

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Speaker 2: So far. The war total for the two Plan B

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Speaker 2: it work. Nice job. All right, let's talk about some

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Speaker 2: of the guys who have to improve internally and are

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Speaker 2: Let's start with Jason, should you choose to accept it.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has been as excited about Jason Domingez as I have.

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Speaker 2: I have been hyping this kid since I started the channel,

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Speaker 2: and now that we're approaching fifty games into his rookie season,

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Speaker 2: I thought it would be a good kind of you know,

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Speaker 2: exciting as we all thought it would be. Now you

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Speaker 2: good instinctual player. I think he's got great base running instincts.

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Speaker 2: His defensive metrics have not been good. But if you

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Speaker 2: last year, he was completely out of place. It does

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Speaker 2: Does he make every play, No, but he has gotten

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Speaker 2: He did hit the four hundred and thirty plus foot

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Speaker 2: his athleticism. This guy is an athlete. Youngest Yankees player

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Speaker 2: It sounds so simple, but to state the obvious, when

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Speaker 2: because it's gonna take more than that to get them in.

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Speaker 2: Domingez can make runs with his legs, either by stealing

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Speaker 2: that before. Yes, the right handed bats have been a

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Speaker 2: with what he's doing the last ten games, hitting two

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Speaker 2: So we got a couple of voicemails here. Here's Franklin.

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Speaker 1: Hey Derek, this is Franklin Lope is here calling quick question.

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Speaker 1: I got a question for you. What's your thoughts would be?

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Speaker 3: Hey, Derek's a going as is Andrew from Grant's Pass Oregon.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of talk lately about Paul Skins maybe

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Speaker 2: No, no chance whatsoever. First of all, I don't I

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