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Michael Kay on the Yankees Facing Elimination, Jets Get Embarrassed by Cowboys, and Giants Struggle With Turnovers
In this episode, JJ Johnson Stremsky dives into the New York Yankees' dire situation as they face elimination in the playoffs, analyzing their recent performances against the Toronto Blue Jays. H...
Michael Kay on the Yankees Facing Elimination, Jets Get Embarrassed by Cowboys, and Giants Struggle With Turnovers
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Hey everyone, Danny Hyves here from the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
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Welcome in and loaded.
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Sunday in the Monday edition of New York, New York, it's JJ Johnson, Stremsky rocking
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a rollin' right here on the Ringer Podcast Network.
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Is there anything to be happy about?
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Is there anything that put a smile on your face over the course of the weekend?
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I mean, other than my daughter and the pick-up trophy that I won, it's a whole lot of flat
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zeros.
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It's a whole lot of crap and out.
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And that's what the New York teams did over the course of the weekend.
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And we could start with the baseball and then hit the football.
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But how do you not start with the New York Yankees who once again are facing elimination?
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After they faced elimination on Wednesday, Thursday, I did not have on my bingo card going
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into the weekend.
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All hype, all positive, all giddy after what came slow was able to do that the Yankees
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were going to the water and basically give you a carpet copy of the two games in Game
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1 and Game 2 that we saw in June and that we saw in July in the two trips.
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The Yankees made the Toronto.
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Yankees got their absolute S's whooped in these two games.
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Now being around the bush, no sugarcone it, no excuse making, got their S whooped.
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Game 1 shouldn't have come as that much of a surprise.
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It was Game Toronto how to have, they had their best pitcher on the mound.
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The Yankees had their worst starter on the mound in theory if you're not going to count
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well one, which we are not.
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And their star players showed up, which by the way has been a common theme of the first
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two games of this series.
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The blue chase through a Heymaker early, the Yankees had their chance in Game 1 when
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Gossman was on the ropes.
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Judge comes up in a big spot, swings at ball four, stand and gets absolutely guest and
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Luke Weaver comes in into game and for what it's worth, it should be the last time that
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Luke Weaver comes into a game that matters in 2025 because he is completely out of my circle
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of trust at the moment.
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He can't get anybody out.
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And that game got completely off the rails for the Yankees, but you're like, okay, one loss.
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Yankees lost game one of the wildcard series.
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You got Max Fried on the mound who's been one of the best pitchers in the America League.
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Has he not against the cat in your savage who has basically had a cup of coffee.
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What has he had about four or five stars in the big leagues?
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How many people had a Google?
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Who's the guy that you're for the blue chase tonight?
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You know, your savage?
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Who is this guy?
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Well, he goes and has double-ditching strikeouts and Fried gets absolutely tattooed by Toronto.
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Tattoo.
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Hit after hit after hit after hit after hit.
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Said his stuff was good after the game.
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Who the hell cares?
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Max Fried has a blue jays problem.
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He does.
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He's got a blue jays problem.
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He can't get the Toronto blue jays out in Toronto.
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I think Flag Guerrero Jr. just hit another home run.
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And they put that dopey jacket on that I gotta see every time they hit a home run.
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This was a pounding for a Yankee playoff game.
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It was a stress-free a Yankee playoff game and a loss that you could possibly have.
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Because the game was over.
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Like over, over, over, over, over.
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By like the third inning.
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Like there was no hot race.
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There was no like excitement level.
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I know.
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How do you have any of that?
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When Max Fried gives up seven runs, he gives up eight hits and is out of the game after three
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innings.
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Right now the storyline for the series is simple.
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Toronto is not striking out.
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Toronto has hit the ball out of the ballpark.
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And despite a couple of singles that the Yankee's best player may have.
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And it's crazy.
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He's hitting 444 in the playoffs.
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So it's weird to look at Aaron Judge and like,
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Roe's staring judge.
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Because like statistically speaking, he's gonna be like,
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oh, I'm gonna say 444, it's just what the hell you're talking about.
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The problem is the guy on the other side is wrecking the games.
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He's wrecking the games.
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He's hitting home runs.
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He's pimping on.
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He's leaving his mark on the series.
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And Ken said Aaron Judge is.
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He's hit a bunch of singles.
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Great.
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He's been struck out.
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But he had a big and bad big spine game.
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Why don't he fail miserably?
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Did he not?
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Did he not?
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So the Yankee's gonna head back to Yankee Stadium.
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Face the nomination.
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What we're done on the mound against Shane Bieber.
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Then if you're lucky enough to win that game,
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you got Cam Schuettler on the mound in a bullpen game for Toronto.
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From what we've seen in the first two games,
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you would say, hey,
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series L.
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However,
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Toronto has not played as well against the Yankees when they've returned to the Bronx.
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Look at the regular season.
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It's a perfect example.
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Yankees beat them two out of three in September.
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They beat them two out of three earlier in the year.
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I am not ready to proclaim this series is over,
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Donzo, what have you.
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I'm not.
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I also am not ready to say we're confidence
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that if the Yankees get back to North of the border and have to play a fifth game
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with those lunatics up there,
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well, by the way, they all hate me now because I had to do a sponsored post for our friends over
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a fan.
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Oh, and I'm not going to show them.
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I thought the Yankees win the series in four games.
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Guilty.
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Thought they win in four games.
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So did I post a video from the lovely combines of Symbolic Golf Course,
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Needling, our friends up at Toronto a little bit.
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Sure did.
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Have I faced the vitriol and anger and hate tweets and all that comes with it?
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Yeah, I've already gotten my.
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So I'm going to be the but all jokes here if the Yankees are out of this series in three or four games.
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You know, I'm going to be basically put some of not grata up north of the border.
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Thanks to our friends at the ringer, which is great.
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I love the.
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Come lottery, the attention, all that it's great.
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Fantastic.
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The Yankees performance, not so much.
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I don't want to have to deal with these numbscalls.
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So for my sanity, I need a Yankees win on Tuesday.
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I need a big start from Rathon.
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But what's the pay-off way to get back in the series?
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It's pretty simple.
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Rathon needs to go deep into the game on Tuesday.
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Two, the Yankees have to hit ball out at ballpark.
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Now, do I want to look at what they did in the later part of the last few winnings of the
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game and say it hates a sustainable and it's something they could build the pump game for you?
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I have no idea.
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Because they hit a bunch of pictures that are probably down the deck chart for Toronto
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Blue Jays that odds are you're probably not going to see in game three.
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You may see them in game four when the Blue Jays got to throw everybody if you're lucky enough
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to get there.
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But Yankees have Blue Jays problem.
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The star has showed up.
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Varsho has had a big series.
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Spring or no surprise has been a pain in the ass.
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Like the first two games of this series, it's not been much of a series.
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So for a team that, hey, a few days ago we celebrated.
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It was a love and life.
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It was dreaming of bigger dreams.
