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00:00a slight road money line favorite. Tampa wins five to three over New York.
00:05Yeah, game goes over the total by half of a run and you thought that game would probably go way
00:09over the total after five runs scored in the first inning, but this is what we're talking
00:13about with the Yankees. It's not so much about the Garrett Cole, can I come back and be dominant,
00:18it's who's actually going to be that true number two starter that you're going to need down the
00:22backstretch and into the playoffs. And if you thought it was a high-priced veteran like Carlos
00:25Rodon, you were wrong. And you could say because pitching wins and losses, yes, they do make sense
00:31because even if you're pitching in a game we're not pitching well, you still want to have enough
00:34in the tank where you can still win that game. As I pointed out, nine wins for Carlos Rodon,
00:38but nine wins at close to five ERA, that doesn't really equate. Like if it's nine and seven
00:43overall and it's got like a 3.23, like, okay, he's just not getting helped out at the plate.
00:47Well, the frankly here, it seems like he needs five to six runs every start just to win baseball
00:51games and that's not what you brought him over to do. And also when you look at that Yankees
00:55lineup, Rice has been very good, which is a real boon there. We know Soto's going to be good. We know
00:59Judge is going to be good. But after that, Verdugo, 2.45, Torres, 2.23, Wells, 2.10, Volpe, 2.49,
01:06Grisham, 1.72, LeMahieu, 2.06. And that 2.06 for LeMahieu is after coming for a two for four game
01:11yesterday. There's a lot of players in that Yankee lineup that were performing early in the season
01:16that just aren't performing any well. It can't just be Soto and Judge and I hope somebody else
01:21steps up to the plate. You need that complete one through nine and the Yankees aren't getting
01:24that right now. And also I pointed they're lucky that the Cubs beat the Baltimore Orioles yesterday
01:30because you can't say a few weeks ago we're in control of this division and then by the
01:34all-star break be back five or more. The Yankees better hope that the Cubs continue to play well
01:38and the Yankees can start stacking up some wins because quite frankly now they'll probably take
01:43being three games back at the deadline as opposed to even even at this point.
01:46You can't lose any more ground, but they can't get out of their own way right now.