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One Leg Up On The World Series With Perspective From Pitching Legend Tommy John and Terminello's Take 10-23-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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Speaker 2: And welcome inside to One Leg Up with Alex Garrett,
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Speaker 2: the sports side of things now. And with a one
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Speaker 2: Leg Up on sports, we have Terminelos take tonight ahead
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Speaker 2: of the World Series. And I also wanted to throw
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Speaker 2: this in. How many podcasts or vloggers have been able
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Speaker 2: to talk with someone who's been on both sides of
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Speaker 2: the field, whether it be in the Dodger dugout or
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Speaker 2: the Yankee dugout. Tommy John has been around both organizations
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Speaker 2: and pitched and thrived in both organizations. And I was
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Speaker 2: so lucky to get his take a couple of weeks
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Speaker 2: ago on what would it was like playing in LA
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Speaker 2: was playing in the Bronx Talk about pitching and Tommy
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Speaker 2: because I know that that's a.
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Speaker 1: Big part of your career.
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Speaker 3: It was a beautiful ballpark, I had great fans, the
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Speaker 3: weather was outstanding, and the Dodgers played well.
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Speaker 2: Lasorda was your manager, talking about me being, you know,
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Speaker 2: a student of Lasorda and under his wing.
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Speaker 3: You just had to have money to buy in food.
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Speaker 2: He was a wise guy and I'm sure you have
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Speaker 2: stories with him because he was just he was a character.
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Speaker 2: Even though I got to meet him years ago when
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Speaker 2: he was just a nice guy, but a wise guy.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he felt he had that presence in the
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Speaker 2: dugout as well.
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Speaker 3: Yes he did. But he loved the game of baseball
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Speaker 3: and he loved the Dodgers, and he got everybody that
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Speaker 3: went out on the field to bleed Dodger blue.
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Speaker 2: And obviously in the Bronx, different atmosphere, but I'm sure
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Speaker 2: it was still as exciting to pitch in the Bronx,
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Speaker 2: wasn't it.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's a different style than what it was out
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Speaker 3: in LA. But the fans were loud, boisterous. At Yankee Stadium.
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Speaker 3: We had a loud and boisterous owner.
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Speaker 2: What was it like under mister Steinberger? I just out
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Speaker 2: of curiosity, what was that like?
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Speaker 3: He was a tough cookie, very very tough, and you
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Speaker 3: played and you played hard, because if you played hard
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Speaker 3: and did well, he wouldn't say anything. If you didn't
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Speaker 3: play hard and you didn't do well, he'd be all
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Speaker 3: over again. George was like anybody that was building a winner.
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Speaker 3: You know, what do you in baseball? What do you
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Speaker 3: build it with? You build it with pitching mainly, and
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Speaker 3: that's what George did.
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Speaker 2: My thanks again, you Mac McFarlane, and uh, prayers for Tommy.
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Speaker 2: He's recovering from surgery he had last week, which is
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Speaker 2: public knowledge, but it may not be known.
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Speaker 1: To you.
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Speaker 2: So I just want to say prayers for Tommy and
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Speaker 2: the Tommy John for Cooper's Town crew is praying for you, sir,
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Speaker 2: and I am so thankful that we got to talk
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Speaker 2: prior to your surgery. To brighten the mood a little
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Speaker 2: bit more. Let's turn the Terminello's take as we recap
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Speaker 2: the Mets season and preview the World Series. Lou Terminello,
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Speaker 2: welcome back to One Leg Up on Sports with Alex Carrett.
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Speaker 1: Thank you as always for having me back. This is
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Speaker 1: an exciting week. It's been an exciting last month in
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Speaker 1: New York sports. Obviously, the Mets have put the had
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Speaker 1: their pedal to the medal since June, trying to get
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Speaker 1: back in the playoff race. Obviously, that last day the
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Speaker 1: regular season against Atlanta with the Lindor home run, then
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Speaker 1: two outs away from Alive Nation against Milwaukee and the
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Speaker 1: Alonso three run homer, their destruction of the of the
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Speaker 1: Phillies in four games, and against the Dodgers they aim
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Speaker 1: a good fight, they never quit They're pitching staff, in
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Speaker 1: my opinion, ran out of gas, ran on fumes. The
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Speaker 1: Dodgers tremendous offensive lineup just basically just wore down their
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Speaker 1: pitching staff. And you know, a season that was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be, okay, we're going to be competitive. I guess
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Speaker 1: you know, they figured if we're still in it around
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Speaker 1: Labor Day and then we fade, we could stay we're
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Speaker 1: competitive because this was the transition season to a twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Well they got here, and they got, like
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Speaker 1: you said, within two games of the World Series. And
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Speaker 1: it's a kudos to the to the Mets and David
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Speaker 1: Stearns did help out during a regular season, had the
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Speaker 1: trade deadline, the Mets had, you know, a ton of
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Speaker 1: injuries to their bullpen. He replaced those guys when guys
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Speaker 1: like Drew Smith was injured and their best lefty reliever
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Speaker 1: Brooks Rarely was injured, and the underrated Danielle Nenez, who
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Speaker 1: was you know, a twenty eight old rookie who was
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Speaker 1: very you know, very very impressive when he got hurt
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Speaker 1: with the I get I think had the Ulmer injury,
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Speaker 1: but so and he replaced him. He got Meitan, who
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Speaker 1: had a good regular season was terrible. In this series,
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Speaker 1: Ryan Stanek, who was who did a very good job,
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Speaker 1: you know so, and of course getting Jesse Winker that
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Speaker 1: was that was a great pickup. So Sterns really did
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Speaker 1: a good job. And of course, as you always say,
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Speaker 1: the call up of the year, Mark vent Doz, I
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Speaker 1: mean the guy hit five home runs in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: The experience they got. And let's not forget Jose Iglesias,
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Speaker 1: who stern signed and brought up right around the Memorial
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Speaker 1: Day and he helped get the Mets Mets going, and
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Speaker 1: thank god he was around because you know Mcjeff McNeil
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Speaker 1: broke his risk in September, was good to come back
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Speaker 1: and had some good at bats the last the last
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Speaker 1: two games. But it was a positive, a positive season
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Speaker 1: for the Mets. Disappointed, but I'm not upset. And of
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Speaker 1: course Stearn's hiring his own man that he wanted to,
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Speaker 1: and I guess he had the right to hire his
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Speaker 1: own manager, even though we know book show Walter was
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Speaker 1: a terrific manager. Carlos Mendoza never lost his poise during
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Speaker 1: during this stressful season, did a great job. It looks
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Speaker 1: like the Mets have a winner in in their in
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Speaker 1: this manager that they hired. I was very impressed with
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Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza.