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Can all be over in one day in 48 hours.
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And for a team that Air Boom Pro claimed that is the best team he's had as Yankee manager.
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Going down quietly into the night against the Toronto Blue Jays would be a rather bitter pill to swallow.
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And it's like the enjoyment of beating the Red Sox will be incredibly, incredibly short-witted.
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Not ready to say the series is over.
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Not ready to do so.
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I am also in a point where I'm very skittish about the idea of this team winning in Toronto.
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Like it's a problem.
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And if you think I'm wrong, look at the games in a regular season, look at these two games,
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and it's no longer, hey, old gestures and so on.
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So Anthony Vulpis in a funk.
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It says, no, the Yankees can't win in that building.
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So playing a winner-take-all game, which by the way, you have to sign for now at this point.
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Wip Max freed on the mound who I love and I adore, but he can't pitch Toronto and he struggles
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against the Blue Jays. That's all on the agenda at this point.
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Can't think about three if he the Yankees.
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Hey, 2017, they were down two-rowed in a Cleveland Indians.
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Cleveland team that, to me, was much better than you.
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They won game for in dramatic fashion.
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They won four.
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They had the momentum and they won a Cleveland game five.
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That's the pamphlet.
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Start for one on two, is they not?
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From what we've seen, I know for a lot of you, it's probably really tough to imagine
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us getting to that point.
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It's tough to imagine.
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But it wasn't that Cleveland series too when
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Joradi screwed up the challenge with Lionel Chisholm.
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Yankees had a huge lead and they yucked it up.
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Team Rally.
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We'll see what kind of intestinal fortitude and fight and rally within this group
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starting on Tuesday.
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Did I have the fight in them?
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We'll find out.
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We need your best players to show up till.
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Now we get to the football.
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I'm going to say it's Jax.
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Jax.
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Jax.
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Jax.
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And, uh,
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more Jax.
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I want to remind everybody of something with the New York Jets.
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The odds makers today actually flipped the line with the Dallas Cowboys.
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I'm doing a ring or Sunday pregame and my jaw legitimately dropped.
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The minute I saw the Owen Ford Jets,
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favorites against the Dallas Cowboys.
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And I guess the odds makers were thinking, hey, Dallas, let down spot after the game
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and against Green Bay last week.
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The Cowboys only had one healthy offensive lineman in the game.
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Jax desperate Jets due to win.
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Huh, huh,
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what you got was one of the most non competitive, embarrassing Jets efforts
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that we've seen in a long time.
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And trust me, we've seen a whole lot of them throughout this.
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Playoff track going back to the Cote Titeers.
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I mean, I can give you countless games that were horrifying to watch.
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This game was one of them.
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The Jets for a good chunk of this game against hands down one of the worst defenses I've seen in
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the NFL this year. Although my dolphins may say, hold your beer.
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But then again, the dolphins point the Jets last week and actually wants to,
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which again, tells you everything you need to know about Jets.
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The Jets for a good chunk.
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Forget about what they did in garbage time at this game.
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Forget about it.
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For the first two and a half, the three quarters of this game,
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the Jets had six points against Dallas.
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Six.
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This is Cowboy defense that made Russell Wilson look good.
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This is Cowboy defense that has made everybody look good.
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Jets couldn't do a damn thing.
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And though I can just have filled stats at the end of this game and sent that right,
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tell me he played well.
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Now, the garbage garbage garbage stats that's exactly what they are garbage.
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When a game was over, how about the idea of Aaron Glenn preaching ball security all
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with doing the boxing glove drill, which I love because he said, hey, we have a problem on our hands
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and he's trying to go and fix it.
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The police haul proceeds to go and fumble the football.
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After this, the same guy Monday at Miami saying, we don't shoot ourselves in a foot.
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We shoot ourselves in a face.
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Well, the police just basically doubled up on it.
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They could have reminded us something.
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The Cowboys going into this game,
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after playing an overtime game a week ago against the Packers.
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Had four offensive linemen unable to go and play.
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Did that phase Dakota Prescott in any way?
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No, he threw four touchdowns.
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Williams ran for 135 yards and the jet defense looks as bad as ever.
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Look, we all knew going in this year.
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The jets were not set up to go and have themselves a big season.
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Right?
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They weren't.
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They moved on from air Rogers.
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They have a new regime coming in.
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The problem is for a coaching staff that flexed all summer about cleaning the operation up,
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cutting down on the penalties, eliminating the stuff that we saw a year ago and a year before
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that and a year before that.
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Like they could not wait to go and piss all of a Robert Salas tenure as jack coach.
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Now, it's one thing is you're doing that in the building, but they did it in the media.
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They like, well, I go, we're cleaning this up.
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We're cleaning this up.
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We're doing that.
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We're doing this.
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We're doing that.
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This same stuff.
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Did that look like a jet team?
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If the Gwina Poundley dreamed them a new, you know what?
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After the Miami Law summer the night.
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Did that look like a team that was ready to play against the Cowboys?
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On his question.
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Did that look like a team that was ready to play?
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You're going to tell me yes, then you were an idiot.
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Sorry.
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What's the plan on offense?
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What's the plan on short yardage?
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Where's the tackling?
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Where's the pest rush?
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Where's anything?
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Aaron Glent's own five now to start his coaching tenure.
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Does anybody think it's going to be one of five when I take it on the Broncos next week?
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It's his ugliest start to a coaching tenure.
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I can remember him quite a while for the Jets.
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Ugly, ugly, ugly.
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And no answers.
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None.
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There was some folks that have the week one who thought the Jets were going to give you a
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more representative brand of football.
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I kind of bought in that after that's still a game.
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Well, since they lost by 20 to bills, the game was never closed.
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The buck game they were down a huge margin who cares they came back in
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Foucaix fashion. They lost.
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The Dauphin game they turnable over to a team that can't beat anybody.
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They lost and now they go and get humiliated by the Cowboys.
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That 37 to 32 score does not tell a story of this game because we watch the games.
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Like if you picked up a box score and you looked at the game you'd say,
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oh no, that was, it was something competitive.
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No, it wasn't.
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No, it wasn't.
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Okay.
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I was in Paris.
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Aaron Glenn has got a whole lot of work to do.
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Forget about changing the overall culture of the Jets.
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How about winning a game?
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Let's start there.
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Let's win a game.
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Let's put together four quality quarters.
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Or is that too much to ask?
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It might be.
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It might be.
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This is as hideous as it can be for the first five weeks of year.
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Coolest game plans.
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Wack of execution.
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Unwatchable.
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Spot the light.
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Spot the light.
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Then is the Jets.
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Now if you follow me throughout the course of the week,
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I told all of you out there,
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hated the spot for Jets.
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Absolutely, absolutely hated the spot for Jets.
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Because they were coming off the win against the chargers.
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Feeling the ropes,
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playing a desperate team that has won a game all year.
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And
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neighbors who's done for the season.
