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Set 1: Voices of Reason (w/Sal Licata) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Woo!
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  Speaker 2: Still gots.
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  Speaker 1: Woo!
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  Speaker 3: I gotta be honest with you, Bruce, there's a good
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  Speaker 3: chance I'd be high anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Woo!
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  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering how the football weekend was. Were you
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  Speaker 4: able to watch it? Wow, what happened? Oh, I'm tired
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  Speaker 4: of him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious.
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  Speaker 4: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: In company. We are mother shuckers, baby.
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  Speaker 4: Woo!
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  Speaker 1: Bruce, does Faison Brandon's name sound like it's on backwards?
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  Speaker 4: No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to get your.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to get your racket to get the all boat,
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  Speaker 1: the all boat.
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  Speaker 4: You got nothing right there.
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  Speaker 1: This is not going well.
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  Speaker 2: This is still gots and company.
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  Speaker 4: Sal Licata with us.
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  Speaker 3: Gary Sheffield going to join us in set number two. Sal,
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea. By the way, the Sal Licata show,
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  Speaker 3: wherever you get your podcast, he's killing it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what to do with these two because Taylor is unhinged.
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  Speaker 3: Mikey A not nearly as unhinged because the Yankees are
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  Speaker 3: down too low.
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  Speaker 4: And we all know.
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  Speaker 3: A series doesn't start until a road team gets a victory.
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  Speaker 3: They go back to Yankee Stadium. I do not know
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  Speaker 3: what to do with my two producers here, Taylor and
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  Speaker 3: Mikey A, because they feel like the season's over already,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm telling them, hey, just hold serve, and anything
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  Speaker 3: can happen in a game five.
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  Speaker 4: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I would say, to be fair to Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know Mikey A as much on this one,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor has been critical of this Yankee team basically since
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  Speaker 2: first pitch. I mean, going in, it was his least
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  Speaker 2: favorite team ever. But then there were points along the
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  Speaker 2: way that it was like, oh, okay, Austin Wells bobblehead.
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  Speaker 2: He's all excited about Austin Wells. I'm with you, though, Stu.
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  Speaker 2: It's shocking that we need to be the voice of reason.
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  Speaker 2: It's a series. What would you expect, like? They're down 0-2,
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  Speaker 2: but they are coming home with three of the best
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  Speaker 2: pitchers in the game lined up to go in the
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  Speaker 2: next games, assuming that they could get there. Games three, four,
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  Speaker 2: and five, obviously. I would expect the offense to get
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  Speaker 2: going a little bit. They may lose, sure, but to
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  Speaker 2: lose hope and faith after two games against the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: it was like, oh, my God, they're going to win
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  Speaker 2: the World Series. Then they lose two games in a race,
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  Speaker 2: and it's now fire everybody again. Well, let me just
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  Speaker 2: clear up something.
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  Speaker 5: You are right that Taylor is a little more unhinged
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  Speaker 5: than I am, but it's because of what you said.
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  Speaker 5: I never bought back in. Taylor came back in on
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  Speaker 5: this Yankee team. I dipped my toe back in on
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  Speaker 5: this Yankee team, but I never bought back in, which
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  Speaker 5: is why his fall is a lot further than mine.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you'd rather be right.
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  Speaker 2: We went through this with the Mets fans. They hated
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  Speaker 2: the move so bad about letting Alonzo go. They wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be right and have the Mets suck. And now
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  Speaker 2: you guys, you wanted to be right. I didn't believe
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  Speaker 2: in the offseason. I don't like Cashman. I don't like Boone.
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  Speaker 2: They're not built right. And now you're getting a chance
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  Speaker 2: to be proven right. And it's like you're dancing on
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  Speaker 2: their grave before they even die.
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  Speaker 1: Sal, you got to stop with the selling me hope.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not buying it. You say the Yankees, they're going
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  Speaker 1: back to Yankee Stadium. Sal, it would be one thing
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  Speaker 1: if they were going back to Yankee Stadium 1-1 with
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  Speaker 1: fans walking through the turnstiles with hope. You know that
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  Speaker 1: fan base. This fan base can't wait to turn on
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  Speaker 1: this team tonight the second they go down.