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Speaker 2: So how many managers can take an ER to five
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Speaker 2: team and put them in the World Series for God's sake.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the White Sox had the similar start
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Speaker 2: and they just run downhill. So I do believe it's
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Speaker 2: a managerial thing that leads a team from that turmoil
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Speaker 2: to two games away from the Orals. I want to
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Speaker 2: keep saying that because we're two games away from the
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Speaker 2: World Series and people need to grasp that.
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Speaker 1: No, you're one hundred correct, and uh, like I said,
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Speaker 1: he never he never lost his poise. He was calm
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Speaker 1: in the face of of uh losing guys through injury,
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Speaker 1: through so that those first two months which were just
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Speaker 1: you know, I hate had j D.
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Speaker 2: Martinez, it would have been a different kind of April
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Speaker 2: and May.
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Speaker 1: Though wasn't it could have been. It definitely could have
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Speaker 1: been without a doubt, And of course he didn't have
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Speaker 1: He didn't know this at the time, but you know,
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Speaker 1: you didn't have Senga except for one, you know, start
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Speaker 1: in the regular season. I mean, I really have no
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Speaker 1: qualms of how we manage a team. You know that
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Speaker 1: being said the Mets have a lot of free agents.
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Speaker 1: The I have a lot. They have a lot of
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Speaker 1: free agents coming up, because the one thing Stern's did
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Speaker 1: do was he signed a lot of guys to one
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Speaker 1: year deals, some guys who prefer him better than than
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Speaker 1: we thought. I'm sure that he thought like Sean Manaiah
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Speaker 1: and Severino, who hadn't pitched much in the last five
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Speaker 1: years and had a very good year. Jose Quintana, who
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Speaker 1: was on the team from last year in the second
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Speaker 1: year of a two year deal, is a free agent.
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Speaker 1: You know he's out there. And of course Harrison Bader
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Speaker 1: had a one year deal. I do not think Harrison
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Speaker 1: Bader will be on the team. Yes, he plays a
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Speaker 1: great center field, as does Tyrone Taylor. They one of
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Speaker 1: them will not be on the team. I don't know who.
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Speaker 1: I assume it will. Taylor will will be on the roster,
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Speaker 1: and of course the big fish will will they sign him?
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Speaker 1: Will they not resign him? Pete Alonzo and uh, we'll see.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Mets have a lot of first base candidates.
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Speaker 1: If they don't sign him, if they go after somebody else.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the one that everybody talks about, even though
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Speaker 1: the Mets can't talk about it until I guess it's
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Speaker 1: five days after the World Series. If that's still the rule.
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Speaker 1: One Soto who if the Mets don't get involved in
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Speaker 1: the one Soto free agency.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, you know, every Yankee fan is
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Speaker 2: saying he's a Yankee for life, but he himself has
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Speaker 2: made it seem like he no matter what happened to
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Speaker 2: this postseason, this World Series might test the waters. I
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Speaker 2: don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's a Scott Borrows client. He's gonna go where
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Speaker 1: he gets the most cash now.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, he's gonna be, I believe twenty
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Speaker 2: five when this whole World Series starts.
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Speaker 1: That is correct, and that see, that's what makes that's
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Speaker 1: what makes him more attractive than even Judge was, because
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Speaker 1: when Judge signed his nine year deal, he was thirty.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna be He'll be twenty six by next opening day,
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Speaker 1: in the prime of his career. He's such a good hitter,
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Speaker 1: he's such a disciplined hit. Well, he saw the home
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Speaker 1: run the other night that won the American League Championship Series.
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Speaker 1: Patience long a people.
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Speaker 2: People don't realize this is the same one Soto that
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Speaker 2: willed the Nationals to a championship in twenty nineteen. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'll never forget that homer he hit against the Dodgers
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Speaker 2: at Schevezravine in the I believe the LDS. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that was one of the more incredible homers he's ever hit.
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Speaker 2: I would say Saturday ranks up there, but that homer
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Speaker 2: when he was about twenty twenty years old.
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Speaker 1: Right that he was like twenty years old, and then he.
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Speaker 2: Goes and beats the Astros. I mean that twenty nineteen
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Speaker 2: Nationals team was his launching point. And I think because
10:45
Speaker 2: we're yeah, we follow the Nats because they beat the Astros.
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Speaker 2: But as Yankee fans, we didn't follow him that closely
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Speaker 2: as we do now obviously, so maybe people forgot about that.
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Speaker 2: That's why I want to remind people, Hey, this is
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Speaker 2: the same kid that that homer against the Dodgers and
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Speaker 2: that was really the the start of their run. And
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Speaker 2: he's been clutch since he's been twenty years old. How
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Speaker 2: many players can we say that about it?
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Speaker 1: You know? Oh for sure? And Yankee fans don't want
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Speaker 1: to see Soto of the uniform, especially if it's if
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Speaker 1: it's a Mets uniform. That's for certain again, we don't
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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen, but the METSI and the outfielder.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we put a wrap up the Mets season,
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Speaker 1: and you know, maybe we won't talk about them for
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Speaker 1: a while until the free agency starts.
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Speaker 2: One the last thing you mentioned sever Reno, and he
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Speaker 2: was part of the staff that had a three point
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Speaker 2: six seven e RA since June thirteenth. As of September third,
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Speaker 2: I mean, they had one of the best pitching staffs
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Speaker 2: in the NL after June thirteenth. I don't know what clicked,
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Speaker 2: but something clicked on that team. Manaiah Quintana sever Reno,
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Speaker 2: and I told you I trusted Kinana in the big
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Speaker 2: games and he really not disappoint I thought, no.
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Speaker 1: I mean they all they all get thumbs up from me,
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Speaker 1: and you know, talking about how well they pitched, and
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Speaker 1: I think we talked about it before on other shows.
