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OneLegUpAlex Congratulates 3K Kershaw and Gets Terminello's Take As We Hit Subway Series And Independence Day · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: We didn't write this spill for the Democratic Party or
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  Speaker 1: the elites or the media.
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  Speaker 2: This bill is for hard working Americans. They deserve.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that Speaker Mike Johnson on Capitol Hill today, as
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  Speaker 2: we're still waiting for the signing of the bill, and
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  Speaker 2: the big Beautiful Bill, the debate over it is like
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  Speaker 2: two and forty nine years ago when they debated over
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  Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independence. Some are saying, why are you
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  Speaker 2: comparing the situations, Well, there is a feeling that debate
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  Speaker 2: that got our country started is the same kind of
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  Speaker 2: debate as that's going on now with the Big Beautiful Bill.
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  Speaker 2: It's will this make America better? Is this good for
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  Speaker 2: the country. There was a debate into seventeen seventy six
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  Speaker 2: whether spilling away from Britain was good of the country.
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  Speaker 2: There is a debate now whether this big beautiful bill
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  Speaker 2: is good for the country. I could see both sides
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  Speaker 2: of it, but I want to take a break from
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  Speaker 2: that because keep an eye on that for the one
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  Speaker 2: like up on news. However, last night sports news and
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  Speaker 2: really history was made last night when Clayton Kershaw got
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  Speaker 2: his three thousand strikeout. I want you to also listen
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  Speaker 2: to how loud. It was after his strikeout for three thousand,
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  Speaker 2: as called by Joe Davis.
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  Speaker 1: The ravine rises ready to erupt.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think Dodger Stadium was even that loud
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  Speaker 2: for Freddie Freeman's game winning walk off home run in
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  Speaker 2: Game one of the World Series last year. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think so. And immediately after that, the Dodgers posted this
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  Speaker 2: from his wife Ellen and their kids their Kershaw kids.
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  Speaker 4: Clayton, Congratulations three thousand strikeouts. That's incredible. I actually I
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  Speaker 4: remember your very first strikeout and we were freaking out,
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  Speaker 4: screaming in our same section, like always cheering you on.
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  Speaker 4: And the craziest thing about all these strikeouts is they've
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  Speaker 4: always meant something so much bigger than just a strikeout.
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  Speaker 4: With Kershaw's Challenge, you have donated money for every strikeout
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  Speaker 4: you've ever done, and so you combine all of that
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  Speaker 4: with three thousand strikeouts, the difference and impact that has
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  Speaker 4: been made with every strikeout is just incredible. So we
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  Speaker 4: are so proud of you. We have been cheering our
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  Speaker 4: hearts out for you for so long, and we're so
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  Speaker 4: thankful that we got to be here to witness this moment.
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  Speaker 5: Dad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: You've been throwing strikeouts since before I was born, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy you've got to three thousand strikeouts.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations. We love you so much. God, you're the best judge,
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  Speaker 3: You're the best. You can say it really hard, and
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  Speaker 3: you have a really nasty curve ball and I've never
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  Speaker 3: seen anything like it. I'm really proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: See, this strikeout is more than just a three thousand strikeout.
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  Speaker 2: It's more than just a baseball moment, in a history moment,
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  Speaker 2: in a sports moment. It's a life moment. And of
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  Speaker 2: course I think about Vin Scully, who called many of
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  Speaker 2: those kershaw cays over the years. Now, we recorded with
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  Speaker 2: Lou Turminello yesterday, so we did not get a jenison
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  Speaker 2: to recap this part, but listen to this week's Tourmentello's
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  Speaker 2: take as we do hour America, the Decoration of Independence,
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  Speaker 2: and we do talk about the Yankees and Mets struggles
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  Speaker 2: heading into the Subway series. So Lou, welcome back to
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  Speaker 2: one leg up with Alex Garrett. I couldn't think of
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  Speaker 2: another more patriotic person to bring on. Then Lou Terminello
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  Speaker 2: and Terminello's take Independence Day Edition patriotic baseball is on
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  Speaker 2: the way. Subway Series, Lou turminidla, let's start there. As
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  Speaker 2: of last check, right now, the Yanks are getting beat
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  Speaker 2: up seven to nothing across the border against against Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be an electric atmosphere this weekend in
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  Speaker 2: the Subway Series? I love New York, New York on
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  Speaker 2: July the fourth, But we need some electricity to that,
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  Speaker 2: don't we.
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  Speaker 6: We do, And unfortunately, Alison, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 6: As always, I don't know if we're gonna have electricity
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  Speaker 6: this weekend. Obviously are two struggling teams, the Mets struggling
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  Speaker 6: more than the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: But we need the fireworks behind me, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 6: I mean obviously, when you Mets versus Yankees, whether they're
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  Speaker 6: playing a Subway Series baseball game or if they were
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  Speaker 6: if they were playing uh.
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  Speaker 1: Stup ball in Brooklyn, that competition is going to be fierce.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not. It won't be the same right now.
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  Speaker 1: These teams have to straighten themselves out.
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  Speaker 6: I said, the Mets are in the little dollar shaped
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  Speaker 6: than the Yankees, and uh, I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 6: very difficult, difficult for the Mets for the next couple
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  Speaker 6: of weeks until they get their starters back.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is, the Mets aren't hitting, Alex, They're.
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  Speaker 2: Not hitting no, and I mean that only.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Alex.
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  Speaker 2: Can we just agree the All Star break can't come
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  Speaker 2: soon enough for both these teams? Forget about the deadline
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, the also right needs to be here.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's it's so true, it's so true.
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  Speaker 6: Uh. The Yankees got to tighten up a bit. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: obviously that defense has been lax. Their bullpen has has
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  Speaker 6: is probably like the Mets bullpen and probably overworked.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't overwork these bullpens. They're good.
