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Paul Sweeney, let's do this with Michael Barr, and I'm Tom Keene in New York, and we are thrilled

to begin this special half hour of

baseball with a really interesting person. We've got St. Kennedy coming up with

the Red Sox. I called George M. Steinbrenner the third. I called Hell Steinbrenner I called George M. Steinbrenner the third. I called Hellstein Brenner. I called Henry Steinbrenner and Jennifer and Jessica and Jonesbrenner.

And we none of them would come on so we got another Yankees fan from Rome, New York.

Rob Banchette joins us.

He's got another job as the 10th Commissioner of Baseball.

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