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  Speaker 2: But that's sad to me. Yes. Stu, I was saying this.
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  Speaker 2: The easiest thing I've ever had to do in sports
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  Speaker 2: talk is argue for the Yankees. Oh my God. It's
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  Speaker 2: a team that hasn't been under 530 years. Oh, how
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  Speaker 2: bad it must be to be the Yankees. They only
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  Speaker 2: won 93 games in a bad year without Aaron judge.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. I can't believe it. They're returning home.
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  Speaker 2: We can't wait to turn on them down. Oh, two. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: only the second best team in the American league. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: They're down two games. Cause they lost two to the
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  Speaker 2: best team in the American league. Like, uh, Please. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing here? They're still one of the
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  Speaker 2: best teams in baseball. It's not like I'm arguing for
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  Speaker 2: the Royals or Guardians or even the White Sox. This
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  Speaker 2: is the Yankees here.
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  Speaker 5: They're above 500 and they win 93 games? Hang that banner, okay?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what organization you're talking to.
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  Speaker 2: Hang that.
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  Speaker 5: This is the equivalent. What you just said is the Jets'
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  Speaker 5: equivalent to four straight plays, 26.
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  Speaker 4: Yards, okay?
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  Speaker 5: 93 games and above 500 means absolutely nothing to me.
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  Speaker 4: Slow down. Everyone just slow down for a second.
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  Speaker 3: Mikey, yeah, you are a minute removed from telling us
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  Speaker 3: you dipped a toe back in the water and now
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  Speaker 3: you're on hand.
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  Speaker 2: This is me off. This, this is telling us we
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  Speaker 2: should go get your scuba.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: So he can pitch seven scoreless.
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  Speaker 4: And lose one.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: This is everybody's problem with this Yankee team. where non-Yankee
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  Speaker 1: fans are like, come on, guys, you could win three
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  Speaker 1: in a row, even though Aaron Boone's Yankees are 7-24
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason against teams that finish higher than them
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  Speaker 1: in the standings. So this is the second consecutive season
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  Speaker 1: where Yankee fans are looking at their team. against a
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  Speaker 1: division rival that is absolutely punking us. The front office,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned 93 and 68. The front office sees 93
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  Speaker 1: and 68. They put their hands up. They wipe their
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  Speaker 1: hands and go, successful season, boys. Let's do it again
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  Speaker 1: next year.
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  Speaker 3: What pisses me and Sal off, second consecutive season you've
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  Speaker 3: seen your team in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Last year it was in the World Series. I mean, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: They're in the world series in 2024 they're without their
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  Speaker 2: best player arguably the best player in the sport and
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  Speaker 2: all they've done all they've they played four postseason games
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  Speaker 2: they smoked the red socks in two of them whitewashed
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  Speaker 2: like it wasn't even close destroyed them and they lost
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  Speaker 2: two games one to an age you have to tip
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  Speaker 2: your cap to rasmussen the other not so pretty like
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  Speaker 2: that's all they've done is go two and two without
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  Speaker 2: their best player and it's like oh my god it's
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  Speaker 2: the worst thing ever now I'm not guaranteeing they're going
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  Speaker 2: to come back and win this, but I know for
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  Speaker 2: damn sure it is not over when you have it
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  Speaker 2: lined up the way that they do. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: tough to take that you go over the top anti-Yankees
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  Speaker 2: based off of two games, one which is a really
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  Speaker 2: good game.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go back to calm Mikey A here. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 4: Mikey A. What do you have? Taylor. Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Somehow you're more unhinged than Taylor. You confused me. I
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  Speaker 3: thought you weren't Taylor. Go ahead, Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Sal, you're not guaranteeing the Yankees come back and win
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  Speaker 1: the series. I'm guaranteeing the Yankees do not come back
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  Speaker 1: and win this series because I just don't understand where
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  Speaker 1: does any confidence come from that this team can now
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  Speaker 1: win three straight.
