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The Mindset For Game 5 - Continuation Not Culmination of a Breatk Out Year in the Bronx 10-30-24 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Yankees played their last home game tonight, and
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  Speaker 2: I know I've been podcasting a lot today, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was early in the morning or midday with my whole
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  Speaker 2: election thing, but I was reminded that Aaron Boone has
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  Speaker 2: some familial ties. That's right, familial ties to facing the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: His father, who played for the Phillies, actually got knocked
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  Speaker 2: out multiple times and before the series even began. That's
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  Speaker 2: why I reading the newspaper so important. Aaron Boone had
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  Speaker 2: this quote when facing the media prior to this World
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  Speaker 2: series starting.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I grew up you know with my dad,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the seventies and eighties playing for the
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  Speaker 3: Phillies who won a bunch of Eastern Division championships and
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers sent him home and back to back championship
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  Speaker 3: series years and so, and obviously with the right to
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  Speaker 3: play the Yankees in the in the Fall Classics. So
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  Speaker 3: that's right in my wheelhouse, those teams in those days.
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely meaningful to me and not lost upon me.
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  Speaker 2: So for those who criticize him and say he's done this,
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  Speaker 2: on the other I think he's got a little fire
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  Speaker 2: in his belly to pick up where his dad left off.
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  Speaker 2: His dad has mentioned of Philly knocked out by the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: I think he wants to sort of avenge those knockouts
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  Speaker 2: and what he saw as a kid. And when I
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  Speaker 2: saw him on the field today with Ken Griffy Junior,
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of anything else but the fact that
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  Speaker 2: his brother, Brett and Ken Griffy Jr. Were the heart
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  Speaker 2: of the Seattle Marators, weren't they. So Aaron's been around
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  Speaker 2: baseball a long time. He's been around some baseball legends
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  Speaker 2: of a long time. And to know that he's thinking
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  Speaker 2: about his dad and what happened to his father during
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  Speaker 2: those NLCS years has me confident that he will this
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  Speaker 2: team to at least Game six, push it to Friday.
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  Speaker 2: As I've been saying, and as I mentioned before getting
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  Speaker 2: to meet him in February and hearing him speak at
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  Speaker 2: the Talking Yanks event, He's been fired up since day one,
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  Speaker 2: and anybody who thinks otherwise, I know it's questionable calls,
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  Speaker 2: but anybody who thinks he's not in.
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  Speaker 1: This to win it is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: He is.
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  Speaker 2: He is, and I think adding that family tie to
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  Speaker 2: what the Dodgers did to his dad forty six years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Well that adds a lot to it too, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have to see. But this is the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: last home game, and again I want to say thanks
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  Speaker 2: to all those who made every game special, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was Caleb running up to us, whether it was Rob
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  Speaker 2: Gomez who allowed to be part of these moments throughout
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  Speaker 2: the postseason and throughout the summer, and of course the
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  Speaker 2: picture I always think of is Gabby standing up out
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  Speaker 2: of her powerchair in right center field with the Boss
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  Speaker 2: looking on over our shoulder and looking out into the
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  Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium. That's a moment I won't ever forget.
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  Speaker 1: And that was part of the special season for us.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, the hospitalization in May fired me up to
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  Speaker 2: get back out there.
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  Speaker 1: And so what happens. You get back on my foot.
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  Speaker 2: And boom, we're meeting Aaron Well, we met Aaron, Boom,
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  Speaker 2: we met Michael Kay. We're out there seeing Anthony Rizzo,
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Volpi, Garrett Cole at the Today Show, and of
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  Speaker 2: course the Woodbridge part of the summer with Nester and
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  Speaker 2: the Boys, Clark Schmidt, Trevino, Luke Weaver. Who would have
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  Speaker 2: thought in August when I got him to sign that
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  Speaker 2: Baseball that he'd be.
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  Speaker 1: The closer for the Yankees in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course you have Oswaldo, and Oswaldo played
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  Speaker 2: the other night in the World Series, and then also
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Cainley. So that was a special night at Woodbridge,
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  Speaker 2: And it was the night before Gabby's birthday, so to
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  Speaker 2: share that with her and to bring it there the night.
