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STOP saying Shohei Ohtani is the GREATEST baseball player ever! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not pulling in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A.
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Game where you got to go? Before I told you giant feet and
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Saquon Barkley this. isn't I'm going to call.
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Game seven of the ALCS between the Mariners and the Blue Jays
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is kicking off at the Rogers Center in Toronto as we speak
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after the Mariners and the Blue Jays split games five and six,
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the Mariners won game five at home and the Blue Jays won Game
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6 back in Toronto. In their game five win, the
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Mariners scored five runs in the eighth inning with Cal Rally
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hitting a solo home run to tie the game and Suarez hitting a
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Grand Slam to give them the lead for good.
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In Game 6 back in Toronto, the Blue Jays scored five runs off
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All Star pitcher Logan Gilbert, including home runs from Addison
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Barcher and Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who has 6 this post
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season in just 10 games, becoming the 14th player in MLB
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history to do so. George Kirby goes for the
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Mariners with the Blue Jays sending veteran Shane Bieber to
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the mound in Game 7 tonight with a trip to the World Series on
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the line. The Dodgers swept the Brewers in
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the NLCS to advance to their second straight World Series and
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their fifth in the last nine years.
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The NLCS and VP Shay Ohtani had a historic performance with
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three home runs and six scoreless pitching innings and
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10 strikeouts. Dodgers pitching held the
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Brewers to only 14 hits in the entire series.
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With a team batting average of only .118, the lowest batting
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average in MLB history for any series lasting longer than three
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games, this is the first time a team that had the best record in
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baseball has been swept in seven game in A7 game series since
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2004. And the Cardinals, who were
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swept by the Red Sox in the World Series that broke the
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Curse of the Bambino for 21 years ago.
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Well, I, I, I'll get it to the Dodgers in Shay Otani because I
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know Jabba has like a smirk on his face.
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That doesn't mean anything to me, but I I do want to get into
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the this series, which I did not think was going to go 7.
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I did not. The Mariners going up to
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nothing. I thought the series was over.
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I did not think the Blue Jays had enough inside them as far as
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personality wise. I know Vladimir Guerrero came
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out after game number 2 after he spoke to the media and he said,
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listen, we're not done. We're going to go out there and
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play every inning, every pitch, every every game like it's our
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last. And boy, oh boy, did the Blue
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Jays do that. And the Blue Jays have shown why
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they are in the ALCS. They're showing you why they won
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the American League East. They're showing you why that
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this team even without Bichette can hit and not only hit
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dominate in the middle of that line up.
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It it's it's incredible what Vladimir Guerrero junior is
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doing now when we look at this contract that he got in the
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during the season at the beginning of the season and was
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guaranteed 325 million, which is the most guaranteed money any
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players ever gotten in baseball history.
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And I sat there and I said, what is, what are the Blue Jays nuts?
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I, I mean, that's just as bad as the deferred money the Dodgers
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were giving everybody. I I mean honestly, 300.
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Errol, let me ask you a question.
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Would you rather, would you OK, so say you're in this situation,
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would you rather take the the 325 upfront or the deferred on
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the back end? 325 upfront, absolutely.
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What I don't I don't disagree with.
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You, I mean, I mean, first of all, they're in Canada.
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The taxes are completely different than they are here.
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And what is what is he losing there?
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Probably 100 million. So he's getting maybe a little
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bit less than that, let's say 80 million.
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Well, let's just say that I'm just I'm shooting and maybe
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we'll, we'll have fish do the, the economic, you know, you
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know, mathematically equation. How about we'll have Jared,
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Jared do that. I would love to know how much
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he's given up on that, you know that guaranteed money upfront,
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but. It's it's weird how they do the
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taxes too because it works out because technically their
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offices are in Dunedin. So it's Florida.
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Oh. Really.
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So, yeah, interesting. So that's, so that's sometimes
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how it gets tricky like but you get paid in Canada.
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But since that big upfront, from what I've understood from guys
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that I've played with before, it's technically that where
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their facility is. So it would technically be
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Florida where there's no state tax.
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So that would be I would have to, I would have to look at, but
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I remember that because when I was hurt, I was getting paid
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like I was in Tampa. So my checks were bigger because
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it wasn't like you were getting paid where you were playing at.
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So, but I was always like under the impression in two and I
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heard it from a lot of guys, the faster you get it, the faster
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you can invest it. I get some deferred money on the
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back end. Maybe not, not 600 million, but
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like now you have that money up front, you can invest it and do
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a lot of other things. Where would I take some
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deferred? Yeah, but I don't, I don't know
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if I'd take 600 million deferred.
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I'd rather take the 325 upfront. I would definitely take the 325
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upfront even if I lost $100 million, I'm $225 million
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richer. So what am I complaining about?