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I was pretty confident that New Orleans was going to go win this game.
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I never in a million years started with Go the way that it decided to go.
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Because Giants got off to a good start.
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They scored once again on their opening drive touchdown.
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They second drive, they go and get another touchdown.
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It's 14-3 Giants.
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Thoughts running around making plays.
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He's fine to Johnson.
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Developing chemistry in a rapport there.
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You're wondering what receivers, what players are going to go and step up for the Giants.
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So far so good.
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So the first quarter in change.
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Then,
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after giving up in New Orleans touchdown,
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I made a 14-13.
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You had the Avalanche.
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And that's exactly what it was.
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An Avalanche of turnovers.
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When the Giants turn the football over,
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not one, not two, not three, not four, but five consecutive possessions.
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Five.
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Unacceptable football.
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It started with Larry Slayton.
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Then it was Jackson Dart.
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Untouched.
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Fumble.
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Then,
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you have the Scataboo Fumble.
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When the Giants are about to go and take the lead in this game.
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And it's a strip.
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And a fumble.
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And the other way for the New Orleans Saints.
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And listen, I love what I've seen from Scataboo the first few weeks of the year.
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He's been a fun story.
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I really like them at Arizona State.
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CBS Camers were all of this.
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And this pissed me off.
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He's bitching him on it.
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But a fumble.
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Can I get new gloves?
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Can I get new gloves?
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Hold on in a damn ball, dude.
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Don't blame the damn gloves.
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blame yourself.
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I hate that.
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Because it's like excuse making.
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You may need new gloves.
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That ain't why you fumbled the football.
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Like that, that really set me off watching this game.
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Really, really set me off.
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It's like I knew, because he was like Adam and I just like I knew new gloves.
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It's like maybe don't fumble the ball.
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Whether you're wearing gloves, no gloves, sticky stuff, no sticky stuff.
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You're playing in a dome for goodness sakes.
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So that pissed me off.
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But then it continued.
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Thought through an interception.
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I'll forfeit it.
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Be honest.
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It would have been better if New Orleans knocked the ball down.
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And then he throws another interception.
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And that's game set.
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You turn a ball over the way the Giants did on Sunday.
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You have no chance in winning.
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I don't care if you're playing New Orleans Saints or not.
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You have no chance in winning.
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There's another storyline in this game that I want to get to.
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Giant defense that took a whole lot of boughs
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for their performance against the Chargers a week ago.
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Had no answers for Spencer Rattler.
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Giant pass rush couldn't generate a sack.
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Shaheed breaking wide open for a touchdown.
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Oave making plays on third down.
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This is not the Jumbri is Marcus Colston, Jimmy Graham,
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in New Orleans Saints.
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And they torch the Giant defense on a lot of key plays in a lot of key situations
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where the Giants could go and answer defensively what New Orleans would bring into the table.
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So it hurts obviously you give up the strip sack and a score for a touchdown.
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And it obviously hurts when you lose the turnover battle the way the Giants lost the turnover
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battle.
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But let's not exonerate this defense.
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And make the argument that they played some big time football game.
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They did not because those game-racking plays that were there a week ago against the Chargers
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were not there against the Saints.
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So here we are.
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Second week of October.
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Giant's getting ready to fill an L.F. next week.
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A Philadelphia team that just lost to the Denver Broncos in bizarre fashion.
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You don't have a very testing eagle team.
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Not an ideal situation for Jackson Dord having to see them two of the next like three or four weeks.
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Not ideal.
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Tricked the Denver awaits.
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The Troy Packers like the scheduled brutal.
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So it's going to be a whole lot of welcome to the NFL moments for a team that's trying to
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grow in the Valley on quarterback.
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But at the same time, trying to win some games to save some face for Brian Debel.
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Well, you could preach quarterback development until high heavens.
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If the Giants are like one and eleven,
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that's going to be really, really tough to do as far as saving this coach in shop.
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Because there will be serious calls for hey, look at what his record is now.
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In his four-fear as a head coach.
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How do we continue with this?
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Thought progress or not.
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That's what he's fighting.
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So, but who's Brian Debel will find a way to get this team to win a couple of games so they can
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sell that illusion of hope, whether it's real or not, which acts in dark.
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But step back for the entire operation.
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That felt great after the win against the Chargers.
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Five turnovers in a row will do that to you.
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Step back against the Saints.
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We have a loaded show for you.
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Michael Kaye, right after the anti-post game.
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Set the stage for game three in the Bronx.
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Also, we'll try to figure out what God's name is going on in Toronto before we get to that.
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All right, before we get to my okay, voice mail time.
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917-3821151.
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It should be a nice variety.
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I'm sure after the weekend.
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I'm sure a whole lot of positivity after the weekend.
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Steph, let's hit it.
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What's going on, JJ?
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It's Pete and Westchester.
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How you doing, man?
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Hope all's well.
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I would say happy Sunday, but it's really not turning out to be happy Sunday
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as the Yankees are here down 11-nothing.
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But I'm not calling about them.
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I'm calling about the New York football giant.
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I don't know if you recall, but a few years ago,
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I must have been in 2021 seasons.
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The Giants went on the road down to New Orleans and they had an awesome win.
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It was a, you know, a whole line stepped up.
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You know, they had Tony making place.
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The Derry was Tony making place of all people.
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Penny Golliday, Taekwondo, you know, had a big game.
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You know, and I lost my mind in the pod.
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I left the rambly crazy voice mail that was dissolved the rails.
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And, you know, I wish I could be doing the same today,
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but unfortunately not.
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And I'm calling just to, you know, I got to give Derry a slate
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and a little bit of shit here, you know.
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You're a vet, you know, you just got paid, you know,
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you got a three year, $36 million deal in the off season.
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You know, the team's down their top receiver.
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They're best offensive weapons, best offensive player probably behind Andrew Thomas and Navers.
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And you play like that.
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You play like that.
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I mean, that's just completely, completely unacceptable for a veteran guy
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who's supposed to be a leader on this team.
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You know, you have that huge drop on that deep ball,
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that hit you in the hand like twice.
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You stumble at the end of half.
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And that was the turning point in the game.
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That was absolutely the turning point in the game with Derry's slate.
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And fumble that ball right before half.
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Team Scott momentum.
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We're cruising.
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And we're about to go down maybe for a field goal or touch them before half.
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And you stumble the football just absolutely unacceptable.
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Can't really blame the flea-ficker play on him.
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I mean, maybe a ball like someone like Malik Navers is going to catch.
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But that's a tough play.
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That's an under-trowing football.
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You can maybe get 50-50.
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You have worse on that to him.
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But I mean, dude, we're on a road game when you need your veterans to step up.
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You need your weapons to step up for your young quarterback.
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And this dude absolutely shit the fed.
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I'm here.
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I'm pissed at the sky right now, man.
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And that's a brutal loss to the Giants with the schedule we got coming up.
