7-22-24 Hour 2

Top 4 at 4 includes LeBron discussion on Team USA Goz thinks he figured out the Yankees issues Play of the Day and Levack's issue with the internet

Episode Transcript

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F MHD two obing W two foropening Fox Sports nine eighty ninety five point
nine. After fact, it's timefor the Top four four with Levac and
guzz Time with the four biggest storiesin the world of sports. It is
brought to you by Mohawk Connor,where they always go out of their way

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to please you. Guys. What'sthe fourth biggest story? I've been fighting
back and forth whether I even wantedthis one of the top four to four
because they're gonna trick me again,those national media sites and they're brainwashing of
Porcazi Bear. I'm on to younational media and how you're trying to skew
me as they regurgitate what you tellme to say. Lebron James will be

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Team of US, says flag Bearat the Paris Olympics opening ceremony coming up
on Friday, the first men's basketballplayer to carry the flag for Team USA.
Levac, What do you think,Okay? I thought so for the
whole the entire Olympic roster, forthe US. He's the guy carrying the
flag, not just the Olympic rossor for the men's basketball team or the

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women's the whole thing. If youwere an American Dan, if you were
swimming, if you were diving,if you were running. The person that
will be holding the flag is LebronJames. What do you make of this
story? I like it. Imean, who's more famous or popular than
Lebron James. I I gotta behonest with you, like you know how
you know you're getting fat and old. I saw that. I was like

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a man, that's gotta be tiring. First reaction, Yeah, your m
is probably really tired. As thatgoes, like you probably just you probably
want to put your arms down halfwaythrough, right, But you can't have
the flag down. It's a lotof work, probability the whole time.
I gotta carry it. He's anold man, He's got it. It's
a lot. It's a lot toask for an old man. Oh like,

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when we used to have the touchdownsyou have, somebody would run through
with the flag, you know,so you and I never did that.
Uh no, thank you. Thatsounds like work. My first reaction,
not oh gosh, that sounds awful, was wait, so he's light What
do you mean he's lighting the Olympictorch. That doesn't make any sense because
he's in the US and the Olympicsare in France, so if you're going

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to light the Olympic torch, you'vegot to be from France. And I
was like, no, no,no, He's carrying the flag for Team
USA. The reason I don't wantto get baited in by this truly until
like the day before. So thishappens Friday. Today is Monday. I've
never in my entire life ever anda sports radio host for ten years,
never in my life have I everheard who the person who was holding the

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flag was five days in advance.I feel like this is only a headline
because Lebron has been able to manipulatethe media to draft his son in the
NBA. Have a movie, makeit the goat conversation, like Lebron is
the best and his team of TeamLebron is the best of getting his message

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out there. The fact that thelast month has been about whether he won't
or will sign with the Lakers,now that his son's been drafted, his
son's highlights, and now he's carryingthe flag bell Does someone know something of
a YESPN about Lebron or vice versa? Is Brian Windhorse? Okay? I
just never have heard of mining tyle. If it's a great honor, it's
incredible. Well, but I'm justI've never heard of someone getting talked about

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five days in advance of an eventof holding the American flag. Well,
I think you're right. I thinkyou know, in the in the past,
it's probably been you know, agreat sprinter, a great pole vaulter,
a great whatever. Who if you'rewatching the olympics's like, oh cool,
there's you know, Bobby and mcpolevault. That's he's awesome. I
love that guy. But like historicallyspeaking, you probably don't really know them.

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Where this is one where it's atrue celebrity, a you know is
the name. So the story isthe story because it's cool and because yeah,
everybody knows Lebron. So when thatwhen the flag comes out, everybody
knows who they're gonna see you carry. It's gonna be you know, seven
foot Lebron or six nine or wherethe hell he is. There's sports that

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go on in the Olympics that peopleget super excited about only probably once every
four years. The opening ceremonies arepretty awesome, like the Parade of countries
as Actually for some people who won'tever I feel like there's a lot of
people do oh, I can't waitto watch the Olympics. I'm locked in
in your home for the Olympics isright here. iHeartMedia. People want to
hear the updates and but there arepeople who love the opening ceremonies just as

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much as the competition because it isa unifying moment that the whole world is
watching this. It's prett cool.I do. I do love the you
know you see like, yeah,here comes the United States with seven thousand
athletes. Here's Botswana with two athletes. It's like, hey, can we
just walk with them? Please?Can we? Do? You have to

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point out that we have nobody?Why does he have a shirt on?
By the way, where's that oiledup guy from one of those islands where
that guy you went viral? Remember, Yeah, I'm just saying Longa.
I think his name was Oh remember, I just say it. It's like
always fun to see, like herecomes the Soviet Union, which I do.
It's not think anymore. But it'slike eight thousand people and then here
comes You're Aguay twenty five people.What's up? Man? So it was