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And I'm still getting more money on the back end of it.
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So I'm not complaining at all. And and Vladimir Guerrero looks
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like he's worth every single penny that he is getting from
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the Blue Jays because he's he's been remarkable in this series.
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He was great in the Yankees series.
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He he when he needed a home run or they needed a big hit, the
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Yankees had a pitch around him. And that's what you want your
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best player to do. We know what his father was.
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His father was so special and, and you know that Jabba, you
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played against him, you pitched against him.
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He hit a home run off. Me on a ball that hit the ground
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when he was in Baltimore, so towards the end of his career,
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So, you know, literally I threw a curveball that bounced and he
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hit a Homer to left. The best pitch, honestly, they
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told me when I first came up because I was a big fan of
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outfielders that could throw. So Vlad was obviously a guy
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played right field that could throw when he was with the
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Angels. And I was like, you know what
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I'd like this is a dude like I watched growing up.
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I want to throw fast when he said literally before, if you
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face Vladdy, the best pitch is a fastball down the middle.
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And I'm like, what are you talking about?
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They're like, he's one of the greatest bad ball hitters.
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And at that point you're naive by because you don't really
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understand it. You're just a fan of watching
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the game, right? Well, I was like, I'm going to
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let one eat. And I threw a fastball at 101
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and he fouled it straight back and I thought it was the coolest
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thing ever. Then I threw 2 sliders that
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weren't even near the zone and he missed them by 15 feet.
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So then it started to click. So I was like, boom, I'm going
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to just, you know, I'm going to bounce a curveball next time I
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face him. Boom bounced A curveball.
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He golfed it out to left. And I'm like, all right, this
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dude is I'm, I'm and it is a true story.
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Vlady Junior said it too. His, his grandma, Vlady's mom,
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and she would literally like when we'd play whatever team
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Vladdy was on, he would make food not only for Vladdy and his
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teammates, she would make them for the visiting clubhouse too.
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And that was like the first time I got real, like real, real
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Dominican food. Holy cow.
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It's a game changer. She was like, he was so nice and
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she would literally would bring it over every time, every day.
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It was awesome. And that's that's what's
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incredible about the father and son.
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Usually when your son is being compared to the father, they're
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they never amount to anything that that's just the fact you
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look at all the sports. Brownie James, we go back to
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Jordan brother, the the Jordan sons.
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Any one of these guys, Dwyane Wade, son, Scottie Pippen's son.
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I, I mean, I, I'm just, you know, off the head guys that I'm
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trying to bring up Gordie Howes, kids that play with their
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father, all these ex players, great superstar players, their
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sons come into the league and they try to compete or they have
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the same name as their father. Saquon Junior might play in the
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NFL. He already said that he doesn't
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want his son running, being a running back.
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Watch the documentary. It's pretty cool what he said.
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I don't want my son being a running back.
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But nevertheless, what I'm trying to say is you always look
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at these guys and you're trying to compare him with father and
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son. And usually, besides Ken Griffey
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junior, by the way, Ken Griffey junior was better than Ken
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Griffey senior, but Ken Griffey senior was pretty good.
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Barry and Bobby Bonds. Barry and Bob.
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Barry, yes. Barry and Bobby Bonds, yes.
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I, I'm, I'm trying to, I'm trying to think of father and
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sons that actually worked. This could go down as the
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greatest, you know, father and son combination we've ever seen
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because Vladimir Guerrero senior is a special player, one of the
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best, greatest arms we've ever seen and one of the greatest
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power hitters we've ever seen. Like you said, job.
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He hit the ball no matter where you were throwing the ball.
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And now you're watching Vladimir Guerrero junior.
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If he could somehow get his team in the World Series and beat the
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bad boy Dodgers. I mean, this could be one of the
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greatest comebacks, one of the greatest stories in baseball in
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the last 20 years. It's incredible what the Blue
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Jays are doing. If they somehow pull off this
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win against Seattle and then they go in and they they
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challenge the Dodgers and give the Dodgers all they can eat.
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Maybe we see Bob Bechette in that series.
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We, we might see that and that might change everything in that
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lineup, add a little bit more depth in that lineup And
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defensively, because Bechette is a, he's a really good defensive
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player. Maybe this, maybe that's a
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different series against the Dodgers.
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As far as the Dodgers are concerned.
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Sherry Ohtani had a great series.
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He had a great series. And that last game, hitting
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three home runs, 10 strikeouts, 6 scoreless innings, and he
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threw the ball one of his pitches, hit over 100.
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It's incredible. It is incredible.
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He is now what people are putting and saying he's the
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greatest baseball player of all time.
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That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
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It's too early, It's too early. It's it's ridiculous.
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It's absolutely ridiculous to even say that.
