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Trade deadline week is fucking nuts. And Tommy, you went home, I was packing my things up

and all of a sudden, Brian Cashman decided to trade for Anthony Fucking Rizzo.

Absolutely nowhere. It's quite possibly the most Brian Cash move I think I've ever seen where

you didn't hear an inkling that they were connected to Anthony Rizzo once.

All you heard was red socks, they needed first basement, all this. Brian Cash goes, nah,

I'm gonna step right in here. I'm gonna take these guys. You take two minor leakers that are years

away from coming up here. You're gonna pick up the check too and we're gonna get Anthony Rizzo.

An unbelievable lefty first basement who does everything the Yankees could possibly need,

plays good defense, he's a fucking gamer, hits for a high average, grinds at a bats,

a clutch player, a fucking winner, a world series champion, and he's a New York Yankee,

I have absolutely clouds your reaction, Tommy. I am so excited. This is the move I wanted the Yankees

to make. I had my reservations about Gallo, I was happy about it, but I, you know, I wasn't

completely sold with that move along with it. This is the fucking move I've been waiting for the Yankees

to make. Anthony Rizzo is a gamer, he's a competitor, he's a winner, he's a lefty back that the

Yankees need, he's a grindery, grinds out at bathe. He does hit like, I know people are tweeting

they're like, oh, you're like his 248 average, 250 average for what a fucking batting title on this Yankee

team to be honest with you. He's a career 270 hitter, he's shown that he can hit for a higher average,

he does get on base a lot too, he has power, he's clutch, he just sounds like a new, he was born

to be a New York Yankee. Anthony Rizzo is the perfect New York Yankee game, he sounds like he

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