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fun like there comes Dave. Whatdo you mean Dave David is from Portugal.
They had a rough year. It'sonly one dude from Portugal this year.
Sorry, the year is twenty fortyfour. People are no longer talking
about their genders being assigned. They'remaking their own countries. They've all gone
independent. I believe there actually isan independent athlete one. I think Russian

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athletes had to do that to compete. Oh, all right, there's your
Olympic up date. Let's move ona story over you, Levac. We
can dive deeper into this one eitherthe four or five o'clock hour. There's
a lot to talk about here,especially with the Green Bay Packers being a
national brand. Reports coming out ofpacker camp that Jordan Love's not showing up.
Jordan Love won't practice without a newdeal, But the Green Bay Packers
are optimistic about this mac. Whatdo you make of this? Jordan Love

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signed a new deal last year withthe Green Bay Packers. Doesn't feel like
he wants to talk to reporters.Do I want to do it? Doesn't
want to go show up. Love, by the way, could potentially get
one of the biggest contracts in thehistory of the league. He's been watching
these guys like Trevor Lawrence and JoeBurrow signed some fifty million dollar deals.
What do you make of Love's stanceabout no new deal, no practice for

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me. I don't know if you'veworded it as great as I did,
but I believe it's uh no lovefor green Bay. Huh eh eh.
I think what this boils down tois he signed a two year show me
deal and then through for four andfifty nine yards, thirty two touchdowns eleven

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picks with a QBR sixty two.AKA, I showed you already give me
my money, So I think it'sI think it's gonna get done. I
don't know if it's gonna be thebiggest contract ever, but he's gonna get
paid. I want this to dragout why. I want there's to be
some drama. I'd got him inmy keeper league. I need him to

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be good. I want the behindthe scenes. We're just talking about hard
Knocks throughout the week. By theway, I want to talk to you
about that in the third hour comingup, I alway get more busy,
maybe like five fifteen. I wantto get your take on hard Knocks.
I want Jordan Love's real take onwhat he thinks about the Packers because he
is good. I think he's gonnahave the best year of his career if
he gets out on the field thisyear, Green Bay's poised to be really

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good. But I can't imagine,like the conversations like, look, Jordan,
you just haven't proved it enough,Like you really didn't play that much
early in your career. No,because of you guys. You guys kept
Rogers. What do you mean thenyou gave Rogers to do. I didn't
play because of you guys. AndI asked me why I don't have enough
experience. You are the reason Idon't have experience. You already had your

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discount double check, get out ofmy way. Didn't you watch the game
where Rogers's leg exploded? Yeah,but I heard he could have came back
from what the injury. Like,I want to be in the room with
Jordan Love. They gotta be hilarious, not for him or for Packer fans
or for his agent, but forour For me, I feel like they
gotta be like out about talking abouthis I don't think he's getting it either.

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Oh no, he's getting it.If I was Green Bay, you
gotta think about this team. Ifyou're gonna pay him fifty million dollars for
one good season when he sat onyour bench for three years. You don't
think you can get somebody cheaper.You don't think somebody maybe two what becomes
a free agent? Maybe you finallydecided in the first round to get a
young prospect with four or five goodones. Gosh, I don't know if

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they're gonna pay him, but youdrafted him. He's done everything you've asked
me to do, and then someand and now he looks really good either.
What it comes down to, Hey, what do you think, Lavert?
Is that your guy? Yeah?Asks my guy? Okay, rock
and roll. We're going forward thePackers. We did this on our preview
show, and I'm not going toback down from this yet. Packers could
be a playoff team, all right, excuse me, not just the playoff
team, a super Bowl contender.You want to go Joe Flacco's style.

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You want to go Lamark Jackson style. You want to bet on yourself one
more season? What about Gingham style? Well? Is that still the most
view video on YouTube? I don'tknow. Do you know? What does
the Fox say? Do you knowthat video? Big Ning Ning? I
showed that to somebody the other day. They're like, oh my god,
where do you find this stuff showingyour kids? I'm like, this is
like the most watched video in likeYouTube history. It's like Baby Shark Gangdom

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style and that. Let's move ona story. Number two. The New
York Mets take on the Miami Marlin'ssix forty first pitch step for this game
at David Peterson on the mound forthe Mets Tonight, Met fans, it
is not an illusion. We usedto play a game called Monday mirage is
here on Mondays. This is nota mirage. If you open up your
app and you look at the NationalLeague wildcard standings, that is you the

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New York Mets in line to bea playoff team. As you get ready
to continue to embark. By theway, if you missed it earlier in
the show, Lavac and I arecompeting in a home run league, survivor
style league. We both picked PeteAlonzo thinking he'd redeem himself this week following
his effort in the home run derby. I guess the effort was fine.
Performance wasn't very good. Interesting serieshere with the Marlins Vack. I know
We've talked a lot about what itmeant earlier in the season, but New

