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Tom Verducci of MLB Network and obviously SI and obviously Foxy does a lot of work.

He does all of it great, and he has such a great view of baseball and the things that are happening.

So, I said, we got to talk to Tom about what's happening with this Yankee team and he joins us now.

Tom, it's Michael and Peter. How you doing today?

Doing great guys. Thanks for having me.

Have you been able to, I know you broadcasted one of the Yankee games in, I believe it was in Atlanta,

maybe the Boston one.

Have you been able to make sense out of what's happening here?

Yeah. Yeah, I did have a few Yankee games in recent one Saturday, the Garrett Cole game

gets thread stock Saturday and yeah, what I like to say Michael, what's going on here is not the case of

one injury to Aaron Judd, not the case of having one bad bond or one bad stretch of bad luck.

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