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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, June seventeenth, and the Yankees were taking

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Speaker 2: on the Angels in game two of a four game

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Speaker 2: set under rainy skies in the Bronx. Will Warren was

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Speaker 2: on the mound and he had the strikeout pitch working,

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Speaker 2: but could the Yankees' bats back him up? Trying to

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Speaker 2: avoid five straight losses? My recap and your reactions coming

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Speaker 2: up next. This is pin strike Territory's him to cook

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Speaker 2: at all? Well, that was pathetic. Watching the Yankees right

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Speaker 2: now is like torture, absolute torture, complete waste of time.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine straight scoreless innings for the Yankees. They've been

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Speaker 2: shut out in three straight games, and at this point

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Speaker 2: they're looking historically bad. How do you go from being

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Speaker 2: as strong as his team was offensively in the first

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Speaker 2: month and a half two completely letting the wheels fall

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Speaker 2: off like they have fallen off in the last five days,

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Speaker 2: five straight losses. Yesterday I told you not to panic,

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Speaker 2: but you know what, panic if you want to. This

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Speaker 2: team is really beginning to piss me off. We're talking

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Speaker 2: no effort, no effort. What a waste of a great

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Speaker 2: night by Will Warren. Well, maybe not great eleven strikeouts,

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Speaker 2: career best quality outing. But their bats are not cold.

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Speaker 2: Their bats are cryogenically frozen. Their bats are more frozen

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Speaker 2: than Ted Williams head right now, and I think I've

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Speaker 2: figured it out. This team does not need a closed

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Speaker 2: door players only meeting. This team does not need a

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Speaker 2: group text with some motivation, a kitten hanging from a

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Speaker 2: branch hang in there. No, we don't need a quote

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Speaker 2: from the manager about trusting the process or about how

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Speaker 2: it's right there in front of us. We need a

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Speaker 2: good old fashioned kick in the ass, a good old

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Speaker 2: fashioned dressing down. Not one of these polite, HR approved

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Speaker 2: friendly team meetings. I'm talking about a steel toed boot

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Speaker 2: up the ass to wake you up out of your slumber.

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Speaker 2: This team is going through the motions right now. Every

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Speaker 2: at bat it's like they got dinner reservations. Weakest contact

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Speaker 2: i've seen. They look like they're sleepwalking. They all look

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Speaker 2: like they've aged into DJ Lemayhew in the last week.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it, seriously, and I watched

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Speaker 2: the ninety one team with Stump Marrow as manager. The

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Speaker 2: bats are slow, the base running has been atrocious. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure anybody on this roster knows how to lay

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Speaker 2: down a bunch. I'm not sure that they even taught

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Speaker 2: it in the minor leagues. For the Yankees, situal situational

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Speaker 2: awareness is trash nonexistent. Right now, everybody's standing around like

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Speaker 2: they're waiting for someone else to hit a three run

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Speaker 2: home run. And yeah, I get it. The home run

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Speaker 2: is flashy. It's how you get on Sports Center, it's

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Speaker 2: how you get paid these days. But at some point

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Speaker 2: you gotta play actual baseball because the ball isn't traveling.

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Speaker 2: We got Jazz Chishm jogging down the line like he's

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Speaker 2: filming a Nike ad in slow motion. You got Volpi

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Speaker 2: trying to hit a pinata. I mean, he looks like

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Speaker 2: he's trying to hit every pitch five hundred feet right

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Speaker 2: now and he can't do it. Jodge couldn't hit water

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Speaker 2: right now if he fell out of a boat. And

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Speaker 2: DJ Lemayhew is literally turning into a fossil in front

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Speaker 2: of us. Someone carbon date this guy. It is unwatchable.

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Speaker 2: Something needs to happen, a trade, someone getting dfayed. You

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Speaker 2: gotta shake up this team. You gotta shake everyone to

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Speaker 2: wake up. I remember the productive outs the Yankees know

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Speaker 2: how to do this. I've seen it before, but now

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Speaker 2: it's like everyone is swinging for the fences. Austin Wells

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Speaker 2: every swing, trying to put the ball on the second

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Speaker 2: deck and fouling it off. You see that the ball

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Speaker 2: is not traveling. How about doing what Cody Bellinger did

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Speaker 2: in the first inning when the line drive to left

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Speaker 2: field using his wheels. Here's the deal. Somebody has to

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Speaker 2: be accountable for the fact that this team keeps flatlining

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Speaker 2: in June every year. We cannot go through this year

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Speaker 2: after year. Maybe they need to get out on the

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Speaker 2: field and run win sprints in front of their crowd

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Speaker 2: while everyone booze. That would be a wake up call

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Speaker 2: because right now this is not baseball. This is unwatchable. Unwatchable, guys,

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Speaker 2: we got some super chats here. The rowdy Rotel says,

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Speaker 2: I'd say watching that game was like watching old people

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Speaker 2: have sex, but then I'd have to apologize to the

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Speaker 2: old people. Yikes. The six to ten Stig says, at

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Speaker 2: least they didn't have the opportunity to screw up baseball.

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Speaker 2: Baseball execution tonight just pathetically went down without a whimper.

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Speaker 2: And then D's channel says, by the end of July,

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Speaker 2: we may be less than a five hundred baseball club.

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Speaker 3: Men.

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Speaker 2: I hope not. But the way that this team has

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Speaker 2: gone into sudden free fall again for the third year

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Speaker 2: preaching you guys, gotta be patient, but tonight they had

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Speaker 2: no energy. They were as lethargic as I've ever seen them.