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And, you know, I was looking forward to that in the win today.
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You know, that's an 1114.
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You expect to come out with a win.
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That's a tough one.
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All right, man.
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Have a good week.
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All right, talk to you in the back.
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It's funny.
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You expected a win, Pete.
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I did not.
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I did not.
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Because the Giants had to go and show me,
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show me that they had turned the corner, that it wasn't just one game.
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And it's a different offense now without neighbors.
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See, that to me is the biggest problem the Giants are going to run into.
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You took away the guy that was going to be the everything for Jackson Dork.
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Now he's gone.
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So who is this blankie?
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There he is, Sladen.
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He'll Johnson like to
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12.
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Rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough.
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And he can easily.
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So it is really a whole lot of trial by fire for this young quarterback.
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And judging and grading this head coach,
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by the end of this year is going to be rather interesting.
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What exactly the brain trust of the Giants is there, I say,
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going to evaluate for how exactly they feel about it.
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It's a weird, weird spot for the Giants.
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But sell you on hope with Dork.
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That's really all you can do.
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Watch him continue to grow and get better.
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That's what you need.
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That's what you need as a franchise.
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But today was the eternal ball for five times in a row.
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Let's step back.
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Cool.
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Who's that?
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Hey, Jay, Sean Long Island.
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I know it's been a minute.
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I know you've probably got to figure fish to fry with the Yankee.
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Frank Toronto on just a little bit, but just a little bit on this yet.
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I mean, I just, I've been a season take holder for 15 years now.
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And I know just from week one, on the grandest dealers and the cowboys,
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they travel well, but just look at the stands of Bet Life Stadium.
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This is a New York team.
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And I feel like we've come so accepting of just complete invasion by a post-and-span
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and the embarrassing and horrible and this team.
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I just don't even know where to begin.
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You can be bad.
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That's fine with me.
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You can just be low on talent trying your best,
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but the stupid play is just so intolerable for me.
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You could be bad, but don't be stupid.
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And Glenn comes in,
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appreciating a new culture,
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appreciating where they'll fit a shit.
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And I think it starts with maybe believing your team just a little bit.
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Obviously, they weren't going to win today.
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I could accept that, but
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taking that penalty,
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having second down from the three,
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rather than third down from the sixth inch line,
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every team in the NFL knows.
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I can push that in,
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but Aaron doesn't believe it.
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And takes penalty.
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Just in case he needs two or three tries.
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And of course, who's the five yards next play,
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which he can even make up.
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And then not trusting the defense.
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There's eight minutes less than the game.
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And he's doing an outside kick.
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Like, what happened to, we're built for this shit.
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We can't kick the ball off and try to play defense for eight minutes
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with twin and Williams with soft garner with Quincy Williams.
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It just seems like a bunch of inflated soundtrack
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for going through the motion.
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And it's just such an unlikable team right now.
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And I just can't even stand it.
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Put the real stick part.
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I'm going to be believing next week.
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And I'm seeing this schedule.
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And I'm going to say, hey,
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David, you win four at the next five.
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You're right back in it.
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That's how clinical the three at five major fans.
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So we will see.
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I know it's from the Minimumman.
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Hope you're well.
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And take care of yourself.
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All right.
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Bye.
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Listen, your critique on this head coach.
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I'm not even going to say it's fair.
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It's 1,000% spot on.
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And then some.
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You were sold.
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An idea and illusion.
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A hope of a better brand of football.
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And so I'm going to say it's early in this coach's ring.
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You got to give him time.
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You got to be patient.
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But you got to have signs of hope and progress.
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Right?
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Right?
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I mean, is there anything about this performance
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against the Dallas Cowboys?
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That would that would have you saying, yeah, you know what?
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We got exactly what we need here.
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I want to remind everybody Cowboys
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with down four starters on the offensive.
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I want to remind everybody the Cowboys have one of the worst
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defenses that football has to offer.
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And the Jets had six points for three quarters.
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That's progress to you.
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I mean, what are we doing?
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I guess the question I have now for Aaron Glendon Jets is
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how bad is this going to get
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before they finally break through and have something to feel good about?
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How bad is this going to get?
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That's my question.
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How about playing the AFC right now?
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You got the Jets in the office for four years.
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Like, I mean, got Buffalo's like,
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we're going to cruise to one seed with those two Gibroni teams.
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Patients of mediocre are best.
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It's amazing.
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It's amazing.
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Some teams have just built to go and have monster ears
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because of schedule and the division and the way things shake out.
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Buffalo, that would win in those teams.
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Next.
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Hey, Jets.
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Anthony from Tom's River.
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Colin right after the Yankee Law.
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Honestly, I probably could have called in the third inning
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to see this type of result.
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Going, look, I'll be honest with you as well.
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I did not watch the entire game once it was down nine.
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I was like, okay,
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I'm going to flip on some football for a little bit
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and kind of come back.
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I mean, that's how bad it was.
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Fried clearly did not have it.
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Complete opposite of game one against Boston.
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And, you know, obviously the pitching isn't there
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and the blue jazze have been hitting Yankee pitch teams.
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But I always feel like it always comes down to the offense
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with Yankee's coachies.
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Right?
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In order to win a championship,
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you have to come up time and time to get him to fix that.
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And it really was game one,
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like that opportunity.
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And I love Aaron Judge and I don't want to be that guy
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that says he can't come up in the big moment
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because as bad as or as underwhelming as he was even last year,
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he did come up with some big hits,
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especially the one against Las Vegas Cleveland.
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But that being said,
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it's just being time and time again
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when they need to pick it with his club under boon.
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They just cannot get it.
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And, you know,
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and obviously, you know,
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again with the pitching, like,
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you need more out of free.
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He's your ace.
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He had a show up today and he didn't.
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So the way I looked at it is,
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you know, you just got to take care of home field
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and then hopefully just get back to game five where I happened.
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I was not very optimistic with his team this year.
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But, you know, like I said,
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I guess just take it a game at a time.
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I was under a different leadership,
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but you know what you're already.
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They were down to Oakland, Cleveland in 2017.
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And they won the Series.
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Same type of situation.
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They lost the first two on the road.
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So I don't know.
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We'll see.
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I mean, I'm not doing great.
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But, you know,
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back against the wall,
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what wrote on a game for you.
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We'll see what happens.
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But the offense has to
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that thought.
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They need the big hit,
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you know, when it really counts.
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And hopefully they can start that on Tuesday.
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So I just appreciate the time.
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Take care.
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Anthony can't think about when it's regains in a row.
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It's about staying alive on Tuesday.
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It's about seven innings out of Rodon if you're lucky.
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You'd probably sign for six.
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But if you're going to get out home or you're not going to win.
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You're not.
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Like it's a miracle the Yankees won a couple of games
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with barely hitting home runs against the Red Sox.
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They need this line of tools for.
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And again, Aaron Judge has hit for a high average.
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But that it bad in game one was a huge momentum swing.
