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We thank you for joining us on this Monday, July 21st, 2025. What a weekend. What an upcoming week. A lot of stuff to do, a lot of stuff to talk about. Want to get right to it? Or do you want to go through pleasantries? It's up to you. I think we go right to it. And we'll start with Diamond Notes, brought to you by our very good friends at London Jewelers.

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I'm coming to you live from Toronto, where tonight the Yankees begin a three-game set against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Yankees go into this series three games behind Toronto in the American League

East.

Two and a half weeks ago, the entire American League East was flipped on its ear because the

Yankees came into this very same city and they lost four straight games to the Blue Jays.

It got swept out of Canada.

And since then, the Blue Jays have been the hottest team in baseball.

You said Blue Jays and maybe Milwaukee.

The Blue Jays just keep winning.

Just keep winning.

They swept the three-game set in Toronto to open up the second half of the season against the San Francisco Giants.

The Yankees took two out of three against Atlanta.

Now these three games are set up as really, really mega important.

Let's play the what if game.

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