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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. Before we get started,

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Speaker 2: let me just say that I am disappointed in a

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Speaker 2: you guys seem to have lost hope and seem to

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Speaker 2: have forgotten that there's no such thing as a sure

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Speaker 2: for sure. They now have a payroll a luxury tax

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Speaker 2: about seventy four million dollars more than the Yankees. To

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Speaker 2: many people in baseball, they are the new evil Empire.

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Speaker 2: But they have still got to get it done on

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Speaker 2: that the Yankees still have every bit the chance that

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Speaker 2: lot of teams gunning for the Dodgers. There's gonna be

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Speaker 2: with their own team health. All things will discuss tonight.

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Speaker 2: Also a quick word about this particular podcast tonight. A

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Speaker 2: And this is one of those nights where it's more

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Speaker 2: wanted to talk, that's all, just want to talk. I

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Speaker 2: wasn't even expecting to do a podcast today. I expected

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Speaker 2: I was eating a cashew during Fair, not Cashoo, a pistachio,

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Speaker 2: But I wanted to just kind of hop on and

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Speaker 2: seem to have lost some hope. In a writer's room

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Speaker 2: perhaps in baseball history up to that point, George M. Steinbrenner,

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Speaker 2: The era that we grew up watching, where the Yankees

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Speaker 2: The Red Sox have been their rivals forever. But the

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Speaker 2: Then there's the Dodgers, who the Yankees played in the

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Speaker 2: All right, so we got a few voicemails to get to.

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Speaker 6: Hey Derek, great show, been a longtime fan. Just wondering

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Speaker 6: name Winneteka Morecami Japanese first basement third baseman. Probably projects

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's absolutely a lock that he's gonna

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Speaker 7: Show was awesome. This is Bobby the Bear down here

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. I hope that he lives up

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Speaker 3: Hey, DK, this is Tom. I was calling about the war.

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Speaker 3: You know, did you know what? That's the highest war

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Speaker 3: That amazing dude. All right, well you have a good day, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, you're a smart mother. That's right, babe, Ruth pretty

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Speaker 9: talk about Judge's horrible uh the catch, the miss that

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Speaker 9: he made in center field on that line drive about

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Speaker 9: it inning or two later.

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Speaker 1: The guy slammed into the center field wall making an

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Speaker 1: incredible catch, and I think it's possible he may have

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Speaker 1: had a slight concussion. He's not the kind of guy

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Speaker 1: who would tell you would make that excuse to use it,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's very possible that's why he missed

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Speaker 1: that ball.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's possible. The catch was before the dropped ball.

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Speaker 2: I think you said a few things later, but it

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Speaker 2: was a few innings before tremendous catch by I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to blame a concussion on that. He ripped a

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Speaker 2: double couple winnings later too, So I think you're seeing

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Speaker 2: the ball fine. Look, I think he just as our

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Speaker 2: friends in the UK would say, cocked it up. I

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Speaker 2: think that's what happened. I think he blew it.

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Speaker 4: Hi, this is hi, this is art. On the third

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Speaker 4: base situation. I'm of the opinion actually to let this

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Speaker 4: play out in spring training. Let's not forget that I'm

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Speaker 4: hearing good things about DJ Lemaho, who is a very

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Speaker 4: good third basement Parazza. We haven't seen the real Paraza yet.

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Speaker 4: And look, Chisholm is an option and Carrera is an option.

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Speaker 4: I just don't want to give up any more talent

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Speaker 4: on a trade and then free agent who knows certainly

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Speaker 4: not pregnant, because they could be turned into another Donaldson

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Speaker 4: kind of contract. So I'm of the opinion to do

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Speaker 4: what we can to see which spring training gives us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for taking the call.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel confident in any of our third base

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Speaker 2: options right now, assuming Jazz plays second. Definitely not Lomayhew.

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Speaker 2: I mean we've seen it over the last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: He's got nothing left in his feet. I mean his feet.

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Speaker 2: He's had so many foot injuries. That's where power comes from.

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Speaker 2: He can't drive the baseball anymore. Piazza. You have to

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Speaker 2: hit at the big league level, but yet to be

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Speaker 2: really given an extended chance at the big league level.