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York in position to let's do itcontrol their own destiny. Yeah, comes
to the playoffs in the postseason.Yeah, Junior is getting all salty on
me too about it. I don'tknow how I feel about that. Like
Mets fan is the Met's fan wentfrom we have nothing to live for too?
Yeah, what's up? We gota spot. We're in BAH.
It's like, come on, youguys, lived somewhere in the gray for

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a little while. It's just fora little while. It's all I'm asking.
I was gonna say, you knowwhat, Mets fans enjoy this.
This will be fine. And thenI remember three months ago, No,
Mets fans, it's over. You'redone. You guys stink it's terrible.
You know, I did this abouttwo teams. I did that about the
Mets, and I did it aboutthe Astros. Remember the Astros. I
officially pronounced dead on this show.I was mister Astro the Houston Astros in

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twenty twenty four and Trevor Lawrence.Those are the only two takes I've ever
flip flopped on. I'm positive ofthat. Trevor Lawrence number one flip floppy
take, and me officially declaring thetwenty twenty four Houston Astros out of it
in debt after I thought they couldcome back. The best part about the
Astros, though, is like youhated them when they were good, yes,
then you loved them when they suckedye, and then you hated them

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again and then they became good.Here could you hate my Yankees? Please?
Let's talk about your Yankees for storynumber one, The Yankees in an
afternoon Monday game, Thanks a LotAfternoon the Light was the first Monday game
they played it all summer, feltlike nine to one final. I got
a lot to say about the Yankees. Usually that's you. I have a
lot to say about this New YorkYankee, not just this game today,

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but Lavac, I've noticed something aboutthis Yankee team. I'm curious if you're
gonna say, huh, maybe thatis true about them, or you're gonna
give me a big old fashion Well, let's find that out next. But
as you know, is the Yankeefans and this Firebirds fans, we only
care about one thing, and that'sthe ring baby. Guys, she probably

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only cares about the ring too.Lilli and David find Juli's gonna help you
find the ring for her. Isaw these wonderful pictures from this girl Lexa
on social media. She got engagedwith We shared her story a few times
before and her now fiance Ben.There are certain ladies out there, and
you know he might be in therelationship with what we're We're not gonna judge
you the moment she gets engaged.That's all over social media, Facebook,

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her Instagram. She just made aTikTok. He did a thing rings up
save the day. There are certainladies out there. You might be dayly
put a ring on it. I'mnot shaming you. I'm saying that she's
gonna share that ring all over socialmedia and there are gonna be people that
are gonna judge. Ooh, youdon't want that happening, Lillian, David

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find Julie can help you. Makesure you get compliments and from random people
on social media who say, oh, I love your ring. Where'd you
get your ring? What a beautifulring. That might not seem very important
to you, guys, but trustme, that's gonna last on her and
you're gonna hear Oh my gosh,did you hear what Cindy said on here?
Where did you go? By theway for my ring? Lili and
David find Julius. The answer toyou can get compliments and she can too.

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I know from experience. Stopped inthere, didn't know what I was
doing. When the grandma, whenthe mom, when the cousins, when
the sisters starts saying how beautiful aring is? You know you got it
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Never sound It's so good Now backto Levac and Guz. On ninety five
nine and nine eighty AM Fox SportsRadio, The New York Yankees beat to
the Tampa bay Rays nine to onetoday on Homer's from Austin Wells Volpe.

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Also Le Mayhew, you know hisslump a little bit with a home run
and two bombs from a Juan Soto. That's right, long ball getting it
done. Carlos Rodon finally goes outand has a good outing seven innings,
two hits, one run, onlyone earned, two walks, ten strikeouts,

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gave him a home run, butall in all the Yankees look good
today, splitting this series with theTampa bay Rays. How do you?
How do you like me? Now? Everyone's here? Oh the that's are
the wild card? Hud. TheYankees have the number one wild card okay,
or after having such a bad goof it, only a game and
a half back for the filthy Orioles. Something dawned on me over the last

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day or so and puts the otheron today. This polo is old,
but that fine. Maybe ually they'relike pacing with the Yankees, but everybody's
leaving them alone. Maybe Yankee fansrealized this the entire season. Maybe it's

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just jumped out to me as Itry to figure out why are the Yankees
not playing well? I jumped outto you. Did you kind of fright
me? Why did the Yankees struggleso much from June to the All Star
Break? What was going on?Sherlock Gazi Bear? May you have cracked
the code? Here? Are theYankees just super top heavy? Like?
Are the Yankees? I'm not talkingjust hell not like that. That's not

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you kt top heavy over there.Maybe those two rosters just not as good
as I thought it was all seasonlong. Maybe this is what I've realized,
because I'll give you four players,Okay, these four players no particular
order, Garrett Cole, Aaron Judge, Juan Soto. I'll put Stanton in

