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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody. Hello, fellow Yankees fans. Today is April third.

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Speaker 3: Tough night for the Yankees last night, and there will

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Speaker 3: be many of these throughout the season. Every year, after

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Speaker 3: a couple of bad games early, we get a deluge

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Speaker 3: of comments saying, all this team sucks. This team can't hit,

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Speaker 3: this team can't pitch, this team can't play. D YadA, YadA, YadA,

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Speaker 3: sell everybody, fire cashman, blow up the stadium, whatever you

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Speaker 3: want to do. Look, guys, I wanted to take a

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Speaker 3: minute this year. I don't think we've done this in

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Speaker 3: the past to explain how to watch a baseball season

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Speaker 3: without losing your mind, right, Because it is not a sprint.

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Speaker 3: It's not it's not a sprint. It's a marathon. It's

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Speaker 3: not like a football season where one loss early in

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Speaker 3: the season can screw up your playoff chances. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: have many, many opportunities throughout this year to have good,

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Speaker 3: long stretches of baseball, and we've seen a lot of positives.

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Speaker 3: But before we get into all the predictions and the

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Speaker 3: voicemails and all that stuff, I wanted to kind of

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Speaker 3: tell you, guys the best way to watch a baseball season.

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Speaker 3: Don't get too high after a big win, and don't

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Speaker 3: get too low after a bad loss. There's gonna be

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Speaker 3: plenty of both throughout the season. Every game is a

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Speaker 3: single thread in one hundred and sixty two game tapestry.

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Speaker 3: Each game affects the other games, but it's still a

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Speaker 3: single game, and your momentum is as strong as your

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Speaker 3: next day is. Starting pitcher now, you'll find out later.

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Speaker 3: I'm not high on tonight's game. I think the Yanks

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Speaker 3: is gonna lose tonight because I don't like the pitching matchup.

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Speaker 3: But you don't judge a novel by one paragraph in

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Speaker 3: the first chapter. You don't abandon a TV series because

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Speaker 3: of one slow episode. I tried to get my wife

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Speaker 3: And that's her loss. I think she missed out on

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Speaker 3: what I feel is like the Moby Dick of television,

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Speaker 3: one of the greatest TV series ever made. You watch

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Speaker 3: it unfold, long arcs, turning points, moments that just don't

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Speaker 3: make sense until later. Injuries, happen, Slumps happen. Good teams

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Speaker 3: can be mediocre for weeks. Bad teams can look great

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Speaker 3: for weeks. Elite offenses can get shut down by great pitching.

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Speaker 3: Dominant pitchers hang meatballs to scrubs, and said scrubs deposit

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Speaker 3: those pitches into the upper deck. Baseball has a way

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Speaker 3: of humbling everybody, even fans. So when we lose in

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Speaker 3: April or May whatever, just breathe, take a deep breath,

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Speaker 3: get a good night's sleep, say you know what, come

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Speaker 3: get them tomorrow. Last night, Zach Gallon had one of

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Speaker 3: the best curveballs that I have seen in years of

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Speaker 3: watching baseball. I'm talking peak Mike Messina, peak, Barry Zito,

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Speaker 3: even though he was from the left side, peak Darryl Kyle.

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Speaker 3: That pitch was not fair. That pitch should be a felony.

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Speaker 3: It would have shut down probably every team in baseball

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Speaker 3: last night, including the Dodgers, who are now eight and

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Speaker 3: the Yankees one hundred and twenty five win record when

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Speaker 3: you include the postseason, definitely going to contend for that

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Speaker 3: one hundred and sixteen mark. By the Mariners during the

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Speaker 3: regular season, The conditions last night were brutal. They were

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Speaker 3: not good for hitters. And you could tell because Rodin

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Speaker 3: didn't have his stuff, he didn't have his confidence, didn't

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Speaker 3: have his swag. It happens. The Yankees lost. That's it.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean they're gonna lose one hundred games. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't mean that the season's over. It doesn't mean anything

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Speaker 3: more than last night was not their night. Watching a

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Speaker 3: baseball season is kind of like gardening. I've been gardening

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Speaker 3: a lot in recent years. You don't scream at the

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Speaker 3: dirt on April third because the tomatoes haven't grown in yet.

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Speaker 3: You water it, you trust the sun, you fertilize it,

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Speaker 3: you let it breathe. Baseball does not reward panic, either

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Speaker 3: on the field or from the fans. It rewards patience.

