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Terminello's Take on Aaron Judge's 2024 Season; MLB Playoff Picture AND Breaking News With UCONN 8-27-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well lou Terminello, it's back to Terminello's take,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, first of all, tonight, it's gonna be very
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  Speaker 2: interesting first game as Mets Radio eight eighty. Aren't you
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  Speaker 2: interested to know how, uh, how he's gonna address that?
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  Speaker 2: Will they address that?
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  Speaker 3: Change it all? Or no?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I doubt it, And Alex, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: having me back. But I doubt it. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: already was listening since the announcement was made when they
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  Speaker 1: were talking about the switchover. They when they went to
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  Speaker 1: commercial breaks, how we did not identify it as a
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  Speaker 1: w CBS radio network for the last ten days, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's the Odyssey Radio Mets network. So I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he'll change it tonight with the new call letters,
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  Speaker 1: which I think are our.
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  Speaker 3: W H Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know it's it's been a burden on
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  Speaker 2: my heart that this has gone to the dust.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I agree, it was a w CBS Adah listener,
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  Speaker 4: I agree, it's just another another tradition that has been.
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  Speaker 2: But guess what, whenever you post a show with me,
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  Speaker 2: you get on Audissey anyway, So it kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: we can carry the torch if you will in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited that we are on Audysey together through
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  Speaker 2: these terminal takes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you were aware of that or not.
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  Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I guess I was. I was aware
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  Speaker 1: of that. But now that you've brought my attention to it, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it again. So that's good.
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  Speaker 3: Like that. It is a good thing. It is a
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  Speaker 3: good thing, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing about tonight, I mean, yeah, Judge is
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  Speaker 2: a thousand hits. That's great, and the Metsican Arizona for
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  Speaker 2: a big series. People probably don't realize how big of
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  Speaker 2: a deal this is because you know, on his hot again.
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  Speaker 2: But lou in Somerset tonight an Italian Heritage Night, Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Rizzo's making and making a rehab start. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: a perfect timing for Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: You told Italian Heritage nine at Somerset.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's gonna be there. And you've told me
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  Speaker 2: time and time again. He has a bakery or something
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  Speaker 2: like that down in New Jersey. Tell us more about that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, uh, Lynnar's Bakery and len Nurse, New Jersey. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Rizzo is related to the owners of Lynnhurst Bakery and
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  Speaker 1: they have great obviously Italian pastries, but they also have
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  Speaker 1: the best Italian ice uh anywhere. And Anthony Rizzo has
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  Speaker 1: a has a an Italian ice named after him. It's
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  Speaker 1: the ones that is half yumium, which is which is vanilla,
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  Speaker 1: half yum yum and half chocolate Italian eyes. It's called
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  Speaker 1: the Anthony Rizzo. So if you go there and asked
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  Speaker 1: for an Antony Rizzo, you'll get a You'll get half
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  Speaker 1: a chocolate, half a yum yum, and it's delicious.
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  Speaker 2: I think they got to go do that before the
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  Speaker 2: game time. They're going out to summer set. But how
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  Speaker 2: funny is that Anthony Rizzo coming back to do some rehab,
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  Speaker 2: starts playing in Portland with the Patriots, comes back in
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  Speaker 2: the first game home is Italian heritage.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't baseball in life funny like that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it really is. It really is. How
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  Speaker 1: sometimes these things sync up and the Yankees need them.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees need them to to get his hitting eye back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as they approach the playoffs, because Alex, I
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  Speaker 1: think the playoff teams are set in each league. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about that a couple of weeks ago. I think
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that unless somebody just takes a huge
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  Speaker 1: nose dive, I think really the only thing that will
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  Speaker 1: be playing for the rest of the years our playoff seedings.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, I think in the Al Theanks, Baltimore, Houston.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Seattle's only three and a half games out
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  Speaker 1: and Houston still banged up, but I think they'll get there.
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  Speaker 1: And Kansas City, Cleveland, Minnesota in the Central. It just
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  Speaker 1: depends on where they're gonna end up. That was a
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  Speaker 1: big double head to win by Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell, I'll talk about that because I actually feel
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  Speaker 2: like the Yankees Orioles, it seemed to be hammering. It's
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  Speaker 2: about now. The Yanks of a two game lead, and
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  Speaker 2: they may not look back. I don't want to drink
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  Speaker 2: to anything, but they look storming on the Ools right now,
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  Speaker 2: which is we didn't know if that was gonna be
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  Speaker 2: possible in July.
