Ep. 379 | Yankees tie franchise record; Concerns w/ Gleyber Torres

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Welcome back. This is episode 379 of the NYYYST ORG podcast. We're presented to you by NYYY Underground ORG. I am your host Christian PERSON. As always joined by my co-host, Chris, you and SGR ORG. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay-host, Chris, you and SGR ORG.

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Thanks, everybody, for joining us here.

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It's Sunday night.

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You guys will be listening on Monday morning. It is a tough day here because the Yankees suffered a rough loss earlier against Cleveland GPE, a game that they should have put in their back pocket and moved away with a sweep. But before we get into all of that, we want you to make sure that you're subscribed to the NYYYST ORG podcast wherever you get your podcast, so you do not miss any shows. This is an Odyssey ORG exclusive show.So, you know, if you're subscribed, you won't miss it. You'll get the little, hey, you have a new podcast alert on your phone. We also want you to make sure you subscribe to NYU Underground on YouTube and make sure you tell everybody we are the official Yankee podcast of Odyssey ORG.Okay. Okay.

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So the Yanks dropped a tough game earlier today, eight, seven, and ten innings. The game the Yankees ORG probably should have put it in their pocket and went away with.

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But, you know, here's where we'll start. Okay. So the Yankees didn't get good enough starting pitching to win today. Okay, that's number one. Nestor Cortez PERSON, look, man, I don't want to come on here and rip on Nestor Cortez every single time he takes the ball.

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But the antics are cute. I can't watch that anymore. When he goes and does what he did against the Marlins ORG, yeah, sit there and twirl on the mound and throw the ball between your legs and do whatever it is you want to do. But when you can't finish the fifth inning, stop. And I know he did this earlier in the game, but listen, if Nessor Cortez PERSON could just cut the shit and pitch, I'd be a lot happier with him. The hidden ball trick or whatever the hell he was doing and he's a social media darling today.Great. How many outs did you get, Nestor PERSON?

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Because his bullpen was a little short today they had no ian NORP hamilton uh they wanted to try to stay away from a guy like uh martina or not martina denis santana uh because he pitched two winning yesterday you came off a double header you knew outs were at a premium you don't have a day off till thursday you know you got to do better than getting into the fifth inning and not recording any outs in there. Okay. So I, I, it's cute, but it's, it, I'm past it now. I'm more concerned about Nestor Cortez PERSON recording out and getting deep into the game as possible. Andif you look at the guys of your rate, I think it's sitting at 4-5-0 right now, which is, which is

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respectable for what we want out of Nestor Cortez. It really is. I'm not going to say that it's sitting at 4-50 right now, which is respectable for what we want out of Nessar Cortez PERSON. It really is.

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I'm not going to say that it's not. And he's had a couple instances this season where he's kind of blown up and then settled down and got the Yankees ORG through some innings. And then like he started against Miami GPE. But enough is enough. You're not out there to be a side show. You're out there to pitch and record outs.

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And if you have a problem with me saying that, then too bad. Because I don't watch Nestor Cortez PERSON to see him do tricks on the mound. I watch Nestor Cortez PERSON to see him get outs on the mound.

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So I don't need to see a video of him fake throwing a million times. What I'd like to see is him not giving up home runs to Jose Ramirez right after Aaron Judge cranks won 450 feet.

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Can we just start, please? Can we start by saying the Yankees are 12 and 4? It was another great series. Shitty way to end it. But I'm so happy with this team right now, and I love this team so much.I just think it's important to start there because we've had so many serious things to complain about over the last few years that I'm at least happy that this show's starting with the complaints that we have right now, that it's Nestor Cortez PERSON. And I'll just start there, and now I'll pick up where you left off. I saw that video just now. I didn't realize he did that during the game.It's one thing when Nestor Cortez PERSON is doing the leg stuff and fucking up timing and whatever. You kind of, you can kind of justify it by saying he doesn't have the kind of stuff that some other guys have. So for him to be successful, if he needs to fuck up timing and do some quirky stuff, hey, Japanese NORP pitchers do it. Japanese NORP pitchers have those quirky deliveries and all that. So it is what it is. But thenI saw the video of him pump faking the pitch and then pitching it. And it rubbed me the wrong way in a way that I just didn't expect to feel. I don't care if he threw nine shutout innings today. I don't want to see my fucking starting pitcher pump faking a pitch. And then throwing it. That's like now we're just playing games.

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Yeah, he better never do that again. Like, I don't know.

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Maybe it's just me.

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Right.

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If I'm in the minority here on this opinion, fine. I don't care. I just think it's, it's just not. And again, this goes back to like, if this were some guy on the, you know, on the Red Sox or the Dodgers ORG. And people would say, oh, if he was a Yankee ORG, you'd fucking love it. No.Like, no, I will call players out for bullshit that I hate. And I just, I, just, I love Nestor PERSON. I think he's a good teammate. I think he's been a great clubhouse guy. And I think we've gotten more out of him than we could ever have imagined.But I don't care whether he's giving us 12 outs or fucking 27 outs of shutout baseball. It does, that part almost doesn't even matter at all to me when I see shit like, or fucking 27 outs of shutout baseball. It does that part almost doesn't even matter at all to me when I see shit like he pulled.

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But you would say, you would say that the stuff he does with his legs, though, when he does that like slow back thing,

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gimmick thing, gimmick, but still might throw off the hitter's timing a little bit. But it's still workable. My justification of it is like I said, a lot of pitchers have quirky deliveries,

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especially guys from Japan GPE.

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Yeah, it's like replicating those types of deliveries. And it's still a gimmick to me, but at least there's something behind it. At least there's something like, hey, I don't have the best stuff. So I need to get an advantage as much as I can. So I'm going to mess with your timing a little bit and my balance is good enough to do it the second you pump fake a pitchnow we're in we're in wiffle ball territory now i feel like i'm playing i'm playing you when we were

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kids in our backyard in wiffle ball right it's just like come on dude like next he's gonna

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throw behind his back or something like that.