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  Speaker 6: They're gonna make some kind of updates and trade at
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  Speaker 6: the deadline, as a lot of teams are, so uh,
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  Speaker 6: they gotta I just hope they don't over they panic
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  Speaker 6: and get somebody that it's not gonna help them. And uh,
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  Speaker 6: and they're gonna trade a prospect that might buy him
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  Speaker 6: in the butt like with the Mets did. And this
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  Speaker 6: is not on Stearn's this was the previous uh, the
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  Speaker 6: you know, this was a brody van wagon. And when
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  Speaker 6: he traded Pete Crow Armstrong to the Cubs for how
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  Speaker 6: you bought Baiez, and even though Bias played very well
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  Speaker 6: for the Mets as a rental, the Mets didn't sign them.
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  Speaker 1: So and actually.
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  Speaker 6: Bias is one of reasons why the Tigers now after
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  Speaker 6: a couple of off years, he's having a good year
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  Speaker 6: and why the Tigers are flying high and heage Central
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  Speaker 6: a division that they already have clinched.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's catching them.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, you mentioned Pca. He is one of
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  Speaker 2: my All Star selections and I don't usually do ballots,
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  Speaker 2: but this year, because I met cal Rally, I want
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  Speaker 2: to get the picture and the vote in together. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I have a missical labor tore so I voted him
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  Speaker 2: in at second for the for the Tigers. Sorry Yankee fans.
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  Speaker 2: Gold Schmid did not make my ballot. I did think
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  Speaker 2: Grero was on a stronger first half, but of course
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  Speaker 2: I went with my guy, Ben Rice loved that kid.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's got a lot of potential and he's
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  Speaker 2: had a great first half. I think he's worthy of
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  Speaker 2: an All Star nod. And then I put in a
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  Speaker 2: vote for Lindora and he's now National League starting shortstop,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe I helped you with that.
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  Speaker 6: Ironically, Alex, he's the starting shortstop in the National League,
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  Speaker 6: and he had a better year last year at the break,
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  Speaker 6: but that's all.
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  Speaker 2: I voted Alonso win. So I'm sure he'll get he'll
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  Speaker 2: get in. But PCA and then Kyle Tucker. Now, Tucker,
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  Speaker 2: his first year in Chicago has been remarkable. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he comes back to Houston and hits that home run.
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  Speaker 2: You can't script that any better, right, But overall, overall
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  Speaker 2: him in PCA, and you can only vote three or
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  Speaker 2: actually vote two. He and PCA were my picks. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: won Soto, you just didn't make the cut this first
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  Speaker 2: half for me, Not because you left the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: But just gonna do That's the reason you did it.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't think he's had a qualified first
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  Speaker 2: half to be an All Star. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: He does lead to National League and on base percentage,
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  Speaker 6: he hasn't had the impactful first half that we thought.
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  Speaker 6: But if he's the World Series MVP come late October,
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  Speaker 6: we got that, don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about exhibition gaming. The middle of.
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  Speaker 2: July World Series, I'll tell you they have to be
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  Speaker 2: out of this world, both teams right now because the
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  Speaker 2: the these struggles are are getting worse. I mean, the Yanks.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned seven nothing last checked in Toronto. What
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  Speaker 2: is going on?
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  Speaker 6: And Alex you make you make a good point. These
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  Speaker 6: are struggles. These it's now passed the slum stage that
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  Speaker 6: we have that we have to worry about, worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Like I said, the Mets are in a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: a little bit worse shape than the Yankees right now.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's here are the starters, by the way, cal Rally
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  Speaker 2: O'Hearn of the Orioles at d h Rally at catcher,
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  Speaker 2: Glaber at second, uh Jay ram at third. I thought
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  Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez to deserve that vote. Uh, Jacob Wilson of
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  Speaker 2: the A's at short, Aaron of course in the outfield
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  Speaker 2: Green look, Detroit's got a few of these guys because
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  Speaker 2: they've had a great first half, uh Riley Green and
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  Speaker 2: the hobby Bays you just mentioned, and then on the
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  Speaker 2: and then Gero Junior first, So I kind of voted
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  Speaker 2: a few of those in and they became starters. Will
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  Speaker 2: Smith Otani as you know, and Figured Freeman at first,
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  Speaker 2: Smith Ketcher d catel Marte who's at quite quite a
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  Speaker 2: season so far, second base, Machado at third, Lindor Pca,
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  Speaker 2: Akunya Junior and Tucker are the other guys. So there
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of things on some of the guys you mentioned.
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  Speaker 6: Kyle Tucker is one of the most underrated players in baseball,
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  Speaker 6: along with his former teammate Jordan Alvarez, who has missed
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  Speaker 6: two months of the season so far, and he had
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  Speaker 6: a setback with his broken hand. I got to give
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  Speaker 6: the Astros a lot of credit. They're fifteen sixteen games
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  Speaker 6: all five hundred. It looks like they're going to win
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  Speaker 6: that division again. I'm surprised that they're able to do this.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, just think they've lost over the last four
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  Speaker 6: or five years. They've lost George Springer, they lost Carlos Carea,
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  Speaker 6: they've lost Kyle Tucker, they've lost Bregman, and I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Think they would be this good this year.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't think their World Series good, but they're good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think well, I think the Acids
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  Speaker 2: have a low waist to go. I don't think they're
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  Speaker 2: they're won't that.
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  Speaker 6: World Series good? But I'm surprised. I think they're like
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  Speaker 6: forty nine and thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're they're up there, and look that West is
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  Speaker 2: still weird because the Angels are floating in there as
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  Speaker 2: a wildcard.
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  Speaker 6: Possibly the fact that they're at five hundred is actually
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  Speaker 6: a thumbs up for them.
