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Here's Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan.

I am Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

And I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

We welcome you to the Monday morning edition of the sports reporters.

Our pal, Mitch, album, is a sideline due to technical difficulties, but we will, we will

soldier on, and I'm sure Mitch will be rejoining us when we resume on Wednesday this week,

not Thursday.

Anyway, as Jimmy Cannon once said when he heard the chattering

in the press box, baseball, gentlemen, baseball. We are in the middle of August, and I know they say

the so-called dog days of August. Mike, I think that there's anything but this year. I think

we're turning the temperature up for a setting things up for a wonderful

September, don't you think? Robert, let's start out west, okay? And believe me, we're going to get

to the AL East. We're going to get to the NL East, which even though it's a slog, it's a fascinating

slog, okay? Yeah. And the team that's flying under the radar, which is the brew crew in Milwaukee, we'll get to them to.

Okay.

Robert, if the Giants basically play 500 ball the rest of the way, they still win 100 games.

Think about that.

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