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At least if he went out there, I'd at least say maybe we'd have a different, something different to talk about today.

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But I still wouldn't agree with it or like it. Here's what the problem is, right?

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With him is that the Yankees, yeah, the Yankees are 12 and 4. They're the only team in Major League Baseball ORG, which is wins right now, which is great. I have overall very happy with the team's performance. You can't not be. You'd have to be, you'd have to be, what's his name?What's his name, Ryan PERSON?

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The guy from Uncle Eddie PERSON, Cousin Eddie from. Randy Quaid. Randy Quaid. You have to be Randy Quaid. Randy Quaid. You have to be Randy Quaid for Major League in order to not be happy with the Yankees performance this year.

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But on a grander level here, isn't the ultimate goal for the Yankees to win the East LOC, the Yankees to lock up the number one seed, right? So when you have games like today that are imminently winnable to help you achieve that goal faster, isn't that what we should be focused on right now? Yeah.

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And it was the first game of the season where you felt like, at least for me, I felt like every time the Yankees ORG have gotten off to a quick lead, even though they had some dicey games where it got close, they seemed to pull through and win the games they were supposed to win. This was the first game they should have won and lost, in my opinion. Maybe I'm forgetting one.

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And listen, right, they had a double header yesterday. And they won it. They did. But doesn't that tax your bullpen? I think it does.

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Yeah. Okay.

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All right. You have three more games before an off day. We talked about this last week about how on last Saturday the

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bullpen looked gassed. They got a couple performances and a credit to Nestor against Miami GPE where they were able to reset the bullpen a little bit plus a couple off days. But still, you got yourself calling a position here again where you wanted to stay away from some guys. And you got a starter out there that gave you 12 outs and blew a 3-0-0 lead.And all anybody wants to remember from this game is that he fake pitched. Yeah. I'm not okay with that. I'm just not. I mean, like, for me, get the outs.Stop playing games out there. Yeah.

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Agreed.

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Like you said, the whole, the delay, the leg, you know, that is more messing with a hitter's timing.

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And I'm more okay with that.

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The whole fake hitch thing, it's silliness. It's wiffle ball. That doesn't belong, to me, that doesn't belong on the major league field. No. You want to do that in the beer league softball? Fine.But when you got guys up there and you're trying to protect a lead and you're trying to get this team as many outs as possible, be focused on that. Yeah.

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I mean, not to beat a dead horse here, but, you know, like I said, give credit to Nestor PERSON to be able to admit he doesn't have the best stuff in the league. So he needs to find advantages where he can. That's where the whole timing thing comes into play. And it works for him. It's to me, it's still a gimmick. It's borderline, you know, I guess because he's been successful with it, we kind of give it a passand we can justify it. But what I saw today, I just don't want to see. And I'm not trying to like beat up on Nestor PERSON by any means. But it's just like if he can't sit here and admit that it was a little embarrassing and just doesn't belong. Like you said, it was the best way to put it. It just doesn't belong on a major league baseball field. If I, because I'll tell you why I'm saying this,and I'll tell you why I'm being hard on Nestor PERSON, because if it were any other pitcher on any other team, and I saw something like that, and especially if that fucking pitcher only got 12 outs, I'd be fucking ripping him up and down. I'd call him a scumbag.I'd say he's a disgrace to the league. So the least I can do with a Yankee ORG doing it is mention it and say that it's just not a good look.

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Here's what Nestor PERSON says about the quick pitch. He said nothing is really planned when I go out there. I just kind of thought of it in the moment when talking about why he decided to do that thing. He said it was kind of funny, but I thought it would work for me. He fouled it off.Just another wind-up bet I do. Great.

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I'm so glad that he's looking out there,

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looking to make jokes out there while he's pitching. It's kind of funny. Yeah, great.

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Okay. And you know what? Maybe we magnify Nessor ORG's performances a little bit more than they probably should be, but they have to be right now because Garrett Cole PERSON is out, and you got guys like Cody, and let's give credit to Cody Petit yesterday, man.

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He was great. Oh, sweet.

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He was actually enjoyable to watch. He wasn't just like a, oh, he got lucky. He was enjoyable to watch yesterday. That was at the game two of the doubleheader on Saturday was probably as complete of a win as I've seen the Yankees ORG have all year because the under the Yankees understood what theassignment was. And that was to make Cody Petit PERSON feel comfortable early and often on the mound.

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And they went out there and they put up six or seven runs early and they allowed him to settle

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into the game because you didn't want to be in a position where you were going to have to go to the bullpen early in that game.

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And they didn't have to go to the bullpen in the seventh inning. And by the time they did, the game was pretty much wrapped up.

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Because you were in the bullpen early in game one because, again, I like Clark Schmidt PERSON,

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but Clark Schmidt cannot get past the lineup a third time.

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Once that lineup turns over the third time, I don't know what it is with him.

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And this is the part of his development that he needs to get through because if he can't,

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then the Yankees ORG are going to have to figure out what to do with him because you can't have a guy that's only able to pitch to 18 batters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but by the end of last year,

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wasn't he kind of getting over that hump a little bit? The Yankees ORG were forcing him to get over to hump because they were out of it.

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Right.

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And didn't he, though?

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Like, he was kind of mildly successful. I don't know.

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Maybe the games weren't as competitive. But I'd say that second game yesterday was, like you said, as complete of a win as they've had all season, I'd put it a close number two to Nestor's eight-inning performance.

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Where they won that game, what, eight-nothing? Schmidt only got tagged with one earned, but he walked five. He only went five innings. It just wasn't a good start out of him.

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It wasn't easy.

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And you could see he was laboring.

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He threw 85 pitches in that time frame.

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It's just that clickover.

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And the Yankees ORG are going to have to figure out what to do with him because he looks as good as anybody at times, you know, due to the first three or four innings. And then you start seeing it creep in. I don't know if it's a mental block with him or what.

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I got to give Clark Schmidt PERSON a little credit.

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Just based on his stuff, I know he has a lot of issues as far as, like, you know, going deep into games goes like we're talking about.

