Speaker 1: Going to cook.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. It is Thursday, August sixth,
Speaker 1: and the Yankees have an off night. Hope your off
Speaker 1: day is going well for fans. An off day for
Speaker 1: the team is also kind of an off day for us, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the first time in thirteen days
Speaker 1: that I'm not doing a postgame show, and it's weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with my hands. I've
Speaker 1: been playing the new Madden It's okay, but I'm ready
Speaker 1: to talk some baseball. I just saw, actually a trailer
Speaker 1: for a new John Taturo movie which is called The
Speaker 1: Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which I can only
Speaker 1: assume is about John Carlos date.
Speaker 3: I kid John Carlo.
Speaker 1: Something I like to do time from time to time
Speaker 1: on this channel is I like to take a step
Speaker 1: back and look at the state of the team, because
Speaker 1: I know not everyone is as psychotic as a lot
Speaker 1: of us, as the people in this chat, as me.
Speaker 1: Not everybody watches All one hundred and sixty two, especially
Speaker 1: when the Yankees are getting three or four hits in
Speaker 1: a game, scoring one or two runs most games, and
Speaker 1: even when you know the people who are watching probably
Speaker 1: aren't watching every single pitch. I like to kind of
Speaker 1: just reiterate some of my thoughts, just some of the
Speaker 1: storylines so that everybody can kind of just stay on
Speaker 1: the same page and know what's going on with the team.
Speaker 1: So every once in a while, I like to walk
Speaker 1: through where the team stands, the recent storylines, what's coming next,
Speaker 1: just to set the stage, you know, for what might
Speaker 1: be coming down the pipe here. And we're entering a
Speaker 1: pennant race and for a lot of the diehards out there,
Speaker 1: some of what I'm gonna say might feel redundant because
Speaker 1: we talk about a lot of these things on the
Speaker 1: channel all the time. But I want to give some
Speaker 1: of my first impressions of the new players that the
Speaker 1: Yankees acquired at the trade deadline. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about our new rookie shortstop, George Lombard Junior, who has
Speaker 1: been nothing short of sensational. I want to take a
Speaker 1: look at the state of the American League East end
Speaker 1: of the wild Card, because it seems like the Red
Speaker 1: Sox are coming. They are right on the Yankees heels
Speaker 1: right now, and I want to figure out exactly how
Speaker 1: they're doing it. Also, we got some voicemails to get to.
Speaker 1: But let's begin with the summer of George George Lombard Junior,
Speaker 1: because he has taken the city by storm over his
Speaker 1: first couple of days of his career. And look, it's
Speaker 1: only been a couple of games, but he's been impressive.
Speaker 1: Nobody should be fitting him for a plaque and monument
Speaker 1: park yet. But you can see why the Yankees are
Speaker 1: so excited about this kid. It's instantaneous to recognize how
Speaker 1: good he is at shortstop. I mean, he is just
Speaker 1: smooth as soak, already too defensive run saved which is
Speaker 1: half as many as Volpi had. And there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talk on social media about, oh, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: compare Lombard to Volpi. He take it easy on Volpee. Guys,
Speaker 1: can we be real. This isn't daycare, This is a
Speaker 1: professional baseball team. This is competition at the highest level.
Speaker 1: Of course we're gonna compare the shortstops that are available
Speaker 1: on the roster.
Speaker 3: Of course we are.
Speaker 1: And so far, George Lombard Junior seems like the best
Speaker 1: shortstop defensively that we have.
Speaker 3: Bar Nutt.
Speaker 1: The arm strength is clearly elite, clearly elite the athleticism
Speaker 1: jumps off the screen, the diving play last night. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were some legitimate, legitimate concerns about whether or not
Speaker 1: he would hit major league pitching.
Speaker 3: But he already has a home.
