Today is July 18th. The Yankees take two of three from the Red Sox. People got called up. People got traded for people got hurt. Let's do it. Let's talk about the Yankees.

The Yankees won.

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The Patreon blood oath they call them. Yes. You two need to go at each other and all social media. It's official. You're linked together for life. James BBD everyone live in the chat right now. Sick of season. We're back. And man, Jimmy said it's a weird series.

And it was there's a lot of weird stuff will talk about land after Lich Jerry Springer in the crowd tonight. Holy that put some lead in my pencil. When you say that, but at the same time.

There's an odd sense of normalcy to a degree. We just came off of the All Star break, which we did a ton of crap.

Our last talking Yanks episode we recorded in Denver after the out to Vapiasco couldn't tell you a single word. I said on that we were in another studio. Everything felt to miss another state.

Another state of mind of mind as well. And the state.

And man, it's just something we genuinely haven't felt all year is like a positive recording day. I know we've gone over it a lot. And this season's had a lot of a lot of downs for the most part.

But even when they were playing well, we didn't get recording day W's and you know, I started sounding like an old man barking on the microphone and like, you know, who's hungry on this team? We got we got a bunch of fat cats. I don't know if I ever said that, but I thought things like it.

And man, this was fun. This was guys.

These were guys guys that we might have to explain to some of the audience if you weren't watching. But man, these guys fought. They won. It was starting with game two. It became kind of fun again. And these Yankees have done just enough to continue to string us along. So.

And hey, I'll take that. I will take that for now, especially leading up to the to the trade deadline because the longer they can string it along, the more hope that gives us for cashman to push some sort of button, especially as we now wait for Johnny Loss to come back.

Gio judge the COVID gang. They probably don't want to be remembered that way, but there's a little bit of hope and there's a little bit of fun today. So I'm excited. Well, yeah, I think it's not normal. We're just really in the thick of it.

So for us, it's like, yeah, it's been a weird season, but I think a lot of people look up even bought a ticket and then look up and see the lineup and say, what? Yeah, who's here? It's been five episodes since they have not lost on a record day.

Before that, it was a nice stretch. So there you go.

We got a lot to discuss. I mean, we have three games to burn and there's a lot of weird stuff going around those burns, but there's also so many grounds keeping situation.

Like they announced that O days out for the season, Britain came back.

The COVID stuff, Wondy, Lwizaga, Higgy or Shela and judge and Nester and Nester. So seven, I thought it was six. That's seven guys, right? I think Lwizaga was before the

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