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OMG! Mets Moments Continue, Howie Rose Puts Another Great Call In The Books and Alex's One Leg Up on the ALDS and NLDS 10-3-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, Mets, you got
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  Speaker 1: me doing it, you got me playing it here at
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  Speaker 1: one leg up Network, at the Alex Garrett one Layer
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  Speaker 1: Up Network. O MG is the name of the game
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  Speaker 1: right now for this team. And let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: the OMG moments continue. And this was even before before
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  Speaker 1: Grimace and Hawk to a Girl showed up. Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: is a locked closed door players only meeting after they
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  Speaker 1: were what twenty two and thirty three, which Monday's hero
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  Speaker 1: franciscoing Door actually called for. And then he hits the
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  Speaker 1: two run homer and then sure enough last night, your
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  Speaker 1: friend and a fellow Queen's College alum, had arguably one
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  Speaker 1: of the best calls I think in Met's history. William Sis.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Swinging a fly ball to right field pretty well, hit
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  Speaker 2: freelick back at the wall. He jumps heads, gone hate dead.
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  Speaker 2: Peter Alonzo, with the most favorable home run of his career,
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  Speaker 2: pumps his fist as he round second hits a three
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  Speaker 2: run homer. He's given the Mets of three to two lead.
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  Speaker 2: They all pour out of the dugout Alonzo on his
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  Speaker 2: way to home plate. They're waiting for him. He hits
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  Speaker 2: the plate, he is first congratulated by Neimo hugged landor
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  Speaker 2: there are a dozen Mets waiting for him outside the dugout.
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  Speaker 2: Peter Alonzo keeps this fairy tale season going with the
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  Speaker 2: fairy tale swing of his career.
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  Speaker 1: Free. Wow, wow, Wow. That was how he rose on
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  Speaker 1: the Mets Radio eight eighty. And let me tell you something,
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  Speaker 1: I am so happy for how he rose, That he's
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  Speaker 1: having this moment. You know why. It's his fiftieth year
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  Speaker 1: in radio, three decades with the Mets, but fifty years
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  Speaker 1: overall in radio. And that Queen's boy that graduated from
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  Speaker 1: Queen's College that really wasn't an architect of WQMC radio
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  Speaker 1: is going to host a postseason game on Tuesday night
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  Speaker 1: at City Field, is going to call a game in
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  Speaker 1: Queens in October. And I know New Yorkers of both stripes,
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  Speaker 1: the pin stripes and the Orange and Blue stripes, would
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  Speaker 1: love to see these two teams make deep runs when
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  Speaker 1: we It'd be great for the city, it'd be great
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  Speaker 1: for the economy. But for how he rose to have
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  Speaker 1: this moment is awesome, not only because he's an awesome person,
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  Speaker 1: but because in his fifty years of radio, he gets
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  Speaker 1: to call in his fiftieth anniverse a home Mets playoff
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  Speaker 1: game at City Field and an improbable season which might
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  Speaker 1: have more turns that we realize. Right now, This guy,
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  Speaker 1: Pete Alonso had the biggest walk year hit I've seen. Now,
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  Speaker 1: one's a great walk season, but Pete Alonso had the
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  Speaker 1: best walk yer hit I've ever seen. That three run
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  Speaker 1: home run, the most clutch walk year home run. And
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  Speaker 1: you can say, well, judge's walk here, he's sixty two. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we kind of knew it was coming back.
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  Speaker 1: He was pretty much solidified here in New York. But
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  Speaker 1: Pete Alonso had a lot of skeptics going into that
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  Speaker 1: bat alone, going into that game alone, because of the
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  Speaker 1: one for seven heading into it. But sure enough, the
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  Speaker 1: swing of the bat to deep right field the opposite field,
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  Speaker 1: much like it is two hundred homer earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: season in April, keeps this Mets story alive. It's quite impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're not excited, then do you have a pulse?
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  Speaker 1: If you're not excited about the possibility that these two
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  Speaker 1: teams could have a deep run in October Yankees and Mets,
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  Speaker 1: are you that doesn't excite you. We should want these
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  Speaker 1: runs to happen, We should want to be keep going.
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  Speaker 1: This is exciting. This is the most spirit we've had
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  Speaker 1: in a while in New York. It does bring me
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  Speaker 1: back to twenty five years ago and twenty four years ago,
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  Speaker 1: in ninety nine and two thousand. It does, It really does.
