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On My Birthday Weekend, A Commitment to Adulting Harder While Wearing That Yanks Jersey! 10-19-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, Well, firstly, a
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  Speaker 1: big shot out to Keith McPherson for putting on an
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  Speaker 1: incredible watch party for Game four. And wherever you watch tonight,
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  Speaker 1: we are in symbiosis with you, Keith, Caleb Kaylin, and
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  Speaker 1: wherever you may be watch tonight, we are in symbiosis
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  Speaker 1: because guess what, we all watched this team get one
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  Speaker 1: step closer to the World Series, and that hasn't happened
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  Speaker 1: since the beginning of the Sports Hour.
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  Speaker 2: All day to day, I've been having chills.
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  Speaker 1: I've been having feelings of what happened to day we've
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  Speaker 1: clinched the AOCS in twenty nine because I was there
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  Speaker 1: with my dad in the sweets at Yankee Stadium as
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  Speaker 1: a guest of the Steinberner family, and this was the
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  Speaker 1: alecs they won for George Seimerner one more time in
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  Speaker 1: the house that yes, mister Steimeriner belts against the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: And though I'm eighteen, I was, you know eighteen at
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  Speaker 1: the time, just turning eighteen, I felt like a kid.
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  Speaker 1: And fifteen years later, I feel like that inner child
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  Speaker 1: of the Regius years. That nine season is back and
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  Speaker 1: so now they don't want to say thanks to throwing
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  Speaker 1: a great watch party. And Keith is two and zero
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  Speaker 1: when throwing watch parties, got to throw that out there.
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  Speaker 1: He threw one in the Alds they won. That was
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  Speaker 1: a special guest tell in Matanzas against the Royals. He
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  Speaker 1: threw one last night, they win.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he should do more.
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  Speaker 1: He seems like a good luck drive there for the
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  Speaker 1: inks and it's our our repby X community. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to say more importantly thank you to firstly Gabby
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  Speaker 1: who has to deal with all my Yankee jerseys from
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  Speaker 1: start to finish, all my shirts because I love wearing
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  Speaker 1: them most every day, but she lets me embrace that
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  Speaker 1: inner child. Is it really in her child to wear
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  Speaker 1: a jersey as an adult though? Or can we just
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  Speaker 1: accept that wearing an adult a jersey as an adult
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  Speaker 1: is not childless, It's just part of who we are.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank the RepA community for allowing me
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  Speaker 1: to share those moments from my childhood and making me
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's okay to embrace that inner child, right
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  Speaker 1: jam Pearl, Right John, It's okay to embrace that inner child.
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  Speaker 2: Be around people who allow you to embrace.
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  Speaker 1: Something that excites you and tells you it's okay to
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  Speaker 1: wear that jersey, It's okay to be this fanatic about
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee or the Mets if you want. It's okay
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  Speaker 1: to be that bunch of a fan, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: old do you get. You know why, because this sport,
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  Speaker 1: specifically baseball, is a lineage, historical, passed down generation to
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  Speaker 1: generation sport. All these people, men and women who have
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  Speaker 1: the love of the game love it because they were
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  Speaker 1: brought into it by their family, by their dads, their moms,
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  Speaker 1: probably their grandparents. How did you get into this world
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  Speaker 1: of baseball that we all love? Alex at alex GNYC
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  Speaker 1: dot com for me, while my mom says, I was
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  Speaker 1: kicking in the womb at Chase Stadium. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow's October twentieth, that happens to be the anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the Mets parade. It also happens to be my thirty
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  Speaker 1: third birthday. So the nineteen sixty nine Mets fifty five
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  Speaker 1: years ago might have been still a little orange and
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  Speaker 1: blue in my blood from a very you know, even
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  Speaker 1: before I was a conception, because well they were down
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  Speaker 1: Canyon of Heroes on my birth date, October twentieth, fifty
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  Speaker 1: five years ago. How unbelievable is that? And I've won
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  Speaker 1: the Orange and Blue. I love the pinstripes. I just
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  Speaker 1: love the sport of baseball. And I love his Beselli
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  Speaker 1: when the Yanks, as I've said, I predominantly Yankee fan.