Speaker 1: Run and a hard line drive single, so he's looked okay.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty one years old, he has not had
Speaker 1: a lot of experience at the upper levels of the
Speaker 1: minor leagues, but he has not looked overmatched through the
Speaker 1: first couple of games. The first thing I look at
Speaker 1: with a young player, and I'm not expecting these guys
Speaker 1: to come up and hit three hundred or hit for
Speaker 1: a ton of power. I want to see if the
Speaker 1: moment looks too big for them right. I want to
Speaker 1: see if they're chasing pitches that are nowhere near the
Speaker 1: strike zone. I want to see if they're taking close
Speaker 1: pitches right and trying to work the count with some
Speaker 1: kind of a situational awareness. And so far, he's looked comfortable,
Speaker 1: and he looks like he's doing that, and he keeps
Speaker 1: getting on base. He had a nice stretch at thirty
Speaker 1: games in the minor leagues, and he's been on base
Speaker 1: in each of his first two major league games.
Speaker 3: So very impressive. We haven't seen enough.
Speaker 1: Yet to know exactly what kind of offensive player he's
Speaker 1: gonna become. There's gonna be adjuntments by both Lombard and
Speaker 1: by the league's approach to him. And there's gonna be
Speaker 1: stretches where the pitchers are finding weaknesses. They're attacking those
Speaker 1: weaknesses trying to exploit them over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: But I feel confident that he's got the baseball IQ
Speaker 1: and he's been around the game long enough that he
Speaker 1: will recognize is that it's a chess match and occasionally
Speaker 1: you have to adjust. And that's the thing about great athletes.
Speaker 1: They're able to adjust. And he is a great athlete.
Speaker 1: He comes from an athletic family, and the athleticism just
Speaker 1: jumps off the screen. They clearly believed that he could
Speaker 1: step up as the shortstop, and that's why they didn't
Speaker 1: trade for anyone at the deadline. Now, a lot of
Speaker 1: people were upset that the Yankees didn't really do anything
Speaker 1: to address the middle of the infield that the deadline,
Speaker 1: and that's because they knew this kid was coming. But
Speaker 1: I wish that they had called him up before the deadline,
Speaker 1: because when you wait till after it makes it feel
Speaker 1: like the move was a response to not improving the roster.
Speaker 1: In other ways, it's like, well, we didn't get an infielder,
Speaker 1: so let's give him George Lombard. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that's fair to him, right. He's not some consolation prize.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best young players in the game.
Speaker 1: He was the top twenty prospect Baseball according to MLB Pipeline,
Speaker 1: and he deserves to be evaluated on his own merits.
Speaker 1: One of the things we've heard about the Yankees recently,
Speaker 1: and it's become obvious to those of us who are watching,
Speaker 1: is that the offense is boring. It's slow, it's predictable,
Speaker 1: it's waiting around for somebody to hit home runs. Lombard
Speaker 1: at least could bring some energy, could be a base
Speaker 1: hit guy, could be a guy who runs the bass
Speaker 1: as well. That's something we've seen with some of the
Speaker 1: younger players is they have speed. Lombard is fast. Spencer
Speaker 1: Jones is fast. Now Spencer Jones strikes out too much,
Speaker 1: he swings and misses too much, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: him later, but he has got all the athletic talent.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is truly remarkably remarkable athletically, both of
Speaker 1: these guys. But Luis Garcia Junior, the other Yankees pickup
Speaker 1: or one of the other Yankees pickups at the deadline.
Speaker 1: He was brought in via trade from the Nationals. Through
Speaker 1: the first couple of games, I see some positives. You know,
Speaker 1: he's had some really good at bats. He had an
Speaker 1: eleven pitch walk yesterday. He has looked comfortable. You know,
Speaker 1: some guys get to the Yankees and they look uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and you can tell right away they look uncomfortable. Devin Williams,
Speaker 1: for example, never looked comfortable as a Yankee. I mean
Speaker 1: he always looked like he was about to throw up.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You ever seen that movie The Scout where the guy
Speaker 1: throws up on the mount. I always thought that was
Speaker 1: gonna be Devin Williams. Garcia, he's just kind of loose
Speaker 1: and relax, like, bring it on, let's go. But he's
Speaker 1: a New Yorker, and New Yorkers they have that you know,
Speaker 1: gusto right he is.
Speaker 3: He is not afraid of the big moment.