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Speaker 1: You really got to give a thumbs up to Jeremy Hefner,
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Speaker 1: the Met's pitching coach. I mean they worked on Sean
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Speaker 1: and I his arm angle and his second half of
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Speaker 1: the year was tremendous. He hasn't opt out in this deal.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to opt out, even though if
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Speaker 1: he doesn't, he gets paid fourteen million. Pretty good when
12:38
Speaker 1: you can opt out of fourteen million bucks. But he's
12:42
Speaker 1: probably going to get more. I don't think Jay D
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Speaker 1: Martinez is going to return. They'll go with a younger DH.
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Speaker 1: And it could it could be from inside the organization.
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Speaker 1: Remember everybody forgets this. Ronnie Mauricio got hurt in playing
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Speaker 1: winter ball in the Caribbean last year. The guy flat out.
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Speaker 2: Hit when he was a shining star of last September.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't he from was?
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Speaker 1: And uh, he's gonna be on the team next year
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Speaker 1: and he was probably gonna be the starting third baseman
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Speaker 1: this past year. So again that affects the Alonso free agency.
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Speaker 1: You got, you got Brett Baty. What are you gonna
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Speaker 1: do with him? Are you gonna are you gonna cut
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Speaker 1: cut him loose? Are you gonna trade him? It's a
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Speaker 1: very interesting scenario.
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Speaker 2: Baby's batted so good. If he wasn't injured, he would have.
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Speaker 1: Really the Mets need a lefty stick. He's a lefty stick.
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Speaker 1: So so it'll be an interesting offseason, uh for the Mets.
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Speaker 1: That was something we uh knew what happened, But coming
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Speaker 1: off this kind of season, you know, getting to the
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Speaker 1: third round of the Major League playoffs. Yeah, it's obviously
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Speaker 1: it's it's a successful year. Uh, they just got to
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Speaker 1: keep it going, you know. And uh then we get
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Speaker 1: to the other side of coin with the Yankees. And
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Speaker 1: the Yankees we knew were not gonna We said this
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Speaker 1: before the playoffs start, that their path to the World
14:09
Speaker 1: Series was pretty easy. They were obviously much better than
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Speaker 1: the two teams that they played, the Royals and the Indians.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I was surprised they
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Speaker 1: had trouble. And I know they won three games to
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Speaker 1: one and four games to one. I thought they would
14:27
Speaker 1: win a little easier during those games. But a couple
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Speaker 1: of things. Yankee fans, all you Yankee fans out there,
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Speaker 1: who for years have been torturing Stanton, I mean, Stanton
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Speaker 1: was tremendous fign.
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Speaker 2: The apology for him, as they say, right, yeah, the
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Speaker 2: apology form, because you know, and I thought he had
14:53
Speaker 2: his ups and downs over the years, but this guy
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Speaker 2: has turned it on. I don't called him mister October,
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Speaker 2: that's Reggie right there. But you know, this guy has
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Speaker 2: turned it on. And you know what's cool about his
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Speaker 2: swing is it's almost like the gian Carlo when he
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Speaker 2: was miced it that one flick of the wrist and
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Speaker 2: it's gone like there's no I would say there's no effort,
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Speaker 2: but it looks effortless the way.
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Speaker 1: It does look effortless. And I don't know, it seems
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Speaker 1: like uh, in this playoff season, he's improved his bat
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Speaker 1: his bat speed. Don't again, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Off the bat you knew that ball was gone. You
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Speaker 2: just kind of knew, oh, it's it's out of here
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Speaker 2: because he just had this swing about him. Maybe I
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Speaker 2: should get Richard Skigman back on the man who teaches
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Speaker 2: Judge tell us about the whole Yankee lamp swing, because
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's been successful with John carlos So.
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Speaker 1: And the other the other Yankee that should take a bow.
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Speaker 1: And yet he was deservingly criticized because he did have
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Speaker 1: times where he had lack of was glabor Torres. But
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Speaker 1: he's hitting well and since they put him at the
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Speaker 1: top of the lineup, he's been an effective player. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if this is going to affect what happens
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Speaker 1: to him after the World Series, because his contract is up.
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Speaker 1: He will be a free agent. Will the Yankees resign
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Speaker 1: him at the beginning of the playoffs, I would say
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Speaker 1: no way. I still would figure they probably won't, but
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Speaker 1: you never know.
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Speaker 2: I will say this fifteen years ago, the last time
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Speaker 2: the Yankees won the World Series, Ajeki matsuiy won the
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Speaker 2: World Series MVP and was not on the Yankees the
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Speaker 2: next year. And you know, I kind of broke my
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Speaker 2: heart when Matt Sui signed with the Angels. But these guys, yeah,
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Speaker 2: they love the team, but they are about the money.
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Speaker 2: And unfortunately, I think Matsui was about the money or
16:48
Speaker 2: something with the Angels. He just decided to go there.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'll never go when the World Series MVP
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Speaker 2: of OH nine went to a different team in the offseason,
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Speaker 2: that was that was something else.
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Speaker 1: Well, Ray Knight hit the home run that one in
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six World Series for the Mets and that
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Speaker 1: was the last game he ever played for the Mets.
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Speaker 1: He signed with the Orioles and next the next year
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Speaker 1: as a free agent that year, So, I mean, it happens.
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Speaker 1: I think the Yankees are in good shape. I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously this is what Major League Baseball wanted. They wanted
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Speaker 1: Otani and versus Judge and again another playoff a couple
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Speaker 1: of series where Judge really didn't do anything and you know,
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Speaker 1: Judge had a red hot Stanton behind them and really
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Speaker 1: didn't do anything. So that's something to take a look at.
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Speaker 1: He's going to break out one of these days in
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Speaker 1: one of these series. No better time than do it again?
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Speaker 2: And when'd you want to do it in the place
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Speaker 2: where you tore your toe ligament in the Dodger Stadium
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Speaker 2: a year ago and really derailed your twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: I think that's such a great redemption moment for Judge
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Speaker 2: after being injured like that in Dodger Staate. Just come
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Speaker 2: back and you know, maybe turn on the jets a
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Speaker 2: little bit. We'll have to see.
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Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, you know, the thing is when
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Speaker 1: that injury happened on that that that Saturday afternoon, Uh,
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Speaker 1: it looked like okay, he was dated. Remember he was
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Speaker 1: day to day and he missed two months or you
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Speaker 1: know that that that was the crazy part about it.
