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All right, second half of the major league baseball season starting tonight with the Mets and the Phillies.

Joining us right now to help us preview the second half. And I'm sure we'll go in a bunch of different directions here because we love the guy that's joining us right now on the show. He did it to me to the point that Bill Zimmerman texted me after the show and was like, man, JJ was awesome. I'm like, duh, of course JJ's awesome. JJ's absolutely the best. John Jostremski, New York, New York, S&Y, joining us here on the show. This segment on You Better You Bet, Sponsored by Progressive Commercial Insurance, protecting your business vehicles 24-7. See if you can save at progressivecom. Progressivecommercial.com. J.J., welcome to the show. How's it going, my man? Nikki, we're doing great. It's always a pleasure to be on. It was a blast to work with Billy Z and the team. And basically, the goal of the show was don't crash the car. You know, you got it humming 65, the center lane. Actually, who am I kid? You got a humming 85 in the left lane and we wanted to make sure we kept it going. We had a fun time doing so, and now it comes full circle and I'm back with you. Let's go here. I'm curious if you kind of have had the same experience that I've had now that you're a dad. And honestly, it's kind of been, as I've gotten, I'm a little old, a couple years older than you, so maybe, I don't if you're there. you like I feel I feel like probably when I was your age, I was there, where when I'm younger, like early 20s, mid-20s, I drove like an absolute idiot. I'm like weaving in and out of traffic. I'm not going like 100 miles an hour, but speed limit's 55. I'm going 70, 75. Now that I have a kid, because you mentioned the left lane and the middle lane, when I'm on the highway and my daughter is in the car, forget

it even if it's Now that I have a kid, because you mentioned the left lane and the middle lane, when I'm on the highway and my daughter is in the car, forget it.

Even if it's just me and my wife in the car, I drive in the right lane.

I don't mess with you.

I'm just like my job as husband and dad, I feel like, is not to get from point A to point B in a certain amount of time. My job is to get from point A to point B and have everybody healthy. Are you with me on this or are you a little more cavalier than me behind the wheel? Because I acknowledge I am very conservative at this point now. Okay. I feel the conservative nature of driving, especially with a baby in the car. Like you have your little one.

I have my little one. The only difference for me, Nikki, you mentioned the right lane.

I feel like you tend to get more idiots in the right lane that don't know what they're doing.

So like my- You got to go around those people, to be fair. You're right.

Yeah, my feeling with the driving is let's stay away from as many people as possible.

So wherever I can get the most amount of space, I'm not saying I'm driving recklessly,

but give me that little buffer to avoid stupidity.

That is usually where I'm at where it's like, okay, the less cars, the less idiots around John Dostrinsky and family, the better off we're going to be. We'll get to the second half of the season in a moment, but you did an awesome job. You know, you for New York, New York, New York sports podcast for us and why. You were tweeting about it. You were posting pictures on Instagram. I encourage people to follow JJ at all social platforms.

You did an awesome job at All Star. You were there for these festivities in Philadelphia. How was it being there for all of this?

Well, I love All Star Week. You know, Nikki, you know this from going to Super Bowl. It's like this great convention. That's basically what you get with baseball. You run into so many different people.

It's like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, which is outstanding.

The derby was amazing, like absolutely positively amazing.

And this is where I got to give Philly credit.

I don't like.

Nick, I love the fact that Philly basically was like, okay, if you're not Kyle

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