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And if you look at Cherotani's numbers right now in the
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playoffs, he's batting 220, OK, He's not hitting.
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And I, I, I, I know everybody wants to give him all the the
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praise. You want to give him the NLC,
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the NLCS MVP, that's fine. He looked great in his final
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game. He pitched well.
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He hit the ball. He hit three home runs.
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Great, because congratulations, sensational.
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My my opinion here is, and I'm not trying to compare him and
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Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge hit 500 all the way
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through the playoffs before the Yankees got eliminated, he was
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hitting 505 hundred. OK, this guy is batting 220.
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All right, yes, he's a pitcher. I understand that.
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I understand that you want to put that in and obviously Jabba
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is a pitcher and, and Jabba is going to tell you, you don't
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understand how much pressure you have and this and this and that
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and it's fine. I'm not taking that away from
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you. He's a great pitcher.
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Good for him. But to come out there and, and
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people on social media after this wonderful performance and
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giving him the NLCSMVP to say that he is the greatest baseball
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player of all time. Guys, he's not better than Babe
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Ruth. He's not better than Mickey
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Mantle, He's not better than Ted Williams, He's not better than
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Joe DiMaggio. He's not better than these
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greats that we have. That's just some of them.
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That's just some of them. That's not all of them, That's
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some of them. He is in moving towards that
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trajectory where you can compare him to those guys, but to say
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that he's the greatest baseball player of all time, it's
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ridiculous. Let me ask you guys a question.
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Shayo Ohtani, What was he batting in the World Series last
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year? Like 100.
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OK, when before this series, what was Shayo Ohtani batting
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going into this series? In the hundreds?
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He was batting one 88189. He's batting at the end of this
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series, he was batting a little bit over 2 hundreds and you're
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going to go out there and say he's the greatest baseball
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player of all time because it was one of the greatest
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performances we've seen in a playoff game.
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Come on, guys, this is the young Brewers.
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This isn't the Yankees. This isn't that.
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I mean, come on, guys, we're going to sit here and we're
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going to, we're going to just praise Shayo Dunn.
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He's sensational. He's a great player.
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I'm not going to take it away from him.
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He's special. He really is.
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He's a special player. I'm just tired of hearing he's
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the greatest baseball player of all time.
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It's not even close. I, I, you could put him with all
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the greats. No, you cannot.
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Go look at Babe Ruth, what he was hitting in the playoffs in
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his career, Mickey Mantle. Go look at Yogi Berra, Jody, go
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look at their batting averages in the playoffs and everybody's
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going to say, well, they don't throw 100.
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It's a different game. Baseball was different.
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Pitchers played nine innings. They don't get out in 5-6
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innings like Shay Otani pitched. These guys pitched I there were
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starting pitchers that were going 10 or 11 innings, 342 in
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the playoffs, 15 home runs and 972 career postseason OPS.
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It it's ridiculous and you're going to put Shay Otani there.
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Let's go look at Mickey Mantle's playoff record.
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You know, put playoff numbers in his career.
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Here it is 257 average, eighteen home runs, 40 RB is and 65
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played games exclusively in the World Series.
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So that's his World Series of post season record.
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On numbers, it doesn't matter. But what I'm trying to say is
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these guys are some of the greatest baseball players of all
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time, and we're already comparing Cheryl Otani, who's
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batting 220 right now in the playoffs.
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Come on, guys, stop. It's ridiculous.
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And you want to say I'm a hater? You want to go attack me on this
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take on social media? Kiss my rear end?
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You want to look at analytics? Analytics would tell you you're
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on frigging drugs. And yes, Jeff, if you listen to
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the show, you're on freaking drugs too, because Jeff sent me
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a nice little picture of Shay Ohtani saying, hey, Earl, check
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me out now. And I, I and I told Jeff, I
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said, let let me ask you a question.
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Would you, would you bet rather bat 2:20 throughout the playoffs
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or 500? Let me ask you that question.
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He says 500. Well, Aaron Judge was hitting
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500. He says no, he wasn't.
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I say yes, he was. He hit 500 throughout the
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playoffs in two series he did. So what are you going to say
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about that? You're going to you're going to
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still say Shay Otani is better than Aaron Judge?
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Oh, absolutely. Aaron Judge don't pitch.
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What is that? He's A5 tool player.
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He plays in the outfield. Come on, guys.
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This guy has all the pressure on him on the Yankees.
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Look what? Look what?
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Shay Otani has protected him. Mookie Betts and VP, Freeman and
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VP. Do we want to name more?
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These guys are there's only one guy that they actually drafted
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in their starting lineup, the Dodgers.
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One guy that was their catcher could come on, guys you're going
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to try to sell me. Yeah, it is pretty good.
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No question that he has Will Smith.