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  Speaker 3: But here we are two games up.
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  Speaker 2: The Yanks are two games up against the Ools, but
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  Speaker 2: the Central one game out for Kansas City. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Wood Junior is leading the charge. But the collapse
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  Speaker 2: of the Guardians, so to speak. Are they injured?
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  Speaker 3: What is it? They were up there for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the league was never insurmountable. They're good, they're
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  Speaker 1: not great. You know, like a lot of teams in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball nowadays, they go they go through scoring droughts.
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  Speaker 1: The thing with Kansas City, it's remarkable. They were fifty
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  Speaker 1: games under five hundred last year, fifty six and one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six. And they are led by baseball's next superstar,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Wood Junior. I mean, the guy's batt in three
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  Speaker 1: forty seven, twenty seven home runs, ninety six RBIs of
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  Speaker 1: four hundred on base percentage. He already has one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty two hits, one hundred eighty two hits. That's remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: and he's added twenty seven stolen bases, and he plays
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant shortstop. So if Aaron Judge wasn't having one
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  Speaker 1: of these historic years, Bobby Wood Junior would be their
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  Speaker 1: front runner for MVP. And he is as valuable a
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  Speaker 1: player as there is in the American League, along with Judge.
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  Speaker 1: But Judge is gonna win the MVP by by a
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  Speaker 1: good margin and deservingly. So you know, the Royals also
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  Speaker 1: have a guy who has been I wouldn't say I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say, mister Royal, he was, He's close
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  Speaker 1: to it and catcher. You know, Salvatore Perez. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's been with them since they went to the World
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  Speaker 1: Series back to back, winning it in fifteen, having a
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  Speaker 1: great year twenty five home runs, ninety four RBIs two
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  Speaker 1: eighty two batting average. I think he's a career that
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  Speaker 1: is vastly underrated. I mean, this guy is a star,
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  Speaker 1: and this guy is more than a borderline Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame candidate. I mean he's the heart and soul, the
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  Speaker 1: guts of the worlds. Yes, along with with Bobby Wood Junior,
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  Speaker 1: but Salvatore Perez is the leader of that team and
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  Speaker 1: all these young guys could look at.
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  Speaker 2: Well he has he wont you won the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's been on both sides of that coin.
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  Speaker 2: He won the World Series a year after losing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the guy has led the team through so much and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure now has he announced his retirement?
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  Speaker 3: Have we heard that yet?
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  Speaker 1: I have I have not heard that yet. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I would doubt it, having the year that
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  Speaker 1: he's having. This year, he's going to drive in over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred runs. The Royals are ahead of schedule. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think. I think they thought if they went from
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  Speaker 1: fifty six wins to seventy one, they would have been happy.
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  Speaker 1: But they're already at seventy four. And you know they
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  Speaker 1: with Cole Reagan's and Seth Lugo has done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great three hundred free agent pickup for
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  Speaker 1: the Royals. So they're ahead of schedule, just like the
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  Speaker 1: Orioles were two years ago and or last year when
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  Speaker 1: they won one hundred and one games. So it you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting, an interesting September. But I just
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  Speaker 1: think it's receding. I think in both leagues we have
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  Speaker 1: that we have the playoff teams. Yeah, I know the
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  Speaker 1: Mets are only three out, but they have a very
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  Speaker 1: tough schedule. They got a couple of series with the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: They got to they have to play even though the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox are heading south and have no chance for
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, they do have to play a Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: team and you know that won't be easy. They got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of series with the Braves. They have to
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  Speaker 1: finish up at Milwaukee. But Milwaukee, by that time they're
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  Speaker 1: up by ten games, so they should have everything locked up.