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  Speaker 1: It's a positive for them.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. So well, we'll ib to see. But as I said,
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  Speaker 2: the break can't come enough. And then here's the guy
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at. You don't think he's gonna get traded
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  Speaker 2: because the Diamondbacks are in this. But if they are sellers,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't think they're going to be, Tarrez is
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  Speaker 2: a good fit for the Yankees. I mean, it could
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  Speaker 2: go that way.
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  Speaker 6: And again I'm not saying that that dime Packs may
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  Speaker 6: not trade. I mean, it all depends on how the
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  Speaker 6: Diamondbacks play the next three weeks leading you know, leading
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  Speaker 6: up until that last week in July.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 6: So so we'll we'll, we'll see what happens there. I
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  Speaker 6: don't think they're gonna get rid of them if they're
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  Speaker 6: in it.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're and they've already admitted to Joel Sherman. I
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  Speaker 2: heard that they might be buyers actually at the dead line.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well that's the thing now, Alex. When you have
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  Speaker 6: additional playoff teams. In a couple of years ago, there
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  Speaker 6: are more teams that would be sellers now everybody. You know,
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  Speaker 6: look at Detroit last year.
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  Speaker 1: They did sell They sell Jack Flaherty to the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: last year, and they they thought they were out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Then they got hot, real hot, and they made the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and they got to the second round.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know for the Yanks though, ending
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  Speaker 2: and I know it was a struggle, but to after
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  Speaker 2: three or four months be in first place to start
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  Speaker 2: July felt like a big hurdle that they had overcome.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's sort.
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  Speaker 1: Of just they'll be okay.
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  Speaker 2: I have no words, and it's it's not good. And
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  Speaker 2: I of Aaron, he's producing, he's he's got the but
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  Speaker 2: it can't all fall on him, really absolutely, and it
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  Speaker 2: just feels like the rest of this.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird.
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  Speaker 2: They finally have the pitching. You know, the Anks of
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  Speaker 2: an had all the pitching in the world. Now they
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  Speaker 2: have the pitching and the Higgs. So one thing works
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  Speaker 2: the other thing doesn't. But well, we'll have to see
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  Speaker 2: how this goes. But as I told you all, air,
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  Speaker 2: I was worried about this lineup to begin with. I
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  Speaker 2: think we all were you.
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  Speaker 7: Were you you were more worried about it than I
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  Speaker 7: was the Yankee lineup because I thought I thought they
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  Speaker 7: would be they would be pretty good, pretty good, and
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  Speaker 7: they probably another stick obviously going to uh to the
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  Speaker 7: other team in town.
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  Speaker 1: That bottom of the lineup is not good. And the
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  Speaker 1: young guys.
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  Speaker 6: Mark Vientos, who had a terrific first full year in
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  Speaker 6: the major leagues last year is I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: it's a sophomore drinks whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 6: or he was he just had a.
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  Speaker 1: Fluky or first year. Is in anything like he did
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 6: Fernando Alvarez two years ago had to hit twenty five
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  Speaker 6: home runs in in his rookie year. Is all messed
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  Speaker 6: up mechanically. They sent They did the right thing by
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  Speaker 6: sending him down to Syracuse. I think, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Brett Baty is hit and miss. He's inconsistent. Mauricio Ryan,
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  Speaker 6: Mauricio Ryan. Theyshed him up because they had other injuries.
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  Speaker 6: My opinion, he's a switch hitter. I think he has
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  Speaker 6: the most potential.
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  Speaker 2: And the one big guy that we both haven't acknowledged yet,
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  Speaker 2: but Biento's He's got to get right. I love when
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  Speaker 2: Bianto's was hot. The guy can hit.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, he has to. He has to. Uh, he has to.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these guys got to calm down to and
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  Speaker 1: not overthink. So only j still three months to go.
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  Speaker 2: And they're only two games out at first, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not been as awful in that regard. However, three and
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  Speaker 2: seven do you do you buy into the last tens?
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  Speaker 2: I do bind into the last tense. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: at what point of the season. I think those last
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  Speaker 2: ten markers are very important.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is a good marker, and it does
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  Speaker 1: give you.
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  Speaker 6: It gives you a short thumbnail sketch of what's going on.
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  Speaker 6: Unfortunately for the Mets at the last seventeen, they're three
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  Speaker 6: and fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: But Mendoza see this, and I met Boone. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's a great person and I still think he can
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  Speaker 2: lead this team. But the difference is, and I've seen
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  Speaker 2: this after the awful to Tell Marte incident in Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: but Tory Lavello and Boonie strike me as two guys
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  Speaker 2: who are players managers. They're not really old school, they're
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  Speaker 2: more of the players managers. And is that working in
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  Speaker 2: today's league. I don't know if it is. Because Mendoza
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  Speaker 2: is calls them out when they need to be called out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see that with Aaron Boone, do you.
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  Speaker 1: I also think Mendoza and I no matter.
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  Speaker 6: Last year when I Metro twelve games in the five
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  Speaker 6: hundred on that first week in June, it looked like
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  Speaker 6: they were done, and he was. He was calm, just
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  Speaker 6: like he was calm when they were playing in the
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  Speaker 6: Nationalague Championship Series. Four months later, they're playing terribly now,
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  Speaker 6: but he's he's still calm when he talks postgame. You
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  Speaker 6: could see that he's frustrated, but he's calm. And many times,
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  Speaker 6: whether whatever sport it is, the team picks up the
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  Speaker 6: personality of their coach or their manager, and that's all
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  Speaker 6: we that's all as met fans we could hope for.
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  Speaker 6: And hopefully they just start hitting soon. I mean, Lindora
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  Speaker 6: is batting one ninety eight since June first.
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  Speaker 1: That's how could you figure that?