Speaker 2: He's got titanium nuts.
Speaker 1: I already hit a big, two run, go ahead home
Speaker 1: run in his debut. They lost the game, but that
Speaker 1: was a huge moment. He also got picked off, and
Speaker 1: that's been a recurring problem for the Yankee, So clearly
Speaker 1: he understood the assignment immediately. But putting that aside, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of things that have impressed me with him. One,
Speaker 1: he's a pretty good first baseman. He is only ranked
Speaker 1: in the fifty ninth percentile, but he's got a really
Speaker 1: good arm for a first base baseman. His foots, his
Speaker 1: what's it called footwork looks incredible around the bag. He
Speaker 1: looks like a real first baseman. The other thing is
Speaker 1: his bat speed. He has got very very good batspeed.
Speaker 1: Now it only shows him to be in the seventy
Speaker 1: second percentile, but that's still basically top.
Speaker 3: Quarter of the league.
Speaker 1: You look at the MLB percentile rankings, a lot of
Speaker 1: red on that screen man, and he gets a lot
Speaker 1: of hits to all fields. He's got over one hundred
Speaker 1: hits this year. You know, I think he's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Just going by the eye test, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty good, you know. And the thing about guys
Speaker 1: with bat speed is they can let the ball travel,
Speaker 1: they can swing late and still do damage. Is a
Speaker 1: bat yesterday the eleven pitch at bat that he had
Speaker 1: where he ended up drawing a walk. It reminded me
Speaker 1: a lot of that seven or eight pitch at bat
Speaker 1: that Juan Soto had against the Guardians in the Pennant
Speaker 1: where he hit the home run. And there's already been
Speaker 1: some comparisons between Luis Garcia and Soto, not from me
Speaker 1: or from really any of the Yankees people that I've heard.
Speaker 1: They might have talked about it a little bit on
Speaker 1: the broadcast, but it was really from the Nationals. They
Speaker 1: saw him as a Wan Soto type when they got him.
Speaker 1: He got up to the major leagues really young. He
Speaker 1: didn't take off like Soto did. He's been kind of
Speaker 1: a later bloomer. But he's still just twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: and he's a big dude. Six one two, sixteen, got power,
Speaker 1: bat speed, hits for contact.
Speaker 3: Two years ago he hit two eighty two.
Speaker 1: In five hundred at bats, and he stole twenty bases,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty two bases. He's not stealing as much anymore,
Speaker 1: fourteen last year, only four this year, but he's hitting
Speaker 1: for more power twenty four home runs now.
Speaker 3: Already.
Speaker 1: He looks like a guy who's going to be consistent.
Speaker 1: Maybe not an MVP caliber hitter, but a legitimate threat,
Speaker 1: and you can see why.
Speaker 3: The Yankees picked him up.
Speaker 1: Well seriously, Elliott Ramos the other guy that they picked up.
Speaker 1: The easiest way I can describe what I've seen from
Speaker 1: Elliott Ramos so far is that he feels like a
Speaker 1: more mature and more developed version of Jason Dominguez. That
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of physical tools, but he's a
Speaker 1: little bit shaky in the outfield. I'm not entirely sure
Speaker 1: that he's got a lot of baseball since he's not
Speaker 1: gonna run down every ball or suddenly turn the outfield
Speaker 1: into a strength. But you know, according to stat Cast,
Speaker 1: he's in the thirty fourth percentile defensively. But I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit. He's got a good swing, he's got
Speaker 1: a right field approach. He's got kind of a level swing,
Speaker 1: even though he strikes out a lot. I think he's
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit late on pitches from what I've seen.
Speaker 1: If he can intentionally drive the ball more to right field,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do some damage. He did make
Speaker 1: the All Star team a couple of years ago. He
Speaker 1: hit twenty two home runs in twenty twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty one last season. This year, he was hitting two
Speaker 1: sixty with nine home runs when the Yankees picked him up,
Speaker 1: but he had an il trip, so his numbers could
Speaker 1: be better.
Speaker 3: His average exit.
