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Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross.

Yahoo Sports, Jordan Chusterman, joining us now in the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook Hotline.

Jordan, how's it going? Hello, friends. Good to see you as always. We are happy to have you. You guys can read Jordan's work at Yahoo Sports. You can also hear them regularly on baseball Barbie cast, an excellent podcast. Do you guys post three times weekly, more during the season? Three times weekly. And my first question is actually

inspired by your latest episode. Always a good listen. A great like walking the dog, I can take a good

hour out. You guys were talking about the Yankees and kind of like you and Jake tongue in cheek

were like, oh, sky's falling, get rid of all the teams in New York. These are horrible teams.

And you guys made a point of like, when a team is clearly talented, you're always kind of hesitant to write off smaller sample sizes of bad play.

And I thought, yeah, that feels true for the Yankees, fundamentally true.

I wanted to ask you to what extent that applies for the Mariners, because I know some people had them as like equally as talented as the Yankees,

maybe because of the gap in payroll, I still had some nerves, but how do you view the Mariners

talent in kind of conjunction with the lack of offense we've seen.

Yeah, I think it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a worthy comparison.

I think that the, the high end talent for both teams, as we've seen is, is pretty spectacular.

I think what the Yankees have kind of really closed the gap quietly, have also become one of the more impressive pitching development teams.

Now, the difference with them is they have certainly developed some impressive homegrown guys

and Cam Schlittler has been unbelievable to start the season and you got to give them a lot of credit on identifying him and having him blossom.

But, you know, they can also go out and pay a Max Reed,

which puts them in pretty good shape when they have, however, many other hundreds of millions of dollars still on the injured list with guys like Eric Cole and Carlos Rodon. So they just

have some built-in advantages there that they rightfully flex and deserve credit for using.

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