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And people are going to document,
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look, we've been getting absolutely shallack
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and say that's where game one was lost.
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I totally disagree.
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The minute Judge did not come through
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and a minute stand struck out.
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And that inning I said the Yankees did not win this game.
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Game two they never gave you a moment where you felt like they were winning again.
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It was dead on arrival.
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The minute backs for you didn't have it.
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They were dead dead dead dead on arrival.
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So
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we're kind of fight those.
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This the team have in them.
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Find out.
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They answered the bell face elimination and ball said against ball said in two straight
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games.
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Toronto's team is more talented.
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But they have not played well Yankee steady.
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Get Tuesday and we'll see you on Wednesday.
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That's got to be the mindset.
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Got to be the approach.
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But I'll be there on Tuesday with my mother.
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I expect a very nervous Yankee steady.
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Very, very nervous Yankee steady.
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We'll set the stage for game three.
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We'll try to make sense of what has gone on these first two games.
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Michael Kay voice of the Yankees on television.
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Yes, pre and post throughout this playoff run.
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It's coming up next.
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Anything but ideal in Toronto over the last 48 hours Yankees facing elimination again.
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They get smoked on Saturday and in stunning fashion,
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they get smoked on Sunday.
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This guy called all the games throughout the season.
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He's been busy with the pre and post on yes.
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Michael Kay, what is in the water in Toronto for these Yankees in 2025?
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My goodness.
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I don't know.
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It has not been good.
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Eight and one.
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The blue jays are against the Yankees Yankees.
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Four and two Yankees stadium against them.
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But if they want to advance, J.J., they're going to have to win a game at Rodgers center.
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They're going to figure it out.
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They haven't figured it out so far.
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First two games have been just embarrassing for the Yankees.
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Their starters have been embarrassed.
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And now they're, you know, they've got their back to the proverbial wall.
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Michael, I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
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I've become a little bit of public enemy number one in Toronto.
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Because I was talking some smack on it in the series.
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I was supremely confident.
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And I think it's because of what I saw down the stretch from the Yankees.
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If the what I saw in the Boston series with a team showed me some guts and resilience.
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And I was well aware of the fact they were going to lose game one.
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I didn't like the spot for him.
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Heal.
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Gossman to me was a game.
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The blue jays had to win.
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But I thought Max Fried was going to channel his inner Andy Pettit.
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I thought he was going to follow up what he did against the Boston Red Sox.
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He came pitcher Toronto.
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I mean, I thought maybe it was jazz chiseled at third base.
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Maybe it was the July slump.
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What has it been about the blue jays that has be fuddled, freed the way that they have?
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Yeah, it's been three starts.
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I think it's close to eight in those games.
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And, you know, the shocking thing was he was throwing 99 miles an hour,
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which is not Max Fried.
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It just didn't seem like he had a great deal of his pitches.
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And he kept saying in the post game, you know, they were on all of my pitches.
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That's the same thing that Luke Weber was saying as well.
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So I don't know what they're intimating.
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I don't know what they're hinting at.
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I don't think there's any excuses to be made, especially with pitch calm.
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I don't know how any signs could be picked up or anything like that.
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But there's something that you said in the water.
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And I will tell you to hold my beer because I am public enemy number one in Toronto.
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Because in July, I said, you know, with the run differential and how small it is,
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the blue jays are technically a first place team.
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They are overachieving and they took that to mean that I didn't take the blue jays were good.
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So it has been constant.
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And now they kept their mouth shut during the last two weeks of the season.
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When the Yankees tied the blue jays, but they're churping again, John.
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So you and I both hate it up there.
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Yeah, that's the way it goes.
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Now, when it comes to the Yankee offense, Michael,
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I'll be perfectly frank, just like the last series against the Red Sox.
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Like, I think I'm a well first baseball fan, but it's wild to me that over the last month,
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in elimination games or monstrous postseason games,
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we have these starters coming out and nowhere pitching for the Red Sox.
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We saw it on Thursday.
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Then we see it with this kid you savage today.
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I mean, that was Cam Schwitler, recorded.
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Michael, where did this kid come from?
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Yeah, he started the season on the Florida State League.
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Obviously, a first round draft pick.
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So he came quick, though.
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And the blue jays saw something of him.
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This was only his fourth big league start.
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And I said this on the yes post game, too.
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I think sometimes if you could surprise a team with a picture they've never seen before,
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they could look as much video as they want.
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And if they're in the box, it's completely different than watching what you saw in the video.
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I think we saw that with the Red Sox when it came to Cam Schwitler.
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And the Yankees lost against this kid, the savage.
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He was unbelievable.
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They could not get a read on a splitter.
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It was a deadly pitch.
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He has a weird over-the-top motion.
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So it was hard for them to pick it up.
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Everybody talks about lack of experience with things like that.
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I think lack of experience might be overridden by the fact that the other team doesn't know you.
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The other team just has never seen you before.
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I think it takes a long time to catch up.
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But I don't know if they'll catch up to this guy.
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That's how good he was.
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I mean, maybe by next year he becomes more of a known commodity.
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But today the Yankees didn't get a hit against the guy.
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And he struck out 11.
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It was almost like he called Cam Schwitler, pulled my beer.
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Okay.
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Sometimes baseball, unlike the other sports,
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doesn't front and center circle around the stars.
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Right?
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Like we see it as a team game.
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You can have the eight to the ninth hitter going record game.
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They can have the reheads, Scott Broche's World Series MVP.
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I mean, I could go on and on and give you countless examples of guys one through 25
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that make them work on a postseason series and become icons.
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That's him.
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Michael, the stars in this series for two games.
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Vlad Guerrero, Jr.
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You can't pitch the guy.
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It has been clockwork.
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Like when he was up with the bases loaded,
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I don't think there was a Yankee fan on Planet Earth who was surprised
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that he went y'all see and hit the grand slam and put the Yankees at an emisory.
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On the other hand, Aaron Judge is not wrecking games.
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The way Vlad Guerrero is wrecking games.
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Is it unfair of a Yankee fan to look at that comparison right now?
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Is it basically like, look Yankee is going to get back in his series.
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Yankee is going to come back from two-o down.
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They need to shut Guerrero down or they have no prayer.
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And then he, Aaron Judge, distort doing simply put with Vlad Guerrero, Jr. is doing.
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Well, I mean, we'll start with Guerrero.
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Obviously coming into this series, he had not had a home run in 89 played appearances
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coming in to this series.
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So in September, he was completely shut down.
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You also look at his postseason history.
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He was three for 22 in the previous games that he played.
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Never want a postseason game.
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But the one thing that I do stand in this favor, he's always hurt the Yankees a lot.
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And he has just destroyed them in these first two games.
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As for Judge,
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JJ, it's a real delicate tight row.
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Because I mean, when you look at his batting average,
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I think he's sitting 400 in the postseason.
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He's just not slugging.