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But just pure stuff. Clark Schmidt PERSON has some pretty good, like, better than I thought, to be honest.

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He did have seven strikeouts. I mean, his stuff is good.

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His stuff is good. It moves and it moves down. And he's got great shit. If he could put that together, if he could put the depth, if he could be more efficientand get through the lineup a third time, he's such a good back end of the rotation kind of guy where he could even profile as a middle of the rotation guy on other teams.

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You know, this is why you harp on what Nestor did today so much is because the Yankees ORG have guys in this rotation that don't give them innings. Right, right. And it's going to catch up at them. It's going to catch up with them at some point. And hopefully it doesn't sabotage the season,but you can only have so many outings where you're in the bullpen in the fifth and sixth inning every day. And look, even if Garicol PERSON came back early, and I think everybody would think that the first week of June is early, when would you expect the Yankees ORG to let him loose probably another month after that before they really let him go?

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Maybe not that long. Maybe. And the only reason why I say this is because all these guys that came back, that came out of spring training, they really had one start, maybe two. By their third start, the Yankees ORG seemed to have kind of let them go.So.

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Yeah, I think they're going to be super cautious with him, though.

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I don't know.

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I don't know because I, Garrett calls a guy who's so in control of his body that if he tells him he's 100%, he's going to dictate when he's ready to go.

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I'd say two, three starts and he's out there. But you're right. It's still, we're still talking mid to late June before Garikull PERSON's eating those same innings that you want him to, assuming he's going to come back healthy and effective.

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So you look at a guy like Marcus Stroman PERSON, what do you expect out of him, six innings?

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I'm very happy with six innings. Right. Clark Schmidt, you're lucky if you get him into the sixth. Nestor, you're lucky if you get him into the sixth. Healed, the Yankees ORG skipped heel this series because they, after the, after the rain out,

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the Yankees ORG knew that they were going to need a spot starter. And I credit them for this. This was actually a little creative bookkeeping on their end. They pushed heel into Toronto GPE because then they wouldn't have to waste a call up. And they could use the 27th man in Cody Petit to start one of the double header games, which, you know, you found out after the Yankees let you freak out about Luis Heel's health for a day there.But I give him a little bit of credit there for a little creative bookkeeping that that was probably the way to go. Instead of having Heel and Schmidt start in the same day and then having to send somebody down to bring up a starter. Right.

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No, yeah. Probably on. Smart move.

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Probably on Monday there.

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And then, you know,

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heel is another guy. You know, the Yankees ORG are not going to push. That's a five, probably a five-inning guy. And then you got Carlos Rodan,who I think you're looking at right now to be the horse of this rotation.

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And I think he'll get there now.

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I mean, I would like to see Carlos Rodan

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have a dominant start on Tuesday

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because I believe he'll start on Monday.

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I would love to see him just have one of those shut down.

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Seven, maybe flirt would get, after he's done with seven you're sitting there saying I would love to see Boone let him go out in the eight type performances

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yeah and he was almost there his last time out right I remember him being at like 55 pitches in the fifth or maybe even to start the sixth inning I can't remember and I was like wow he's really efficient and then he kind of fell off and he he lost the zone a little bit but I can't fully remember it's been such a long weekend he had

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89 pitches in total so he went six innings in his last one yeah he kind of fell off the rails you

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saw I was laboring a little bit there in the sixth there uh in the seventh actually because he

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completed six right yes he completed six, right?

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Yes, he completed six, and then he labored the seven. Didn't get an out.

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Didn't get an out.

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So he was almost there.

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He was almost, he almost put it all together at that point.

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So as great as the 12 and 4 start is,

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I mean, you can't have your head in the clouds

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and not recognize that there are issues with this ball club right now.

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And one of the main things is the starting rotation, especially without the ace, without a big innings eater in there. The bullpen outside of today, I've got to say that they're finding ways to get out.

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They're finding ways to win games.

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Here's, and here's where I am with Clay Holmes PERSON, right? I'll say this. Do I want Clay Holmes PERSON to be the closer? No. But by and large, has Chloe Holmes done the job this year?

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Yeah, he has. I mean, you can't say that he hasn't.

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Here's what I'll say.

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Clay PERSON, you want to elevate my heart rate to $150

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every time you're on the mound? Go right ahead. Just get the outs. Just get the requisite outs. Get him however you need to get them. Just get them.I'll deal with the heart palpitations, all right? You do what you got to do, and I'll deal with the heart issues. Right. Now, offensively, I think we have to look at a couple things here. I think Aaron Judge had a much better series in Cleveland GPE. Absolutely.He had a big strike out there in the eighth, I believe it was, with two guys down to end the inning. Aside from that, I thought he was pretty good this series. I think we're seeing him getting close to where he needs to be. He had three hits in a double header. He had that big home run there in the third, I believe it was.And then he just missed one in the fifth, which would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium FAC. And I hate when people say that. But if judge is going to have that type of approach, it's going to work for him over the long haul. So hitting balls that, you know, the opposite way, even if they're recorded outs away and away games. I'm not upset with. I don't know.

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You know, my, my number one indicator on judge is it's not like for most guys seeing the ball, like for Stanton PERSON. For example, with Stanton, when he's swinging at pitches three feet off the plate or 55 feet bouncing and he's swinging at those you can just know he's off he can't he's not seeing the ball for me the marker with judge is when he misses hanging off speed pitchoff speed pitches and he crushed a couple today and he hit him hard

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I think it was in game two yes I think it was in game two yesterday.

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That he looked, you saw this look on his face where he was like, damn.

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Because he let a hangar just sit there and he didn't, and he took it. And I think he realized, like, you don't really see Judge React like that. But he was kind of like, fuck, man. I mean, I should have swung at that. But you mentioned Stan PERSON. Stan didn't have a big series. He didn't play in game one.But I was, he had a basis loaded walking game two. And some of his takes, man, are impressive.

