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Speaker 2: It is Thursday, September fourth, and it was the rubber

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Speaker 2: game of the three game series between the Yankees and

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Speaker 2: the Astros, kicking off the twelve game gauntlet. Could the

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Speaker 2: Yankees win the series and head back to New York

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Speaker 2: on a high note? Eric Kratz joins me tonight to

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Speaker 2: break down the game, my recap, your reactions coming up next.

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Speaker 2: This is pinstrip Territory's good to talk.

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Speaker 1: At fool.

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Speaker 2: All right. Two out of three from Houston joining me

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Speaker 2: to talk about it is former Yankee Eric Kratz, also

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Speaker 2: co host of foul Territory. The Mothership as we call

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Speaker 2: it here, Eric, these next eight weeks are what it's

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Speaker 2: all about for us baseball nuts. You're feeling it.

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Speaker 1: You ready? Wait? Did you say fastball or curveball? I

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Speaker 1: pitched commas. Now it's too loud in here.

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Speaker 2: That's a delay. That's a delay after.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees win. Yeah, this is I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: what you want as a Yankees fan. No like this?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is a statement series.

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Speaker 2: Good baseball. It was a fun baseball game. It was

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Speaker 2: a good series. We had some stuff. We had some

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Speaker 2: you know, minor league or some bad defense. We had

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Speaker 2: some Bush League umpiring in this series, we had we

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Speaker 2: had some questionable bullpen moves, but ultimately the Yankees did

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Speaker 2: get it done. I'm a little bit worried about this

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Speaker 2: five thirty in the morning. I'm sure you've been on

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Speaker 2: some road trips where that happens. Like, how easy is

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Speaker 2: flights or is it our guy's gonna be up all

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Speaker 2: night feeling like crap tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: No, you don't feel like crap tomorrow. You feel like

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Speaker 1: crap on Saturday. Tomorrow's Friday. You'll get in un you

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Speaker 1: can run on it, especially in the six. The six

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Speaker 1: is going to be sold out Saturday. That's when you

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Speaker 1: see a little bit of a letdown. But hey, you

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Speaker 1: and you grind through it. Before you know it, you're

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see how it works out, right now. I

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Speaker 2: didn't think the Yankees were gonna win two out of

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Speaker 2: So let's hope they keep the momentum gone. Let's break

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Speaker 2: down this game a little bit. So the Yankees fired

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Speaker 2: the opening salvo in the second inning RBI single from

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Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon. He had a good day. He had three RBIs.

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Speaker 2: Alvarez tied it up. He had an unbelievable series. He

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Speaker 2: had four hits. Again. Uh. I was talking with Kratz

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Speaker 2: were debating who we would most not like to see

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Speaker 2: in in you know, key situation. And for me, it's

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Speaker 2: your not Alvarez. That dude just matches the Yankees every

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Speaker 2: time he came up. Right before you retired, have you

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Speaker 2: had a chance to, you know, game plan against him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, game plan against him. And there's very few

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Speaker 1: people that are like intimidating when they stand in the box.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's a handful of guys. It's Judge, it's him,

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Speaker 1: it was Adam, it was Adam Dunn, John Carlow, Like

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Speaker 1: which is a crazy thing to say. But then the

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Speaker 1: I would say is kryptonite would be he makes hard

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Speaker 2: He is an absolute beast. Fifth inning, the Yankees went

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Speaker 2: center field. Absolute nuke. Maybe he's getting his swing going

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Speaker 2: I know the Yankees have more money, more technology, more coaches.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, the easy picking is the fact

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Speaker 1: what d J. L. Mayhew said. DJ L. Mayhew when

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Speaker 2: I think his first year was nineteen with the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I played with them in twenty and he said,

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Speaker 1: So he was sitting there going, He's like, we have

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Speaker 1: I just have to take my approach, which was fastballs

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Speaker 1: left and that was the year he won the batting title.

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Speaker 1: He was already a good player, but when you give

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Speaker 1: The Rockies are just They're that far below where the

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Speaker 2: So I have my fingers crossed that he will develop

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Speaker 2: deep into the right field seats home run number thirty

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Speaker 2: for Trent Grisham. Now, which one do you think the

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Speaker 2: Do you think that they're gonna pay for Bellinger maybe

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Speaker 1: I think it depends on how much grisham want. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Because to me, a center fielder is going to age

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Speaker 1: Trent's value really is in playing center field. But whoever

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Speaker 1: Like that's he's the example for me. I've always said,

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Speaker 1: we see a prime example of it with Trent Grison.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Yankees do have a minor league prospect, Spencer Jones.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you're familiar with him. Got huge numbers in

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Speaker 2: And you know, you wonder would the Yankees gamble and

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Speaker 2: quality or quantity, because you've got two guys who can

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Speaker 2: We had a big performance today from Fernando Cruz, big

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Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon knocked in another run. Great base running by

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Speaker 2: Jason Dimingez. I know you're not as high on Diminguz

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Speaker 2: been kind of a butcher. What You don't agree that

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Speaker 2: he's gonna be a good offensive player.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't agree that you said he was gonna

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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be terrific.

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Speaker 1: You said you said words like great, terrific, exceptional parrection.

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Speaker 2: I I stand by it. I think he has not

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Speaker 1: Well he's gonna be great. There, Okay, now I'll.