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  Speaker 4: Way to step out on a limb. Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's 2-0. I know what he was getting on me
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  Speaker 2: last time. Oh, make an opinion. Yeah, great opinion there, Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees aren't.
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  Speaker 4: Going to win down. I guarantee they lose tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: No way. I am going to guarantee they do come
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  Speaker 2: back and win this series. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to give you two little reasons why.
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  Speaker 2: Max Reed tonight. He's leaving his wife alone with a
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  Speaker 2: baby potentially. Who knows? She could give birth. He may
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  Speaker 2: be in the fifth or sixth inning. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and dominate at home. Crowd gets back
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  Speaker 2: into it. Going to be like the Yankee Stadium of old.
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  Speaker 2: Rodon being great at home. The Rays are going to
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  Speaker 2: shake in their boots at the sight of the old
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  Speaker 2: Bronx Bombers and the Yankee Stadium. And then Cam Schlittler.
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  Speaker 2: who some might say they'd even rather have him than
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  Speaker 2: Paul Skeens. He's going in game five on the road
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  Speaker 2: in Tampa. And Ben Rice, find me a hotter bet
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  Speaker 2: than Ben Rice who can carry this team. The Yankees
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  Speaker 2: are not done. They will come back and beat the
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  Speaker 2: Rays in this series.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and Sal, what I say is if that happens,
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  Speaker 3: Taylor cannot root for the Yankees moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. Just me and you. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 2: If the Yankees come to see you. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: send us the Austin Wells bobblehead. I want that Austin
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  Speaker 2: Wells bobblehead behind me if the Yankees come back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, no one loves the Bombers like me and Sal.
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  Speaker 1: You guys could have anything in my Yankee collection if
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees come back and win this series.
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  Speaker 4: Done.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me entertain what Sal just said for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say best case scenario, the Yankees minus 164 tonight,
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  Speaker 1: favorites on FanDuel. Let's say they win and face a
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  Speaker 1: game four. Carlos Rodon, who Sal is puffing his chest
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  Speaker 1: out saying how good Rodon has been lately. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just remind everybody, in six playoff appearances for the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Rodon, who we're trusting our season, 6.92 ERA.
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  Speaker 4: He's due.
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  Speaker 2: He's due for another stinker. I don't even like Rodan,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been better at home. He's been hot as
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  Speaker 2: of late, but it's even more than that. If he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have it early on, you have Garrett Cole coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the bullpen. He's an ace on every other team.
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  Speaker 1: This just fuels into me and Mikey A's frustration. Cam
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  Speaker 1: Schlittler could throw eight scoreless innings. Garrett Cole could throw
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  Speaker 1: six innings of one run ball. The Yankees lineup, they
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  Speaker 1: cannot hit. Sal, the 2009 Yankees, the gold standard, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: the past two decades, the only World Series that the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees have won. Do you know how many players in
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  Speaker 1: that starting lineup batted.
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  Speaker 4: 270 or better?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure a lot of them.
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  Speaker 4: Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how many guys on the Yankees' current
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  Speaker 1: roster are batting 270 or better?
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  Speaker 2: How many guys in baseball batting?
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  Speaker 1: Zero.
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  Speaker 4: The answer was zero.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody in baseball hits. 278 anymore. You hit. 230, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays have five.
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  Speaker 2: The Rays have five in their lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but Sal's point is no one cares about average anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares about average anymore. It's just a coincidence that
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  Speaker 1: the Rays have five players in their starting lineup batting.
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  Speaker 1: above 270. It's just coincidence the Rays have the best
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  Speaker 1: batting average in all of baseball on their way to
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  Speaker 1: winning the division. And now here come the Yankees. Here
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  Speaker 1: come Aaron Boone, Brian Cashman, and getting stuffed in a locker, Sal.
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  Speaker 2: Will we two just forget the two games that they
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  Speaker 2: scored 18 runs against the Red Sox that happened a
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  Speaker 2: week ago? Against the Red Sox bullpen.
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  Speaker 5: That's the Red Sox bullpen. I could have thrown better.