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  Speaker 1: I think. I think the Mets, I'm gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are done. They have a big series tonight. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: got to win two out of three. They almost they
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  Speaker 1: almost did something fantastic by beating the Padres three out
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  Speaker 1: of four and unfortunately they they couldn't hold onto that
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  Speaker 1: to nothing eight eighth inning lead. But really the Mets
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  Speaker 1: problem of the last month, and they've been okay. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not they haven't collapsed or anything. But
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  Speaker 1: the guys that were hitting at a great rate when
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  Speaker 1: they were on that great push, Lindor still hitting. But
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  Speaker 1: Martinez has come back to earth. He has not been
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  Speaker 1: the hit or he was during that streak. Alvarez hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Nimo has had a terrible second half of the year's
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  Speaker 1: post All Star break after you know, having a great
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  Speaker 1: first hif year looked like he was going to drive
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  Speaker 1: in over one hundred rounds and so that that's really
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  Speaker 1: set them back. But that's where they are. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're still in it. They're three out behind Atlanta. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't I just think when the season ends, we
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  Speaker 1: have the we have the all the playoff teams I
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  Speaker 1: think are set. Like I said, we just have to
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  Speaker 1: look at seating. That's what they'll be playing for in September.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, and the Philly You know. The other thing
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  Speaker 3: is about these shaky teams. I mean, I noted to
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  Speaker 3: you this morning. Man, nobody's over eighty wins.
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  Speaker 2: Yet everybody's sort of in that seventy seven and seventy eight,
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  Speaker 2: you know, seventy seven to seventy nine win plateau. It's
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  Speaker 2: very strange because you would think in the in August
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  Speaker 2: all these teams would be up. But those shakys kind
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  Speaker 2: of stretches here are gonna show themselves in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: It's one way forming another, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're correct, And just about every team that is
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  Speaker 1: in the player position has had has had a down stretch.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees, the Phillies, the Orioles are going through it now.
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  Speaker 1: The Indians, Minnesota, Cleveland loss still like nine out of ten,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a couple of weeks ago. So everybody's gone
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  Speaker 1: through Atlanta, has it. Remember the Atlanta was ten games
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  Speaker 1: up on the Mets, and the Mets actually passed them
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  Speaker 1: for a while. So you know, Seattle, and Seattle has
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  Speaker 1: the best starting pitching in the major leagues, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't score enough and that's why they're three and a
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  Speaker 1: half games out, and they blew that ten game lead
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  Speaker 1: that they had over the Astros and the astrog you
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  Speaker 1: guy get him credit. Yes, they have the experience, they've
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  Speaker 1: gone through the championship challenges, but they've had so many
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: injuries to their pitching staff, and Kyle Tucker is still out.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know if he's gonna come back before the
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  Speaker 1: end of the regular season. He's a terrific player. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he's underrated in my opinion. But if Houston's healthy, they'll
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  Speaker 1: be They'll be a problem for whoever plays them in
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  Speaker 1: the American League. But as we said a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, right now, the race for the World Series
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  Speaker 1: is wide open.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm so focused on the three game set, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I just think the Yankees cannot afford to be in
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  Speaker 2: a three game set. I don't know that's gonna work
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  Speaker 2: in a wild card situation, because yes, they can win,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they can probably win in an extended you know,
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  Speaker 2: three out of five or four out of seven, but
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  Speaker 2: they in a three game set against say the Ashles
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  Speaker 2: or whoever.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little concerned about that.
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong to be concerned about the Yankees specifically,
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  Speaker 2: and even the Phillies in the three game set.
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  Speaker 3: That's a that's a wild card for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well you're playing Russian roulette, as they say, it's better
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  Speaker 1: than a you know, one game playoff like they had
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  Speaker 1: with the wild card a couple of years ago. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: you should try to win the division, try to avoid
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  Speaker 1: the two out of three, get those four days off,
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  Speaker 1: get healthy, you know, have those little knicks that that
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: you might have from the end of the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: all cleaned up and be ready to go. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are going to go as far as the
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  Speaker 1: complimentary hitting takes them in the postseason. Obviously, Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: is just having another historic season. He's going to be
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  Speaker 1: around sixty home runs one way or the other. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the guy has had a tremendous year, which is amazing
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  Speaker 1: because of the year he had two years ago. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's ever been without steroid usage. And
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine if Aaron Judge took steroids, what would
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  Speaker 1: he hit ninety home runs?