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Are impressive for him, especially knowing the way he swings at, the things that he

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swings at. I was still overall happy with, excuse me, what stands at bats in this series, even though they didn't really produce a lot of results. So to me, it seems like he's still seen the ball really well. The Yankees move Anthony Volpey PERSON up to the lead off spot,and the kid just hitting rockets everywhere. Unreal.

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He's just been so unreal.

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I mean, should that have really been a game tying double in the ninth inning? I don't know. It looked like the right fielder kind of misplayed that.

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Oh, I disagree with you. No, yeah. I thought that was clean.

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I disagree with you. I think, first of all, was the camera angle. Second of all, I think that the, the only reason the outfielder took that, that to the ball is because he knew any other any other play other than tackling it head on and trying to make that play.

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He, they give up a run anyway. So that's why it looked like it was a misplay because it was not a catchable ball.

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I'm not saying, it was such a good fucking hit. No, I just took a direct route to it to try to get there.

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I'm saying that was still a great at bat by Volpe PERSON.

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He stung that ball the other way against a nasty, nasty pitcher and class A. So, I mean, everything, even Volpe PERSON's outs are hard hit.

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He's just been, he's just been so much fun to watch man.

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Really?

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This move, this leadoff move

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has worked in the sense of Anthony Volpe PERSON's

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doing his job, but it has not worked in the sense

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of getting Glaver Torres PERSON going. And you know what? If you're a Glaver PERSON, if you're a Glaver PERSON fan, you're not going to like this next part of the show because it's not going to be good for Glaber Torres PERSON. You want to say that Glaber Torres PERSON has a low baseball IQ, and I'm not going to argue that, okay,because I see him do enough things to make me question what he thinks about on the field. And we mentioned this. We were texting back and forth, and I even tweeted it yesterday during game two. The Yankees are up six nothing, okay? That ball is hit to him with a runner at first,and it was like deep in the hole, right? And he had to kind of go across his body to make the throw to second. And Volpe PERSON saved, made a nice play to saving out there. Yeah.

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You have to be smart enough to know where you are in the game.

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It's six nothing. It was like the fifth inning, fourth to fifth inning, I believe. Get the out. Get a shore out. Now, it ended up working out because it saved a double play and the next batter banged into a double play.Yeah. But you're flirting with disaster. It's like risk reward in that situation. And I don't think he takes that into account enough times where it looked like he was justtrying to play hero ball because he's trying to do something because he's not doing anything at the plate right now. I just want to say,

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just because I think it's important for us to mention these things, it's like, okay, they've played 16 games. We couldn't be happier. This team's 12 and 4. Again, shitty loss today, but if you're telling me the Yankees are 12 and 4 and won every series, ultimately, you have nothing to complain about if you're living in the moment,right, you have nothing to complain about this team's 12 and 4. But in the moment, there was a terrible loss today. In the moment, yeah. But what I'm saying is you have the people who will say it's just 16 games. It's a long season. You know, we'll say it.How many times have you felt all this is the fucking team and then you're quickly reminded you know end of May that a team that looks great can look like shit just as quickly right so forgive us if we're not just willing to sit here and shit rainbows for an hour into the microphone and not discuss the things that are okay if we're going to have the mindset like this is theteam then we need to address the issues now because I promise you they're going to become more and more obvious as this team continues down the long 162 game season that they have. And right now, Glaber Torres PERSON is a major issue for me. And and that does not mean I think Labor sucks. I think Labor was really good last year and I think he has potential to be a really good hitter. But for some reason, I think I said this to you. I think I texted it to you guys.He, he's never just clicked. And in a team, he's on a team now where everything's clicking. All these guys seem to be clicking. Whether they're contributing at the plate in the field, you could say something good about almost every guy. I mean, fuck, Trevino hit a home run today and had a nice base hit

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later in the game. I mean, you got to give Trevino PERSON a lot of credit for tag and class A there.

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You got the rally started. Yeah, I know. It was a great hit, too. It was a great piece of hitting.

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I don't want to beat up on Glaver because I actually really like Glaver Torres PERSON.

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I think he's not a guy that I sit there. And, you know, when Stanton PERSON goes into his slumps and it's in big spots, I just fucking, oh, I get so frustrated. Glaber Torres PERSON is not a guy that i want to hate i want to root for this guy i want to be wrong i hope that in a month from now he's the hottest hitter on the team and i'm eating my words but there's just something off and it's not necessarily what's happening right now it's just been his overall presenceAnd it's not necessarily what's happening right now. It's just been his overall presence as a Yankee ORG that it just hasn't clicked. And it's just becoming so apparent now for whatever reason.

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You know, you look at the team through 16 games so far. And maybe you look at Judge PERSON's overall numbers and they're not great. But he's contributed to wins. You look at Anthony Rizzo PERSON, right? And I think a lot of, and I ran a poll, and we'll get to that in a quick second. And a lot of people are saying,no, Rizzo's my biggest concern. And he's a big concern for me too. The guy's got four errors already this year. He had four errors all of last year. And there's certain things like, I don't think the second error that was charged to him today was really fair because Nesser PERSON was late getting to the bag and that kind of screwed the whole play upthat throw to Volpe PERSON where from Volpe that he didn't pick the ball hard play I'm not saying that it's a play that has to be or or should be made but Anthony Rizzo PERSON makes that play Anthony Rizzo PERSON makes that playand he hasn't really gotten going with the bat except for he's the hero or should be made. But Anthony Rizzo PERSON makes that play. Anthony Rizzo makes that play. And he hasn't really gotten going with the bat, except for he's the hero if the defense doesn't betray the Yankees. He had a really good game today.

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If the Yankees ORG,

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if the defense doesn't betray the Yankees in the bottom of the 10th inning, he had the game winning hit. Yes.

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It was a great base hit too.

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You know, everybody's kind of chipped in this year so far, except for Glaber Torres PERSON. And now you're looking at a situation here where, okay, the tying run scores because he doesn't feel the ball cleanly, his head is moving faster than his body. Again, circumstances led to that. But these are all things. You keep pot, look at the, look at the evidence keep stacking the evidence pile on the evidence of all the things we say about glabortas PERSON that's another thing to convict him of not of not being a great baseball player right there

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you know what it is for me it's tough to just attack a guy on on a couple things because, again, we're sitting here saying he hasn't contributed and so on and so forth.