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  Speaker 1: When the Yankees win the way they're doing it right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I love that John Carlow who has seemingly been
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  Speaker 1: blessed by my dad. There is a picture of my
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  Speaker 1: dad walking out of the Yankee stadium in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two with his famous you know, game day cups, souvenir cups,
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  Speaker 1: and a Stanton jersey right next to him. That's a
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  Speaker 1: sign because this is my first postseason without my my dad.
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  Speaker 1: And fifteen years ago we were there together watching the
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  Speaker 1: Aocs watching the World Series, and I know he's watching
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  Speaker 1: them from above while Gaby and I watch here on Earth,
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  Speaker 1: and while.
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  Speaker 2: We watched last night with everybody around us.
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  Speaker 1: That have welcomed us in the family, Keith Caleb, Jake
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  Speaker 1: Coosak of the Bronx Zoo, Madison, we've seen.
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  Speaker 2: Her over the year two.
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  Speaker 1: So all I know is be around people who are
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  Speaker 1: going to be as excited as you are. That It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna possibly be a clincher tonight. As excited as you
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  Speaker 1: are that this baseball team is making the postseason run
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  Speaker 1: like the Yankees are, and excited as you are for sports,
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  Speaker 1: and don't make them let you feel oldish because of it.
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  Speaker 2: I might be talking.
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  Speaker 1: About my experience because I know I'm four foot nine,
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  Speaker 1: which is a little short of the most and most
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  Speaker 1: males certainly, so wearing a jersey might make me look
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  Speaker 1: like a kid with the hat and everything. But this
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  Speaker 1: is full blown adulthood from me wearing this jersey at
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  Speaker 1: four foot nine and at thirty two years old, almost
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  Speaker 1: thirty three tomorrow. That is my culture. I've talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing the jersey is a cultural thing. It bonds us
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  Speaker 1: together as New Yorkers, no matter how old we are.
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  Speaker 1: So while I'm turning thirty three tomorrow, you bet your ass,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep wearing that jersey. I'm gonna keep wearing
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  Speaker 1: that that is memorabilia or apparel. I guess that apparel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep talking about Fanatics. I'm gonna drop another
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  Speaker 1: Fanatics affiliate link on the link below, because I believe
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  Speaker 1: you too should be able to enjoy this moment in
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  Speaker 1: your right gear and not be judged for it. This
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  Speaker 1: is a kid's game, and it's okay to embrace that
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  Speaker 1: inner child that we were all excited to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having baseball and raised on baseball. Just ask Johnna and
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  Speaker 1: just ask you know, Caleb and Jake Kosak, who's in
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  Speaker 1: a picture of him in the Yankee dugout when he
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  Speaker 1: was a kid. It's not childish to love your team.
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  Speaker 1: And as a four foot nine, thirty three year old
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  Speaker 1: in male tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I will continue to love those teams and let the
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  Speaker 2: naysayers say what they want.
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  Speaker 1: But this is adulthood for me, and it's part of
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  Speaker 1: how I've been able to interview Nester Cortez and Oswald
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  Speaker 1: of Kaburra and the gentle manager of the Yankees by
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  Speaker 1: being that passionate for our teams. And so I want
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  Speaker 1: to thank again everyone for lame me be, lame us
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  Speaker 1: into their world, for showing us that we belong, showing
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  Speaker 1: me that I belong in the REPBX community as quirky
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  Speaker 1: and as weird or whatever you want to say, as
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  Speaker 1: I might be, you accept me for me and I
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  Speaker 1: love that. And so tomorrow the headline I want to
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  Speaker 1: see on October twentieth, twenty twenty four, on the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post on the dayler news is the Yanks are
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  Speaker 1: World Series bound. That's the headline I want to wake
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  Speaker 1: up to tomorrow, and I'm sure you do as well.
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  Speaker 1: And it'll be an incredible birthday present from this Yankee team.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not the first time the Yankees and the
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  Speaker 1: LCS have hit on my birthday. Weekend twenty three years ago,
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  Speaker 1: after the Yanks won the Alds against Oakland, I was
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  Speaker 1: downstairs and the Yankees catacombs the Yankee Stadium, and who
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  Speaker 1: comes by with George Steinberner And we'd already met him,
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  Speaker 1: and he has I've been the suite and we happened
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him. And I'm nine years old turning ten,
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  Speaker 1: and I say, hey, mister Seyberner, you know this Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: I have a birthday coming up. He's like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a birthday cake for you. Well, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: know it's Saturday, October twentieth, two thousand and one, the
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  Speaker 1: day I mean, the day of the Freedom Concert in
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  Speaker 1: the LSS against the Mariners. My dad and I go
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  Speaker 1: upstairs in the third inning and he was like where
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  Speaker 1: are you, guys, I've been wind take you so long
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  Speaker 1: to get up here. We have your cake for you,
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  Speaker 1: and that Yankee is sweet saying happy birthday, And that's
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  Speaker 1: a memory I carry with me twenty three years later.