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  Speaker 2: That's very true because you think if he was on something,
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  Speaker 2: he hit more than fifty two fifty one nine now,
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: but you make a very good point and actually, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of steroids, the fact that Barry Bonds did do steroids
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  Speaker 2: did not bother the Pirate, the Pirates organization.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the Hall of Fame with the Pirates and
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  Speaker 3: the Giants, and you know, to me, that's okay. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: that's you, but to me it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: But what are your thoughts on Barry Bones going in
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  Speaker 2: to the Pirates Hall of Fame where actually it was
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  Speaker 2: a skinny kind of stick back in those years.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is, when he was with the Pirates, he
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  Speaker 1: certainly wasn't on steroids at that point. He started his
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  Speaker 1: steroid usage when he signed with the Giants. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to do that. And if he didn't do that,
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  Speaker 1: if he didn't take steroids, he would be in the
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame right now. He's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best players that I ever saw. I mean, he's a
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  Speaker 1: seven time MVP. Yes, some of those m vps were
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  Speaker 1: with steroids somewhere without. But I really have no problem
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  Speaker 1: I guess the Pirates putting him in, especially since he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't on the stuff when he was with Pittsburgh for
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  Speaker 1: the most part. So but you, but again getting back
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  Speaker 1: to mister Judge, I mean, you got just the guy
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  Speaker 1: leads the ale and home runs RBIs, on base percentage,
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  Speaker 1: slugging ops ops plus. He leads the American League intentional
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  Speaker 1: based on balls. Ironically, he only has sixteen intentional bases
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  Speaker 1: on balls, so you think he would have more. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, you think about you think about his career.
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  Speaker 1: He won a Rookie the Year in twenty seventeen, MVP
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, he saw in the huge deal. He
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  Speaker 1: became captain of the Yankees. He won home run Derby
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  Speaker 1: in college, and I, as you know, Alex, I think
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: these home run Derbys are a joke. But just a
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  Speaker 1: little tidbit here. He won the college home run Derby
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, and he won the Major League Home
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  Speaker 1: Run Derby in twenty seventeen as a rookie, So you.
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  Speaker 3: Know it was hitting go.
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  Speaker 2: You know who was hitting instructor was when he started
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  Speaker 2: that old thing was Richard Skank was actually his hitting
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  Speaker 2: instructor during the twenty seven teen derby.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yep? No, And like I said to anybody who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: heard that interview that you did with him, that's a
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  Speaker 1: musclessen on the art of hit it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know the most important part to me about
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is the hell runs are great, but if
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  Speaker 2: he can get his doubles and singles, that's even more important.
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  Speaker 2: That shows he's got a rhythm. I keep saying the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks of twenty twenty two, when he did
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  Speaker 2: not even get a hit of a single or a double,
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  Speaker 2: and he was pressing so much. Finally, I think he
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  Speaker 2: just relaxed his body and was able to just do
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  Speaker 2: those hits. When he can hit doubles and singles, that's
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  Speaker 2: how he knows he's on not just the homers. When
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  Speaker 2: he can to go those other base hits, that's a
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  Speaker 2: very important sign, especially for Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the other thing about Judge, obviously he is clearly
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  Speaker 1: the best player in baseball. And you know the Yankees
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: were a lot of people question the Yankees when they
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: moved into center field, and really, since day one in
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  Speaker 1: center field, he's done tremendous job. And I'm not talking
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: about the two great catches and the one throw that
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  Speaker 1: he made last night in Washington. Since he's played center
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  Speaker 1: field on a consistent basis, he's terrific. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: no problem to management, and he's one of these perfect
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  Speaker 1: professional players. He's totally professional.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, he has Skipper's back. He actually
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  Speaker 2: has Boon's back a lot more than people realize, and
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  Speaker 2: that holds weight. When Aaron Judge has that opinion of
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  Speaker 2: a manager, then that means you know the manager's doing
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  Speaker 2: something right. And I will say, Aaron Boone has his
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  Speaker 2: team on a trajectory of one hundred wins. Again, they
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  Speaker 2: haven't gotten there in a little bit. But I I
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  Speaker 2: know people get pissed at him. I can't be because
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  Speaker 2: I think he's doing the best he can with what
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  Speaker 2: he's got right now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, he has two of the top five
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  Speaker 1: players in baseball in Aaron Judge and one so and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: just think, Aaron Judge, the Yankees drafting them with a
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  Speaker 1: compensation pick for losing Nick Swisher in free agency. That
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: was a pretty good trade for the Yankees, Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: for Nick Swisher.