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there. Okay, he is hurt, so you can take him out if
you want. But just for thesake of this conversation, I was gonna
put him in, but you knowwhat, let's do it instead. You
know what, he's out. He'sout of that conversation, Soto, Judge,
Cole, what's everybody else? Like? When you look at this lot,
I texted you this the other night. I said, wait a second,
is Ben Rice really leading off?Is he really? Wait? Today,

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Austin Wells was the cleanup hitter.So when you start hearing these things
like Aaron Judge thirty five home runs, most home runs by Yankee ever before
the All Star breakpot's pretty good.Jan Soda could be become the first player
in Major League Baseball history to bepaid a half a billion dollars. Whoa
Garrett Cole arguably the best pitcher inbaseball? That's awesome. And then that

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they're a huge trap off of theback Ben Rice, Austin Wells, no
hustle, Grisham. Maybe this hasbeen a top heavy roster the entire season.
Maybe the lack of balance hasn't beenthere. Maybe if Sodo and Judge
and again Stanton, that's why Iwent back and forth. If they're not
good, oh man, Like BenRice has had some good games. He

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had a multiple home run game earlierthis summer earlier this month. There's a
reason Austin Wells in the cleve upspot. Maybe this team has been so
top heavy the entire season and it'snow wildly obvious that they got a couple
guys and then everybody else is averagedbelow average. I think Volpa is good.
I think I think Glaborer they shouldhave got rid of a while ago.

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I think le Mayhew is obviously gettingolder than than you'd like right before
your eyes. Give me the teamthat Aaron, Judge and want so to
aren't the top two players song,Probably the Dodgers and that's it. And
even that, I would, youknow, I would argue with the way

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Judge is playing this year, probablynot, you know, but like,
eh, no, you got tworeally good players. Okay, thanks?
Oh Tani did hit one to themoon last night? I saw it four
hundred and eighty feet. I haven'tseen a land yet. I just don't
point out the muni the moon isfarther away than quarter eighty feet for anyone
listening to thought gods is giving outscientific facts. That's not it's a little

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farther. It's at least four milesat least you're no I mean, there's
definitely weaknesses in this lineup, likeLabor Torres. Again, you probably should
have got a while ago. DJthe Mayhew's getting older, but Alx Radugo
was an upgrade. Anthony volpe Isis a up and comer. You can
feel it. There's not having Stantonis a huge is a huge problem because

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there was a point where you're tryingout a lineup where Okay, I'm not
gonna pitch to judge. Okay,well you're gonna have to pitch the Sota
all right. Well I'm not gonnabitch to him either. Okay, Well,
now you got a man on firstand second with Stanton coming up and
standing to hitting the ball harder thananyone else that was actual thring. His
exit velocity was the highest in baseball. Like, there's all these things going
on. Him not being there iskind of extentially the fact that Anthony Rizzo

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is not right, Ben Rice hashad a bad game. Say he's a
young kid. We don't know whathe really is. There's a lot.
There's a lot to it. Butyou still are this juggernaut, right,
I mean, this is the teamthat came out and had the best record
in baseball. There still that team. They are. They're one of two

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teams in all of baseball with aplus one hundred or better run differential so
and the other one's potentially the bestteam in baseball right now, the Philadelphi
Phillies. So like they're still they'reare good team. They just everything went
at once. Carlos Rodown stopped pitchingright, Garrett Cole didn't look right,

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all this stuff, Like all thesethings happened at once. The bullpens started
a little tired. I I thinkit's gonna be fun. Everybody's gonna quit
on them, and they're gonna comeback and they're gonna barnstorm if this is
the roster that they want, ifthey say, look at this roster,
Okay, goss is a fool.It's not as top heavy as you think

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it is. Again, that's whyI feel like Yankee Fan is kind of
fifty to fifty on this. Eitherit's dull of course it's top heavy,
or no it's not. You're notgiving them enough credit for what they've done
on the conference season. Like yousaid, still the top team in the
Wildcard, arguably still top three teamin the goes Highest Marjor League. Baseball
we will say the American League thatthis roster can't get better. There are
definitely weaknesses. There are things thatcan be fixed. Balance would be nice,

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Like you build balance through the farmsystem. You build balance through developing
guys through double and triple A.Can Jason Domingez play another I know he
got well. I believe he's goingoff an injury too. That would have
been a badly timed injury by him. Can't you move him around? Because
they've had some prospects that have hit. It just doesn't feel as balanced as
before. And I don't know what'sgoing to fix that because now there's rumors.

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I don't know if you heard thisrumor that's floating around this one's floating
around Cleveland. This is very muchagainst what that franchise has done. There
are talks that Cleveland may be thefront runner to get Vlad Junior now that
the Blue Jays don't want to tradehim to a team within their division,
which makes sense. Cleveland hasn't beenknown to be very aggressive at the deadline.