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  Speaker 1: And it brings me back a bit because I got
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  Speaker 1: to know Howie at Queen's College and before that, even
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  Speaker 1: before that, and so to see him have his moment
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  Speaker 1: along with Alonso and seeing that excitement on the plane,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's been dealing with some health conditions
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  Speaker 1: and thank god he sounds as healthy as ever and
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  Speaker 1: he traveled with the team in Milwaukee to make that
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  Speaker 1: call happen. Oh, that's encouraging, that's exciting. That is New
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  Speaker 1: York City. He is a voice of New York City
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  Speaker 1: sports is how he rose. And I'm just so happy
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  Speaker 1: he's had this moment, and I'm so excited for him
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  Speaker 1: to be able to call a home postseason game, a
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  Speaker 1: home postseason game in Queens, which if you talked about
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  Speaker 1: this in May and April, you wouldn't think this was
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  Speaker 1: a possibility. But here we go, New York City, Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Both teams get to host postseason games in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and that's exciting. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say exciting enough, but it is exciting enough at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: But now the hunger's got to be there to see more.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say, in the fifteen years of
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  Speaker 1: this show, how He Rose has been a mentor. I
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  Speaker 1: remember in twenty seventeen he stopped by when I was
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  Speaker 1: in the press box and shot the breeze with me
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  Speaker 1: for a few minutes and caught up. And then it
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  Speaker 1: takes me even further back because during this fifteen year
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  Speaker 1: run of you Know One Like Up Alex and then
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  Speaker 1: it was the Sports Hour, I got to welcome Howi
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  Speaker 1: Rose onto my podcast now onto my radio show at
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  Speaker 1: WQMCY Radio, not once but twice, and that was pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: And I know I played you some of that earlier,
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  Speaker 1: but in case you misaid, here's what Howie Rose told
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  Speaker 1: me before the b Sporty event, which we did back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty ten, my freshman year. I want to say,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years ago on WQMC radio, come to Queens College.
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  Speaker 1: Since you graduated, obviously, what's it like every time you
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  Speaker 1: come back here?
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 3: I get such tremendous flashbacks. In fact, I was just
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  Speaker 3: telling David Demonto, whom I met at Kylie Hall, that
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  Speaker 3: you know here it is thirty three years I guess
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  Speaker 3: since I graduated or something like that, right, yeah, thirty
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  Speaker 3: three years since I graduated. And Kylie Hall used to
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  Speaker 3: be called back in the olden days when I was
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  Speaker 3: here Academic two. I don't know why there was no
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  Speaker 3: Academic one, but that building was called Academic two. And
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  Speaker 3: it has a scent. I wouldn't call it a stench.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a smell. It's not an aroma. It's a
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  Speaker 3: it's not anything negative, but it's amazing. I walked into
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  Speaker 3: that place today and it literally transported my senses back
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  Speaker 3: to nineteen seventy three.
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  Speaker 2: Was wild.
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  Speaker 3: So I always think when I'm back on campus of
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  Speaker 3: people I knew then, what I was doing then, what
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  Speaker 3: I aspired to do then, and what I'm doing now,
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  Speaker 3: and is a very humbling experience because I think what
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing now even exceeds to something than my wildest
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  Speaker 3: dreams back then. But I think back to how wide
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  Speaker 3: eyed and how ambitious we all were back then, just
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  Speaker 3: as you are now, and you know, one of the
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  Speaker 3: reasons I'm here today is I convince you and anybody else,
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  Speaker 3: regardless of what their passion is or what their interests
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  Speaker 3: long term are, that just put in the work and
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  Speaker 3: don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't do it,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll get there, you'll make it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we could have shot the breeze about the
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  Speaker 1: Mets at that time, and then I did ask him
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  Speaker 1: about Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins at one point, But
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  Speaker 1: for him imparting what he wanted to impart to the
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  Speaker 1: students so much more to him than talking Mets baseball
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  Speaker 1: in that moment, and I appreciate that about how he rose.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations Petere Alonso, Congratulations on fifty years in radio,
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  Speaker 1: how he rose, getting the recognition you deserve. Making another
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  Speaker 1: stellar call. This does rank up there with Metto Mette Metto.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that call.
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  Speaker 2: Right in the far corner, that's host swoops in the
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  Speaker 2: winter ship. That's hoe behind the that switching the Racers
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  Speaker 2: have one more hell the time, baby Man Cooper the Racers.
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  Speaker 1: And thirty years later, Ranger fans still love that call.
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  Speaker 1: But for a lot of people, this one, thirty years
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  Speaker 1: later hits home. Because baseball's romantic like that.
