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Michael, I got a question for you about the about the Yankees tonight, the lineup.

So Lamehu and Bader are both not in the lineup tonight. They weren't in the lineup. I think game one of the Blue J series.

They've been inside on to that. Like why are they not flying? I feel like they got their rest.

And I don't know. It seems like a pretty pretty short span of games before resting them again.

They grew with you. I was looking Kobe to see if boom said that they were hurt. He didn't say that they were.

I know they're taking it slow with Lamehu because of that toe injury last year.

With Bader, I mean, it'll bleak. I don't know. Maybe playing in three games on the turf. They want to give them some time off.

But it doesn't make sense to take them both out of the lineup.

But they do have some lefties that they, you know, they like in there. So they probably, I didn't actually see the lineup.

They gave it today, Don. They have Calhoun and Bowers. Yeah.

And then Hicks had three hits yesterday. So maybe he wants to build off that.

I'm not quite sure because I've not heard that either one of them was hurt.

You know what I wanted to ask you? We had a caller that suggested is, is Boone playing Hicks on the road to avoid him getting booted home?

Do you think there's any truth to that? Because it does seem like he's playing a little bit more.

Now maybe that's just coincidence. We did it with the three hits yesterday.

So it's good that he's in the lineup. But do you think that's a conscious decision by Boone or the Yankees?

I mean, every time you ask Boone, he said the, the booze are not a factor.

He said that he thinks that Hicks is through that. So no, I just think they, they go with matchups.

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