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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. Tuesday, April fifteenth. Today's the

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Speaker 3: day the Titanic stunk. It's the day that Abraham Lincoln

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Speaker 3: kind of an important day in history. Also, I believe

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Speaker 3: the day that Jackie Robertson broke the color barrier in

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Speaker 3: Major League baseball. But last night, pretty good game. We

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Speaker 3: got a pretty good pitching performance from Cookie Carrasco, lots

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Speaker 3: of home runs, some good defense from the Martian, so overall,

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Speaker 3: just a really good freaking baseball game. But you know,

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Speaker 3: good teams put together streaks, and the Yankees need to

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Speaker 3: put together a winning streak. And to do that first

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Speaker 3: you got to win that second game in a row.

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Speaker 3: So that's what the Yankees are trying to do tonight

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Speaker 3: behind Max Freed. It's really difficult to put together any

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Speaker 3: kind of winning streak when you're pitching is you know,

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Speaker 3: a little bit suspect. And even though we got a

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Speaker 3: great start from Cookie Carrasco last night, pitching is not

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Speaker 3: the Yankee strong point thus far. And that makes Max

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Speaker 3: Freed start tonight much more important. Dante and spinning mantis,

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Speaker 3: both loving the cookie Monster. All right, so let's just

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Speaker 3: talk about where this team is at two weeks into

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Speaker 3: the season. I was gonna film this outside. I did

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Speaker 3: you know who need sunshine anyway. But Yankees are still

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Speaker 3: nine and seven, which is not amazing, but it's still

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Speaker 3: League East right now, just taking a quick look at

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Speaker 3: the division so far, the Red Sox are off to

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Speaker 3: a tough start. They got absolutely dismantled last night. And

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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays are off to a decent start. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to share my screen real quick. They're nine and eight.

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Speaker 3: They're a half game behind the Yankees. The Rays eight

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Speaker 3: That division is going to be a beast. The Dodgers

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Speaker 3: but it's you know, the Rays are kind of hard

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Speaker 3: might see home run derby continue in Tampa. So let's

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Speaker 3: little bit about Austin Wells. And you know what I'm

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Speaker 3: I have seen some really good signs from Austin Wells

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Speaker 3: seventy five of his eleven hits, more than half of

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Speaker 3: He's trying to be a home run guy. Really, he

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Speaker 3: And if you ask me right now, I think he's

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Speaker 3: see him hitting two twenty this year, and if that happens,

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Speaker 3: you have to start considering George Lombard as the next

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Speaker 3: shortstop of the Yankees, because Volpi will have been at

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Speaker 3: that point three years in and a disappointment. But I'm

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Speaker 3: Third base Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Parrazza have been splitting time.

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Speaker 3: No home runs yet for Cabrera, he has a six

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Speaker 3: They've been kind of platooning. I think it might be

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Speaker 3: but it's coming. In center field, Cody Bellinger is actually

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Speaker 3: If you're projected out, you figure half a win per month.

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Speaker 3: Pretty good. And then Cody Bellinger just has not gotten

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Speaker 3: forward to seeing Max Freed. He's become so important to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so interesting call. A lot of the calls we

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Speaker 1: Hey, good morn, Derek. This is down from North Carolina

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