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  Speaker 2: Hayden Toley, Sonny Gray, and those guys in the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox bullpen. Now, I think the Red Sox stink, but
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  Speaker 2: those guys were not bad all year long. Like, you
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  Speaker 2: can't minimize the Yankees' offense when they scored 18 runs
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  Speaker 2: just a week ago at home. On the road may
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  Speaker 2: be a different story, but they just did it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: If the Yankees do lose and get swept tonight, that's
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  Speaker 3: a good thing for Aaron Judge, right?
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  Speaker 2: Probably. I would think so. It might be a bad
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  Speaker 2: thing for Aaron Boone, but a good thing for Aaron Judge. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you almost forget because it's been so long
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  Speaker 2: with Judge and the Yankees dominated without him against the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox. And still, I haven't heard any this week,
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  Speaker 2: anything about, oh, well, they don't have Aaron Judge. Not
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  Speaker 2: one fan has said that. It's all, we're done. I
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  Speaker 2: hate this team. Fire Cashman, Fire Boone. Not, oh, it sucks.
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  Speaker 2: that we don't have Judge and we really wish we had.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's even thinking about that. But yeah, I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: you're Aaron Judge, you're going to be, oh, I told you,
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  Speaker 2: you missed me. You thought you could win and be
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  Speaker 2: better without me in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: I've never been more valuable.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like, Sal, that I'm having to apologize for
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  Speaker 1: the standard of baseball I grew up watching with this
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  Speaker 1: Yankee team. I'm thinking back to the 2009 team. Melky
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  Speaker 1: Cabrera would look like Joe DiMaggio right now in this lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what are you going back to? The game
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  Speaker 2: has changed completely now. You don't like Ben Rice? I
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: like Ben Rice. I like Ben Rice.
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  Speaker 1: The 2000s Yankees, we had seven Ben Rices in the
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  Speaker 1: lineup and zero Trent Grishams.
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  Speaker 2: What about Luis Garcia Jr.? Even I can't take that
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  Speaker 2: one straight.
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  Speaker 4: He made yourself laugh.
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  Speaker 2: He was the best bat available at the deadline. They
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  Speaker 2: got him in there. He reminds you of Robbie Cano, no?
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  Speaker 2: With that quick twitch. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Taylor, put it on the poll.
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  Speaker 3: Do you imagine at any point in time that Melky
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  Speaker 3: Cabrera looked like Joe DiMaggio?
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  Speaker 4: On this team, yes, he would. Yes, he would.
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  Speaker 2: The milkman would deliver.
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Ramos, they would not let Elliot Ramos in the
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  Speaker 1: stadium to just attend the game as a fan for
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  Speaker 1: the 2000s Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Look, they tried to go defensively with McMahon. The guy
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  Speaker 2: boots the ball. What do you want to do? I
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  Speaker 2: want to see Volpe in there. I want to see Caballero.
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  Speaker 2: They need to go offense. So I would hope that
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  Speaker 2: Boone does that. But I think you'll see a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a different lineup. They will score runs tonight.
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  Speaker 2: My biggest question is Max Freed, because Freed's been an
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  Speaker 2: issue in the postseason. Last year, he got beat up
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  Speaker 2: by Toronto pretty badly. He's going to have to get
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  Speaker 2: the job done. If he does his job, I am
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  Speaker 2: very confident tonight the Yankees will score more than enough runs.
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  Speaker 3: At So Taylor's point about, you know, walking through the
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  Speaker 3: turnstiles and being excited, he'd prefer that.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that.
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  Speaker 3: So you'll walk in, you'll be nervous tonight because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: every game the rest of the way here in this
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  Speaker 3: series is a must-win game. But, Sal, you know how
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  Speaker 3: this works within a series. If they win tonight, the
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  Speaker 3: Yankee fans, game four, will walk through those turnstiles as
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  Speaker 3: confident as they've ever been.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, nervous. They win tonight, they'll be confident.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing with these series. You win one game,
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  Speaker 2: it changes everything. And it's funny, Stu, and I knew
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  Speaker 2: you got to it early. I knew we were going
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  Speaker 2: to get to it at some point while the series
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  Speaker 2: doesn't start until the home team loses a game. But
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  Speaker 2: in this particular series, I do think it pertains here.
