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Now with over 200 episodes and ready to get after it again, here's your host,

Dwayne calendar.

Welcome to the show folks.

We have playoff baseball tonight. It Yankees red socks in the

opener of the wild card round one game playoff winner take all obviously Yankees traveling to Boston to play the Red Sox and

winner will go on to play Tampa Bay in a five game series. So Yankees, despite being on the road, are a slight favorite and the over-under is at eight runs.

We got Garrett Cole on the mound

for the Yankees going up against Nathan Eiavaldi.

Over under is at eight runs. I'll be perfectly honest with you guys. I told you

this from the jump. Like down the stretch the Yankees needed to win six out of their last nine games.

They barely got there. Barely because it was a one nothing victory over Tampa on the last day of the season to make sure that they didn't have to go into a playoff scenario,

one-game playoff scenario against the Blue Jays to then have to go face the Red Sox tonight.

They're going to have had a one game playoff yesterday against the Blue Jays

and then have to play a game today against the Red Sox.

That's how close they came to blowing it down the stretch. So while everyone

wants to pat themselves on the back and say how great it is of the Aanks are in the post season.

This team has horribly underachieved.

So if you want me to say that, you know,

this is a lot that they're going to win this game,

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