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  Speaker 2: Peto Alonzo keeps this fairy tale season going with the
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  Speaker 2: fairy tale swing of his career.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball is unpredictable like that, And because I think it
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  Speaker 1: endears the whole city with that call. But this one
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  Speaker 1: endears the whole city. It's a unifier, it's a rallying
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  Speaker 1: what the Mets are doing right now, and we need
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  Speaker 1: that unity. We need that rallying from both teams heading
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  Speaker 1: into the NLDS and ALDS. Look, everybody's saying the Yanks
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  Speaker 1: have a great road ahead, and they probably do, but
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you gotta take care of business. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta take care of business against the Royals. They are
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  Speaker 1: a good team. They just knocked out the Orioles. They
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  Speaker 1: knocked out the Orioles who have been struggling. But I
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  Speaker 1: always think a wildcard team has momentum going into the
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  Speaker 1: division series because the teams with the bye week, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Yanks have home field throughout, but the team who
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  Speaker 1: just got off the ld wildcard might have a little
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  Speaker 1: more juice heading into the LDS. So for the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees, they the fan base, I can't say
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  Speaker 1: this's gonna walk in the park. This is a very
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  Speaker 1: great valid shot for Aaron Judge to get a ring. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there is no doubt about it. And the road is
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  Speaker 1: a little easier than the Mets running through Philly now,
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  Speaker 1: but I look at it his momentum and that last
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  Speaker 1: homestand for the Yankees they only won two games. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing the Yanks have to correct
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  Speaker 1: before we hit postseason played tomorrow night, is this idea
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  Speaker 1: of the base running. This base running fundamentals. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: tighten up the base running. If you don't, you're absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you know, screwed a little bit. And you might have
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  Speaker 1: to stay away from Clay Holmes in key situations this postseason,
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  Speaker 1: and you might have to play Verdugo in left because
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  Speaker 1: of his fielding has been a little better than Domingas is.
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  Speaker 1: But all these decisions have to be precise because you
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  Speaker 1: can talk about all the Rolls or this and the other,
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  Speaker 1: and the Yanks have fairly well in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: against them. But but Rolls are feisty, man, and not
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  Speaker 1: only that, they shut down the Orioles. Orioles only scored
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  Speaker 1: a couple of runs both games, and the Yanks are
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  Speaker 1: prone to get in these funks where it's either a
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  Speaker 1: home run or not, and they're prone to as the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees Empire would say, it makes some of these pitchers
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  Speaker 1: look like Sion winners. So it's not an easy path.
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  Speaker 1: It's a more favorable path for the Yankees, but still
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  Speaker 1: a lot to get to. And then the and then
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  Speaker 1: the Mets. I saw the comparison today. Phillies actually only uh,
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  Speaker 1: Phillies won seven, Mets won six of the season series.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty good for the Mets to do against the
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  Speaker 1: best team in the one of the best season the
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  Speaker 1: National League. But that home ballpark in Philly is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be ramped tomorrow and then Sunday it's gonna be ramped up.
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  Speaker 1: And I think for the Mets, can they afford to
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  Speaker 1: lose these leads early and come back and win. I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciated last night's gutsy managing by Mendoza to go
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  Speaker 1: to Diaz early to stop the bleeding after those two
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  Speaker 1: home runs back to back forming Ankie Jake Bauer starting
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  Speaker 1: the scoring for the Brewers with that homer, But to
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  Speaker 1: have Diaz do what he did yesterday was so clutch.
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  Speaker 1: A three inning win actually, but against the Phillies, who
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  Speaker 1: always had that home field, who have a healthy I
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  Speaker 1: believe Bryce and Schwarbur and you know Turner in all
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  Speaker 1: these guys, it's not going to be an easy road. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I said about the Brewers, Game two against the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get to Philly early. Met's got away with
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  Speaker 1: knocking them early yesterday. In fact, it took to the
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning, but there was an zero for twenty stat
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  Speaker 1: with the red of the Mets line up. Cannot happen
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  Speaker 1: against the Phillies. And we can sit here and debate
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  Speaker 1: how that's gonna work out. How can you jump start
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  Speaker 1: the hitting? But much like the Royals hitting the Bronx
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  Speaker 1: from momentum, I think the Mets head into this series
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  Speaker 1: with momentum and only a day off in between. And
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  Speaker 1: the advantage these wild card teams are having is that
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  Speaker 1: the bats are able to stay warm Tomorrow night. The
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  Speaker 1: bye week team, I guess we'd say the Yanks, Guardians, Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: and Phillies. We'll have to rev up the engines from
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  Speaker 1: a new and really start fresh and almost blot out
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  Speaker 1: all that regular season because that was a week ago now.
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  Speaker 1: So let's see how the Yanks do it. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: how the Phillies do it. I'm also particularly interested in
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers here because I want to see how the
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  Speaker 1: Padres coming red hot against the Dodgers and see how
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  Speaker 1: that shakes out. Guardians and Tigers will keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on it. But you know, the Yanks and the Mets
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  Speaker 1: and even the Dodgers Padres, those three games right there
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  Speaker 1: are sure to be fire electric because the teams that
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  Speaker 1: are coming in ASO, the visiting teams have had an
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  Speaker 1: electric boost of energy having won their wild Card series,
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  Speaker 1: and the Yanks have to be buttoned up and the
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  Speaker 1: Mets can't go over twenty. And those are my two
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  Speaker 1: real big keys heading into the NL and ALDS. What
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  Speaker 1: are your keys to the series? Alex at alex GNYC
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Alex at alex GNYC dot com. But once again,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations Howie Rose on your moment, and congratulations of the
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  Speaker 1: Mets for this run and the Yankees congratulating the top
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  Speaker 1: seed in the league. Now let's see what you do
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