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  Speaker 2: Yankees win game three. All that negative feel, no matter what,
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  Speaker 2: Mikey A., Taylor, I don't care how much you don't
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  Speaker 2: believe in this team, you're going to be like, well,
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  Speaker 2: if they win game four, we do have Schlittler going
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  Speaker 2: in game five.
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  Speaker 4: It can't happen.
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  Speaker 2: And then, by the way, you win this and you
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  Speaker 2: get the bye into the World Series. Like, Yankee fans
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  Speaker 2: right now want to blow everything up. There's a good
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  Speaker 2: chance by Saturday night we're talking about World Series with
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: You start convincing yourself. You do. That's exactly what happens.
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  Speaker 4: He's right, guys. He's right. Come on, Taylor. You know
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  Speaker 4: he's right.
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  Speaker 5: You're not going to convince me. Not with Carlos Rodon
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  Speaker 5: taking the ball in game four. And your whole thing is, oh,
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  Speaker 5: they got Garrett Cole. He could come in if things
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  Speaker 5: get bad. If Rodon gives up two runs, it's over.
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  Speaker 5: Because Ben Rice isn't hitting two more solo home runs,
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  Speaker 5: which is what's going to have to happen for them
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  Speaker 5: to score any runs.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he'll stay hot, though.
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  Speaker 1: What a desperate point in our season that we're saying,
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  Speaker 1: let's turn to Anthony Volpe to save us.
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  Speaker 4: You're a loss away from the season being over. Of
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  Speaker 4: course you're desperate. We understand that. But it could change
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  Speaker 4: in an instant. I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Elliot Ramos batted third.
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  Speaker 2: He batted third for this lineup.
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  Speaker 5: And he sucked, but it's okay because he did it right-handed.
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  Speaker 1: The worst three-hitter in Yankee postseason history, Sal, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not even close.
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  Speaker 2: They still destroyed the Red Sox scoring nine runs a game. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: if those guys at the bottom of the order put
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  Speaker 2: pressure on the opposition and when it turns back around for,
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  Speaker 2: come on, Rice, Bellinger, Garcia Jr., you don't think that's
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: a solid top three in the order? At home, where
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  Speaker 2: Sal, you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: Max Fried confirmed that he's starting today's game three. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a baby on the way. His plans won't change
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  Speaker 4: Baby on the way.
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  Speaker 1: You credited how supportive his family is and understanding the job.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yesterday's Padres game, the biggest winner in last night's Padres
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: game was Mason Miller, who wasn't even at the stadium
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: because he was placed on the paternity list with his
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: wife expected to give birth during game three. Of course
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: that game comes down to the Padres' bullpen, where the
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Padres are up 4-2, entering the seventh, and you could
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: see their manager, Craig Stammen, having to navigate the last
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: nine outs without Miller. And the entire time I'm watching that,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the only thing I could think about was, I really,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I really hope the Padres don't blow this, because the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: discourse around Mason Miller leaving his team in the postseason
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to be at the birth of his first child... would
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: have been absolutely ridiculous today.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone in San Diego cares, though.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Taylor, play that out if he's a Yankee.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: If they make the move for Mason Taylor like I
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: wanted really bad for them to make the move for
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Mason Taylor at the deadline.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Mason Miller.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Jets on the brain.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: And imagine just for a second that he's going to
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: miss a playoff game For the Yankees, for the birth
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: of it.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: That kid can never go to school in the tri-state area.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I know when it comes to the Yankees. I have
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: people texting me that listened to the show yesterday, and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: they said, hey, we don't recognize you when you talk
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Yankee baseball.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: No one does.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: It's an ugly tailor that comes out when you have
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to talk Yankee baseball.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Or just when you're behind a microphone.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: But when it comes to Mason Miller.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: This is even a line too far for me. Like
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: if a guy wants to be there for the birth
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: of a child, I'm just going to put my hands
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: up and say somebody has to pick him up. He's
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: allowed to be there.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Let's let's try this out with Sal. Let's let's go
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: back to when you're on WFA yet.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: OK.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Have you listened yet, by the way, since you left? OK,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: let's go back to those days. Pick whatever scenario you want,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: but you are headed in to do the biggest show
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: you've ever done. Knicks have won a title. The Giants
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: have won a Super Bowl. The Yankees, World Series, whatever