Speaker 1: Veloci this year is just under ninety two miles an hour,
Speaker 1: so he has been a guy who hits the ball
Speaker 1: hard when he hits it. So those are some real
Speaker 1: indicators that there's damage in his bat, even if the
Speaker 1: overall numbers aren't spectacular, and he's definitely an upgrade from
Speaker 1: somebody like Max Schumann. Schuman was with the Yankees for
Speaker 1: a while. It doesn't mean he can't contribute in a
Speaker 1: utility role, but Ramos really gives you a much better
Speaker 1: chance at getting some offense out of that spot. He
Speaker 1: also seems to play hard, he runs balls out, he
Speaker 1: seems like he's got a good attitude. He seems like
Speaker 1: he's a good clubhouse guy, which is super important. And
Speaker 1: when he got traded here, I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: Giants fans that were very, very sad to see him go.
Speaker 1: But now by my count, he is zero for three
Speaker 1: in challenging But outside of that, I like the way
Speaker 1: he has carried himself and using the right side of
Speaker 1: the field is gonna be successful for him in Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: All right, So big series coming up, Yanks will take
Speaker 1: on the Braves. He uh, he's a funny comment here.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Collaborative film says Ramos swing reminds him of Cecil Fielder.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I don't think he has quite the hitch
Speaker 1: that Big Daddy had. Big Daddy had almost a Gary
Speaker 1: Sheffield level hitch in his swing. I don't think Ramos
Speaker 1: quite has that. But I loved Cecil Fielder. That's a
Speaker 1: great flashback memory. I actually watched an interview with Cecil
Speaker 1: Fielder not too long ago that you mention that, but
Speaker 1: very good interview.
Speaker 3: I recommend it.
Speaker 1: So the Braves first in the National leaguee sixty nine
Speaker 1: and forty five, the Yankees sixty four and fifty one.
Speaker 1: Braves have scored more runs. The Yankees have allowed three
Speaker 1: fewer runs. The Braves have a better run differential. I remember,
Speaker 1: like a month and a half ago, the Yankees had
Speaker 1: a run differential of about one thirteen, and it's fallen dramatically.
Speaker 1: Braves hit for almost a twenty point higher average. They
Speaker 1: get on base more, they have a higher ops The
Speaker 1: Yankees have hit more home runs, but a lot of
Speaker 1: that obviously, you know, you take Aaron Judge out of there,
Speaker 1: that's the difference. Right, Judge has seventeen homer The Yankees
Speaker 1: have out homered the Braves by eleven, you know, so
Speaker 1: I think the Braves probably have more power than the
Speaker 1: Yankees at this moment. We'll see how Garcia impacts that.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Rice gets his swing back. Spencer Jones
Speaker 1: could always run into one. Yankees have a lower team
Speaker 1: ERA by you know, about a third of a run,
Speaker 1: and they have a lower whip. We're gonna see three
Speaker 1: pretty good pitching matchups in this series. Max Freed versus
Speaker 1: Tyler Mally. Now Freed is starting to get it together.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about him more in second. Mally doesn't have
Speaker 1: great numbers this year three to nine, five point one three,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't necessarily mean a lot against the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Chris Sale in Game two against Garrett Cole. We're gonna
Speaker 1: need Garrett Cole to be a stud in that game.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole has been pitching better. He is now five
Speaker 1: hundred five and five with a three point four two
Speaker 1: ERA and sales twelve and six with a two point
Speaker 1: oh eight. What a career resurgence he has had. And
Speaker 1: then Grant Holmes who is seven and four with a
Speaker 1: three point six seven ERA in Game three against Cam Schlitler,
Speaker 1: who had a tough night. Let's talk about Max Freed
Speaker 1: real quick, because his first time out he was spectacular,
Speaker 1: His next time out not quite as good. Obviously, his
Speaker 1: third time he was a little bit better.
Speaker 3: And get a sip of what.
Speaker 1: I think we can start to expect Max Freed to
Speaker 1: be pretty much full strength, either this start or next start.