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But isn't isn't that kind of saying the same thing, though,
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Errol, that they've owed that they said back in the day of the
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Yankees that they bought all of their No, no, I'm.
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Going to help you here. I'm going to help you here.
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Jabba in the 90s, in the 90s, we're going to go back.
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Oh, I know where you're going with this.
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We're. Going to go back.
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We're going to go back in time because I love, I love Yankee
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haters out there that can't stand the New York Yankees and
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say that the Yankees bought all their championships.
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OK, let's go from the 90s, early 90s.
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Don Mattingly never won 959495. Derek Jeter was called up.
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He played how many games? I think it was like 20 something
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games, 30 something games. His rookie full rookie season
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was 95. They made the playoffs.
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Don Mattingly. They lost against Seattle.
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I remember that. They lost Jimmy Lawrence.
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Remember it 96 They had Bernie Williams.
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They had Derek Jeter, a young Mariano Rivera, a young Andy
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Pettitte. Remember that in a young.
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I think MO MO even started a couple games that year I
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believe. Whitman.
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Whitman was the closer. MO was the 8th inning guy.
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I remember it. And I also remember a young
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Jorge Posada. You had five core players, by
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the way, Bernie Williams, who should be in the Hall of Fame,
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one of the greatest playoff players of all time, Derek
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Jeter, Hall of Famer, Mariano, Hall of Famer, Andy Pettit,
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borderline Hall of Famer. These these guys were developed
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by the Yankees organization of the core of players.
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And then they brought in Scott Brosius, Paul O'Neill, who they
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traded, Roberto Kelly. It was a top prospect with the
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Yankees. I do You want me to go on Tino
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Martinez that they traded for from Seattle?
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They traded a bunch of good young pieces to Seattle to bring
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in Tino Martinez. They made moves.
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They didn't buy players. They traded.
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They traded to bring in players. Yeah, they brought in weight
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box. An old weight box.
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Charlie Hayes. Come on, guys.
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Who made the last grab in 96 to win the World Series?
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Charlie Hayes. Does anybody remember Charlie
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Hayes? Don't even get me started with
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the New York Yankees, because I know the New York Yankees, OK?
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I remember those Yankee teams. They did not buy their
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championships. They built around a core of
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players. The only championship that I
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could consider that they bought into was 2009.
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They brought in CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett, and Mark Teixeira, and
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Yep, Jabba was a part of that team as well, but he was also
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drafted by the New York Yankees. So was Phil Hughes, and so was
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some of the youngsters that they had on their roster.
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The fact here is guys, the Yankees did not buy their
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championships in the 90s. They didn't.
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They built around a core. This Dodger team.
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I call this the deferred LA Dodgers.
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And until proven otherwise, they bought and if they win this
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championship, they bought these two championships and they're
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probably going to win another one next year and probably
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another one the year after. Because with this roster and the
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way this is put together, they're never going to lose
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ever. And I just think it's that this
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is the way baseball wants to play it.
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And baseball doesn't want to do anything about it.
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And Rob Manfred or Manfred wants to play with his dinghy and make
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excuses and try to change the game.
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Well, sell this big one, this team of the Dodgers, it doesn't
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matter if it's Shayo, Tani Yamamoto, a Sasaki.
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This is a board championship and as far as I'm concerned, to even
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put Shayo Otani in the same conversations of those greats is
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ridiculous. Sell that.
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You can pile it up and shove it up your ass and cook it whenever
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you want. I just had some pizzas and some
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Ileo's pizzas. I ate them.
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I'm going to enjoy them and you can kiss my ass because he's not
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anywhere close to any of those guys.
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Quickly before you fire back with Otani stuffed Jabba, I just
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want to just recap both of the series so far.
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The Brewers offense, you, you kind of could tell that if
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you're not going to be able to get to the Dodgers bullpen, you
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have no shot in this series. And the Brewers offensive depth
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that I was concerned about finally showed itself in that
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series. As far as the Blue Jays and the
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Mariners, another fun series like Java.
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We talked about a few weeks ago with the Mariners and the
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Tigers. And it seems like one of those
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series where like the best pitchers are getting beat and
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it's those newer guys, those random guys that are stepping up
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for them. I questioned them.
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Blue Jays using Jeff Hoffman for two innings yesterday.
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We'll see if that comes back to haunt them.
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But should be a very interesting series and two very creative
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managers we've seen so far. Yeah, I mean the series you that
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the Brewers was kind of just exactly what you said, speedy.
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If you can't get to the bullpen, then it was just it there was no
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chance. And then obviously having Sasaki
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at the back end of their bullpen and you're just like, all right,
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here we go. But no, I you know what, I will
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agree with you on this for one reason Errol is you can't do
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like when they're talking about the post.
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He's played like parts of two post season, like it's a post
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season and 1/2 right. So you really can't say much.