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  Speaker 2: That's that's just unbelievable. But again, it's a long season,
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  Speaker 2: but they've got to do something. And remember last year
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  Speaker 2: I was banking on that closed door meeting. They did
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  Speaker 2: have one and still doesn't stake.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know, Yeah, you're hitting one when you
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  Speaker 6: have your best player hitting one ninety eight, not your
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  Speaker 6: best player, but one of your key guys hitting one
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  Speaker 6: ninety eight since June first, and the bullpen, which was
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  Speaker 6: great since June first, has been terrible with the exception.
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  Speaker 1: Of Diaz Again.
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  Speaker 2: Now you want to talk about the Rays because I
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  Speaker 2: think that's one of your more impressive teams of the half,
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  Speaker 2: and the Brewers because the Rays have sort of resurrected
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  Speaker 2: themselves they had and i'd have the Blue Jays by
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  Speaker 2: the way, because they were down there too for a while.
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  Speaker 2: But talk about those three teams raised, Blade Jays and Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: What a comeback story so far.
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  Speaker 6: Well, as we watched that first weekend here in New York,
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  Speaker 6: as we watched the Brewers throw batting practice to the Yankees,
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  Speaker 6: and remember the controversy about the tribute the torpedo bats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where'd that go?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Where did that go? Alex? You know, the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: was shell shocked in New York.
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  Speaker 6: Then the next day went to Kansas City and they
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  Speaker 6: lost the eleven nothing and now they are what two
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  Speaker 6: games behind are very very talented Chicago Cub team UH
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  Speaker 6: in the National League Central. So they got Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 6: was the manager of the year last year has done
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: a great job. They trade their closer, you know, Devin
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Williams to the Yankees.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You got to give it to the Brewers. They field well.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: They only hit a lot of home runs, but uh
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: you know, now they have this kid that they just
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: brought up, Misowski who has been lights out, and the
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: Brewers are gonna be tough.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: They always are.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Each story. He got his personalized jersey mids. I don't
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: know if you saw that anywhere. I did not see that,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: you know, and then got it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Now the Jays, I don't know if they're just hot
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: or this is the real thing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: You know, We've been fooled by the Jays before when
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: we think that that they're the real, the real thing.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: They have a good lineup, and uh so we we're
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: gonna have their bash in the baseball right now.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And by the way, not not that partly because I
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: met cow and I think he's just a clutch guy.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: But Alejandro Kirk's been a very That was a tough
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: choice because Kirk's been great for the Blue Jays as well.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: He he doesn't look like he should be great physically,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: but he is outstanding.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. He could really hit that ball. Uh.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: And going to the to the Tampa Bay Rays, I
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: think Kevin Cash is the best manager.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: In baseball with what he's got to work with, from
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: first pitch to last pitch, he manages the game, I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: think better than anybody with with with what he's got.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: They've slumped a little bit of the last week, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: their their attention to details great. Uh Are they World
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Series worthy?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I would say no, but there you
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: got to tip your hat to them.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: And by the Steinbrenner Field is much much better than
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the stadium where the A's are playing. It's Steinbrenderfield is small,
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: but it's got it's like a major league stadium. There
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: was the stadium in Sacramento barely passable. That's just my observation.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And yet the A's took two out of three there,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: So to your point, they were in a major league park,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: they'd actually be better at home. Like that's it interesting.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I still think Tampa, this showcase of outdoor baseball is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: why they need I don't care how hot it is,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Tampa needs to play outdoors. I mean, there's just no
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: question about it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Well, at least have a place with a retractable roof
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that too, you know, so if if the weather, if
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you get that heavy those Florida summer rain storms, you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: can just you can just close the roof.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Like they haven't this year's old. When I realized why
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: my Milwaukee needed a retractable roof, I guess it rains
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: a lot up there. I didn't know that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It's cold, you know, and it's cold, you know. So uh,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm all for retractable roofs. I really am. I really
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: think o.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Well, new stadiums should have them in Minnesota. That one
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is very interesting because they play outdoors even if it's
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: freezing cold.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: They went from an indoors stadium to an outdoor stadium.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: That made no sense to me.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: But and of course I think during the Jim Cotter
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: they played outdoors.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Yes, they did when I was growing up, and they
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: had those great hitting teams and Jim Cott and Jim
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Mudcat Grant and Camilo Pasqual, Harmon Kilbrew.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Robbie at.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: They had great teams. They had great teams, and they
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: played a nineteen sixty five World Series, but they were
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: always good. They played outdoors in Metropolitan Stadium.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that there's some old footage about that. I'd
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: recommend the younger generation to take a look just to
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: see about them.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. History, whether it's sports, American history,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: entertainment history, it's.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: One way breaking news. USA, you would sucker is leading
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: in their semi final. Look are they rigging this so
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that Team USA Soccer could play at MetLife? Is there
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: some rigging going on here? I mean what it's going well.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: There has been rigging in soccer in the past, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: the people have had to pay.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The riggers have had to pay for fixing games.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I remember, I remember when this team under a Klinger
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: haf or whatever. Right, Yes, it was awful. Now there
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: are all of a sudden renaissance with Team USA Soccer.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Well that's good.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: We want we want we we want to see uh
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: our national team do well and.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Then both won't for the World Cup if I'm honest.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So we'll have to see what happens there. But Lou,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I know what's on your mind, because yesterday was the
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: first day of free agency, and boy oh boy, Ranger
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: fans were gonna go after Drury if you then resigned
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Will Cooley. He did get that done, he did, and
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: fans were actually happy Keandres traded, So there's that movement too.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But what stuck out to you? I mean, they kind
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of got this defenseman for seven years. I've never really
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: seen him play up until his signings. So what what what?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What's going on? The Rangers made some good moves yesterday.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I would say the Rangers make good moves. Are they
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: trade the human turnover? Keandreke Andre Miller. Now he got Alex.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: He got sixty million dollars from the Carolina Hurricanes for
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: eight years, which is shocking to me.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: And they, you know, getting Coolly was obviously that was
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: a key thing.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: The defenseman that they signed from the Los.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Angeles Kings, Vladislav got what let's see, what is his
