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So much has happened today, Don.

A lot. I mean, we heard many, many words. In the words of RJ Santillo, the great RJ Santillo, the father RJ Santillo.

Steve Cohen got his words, you know what I mean? He was going to get his words and get his words he did.

Now, Don, disaster day from the Yankees yesterday, or night, I should say, about 9.30, they lost to the Oakland A's 2.1.

A Josh Donaldson solo shot, ironically, their only offense. Aaron Boone, how frustrating has the offense been the past few weeks?

I don't know. I mean, it's like, no, this is part of it. It's scrying time. You know, like, we've got to get some guys going, and we're all part of that.

So, you know, I don't know, frustrations. Like, we know we have a higher standard and expect more, and know we're going to be better, but we're going through it right now a little bit.

Over all this month, we've had a few guys that, you know, I've gone through some struggles, but I wouldn't call it frustration. I'd call it like, this is, you know, get to work time and, you know, how do we get guys going? And that's on all of us.

Um, is it like a head scratcher that some guys just aren't doing what they're supposed to do?

Yeah, I mean, look, I know what these guys are capable of, so anytime you go through a long stretch, you know, where you're having a hard time scoring runs.

Look, again, we know it's going to happen, whether it's for a couple of weeks here or there, or, you know, you're going to have your upswings and downswings, but knowing, you know, what we have going out there, you know, I know what they're capable of.

So, we got to keep working to get them to where we need to be, because we know we're capable of scoring a lot of runs.

Are you?

Now, how far back you want to go?

Because he's right.

Donaldson, MVP, Rizzo.

He's always been a big bad his whole career.

Bader had five home runs in the postseason last year.

Torres has been known to tear the cover off the ball during stretches, especially early in his career.

But Peter, you can dig back. They're all major leaguers.

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