Speaker 1: I think he's basically fully back. The velocity is there,
Speaker 1: the command is there. It's just about getting deeper into
Speaker 1: the game. And you know, he's dominated lefties to a
Speaker 1: one point fifty six average. Right he's only hitting two
Speaker 1: to eight. He's only allowed one home run this season.
Speaker 1: So Max Freed having a very good year. I'll be
Speaker 1: interested to see what he gives the Yankees on Friday
Speaker 1: Night at the stadium.
Speaker 3: He has not been as.
Speaker 1: Good at home four point four to three ERA on
Speaker 1: the road two point five to six. Garrett cole going
Speaker 1: in Game two. As I mentioned, he's been throwing the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit better lately, seventy eight strikeouts in
Speaker 1: seventy three and two thirds innings since coming off the
Speaker 1: injury list from Tommy Johns. So obviously the swinging misseduff.
Speaker 1: There's nine point six strikeouts per nine. He's on pace
Speaker 1: to strike out one hundred and ten over one hundred
Speaker 1: in three innings. And we've seen the velocity back, We've
Speaker 1: seen the command coming back. I think Garrett Cole is
Speaker 1: hitting his stride at just the right time. Lefties do
Speaker 1: have nine home runs, but they're only hitting two o three.
Speaker 1: If he fixes the long ball problem, if he fixes
Speaker 1: the meatball problems.
Speaker 3: Then I think he'll be okay.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then Cam Schlitzler.
Speaker 1: You know, I am very interested to see what Cam
Speaker 1: Schlitler does in this game because he has had a
Speaker 1: couple of bad starts and turned it on in the
Speaker 1: following game. He seems to treat that as a real motivation,
Speaker 1: you know, motivator, motivator, motivational.
Speaker 3: Uh, motivator.
Speaker 1: Easy for me to say, but Camp Stiller in the
Speaker 1: race for the cy Young, Dylan c seems to be
Speaker 1: the other main car, main contestant for the cy Young.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he can build on his case. Right
Speaker 1: he's hitting just one ninety two against him left, he's
Speaker 1: hitting just two O four. I do think he's been
Speaker 1: overworked a little bit. And at home he is two
Speaker 1: and four with four point three to two on the
Speaker 1: road eight and two with a one point one zero.
Speaker 1: That is a stark, stark difference. So we take a
Speaker 1: look at the division. Here, White Sox beating the Red
Speaker 1: Sox four to two in the bottom of the fourth.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that score holes holds. I'm starting to run.
Speaker 1: My mouth is getting tired. I usually have a break
Speaker 1: by now, but there's no ad read. I have to
Speaker 1: do an ad read myself, so my mouth is a
Speaker 1: little bit tired. I'm sorry, guys. The Angels up four
Speaker 1: to one on the Orioles and the Cubs beating the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays three to two. So what to watch coming up?
Speaker 1: Cam Schlitzler turn it around. Also, is Austin Wells beginning
Speaker 1: to heat up. He's had a couple of good weeks
Speaker 1: where he's been basically the Yankees' highest rate to hit
Speaker 1: it for the last couple of weeks. And Trent Grisham
Speaker 1: has been awful. We've got a number of calls about
Speaker 1: Trent Grisham. Matter of fact, let's take a few calls
Speaker 1: right now. You're Stephen from Maine.
Speaker 2: Yes, I Derek Steve calling from Maine, broken record warning,
Speaker 2: I am so tired of seeing Grisham fumble around out there.
Speaker 2: Even the great plays he make, he makes should be
Speaker 2: easy plays because it takes so long to get to
Speaker 2: the ball. Ninety percent of the center field is what
Speaker 2: have had that ball over his head. He has cost
Speaker 2: the Yanches so many games. You can see the difference
Speaker 2: a great field of makes by watching the new kid
Speaker 2: of Lombard. What a difference when having a great shortstop is.
Speaker 2: And it would be just as big a difference if
Speaker 2: we had a great center fielders. We should have gotten
Speaker 2: Jose Siri. That guy's a center fielders. He would have
Speaker 2: been easy to get.
Speaker 3: Get Grisham out of there.