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: it is, okay? And your wife is expecting. And halfway
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: through that show, and you're killing it, full board of calls,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: just going nuts, getting 30 shares. Is Sal Licata leaving
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: the show to go to the hospital to be there
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: for the birth of his child?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I think no, if I'm in the midst of that
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and the, you know, Nick's won the championship, whatever Mets
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: are winning a championship. I think I'd be like, Hey, uh,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I'll meet you afterwards. My show ends at 6. I'll
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: be out of here at 6. Come on. Let me
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: know how it goes. I'm sure it wouldn't go over well.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: It would probably be a divorce. But in that scenario,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: peak scenario, on whatever radio station, like in the midst
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: of it, no, I don't– how do you miss that?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking this lesson. You can't criticize them, obviously.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: In today's world, you just can't do that. And I
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: understand it. Guys want to be with their family. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: understand it. But think of how many people like all you–
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and that– Case, well, in his case in particular, he'd
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: only be upsetting his wife. That's one person. But you're
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: also upsetting them, the entire Padre fan base, every Padre
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: fan everywhere. You have a chance to help them along
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: the way if you're there with the club. So I
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: would value the however many listeners, how long I put
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: into this, all those different things versus just the one person.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: My wife will get over it. I'll make it up
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: to her in some way.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Your show is over at 2. I love you arriving
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: at the hospital at 6. It's four blocks away, but
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: that's how long it takes in New York City.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I was assuming afternoon drunk. Oh, you meant the midday? No,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I bail on midday.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Not as an important day, Bart. I love it. Taylor
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: is unhinged.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So, Sal, you're saying you can't criticize Mason Miller for yesterday?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I think that is fair. You can't criticize Mason Miller.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Once the baby's due date's there and– his wife is
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: going into labor. He could be there where you can
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: criticize Mason Miller. And I hate to say it. you
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: can't be having sex in January.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: You don't hate to say it, and you're right.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Nine months, postseason baseball lines up perfectly. It's a selfish
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: move from Mason Miller. Yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: That's the problem you have with these players. Clearly, they
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: haven't been married long enough. Sex is still a thing.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It's on the table. They don't care when it is.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: If you were married for five years, you'd be like, yeah, no,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I'm good to go. I'll be at every postseason game,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: no problem. Now, what I will say, if you do,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: did she have the baby? Do we know that?
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He's expected to be back for game four.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: It's such a good point by you, though, Sal.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: One day. Well, because then you can milk it and
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: be like, well, paternity leave. I got to be with,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: you know, I got to help her out. You want
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to be there for the actual physical birth, make sure
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: everything is good. That's fine. Then get back and go play.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: So I think all good.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Because they're in the honeymoon phase of their relationship. You
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: and I can circle the dates on the calendar.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Birthday, maybe holiday.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, call our shots.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I want to play. I don't want to be anywhere
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: near any of that stuff anymore. It's been 10 years.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Get me to the field or the radio station.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Amazing how good your Falcons look with a competent quarterback.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, who would have thought? Cooper Rush, maybe the worst
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: thing ever. I knew immediately watching him week one. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: think I was on with you guys afterward that week.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: The worst quarterback play at the NFL level I've ever seen.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: And the only reason why I wouldn't say it's the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: worst quarterback play I've ever seen is because I did
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: 10 years of Columbia football games. And there have been
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: some brutal quarterback displays there. But Cooper Rush was among... Yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: what a difference. All of a sudden, Kevin Stavansky can
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: work with the weapons here. They are an excellent running
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: football team, which is just so much fun to watch.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And it's not just because B. John Robinson is the
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: best back in the league. They can run the football
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and in a week, NFC South, I'm expecting the division
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: titles too. I want the Falcons in a post-season one
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: of that NFC South.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Last week, I put a flyer on the Falcons to
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: make it to the Super Bowl. How about that? Good value.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: They were in too.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: There may be a little going. Hey, I guess anything's
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: possible if you get in and you look at the
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: landscape of the NFC. I know the NFC West is loaded, but...