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So maybe he's taken what they give him.
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I mean, you can't make yourself in home runs.
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And it's certainly not just him.
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Everybody talks about, well, you can't defend on home runs.
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Well, the Yankees do.
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The Yankees are built on hitting home runs.
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So when they don't hit home runs, they're not going to win games.
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And the ticks of true that when they hit two or more home runs in the game,
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they're going to win 70% of them.
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Those are the stats.
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That's not making it up.
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So he hasn't hit homeers.
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Stanton has the hit homeers.
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Rice has the hit homeers in the series.
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And unless they hit home runs in the two games in Yankee Stadium,
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then they're going to go home pretty quickly.
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But I hear you standing about Judge.
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Everybody's going to put expectations on him.
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Because he's one of the greatest players we've ever seen.
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But you can't knock the guy for not doing anything.
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Because he is getting on base about 50% of the time.
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There's not a base four times today.
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He just has to hit the home run.
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And he said one extra base hit.
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I think that's totally fair.
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The batting average is there.
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He is getting on base.
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I just think fair on fair, Michael.
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People are going to look at that comparison.
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And it's just the hate to die in for the big hit.
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They're dying for the big moment.
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And the postseason resume,
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we at Aaron Judge's had his fair share of postseason home runs.
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But he's a player of this watch and a live stature.
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He's this future first ballot hall of favor.
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He might go and win another MVP.
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It just seems like the Yankee fan is waiting for that like
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a rod 2009 postseason for Aaron Judge.
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Does that make sense?
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No, it makes total sense.
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And I was going to use that very example.
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I mean, this is how Yankee fans felt about Alex.
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Until 2009 when he pretty much carried them to that championship.
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I know Matsui,
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when the MVP of the World Series,
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but Alex was the MVP of the postseason.
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He got it all the big hits.
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And the funny part is he had always been a good postseason player
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up until game four of 2004.
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He hit well with the Seattle Mariners,
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hit well the first three games with the Yankees against the Red Sox.
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And then it all fell apart.
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And I think the pressure kept building.
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But Judge's never had a high batting average in the postseason.
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So being on base that almost 40%, 50% of the time,
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that solved one of the problems.
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And everybody, if the Yankees lose this series,
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people will look at the bat with the bases loaded.
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When the enforcement out of the game said,
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I would not have minded walking him.
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I think that was the one time that Judge expanded his own.
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And he's throwing the pitch that was way outside and low.
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Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a walk.
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And a run would have come in.
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And then if you believe in the fallacy of the pre-determined outcome,
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if Belinger followed that with the walk that he had,
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that it would have been 2-2.
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And maybe the series is different.
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But people were expect home runs from Aaron Judge.
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He had 53 of them this year.
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He's had 62 in a season.
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And that's what they expect out of him in the postseason.
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But pitching is tougher in the postseason.
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But it has not affected Black Guerrero at first,
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at all, at least in this first two games.
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All right, Michael.
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Set the stage for Simeonky Optimism Tuesday at 8 o'clock.
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Let's start with Carlos Rodón.
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He's had an amazing season.
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He's taken the ball every fifth day.
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He stepped up in the absence of Giricol.
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He's been an all-star.
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He had an amazing, amazing year.
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And he gave you a very solid performance against the Red Sox.
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And he gave the Yankees absolutely how to have
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by the season would come to a close.
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What are your expectations for Rodón
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and yet another winner take all game for the Blue Jays?
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And the Yankees trying to starve off elimination?
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Well, he's been great.
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You know, to me, he's a stud.
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I've always liked him even the first year when he struggled
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because he just got something about him.
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I think the thing that was always a negative for him
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is he was like Warren Z.
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Warren's excitable boy.
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But I think he's calm to his nerves.
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He's been very, very chill in all of his starts.
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And I don't think that was the best game that he pitched
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this year.
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The one he had against the Red Sox.
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But even without great stuff,
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he kept them in it and pitched into the seventh inning.
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I think the Yankees need him to be great.
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And the facing of pitcher
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who's only had seven starts this year.
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And that Shane Bieber,
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you know, and he's coming back from Tommy John surgery.
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He's not an overpowering guy.
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They're going to have 47, 48,000 people on their side.
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And this is the best way I could put it, John.
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They have, and I hate this cliche,
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but it's being used a lot lately.
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They have to be where their feet are on Tuesday.
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They can't worry about winning three in a row.
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Just win that one game.
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And then everything swings in your favor.
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Why?
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You have slip.
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We're going in game four.
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And the Blue Jays have a plan bullpen game.
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And we'll show how their bullpen fits today.
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So this is the big game on Tuesday.
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You win that one.
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And then you can start to dream.
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But one thing that I would advise them not to do.
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Don't look at the totality of it.
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Don't look at saying we have the win three in a row.
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Win Tuesday, take it from there.
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One at a time.
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It's some heavy lifting they put themselves into.
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But they did the same thing against the Red Sox.
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The one difference though.
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And I'll be honest,
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I didn't think the Red Sox were all that great.
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I think the Red Sox were a gutty, gritty team.
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They didn't have a great lineup,
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especially without Roman Anthony.
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They're not a home run hitting team.
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That the string together,
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a lot of hits to make it work.
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The Blue Jays are much better.
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They're not per se a home run hitting team.
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They don't strike out.
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They put the ball in play.
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They hit the ball hard.
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They play defense.
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So they're going to be a tough customer to win three in a row.
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Can it be done?
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Well, the Yankees have been in 0-2 and a best of five,
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four times.
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And they've come back to win it twice.
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The one against the A's when Geter had the flip.
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And then in 2017 against Cleveland.
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So I think that the percentage is when you go down to 0
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and a best of five,
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one out of nine teams come back.
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But the Yankees have defied that percentage
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and their personal history coming back to out of four.
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So I gave you some positive stats.
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I like hearing that.
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And the home run is given and judges are given.
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Is there another offensive key
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that you should be looking for?
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Is there a player the Yankees desperately need to break out
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in these two games?
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If there are going to be two games in Yankees stadium?
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Well, I think I need, I think you need the old playoff, G.
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You know, he had two hits tonight.
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But he has not been the, you know,
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the deadly force that he was last year.
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Maybe he found it toward the end of the game and game two.
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He looked a little bit more locked in.
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They need jugs.
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They need stand.
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I'm telling you what, up and down,
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they need rice and rice look better in his last couple of
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the bats.
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Grysham's kind of disappeared this year.
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There's a guy this series guy with 34 her month.
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So they expect a lot from him.
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The one guy that stood out for me,
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you're going to laugh.
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Ryan McBand's.
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Yeah, great.
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That's what he had.
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He had great at bats.
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He had great at bats.
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Great at bats.
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Great at bats.
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It's not really just a one or two man game.
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The ACSF pressure on Bieber right from the very start from one to nine.
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They have not done that the first two games.
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And, you know, to be honest, they didn't do that
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that much against the Red Sox.