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  Speaker 3: That was fun to see him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of those guys were back for
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the weekend at Old Timers and they had a lot
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: of fun.
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  Speaker 3: That was fun.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, Aaron Judge that that trade certainly paid off. Now, Lou,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I know you want to talk about some other things. Obviously,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: we got the US Open coming on as well, but
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: we'll get that as the week's progress. With baseball, though,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I want to stick with this because the Yankees did
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: something very important last night. So you had Sodo, Stanton
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  Speaker 2: and Judge basically go cold for a game, and normally
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  Speaker 2: when that happens, nobody else producers. But finally you have
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: a bottom of the order that actually came through. I'm
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: sure you saw some of that, and I think that
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be vital too. You cannot rely on those
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: three every night, so to see the bottom of the
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: order coming through when the top of the order wasn't.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Although Labor that greatly off, Homer, the point is you
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: need all nine guys, not just three or two of
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: them every game. And I think that was a well
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: rounded win last night. And and can we expect more
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: of those?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Do you think? Down the road here?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: As you know, Austin Weill's coming to his own with
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the bad and Bolpi another Italian, right, he's been doing
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: really well again and of course last time with that
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: big double.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: You need those guys to come through.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Though.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: You can't rely on Judge, stand and Soto every night.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: You cannot, and that's going to be that. That's going
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to be the pressure that the Yankee batting order will
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: phase when they when they get to the playoffs. Let's
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: face it, these teams aren't going to get beat most
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of the time unless they were if the situation is
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: where they're they're they're just caught in a corner and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: can't get out of you know, and this is this
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: is a big postseason for Aaron Judge. I mean his
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: lifetime banning average postseason is two eleven. Yes, he has
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: thirty thirteen home run but with those thirteen home runs,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: he only has twenty five RBIs. He has a high
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: strikeout rate in postseason. So for all his amazing greatness,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and it is amazing, there's gonna be and he knows
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: these Alex don't think. These guys don't know it, So
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: they don't they don't have to hear it from a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: reporter or watch Baseball Tonight or Quick Pitch on MLB Network.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: These guys know it. So how they handle that pressure
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: for I don't want to say past failues, but where
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: they might have they think they've left their team down.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: That's real pressure. Whether it's stanton who they're gonna look at,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: but you know, like I said, Judge camp back to eleven.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: So you know only here before we no sorry, let
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: you finish.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: No. But last night a couple of those little things
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: came came through for the Yankees. Mayo had two sacrifice flies.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Something as simple as that, just making contact when you
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have a chance to score a run on the out
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: could be the difference between winning and losing and helps
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: alleviate the pressure of putting the burden on Judge Soto.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Stand yeah, and it was great to see Soto get
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: to think.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And by the way, DJ, a healthy DJ, or even
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a guy hitting above one ninety five. The Mendoza line
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: DJ would be nice right now because he's been having
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: his moments then he gets cold. I'd love to see
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: him to go with the Mendoz line, and that should
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: be a goal for him in this moment before we
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: hit September.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: All right, Lou I told you this all air. I'm
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: gonna say it here. While we didn't report this earlier,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: it could still.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Be breaking news because, as we both know, the digital space,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: people just find out things like they found out from
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: WCBS was closing for my TikTok. I mean, of all
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the things, right, Anyway, the point is in the digital space,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: this could be breaking news you're delivering because might not
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: have heard what Yukon just did before the you know,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the college sports world gets Underwigham what happened with yukat.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I was talking to somebody last week very close
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to the Yukon Big Twelve situation, and Yukon has agreed
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to come to the Big Twelve. They agreed with the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve management team, Commissioner at your Mark, and the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve Conference administration to join the Big Twelve. In
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: all sports, there's a twenty seven month out, so in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the Big East you have to give the Big East
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: twenty seven months notice if you're leaving the conference. So
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: if that holds up and yu Khan is voted in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: by the presidents of the Big Twelve, it would be
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: twenty the twenty six twenty seventh season, so they'll have
