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Hello fellow media consumers, this is the press box, Brian Curtis of The Ring or Here

Along with producer Devon Manzy.

As you may have noticed from watching videos on Twitter, we're in the middle of a home

run chase.

Yeah, baseball is the big story.

The Yankees Air and Judge is on the doorstep of tying Roger Maris's American League

Home Run record as we record this.

We were looking for a baseball analyst and we found, let's see here, Pedro Martinez.

Pedro Martinez is one of the only sports announcers who validates the cliche, he needs no introduction.

So let's just say we talked about what it's like to be a pitcher during a home run chase

about the way Martinez analyzes baseball on MLB network, about the unfinished business

of this year's New York meds and the utter crapiness of this year's red socks.

Here's Pedro Martinez.

All right Pedro, as we record this, Aaron Judge of the Yankees is sitting on 60 home runs.

If you were still playing, would you want to pitch to Aaron Judge tonight?

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