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Speaker 1: But it did derail, derail the season.
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Speaker 2: And of the whole because if they had him and
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Speaker 2: now you know, we're going to see how who's on
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Speaker 2: the roster, who's off the roster, look, I cannot fall
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Speaker 2: And I was just going back and forth with this
18:28
Speaker 2: Anthony Rizza. We've talked about him before and his bakery
18:31
Speaker 2: in New Jersey and whatnot. But that guy deserves to
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Speaker 2: be in the lineup. I think the feeling mishaps he
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Speaker 2: had were tough to watch, but to hit the way
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Speaker 2: he hit with two fractured finger, who can do that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know who could do that. No, he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be on the roster.
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Speaker 2: I think he'll be in the Star line up one
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Speaker 2: hundred per I mean he'll be in there. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: But my point was, as tough as that was to
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Speaker 2: watch his fielding, you got to put him the lineup,
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Speaker 2: and it being of lineup. The difference between fifteen years
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Speaker 2: ago and now is the picture doesn't hit. So I
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Speaker 2: think the DH makes the difference in this series only
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Speaker 2: because it's you're gonna match up d age versus the
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Speaker 2: H here and that didn't happen fifteen years ago, so
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Speaker 2: it might be well.
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Speaker 1: In that matchup. Yeah, I know that Stanton's going to
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Speaker 1: be the DH. But showy Otani, right, I mean, my god,
19:32
Speaker 1: what a great offensive player.
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Speaker 2: And all right, now you're starting to sound like Joe
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Speaker 2: Davis a little bit, Can you stop it?
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Speaker 1: No? Just oh man. I mean, Joe Davis a nice
19:43
Speaker 1: guy and a good a good, solid announcer. But just
19:47
Speaker 1: my opinion, we are going through an era right now
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Speaker 1: where we especially in a lot of sports, but especially
19:59
Speaker 1: in baseball, there's not a number one, a number one
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Speaker 1: broadcaster of the caliber of Joe Buck or Al Michaels
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Speaker 1: when he did baseball, or the Big.
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Speaker 2: Three when the fifties Yankees and Dodgers played all the time,
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Speaker 2: mel Allen Vin Scully and I would say Bob wo
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Speaker 2: because he was in that category as well. Of course
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Speaker 2: he called the perfect game for Larson. I mean those three,
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Speaker 2: you can't match up with those.
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Speaker 1: He also had Read Barber. In those days, you had
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Speaker 1: the great Kirk Gowdy. I mean, we just don't right now.
20:40
Speaker 1: We just don't have those type of broadcasters have presence
20:45
Speaker 1: and charisma. We don't. That's just me, That's just my opinion.
20:51
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this. I don't think Dave
20:54
Speaker 2: Roberts can get away with doing a bullpag game in
20:57
Speaker 2: this series. I don't understand that meant mentality well, doing
21:02
Speaker 2: a bullpen game in the postseason, but against the Yanks
21:05
Speaker 2: he may not be able to get away with that.
21:07
Speaker 1: Well, again, I would disagree with you on that because
21:09
Speaker 1: he was down two games to one to the Padres,
21:12
Speaker 1: the season on the line, and he they pitched nine
21:19
Speaker 1: different pitchers, won an inning and they won nine to nothing.
21:23
Speaker 1: And then they end up winning games going back to
21:25
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and they won Game five. Obviously they have.
21:29
Speaker 4: They have pitching injuries, you know, uh, to to May,
21:33
Speaker 4: to Kurshore, to the young rookie who has Tommy John's
21:39
Speaker 4: gonna be out next year.
21:40
Speaker 1: They have, you know, they have major pitching injuries. In
21:42
Speaker 1: my opinion, the Yankees have the edge and pitching and
21:47
Speaker 1: starting pitching. The Yankees are not gonna don't need to
21:50
Speaker 1: do a bullpen game. Uh. They have the best pitcher
21:54
Speaker 1: in this play in this series, in Cole. The lineups are.
22:01
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers lineup might be a little bit longer.
22:05
Speaker 1: I think some of their secondary guys like like Muncie
22:10
Speaker 1: and uh if will Smith comes out of it, I.
22:13
Speaker 2: Was gonna say Will Smith is the guy. I mean
22:16
Speaker 2: he is, and Austin Walla has done great, but this postseason,
22:20
Speaker 2: you look at that matchup at catcher, Will Smith's the guy,
22:23
Speaker 2: right there because he's been dominant behind the plate, has
22:26
Speaker 2: been dominant, you know, hitting, and I always you know,
22:28
Speaker 2: the thing about the Dodgers is also they hit homers,
22:31
Speaker 2: but they also know how to do the dinks and
22:33
Speaker 2: the dunks, and I just don't know if the Yanks
22:36
Speaker 2: are gonna do that. We saw a little bit of
22:38
Speaker 2: it against the Guardians, but they have to end. They cannot.
22:42
Speaker 2: You're gonna face up against Mookie Betts, who is ultimately
22:45
Speaker 2: one of the best best base dealers in the series.
22:48
Speaker 2: You can't be picked off a first base. You can't
22:51
Speaker 2: be doing a jets chism getting taken out at second base.
22:56
Speaker 2: I mean, those base running errors.
22:57
Speaker 1: Again, it is unbelievable. How and we talked about it.
23:03
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week, We talked about it
23:07
Speaker 1: throughout the season. The fact that the Yankees attention to
23:10
Speaker 1: detail for a championship level team is so poor. It's
23:16
Speaker 1: just surprising to me. But again, you know, I don't
23:21
Speaker 1: I'm not a big predictor. This is gonna be a
23:23
Speaker 1: very good series. It's gonna be a long series. I don't.
23:28
Speaker 1: I don't think when they play, who has a home
23:30
Speaker 1: field advantage means that much. I think the Dodgers going
23:33
Speaker 1: at the Yankee Stadium. I think the Yankees goin at
23:35
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium.
23:38
Speaker 2: I think God's going two out of three because in
23:41
Speaker 2: that two out of three series, the Dodgers were the team. Okay,
23:45
Speaker 2: they they just came in there. Yeah. O Tani was
23:48
Speaker 2: actually homerless, I believe in that series. But they still
23:51
Speaker 2: dominated the Yanks. And of course the Yanks are a
23:54
Speaker 2: lot healthier than they were back then too. We got
23:56
Speaker 2: to think about that.
23:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Dodgers' pitching wise are not This is
24:01
Speaker 1: this this will be a good This is a good
24:04
Speaker 1: test for the Yankees. I mean, I think they have
24:06
Speaker 1: they have a good chance. I actually think Dave, you know,
24:12
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, he's done a great job as managing as
24:17
Speaker 1: managing this team this year.
24:20
Speaker 5: And uh he's another he's another manager who keeps his poise,
24:24
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, it should it should be Obviously
24:28
Speaker 5: it's going to be a worldwide audience because of the
24:31
Speaker 5: Otani factor.
24:33
Speaker 2: Oh you have Howard Cosell. That's the guy that called
24:35
Speaker 2: I believe the three World Series in seventy and then
24:40
Speaker 2: eighty one. I believe he was there, wasn't he.
24:42
Speaker 1: U Cosell called it was him Keith Jackson, And was
24:48
Speaker 1: it Palmer who was the third guy? But it was
24:52
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson to the play by play, Howard Cosell was
24:56
Speaker 1: also part of that staff that that crew, and Jackson
25:02
Speaker 1: hit the three home hit the three home runs in
25:07
Speaker 1: Game six, three home runs from three different pitchers on
25:11
Speaker 1: the first pitch from each at one of those pitchers.
25:15
Speaker 1: And in seventy eight, was it was it back on NBC?
25:24
Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say, what do you remember from
25:26
Speaker 2: those because the eighty one, I mean, it seemed like
25:30
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and the Yanks were meeting a lot back
25:32
Speaker 2: then in that era, and eighty one, I guess was
25:37
Speaker 2: sort of a stunner, was it? Or were the Dodgers
25:39
Speaker 2: were expected to win that series?
25:40
Speaker 1: Well, you go back to seventy eight after the Reggie
25:45
Speaker 1: hit the three home runs in seventy seven. In seventy eight,
25:48
Speaker 1: the Dodgers won the first two games and then they
25:51
Speaker 1: lost the next. They lost the next four. Katfishunter winning
25:58
Speaker 1: Game six and Dodgers Stadium and Craig Nettles turned the
26:02
Speaker 1: series around in Game three, the first game at Yankee
26:05
Speaker 1: Stadium by probably saving five or six runs or the
26:09
Speaker 1: Yankees would have been down three games none a brilliant
26:12
Speaker 1: fielding performance by a brilliant fielding third baseman. Netles was
26:16
Speaker 1: a brilliant fielder. Then in eighty one was I don't
26:21
Speaker 1: know it was. It was that stupid split season because
26:24
Speaker 1: of the strike that you know, the Yankees and Dodgers
26:27
Speaker 1: boats were designated as first half winners when they came
26:31
Speaker 1: back from the strike, and you know, it was a
26:36
Speaker 1: six game series there was the teams were the teams
26:42
Speaker 1: were basically equal. That series was Reggie Jackson's last series
26:48
Speaker 1: as a Yankee, not only World Series but series of
26:52
Speaker 1: any type, because the next year he signed a five
26:54
Speaker 1: year deal with the with the California Angels, So that
26:59
Speaker 1: that that was almost like a turning point because after
27:02
Speaker 1: that eighty one season, even though it strike shortened, the
27:05
Speaker 1: Yankees were basically not very good as far as getting
27:11
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. They had the draft until late until
27:14
Speaker 1: they made the playoffs in ninety five, and then they
27:16
Speaker 1: won the World Series in ninety six when they pulled
27:19
Speaker 1: a major upset against the Braves when the Braves pounded
27:22
Speaker 1: them the first two games at the Yankee Stadium and
27:25
Speaker 1: the Yankees came back to win the next four.
27:27
Speaker 2: Well, people, you know I remember in ninety I know
27:29
Speaker 2: in ninety five they didn't even get past the will
27:33
Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't even really get past the LDS.
27:35
Speaker 1: Right. So ninety five the Yankees when the first two
27:40
Speaker 1: games in New York and was the last three in Seattle,
27:43
Speaker 1: the last game a memorable extra inning game at the
27:50
Speaker 1: old Kingdome. And no, so it was.
27:54
Speaker 2: It was actually fifteen years after eighty one since they
27:58
Speaker 2: went to the Alcs in the World Series. So you know,
28:02
Speaker 2: the ninety six Alcs had the whole Jeffrey Mayer thing.
28:06
Speaker 3: It was.
28:06
Speaker 2: It was quite a drama.
28:07
Speaker 1: Well, if there was instant replay in those days, Joe
28:11
Speaker 1: Torrey might have been fired after that series because mister Steinbrenner,
28:15
Speaker 1: who fired Buck Showalter the year before, after the guy
28:18
Speaker 1: made the playoffs for the you know, yank like you said,
28:22
Speaker 1: the Yankees' first playoff appearance since nineteen eighty one, he fired.
28:26
Speaker 1: He fired Showalter because they lost the to nothing lead.
28:31
Speaker 1: If just think how history would have been changed if
28:33
Speaker 1: they had instant replay. That that's not a home run
28:37
Speaker 1: by Jeter. He's called out on fan interference and the
28:42
Speaker 1: Yankees still had four outs to come back from a
28:48
Speaker 1: four to three deficit. But say they didn't, and remember
28:52
Speaker 1: what happened the next day. David Wells shut them out
28:55
Speaker 1: five nothing for the Oreos. So if the Yankees were
28:59
Speaker 1: down two games to none, the Orioles probably win one
29:02
Speaker 1: of the games in Baltimore. And I bet you Joe
29:05
Speaker 1: Toy would have gotten fired. How about that?
29:08
Speaker 2: But that's baseball season, as.
29:11
Speaker 1: You know.
29:12
Speaker 2: I gotta say to today and this is the biggest
29:17
Speaker 2: knock I have on the Mets. Either Bueller was really
29:23
Speaker 2: go you know, really fueled up, or I'd say he
29:26
Speaker 2: was really in the groove there against Lindor and these guys,
29:31
Speaker 2: or they did not get the bat off the bat
29:33
Speaker 2: off the shoulder. I don't understand in the bottom of
29:36
Speaker 2: the third person when the bases loaded against Bueller, was
29:39
Speaker 2: he fooling everybody? Or were they not swinging? Like? Why
29:42
Speaker 2: did they strand the basis loaded like that, especially against Bueller?
