Jesse Spector hosts this episode, which includes a fond reminiscence of a time when the Yankees played actual baseball, something they are scheduled to get back to doing on Monday night against the Marlins.

After Miami's visit, it's the Blue Jays in the Bronx, and then the Yankees' schedule really gets tough, with a visit from the Twins, a trip to Anaheim and Houston, then home series against Cleveland and Boston. You can see why the next six games would be important to a team that is off to a 7-7 start, though the last game the Yankees played, on Friday night in Detroit, was encouraging for them.

Around the American League East, the Red Sox remain hot, the Orioles and Rays already have pretty much played themselves out of contention, and the Blue Jays... well, we're going to find out exactly what the Blue Jays are made of pretty soon. The Yankees, too, for that matter.

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