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However, probably since the date gosh, remember Andrew Miller, isn't that
his name? The orber Yankee pitcher. They made a deal four they thought
he'd be the difference for that uhthan Indian team. How dare I say
that word that Indian team back inthe mid twenty tens. That's a huge
factor in this too. Is Clevelandgonna start driving the price up because their
prospect system is a little bit betterthan the Yankees for Vlad Junior. It's

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a good team. It's not agreat team. It's top heavy, but
baseball, you can also win,like you can win with just Soto,
Judge Cole and hope you beat teamslike six' three, five to four.
Your pitching's gotta be fantastic, though, it's gonna be lights out if
you've got a bunch of sluggers likethat. Hey, all right, so
what do you what do you you'reasking me if if it's too top heavy

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that because of the injury to Stanton, because of Labor playing so poorly,
is this team in need of afix now for the lineup in comparison to
something else before? Like, areyou now even though they're the top team
in the wildcard Oh my gosh,guys, they need so and sowhere else.
This team's gonna collapse in the postseason, all right, I don't think
they're too top heavy, because thoseare just awesome players. You need Vultpay

(28:06):
to start hitting again. You needdu Goo to hit. I mean,
you look at what happened today.You need what happened today basically to happen.
Ben Rice didn't do anything. I'dlike for him to do something.
Sodo goes off for two home runs, Judge has two hits, Wells News
three for five, Vaultpay two forfour, verdu Go one for three,

(28:26):
Orlando Cabrera two for four. Imean, even Grisham and LeMay you have
hits. They runners in scoring position. They were two for ten. That's
not great. But still, whenyou're hitting the ball out of the parking
for five seconds, it don't matter. They need everyone to play a little
bit better, or they need tobreak out some small ball. And I

(28:47):
don't see small ball coming. Sothey need everyone to start playing up to
the back of their baseball card.If that'd be the case, they'll be
fine. I just I think it'sI think it's interesting that this team was
a dominant force that everyone thought wasgonna go ahead and just steamroll everyone.
Gihn Carlos stated, and Anthony Rizzobeing out that's the biggest difference. Cole's

(29:10):
back the mingas who knows when he'sgonna make his way up, hopefully soon.
There's just it's very convenient that aslumping team is just dead. They're
just dead. It's just there's nothing, nothing can come of it. I
think that they're fine. Did yousee the Severino thing? No, so
apparently like some current Yankees and somefour former Yankees are still in group chats,

(29:36):
and one of them Severino and soso he didn't say who, but
somebody's talking smack to him, likeyou're lucky you're missing us because when the
Mets play the Yankees, he won'tbe one of the pitchers the face of
the Yankees, to which he replied, you only have like two guys.
I could get through those. Icould walk them like something that like I
am right now. But it's likeand it severnal point. He's like,

(29:56):
I'm kidding. It's friends, thisis what we do. But I think
it's I think that's Verdugo has alwaysbeen a little streaky. Volpe. Young
Rice is young. These guys couldare gonna come around, and when they
do, everything will click. Inmy opinion, Cole had a good outing.
Now now Rowdwind's had a good outingNester. To Cortez, it was

(30:18):
one thing when you can only pitchit home. Now I can't even do
that. I think you'll make acouple moves. You bring in a corner
infielder, you're bringing a starter.I think the Yankees will be good to
go bring to find out this summer, if Cashman designs, if Cleveland really
is didn't play, if they're reallyjust trying to do a bluff, if
they have enough to make the move, if even these guys who feel top

(30:41):
heavy at the top of the order, somebody can step up. Like when
I say top heavy two, thereare some Yankee fans who hear that and
can say, you know what.That was a criticism at times of the
ninety six Yankees, right, likeif they were breaking out and had make
their own names in the league andthey were too young, Like that was
a criticism of the ninety six Yankee. Now when the late nineties early two

(31:02):
thousand Yankees came across, there wereguys who were in bad players like I
was thinking about like Layer, it'sa brocious Like Okay, you could have
said there were better guys than thelineup, but we were the ones who
had the big hits when it mattered, the always found the right guy.
Yes, Shane Spencer Leer. It'sbercious, just one after another after another.
They were there and they and theyworked. It was they. They
were on a hot streak of findingthe right guy at the right time.

(31:26):
I'm not convinced that we're done withthat. And again, I'm just waiting.
Everybody has to give up on themand then they'll go on a run.
This is what it this is,This is what it do, yo,
this is how it goes me fromtwenty minutes ago. Gods, that's
the clear of the Yankees out ofthe wild card chance, just like you
did to the Gas Drolls, justlike you did do now handsomely played paid
Trevor Lawrence and the Yankees will comeback. I'm not doing that. This

(31:48):
is reverse to the reverse of thejinks. I'm not declaring the Yankees out
of it because they have too muchwagered on this. Helvi me, you
and my team's in the mixer atthe Orioles, all right. So it's
uh, it's Heel and Cole versusQuintana and Manaya. The Yankees Mets Tuesday,
Wednesday, That's that's Yankees all day. Cortes Veo for the for the