29:45
Speaker 2: And could that happen to the Yankees or will they swing.
29:49
Speaker 1: Well against Lindor. The one thing that Dodgers pitches did
29:52
Speaker 1: throughout the series, they basically never threw in the same
29:55
Speaker 1: pitch twice in a sequence. And you know, Bueller pitched
30:02
Speaker 1: four innings ninety pitches, sixty one strikes, ninety pitches in
30:09
Speaker 1: four innings. Okay, you know, the Mets probably should have
30:15
Speaker 1: been a better job. They left it in the four losses.
30:20
Speaker 1: They left thirty eight guys on base. Even last night,
30:24
Speaker 1: after six things, they left the eleven eleven on base.
30:29
Speaker 2: So I mean it's out of potential for the Yanks
30:32
Speaker 2: to look out for that. These pitchers are throwing stuff
30:34
Speaker 2: that you know, it might be a little terrific.
30:37
Speaker 1: The only the only pitcher and the only and he
30:40
Speaker 1: even last five innings is Yamamoto. And Yamamoto pitched a
30:44
Speaker 1: very good game against the Yankees in the regular season,
30:46
Speaker 1: which means nothing, nothing in the World Series. But I
30:50
Speaker 1: don't know the Yankees. I mean, buell is coming off,
30:53
Speaker 1: you know, major surgery. I mean, I think Yankees have
30:57
Speaker 1: a big advantage in the in the pitching area, and uh,
31:01
Speaker 1: you know when the Yankees have a have a deep lineup, lou.
31:04
Speaker 2: Last thing I want to get to and I don't
31:06
Speaker 2: feel like talking football, because that's just a mess. We're
31:09
Speaker 2: good to deal with that end of the day. I'm
31:10
Speaker 2: so focused on this Super Bowl week of World Series
31:13
Speaker 2: talk and and all that you want an event about
31:18
Speaker 2: the Umps. I wanted to say, there's no way that
31:23
Speaker 2: years from now we find out, well, you know, the
31:25
Speaker 2: Umps are calling things against the Mets to make it
31:27
Speaker 2: a Dodger Yankees World Series. I mean, we'll never get
31:30
Speaker 2: anything and that that that.
31:32
Speaker 1: That would that would not happen. That I mean the
31:35
Speaker 1: umpiring behind home plate. I don't know what's what's a
31:39
Speaker 1: ball and a strike anymore that but they they were
31:43
Speaker 1: not trying to set up a Dodgy a Checker Yankee
31:47
Speaker 1: world Series. No way, no way, no way, no way.
31:53
Speaker 2: Under on the thought of umpiring, what did you like,
31:56
Speaker 2: I know that you were frustrated.
31:57
Speaker 6: Though, oh I would frustrated with the ball and strike
32:01
Speaker 6: goals very first, right, I mean, I think we're going
32:05
Speaker 6: to go as soon as they have the computer a
32:08
Speaker 6: strike zone, you know what perfected.
32:12
Speaker 1: You're going to see it, because I mean, it was
32:14
Speaker 1: a pitch in one of the games to Jesse Winker
32:18
Speaker 1: that was a foot outside and they called it a strike.
32:25
Speaker 1: And when the the game last week, game two where
32:33
Speaker 1: the Met's one seven to three, it was one two
32:36
Speaker 1: pitch two were Freddie Freeman and out it was strike
32:41
Speaker 1: three and they called it the ball and the next
32:44
Speaker 1: the next pitch, Diaz got Freeman to swing and miss.
32:51
Speaker 1: But these homeplate umpires not good as far as calling
32:57
Speaker 1: balls and strike That's frustrating to me that that really is.
33:02
Speaker 2: I thought the other day Tim Hill was going to
33:04
Speaker 2: be thrown out of the game because the umbe was like,
33:06
Speaker 2: you want to stay, you want to stay. It was
33:08
Speaker 2: kind of a crazy thing in Cleveland. Hey, you know
33:11
Speaker 2: you mentioned Freddy Freeman, and I want to go there
33:16
Speaker 2: for a minute. He's obviously going to be in the
33:18
Speaker 2: lineup despite his struggles or Willy, what do you think
33:20
Speaker 2: Roberts is going to do with him.
33:23
Speaker 1: If the only way he doesn't play is if he
33:26
Speaker 1: has an ankle injury hasn't gotten any better. And you know,
33:32
Speaker 1: they kept him out of Game six, and that was
33:35
Speaker 1: pre playing. They said before the series that he may
33:38
Speaker 1: not play every every day, so they the Dodgers got
33:42
Speaker 1: fortunate they kept him out of Game six. They won
33:44
Speaker 1: Game six. There was no game on Saturday. That was
33:48
Speaker 1: a travel day because he played Friday in New York
33:51
Speaker 1: and now he won't play until he won't play until
33:55
Speaker 1: Friday night. Obviously, Otani's the h so he can't through
34:00
Speaker 1: Freeman Campy to the age. But Freddy Freeman is playing,
34:03
Speaker 1: and he is. I mean, they got three Hall of
34:06
Speaker 1: Famers at the top of that lineup in Otani, Bets
34:11
Speaker 1: and Freddy Freeman, and you know it's gonna be a
34:17
Speaker 1: very interesting series. It's what Major League Baseball wanted. And
34:21
Speaker 1: again not they didn't fix anything, but that's what Major
34:24
Speaker 1: League Baseball wanted and they got it. So so we'll see.
34:30
Speaker 1: But just a couple of quick things, and we don't
34:34
Speaker 1: really want to go into football, but I just want
34:36
Speaker 1: to give a couple of shout outs. You want to
34:38
Speaker 1: give a shout out to Army and Navy. Army seven
34:41
Speaker 1: to zero, Navy six and zero, and their offenses are prolific.
34:48
Speaker 1: Army is back to its incredible running game. They've only
34:52
Speaker 1: turned the ball over once this year, led by Bryce
34:57
Speaker 1: and Daly, who I think should be a Heisman Trophy candidate.