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Speaker 3: It rewards perspective. And that's what I'm asking you all

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Speaker 3: Anthony Volpi hit a three run home run in the

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Speaker 3: the season and they're all home runs. That is not

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Speaker 3: He might be one of the more perplexing hitters that

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Speaker 3: I've seen come up through the Yankee system in recent years.

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Speaker 3: You never really know who he's gonna be. One year

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Speaker 3: And then this year the power is back, but he's

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Speaker 3: to tear a hole in the back wall of Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Inside fastball, uppercut, outside slider uppercut, hanging curve, you guessed it, uppercut.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter where the pitch is. He's swinging out

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Speaker 3: I don't believe that that's the player that he should be,

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Speaker 3: and I think the league is going to figure it out.

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Speaker 3: He is becoming the exact opposite of what most of

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Speaker 3: us thought he should be a leadoff spark plug. Now,

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Speaker 3: maybe the Yankees love the power. The Yankees see value

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Speaker 3: But you look at his player archetype, as TK was

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Speaker 3: I think the league is going to figure out his

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Speaker 3: think it's sustainable with that approach. So you know, once

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Speaker 3: How will Anthony Volpi adjust? What is this new version

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Speaker 3: let's talk about our Inside Edge preview of the day.

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Speaker 3: Merril Kelly, who is pitching tonight. He is a change

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Speaker 3: up specialist, and opponents since twenty twenty three are slugging

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Speaker 3: and we're gonna need a strong performance from Carlos Carrasco,

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Speaker 3: he had a pretty good spring. But that does not

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Speaker 3: change my nostra Derek prediction. I think the Diamondbacks are

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Speaker 3: a tough prediction on you today. Jared william says, Diamondbacks

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Speaker 3: aren't that good. Not just kidding, They're very good. Diamondbacks

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers are eight no the Padres are seven to zero.

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Speaker 3: best hope is to win the AL and pick up

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Speaker 3: We've got a super chat here from Zippy Narwal, who

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Speaker 3: says I also worry that Volpi might be cooked when

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Speaker 3: they aren't home with the power swing one hundred percent,

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Speaker 3: because that homer last night was the definition of a

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Speaker 3: I worry to me so far Volpi's performance is very deceptive,

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Speaker 3: and I worry about what he's going to give us

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Speaker 3: home runs are exciting. Last night wouldn't have been a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a couple of things that that's tonight.

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Speaker 4: a good one, Derek.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you so much on Parazza. I can't

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Speaker 3: I mean, guy hits a home run. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: Torpedo bats, Hey, Derek at Salix, love the show.

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Speaker 5: I love the Yankees start even more. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 5: So it's just a quick couple things. First, A bit

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Speaker 5: That's actually something that not a lot of people have,

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Speaker 5: That's why Judge and a lot of these you know,

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: That's one thing. The other thing is do you think

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Speaker 5: Ben Rice could be a trade chip? Because I know,

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Speaker 5: really don't have room for for Ben Rice this year,

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Speaker 5: and you know, I'm hoping that for first base next

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Speaker 5: you know, until the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. I like what Ben Rice has

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Speaker 3: shown us. He obviously had a tough night last night,

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Speaker 3: I think he could take over at first base next year.

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Speaker 3: And then you make a decision. You know, you take

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on?

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Speaker 6: Derek Bryan just wanted to chi real quick.

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Speaker 2: I saw something.

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Speaker 6: Take a load of bullshit, but something about ESPN put

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Speaker 6: out their top one hundred players. How in the world

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Speaker 6: Stephen Bobby went number two.

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Speaker 1: What has he done?

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Speaker 3: I agree, it doesn't make any sense to me.

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Speaker 6: I was wondering anything. Maybeest and light on that. But anyway,

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Speaker 6: you have a big fan of the show, listen to

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Speaker 3: I think it's an anti Yankee bias. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: really do. I mean it's very clear to me that

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Speaker 3: Judge is the best player in baseball the last several years.

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Speaker 3: If he didn't get hurt. Two years ago from that

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Speaker 3: it's mind boggling to me how anybody puts anyone ahead

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Speaker 3: of him, with the exception of when Shoe Hero Tani's

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Speaker 3: pitch and hitting. Yeah, maybe he racks up more war

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Speaker 1: Yes, Hi, Derek, Steve calliprom Harmington Ben Rice reminds me

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Speaker 1: of Ron Bloomberg. His swing, his build, and the way

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Speaker 1: some films of Ronnie Bloomberg back in the late seventies

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Speaker 1: of late sixties, early seventies.

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Speaker 3: I've actually never seen him play. I'm a bit too

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Speaker 3: to watch the OJ trial though. But all right, ladies

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