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: two more years in the Big East in all sports.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: As you know, they're independent and football and the Big
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Twelve is very the presidents are very skeptical about the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: future of the Yukon football program. So what Yukon has proposed,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we won't join until twenty thirty one. In football, giving
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: them six.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Or seven years, basically their own probationary period, right probably, Well.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Again, they what the Big Twelve presidents are afraid that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: they're not going to be competitive if they join right away,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and they're not going to get the media money right away.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Neither is basketball is the basketball program. But what they're
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: trying to do, what the Big Twelve is trying to do.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And I know that the commissioner, your Mark, thinks that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: basketball is undervalued and the Big Twelve being a small
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: basketball a strong basketball conference, he believes they can they
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: can almost have their own separate Metea Rights Steel when
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the new Meteor Rights Steel ends in twenty thirty one,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it's they can have a basketball Media Rights Steel and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: they can have a football Media right steel. And I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: think that's something that that can happen. And remember, you're
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: not only going to take the great men's basketball program
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and you're going to take the great women's basketball program
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: in so that would be a bonus for the Big Twelve. Obviously,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the Big Twelve presidents say, well, Yukon is in Connecticut.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: We have schools in Arizona and in Utah and in Kansas.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That's you know, that adds to the travel expenses for
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: all these athletic programs. So we'll see now I know
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that six.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: So is this official?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Is this a sort of an official thing, Lou like
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: when the Big East, when the college basketball world starts,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Daniel will be coaching in the Big twelve.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Is this official?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Or is this?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Where are we with it? Now?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Here's where here's where we are with it? They they met,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: they met yesterday.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Six schools I don't know which, six in the Big
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: twelves have accepted Yukon into the Big twelve to have
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: already have already voted against it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: They need twelve out of the sixteen Big Twelve presidents
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to give them a ya. So they need six more.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Eight schools did not vote yesterday. So while I don't
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: know if it's gonna happen in the next week, last
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: week I heard it was gonna happen in two three weeks,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: or it's been or they're gonna slow it down. But
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the only thing that can hold Connecticut from joining the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Big twelve is if the presidents, who are very skeptical,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: vote against it. They need five negative votes, and right
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: now they got they have six positives, two negative and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: eight are still undeciding.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Well, this is very much a developing story, and I guy,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: we're ahead of it in the end of summer here,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: because imagine we weren't, and and all of a sudden,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the Yukon's in the.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: In the Big Twelve, and they're gonna be like, well,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: we didn't hear about that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Well now you did, Now you hear there's a possibility
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: of Yukon during the Big Twelve thanks to who else
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: lou Terminella Terminilla's take, lou I hope you get the
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: summer set and take an Italian Heritage night and watch Riza.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I know you're a Met fan, but come on, make
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: the drive tonight, Louis.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I would like to drive to Lynnhurst and get some
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Italian eyes, a nice, a nice big cup of charcolate
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Italian eyes. It's fantastic, Alex, they have great, great, great
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Italian ice.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I will, I will, I will take up on that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll go together and do a live show from there.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: That would be kind of cool.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, lou Terminello Terminilo's take.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Once again, thanks for breaking some news with us and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: for giving us your take on mister one thousand Aaron
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Judge one thousand hit in about eight year span. That
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: feels like a fast paced, right, lou Well, it comes out.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: To about and again we'll say, and I'm gonna let's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: give him seven years because that COVID year of sixty games,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: it wasn't really a full year. So that's one hundred
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and forty three hundred forty five. It's a year. Obviously
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: gets pitched around a lot. That that's that's that's pretty good.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna get three thousand hits unless he plays.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: He plays forty five and he's effective unto least forty five.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But he's a slugger, he's a run producer. You can't
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: ask for a better run producer than Aaron Judge. I mean,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna win the MVP unanimously,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: because there might be one or two votes, especially from
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the Al Central, that might give Bobby with Junior a vote.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: But that doesn't matter. The guy's the best player in baseball,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and he's the best player in baseball by a pretty
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: good margin. Yes, shany O'tani has the opportunity to achieve