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Speaker 2: Say it with my fucking chest. He's gonna be great.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be fantastic, Right, I'll beat on beat on

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Speaker 2: long way to go. But I but just having watched him,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've watched a number of Yankees games this year,

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Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on on Domingas. I know he

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Speaker 2: did score a big run. But while I've got you on,

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Speaker 2: I want to get your kind of evaluation.

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Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, you don't want to see a guy

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Speaker 1: but he's not going to take gian Carlo out of

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Speaker 2: change from rodin last year to this year. It seemed

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Speaker 1: Yes, you're you're a hundred ft right, he's pitching. You

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Speaker 1: to needs to step up to be able to beat

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Speaker 1: the Yankees. But I think if you go into that

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Speaker 1: series you say, we can take game one and that's

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Speaker 1: all we have to focus on. It sounds super remedial.

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Speaker 1: But if they start looking ahead to well, you know

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Speaker 1: who's gonna get a day off on Saturday. I haven't

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Speaker 1: even looked ahead. Is it a day game? Is it

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Speaker 1: a day game in Toronto on Saturday? That's usually what happens.

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Speaker 2: So it's at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, it should be a

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Speaker 2: day I thought you were in Toronto. No, they're going

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Speaker 2: to Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, never mind?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sweet.

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Speaker 1: So I'm calling a sweep Yanks for sweeping.

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Speaker 2: All right. So yeah, so so it's gonna be an

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Speaker 2: interesting series. We've got Cam Schlitzler against Kevin Gossman tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: Schlittler's been great. Have you had a chance to watch

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Speaker 2: him yet? He's he's look terrific.

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Speaker 1: I love it. If he could just work a little

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Speaker 1: bit faster, I love it. It feels like a slow like

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Speaker 1: I'm glad they got the pitchclock when he's out there,

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Speaker 1: but he's coming from an angle that other dudes are not,

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Speaker 1: that are not coming from, and it's gonna take the

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Speaker 1: league a little while to be figure figure out the

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Speaker 1: absolute fuel that he's throwing up there, because that slider

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Speaker 1: is filthy and that's speedball. It's weird because he's tall,

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Speaker 1: so you know, my thinking that down down angles working

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Speaker 1: he's able to playing balls out so well and then

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Speaker 1: running up above the zone. He's he is tough.

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Speaker 2: He's like kind of like, uh, he throws harder than

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Speaker 2: this guy, obviously, but a right handed Jordan Montgomery just

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Speaker 2: the big gangly dude with a high angle, right, I

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Speaker 2: mean kind of a similar you know in mon He's

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Speaker 2: obviously the prototypical lefty, soft tossing, you know, curveballs and

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Speaker 2: stuff and slit throws ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean JORDI, I mean that's the American missile

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Speaker 1: you're talking about, not the Cuban missile. The American missile.

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Speaker 1: Speak speak his name politely. I mean he could run

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Speaker 1: it up to ninety seven, but he would normally sit

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Speaker 1: you know that more ninety one ninety three area.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I was the president w Montgomery. Get fan

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Speaker 2: club there, Yeah, he's he. I like Slily, He's good. Saturday,

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Speaker 2: We've got a good one. We got Luis heel versus

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Speaker 2: Max Schurzer Sureser. I don't even know what to expect anymore.

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Speaker 2: It seems like his stuff is still good, but he's

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Speaker 2: only made. I don't know what a handful starts this year,

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Speaker 2: maybe ten starts. So it's all gonna be. You know,

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Speaker 2: does he have a blister that day or not? Basically,

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Speaker 2: or is his thumb does his thumb hurt? That's gonna

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Speaker 2: be you know, stay say off the call of duty

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Speaker 2: and he'll probably be Okay.

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Speaker 1: He he got he came. He came out with like

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Speaker 1: a little like tight scap or something. So hopefully he's back,

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Speaker 1: because that's what you I mean that that's when he

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Speaker 1: comes to the Bronx. The whole time, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was Rogers Center that they were that they were playing in.

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Speaker 1: But this, hey, you know what, there's a couple. There's

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Speaker 1: a couple of Yankee fans on here right now. To me,

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Speaker 1: if you don't get up, if you don't get up

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Speaker 1: for this series, Like if if they don't bring this

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Speaker 1: Yankees team, what are they? Are? They eight and two

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Speaker 1: in their last ten.

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Speaker 2: I believe so, yeah, yeah, this team's hot.

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Speaker 1: Save save all the save all the hate you know

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Speaker 1: that you have for Volpi, the hate that you have

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Speaker 1: for Dominga is playing in the left. Bring it this

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Speaker 1: series for the like, this is the time ride the wave, like,

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Speaker 1: get behind this team and the Bronx. The Bronx could

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Speaker 1: push this team to a sweep. If you really want

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Speaker 1: to get behind your team, or if you want to

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Speaker 1: see a wildcard series, then you know, be that be

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Speaker 1: that fan base you can win.

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Speaker 2: That's our fan base right now.

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Speaker 1: Don't give me a ball.

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Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Eric Kratz

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Speaker 2: for joining us taking some time out. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna do a pregame show before the game to

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Speaker 2: kick off the series. To call in for that, do

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Speaker 2: a little voicemail show. Sorry we didn't get more of

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Speaker 2: your voicemails tonight and then obviously post games all weekend. Eric,

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Speaker 2: thanks a lot, watch Eric on foul Territory and we'll

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