(32:14):
Red Sox series, I don't lovethat Stroman Crawford. Stroman's hit her mess
literally and then Rodan. I thinkif he can start doing this, you
get Rodin and Cole out there doingwhat they're doing, it's gonna be fine.
I would lean towards advantage Mets formost of the I want to make
sure Rodin's not gonna start against theMets. Is he on Wednesday? Louis

(32:35):
heel And is going against Quintana.Then Cole's going to Mana. Yep,
that's what I thought. You're givingthe You're giving the bump to the Mets.
No, no, no, Iwas gonna to the Yankees. But
I was like, wait a seconhe just said Rodin, because I do
not feel this is gonna pitch againstthe Red Sox. Oh yeah, I
think they're in trouble in that oneboss h New York. I think Rodan's
got some uh some issues still goingon. I don't know. I felt

(32:55):
I felt more confident in him earlierthis summer. I thought he kicked out
he's a wrestling term. Remember therewas like the one bat at bat one
beat pitch like my confidence has fallenon Carlos and rolled down. That's fine,
That's what I like. That's whatI like. You give up on
him. The old Gazi Bear reversecurse. I like it. It said

(33:17):
I wasn't gonna do that. Ijust really just said it, and I
just did it to row Don.I'm like, he's done, he's finished.
Let's go Sunday night against the RedSox. Take it six days away,
play the day. Can't wait,can't wait. I'm gonna tell you
about uh a air quote first wordworld horrible experience I had with yesterday's Yankees

(33:37):
game that is coming up, Butright now I want to tell you about
us X past Control. Yeah,man, what is this is? When
you know something works somehow? Hehad flies in the house, A bunch
of flies like not Amityville Horror,bunch of flies here's the movie, Yes,
but like too many. So mydaughter's like, my daughter texted me

(33:57):
while I'm in Jersey, Dad,you gotta talk to USX pest control.
We got flies in the house.I go way like three four whatever,
She's there's at least ten fifteen.There's a problem. I know USX will
fix it in the old days tobe dad, I don't know what the
hell do. Can you take careof this whatever? Now it's not that
anymore. Can USX past control takecare because she knows they will the mosquitos,

(34:19):
No ticks in the backyard, nobats in the attic, no mice
in the house. House under control. Somehow flies get in. My daughter's
ready to call USX. How oftenhas this happened where you're like, you're
going to somebody's house, maybe it'seven your own home, and you're so
used to getting bit or something's poppingup or a pest, it becomes second
nature to you, like, okay, here it comes, look over here,

(34:39):
all right, start slapping. I'vewatched people who just start instinctively start
hitting themselves or rubbing themselves, like, oh, I know I'm gonna get
bet. I know I'm gonna getbit here. I'm gonna do this house
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(35:00):
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Remember that summer your finger blew up? Hey, remember that summer this was
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(35:20):
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(40:14):
Chevrolet. You gotta let's drive atMark Chevy where they always go out of
their way to please you. Beforewe get into that, two notes from
Yankees Baseball. So we were doingthe show, we didn't get to to
see or hear this. Jose Sirihits a home run for the Rays and
goes into a full celebration. MichaelKa takes an issue with it, quote,

(40:37):
you're losing. I mean they're actinglike it's Marty Ground that dugout.
You're losing the game. Sei.I guess it's becoming like public Enemy Number
one of the Yankees. The Yankeefans, they don't like him. He
shows off all the time. He'scelebrating a little too much in the wrong
time. So Yankee fans new publicenemy is a Ray and his name is

(40:58):
Siri. If the Ring were better, if the Rains were contending this year
for the American League East, I'dget with that. It's cool gotta go
after him and not the year.But if you feel like he's trying to
show you up, why not?Why not? He doesn't have to be
your only enemy. He's just oneof them. But you hate him too.

(41:19):
I don't know if this is gonnacome back again later this season.
I would assume there's one more seriesat least left with the Rains of this
season. Maybe we'll see it plunked. Yeah, yeah, see it's been
planted a little uh little baseball justiceI went a little baseball justice against my
internet provider for yesterday. I was, I was home, I was doing
some stuff, and I was itwasn't a TV. I was. I

(41:43):
had the app on. So I'mwatching the Yankees. They're down six to
four, ninth inning. Soto's onsecond. Judge at the play and he's
getting some good cuts. So I'msorry to pay a little extra attention.
Pitch swing. You hear the crack, it's it's going. This thing's moving.

(42:07):
Everybody starts going nuts, freezes,pinwheel of death. No, but
I'm like sitting there. I'm like, so, I'm trying to find like
pulling up you know whatever on thewatch or anything else, like wherever I
can find a score, because that'sobviously home run. We're tied. We're
six six now with the nancative achance to win this game in the bottom
of the ninth, maybe take anextra innings, play softball rules with the

(42:30):
guy on second. I'm like,I'm all fine, up wheel stops.
Austin Wells is up the pit,so to still on second. I have
no idea how Judge got out.I just know he didn't in a home
run way. It looked it wasit was like when you used to listen
to John Sterling. It's going,It's back. It's God, It's back.