Speaker 2: Good day.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the call, Stephen from Maine. So, Trent Grisham having
Speaker 1: a tough year. And it's interesting because there's a big
Speaker 1: dichotomy between his metrics would show him as mostly positive
Speaker 1: and his actual results to eleven average, twelve homers, three
Speaker 1: to ten, on base percentage six eighty nine ops. Last
Speaker 1: year his numbers were good. He had thirty four home
Speaker 1: runs eight twelve ops, not a great average, but he
Speaker 1: sort of split the difference between the previous two years,
Speaker 1: which is kind of what we figured would happen, which
Speaker 1: in my opinion, was not worth what twenty two million bucks.
Speaker 3: Here's another call about Brisham.
Speaker 2: Trent Grissom can't be in there, not at all. We
Speaker 2: need Spencer in there, and Cashman's off set that he
Speaker 2: ain't doing nothing, but he.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave him in there because he I told
Speaker 1: you he's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be good. We need the young young guy
Speaker 2: out there. That's it healthy.
Speaker 3: Get them balls.
Speaker 2: Nothing's gonna drop behind them.
Speaker 1: Griffom really sucks. Appreciate the call. Tell us how you
Speaker 1: really feel, all right, Spencer Jones, We'll see how much.
Speaker 1: Here's more playing time he gets if Grisham continues to struggle.
Speaker 1: I think the problem with Spencer Jones is always going
Speaker 1: to be strikeouts. To me, he does everything else well.
Speaker 1: He plays good defense, He runs well, he gets down
Speaker 1: the line, he hustles, his power is immense when he
Speaker 1: makes contact, he hits hard. He runs every ball out
Speaker 1: I mean defensively, I think he would do a better
Speaker 1: job than Grisham, which, just as Steven mentioned, was important,
Speaker 1: but he might just strike out too much. Now, my
Speaker 1: hope for Spencer Jones over the next year or two
Speaker 1: is that he can become Joey Gallow. And I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about Joey Gallo with the Yankees. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Joey Gallow when he was good. There was a time
Speaker 1: where Joey Gallow was a pretty valuable player despite the strikeouts,
Speaker 1: because he would hit forty home runs.
Speaker 3: But once he got to the Yankees.
Speaker 1: It was like he could only hit home runs in
Speaker 1: a certain spot on a certain speed. Spencer Jones I
Speaker 1: think will be a decent hitter because when he hits
Speaker 1: the ball, he hits it so hard that he's going
Speaker 1: to get some hits just on exit velocity. Like Paul
Speaker 1: O'Neil likes to say, exit velocity plays. We'll see, We'll
Speaker 1: see how much it plays. I'm gonna talk about Austin
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna finish with Austin Wells, who has been heating up
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he can be a difference maker
Speaker 1: if he gets hot. I mean it's unlikely at this point,
Speaker 1: but we have got no production out of the catcher
Speaker 1: position all year. Give us a little something, give us
Speaker 1: just a little bit more. Give us two twenty, give
Speaker 1: us two thirty with half a dozen home runs in the.
Speaker 3: Next six weeks. Just help us out a little bit
Speaker 3: and it will be huge.
Speaker 1: By the way, he is hitting one oh one against lefties,
Speaker 1: He's hitting one seventy four at home, and now in
Speaker 1: his career he's down to two twelve. I think batting
Speaker 1: average matters. The Yankees don't believe that batting average matters,
Speaker 1: but it really does. And the Yankees don't believe in
Speaker 1: hot They don't believe in a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are just obvious to the rest of us, who I
Speaker 1: think are far enough away that we can get a
Speaker 1: good look at what's going on. Sometimes, when you're too
Speaker 1: close to it and you see all the metrics, I
Speaker 1: think it's easy to forget that these are human beings
Speaker 1: and confidence plays a factor. But anyway, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: watch out. The Red Sox are coming. They were once
Speaker 1: fifteen and a half games back there, now a game
Speaker 1: back there in third place, and they are coming fast.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be scoreboard watching a lot over the
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Speaker 1: here for a lot of mornings, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do a Nostra Derek pick tomorrow, so we're gonna go
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