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Speaker 1: It is February twenty second, and it was game three

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Speaker 1: of the Yankees spring schedule. They were taking on the

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Speaker 1: Mets in a little spring Subway series. Louise Heel on

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Speaker 1: the mound, making his spring debut. Aaron Judge back in

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Speaker 1: there at DH My recap and your reactions coming up next.

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Speaker 1: This is Penstripe Territory. Wanted to talk.

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Speaker 2: Cats old were the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody? Welcome back, Welcome back. Excuse my voice.

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Speaker 1: I'm still a little bit under the weather. This is

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Speaker 1: day five of being sick. You know, I remember a

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Speaker 1: time when the only time that you could watch the

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Speaker 1: Yankees and Mets play was in spring training, and it

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Speaker 1: used to be pretty special. That was prior to nineteen

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Speaker 1: just kind of eh, you know, we don't even see

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Speaker 1: the best guys get sent on the road, like we

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Speaker 1: didn't get to see Juan Soto today. I remember when

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Speaker 1: Darryl Strawberry hit a home run at Yankee Stadium for

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Speaker 1: the Mets during one of those like Governor's Cup games

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Speaker 1: that they used to play at the end of spring training.

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Speaker 1: I was, you know, early nineties. But anyway, I would

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Speaker 1: have preferred Sodo was there today because you would have

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Speaker 1: really been able to hear the heckles, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the small crowd. Crappy weather in New York right now.

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Speaker 1: Apparently a lot of you are expecting two feet of snow.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty lousy weather in Tampa to begin the day.

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Speaker 1: But the big condition was that apparently the Yankees clubhouse

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Speaker 1: they had to go to like the practice field. Apparently

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Speaker 1: Meredith Morokovitz stepped in some human feces. It was just

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Speaker 1: apparently a tough day for the Yankees' grounds crew and

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Speaker 1: for their janitorial staff, and for the plumbing and everyone

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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and keep this rather short so I

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Speaker 1: can go rested up for the long season ahead. Here

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Speaker 1: Matts took this one six to four, despite a late

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Speaker 1: rally by the Yanks. Yesterday, we saw that Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: Met's already being careful with him. I don't blame him.

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes to give up four hundred and thirty foot

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Speaker 1: home runs. Aaron sheens Kit says, can this be known

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Speaker 1: as the shit game? Yeah? Jose Cabayro made his spring debut.

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Speaker 1: He had a four hundred and two foot home run,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and three point six off the bat. I know,

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Speaker 1: my buddy Ryan Garcia, who's on the show all the time,

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Speaker 1: guy from Fireside Yankees, he's way up there on Jose Cabayra.

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Speaker 1: He's a big time believer and he thinks there's a

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Speaker 1: lot left in the tank. And I hope he's right,

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Speaker 1: and I hope that this was a sign of things

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Speaker 1: to come. Guy who hit what six home runs last

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Speaker 1: it's spring training. You know, everybody's sitting home runs, you know.

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Speaker 1: But if he can turn into good year, that would

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Speaker 1: be huge for the Yankees because right now, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: the position in which we most of us probably have

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Speaker 1: cabal aro with his sub seven hundred ops, taking a

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Speaker 1: where he had forty nine steals last year. You know,

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Speaker 1: You know, we're not going to go overboard on one

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Speaker 1: spring training swing, but it was good to see Jazz

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Speaker 1: Chisholm had some good swings today, hit a couple of

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Speaker 1: also did an interview where he said he wants to

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Speaker 1: walk a hundred times that I would very much welcome.

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Speaker 1: That would mean that he's taking a huge stride forward

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Speaker 1: You could wake him up on Christmas Eve and say

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Speaker 1: because that's just how they roll. We got our first

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Speaker 1: Yankees traded for. That really set off the comments. You know,

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Speaker 1: a project? Why are we dumpster diving? And yeah, he

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Speaker 1: looked bad today. You can see where that seventy era

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Speaker 1: Yankees rallied late three run home run by Kennedy Corona,

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Speaker 1: who is the only player in Major League Baseball who

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Speaker 1: but Mets hang on to win this one six to four,

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Speaker 1: and unfortunately, the Yankees have fallen below five hundred on

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Speaker 1: Mary Beth says she loves jazz, so enthusiastic. Just keep

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Speaker 1: This belt go to Jimmy Hoffa because he didn't have

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Speaker 1: I started watching that movie The Irishman. I mean it

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Speaker 1: important it is for Luis Heel to be a strikeout

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Speaker 1: Let's begin with Ray.

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Speaker 3: Hey Jacky, because I'm just wondering, did everybody.

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Speaker 4: In New York not be able to see the game

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Speaker 4: Look, I can't watch the game.

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Speaker 3: Uh, get back into The Yankees went up nine percent

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Speaker 4: One percent of the fucking team is worth roughly eighty

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Speaker 4: two million dollars and they got DOWGS fans out of

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Speaker 4: it's getting harder and harder and harder to feel any

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Speaker 3: Not the team, not the players, the way it's run.

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Speaker 3: I don't feel like it exists for the people. I

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Speaker 3: not to.

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Speaker 2: Serve the people or the city anymore.

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Speaker 4: I really don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't I feel like that if you said.

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Speaker 3: About anything nowadays, But you want to know what, man,

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Speaker 3: it shouldn't be about baseball.

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Speaker 1: Frankie, Baseball Belt winner this year first Belt says there

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Speaker 1: little pirate flag. I do not condone piracy, but I

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Speaker 1: know that are on TV. I have the YES Network

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Speaker 1: Why do you hate capitalism?

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Speaker 2: Bro?

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Speaker 1: Why do you hate capitalism? H here's a call about

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Speaker 2: Hey, Derek, this is Mike. I'm thinking about the Spencer

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Speaker 2: four years old. We've got to find out what we

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Speaker 2: have in this guy. I would plan every day in

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Speaker 1: Thanks there, well, I appreciate your optimism. I feel like

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Speaker 1: we're overreacting from a spring training home run. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: But Trent Grisham did it in the major leagues last year.

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Speaker 1: He had thirty one or thirty four home runs in

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Speaker 1: the major leagues. I don't think that's the right thing

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Speaker 1: cut down on the strikeouts. Let's see him have a

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Speaker 1: good spring, you know, Let's see him have a good spring.

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Speaker 1: You know, if he hits three hundred to spring, hits

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Speaker 1: and gets off to a good start. Yeah, he jumps

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Speaker 1: twenty two million for a backup keep dreaming, and I agree.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's already facing batters this early.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's February. We didn't expect this. There's a

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Speaker 1: It shows that he's coachable. It shows that he can

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Speaker 1: ho about, you know, calling him up. Rayrard says, losing

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Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't have half like half the lineup

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Speaker 1: It's practice. You're talking about practice. Aaron says spring training

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Speaker 1: only three We're only three days in. We still got

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Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm still feeling like the

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