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They came back because it was amazing.
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And that second game and they scored just enough for Rodon.
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You know, Michael, I found it interesting.
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Aaron Boone said the other day.
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This is the best Yankee team talent wise he's ever had.
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Praise Diabras for me.
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It's managed to vision winning teams.
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He went to the world series last year.
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I like the Yankee group.
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They balanced.
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The lineup is deep.
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But it was an interesting comment.
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You've called the games.
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You've seen the teams.
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Do you agree?
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Well, I think the team certainly changed
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JJ after the trade deadline.
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They got more balance.
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So defense got better.
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McMan is tremendous at third base.
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And they go into the postseason healthy.
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So I understand what he was saying.
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But I think that he was also saying at the time
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when he felt that he had his bullpen figured out.
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But the one caveat with that was the bullpen got figured out
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against the twins, the Orioles,
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the white socks and the twins again, or the Orioles again.
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So I don't think that they were as status.
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We all thought they were.
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And that's the problem.
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Right now there's two guys in the bullpen
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that you could truly trust.
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Devin Williams and David Bednar.
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So I think that would be the thing that would change it from last year.
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Last year's bullpen was long and scout.
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And Luke Weber was the reason that he got to the world series the way it picks.
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Luke Weber's not the same this year.
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So I don't know if you could say that the best team he's had.
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They're probably the healthiest and the most balanced.
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But the bullpen changes the equation.
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Michael, final one.
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Is there going to be a lot of devastation in that building?
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If they fall short and lose this series, because listen,
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I understand the year was up and down.
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They didn't end up winning a division title.
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But they're very confident in the group.
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There's only so many prime air and judge years you're going to get.
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Do you think deep down the Yankees looked at this team?
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And like August September said, yeah, we got a world series team on our hands.
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So do you think there was a feeling of, hey, there's a lot of what ifs,
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but hey, the Al is weak.
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Maybe we get in.
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We get hot at the right time.
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Truth serum, what do you think this breast viewed this 2025 team?
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It's not dead yet, but it's facing elimination.
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Well, I think I really truly believe that they always build to try to win a world series.
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And I think that there's something to hang your hat on with that.
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Fans don't like it.
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Obviously, they've been trained, you know, world series are bust.
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So I get it.
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I understand why they'd be upset.
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But I think that the brass actually thought, yeah, they did a good job
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at the trade deadline to make this team as complete as they could be.
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And I'll tell you what, the American League is not
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a really strong league this year.
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So I said this at the beginning of the playoffs.
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This was a much tougher road to the world series than last year.
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You know, you had to go through two American Leakeys teams and then either the
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the Seattle Mariners or the Detroit Tigers.
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So what's not going to be as much of a joy ride.
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And I just think that even if they won this year, next year is going to be different.
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It's a very fluid operation.
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I mean, Belinger is a free agent, Goldsmiths are free agent,
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Grisham's a free agent, Weaver's a free agent, Devon Williams is a free agent.
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So it's going to be different.
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But yeah, short answer to your question.
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Yeah, I think they thought this was a championship team.
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Michael, the best.
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I appreciate a couple of minutes and for our sanity.
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Let's let's avoid the inevitable.
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So we don't hear from our friends north of the border.
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I could avoid that.
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So let's try to will that into existence.
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Okay.
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Maybe we should just stay off social media.
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Well, that I can't do it.
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Oh, Michael, it's too hard.
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I got to be on it every day.
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I can't.
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I can't.
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I'm too addicted.
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I hear you and it's and really is part of our job.
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So, but you do see you get the straight shot.
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So I'll tell you that.
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You're not kidding.
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Appreciate a couple of minutes, Ben.
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We'll be watching on Tuesday.
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Okay.
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Of course.
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Thank you so much.
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The great Michael K.
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It was an ugly day across the board.
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There's a lot more to get to.
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We'll come right back.
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All right.
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In honor of the late great Larry and Farda,
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I'm sure this should be a very festive edition
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of two questions.
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And I'll explain why.
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Momentarily.
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Yeah, Jerry Larry.
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Two questions.
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Despite the weekend being an absolute shitshell
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for the New York teams,
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all guys to fun is celebrating the birthday on this Sunday.
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The fun, it just shows you a dedication
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and your brilliance as a producer and as a teammate
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as a companion that you are here working on your birthday.
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I very much appreciate that.
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The audience very much appreciates that.
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We love you very much.
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Happy birthday, baby.
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I appreciate you, brother.
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Thank you guys.
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And yeah, you know, it actually worked out perfectly
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to display because you know what?
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If I was home sitting down watching the Jets at 1 p.m.
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today, I would have like wanted to jump off a bridge
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and buy the two of my dad home.
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I just said Yankees didn't make any better or four calls.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, by the time I missed both of the Yankees
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game by the time I got home,
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it was already 6-0 up my car.
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Yeah, I'm done with these teams.
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I'm going to just watch Red Zone
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just watch the car those blow the game.
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I'll figure out some of my own.
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Nice nice take from my survivor, by the way.
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I mean, that's how I would get knocked out of survivor, by the way.
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And interception getting stripped
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and going the other way for a touchdown.
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Have you seen that off the helmet?
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I mean, are you kidding me, bro?
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Not even that.
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The guy who the running back of,
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I can't remember his name.
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He drops the ball at the end.
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So like just so much wild stuff
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happened.
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They did that lead game hour, like that four club,
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those four club games.
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How about my guy Baker Mayfield, by the way, Stefan?
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What a legend.
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And a book.
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Let's give all guy Kat's credit.
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He was all over a book.
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I hope everybody draft him in that fantasy leagues.
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I don't know what they're doing over there at Ohio State,
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but the amount of great receivers they pumped out in the last,
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like seven years, like if you get a receiver from Ohio State,
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just thing he's going to be a stud.
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Like I don't know.
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Yeah, you got to signature to us.
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Yeah, I can't think about one that
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like Marvin Harrison might be the worst one,
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but like outside of that, like,
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they're all pretty damn good.
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So yeah, that was, uh, that was interesting, man.
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But another year out of the sun, um,
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around the laps, another lap around this thing we call earth.
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And uh, yeah, happy birthday, man.
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I appreciate it.
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I hope you have a great year.
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We are very, very lucky to have you.
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And now you get to have a little fun with two questions.
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A birthday edition of two questions.
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So take it away.
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So my first question is you had to pick up yesterday.
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And you, you wrote me and said,
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the trophy's coming back home.
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Can you walk me through how you took at home or 18 months?
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But yesterday, what happened?
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Oh my goodness.
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What a match I had with my cousin, Johnny Batista.
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What a freaking match.
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So let me give you a little background.
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We had five foursums match play.
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A lot of the matches were not stroking.
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They were pretty even.
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So you had individual one V one.
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Then you had cards to V2.
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So whoever had the lowest score,
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me and my playing partner,
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my cousin and his playing partner
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who happened to be Amin McAnity,
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they ended up winning or losing the whole.