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  Speaker 1: And the friendship with the Yankees, the friends with George Semer,
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  Speaker 1: there's another reason why I am always excited. I'm perfectly
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  Speaker 1: fine with parting up that putting on that Yankee jersey
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  Speaker 1: game we go to every watch party we go to,
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  Speaker 1: because it's part of my identity. The time whiner era
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  Speaker 1: and the Yankee connection is part of my identity as
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  Speaker 1: much as having one leg up on sports, adaptability, accountability, accessibility.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees are part of my identity. And of course, the.
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  Speaker 1: Woman who's supported it all enable it all got me
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  Speaker 1: Jersey after jersey, my mom, Marie Sue Brockway. She's the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I'm here today and then why I have
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  Speaker 1: one leg up on life. And I love her and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for.
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  Speaker 2: Her and.
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  Speaker 1: The last ten years, real quick, I haven't always felt
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  Speaker 1: like an adult son because of the medical challenges, because
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  Speaker 1: I lean on her for her wisdom, for her.
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  Speaker 2: Knowledge extensive history of my medical care. That she is
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  Speaker 2: the go to, but thirty three is gonna be so sacred.
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  Speaker 1: That I will work on it and knowing the history
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  Speaker 1: myself so that I can know more about me, and
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  Speaker 1: it'll be treating my body sacred as well, because I
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  Speaker 1: can't root for the Yanks. I can't root for postason
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  Speaker 1: baseball if I don't treat my body like a temple.
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  Speaker 1: And thirty three feels so sacred to me that that's
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  Speaker 1: where the start of adulthood beat for me. And I
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  Speaker 1: am explaining that here. I may be short, i may
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  Speaker 1: have the Yankee apparelel all the time, but I'm just
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  Speaker 1: trying to adult like anybody else. So thank God the
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  Speaker 1: Yanks are giving us this postseason run to bring us
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  Speaker 1: joy while we adult. How about that twenty three years
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  Speaker 1: ago they were bringing u Stoy through sorrow. Twenty three
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  Speaker 1: years later, a lot of those folks have grown up,
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  Speaker 1: and as we all adult, the Yanks are bringing us
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  Speaker 1: joy as they adult. They are adults on that field.
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  Speaker 1: There are grown men who get paid to play baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and they too should be treated with that respect, both
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  Speaker 1: at the stadium and on social media. And so think
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  Speaker 1: about it that way. We are adults cheering on a
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  Speaker 1: kid's game, But there are adults playing the kids game
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  Speaker 1: to their fullest and hardest they can to bring us joy,
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  Speaker 1: to win, to win for our city, to Rep. BX
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  Speaker 1: and Rep NYC. That's all we can really ask them
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  Speaker 1: to do as cyber winning a ring is to represent
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  Speaker 1: us well and tough and gritty, because that is who
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  Speaker 1: New Yorkers are, with the jersey on or with the
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  Speaker 1: jersey off in regular street clothing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: That is my pregame show before Game five, a clinching
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  Speaker 1: game for the Yankees, one game away from the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen years ago I had Queen's College as a platform.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen years later, this will be launched on Spotify.
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio, Spreakers, my home, my flagship, and I've been on
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  Speaker 1: the radio today as well on AM nine sending the answer.
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  Speaker 1: So if there was ever an example of growth, it's
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  Speaker 1: the little thing that was the Sports Hour that turned
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  Speaker 1: to one leg up on Sports, one ligup on adaptability,
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  Speaker 1: one look up on news, and just one leg up
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  Speaker 1: the one leg Up Network.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're listening. Enjoy Game five tonight.
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  Speaker 1: As the Anks looked to close it out and head
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  Speaker 1: to the Fall Classic for the first time since two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and nine,