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: You're telling me the Niners aren't beatable or the Seahawks
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: aren't beatable? I think anybody's beatable right now in the NFC.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm getting old. When Taylor blurted out Lions, was
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: that over the air?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Columbia. I'm so proud of you. And Sal just
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: thundered right through. I'm proud of you, too. I'm proud
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: of both of you. That was excellent.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: So, when you're looking at.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I did Ivy League. Can you imagine me in the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Ivy League for 10 years, traveling to Harvard, Dartmouth? Unbelievable.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So, when you're looking at the NFL.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: You went to Harvard.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I would have mismatched. I wear the Columbia stuff. They're like, oh,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: you went to Columbia? I'm like, nah, come on. I'm
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the broadcaster. I did some games. I did some basketball,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: football games.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Class 88. I mean.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You got to get a class ring.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I barely graduated from Suffolk Community College. I didn't actually
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: graduate from Suffolk Community.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Taylor. What happened there?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You gave yourself credit for graduating and then immediately realized
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you didn't graduate.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I was going to say I barely went to Suffolk.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I got a few points away. I can circle back
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and finish that. What is it? What's the two-year associate's degree?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I can finish that up.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: No, you don't. You're fine.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So who would you make the argument for being the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: most disappointed team so far in the NFL season? Because
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I think the news yesterday that Lane Johnson's retiring in Philadelphia,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you have Saquon Hurt, Jalen Hurts is 20-50 in the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: NFL in completion percentage. The Philadelphia Eagles can't complete a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: third down attempt if their life depended on it. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: think you can make the argument right now it's the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, where the Philadelphia Eagles feel like the Wizard
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of Oz, where they're standing behind the curtain and they're
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: doing all these magic tricks to try to distract you,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: telling everyone, like, oh, nothing to see here, everything's fine. Meanwhile, like,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the rest of us have kind of pulled the curtain
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: back and like, something might be off in Philadelphia.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I felt like that last year, and yet
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: they kept winning these games. The difference is this year,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: maybe they're getting beat up a little bit. Hard to
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: say anybody more disappointing than the Texans. And I would
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: even go to the NFC North. I think the Packers
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and Lions have both been more disappointing. than the Eagles.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And NFC East is going to be weak. Obviously, the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Giants leading that division right now. But I feel like
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the Eagles are finally having their comeuppance to what should
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: have happened a year ago and is now starting to happen.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect great things from them. I did think
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the Packers would be better. I certainly thought the Lions
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: would be better. I mean, the Chargers, you could throw
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: them in there. I thought they were going to be good.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But the Texans 0-4, hard to top that. Even though
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the schedule is tough, I wouldn't put the Eagles in
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: that category.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: The Sal Licata Show, wherever you get your podcast. Last
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: question here for you, Sal. Are Giant fans buying into
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: this 3-1 start?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it is with caution. I think Giant fans
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: are smart enough to realize that it's exciting. It's a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: perfect start through the first four games of the year.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: And maybe there's hope after the addition of J.J. McCarthy
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: that if Winston can't get it going, at least you
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: have another option that can maybe raise that ceiling a
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: little bit. So yes, belief in Harbaugh, belief in the defense,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and excited about the record. I don't know if they
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: truly believe that in the end, Especially without Dart. If
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart were here, oh my God, forget about it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: They'd be talking Super Bowl. I think, though, deep down,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: they know that it's probably going to be an uphill battle,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: even to win a weaker NFC East without their star quarterback.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: All right, man. We appreciate it. Always fun.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: The Sal Licata Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: for doing this, man.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: We'll talk to you soon. Go Yanks.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I can't go Yanks.