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Speaker 2: And then you know there are some free agents available,

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Speaker 2: but you know, I brought up a few of them

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Speaker 2: in a recent show, and there's There's just not a

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Speaker 2: lot of options out there that are a perfect fit, right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you could go out and spend on Bragman,

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Speaker 2: but he's kind of over the hill and he doesn't

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Speaker 2: play well like with the stadium dimensions. You know, Eronato's

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Speaker 2: over the hill. You could go out and get ikf

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Speaker 2: We know who he is. He can't hit, you know,

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Speaker 2: McMahon from the Rockies. They don't want to deal him,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean Brendon Donovan. He's going to be

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Speaker 2: extremely expensive to trade for and the car I was

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Speaker 2: probably don't want to deal him, you know. I just

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Speaker 2: I don't see a great fit out there, So it

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Speaker 2: might come down to Parraza. We'll see. He's who I've

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Speaker 2: got penciled in right now.

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Speaker 4: What's going on, Derek?

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year?

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Speaker 4: Brother?

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Speaker 10: Can't wait for twenty twenty five Yankees baseball here, regular

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Speaker 10: seasons coming up, pitchers and catchers in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 10: Getting excited. Man, the question I had to post to

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Speaker 10: you here. I thought it maybe be a little bit

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Speaker 10: different than usual. I wanted to see or at least

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Speaker 10: ask I have a feeling that the Yankees are coming

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Speaker 10: to a close here on their off season acquisitions great.

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Speaker 10: I'm not saying they're gonna be done for the moves

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Speaker 10: for the year, but before the season. I think it's

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Speaker 10: going to be wrapping up pretty soon. Do you think

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Speaker 10: the Yankee should go after another offensive bat, whether it's

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Speaker 10: a third base or a second baseman, A Polanco, Brendan Rodgers,

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Speaker 10: Brendan Donovan.

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Speaker 9: You know, just a guy of that.

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Speaker 10: I don't think they're obviously going after Aeronauto or Brick

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Speaker 10: think of a dollar sign there next to their name,

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Speaker 10: or do you think or would you rather see them

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Speaker 10: kind of attack the bullpen and try to get two

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Speaker 10: lefties brought in hopefully somewhere in there we try to

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Speaker 10: move Stroman, but try to get somebody like Andrew Schaffin

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Speaker 10: and maybe Tim hillback or something. Just was curious which

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Speaker 10: side of the fence you'd be sitting on there, if

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Speaker 10: you had a preference one way or another, and if

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Speaker 10: and why you thought that would make the team a

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Speaker 10: better opening day for the long run. All right, brother,

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Speaker 10: have a good one again.

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Speaker 2: I think I think if you can pry Donovan away

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Speaker 2: from the Cardinals, I he'd be the best fit left

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Speaker 2: handed swing. I like him as a ballplayer. He's young,

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Speaker 2: would cast you an immense amount in prospects. But I'm

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Speaker 2: not crazy about our prospects, and and and you know,

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Speaker 2: we're one of the lowest ranked farm systems, so the

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Speaker 2: Cardinals might not view our prospects that favorably. I know

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Speaker 2: the Yankees don't want to deal Spencer Jones. If you

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Speaker 2: could get Donovan Jones, I would make that deal. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think there's room out there somewhere for a baseball

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Speaker 2: deal to be made. Do you remember when they needed

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Speaker 2: a first basement and they picked up Luke Voight and

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Speaker 2: out of nowhere he was great for a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping something like that is out there, that there's

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Speaker 2: some first baseman, I mean for a third baseman out

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Speaker 2: there that has been overlooked. That's you know, maybe a

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Speaker 2: minor league journeyman twenty seven, twenty eight years old who

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Speaker 2: the Yankees really like analytically. But the problem is that

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Speaker 2: every team has access to these analytics now, so you

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Speaker 2: don't make it very far unnoticed these days. But maybe

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Speaker 2: there's somebody out there that the Yankees can pick up

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Speaker 2: and you know, improve the squad a little bit. But

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Speaker 2: you know, I really would like Brendan Donovan if there's

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Speaker 2: some way you can get it done. All right, ladies

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