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: last name. I mean, I've seen him play many times.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: He's a body checker. He's aprokov yeah, gaprakofv. He's Alex
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a positive, a positive.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Not how to hit her. Even in that playoff run
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: of twenty four, we were all looking for that hit.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: KeAndre did not do that. Okay, he did not hit
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and uh Rempy hits too much. The guy gets suspended
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: at the time, so they needed right and.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Uh you know, and I and.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Team this year apparently he's trying that he's trying to
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: uh uh.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Paul short still and try to become more so you know, uh,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the rent will be The Rangers are making some changes.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that the Montreal defense is gonna in Montreal
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: has made a lot of improvements. But I want to
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: go to the Islanders because because when we last were together,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you compared mister Shaffer of Bobby Or and uh and
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: mister Shaffer was liffing it listening. I'm sorry it was
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: pretty uh flattered by that.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: But let let let the let me.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: I saw him make a couple of a rink to rink,
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: a red line, goal line to go line rushes that
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: remind me of Bobby Or.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: There's only one Bobby Or there's only one uh about that,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: but there's only one Bobby Or the greatest defenseman of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: all time. And uh, you know, the Islanders made it
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: that Dobson trade is gonna be great for Montreal. It's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: gonna and and if the if the two picks work
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: out for the Islanders, it's gonna be great for the analysts.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: And according to every draft nick, every HL draft analyst,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: the two guys that the Islanders picked, and I'm gonna
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: be honest with you, I haven't seen them play and
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I saw shit. I really didn't see Shaeffer play like usually,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Like I've told you, I see these junior players play.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: But uh, you know did see you know who did
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: see the scrimmage? Our buddy Ryan Pagano was out at
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: uh watching the scrimmage and he said it was a
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: sellout crowd. So people are amped. Islander nations amped right now?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: No, I mean they picked Victor Ecklyn, who's a smallish forward,
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: but apparently he's very He's he goes into the dirty
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: areas and he's like a power forward. So the Islanders
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: need that. They don't have enough bodies in front of
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: the net. Again, he's eighteen and the defenseman that they
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: drafted with the seventh number seventeen. I actually saw it
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: his CAN interview and he's very impressive. Kishan Atkinson, he
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: played for the Battery, called six foot six foot.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: One, two hundred pounds. He was voted the outstanding body
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: checker in the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: The Islanders need that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Obviously, signing Alexander Romanov, who's an outstanding body checker that
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: that's gonna help him again. I don't know how quickly
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: these guys are going to make the NHL. Matthew Schaeffer.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: I saw him interviewed yesterday. I don't know if it
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: was before in the scrimmage.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I think he thinks he has a chance to be
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a National Hockey League next year. But Alex, you see him.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: I saw him at the NHL Combine on NHL Network
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: in his shorts and in his T shirt. He looks
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: like a kid going against NHL men at the age
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: of seventeen.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: That's why I got to develop these kids.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Now he can't.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: He can't play in the American Hockey League next year
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: because he's under twenty, so he would have to probably
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: he would have to go back to the Eerie others. Now,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: if he plays ten games with the Islanders next.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Year, they got to keep him for the whole season,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: But the kid's very impressive. He's so mature. I could
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: see him as a future captain of the Islanders.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see, and I'm sure he wants to have
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: why as head coach. I mean, how cool would that
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: be for that kid?
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Well, it's going to be interesting to see without Lou Lamarello,
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: there if Patrick Waugh who likes to play a more
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: fast paced game, unlike Lou, who likes to play more
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: of that close checking defensive style. I'm not saying that
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: the Islanders should be giving up fifty shots a game.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: I'm not saying that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But we're going to see how, you know, how that
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: all works out. And I mean, I mean the only
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: thing that I questioned what the Islanders did yesterday. They
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: signed Jonathan Drew into a two year deal four million dollars.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Drew in when he came into the league. He
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was number three overall pick in two thousand and thirteen
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He was supposed to be
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: a big time scorer. Well he's okay, but he never
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: made it big time. But if he can help me
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: out on a power play, which we know is been
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a problem for them, I guess he'll help.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: When I saw that, when I saw that signing yesterday
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: come across the board, I was surprised.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. But you know, I don't know.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: I don't think the awends are I don't know if
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: the Islands are a playoff team or not. Because last year
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: had Detroit who didn't make the playoffs, getting John Gibson.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: That solves their goaltending problem. They got a lot of talent.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Uh so uh, you know.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: They're they're going to be a problem.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: So I think I think that for the for the
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: Islanders and the Rangers, they're no, they're no short things
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: for the playoffs. Now that the team that should be
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: the sure thing for the playoffs and they got to
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: play better and they gotta stay healthy are the Devils.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: And they did a good thing yesterday by signing their
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: backup goalie Jake Allen for five years. They re signed
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: Cody Glass, they picked up a couple of other guys
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: uh for the bottom six, uh Connor Brown from Edmonton.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: That's going to help them a lot. Uh So, but
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: next year that the Devils have to make that move.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Next year they have to.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: It can't be u a good regular season and they
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: get knocked out in the first round. Barty Carolina Hurricanes
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: can't happen. They got to make their mark. So uh.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: But and again the other thing, Alex, you know we're
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: a year away from Connor McDavid free agency or if
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: the Oil is going to extend him before training camp.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: I think they are, but what bet they don't.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Right. Well, you know one more thing on this because
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: we talk about it a while ago. Oh my god,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Mitch Marner or Matt Marner canceling his charity event. What
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: does that mean? Well, now he is a Vegas Golden
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Night and they are formidable. You look at that roster
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: icle and him. What a what a team that's going
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to be.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Well, you talk about Mitch Marner as you know, one
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: of my favorite players. I would have done anything, as
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: I've told you in the past for him, for the
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Islanders to get a guy like that, Alex he could
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: do everything. He's got a little bit of the Adam
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Judge syndrome. Great and regular season and hasn't been able
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: to perform in the playoffs so far. Just like I'm
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: sure Aaron Judge will have a big playoff one year
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: before he retires, there's no question. But like Aaron Judge
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: could do any everything on the baseball field, Mitch Marner
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: can do everything on the hockey rink. He can kill penalties,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: He's a great passer, He's got a high hockey IQ.