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So our match got very, very tight.
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I had an unbelievable front nine.
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I shot 43 on the front.
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I couldn't have played better.
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I had like three bars.
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I was dialed in.
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Back nine, I started slipping a little bit.
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I hit a couple of balls out of bounds.
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I lost 15.
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I lost 17.
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18 were coming up to the T box.
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I am tied with my cousin.
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Or matches tied.
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Now my teammate Brian really stepped up on a big birdy on 16.
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So he ended up winning his match on 17.
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We didn't know it at the time, Stefan.
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But basically the pick up came down to these two matches.
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We didn't know it at the time because we weren't like
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tracking everybody's scoring.
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So we didn't have it officially figured out.
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That said, I hardest on the golf course.
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Nuke the drive.
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Well, baby fade left to right,
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right down the middle of the fairway.
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I was 155 out.
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Now 18 at Silver Lake is 405 yards up.
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So you go, yeah, you go down that hill and then you go right.
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You go up the hill down the hill and then up the hill.
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It's a bitch of a hole and it's tightest shit.
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That's a tough one.
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Yeah, tightest shit because you don't have a lot of room to work with.
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So to be on the fairway on 18 is amazing.
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Then I hit the seven iron and I hit a pretty good front French.
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Ended up making the two pots.
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Go home and the pick up is still mine and we'll be on the zoom
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background starting as soon as next week.
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And it's nice playing.
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It's the fun where I was in December last year
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of playing golf with you to where I am now.
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It just is it's a very liberating, exciting feeling of ecstasy
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that takes away from the shit.
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That is all the teams that I had to watch over the course of the day.
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Oh, win is a win, bro.
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A win is a win.
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My second question is, oh, my goodness.
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In the spirit of birthdays and just getting older, what would you say is the best advice
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someone has ever given you?
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Wow.
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I've got a ton of great advice.
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You really put me on spot with this one.
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So I feel like I'm going to forget a lot of wonderful pieces of guidance that I've gotten
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over the years.
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But I think I've heard this from a few people including my dad and a few others
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that if you love what you do, you don't feel like you're working.
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And for somebody like me, Stefan, that works like an absolute animal.
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There's nothing.
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And I love it between doing all the pods for New York, New York, doing all the gambling
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stuff that we do on-ringer gambling to win S&Y as much as I do.
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I really don't feel like I'm working, man.
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Don't get me wrong.
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Some days are more growing than others.
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Some days it requires a little bit more creativity than others when you don't have as much going on,
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when you do have a lot going on.
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But that perspective is something that I always take home.
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For folks that really have busted their bots, working really, really hard,
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doing whatever they might be doing to try to put food on the table.
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I'm very blessed from a standpoint of, hey, from an advice standpoint, I love what I do.
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And I work hard.
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I'm not going to say I don't.
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But it doesn't feel like I'm working.
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So that's a good thing.
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Nice, nice man.
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And that's a, yeah, people ask all the time, like I think it's funny.
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I was having a conversation with a friend that I went to high school with recently.
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And he's just like, you like what you do for work.
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And it's like we just show up and do the work.
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But we, you know, we enjoy it.
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But he's like, man, you don't understand like how cool it is to see like you and the rooms.
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Like he's like, you were like near a dirty area that they brought.
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I don't know anybody who's ever been in a press, the length of their tutor.
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Like you were there and you took a picture of Derek Deter and you were like next to
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Cece.
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It's a bath.
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You know, like, you know what?
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It's a blessing.
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It's when you think about it that way.
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Yeah, dude.
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We're just from that standpoint.
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It's really, really cool stuff.
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It is hotter.
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But like we just look at his work.
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Like we just come and do our jobs and we go home.
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Like you know what I mean?
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Like it's not about us.
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It's like we just, hey, we're here to get the work done and and and serve the people at this point.
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Hey, that's an amin' a game.
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I hope you had a great birthday.
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I owe you a beverage that hopefully can be consumed at a Yankee game.
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Hopefully in an onto distant future.
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May have to get your SD-Ecky stadium on Tuesday night.
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We'll try to work out what we got to work out.
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I'm bringing Mom by the way on Tuesday.
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Oh nice, nice.
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Mom, I'm just a denied off from Ellie.
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Well, here's the thing.
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I was going to bring my wife.
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My wife has a friend coming in town.
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So, you know, I was like, Mom, you know, it's never me and you.
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I was like, let me bring my mom to a game, you know, like she loves it.
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She'll get a kick out of it.
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She's already know you got to pick me up.
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I want to have a couple of drinks.
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Then you got to make sure my dad can come pick it up.
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So it's now a whole big to do that mom's coming.
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But it's work for mom.
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It's work, you know.
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You got to make a happen.
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Got to make a happen for mom.
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And that's going to be fun, man.
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And get a stake sandwich and enjoy the whole the whole night.
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And hopefully our Yankees give us something to be happy about on Tuesday night.
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Please.
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We need a few of these to God's best.
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We don't want to be the elimination.
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No, no, no, no.
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We don't want to be the.
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Can't do it again.
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So nope, we'll do it again.
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We'll happen.
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We'll be me.
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Pen and self-reached to find pen and self-frame.
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Before we say goodbye, the birthday boy and the Jeff money for whatever it might be.
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Monday night football, some of the baseball.
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Let's hear it Jeff money.
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What up, JJ Jeff money.
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We're at a handicap of 50s for Monday.
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We got an NFL Monday night play and a major league baseball play for the Monday night football game.
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I'm going to go with the Kansas City Chiefs minus the three and a half of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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And then baseball.
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I'm going to go with the Philadelphia Phillies plus the one-fifteen of the LA dodges.
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Again, my two plays for Monday.
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Monday night football game.
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I'm going to go with the Chiefs minus the three and a half and an major league baseball game too.
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I'm going to go with the Phillies to tie up the series plus the one-fifteen.
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All right.
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Let's hear it on tap on your end.
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And then we'll compile all my daily plays on Twitter at Jeff money.
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Okay, JJ.
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I'm out of here.
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Let's go.
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Let's go Jeff money.
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It's a must for the Phillies.
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The Phillies that I wanted to restrain games in the series was Zardo against Snell.
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I think they show up.
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You know, I picked the Brewers even wanting to win a series.
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I'm not going near him in game two.
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No feel for their series again too.
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That's a must must game for the Phillies.
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That it's renaught to lead Hernandez.
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Briggs, they're hearts with the home run.
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They cannot go back out to the LA or that series is called.
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So it's Phillies.
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Take them plus money.
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That's going to do it for this loaded edition of New York.
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We're going to be back Tuesday night very late.
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If I get back from Yankee Stadium,
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a tremendous job out of birthday boys to fun.
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Hopefully Tuesday puts us in better spirits.
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JJ out.
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I want to go but up, right?
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Right.
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Good everybody.
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