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But in a week from now, he could have three straight games where he's the hero and we're singing a different tune.

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I think bigger picture what it comes down to for me is, Gla Glaber Torres not making that play today is the same Glabre Torres who wouldn't have made that play three years ago. And it's like you're waiting for this guy to get out of his own head and be more confidentout there and know what he's doing, know what his next move is. And to, it's not, even though the infield was in, I know plays are more difficult when infields in. That's not a difficult play. That's a play to, it's not, even though the infield was in, I know plays are more difficult when infields in. That's not a difficult play.That's a play to, I mean a play to make that play.

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Yes, absolutely. 10 out of 10 times.

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So this isn't us being tough on him. You can't sit here, look me in the eyes and tell me that that's a difficult play. I'm not saying it's easy, but glaubert Torres PERSON, the person that we've been waiting for makes that play with his eyes closed.

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If you're enough of a fan that you're listening to our podcast,

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you cannot tell me that you're not expecting that play to be made right now. Right. And I guess the best way to put it with Glaber is the best way I can articulate it is given all he's been through and the player that we've expected him to be in 2024, I should have no doubt that Glaber Torres PERSON makes that play confidently and easily.And he still isn't making the play. Why? Because exactly what you said, his mind is moving quicker than his hands or vice versa. And to me, that shows me a guy who is still timid, a guy who is still questioning his next move. And I, and I'm maybe it's unfair. I don't know.Maybe you disagree with me. But for me to fall in love of Glabert Torres PERSON, I can't be feeling that for him anymore. I got to be confident in that guy out there at second base.

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Well, you got to think he was confident in himself last year at the plate,

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and that probably translated more to a more confident defender at second base, where this year he's,

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I mean, he's clear,

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he's not confident at the plate. If you're trying to bunt runners on first and second,

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that's your move. That's not what Glaver Torres does last year that that's your move that that's not what glabre torres does last year in that situation if it's the middle of the season i'm so glad

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that you brought that up because you said it best in her chat i said i don't know if i love that move or hate it and you said it perfectly ryan you like that they moved the runners over you got the runners in scoring position there was one out at the point at that time. That's an overall smart baseball move. But you also pointed out that's Glabertores PERSON giving up in that bat right there.

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If Glabre Torres thinks he's Glabre Torres thinks he's the hitter that he's supposed

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to be, he's not giving himself up in that situation.

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Right.

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And instead he kind of puts his tail between his legs and he gives it up.

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And he does move the runners over, which is a great fundamental move. But you're seeing that same thing. If Glabor Torres was confident in the field, he makes that play in the end today. And he's just, he's maybe not fully there. And that's one of my big concerns right now is some of these boppers, these guys that have had an established past, they're showing signs of being a head caseor some sort of lack of confidence in them and regards really just to him and Rizzo. I haven't loved what I've seen from the two of them in that sense where they're really in their head a bit so far this year. So hopefully that's just kind of a normal thing that happens again, 16 games in.And we've got to just keep finding those positives as well, which 12 and 4 to start the year we'll take that every time

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and my biggest concern I got if you want to say it's a concern with Glaver Torres is that even I came on here and said that I love the way that I saw a more mature player in 2023 post all-star break

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he really was. I felt like he was a more mature player and I kept saying like maybe like he's finally in that space now.

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And then he comes out and he has this beginning to the season. And it feels like all that goodwill that he gave the fans where you felt like he hit a certain level of maturity is gone. And again, you said 16 games, he can come out and hit four homeruns and bat 500 against Toronto and we don't worry about him for the rest of the year. But as you said, we're doing two shows a week. We're reacting to what's happening as it happens. This is a majorconcern for me right now. This is a guy that the Yankees ORG bat at lead off, didn't get it done. Put him six, five, six. Now wherever he's been batting the last couple of games, they get him going.He's not getting going. Making errors in the field, costing the team runs, you know, contributed to a loss today because he didn't make a play. It's tough, and we always talk about this. Dog pile. Yankees are hoisting up 28.Who's in the dog pile? Do you, are you absolutely convinced Glaber Torres has to be in the dog pile?

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No, he's not necessarily a pile guy. Is Soto PERSON? Soto PERSON is.

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Yeah, big time.

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He's... Judge PERSON, obviously. Tell you what, Stanton PERSON? Yes. Love Stanton PERSON. Want to see him there. Need him there. R Stanton PERSON? Yes. Love Stanton. Want to see him there.Need him there. Rizzo? Yeah. Yeah. Rizzo is, that's why it upsets me when Rizzo has bad games because Rizzo for me is a pile guy, man. I want him here.But Torres PERSON, that's my problem. My problem is I should be saying, yeah, he's there. He needs to be here. And I still don't feel that way. You know what I, you know what it reminds me of? My son played three years, T-ball.By the third year, he looked like a friggin stud compared to the, to the younger kids. And you're like, ah, he's getting it. Now he moves up a league with the older kids. And he looks timid again. It's almost like Torres last year because he was the big dog. He was the only one hitting.Judge PERSON wasn't in the lineup. He's kind of carrying the team offensively, which really wasn't saying much and he wasn't like that great. But, you know, we've got to give him credit there. And now it's like all the big dogs are back and he looks like the timid scared one again and he shouldn't be because realistically if he wasn't talented we wouldn't be sitting here harping on it the problem is that i believe at least thatglabre torres PERSON is a very talented baseball player who's still to this day allowing his his

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the mental aspect of his insecurities get in the way yeah and that's a

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problem for me that's a problem for me because you know we're complaining about a game in mid-April

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but i promise you if that's happening now it's going to be happening in october and and the

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yankees can't afford that here's what you got to say about glara torres this is year seven of him

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with the yankees at the big league level.

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And he's still doing things that you wanted him to clean up five years ago.