(42:52):
And like he paused, like whathappened is home run? Right?
That's home songing his home run?Hey got him on the just on the
back of the infield grass, Likethat's what it was? So obnoxious,
man, I was so mad.I was. I was, I was
cussing, I was swearing. Mydaughter's like, what happened? All the
Yanki's lost. I'm like, well, yeah, but that's not what made

(43:13):
me mad. It was that thismoment I thought I had, I thought
I was a part of it,and it was taken away from me.
There's positives and negatives of living inthe tech world as a sportsman in twenty
twenty four. You can watch ithowever you want, you can have mobility
with it, you can listen,But then moments like that, No,
these tech gods have taken it awayfrom me. How dare you? I'm

(43:37):
convinced if people want to ask you, why people don't watch things live anymore,
and I know that's more sitcoms anddramas than television shows rather than live
sporting events. I've convinced myself thatthe people who stream and watch it off
their phone or chrome cast it orwhatever you're doing, I'm convinced there's a
lag time between it. Like ifyou've got it hooked up to the Roku
or the PlayStation five or whatever,I'm sure that doesn't exist. But if

(43:58):
you're rolling off the phone onto thetelevision, are off the phone, somebody's
smarter than me can explain. I'mabsolutely right about that. These are the
prices we pays trying to watch thingsand be more tech savvy with our sports
consumption. I'm getting like now I'mgetting filled in on everything for today,
because again we were meetings and thenwe had the show, so we didn't
get to see what was going onwith the Yankee game. Juan Soto basically

(44:21):
walked around the bases after his homerun to mock Jose Siri. So this
is real. They hate Siri.I think it's got to be. It's
the weirdest year because not only ifyou're a Yankee fan and you're trying to
predict what God was trying to predictearlier. Are they good? Are they
bad? What are they? Arethey top heavy or this that, but

(44:42):
you're also trying to figure out,like are they going to get you able
to keep one Soto? Do theywant to keep one Sodo? I see
something like this and I feel likehe's just all in. Like it feels
like he's all in with the Yankees. They probably have to prove that they
can they can fix whatever the heckwent wrong this year. But like the
fact that he the one who makesa statement by by trotting and you know

(45:04):
the point of the whole nine justhe went off like this was clearly a
bleep you to to Jose embracing theculture here we call it right like that.
That's the way certain people, andthe Yankees take grief for this.
Certain people don't want to embrace theYankee culture for whatever that means. And
how different players from different backgrounds andgenerations view that statement of embracing being a

(45:27):
Yankee. It seems like from asituation like today, Soda is embracing it
and that might be the biggest copthe best thing Yankee Vans. What a
year, because that makes that anegotiation far year say, oh man,
I just thought about this too well. I didn't pull this audio, and
I know you and I texted aboutthis. Scott Boris. Is that the
Hall of Fame, we'll say,we'll say his name. Mike Linsley had
said to along, what are yougonna pay him a billion dollars? And

(45:50):
then it was just quiet. Itwas just dead silence about Sodo. Soto
did not offer up any type ofink lean as to whether or not there
are negotiations going on now to themedia at Cooperstown involving his client Wan Soto
and the Yankees. I mean,you know it's gonna be a ridiculous amount
of money. But let's say heSoto has a great year and you and

(46:10):
you still you you get blown outin the wild card round. You can't
pay him, right, what's thedifference? Why pay a guy seven hundred
million dollars if he's not gonna win? Makes that team more top heavy,
makes that team. But whatever theYankee organization wants to do and make movement
with that, that is uh,going back to the point where we're getting
at earlier. If they make abig, huge move, the big splash.

(46:32):
But did you just get tricked byScott Boris because well, he said
he was gonna be the best,so we gave him a ton of money.
Those are situations Yankee fans are potentiallylooking at in the future speaking about
Levic. Did you see this overthe weekend about team Did you have another
one? By the way, butyou had three? Oh, I'm good
right now? You want to play? I do want to play, but

(46:53):
I gotta add this real quick.Did you see Team USA almost lost one
of the greatest upsets in basketball history? Yes, South Sudan. Well,
Team USA continues to struggle right now, they're losing to Germany. Oh,
no, seventy one to seventy withagainst Germany, the team wars Team USA
just had a free throw. It'sseventy one a piece. You know what,

(47:14):
maybe I made a mistake there.How I even presented the story anytime
Team USA is losing or not blowingout a team or struggling, right,
that's I have to phrase it becauseit's Team USA. Yes, they should
be blowing out everyone. They shouldnot be close. It's all about us.
Did you know Lebron James is goingto carry the flag for the entire

(47:35):
country. He also made the gamewinning layup against South Sudan. That's why
I was phrasing a year old basketballplayer to save the day. Come on,
man, come on, Germany canplay. Wagner out there making place.
Yeah, how's he done? Haw'she doing? The actual NBA?