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Speaker 2: to me, only thing at all that made this game

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Speaker 2: entertaining was that we had garat Cole in the booth,

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Speaker 2: obviously on the shelf with Tommy John surgery. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: it went better than that press conference that he had

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Speaker 2: that he sat there silent for like three minutes trying

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Speaker 2: a good job. I'm not gonna lie. I find his

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Speaker 2: voice a bit irritating a little bit like a sped

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Speaker 2: up Kermit the Frog, but he definitely knows what he's

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Speaker 2: talking about. I enjoyed listening to the types of things

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Speaker 2: that Matt Blake would say in a pitching visit to

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Speaker 2: the mound or whatever. But the story tonight's just the offense.

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Speaker 2: I mean, couldn't hit Kyle Hendricks, guy who came in

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Speaker 2: it was gonna be a tough matchup tonight. He is

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Speaker 2: it together offensively, that's the type of picture that can

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Speaker 2: exacerbate your problems. But the way you hit a guy

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Speaker 2: like that is to just sit back, shorten up your swing,

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Speaker 2: are not built that way. They would not even attempt that.

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Speaker 2: The only guy who attempted it all night was Bellinger

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Speaker 2: in the first inning. Alex says, this type of slump

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Speaker 2: teams fire their coaches to light a fire. But Boone

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Speaker 2: But they don't make managerial changes in season. They just

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Speaker 2: don't do it. Let's get to the recap, all right,

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Speaker 2: let's go, Let's get it going, not that there's much

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Speaker 2: to recap. We did have Jason Dominguez is the leadoff

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Speaker 2: I had ended up punching out on a front door

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Speaker 2: we're screwed. You know, we're screwed. Will Warren was striking

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Speaker 2: few minutes. John Carlos Stanton picked up another base hit

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Speaker 2: in the bottom of the fourth inning, seeing I single

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Speaker 2: hitting five hundred since coming back. But that was pretty

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Speaker 2: much the end of the offense for the Yankees, and

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Speaker 2: the Angels tacked on a couple in the third one

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Speaker 2: in the seventh. They out hit the Yankees eight to four,

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Speaker 2: and the Yankees have lost five straight games. Awful, awful night.

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Speaker 2: We got some voicemails. I'll get to you real quick.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Derek, this is Rick. The Yankees trying to get

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Speaker 3: a third basement and moved Jazz back a second. Agree, well, me,

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Speaker 3: it was not just compromised as a hitter, and now

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Speaker 3: agree his defense is not nearly what he is. To

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Speaker 2: You got to make that play, no question. Jazz has

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Speaker 2: more range at second base at this point than DJ.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to give DJ a spot where he feels comfortable.

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Speaker 2: He's not getting it done. He's fossilizing back down to

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Speaker 2: a six seventy four OPS and falling fast. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we talk about how poorly Volpi has hit, how poorly

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Speaker 2: hitting better than Lemayhew in terms of OPS. And I

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Speaker 2: just don't know what the answer is. I mean, maybe

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Speaker 2: it's Eugenio Suarez. You get him for third base, but

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Speaker 4: Here's Willie there, willing I know this is painful, but

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Speaker 4: they don't have nobody else to bring in the pick

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Speaker 3: It's time for him to go to El Nawad.

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Speaker 2: Else salvaddar Uh. Yeah, he did not have a good night.

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Speaker 2: He gave up another run, got a four point three

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Speaker 2: eighty area. That's too high for a reliever. You need

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Speaker 2: your relievers to have an under three and a half,

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Speaker 2: and I get it, one or two bad outings can

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Speaker 2: really elevate that eer. But it just doesn't work. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't work. I had a little emoji that was showing

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Speaker 2: I had a little skull emoji next to the word

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Speaker 2: offense dead. Anyway, call about Jazz.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Derek, I haven't called him a while, but hey,

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Speaker 1: I've just been watching the game today, and I've watched

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Speaker 1: started to tick me off is Jazz Chisholms playing at

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Speaker 1: seventy percent. Usually, when a player says they're gonna play

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna make stupid mistakes anymore. He's not hustling

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Speaker 1: down that first base line, he's not getting in front

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Speaker 1: just not putting in the effort that I need from him.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Couldn't agree more. Tj Obermeier says there's

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Speaker 2: a difference between losing and being non competitive. This was

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Speaker 2: the latter. Agree one hundred percent, one hundred percent. Andy

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Speaker 2: Wurt wants to know about those torpedo bats now seems

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Speaker 2: to be working for Stanton, but the league maybe has

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Speaker 2: adjusted rip Yankees offense. Jules says, play small ball used

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Speaker 2: to be in the Yankees vocabulary, but not anymore. Agree unfortunately.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Will Warren. I thought Will Warren came

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Speaker 2: out of the gate pumping fastballs, looking good, looking, confident,

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Speaker 2: gassing it up. But the Angels caught up to him.

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Speaker 2: You know, a second inning, he gave up a run

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Speaker 2: on a hanging breaking well, he gave up a hanging

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Speaker 2: And then the ground ball that got by DJ and

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Speaker 2: the Yankees just just that was enough. Game was over.

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Speaker 2: And I felt it was over at that point. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: the strikeout was working, you know, the fastball was good,

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Speaker 2: the command was excellent. Ninety three pitches, seventy strikes. That's

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Speaker 2: a seventy five point two percent strike rate. I looked

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Speaker 2: technically a quality outing, six innings, three earned runs, no walks,

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Speaker 2: how boring this damn game was. And offensive baseball in

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Speaker 2: I mean, the sports offense has just been pitiful. Hitters

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Speaker 7: Here, Hey Derek, Well, thanks for trying to bring some

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Speaker 2: Tonight they put Tamingas at the top of the order.

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