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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of Fair Territory. I am back

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Speaker 1: from London, a lot jetlagged, not a little jet lagged,

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Speaker 1: and I'm coming to you again from an undisclosed location,

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Speaker 1: parts unknown. You don't need to know where I am.

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Speaker 1: It's not important. We're gonna have a great show. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of fun talking about some really

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Speaker 1: important issues going on within the game of baseball. Right now.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to London and all that. But first

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about three different areas. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with Aaron Judge. You might have noticed on Saturday Judge

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Speaker 1: revealed that he has a torn ligament in that right

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Speaker 1: that might be more serious than initially believed. Aaron Brewin

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Speaker 1: the next day said, no, it's not that bad. Don't worry.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing as before, a sprain. Whatever. It's semantics,

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Speaker 1: however you want to describe it. Bottom line, Judge hasn't

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Speaker 1: played in three weeks. The Yankees are eight and ten

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Speaker 1: want to go back to the injury, back to Dodger

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Speaker 1: Stadium and that exposed area of the outfield wall where

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Speaker 1: Judge hit when he made that spectacular catch when he

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Speaker 1: hit his foot, That area has now been covered. They've

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Speaker 1: Jazz Chishom Junior suffered a similar injury exposed bottom part

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Speaker 1: of the wall earlier this season. Now, I know these

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Speaker 1: things don't happen every day. In fact, it had not

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Speaker 1: happened at Dodger Stadium in sixty years. That said, Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball needs to check all the walls immediately, if

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Speaker 1: not sooner. These kinds of things should never occur, these

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Speaker 1: types of injuries due to basically exposed parts of concrete

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Speaker 1: in outfield walls. No cover them up. Make sure there

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Speaker 1: are none left in this sport. Okay, Now to the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, they are eight and ten without Judge. Granted,

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Speaker 1: they've won four of their last six against Seattle in Texas,

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive homestand still they're averaging three runs per game,

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Speaker 1: You remember how Steinbrunner, the owner, back at the start

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Speaker 1: of this said, we need more out of our veteran players.

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Speaker 1: You might remember last week we kind of named the

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Speaker 1: producing and it is still a problem. Look at this,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees without Aaron Judge since June fourth. Glabor Torres

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Speaker 1: They're in decent shape, and they do expect to get

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Speaker 1: judged back eventually. We don't know when. So at some

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Speaker 1: have to hit. Can't all be Billy McKinney and Jake

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Speaker 1: to get it going offensively. All right, Let's shift coast here.

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Speaker 1: Let's go out to the West coast, where the Angels

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Speaker 1: had a most interesting weekend. And I've been telling you

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Speaker 1: Angels are not trading Shohei Otani, and they've said that publicly.

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Speaker 1: But I don't believe a word that is said by

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Speaker 1: club officials starting around this time of year, actually pretty

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Speaker 1: But the proof is in the actions of the club

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Speaker 1: his final year before free agency. Look At what the

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Speaker 1: Traded for Eduardo Escobar, traded for Mike Mustakas, brought back

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Speaker 1: GM to be. Now, it's not all going to work.

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Speaker 1: Never does, but this is a guy who is trying

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Speaker 1: heaven forbid, then maybe maybe the Angels actually might have

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Speaker 1: Moreno is willing to spend the money. That remains to

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Speaker 1: be seen. But here they are, one game out of

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Speaker 1: They get run doing back, They'll get Nato back eventually.

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Speaker 1: I like the aggressiveness. It's what a team in their

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Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about this particular subject as well,

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Speaker 1: about some of the disappointing teams in the National League,

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Speaker 1: the National League for this week. The Mets, the Padres,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Now, I caught the Cardinals act on Fox Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a good act at all. They came back

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Speaker 1: I'm not sold the Mets. The three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: whatever the number is. The Mets have lost fifteen of

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Speaker 1: the NL Central, one of the weakest divisions in the game. Really.

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Speaker 1: The second week is to the AL Central, the Padres

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Speaker 1: you just how close they are in that regard the

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Speaker 1: They're actually closer in the division because they play in

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Speaker 1: such a poor division. It's late June, folks, and you

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Speaker 1: They're not all going to make the playoffs, these three teams.

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Speaker 1: But these teams have been intensely disappointing and they haven't

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Speaker 1: So let's keep our eyes in the National League. We'll

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Speaker 1: the segment every week where I talk about a story

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Speaker 1: that's going on in the game that really needs more exposure. Well,

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Speaker 1: I have an obvious choice this week on what to discuss,

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Speaker 1: and it's the London Series. I had a blast over there.

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Speaker 1: It was three plus days. It wasn't very long, but

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Speaker 1: the bulk of the audience live for these games. Now,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean baseball shouldn't try to make an impact

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Speaker 1: the Northeast. That's how Chase Utley described it to me.

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Speaker 1: So if you can get maybe even a tiny percentage

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Speaker 1: Dork of the Week. Well, it stems from two rulings

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