(47:55):
Allegedly he got paid. I thoughtsomebody paid him recently. Yeah, still
ridiculousdiculous getting a bay ridiculous. Weshould be blowing everybody out first. You
know what it was? It wasthat under twenty tackle football team. They
lose. Now everybody in America thinksit's okay to lose. Make America great

(48:17):
again? Just winning things. Idon't I don't care about anything else.
Tough time for America, isn't itus say? Basketball is not playing great?
According to nuts, it's a lotother weird stuff's going on in the
world. I mean, listen,let's move on to to play of the
day thanks to Yay plus four twentyPolar Bear home run? Oh he does?

(48:38):
What? Hold on? Are weride of this all week? Are
we gonna do this all week long? Because you and I both not even
speaking to each other about this?Artists Survivor pool at Pete Alonzo? Are
we gonna roll with Peter Alonzo everyday until he hits the home run?
Then get off it? No,because he's in a hit tonight. We're
gonna be done. It'd be awesome. It would be awesome. It's happening.

(49:01):
Come on, I'm telling you,let's go. Are you know what?
Levec mark this down, Ryan,mark this down. My original play
was gonna be the Pittsburgh Pirates witha win tonight against the Saint Louis Cardinals
Pirates at home, six forty.First pitch, Mitch Keller add him to
the great Pirate pitchers. There's alot of peace there. Ten and five,

(49:22):
ten and five on the season.I was gonna just take money line
Pirates, but that's minus one thirty. Then I was gonna take the under
and total runs at eight and ahalf. I want to parlay under eight
and a half minus one thirty anda peed a Lonza home run. I
didn't do the odds on it.I'm gonna have somebody else do it for
me. So I'm gonna do alittle bit higher than what Levec's parlay was.

(49:44):
Oh, it's not parlay, it'sone play, Pittsburgh parlay p de
Alonzo poping a home run. Yeah, p So there's my parlay. I
just changed it just so I couldhave a higher payoff than Love's. I
don't like it. I don't understandyour competitive thing you're doing. I don't
know why it's funny with me.I'm trying to put money on my account
so I can Are you using acancel the credit card? No, I'm

(50:07):
not that dumb. All right,I've had that issue before. Uh,
he's the wrong Huh, all right, I'll figure it out. Not worried
about it. It will happen whenit happens. Got your player to the
day, Player to day brought toyou by mohawks, lay together to drive
at Molochuchev. You were there,always got out of their way to please

(50:30):
you. I was insulted the otherday of the back by my sleeping habits.
My sister in law said, oh, you snore, and it's pretty
impressive how loud it is. I'mlike, what it's not. It's not
an insult, it's that's she's tryingto help you. No, no,
no, I was sitting the wrongway on the couch. What happened was
you were sitting up in storing.No, like, here's the problem.
The recliner was leaning a certain wayand I just didn't move into time,

(50:51):
and I took Nike will I don'tknow, but I got a lot of
excuses. If you take Nickeil,you should just be out like there shouldn't
be any problems. Maybe I think, maybe, just maybe you have destructive
sleep, abne, and I thinkit's time that you that you, you
know, make the call five doctorFred Drew and the Degrave Sleep Center and
bosses. But they know who youare, guys, they know they're onto

(51:13):
you, and they're like, listen, we know we can help him.
Mouthpiece keeps the airway open. It'slisten. This has got you writ all
over it. It's easy. Youdon't like difficult things. You like easy
things. This is easy. Youput a mouth beets in and you stop
snoring. You want to scare thein laws out of the house, don't
put the mouth beets in. Fallasleep on the couch again. But the
difference when you stop when you stopbreathing is bad for your health. I'm

(51:37):
glad you had at that part becausethat's second option there did not sound like
a bad idea. Well, yeah, but now you're rested too. When
you decide to sleep and not haveto worry about it and get it all
taken care of for yourself. Youdeserve to sleep your How about the wife
poor your poor beautiful wife. She'suh thirty months pregnant, and she got

(51:58):
listening to you snore every night.That of getting a good night's sleep?
Is that why she wanted to beon the recliner says this is all kind
of ending up now. I'm betterdoing this together because I'm starting to piece
it together eighty five six twenty five. This is how you get it done.
No masks, no surgery, nohoses, no wires. It's an
easy mouthpiece, keeps the airway open. You start sleeping better, and the
story is under control. Maybe,just maybe you get back into the bedroom.

(52:21):
Maybe, and then you guys canwork on baby Quattro and baby Sinco
and say so's and all those otherones. That's too hot five six five.
Diplomat of dental sleep medicine, doctorFred Dreer, helping me sleep better.
It's gonna help God sleep better too. Texting pricy policy