00:00You know, what a year it's been for the Rays.
00:01I mean, you know, they get their ballpark this week.
00:05You know, a brand-new ballpark that enables them to be able to stay
00:09in the Tampa Bay area.
00:10So now they're going to build it across from Raymond James.
00:13It's going to make it a sports complex there.
00:16Now they're four-and-a-half up, and they're starting to spread out their lead
00:19over the New York Yankees.
00:22Yankees can't run them down, can they?
00:24The Rays right now have won 81 ballgames, George.
00:27I mean, this is supposed to be a team that would win 75 games,
00:31and here they are at 81 with a shot to win 98 ballgames this year.
00:36I mean, can they make a play for the postseason,
00:39and could they be in a World Series?
00:42First off, I have a truckload of family that lives in the Tampa area there.
00:45I go down there a couple times a year, and they're big.
00:48Not all of them.
00:49They are transplanted New Yorkers, by the way.
00:51There's some of them are Yankee fans, but they're big Rays fans there.
00:53So congratulations for getting that stadium.
00:55I've been to the Raymond James.
00:57I've been to the Yankees spring training across the street there as well.
01:00Boy, the parking there is going to be interesting, to say the least, by the way.
01:04But congratulations to them.
01:05Are the Yankees going to go run them down?
01:07No.
01:08The Yankees are way too inconsistent.
01:10The Rays are as well, by the way.
01:11So are the Red Sox.
01:12There's no great team in the American League.
01:14You can make a big yard of the top three, top four teams,
01:16all in the National League here, and then you get to the Rays, Yankees, Red Sox there.
01:20The Yankees are too inconsistent.
01:22I think the Yankees, you want to get first place.
01:24I'm not going to tell you you don't.
01:25You want to avoid the three-game series, the wild card round here.
01:29But the most important thing for the Yankees, getting healthy and getting home field.
01:33All right, you're going to face the Red Sox, right?
01:35So they're going to be 4-5 here.
01:37This game today between the Yankees and Red Sox, immensely important.
01:40A, it'll give the Yankees another game on them before four and a half they win.
01:44But more importantly, whoever wins this game, Dan, gets the tiebreaker.
01:48All right, so it's an immensely important game today between the Yankees and Red Sox.
01:52It's starting now, by the way.
01:54So, no, I don't think the Yankees are running them down.
01:55They want to get Judge back.
01:57And not only get Judge back, but get him up to midseason form, you know,
02:00by the time the playoffs arrive here.
02:02Getting him back in two weeks is great.
02:04But if he's not hitting in two weeks after that, it don't matter here.
02:07So they've got to get him back, get him healthy here, get Ryan Weathers back.
02:10They got Max Freak last night.
02:11Got to get healthy and take it from there.
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