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  Speaker 1: Before birthday was extra special.
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  Speaker 2: And the two aligit of Jake Coosak and Nithan and
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  Speaker 2: of course being majorly mad madisonized and I mean and
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  Speaker 2: of course being invited up to justin Time Baseball for
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  Speaker 2: that Baseball Camp coverage, and meaning Kaylin and a few
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  Speaker 2: others along the way. This summer felt like as big
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  Speaker 2: a breakout summer as Anthony Boltby's Grand Slam last night,
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  Speaker 2: and boy, oh boy, it might be the last game
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  Speaker 2: of Yankee save tonight, but the memories.
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  Speaker 1: Will live on. And how cool would it be if
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  Speaker 1: they did indeed push it to.
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  Speaker 2: Friday for Aaron's Dad, for Aaron, for Aaron Judge, for
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo, who we don't Nobody's gonna be Yankee next year,
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  Speaker 2: and of course for one Soto and Labora Torres also
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  Speaker 2: free agents. We don't know what's gonna happen with them,
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  Speaker 2: but what I can tell you is I think they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna put it all on the line tonight to push
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  Speaker 2: to la in front of the home crowd for Game five,
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  Speaker 2: the final time the Yankees take the field in the Bronx,
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  Speaker 2: and it's late October.
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  Speaker 1: It's late October.
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  Speaker 2: It can't help but get excited that they're playing this
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  Speaker 2: late in the game, and even more excited that they
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  Speaker 2: all momentum going into this final home game at game five,
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  Speaker 2: And how coolould it be to turn those asterisks of
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  Speaker 2: Game six into necessary from if necessary and go from there,
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  Speaker 2: just pushing to Friday. Just ride the momentum last night, and.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll get there. I think they're gonna push
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  Speaker 1: to Friday. That's my bold prediction tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, getting to share those moments, are getting
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  Speaker 2: to share the fact that I know the leadoff hitter
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  Speaker 2: and I met the leadoff hitter of the New York Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: Glabor Torres.
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  Speaker 1: And a Saminu.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you've been a big inspiration this whole summer,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to thank you for that. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank Gabby for coming along with me everywhere
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  Speaker 2: we went this summer, and of course thanks to Mom
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  Speaker 2: and Vick for supporting me and Abby through that horrible
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  Speaker 2: gallbladder pain and passing that gallstone, which I think was
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  Speaker 2: representative of the anxiety I felt not feeling included in
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  Speaker 2: any of the Repbix world and then boom, we're in
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  Speaker 2: it on October thirty. We're involved with it, and I
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  Speaker 2: love that, and of course fanatics fest, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe tonight's a culmination of it. I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: continuation of it into La once again.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight. It's not a culmination of the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's a continuation of the season, and that's the Yankee
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  Speaker 2: fan mindset and it should be going into Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: the final home game of the year on October thirty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, but it's not the final game of
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  Speaker 2: the year. You can't think like that. So it's not culmination.
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  Speaker 2: It's continuation in the Bronx for the Bronx Zoo and
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  Speaker 2: the Repbx community.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I'm phrasing it here. I we'll leg up
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  Speaker 1: with Alex Garrett and won't lug up on.
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  Speaker 2: Sports manage your heart out tonight, Aeron, and I think
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  Speaker 2: you can outmanage Dave Roberts. I just have this feeling,
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  Speaker 2: call it a gut instinct, that's how I feel. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get Yankees in five, right, But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's over tonight. I think this is just a
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  Speaker 2: continuation of the series, not a culmination of the season.
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  Speaker 2: And that has to be the mindset for Game five. Continuation,
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  Speaker 2: not culmination of a beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Year for the Pinstripes. And maybe they're on the way
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  Speaker 1: to making this a brand new series in La.
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  Speaker 2: Let us pray here at the One Leg Up on
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  Speaker 2: Sports and One Leg Up Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garrett.