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I mean it really wasn't I, I preface something on Twitter and
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I was just like, why? You know, he he ends up winning,
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obviously, you know, the MVP, But before that it was, you
23:57
know, he was struggling. It had been talked about, don't
23:59
get me wrong, but it wasn't front page news like it was
24:02
judged. So I wanted to, you know, I
24:03
wanted to hear what everybody's opinion and thoughts on it
24:06
where, where you know, when winning helps and you know, you
24:09
guys have even said it and I think everybody else understands
24:11
it. It it's it when you win, it
24:14
hides a lot of these things, but also too when you have those
24:18
names like you mentioned in Mookie and those guys, then you
24:22
know, it does cover it up a little bit.
24:24
But also where I will say that they they bought it.
24:27
I don't necessarily because every team had a chance to get
24:31
these free agents, right, They had a chance and you even said
24:35
it. There's one in Will Smith that
24:37
they've got. So you blame the Dodgers for,
24:40
well, they're just doing what every other team could do.
24:43
So I don't necessarily think that they're buying it or
24:47
they're, they're the ones to blame.
24:49
It's the guys that don't want to spend money.
24:52
And don't they? They have the same opportunity.
24:55
Every owner's a billionaire. Some just have a lot more bees
24:59
than the other. But you don't just own a team
25:02
because that's the only thing you do.
25:04
So I, I mean, I feel like, and I, I think that's kind of a, a
25:07
common denominator of, of guys that have, you know, brought
25:11
this question to the forefront of why is everybody looking at
25:15
the Dodgers like, what the heck, deferred money's been going on
25:18
forever. It's just not been as prevalent
25:20
as it is now. But you have every other team
25:23
that has every opportunity to do this same thing.
25:26
So don't look at them. Look at, look at your team's
25:29
owner. Be like, why aren't we doing
25:30
this? But we've seen what teams have
25:33
done paying these guys where just because you buy them
25:38
doesn't mean necessarily mean you win.
25:41
The way that they structured the deals, yes, 100% where they can
25:44
afford all these guys now. But I mean, you look at the
25:48
Yankees, they haven't won and they've spent a billion dollars
25:50
between three guys. So what are you going to do?
25:54
You spent 700 for the Mets plus Lindo or plus all the other
25:58
guys. There's a billion dollars right
26:00
there. So just because you spend it
26:02
doesn't necessarily mean you win it.
26:04
The Dodgers just doing it and they've had guys to buy in.
26:07
Like are you going to take deferred money to be able to
26:10
have a chance to be in the World Series and know that you're
26:12
going to have a pretty damn good chance yeah, if you if winning
26:16
means that much 100%. But going back to it, Ohtani
26:21
right now, no, there's no way that he's he's on the
26:27
trajectory, like you said, he's on that path, but he hasn't
26:32
played long enough to even like, is he starting to be considered
26:35
the same thing we talked about Judge, is judge great?
26:38
Yes. But is he going to get to
26:40
legendary status? But he has to win and he can do
26:44
everything that he can do, but you can't do it by yourself
26:48
either. And so Otani obviously has help.
26:52
If he continues to do what he's doing right now, then yes, it's
26:57
if he plays 6-7 more years and does this, then he's 100% in the
27:02
question without a doubt. He single handedly had the like
27:06
one of the greatest games ever. I went in and said probably the
27:10
the greatest game, right is Don Lars, perfect game, but ten
27:14
punch outs and three homers and then everybody's like, well, if
27:18
that was judged, they wouldn't have pitched to him and blah,
27:20
blah, blah. Well, they did and he's still at
27:22
Homer. You know how hard it is to hit
27:23
Homer And he had three and punched out 10.
27:26
It's you're, you're probably not ever going to see that.
27:28
I'm not saying that it's not special, but look at look at
27:31
these numbers. Shay Ohtani is batting 225 in
27:34
his career. In the.
27:35
Playoffs, 23 hits, eight home runs, 19 RBIs, 21 runs scored in
27:40
26 postseason career games. All right, That, ladies and
27:44
gentlemen is not a world beater when you compare numbers like
27:49
Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, even Roger Maris, what he did in the
27:54
playoffs, Yogi Berra, what he did in the playoffs.
27:56
That's just then. How about now in these days,
28:00
look at Derek Jeters numbers in the playoffs.
28:03
Go look at Bernie Williams numbers in the playoffs.
28:06
I'm just I'm naming Yankees. So to sit here and say that Shay
28:11
Ohtani, because of what he did to eliminate the Brewers, the
28:16
young Brewers, Oh my God, he is absolutely the greatest player
28:22
of all time. It's ridiculous.
