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A lot of stuff going on. That's a one-three in a row. The Yankees taking the first two against

the Orioles. They're 10 games over and just two games behind the Orioles for second place

in the American League East. The Rays have started to come down to Earth just a bit, playing

500 ball over an extended period of time. So this is what happens. This is what happens.

I mean, I think people find their own level, teams find their own level. And I think that

the Rays are really, really good. And nobody's really gotten hot in the American League East

in order to take up a lot of makeup, a lot of ground on the Rays. But there are 500 team

of late over about 24 games. And if you look at the Orioles, after losing the first two games

of this series, the most six of the last seven. So this could be moving day and tomorrow

the same thing. So the Yankees play them tonight, then they play them tomorrow, and then

they play them three games at the end of July. And that's it. They don't play them anymore.

The games against the Orioles will be over. Eight games so far, the Yankees have gone

five and three in those games. I brought in Caseman. The Yankees GM was on the baseball

tonight podcast. And he talked about the trade deadline and what it's going to mean to

people dealing and not feels right now going into a true ceremony to me. You know, it's

not a great virus market currently predictably. You know, it doesn't feel like it will be.

But then a lot can really change, you know, with how teams are playing and where they're

sitting. And when they have more honest dialogue with ownership about, you know, whether

sitting and what opportunities do exist. And maybe what offers are being made. And maybe

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