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It's all I'm trying to say. And he is a free agent at the end of the year. And he is good enough. As much as you know, you listen to us, you might think he's the worst player on earth. But no one is saying that.

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I think we expect a lot out of Glaabertors PERSON because we know the talent is there yeah

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but he's a guy that if i told you he got 25 mil per year would you be surprised i think that's

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exactly what he's going to get right and at his age how old is he ryan he's like 28 right

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28 something like that but let me do it. He just turned 28. Labor

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is 20.

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Oh, shit.

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No, 27.

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So he's going to be 28 a day before Chris PERSON.

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This is his birthday.

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So his new contract, he'll enter into his age 28th season. So what do you want to say? A team's going to give him, you know, eight years, nine years. You know, if somebody wants to lock them up long term at $25 million, $250 to $200 million. I think no one's saying Glibert Torres PERSON shouldn't get or doesn't deserve that. But do you see the Yankees ORG handing him that money?Nope. And shouldn't that concern? And why would you say that? It has nothing to do with the Yankees ORG being cheap, right?

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Tell me that you're not saying that they wouldn't give it to him because you think they're cheap. No, you know, you said to me, they can't afford him and what just, who was it?

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Soda. I didn't say they couldn't.

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I said they wouldn't pay. Right. And I said, look, if they're still chasing a ring, if they felt Glaibratores PERSON was the guy and money was the issue, then I'd have a problem. But I don't think they refuse to pay him because they can't afford him.I think it's just because they, rightfully so, don't think he's the guy.

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And I think the Yankees ORG are looking at, and no one wants to hear this because we all want to win. I think the Yankees ORG are looking at the incredible depth of middle infield talent that they have in the minor leagues. And that even if a guy like Ariasmight be a year away that they think that they could get by with Cabrera or somebody else you know, to do the stupid stopgap shit again as opposed to lockingup Glabre's long term. And for a guy that was the number one prospect in the organization, it was a top, I don't know if he ever hit number one in baseball,

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but he was. But he was certainly near the top of the list in baseball. I'm pretty sure he was, man. That's seven years into his career,

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that you can't sit here and say that the Yankees ORG would be stupid if they didn't sign him. You can't say that. No. That's a problem. Yeah.

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You just have much higher expectations than he's given you. And, you know, I said this to you guys. I tweeted it the other day. and and you know I said this to you guys I tweeted it the other day as much as I as much as I love and thought I wanted Volpe as a leadoff guy because clearly it's not Volpey right Volpe's great it doesn't look that way so far what do you mean I mean it doesn't look like anything is affecting Anthony Volpe PERSON. Right, right. Right, exactly.

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So I'm not saying this anything against Anthony Volpe PERSON.

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He's done everything beyond what we could imagine.

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But I tweeted this the other day that Torres batting after Soto and Judge PERSON is a liability.

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And some people took it the wrong way.

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It's not, I'm not saying necessarily that he

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ruins games or ruins rallies, which ultimately he does.

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What I'm saying more is that we have to maximize everyone's value.

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And I feel like Gleber Tora PERSON's hitting leadoff, even though his average wasn't there. Being in front of Soto and Judge and pitchers knowing that they had two of the best hitters in baseball coming up after him made his at-bats more where he was in control, if that makes sense. And I felt like you could feel that, even if he was not getting base hits.

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Well, when we sat here last week, we were talking about how he's seen the second most pitches in the league.

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Right. Right. So he just, you felt it. It felt like Glaber Torres PERSON was more in control. And batting him after all these guys, we talked about how pitchers are looking for breaks. I said, and I'll eat my words, that I liked Glaver PERSON there because I'm thinkingGlaber of last year. And I'm thinking Glaver PERSON is a good hitter. And if pitchers are going to think they're going to get a break on Glaver Torres PERSON, let them think that. And he's going to make him pay. And if he's not making him pay and he's looking this lost at the plate, he becomes a liability.

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I want everybody to listen to the words that I'm about to speak very clearly and understand them. I am not rooting against Glaver Torres PERSON. I don't have an agenda against Glaver Torres PERSON. My only agenda for Glaver Torres is for him to help the Yankees ORG win baseball games. So if he comes out here and kills the Toronto Blue Jays ORG, has a monster series,I'm going to be excited about it because I root for everybody that plays for the Yankees ORG. All I'm doing right now is pointing out a liability that has faced this team through the first 16 games of the season. And why shouldn't you?

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I mean, again, should we just sit here for an hour and just go, yeah, Yankees ORG are good? Yeah, Yankees ORG won another series. Or are we looking at this team and saying, yeah, they're fucking good. They can make a deep run in October if Cole PERSON comes back. Here's the areas wherebecause they're playing so well, we probably need to address sooner rather than later so that this team can get to where it needs to go. Do you guys see this being a problem for the foreseeable

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future for Glabortals PERSON? Do you see as you feel he'll bounce out of this? I mean, don't forget, he's also on a contract year. So once that starts nearing closer, that might start pomp it into his head if it's not already in there.

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What do you guys think? Honestly, God, Ryan PERSON, I don't know. And that's scary. Like, I can sit here and confidently tell you that I'm not worried about Aaron Judge PERSON.And I saw him kind of come out of it a little bit this series. And even if he didn't, I said that when we were when we were live on NYU on Thursday, I would still come on here and tell you I'm not worried about Aaron Judge. I don't know with him. And that scares the shit out of me because after seven years and we've done the podcast every single year that this guy has been in the big leagues, and we should have a better read on who he is and what he's capable of doing. And I can't give you a definitive answer. Yeah, that's fair.