35:00
Speaker 1: He won't be, but the guy runs that offense brilliantly
35:06
Speaker 1: and they're very fun team to watch. But you know
35:10
Speaker 1: what they're going to do and you still can't stop
35:12
Speaker 1: them because they're going to run that option most of
35:14
Speaker 1: the time. They throw the ball a little bit more
35:17
Speaker 1: than they used to. But seven to OZ and six
35:22
Speaker 1: and oh for the Naval Academy makes it interesting as
35:25
Speaker 1: we continue down the road here. So that that's one
35:29
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to wanted to mention. We all want
35:32
Speaker 1: to talk about the Jets and the Giants who right
35:35
Speaker 1: now in nowhere going no place, but we could talk
35:39
Speaker 1: about them another time, unless you want to talk about now.
35:41
Speaker 2: Lex Well, no, I mean, the one thing is it
35:44
Speaker 2: looks like Rogers and Wilson tried to make nice and
35:48
Speaker 2: I guess they connected last night. And you know, here's
35:52
Speaker 2: a guy that's looking so frustrated on the sideline, yet
35:55
Speaker 2: wants to rush and make a new deal with the Jets.
35:58
Speaker 2: It's kind of an interesting paradise. I think he looks
36:01
Speaker 2: so frustrated and miserable yet once to keep playing. Does
36:03
Speaker 2: he see hope for this team?
36:05
Speaker 1: Or what are you talking to? Are you talking about Rogers?
36:09
Speaker 2: Rogers?
36:10
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, as I said before the season began, this
36:13
Speaker 1: might be the only year that Rogers plays for this team.
36:16
Speaker 1: But Rogers is a perfectionist. It's a four time MVP.
36:19
Speaker 1: Remember as recently as as twenty and twenty one, he
36:26
Speaker 1: went back to back MVPs William ten years ago. He
36:31
Speaker 1: gets frusht he got frustrated especially, and you know he said,
36:34
Speaker 1: I got to play better. I thought he played very
36:36
Speaker 1: well last night. I did think one of the turning
36:40
Speaker 1: points of the game when that that interception at the
36:43
Speaker 1: end of the first half. But again, he throws that
36:48
Speaker 1: ball on right right onto the chest of Gary Wilson,
36:54
Speaker 1: and Gary Wilson just pops in the air and that
36:56
Speaker 1: becomes it becomes an interception the other.
36:58
Speaker 2: Way train interest Garrett Wilson, by the way, teams are
37:02
Speaker 2: interested in him. Will they trade him or not? I
37:03
Speaker 2: don't think so.
37:04
Speaker 1: No, they called, but the Jets that that they're not
37:08
Speaker 1: doing that. But anything can happen if they seems sweetened
37:12
Speaker 1: the pot enough. They're not going to do that. Uh,
37:15
Speaker 1: the Jets are just out of sink. That second half
37:18
Speaker 1: last night after a very good first half, was was
37:21
Speaker 1: horrible defensively. And I don't know if it's the fact
37:24
Speaker 1: that Jeff Ulbrick, uh, the defensive coordinator, is now the
37:28
Speaker 1: head coach and that's effected that. I thought they would
37:31
Speaker 1: bring in a defensive consultant to help him out, but
37:35
Speaker 1: they didn't. They probably figured they have enough guys on
37:39
Speaker 1: the staff, who can who can do that? You know,
37:46
Speaker 1: last week it's is there on my hitting a two
37:49
Speaker 1: goal post? You know, last night it's it's Russell Wilson
37:55
Speaker 1: throwing a pass on third down that hits Isaiah Oliver
38:02
Speaker 1: on his left shoulder and bounces high in the air
38:05
Speaker 1: and it's caught by pickings. They had break for the Jets, obviously,
38:09
Speaker 1: Wilson not corralling that pass and knocking that into it
38:13
Speaker 1: the air for an interception. I mean, how do you
38:16
Speaker 1: figure that stuff out? You know, it's just crazy, And
38:22
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I don't know what the rest
38:25
Speaker 1: of the season holds for them.
38:26
Speaker 2: And and I don't know about the Giants.
38:31
Speaker 1: But the frustrating part, there's too frustrating, different frust frustration.
38:38
Speaker 1: The frustration for the Giants is they don't have enough
38:41
Speaker 1: NFL talent on their roster. The frustrating part for the
38:46
Speaker 1: Jets is they have NFL talent on the roster and
38:49
Speaker 1: for whatever reason are not putting it together. Is it
38:53
Speaker 1: poor coaching staff? Is it? Is it that they're just
38:57
Speaker 1: out of sinc I mean, there's no way they should
39:00
Speaker 1: be two and five. There's no way. And I just
39:04
Speaker 1: I think I think both seasons are basically I know
39:07
Speaker 1: it's only seven games in, but as the old saying is,
39:12
Speaker 1: it's getting late early, and I don't I think the
39:17
Speaker 1: rest of the NFL season is going to be locally,
39:23
Speaker 1: is going to be an unattractive one. So so you know,
39:27
Speaker 1: that's that's basically it.
39:29
Speaker 2: The one thing about the Chiefs Niners game this week
39:32
Speaker 2: is it looks like they are in different trajectory since
39:36
Speaker 2: last year's Super Bowl, don't they. I mean the Niners,
39:39
Speaker 2: I know they don't have McCaffrey, but they are just spiraling. Meanwhile,
39:42
Speaker 2: the Chiefs ascendants is just it is almost unbelievable how
39:48
Speaker 2: much of an ascension they've had since they're not stopping
39:51
Speaker 2: Mahomes is not stopping anytime soon.
39:53
Speaker 1: Well again, look at it this way. Mahomes hasn't had
39:56
Speaker 1: a great year. Now he's still the best player in
39:58
Speaker 1: the league, but he had had a great offensive year.
40:01
Speaker 1: They don't have great offensive players, you know, they have some.
40:05
Speaker 1: They have injuries, Pacheco Rice, these guys are hurt. They're
40:09
Speaker 1: not coming back. But the one thing that this team
40:11
Speaker 1: has that the other teams didn't, and they always had
40:14
Speaker 1: they had a good defense, but they have an outstanding
40:17
Speaker 1: defense of young athletic players. And that's given Steve Spagnola,
40:23
Speaker 1: who I always thought was a little overrated as for
40:27
Speaker 1: the attention that he got as a defensive coach, but
40:30
Speaker 1: given Spagnola even more of an opportunity to do things
40:34
Speaker 1: that he likes to do, He's and Spagnola's doing an
40:37
Speaker 1: outstanding job with that young defense. The Chiefs are a
40:42
Speaker 1: defensive team as much as they are an offensive team.