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: What a what a great pickup for the Golden Knights.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: Now next year. At this time Jack Eichel will be
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: a free agent. So are they going to pony up
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: that kind of money for pony up the money for
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Marner who got eight years and I guess he's getting
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: twelve million million dollars a year, which I.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Heard and I don't know if this is true. I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: heard eight million dollars.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: I mean twelve million dollars in Vegas because of is
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: a no tax state and New York and the US
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: dollar is stronger than the Ontario dollar, the Canadian dollar.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: It's it would have to be the equivalent of sixteen
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: million dollars in Canada. Well accurate.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: But by the way, I love when Liam McEwan all
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: these guys pressure Betman about the non state tax, because look,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: these states have an advantage over New York. There is
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: no tell about one leg up. That's one leg up
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: for the Lightning and for Vegas, they could do whatever
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll agree with you halfway. For thirty years,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the Florida Panthers were pathetic and they still had the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: no tax flaw in the state of Florida.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: And talking about the two times Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: you gotta tip your hat to the general managibill Zo.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: You got to tip your hat to Sam Bennetty signed
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: for eight years. Took a little less on me that
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: he could have got somewhere else. Aaron Eckland, the defense
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: right handed shooting defenseman, took probably left fifteen million dollars
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: on the table over the life of the contract, and
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: at the age of thirty seven, Brad Marschaan got six years.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: So they kept all three guys.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: All twelve four.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Wards who played in clinching Game six against Edmonton have
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: been resigned or they're.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Going to be on the roster next year. As as
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: Flora tries to win three Stanley Cups in a row.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Repeat, now, that hasn't been done in my memory since
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: at least the Detroit era, right, I feel like the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Red Wings said something.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Well, the last team to do it, I think was
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: when the Islanders won there four in a row. Because
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: Edmonton won the next two years in eighty four and
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: eighty five.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Lost in eighty six. They didn't even get to the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: final round.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: They lost to Calgary, who got to the Stanley Cup
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: final and lost to Montreal. Then Edmonton won the Cup
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: in eighty seven and eighty eight, did it to eighty
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: nine and then one it in ninety.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: So they never won three in a row, but they
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: won five in seven years. So the island last in
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: a row.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I saw a very hot take. Well, the spray and
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Grand Slam against the Yankees is the most patriotic moment
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I've seen, really, Not Edmonton winning all those Stanley Cups
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: in the Canada not you know, I don't know the
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Canadians doing what they did for twenty seven Cups or so. Well,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I mean that's not patriotic enough. A Grand Slam in
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the middle of July, at the beginning of July. Get
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: out of here with.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: That, Alex. It's people with short memories. Nobody knows the
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: history of the game. The other thing is, you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: the nineteen to ninety Oilers won the Cup. Gretzky was gone,
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: so Messier won five, won five with the Oilers, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: Gretzky won four with the Oilers, and then Gretzky won
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: his sixth with with the Rangers.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: But I'll putes that. You want to about a patriotic
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: baseball moment, how about the Baptista won that was the
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: best home run? Well, the Joe Carter home run two,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I guess you would say, but.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well won of the World Series for them in
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: the bottom of the ninth inning Wolf Mitch Williams.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: So in my lifetime the Bautista one though, was really
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: something to backflip. The backflip that was something else. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: now they're beating up the Yanks again. But that's not
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the story for end of the day. I want to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: get to the Hockey Hall of Fames speaking of Toronto,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: because we had a chance to cover this last time
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: and I want to do it freshly. Here. Mcgilney Washington
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: play a lot growing up. Kudos to him a former
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Islander and Senators the Dano Chara, kudos to him. What
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: do you think of.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: The class Alexander mcgilney And I don't know what the
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: voters had not to get him in earlier.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: He should have been in ten twelve years ago.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: He was a fantastic player, scored seventy six goals in
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: one season, So I don't know what the voters were.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Thinking about Za.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: Dana Chara, one of the most incredible defenseman history of
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: the league.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I saw one of his first games.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: At National Coliseum when the Islanders drifted number one and
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: it was one of the worst mistakes that mill one
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: of many that Mike Milbery made as a general manager
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: of the Islanders when he traded him to the to
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: the Ilawa Senators.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: So they're deserving.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: The one veteran who keeps getting passed up is Butch Scoring.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Butch Scoring should be in the Hall of Fame.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: He was the glue of that first Islander team that
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: they got Butch gooring at the trade deadline and he
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: catapulted the Islanders to that Cup. He won the Conso
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: Mike Trophy as as MVP of the Playoffs, and uh,
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: he should be in. So that's my two that's my
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: take on the Hall of Fame. So and then of course,
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: the other big thing today was the Nicks signing their
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: head coach.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Well, before we get to that, I know there's some
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: people listening that would appreciate this reference for Canada day.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: To me, the best person, the best representative of Canada
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: and the Canadian athletes, We'll always be Rod Jobert. Okay,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: he was to me the ultimate gentleman and the greatest
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: person and one of the best Canadians out there.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Well he was mister Ranger for sure, and even though
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: he was a great Canadian and I know he became
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: an American citizen of dual citizenship. He was just a
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: good guy.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, we just remembered that we had him at
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: that remote at Modell's and that was the only time
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: I met him face to face, and it was like
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: I knew the guy for twenty years.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Well, if you know my history with him, he would
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: always come to Viscardi Center and represent the Rangers there
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and he was really part of the community, and uh,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: what an upstanding gentleman. And really he embodied that Canadian
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: spirit of goodness. I guess he would say. So that
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: was my take. Now onto Mike Brown, because this one,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I hear he gonna he's gonna practice these guys tougher
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: than Thibbideau did. But Thibbideau and the Knicks just broke
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: each other's cold snaps because I remember coming into his
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: reign as the nick head coach, he could win a
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: playoff series for his life with the Bulls. He comes here,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: he brings him to the playoffs and then he's the
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: coach that gets them in the conference final. But it
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: seems you are right. They probably predetermined that that was
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: gonna be his last season and h fired two three days.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know why he got fired.