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: fifty home runs and fifty steals and he leads you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the National League and home runs he was leading the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Nation League and RBIs up until last night when Nosuna
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: passed them, but he could still lead there. He has
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a three to seventy on on base percentage. He has
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: one hundred runs scored. Judge has one hundred and four
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: runs scored. I mean, this guy might have one hundred
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and thirty five runs squed by the end of the year.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But both of these guys are having tremendous, tremendous offensive seasons.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: The difference is Judge plays the field, and he plays
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the field well. He's an excellent outfielder.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I think him and center is just it's
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: a perfect fit for the Yankees. And now so it's
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: like your captain out there leading the team in center.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I love what he does out there, and it's great. Hey,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: one last thing, well two things really before we sign out. First,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: as some breaking news here with you, Lou Naomi Issaka
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: being tendering ostin Panka today in straight sets. So Naomi
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Issaka moving on at the US Open.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I love to see that. She's she's a success.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Story in her own right. And then of course, so
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: you have that. And then last night Danny Jansen becoming
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: a first in baseball playing for the same two different
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: teams in the same game.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: What a year.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: She was watching that yesterday afternoon. It was really I mean,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: it's not it's it's weird. But obviously I don't know
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: how big a deal it is. But what they suspended
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the game. Danny Jansen was at bat for Toronto and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: he took a strike or or he found it off.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: He had an old one count, so that they called
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the game. They suspended the game that was back in May.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So then he gets traded, so then he's catching in
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the same game for the Red Sox and he was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: supposed to be up at the plate for the for
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays when the game resumed, so they had
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to put a pinch hitter up for him that had
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: an er in one count. It really is bizarre, but uh,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that's baseball.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Alex, that baseball. That's tennis. Congrats Osaka, straight sets over
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: the tenth ranked. I mean, remember she had some off
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: time because of what happened at the US Open. I think, yes,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: she had to take a mental health break, and maybe
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: she's back at it, yep.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: But we'll see, you know. I was surprised less night
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I was watching Sloan Stevens and looked like she had
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: she had her match set and then she just she
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: won the first nine games and it looked like she
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: was going to breeze to a two set victory and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: she fell apart. So but Djokovic, he won straight sets.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Bad knee and all that guy's competitive.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I asked Ted Demonez, I'm gonna ask you,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: are we done? Will there be a big you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: encore at the at the French Open for the dollar?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Is he done? What? What's your take on all of that?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I would you mean at the US Open or or
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: well the prediction that Ted Teleman, he's a professional player
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: we just talk to.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: He thinks they're.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Gonna do one more hurrah for him in the in
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the French Open next year, but that maybe that's it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you see him continuing on later?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I think I think Alex, I think he's physically broken down.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, you saw how we lost quickly initiates French Open,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and he lost in the first round of the Olympics.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: They might do something since he is the king of clay.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Next year, you know, at Roland Galarus in Paris. But
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll have to see Meg again, if he
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: still has the competitive juices and if he can get
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: himself to a point physically where he thinks he can compete.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You know, Andy Murray tried that with his you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: with those hip injuries that he had, and he tried.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: It's tough, you know, and now, especially when you're at
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that age and then you're a movement sport where you're
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: going diagonally horizontally, it's you know, it's it's not easy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And you got these young these young guys that are
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: just incredible athletes. So we'll see. I mean, I would
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: doubt it. I think this is it. I think the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: dell Is is done from playing any any major tennis events.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Well, Luter maanel on that note, what a career he had.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And we'll have to track that with with you in
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the upcoming weeks, you know, in not coming months with Nadal.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: But right now, we got to track the rest of
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the US Open, and so we'll see what happens and
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: enjoy it and hopefully get to see you soon Louis
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: May with that bakery, I.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Don't know yet, we'll see, Okay, all right, Alex, thank you. Yes,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of good sports coming up now, as you
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: go past Labor Day, NFL college football, uh, the two
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: weeks of the US Open, the beginning of the hockey
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and basketball seasons. It's gonna be it's gonna be fun.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Then one leg up on sports, but terminals take Luke
• 32:18
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