40:45
Speaker 1: And I'm sure, I'm sure you might see them make
40:48
Speaker 1: a trade at the deadline for another receiver, but they're
40:52
Speaker 1: six or zero, and yeah, they're the best team in
40:57
Speaker 1: the NFL. They have a great, full Hall of Fame coach.
41:00
Speaker 1: They have a Hall of Fame quarterback. Yes he hasn't
41:02
Speaker 1: put the numbers up, you know. They they have a
41:06
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame tight end. Yeah, he hasn't had a
41:09
Speaker 1: great year as he normally does, but they still have
41:12
Speaker 1: that mahomes Uh and Travis Kelsey chemistry. The Chiefs are
41:18
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the Chiefs. You could that you could
41:21
Speaker 1: see their greatness for a reason. The Niners, it's just
41:26
Speaker 1: that they've had them, not only the McCaffrey injury, you know,
41:28
Speaker 1: it is achilles tendonitis. But now yesterday Brandon Ayuk out
41:35
Speaker 1: for the year torn mc L and ACL. Yesterday he
41:40
Speaker 1: only played four plays. Deebo Samuel pneumonia, So, uh, I
41:45
Speaker 1: don't know how long he'll be out. And uh, you
41:50
Speaker 1: know the Niners don't have Jason Hargrave torn triceps, done
41:55
Speaker 1: for the year. Uh, Dre Greenlaw, the terrific UH linebacker
42:02
Speaker 1: still out with his achilles there so who knows when
42:05
Speaker 1: he's coming back? Uh, they have a safe a safety man.
42:10
Speaker 1: One of their safeties is injured with a with a
42:14
Speaker 1: ligament damage in his wrists. So they've had a ton
42:17
Speaker 1: of injuries they have had. They've had a ton of injuries.
42:21
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can overcome them. And when
42:25
Speaker 1: you don't have your offensive players like they don't even
42:30
Speaker 1: a kid like Party who can make every throw and
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Speaker 1: has quick feet go through a couple of interceptions that
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Speaker 1: he normally doesn't throw. So it fits everything. You know.
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Speaker 1: You can't you can't play what injured got without your
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Speaker 1: without your key guys.
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Speaker 2: So and that's why the Giants are gonna have trouble
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Speaker 2: without Thomas. But lou loved having you this week We'll
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Speaker 2: get the more football next week. I'm just so repped up.
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Speaker 2: We got the Yanks and Dodgers and uh, maybe I'll
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Speaker 2: send you Aselfie in the World Series. Let's see if
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Speaker 2: we get in there this year.
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Speaker 1: I wish, yeah, I wish a lot of luck trying
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Speaker 1: to get it, trying to get a ticket for the
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Speaker 1: World Series. Get some tickets now, Alex, Uh, who do
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Speaker 1: you think is? Do you want to make a prediction?
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Speaker 2: The Yanks in five? And with that, I'll give you
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Speaker 2: my key real quick. My key is they got a
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Speaker 2: score early against them. They cannot have the base running
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Speaker 2: mistakes and you put homes in the seventh or eighth,
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Speaker 2: not an extras and I think the Yanks are good.
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Speaker 2: Luke Weaver had his Mario Rivera Guardian slash Indians initiation
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Speaker 2: the other night. I think that means he's their closer. Okay,
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Speaker 2: if you get an initiation against the Indians, then you
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Speaker 2: mean you're good. Because they seemed to only beat really
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Speaker 2: good closers like Mariano in their young stages of being
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Speaker 2: a closer. So I had that flashback when they beat
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Speaker 2: uh Weaver that night, and then, of course I think
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Speaker 2: d H. I still think Santon has the edge I
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Speaker 2: know Tony's incredible, but I think Stanton's on a hot
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Speaker 2: streak that that might overpower that DH spot. We'll have
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Speaker 2: to see.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that that that could be true. I
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Speaker 1: get the I actually get the Yankees a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a slight edge. I mean, it's obviously it's an
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Speaker 1: even series. I think Vegas has the Yankees slightly favored.
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Speaker 1: I mean has the Dodgers slightly favored. So uh yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna be an interesting series.
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Speaker 2: And the old school baseball, Louis, that's what we love
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Speaker 2: as baseball purists.
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Speaker 1: So base baseball is still the greatest sport of them all,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. So and I as you know, you're
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Speaker 1: talking to a guy who loves all sports.
44:43
Speaker 2: Hey, Howie rose felt fifteen and he's seventy. So even
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Speaker 2: even the older generation still love the game of baseball
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Speaker 2: as if they're a kid again. And that's what I've
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Speaker 2: been talking about all week, embracing the inner child that
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Speaker 2: is the love of the game. For the love of
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Speaker 2: the game, that's kind of how I feel.
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Speaker 1: So and I agree with you one hundred Louis.
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Speaker 2: Love you man, Thank you for joining on another Terminello's
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Speaker 2: take this week.
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Speaker 1: Alex, thank you for always having me. It's always a pleasure,
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Speaker 1: all right.
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Speaker 2: Luke Terminello, thanks for joining me. And I gotta shout
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Speaker 2: this out if you've been following my journey on the
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Speaker 2: Yankees Empire run by Jacob Baroner, Jacob b Speaks and
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Speaker 2: Darth Envy, they are throwing a watch party, that's right,
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Speaker 2: a watch party this Friday night for Game one, and
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Speaker 2: as a journalist, I went to the Yanks watch party
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Speaker 2: with Keith McPherson and the Bronzoo this last week. This week,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be at five hundred Broadway. This week,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be a fifty to sixty Broadway and
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Speaker 2: Brown Sugar is actually the name of the place. They're
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Speaker 2: going to be at the first ever viewing party with
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Speaker 2: the largest baseball community on X the Yankees Empire, which
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Speaker 2: is that twenty one thousand followers. So we'll be there,
45:56
Speaker 2: Gabby will be there with me, and it'll be an
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Speaker 2: exciting night as the Yankees and Dodgers rivalry renewed once again.
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Speaker 2: We'll have more on that thanks to Mike Vaccaro tomorrow
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Speaker 2: as we are having one leg up on the World
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Speaker 2: Series on this network for you, the fans,