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: And it's it's not like they fired him and they
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: had a fifty year old pat Riley type to take over.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I mean Mike Brown has I mean, he's got a
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: winning record, He's well over five hundred as a coach
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: all time.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: But is it is it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Basically just trading one good coach for another good coach,
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: not a great coach?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, is it an upgrade? Is Brown upgrade from Thibadeau?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I don't see that, you know? And I know that Knicks. Now,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the Knicks are going to be favored.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: The Knicks are the favorite in most in most betting parlors,
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: even though we hate to talk about betting, to win
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: the Eastern Conference championship next year, and everybody was saying
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: how poor the East is going to be, and it's
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: not going to be like the West.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. And the path is open
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: for the.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: Knicks, but it's But don't don't count out Cleveland. Don't
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: count out an improving Detroit team. Uh, don't count out
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: I think Orlando is going to make a big jump
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: next year.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: So he just ran through these teams, not by accident.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: They were just they had and they had a good
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: thing going.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: It wasn't.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: But now, I mean, you're right, not by accident, you're
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: You're one hundred percent right, Alex.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: But Dave was Albert for the whole year.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Cleveland will be up there for and uh the lost
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Miles Turner. Cleveland will be up there for a long
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: time along with the Knicks. Now is I was in
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the impression cats a free agent Siller as he signed.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly where we're staying with that.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, he's still signed from his Minnesota deal.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: Now, the uh one interesting thing is Lebron James, for
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: the first time in his more than two decade career.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Opted into a deal. He always opt it out of
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: a deal. So there is he going to be with
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the Lakers? Or does he want is he is he
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: going to get? Is he gonna ask for a trade
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: that's been rumored about?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, him and Gianni's are really trade talks right now.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and I.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Heard I heard from a couple of people that, uh,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Annetta Koupo is not going anywhere now. Of course that
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: could change next week.
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but uh, the Lebron thing, I think they might
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: be a little smoked to that fire. I'm not saying
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: he's coming to the Knicks, but the Knicks would have
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: to be interested. I'm sure there's other teams that would
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: be interested in him. He would be an idiot if
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: he wants to get traded, not to get trade to
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: an Eastern an Eastern Conference team because the path to
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: the final is.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Is uh more open? Can we go back to Cleveland?
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Also, you still got duncas there. I mean, I think
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: he wants to trying something, make something work with Dunkins,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: because that's.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Frise.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Their chemistry right off the bat was very impressive because
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Don gets would throw to Lebron Lebron. It was a
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: really good combination there, and I think maybe they want
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: to try.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: They only played twenty three games last year, so I
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: mean that that two talented guys. But again, that's something
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: to look at. That's something look at the Lebron situation.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: All right. I want to I want to do I
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: want to ask you a couple more questions because I
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: always love having you. But you know, yesterday the rain,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about this. The Rangers actually got a
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: first round pick in that trade, I believe for for Keandrack.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine there from now we're sitting at the
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: garden watch party instead of Ubs and they get the
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: first round pick. I mean, imagine that happened to they
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: pick a.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll also look at this.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: They have Pittsburgh's pick next year, and Pittsburgh is not
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: going to be very good. And uh, I'm going to
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: give you next year's Matthew Schaeffer right now, which most
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: hockey fans know, Gavin McKenna defenseman. Okay, he's he is
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: right now here, and on July second, he is the consensus.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Number one right now.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Well, keep on, keep on.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: So who knows.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Maybe the Rangers will be drafting in the top four
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: or five, but they certainly don't want to be using
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: their pick.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: They want to use that Pittsburgh pick. Oh one.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: All right. I went to ask you this last time
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: we were on. But you're so invested in hockey and
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: you love the Islanders and you just love the game
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: of hockey. How does an NBA executive twenty eight years
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: love that sport more than the league you're working or
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: did you love them both equally? No?
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: I love I love all sports equally, and I love
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: my near three decade career with the in the NBA,
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: with with the Nets. I love the NBA.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Right now the NBA is I don't know. It has
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to win me over a little bit.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: I don't want to sound like an old guy and
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: saying it's better in my day, But it was better in.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: My day.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Your day. I mean, the Kid era was unbelievable. For
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: the Nets, that's the first thing.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: And the league in general, technically they were I lived.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: Through Jordan Jordan and byrd rivalry, the Jordan dynasty, you know,
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: then the Nets getting to the finals back to back.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: It was a great league. I also was.
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: There during you know, during the eighties when the early
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: party eighties before Burden Magic, when the league was not
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: so was in trouble with the drug issue, and David Stern,
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: the best, probably the best commissioner in sports maybe ever,
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: basically saved the league. He's a marketing genius. And all
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: the players who don't know who David Stern is, and
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: ninety percent of them don't know who he is is.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: All the money guys like SGA, who was getting seventy
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: two million dollars in this new contract, which is just
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: mind boggling.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Seventy two million dollars a year.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: The revenue streams that are at a ridiculous astronomical rate
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: for the NBA are all because the groundwork was laid
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: laid by David Stern. So, but I love hockey. I
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: enjoyed the game so much. I never worked in hockey.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, did you follow hockey more as an escape
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: from your basketball job? Or what did you follow more
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: when you were when?