28:24
Is it one of the greatest games? If you want to say that, yeah, I
28:27
guess you can consider that is one of the greatest baseball
28:30
games. And by the way, I want to give,
28:32
I want to say something to Stephen A Smith, OK, because his
28:37
absolute bogus take to this Shay Ohtani thing makes me laugh.
28:44
This is a man we've gone back now.
28:48
Stephen A Smith is a New York Yankee fan.
28:51
Everybody knows that. He he roots for New York sports.
28:54
He always does OK, in the beginning of the year, in the
28:58
middle of the year, he he went back and forth trying to compare
29:02
Shay Ohtani and Aaron Judge. And he said Aaron Judge is I
29:05
would take Aaron George over Shay Otani ADA after this game.
29:10
He he he went back and forth with this in in his take and he
29:13
pretty much brushed Aaron Judge's 500.
29:17
His averaging 500 in the playoffs under the rug to a guy
29:21
that's hitting 220 in the playoffs and because of one game
29:25
with 10 strikeouts and three home runs saying, OK, he's
29:28
considered I would consider him as one of the top five top six
29:32
players of all time already. I mean, come on, Steven, you
29:35
cannot sell me on any of those takes and you're going to sell
29:39
you're going to sell that to a sports fan.
29:40
I'm sorry, I I completely brushed that under the rug and
29:44
I'm I'm not one to attack anybody on this show because I
29:48
don't want to. I don't want the backlash, but I
29:50
don't give a crap. I'm going to attack it when I
29:52
feel like it's just absolute bogusness.
29:54
So that's just my opinion. All right, my golf clap of the
29:59
day. This deserves a golf clap.
30:03
No doubt. Golf clap golf clap All right,
30:08
my golf clap of the day is pretty simple ladies and
30:10
gentlemen. I had to laugh at this and I got
30:12
to give a shout out to Fish are my executive producer and Jared
30:16
all the guys that were telling me about this.
30:18
Broncos Dre Greenlaw suspended for one game for conduct towards
30:24
a ref Denver Broncos linebacker Greenlaw has been suspended one
30:28
game by the NFL for an unsportsmanlike conduct towards
30:32
a referee following Sunday's game against the New York
30:35
Giants, the league announced on Monday.
30:37
According to the NFL statement, Greenlaws chased a referee, Brad
30:42
Allen, and verbally threatened him as he tried to leave the
30:47
field. Now if you think about this,
30:51
just have this sink into your head, guys.
30:53
The game's over. Everybody's in the middle of the
30:55
field. You know, the coaches are
30:57
shaking hands there, you know, Dables pissed off and the
31:01
quarterbacks. And this guy, Drake Greenlaw,
31:04
who by the way, is a great player.
31:07
He was great with San Francisco and he's known to be a really
31:10
good leader. Goes after runs after a referee
31:15
that's probably around almost 60 years old and threatens him and
31:20
practically threatens his life because of the bad call that he
31:24
made during the game, actually putting his hands on one of his
31:28
players. I mean, how stupid can you be?
31:32
How dumb could you be knowing that you're a professional
31:36
athlete, you're one of the leaders, you're one of the
31:38
captains of the Denver Broncos. And you go out there at the end
31:42
of the game instead of going in the middle of field and being
31:45
excited that your team just came back from that unbelievable
31:50
probable loss and and you run after a referee and trying to
31:53
kill him. I mean, think about it, it's
32:00
embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing.
32:03
So my, my Golf Club of the day has to go to Drake Greenlaw.
32:08
I, I would have suspended him for another game, maybe 2, maybe
32:11
3. I mean, to think that this man
32:14
would go after a lonely referee at the end of the game.
32:17
You could have pulled him to the side, but a little bit more
32:19
professional, not do it the way you did.
32:22
It was just absolutely embarrassing.
32:23
So my Golf Club goes to the Denver Broncos.
32:26
Drake Greenlaw for being an absolute Jackass.
32:30
So my Golf Club goes to Mr. Drake.
32:32
Alright, save your tears. Mom.
32:34
What's one thing that you can't talk to me about my sexual
32:39
fantasies. Say yourself it is not ideal.
32:44
But if it's what means, it is not ideal, but if it's just not
32:46
ideal, but if it is, what mean? You can't treble stamp a double
32:50
stamp, you can't treble stamp a double stamp, Lord, you can't
32:52
dribble stamp a double stamp. But but you guys, I'm not bad.
32:57
Now time for save your tear. Welcome back to Save Your Tears,
33:05
everyone's favorite tear based daily fantasy contest for Week 7
33:10
of the NFL. Again, this is the compliment
33:13
Chorus edition of Save Your Tears.
33:16
It's a good one. The scores pretty big variance,
33:19
real high scores at the top, real low scores at the bottom.
33:22
Java. I don't know if you got a chance
33:25
to check out the segment from last week, but we used the Java
33:28
Wheel of Destiny to make your picks.