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And again, not trying to pick on Glaber here. We all just said we think he's talented. We love the guy. Of course, we're rooting for him. I would love nothing more to be wrong about being concerned. But to me,Glaber Torres PERSON is such a depth piece in this lineup. And what I mean by that is him having good at bats, getting on base, doing some damage, brings such a different dynamic to this lineup, especially when he's lower in the lineup. Because if you have Jean-Carlo Stanton PERSON go back into a funk where he's striking out a million times and Rizzo never really picks up. And then you have after him, you have Wells or Trevino PERSON not doing much.And now we got Cabrera PERSON back in the lineup. But again, he's going to come back down to Earth LOC. We need to rely on someone down there. And I know Verdugo PERSON's going to pop some doubles. And he'll be fine. I'm not.Gleiber PERSON's the guy I'm concerned with because I expect him to bring more to this lineup than anyone, especially lower in the lineup like that, than anyone down there with him. And if he's also going to be an automatic out, then fuck it. You might as well not even send anyone up once you get down there.If all these other guys around him, again, it's not as bad right now because Cabrera PERSON's hitting, because Trevino had a home run today and whatever. But eventually, I'm telling you, Glaber Torres PERSON is going to continue to get up in big spots. And he's got to be a guy that you can be confident in. And I just don't know the last time I've been truly confident in himwhen the Yankees ORG were competitive and chasing something.

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That's a good point when the Yankees ORG were competitive that you haven't noticed him being too big of a factor.

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That's fair.

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And I'll say this to kind of wrap up this point on Glaber Torres here is that think about guys that we've spoken about on this show that I genuinely didn't like, like Washington and Aaron Hicks.

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Yeah. And what did I always say?

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I want to be wrong. Right. I want to look back at this segment, this last 20 minutes or whatever, when we spent on talking about Glaver Torres PERSON. In August, when he's had an all-star year, and he's one of the best hitters in Major League Baseball and say, hey, guys, remember that Sunday that we sat there after the Yankees had a brutal loss and we ripped Claver Torres for 20 minutes? Wow.

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And that feels, doesn't that feel like so long ago? Yeah.

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That's what I want more than anything.

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People think it's all like a gotcha moment. People think it's all like, look, you fucking idiot. No, we're not sitting here saying gotcha either. We're not sitting here saying this guy sucks and trust me he's nothing and he'll never amount to nothing. No, I'm telling you, I just said it a minute ago. In a week from now, we could be eating our words because that's how baseball goes.Glabr Torres, there is a possibility that Glabra Torres is the hero for the next three games until we record again. And it's like we're singing a completely different tune. Oh, maybe Glaber is the guy. Maybe this. That's how baseball goes. I can tell you right now it's not how we feel.And we aren't the biggest problem is exactly what you said. Christian PERSON, we're not confident that we know either way what he's capable of anymore.

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Yeah. So I asked on, I guess, excellent. I can't say Twitter ORG.

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Okay.

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So follow us there for exclusive show clips and Yankee ORG highlights.

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Is Glabertory's your biggest concern through the first 16 games?

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And 64% of the fans voted, yes, that is the biggest concern right now.

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And just to kind of go over some of the other concerns, just to get some quick takes on it, people mentioned Rizzo. I'm concerned about Rizzo, but like we mentioned, or I mentioned earlier, he's shown signs of life. Labor's not shown any signs of life so far. And that's the biggest concern. If he's had some certain moments like Rizzo's had, maybe you're not as hard on him.

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It's almost that hard. Yeah.

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The Yankees ORG bullpen depth is somebody said their bullpen depth is more concerning.

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I agree.

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I don't know if the depth is what I'm concerned about as much as their usage.

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And that is ultimately for me would be starting pitching.

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And without the one true horse in this rotation pitching right now, I mean, this is just kind of what we're looking at.

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So there was one here that I just, I don't get it, dude. And Dane PERSON said it's the closer. And I think coming in, I want to just touch on that real quick. Because I said coming into the season, my biggest concern was closer. And I'm not backing off that per se. But Clay Holmes PERSON, despite being a humanpanic attack, is getting the job done. Yeah. Whereas right now we're seeing a player that is not

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getting the job done. And it's not like when Aaron Judge PERSON wasn't getting the job done. Did you see

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Aaron Judge PERSON lack confidence out there? No, he's fucking Aaron Judge, dude.

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Do you think Labor Torres PERSON is lacking confidence right now?

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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And that's a big issue for me. Okay.

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Oh, that's the biggest issue, I think.

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And here's just one I want to, somebody said it's Boone PERSON and how he manages the pitching.

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Listen, can I just, can I just say something, please?

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Mm-hmm.

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Have we railed against Aaron Boone PERSON?

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Add nauseam on this show.

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And not yet.

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What has he done this year that's really pissed you off?

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I gotta continue to say it, man.

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I am pleasantly surprised.

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He hasn't pissed me off at all this year. I just think he's done. I think he's grabbed his balls back.

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Here's what's pissed me off.

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The name that Yankee ORG.

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That he's so good at it?

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Yeah.

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Like, do we have to hear how great he is at it every time?

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Come on. Let's fire this guy. So I'll take that.

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I think he grabbed his balls back off cashman's desk a little bit. So I know there's a few people that mentioned Boone PERSON in the comments. And I said through 16 games for a reason, because I don't think Aaron Boone has cost the Yankees any games so far this year. How could you say he did? And I think overall he's done a pretty good job managing his ball club this year.And I don't think I would say that at any point this year, based on the last couple of years of way he's handled things. So you guys have to also take things for what they are in the moment, in the vacuum. And I know that sometimes we don't do that ourselves and we want to look at a bigger picture situation. But right now while we're in the season, and we've said this 100 times,we have to react to what's happening in the moment in the season and things can change in three days. We're going to be back live on NYU on Thursday night. And Aaron Boone can shit the bed twice in Toronto GPE. And then we could sit there and rip him and say, you fucking cost us a series in Toronto GPE. But through 16 games, Aaron Boone PERSON has been a good manager. I can't believe I'm saying that, but he has been.So if the Yankees decided to ride with him for 24, I can't find a reason to say that they were wrong at this point. Will I find one throughout the course of the season? I'm sure he'll do something to aggravate me because he's Aaron Boone PERSON. But through 16 games, I can't,I would be disingenuous to tell you that I think Aaron Boone's been a problem for this team this year.