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: You know? I mean, I can't say that I love
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: all sports the same, Alex. I love baseball, I love football,
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: I love college football, I.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Love English Premier League soccer. I love I love all sports.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: You know so? But right I don't.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I love to talk.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: I love to talk about hockey, you know, I because
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: I think hockey gets short changed.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: I agree with you? Now? Where you one to sit
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: through the doubleheaders where it'll be Nets in the afternoon
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Devils at night? Did you go to both games at all?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Were you able to do that?
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Or well?
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't say, for sometimes I'd go down and watch
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: maybe the first period if we were playing in the
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: afternoon and Devils were playing at night. Did I ever
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: do that? I probably did it once or twice in
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: my career. And then Meadowlands was a hop in place.
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, whether it was a Seaton hole game in
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: the afternoon and the next game at night.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: We were really blessed because Lewis Katz took us under
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: his wing and we go in the afternoon for like
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: a Devil's game and sit in the suites and I
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: was wearing my Scott Stevens Devils signed jersey like the
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: happiest kid never ever. And then we've been sitting courtside
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: for the Nets at night. I mean, that's the kind
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: of treatment and niceness we got from mister Katz.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: And then the Devils were fun to watch.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: And they were I mean that era was unbelievable. But
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: the other story I have is I I always remember
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: watching it once where it was reversed where it to
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: be the Nets first, then the Devils, and there was
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: something about the arena getting cold when the ice was
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: unfurled that got me going. You know, it was like, oh,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I love this right now, you know so.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: No, you're one hundred percent correct, And again I love
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: I love college basketball. I was seeing whole season ticket
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: old for twenty one years in the Meadowlands, and I love.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: You know, I'd love to see seating wholly successful.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: Alex, You're talking to an all around sports guy, and
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: I love And like I said, I love talking about
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: hockey because the media short changes it.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: It really doesn't absolutely and it is almost like if
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: the teams here aren't doing well, it doesn't get much notice.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: But uh, we're changing that here at one leg up
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: with Alex Grrett and Lutheramnello's take.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: All right, I love talking about anything with you, my friend.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: It is July the fourth weekend, and I can't wait.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Subway Series Baseball did this one right? Yankees versus the Mets. Uh,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: it's going to be on. But your first of all,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: your favorite July fourth game memory? I mean, do you
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: have one?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Easily?
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Easy?
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: The one that went fourth nineteen eighty five, that's are
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: playing in Atlanta.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: It's a nineteen eighteen game. There's a major rain delay,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: a long rain delay, and Keith Hernandez hit for the cycle.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I think he was five for nine. So the Mets
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: takenally in the top of the eighteenth inning. It's also fireworks.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Night, and they still shut him off, right, and.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: They still shut him off. So the Mets go ahead
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: in the top of the eighteenth inning, they run out
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: of relief pictures. Ron Darling has to come in to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: try to close the game, gets the first two guys
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: out and Rick Camp, a pitcher, is up. The Braves
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: have nobody left, so the picture is up.
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: Ron Darling gave up a home run to Rick Camp
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: and your Yankee radio announcer was the Braves TV announcer
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: at that time. He called that that home run you
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: could look, you could find it on YouTube.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Then the Mets score in.
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: The nineteenth inning, and Darling finished the Braves off in
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: the nineteenth and about four o'clock in the morning they
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: set the fireworks off.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: That's my favorite Savage July and I say that to
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: watch the whole game. Wow wow.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Well I wasn't around for Rags no hitter, but David
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Getty throwing a no hitter, miss signing and Brennan's birthday.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: But you know what's I often found interesting. Not this year,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: but there were other years, either here or there. They'd
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: always played the boss's hometown, Indians. I don't know how
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: that worked out, but they seemed to always play Cleveland,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: and Cleveland would beat us On July the fourth. That
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: that was kind of interesting.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: You mentioned you were Getty no hitter. I remember watching
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: that with my family. Allen did to play by play
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: on Sports Channel. The greatness of Mel Allen, even at
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: that advanced age, was still there.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: And the red Sacks had come in.
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: Alex stalling hot with the bats, and Righetti threw a
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: no hitter that day, a very impressive no hitter.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: And the guy flew in. I think he did the
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: parachute during during the no hitter, So that was kind
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: of interesting too.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that I don't remember, but I do remember the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: guy flowed.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: That was that was the start the because of July
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: of the fourth, so that was the start the whole thing.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: But no July fourth. There is always a fun time
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: to have a baseball game, and it's always special, but
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: that no hitter and then the nineteen in game. They
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: talked about that recently because the men's had one am
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: fireworks night because it was dgn't so like they shot
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: him up at one in the morning. I was very
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: impressed they did that. But there you go. Well, here's
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: my final thought on all this year. Two fifty. If
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Phillies are not home on July fourth, twenty
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: twenty six. I will be so pissing Major League Baseball.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: They have to make that happen.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: You're right, and just so they don't screw it up,
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: send Commissioner Manfred.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: A note on that.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: You're right and say, I don't care if the Ulcar
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: game's in Philly for twenty twenty six. You gotta play
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: the Phillies at home too, Okay, no doubt, and it'd
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: be fun to go to well Terminello's take, it's been
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: a blast. It's been fun. And uh, you know, if
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: you keep comparing mister Shaffer to Bobby or maybe they'll
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: give him some luck. We'll see.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: No, now, don't get don't get me in trouble for that.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: There was only one Bobby or I was comparing one
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: play order two plays. But I'll tell you one thing.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: I hope this kid makes a big time because he's
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: such a good kid.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: So and then we'll have PEG's perspective on the give
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: us an update from Islanders camp in the codays all right,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: loud Tamaelo, Happy fourth of July, and may God bless
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: America and
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: Happy fourth of July, God bless America, and Alex, thank
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: you for always having me on