33:32
Unfortunately, Java the wheel and here's here's where the
33:36
selections you can pick from. There's a couple of names on
33:39
there that did not really do much and some $1.00 guys that
33:42
did pretty well. One of those $1.00 guys that did
33:45
did not do well was Justin Fields.
33:46
No one was dumb enough, I believe to take them.
33:48
Oh wait, the wheel was Jabba. You ended up with Justin Fields.
33:54
You ended up a lot of us took Reese Hall.
33:56
He did nothing Good performers of the day.
34:00
Cam Scatabo obviously did well with the Giants, scoring a lot
34:03
of points and still losing. Someone took Bryce Young, he got
34:06
hurt. Bo Nicks was the big point guy
34:09
with the two rushing touchdowns and two passing touchdowns.
34:12
Are you guys ready for the big reveal?
34:13
Let's just do it. Here it is.
34:16
It's Toffee. Whoops with the win.
34:21
With a big time score, it's being really smart going with a
34:26
bunch of giants. I think the Errol, you get beat
34:29
here because Theo Johnson got that deflected touchdown and
34:33
that was really the difference here between you and him.
34:35
Errol again, killing it in the FedEx Cub standings.
34:39
I'm assuming if Speedy's going to keep track of them, Errol's
34:43
got to be way at the top of the FedEx Cup every year.
34:47
And I got third on this one kind of by default.
34:50
Speedy, you the one that took Bryce, Bryce Young, he got hurt
34:53
with the ankle. Dowdle, for some reason, was not
34:56
the starting running back in that game behind Chubba.
34:59
Hubbard and a bunch of other guys didn't really do all that
35:03
much. Mayer did only got.
35:06
Two points. Not really good.
35:09
Sutton was a big point getter in this one.
35:12
Jackson Dart obviously good points.
35:13
Mahomes was good but not worth the $5.00 with the other guys
35:16
that perform in them. What a great job.
35:19
Here it is Tommy, your compliment chorus.
35:23
Let's start with Jabba representing the wheel of Jabba.
35:28
Yeah, the wheel. The wheel knew Tommy was going
35:31
to win. So it's, you know, he was, he
35:34
was always, like we said he was, he was in the wedding party, but
35:37
he was never the bride or the groom.
35:38
But now we've seen him, you know, step his game up.
35:41
You know, he's, he's he's maturing like wine.
35:45
You know as it gets, you know it just gets better with age over
35:49
here. So great picks.
35:51
I mean you stayed true to your giants.
35:53
I will give you all the credit in the world cuz you believed in
35:57
them and look what happened. You're back on top of you.
35:59
Great job, boy, that. Was excellent.
36:03
Speedy PD First I will say I am the real last place of this
36:06
week. I'm not going to get a I'm not
36:07
going to take size a Java for having to be stuck with a wheel
36:10
that gave him a combined like $10 or something like that.
36:12
The wheel. Was not nice.
36:13
We felt bad and gave you Kelsey for $5.00 because you didn't
36:17
spend that much money. The wheel was real.
36:19
I was just looking at the team. I was like, Dang, I've
36:21
definitely had some, some rolled over.
36:22
Money was. Brutal to you.
36:24
So you were you were ahead of me this week Java.
36:26
But for our winner Tommy Scoop, she did threw some darts this
36:30
week with your picks. Very impressive.
36:32
You were when I was a skeptical of scat against a very good run
36:35
defense in the Denver Broncos. Very good overall defense in the
36:38
Denver Broncos. You were bold enough to stick
36:40
with your guns with our New York football giants and even Theo
36:43
Johnson, a guy that again, he's been waiting for him for the
36:46
long term for development with him.
36:47
But definitely him and Bellinger definitely showed off in that
36:50
game and you were smart enough to pick them.
36:52
Whereas I took a quarterback that was a number one overall
36:53
pick and got hurt. All right, Tommy, when you look
37:00
through the sands of time, especially in the professional
37:06
wrestling sands of time, your meteoric rise.
37:12
I decided to try to figure out who would be the greatest
37:15
comparison. It to me, it feels like the
37:17
American Nightmare. Cody Rhodes, you and him are on
37:21
the same type of trajectory. He again, you know, for a while
37:26
he started out as a jobber. Not saying you were ever a
37:29
jobber or anything like that, Tommy.
37:31
What the hell is a? Job A.
37:34
Jobber A. Jobber A.
37:36
Jobber. You know a guy that they would
37:37
just run out there with a headband that would get his butt
37:40
kicked into a man robot and get slammed.
37:42
Robot. Jabba.
37:43
Jabba takes it up. The arrow is Jabba when he has
37:45
his dobber in the dirt. Let me get back to being
37:50
complimentary, you see. You go down their legs.