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And just to preface this, I mean, there's been times when the Yankees have been on a 10-game winning streak, and we found reasons to hate Aaron Boone and to question his moves and to scratch our heads. It has nothing to do with them being 12 and 4.It helps his case for sure. But the fact that they're to even if they're 12 and 4, if Boone was doing shit wrong in those four games that I felt he was to blame, I'd sit here and fucking bash him. I just really, I think he's just, I think he's done a really, really good job so far. Again, 16 games, but what are we supposed to do?Talk about the next 20 games, or are we talking about the 16 we just witnessed?

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And here's the biggest checkmark in the plus column for Aaron Boone PERSON, right? We're going to take him at his word that he has the final say on the lineup, right? That's what he said. So I'll take him out his word for it. You know, he gets input, but it's his final decision. Hugo who plays every day.That's what he said. So if you want to knock him for one certain things happen, you also have to say that it's his response. He gets the credit for it, right? How many punt lineups have the Yankees put out there so far this year? How many would you have expected?At least three? At least four. I'm not kidding. Four. So that's the biggest credit to Aaron Boone so far this year. There seems to be more of a commitment to taking every game serious so far this year. There seems to be more of a commitment totaking every game serious so far this year. And maybe that's Juan Soto PERSON. It is. But also Aaron Boone PERSON still writes the names in the lineup. So if those are the things he can control, thenI'm going to give him credit for it.

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You know what I... I forget how much I hate this every baseball season. My most hated thing about every baseball season is the time frame or the amount of games when you have to say, you know, whatever sentence you want to say and then you have to end it with. But I know it's early. When does that stop, do you think?

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Memorial Day.

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Is it Memorial Day?

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I always like to say Memorial Day is like a first mile marker in the season. It's not really

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early anymore at that point. I just hate being like, oh yeah, Volpe's hitting 350, but it's early. Or, you know, the Yankees are 12 and 4. They look great, but you know, it's early. I hate saying it.Oh, Boone PERSON looks like a great manager. But it's, okay, I hate the stretch of the season. At least the Yankees are 12 and 4, it's making it more enjoyable. But I can't wait to be able to dive into this team when it's no longer just early and we have a sense. And you've always said it. I agree with you 100% that, you know, the best time to start really, you know, rating and evaluating and analyzingyour team is Memorial Day weekend. That's like, that's such a good marker. And I guess we can say that for when the season's not early anymore.

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I'll say this, okay? And Wednesday's game is a 3 o'clock game, day off the next day. The Yankees ORG get through that game without a punt lineup. And I'm not talking, and Trent Grisham PERSON is terrible.

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That series. First two Yankee

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at bats, right? Two grounded into double plays. No, he's played a couple other times.

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Oh, well, he's a bum.

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And I'm not talking about Trent Grisham playing center field and judge getting a DH day. That's not, I don't consider that a punt. I'm talking about like, you know, you know,you know what a punt.

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Bertie and Cabrera PERSON in the same lineup.

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Bertie PERSON's on the I. But like if Kevin PERSON, if Kevin Smith PERSON is in the fucking lineup on Wednesday, that's a pun. The director?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the director. The director. Yeah.

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Or Jemai Jones PERSON is playing. That's a punt. You know, like. The director. The director, yeah. Jemai Jones is playing.

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That's a punt, you know.

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Right.

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If the,

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Wednesday's game is a 307 start with the off day. If the Yankees get through Wednesday with no punt, I'm going to take them super serious this year that this is,

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this is what the team is going to be like for the majority of the year.

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Agreed. So speaking of the majority of the year. Agreed.

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So speaking of that series in Toronto, the Yankees ORG will look to win a franchise record,

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six consecutive series to start the season. They've never done that before. After the series went in Cleveland GPE, they tied a franchise record. They did it a few times, but they never won six consecutive series to start a season. They'll lookto do that against Toronto GPE in Toronto GPE starting tomorrow Monday night. 7.07. He'll take the ball against Bassett. Then it would be Rodon PERSON 7.07 on Tuesday.Happy anniversary to my lovely wife. It'll be eight years on Tuesday

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and I will be spending it

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hopefully not yelling. What's their record? What's their record on your

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anniversary? I don't know. They lost on my wedding day. That's all I remember.

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Wow. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. And so

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it'll be Rodon against Kukuchi on Tuesday. And then

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to close out the series, Stroman PERSON against Gossmann

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on Wednesday. Remember, Wednesday is a 307 start followed by a day off on Thursday, and that's when we'll be back live on NYU ORG. So that's the upcoming schedule for the Yankees ORG and for us.

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So remember to make sure you're subscribed to the NYYST ORG podcast, wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss any shows throughout the course of the year. We're going to be on NYU ORG. We're going to be an audience exclusive. So if you're subscribed, you don't need to know the schedule.You're just going to get the notification. Boom, new episode. Also make sure you're subscribed to the NYU Underground on YouTube ORG. We're looking forward to seeing everybody out there in the Audi Club this coming Saturday for NYU Day. And make sure you tell everybody while you're out there at the Audi Club while you're standing online to get into Yankee Stadium FAC. Now, we are the official podcast of Odyssey ORG.

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So we want to thank everybody for their continued support of the NYUIST ORG podcast.

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We want to thank everybody. What are you laughing at?

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The official Yankee ORG podcast. Who gives a fuck? Did anybody say anything to you about it? No, no.

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They didn't say you're not.

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Are they going to,

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are they,

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did they say that we're not?

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They can't falsify it.

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They cannot falsify it, right. Okay. So we want to thankify it, right. Okay. So we want to thank you.

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Your Honor.

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Your Honor, okay. Sorry, just go.

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Just send it. Okay.

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It's like Roman Rain PERSON says. Acknowledge your tribal chief. We are the tribal chiefs of the Yankee ORG kingdom.

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Okay.

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All right. Are you going to dispute that? No.

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Okay.

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Undisputed. Undisputed. Undisputed. Thank you very much for listening to episode 379 in the NYYYST podcast, SGR ORG.

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Go yanks.

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Chris PERSON say goodbye. Peace.