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Hey Alexa play 98.7 ESPN. This is I was walking through the Toronto airport and there were 40 guys with t-shirts on somebody,

guys name, Batsoporty 2023. And there's no way I would have 40 people to like travel with me to go like on a Batsoporty.

That's a lot of people. It's a lot of friends man. That's a lucky dude. I mean if I, I didn't have a Batsoporty, I figured you know,

my Batsoporty was my single years but if I did it would be, I don't know, my brother-in-law, you might bring and my buddy from

Batsoporty. That's about it. Forty's a lot. Forty's crazy. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't keep track of all those friends.

That's trying to hard, bro. That is trying to hard, bro.

Anyways time for the pinstrire report brought you by Corona very quietly everybody. I know Yankee fans don't want to hear

this because they want, they want to hate, they want to hate Brian Cashman, they want to hate Aaron Boone. But this is a good team.

And it's only going to get better when they start to get healthy. If you look at the litany of people that are out,

they're all important people. So in a month they'll get back Ian Hamilton. In a couple of weeks they're going to get back Tommy

Canley, that strengthens their bullpen. Maybe in two or three months they get back Jonathan Lawasica who could end up

being the wild card in all of this because he could close when he, when he comes off the I.L.

They're going to get back Stanton, they're going to get back Donaldson. And I'm telling you this team even with,

I mean, they're a different team with judged. Don, I mean, they, they're just tougher. They're more resilient because that guy's in the middle of a lineup

and he destroyed the blue jays over these four games. But once they start to get back all the pieces, there's teams for real.

And I think that that's why the Yankees didn't make as many changes as some of the fans want it because they truly felt that they were on the way to breaking records

if their team didn't get hurt on Moss in the second half of the season. I know what you're going to say.

We've been together a long time. Well, they should know that because they're older and that's fair. But they felt let's run it back.

Let's add a great picture like we're done and take our chances in the postseason because even with everybody hurt,

Matt Carpenter, a shell of himself in the postseason, no DJ Lemayu, they did get to the American Leadership Series.

So I think maybe if the injuries are in the first half this year and they could get healthy in the second half, they got a chance.

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