37:55
Then you get to the chance where you can get the Intercontinental
37:57
title, but they give you a crappy gimmick, Tommy, they give
38:00
you a crappy gimmick and you can't.
38:02
You got to go to AW and you got to come back.
38:05
I see. Like a serial killer.
38:06
And look at you now, gold medal once again at the Topper in the
38:11
dirt. Save your tears.
38:12
You're now the American nightmare, Tommy.
38:15
Whoa, got to hit. Had to hit one of those real
38:18
quick. What kind of compliment is that?
38:22
I like it was a personal compliment that was thoughtful
38:25
and caring. I liked all the references and I
38:27
understood all of them. So thank you, Fish.
38:29
I could care less about any of those references.
38:31
Of course you couldn't. What?
38:33
You didn't win. You got second, All right?
38:39
I would have talked about, you know, freaking honey mustard
38:42
dressing. Yeah.
38:44
First of all, it's honey mustard, not dressing.
38:47
It's salad dressing bro. It's no, it's not.
38:50
It's mustard in, I mean. Basically.
38:52
Technically it is salad dressing.
38:53
I can't imagine you putting that on your salad though.
38:55
That's a very no. I would not put that salad
38:57
dressing. Thousand Islands is where I
38:59
would go with my salad dressing. You know that's just ketchup and
39:03
Mayo, right? That's very bad dressing,
39:04
actually. That's Russian.
39:06
That's Russian by. The.
39:07
Way no Russian has relish in it. That's with relish in it.
39:10
Thousand Islands. Just literally ketchup and Mayo.
39:12
You can make it by mixing them together with a like pickle
39:15
juice in there too. I like the usher in the
39:17
background, so I can't I can't hate on that one.
39:19
I feel very constipated listening to this track anyways,
39:25
you know? You sure that isn't your pizza?
39:27
That. That could be the pizza too,
39:33
Tommy man, I can't I can't say anything bad about you man,
39:38
besides you taking dumps and and doing what you do best.
39:41
I I think your quality of the introductions on this show when
39:47
it comes to wrestling, when it comes to takes or even when
39:51
you're working on the board is sensational.
39:53
You look the part, you keep growing your hair and maybe one
39:58
day you'll look like Don King. You're fantastic, my friend.
40:07
Backhanded compliment right there.
40:10
Again, this I don't know if Don King is 51%. 23 years.
40:18
Old are you saying his? Are you saying the business
40:20
acumen of Don King? I can get behind that.
40:23
As a compliment, we can only hope.
40:28
Not the hair. So the hair would look pretty
40:31
good with it, but. Although although I have been
40:34
told that my hair is so bad, I look like a Jewish Don King when
40:37
my hair is standing straight. On Well, I don't know about
40:39
that. That would be a scary Jewish
40:41
man. Hold on.
40:45
Oh, man. Please.
40:46
No, that's not good. That's not good, Tom.
40:50
Another time. You are sensational, great
40:53
personality and always been behind me on everything that
40:57
I've done and and still do. I love you as family.
41:01
Your brother dates my sister so I guess we can call each other
41:05
somewhat of a family. So congratulations on the win.
41:09
Cherish it because next week you will lose.
41:11
Oh man. Appreciate y'all, appreciate it
41:15
All right again, when you lose and save your tears, you can't
41:19
cry about it. You got to save your tears.
41:21
We'll be back next week. I'm not crying, I'm just giving
41:26
you my take here. Thank you to all the fans.
41:28
We really appreciate everybody listening to us.
41:30
Speedy, who do we have on the show on Wednesday?
41:33
All right. Joining the show for the first
41:34
time at 8:45 will be Emmanuel Bar Barberi, Yankees postgame
41:38
host. He's on WFAN and SNY and also to
41:40
some college basketball broadcasting for for Fox and for
41:44
Siena Hoops as well. Manny is one of the nicest
41:47
people I have ever met. I saw him at an event that I was
41:50
over the summer. He noticed me, I noticed him, we
41:53
spoke. He is a lot taller than I
41:56
expected guys like 6 foot 4, but very, very nice kid.
42:00
He's doing good things. He's doing big things with the
42:03
Yankees. At one point a lot of people
42:06
thought was going to be the voice of the New York Yankees,
42:08
but he's growing into it and I'm I'm looking forward to seeing
42:13
and, and him moving up in his success of his career.
42:16
So I'm interested to hear what he's got to say about the
42:18
Yankees. He's he's he wants the chance
42:21
to, you know, work, you know, a kind of interview with Jabba a
42:24
little bit and and get his take because Jabba was one of his
42:27
favorite players too growing up. So so we'll get Emanuel on Manny
42:32
call Manny Speedy, thank you to Spotify, Apple, all the fans
42:36
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42:54
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42:57
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42:59
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