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What's up everybody? 
Welcome back to Unleashed here. 

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Let's go. 
Let's get after it. 

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I absolutely love Wild Card 
weekend. 

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I will get into that in in a 
little bit. 

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It to me, it's my favorite 
weekend. 

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It's funny because everybody or 
a lot of football fans kind of 

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point to the the divisional 
round, right? 

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I've always enjoyed Wild Card 
weekend the most. 

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And you look at some of these 
spreads, I mean, they're outside

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of 1 every games, basically 
inside of a field goal. 

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So I'll definitely do that. 
I'll definitely make the picks. 

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I I got, I got it. 
I got to get into the Yankees 

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here and I got to get into Scott
Boris, who was on my absolute 

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last freaking nerve. 
What's going on with the Yankees

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right now? 
Now, first of all, can we all 

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agree on this premise? 
The Yankees oh Aaron Judge 

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right? 
Like that's a pretty fair 

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statement. 
The Yankees oh Aaron Judge just 

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like, you know, they supported 
Derek Jeter with stars 

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everywhere. 
And even though it didn't work, 

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they even tried to do it for the
guy behind me in terms of 

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offense with Ricky and Winfield 
and all the money that they did 

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with George. 
Like the Yankees, oh, Aaron 

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Judge a chance while he's still 
in his absolute prime. 

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And I don't know how many more 
years Aaron's got in his prime. 

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I mean like where he's the best,
clearly the best hitter in 

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baseball. 
Maybe 2, you know, maybe 3. 

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Eventually guys, we're not going
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from Aaron Judge. 
It's just that's not going to 

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happen. 
He's not a steroid guy. 

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So the natural attrition of of 
of Aaron Judge's game is going 

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to start setting in and the 
Yankees cannot be so 

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irresponsible not to put the 
best team on the field for this 

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guy. 
Now I started by saying that 

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Boris is on my last nerve and he
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I listen, I especially now I 
wish I had Scott Boris as my 

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agent, but that doesn't change 
the fact that the way he holds 

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up every single offseason and 
completely overvalues and 

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overstates his clients worth and
what they should get. 

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It's really a hindrance to the 
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It's a hindrance to team 
building and it's a big, big 

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problem. 
Now, the problem with that is I 

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can identify that I don't have a
solution for you. 

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I I don't I don't really know 
what the answer is. 

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I don't have one because you 
can't, you can't, you can't tell

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him to, you know, no longer 
practice law in terms of 

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contract. 
So he's around for a while. 

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So what the Yankees have to do 
is adjust to his presence. 

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And what I would do at this 
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Yankees, I would say, listen, 
Boris, you tried to hold this to

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the coals last year. 
Juan Soto, I got news for you. 

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As much as we like Bellinger as 
much as he fits his match, as 

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much as Aaron Judge wants him 
back, seven years is an absolute

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pipe dream. 
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the Yankees should or will give 
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No chance, right? 
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And if they did, it will be 1 of
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ever done. 
There's no way you do that 

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because then you get into the 
343536 years. 

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And isn't this kind of the 
problem that the Yankees have 

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been chasing and trying to 
rectify forever? 

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Stamp in DJ Lex Leo lesser 
extend Aaron Hicks lesser money,

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but same situation Rizzle at 
first base like enough of making

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the same mistakes. 
All right, so the news last 

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night is that Boris won seven 
and that the you know, the 

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Yankees are in the 30 AAV realm 
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five years 150. 
If he doesn't want to take that,

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then they just honestly go 
somewhere else. 

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Like, you don't need Bellinger 
the way some people perceive him

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to be needed. 
He's a really good player, you 

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know, makes contact, little pop,
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We all know what he's bringing 
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But the thought that the Yankees
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forge ahead without Cody 
Bellinger is absolutely straight

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up, flat out asinine and wrong. 
There's a way to do it. 

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Now listen, you want to talk 
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Unfortunately, this matters, 
right? 

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You you talk about, you talk 
about the, the finances of the 

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Yankees, right? 
And and and they're going to 

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have to work around certain 
things, but it's not nearly as 

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bad as as I think how positions 
it or as maybe some of of of you

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think. 
So Aaron Judge making $40 

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million worth every penny you 
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Gerrit Cole the 36. 
Frieda 27 1/2 worth every penny.

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Frieda's. 
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on. 
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Little overpay there, 28 mil. 
Stanton 20. 

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But half of that or 10 is go, 
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from the Marlins. 
And then Grisham with the 

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idiotic, you know, $22 million 
qualifier buying offer, That's 

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one year, and that's done. 
Now the Stanton, here's where it

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gets really interesting. 
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more guarantees, both of which 
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defrayed by the Marlins. 
And then there's the buyout and 

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the research that I've done. 
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the entire buyout, which I 
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And, you know, as you try to 
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win a championship, that's still
the mission. 

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That should still be the goal. 
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it. 
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they bring back Bellinger and 
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then the Yankees are still not 
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I don't care if they trade for 
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It's not a good enough lineup. 
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lefties, too many strikeouts, 
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for too many years. 
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what the problem is. 
The answer should be, and this 

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is what's so incredibly 
frustrating about this. 

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The answer should so simply be, 
you know what? 

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Like I know I always say if I 
was hell, I would do this, but I

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really mean it because it's not 
an irresponsible financial 

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positioning. 
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I don't want to hear about the 
check that they got a cut on 

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February 1 on a Tuesday night 
against the age. 

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You got 38,000 people. 
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parking. 
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14 bucks for beer, $9 for a hot 
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I mean, and I'm not even I'm not
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for charging that. 
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It's simple economics. 
If people are willing to pay it,

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then guess what? 
Keep jacking up the prices. 

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There's a reason why when the 
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the A's would have to charge 325
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for a hot dog. 
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get people in the stadium and #2
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they going to buy food if it's 
priced like certain? 

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And we know that that's, that's 
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So, so that's basic stuff. 
But you know, you know, you 

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know, that house got the money 
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this offseason. 
So what I would do is yes, I 

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would sign Bellinger, but I 
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is where we're going, dude. 
You know, if you want to haggle,

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I'll I'll meet you in the middle
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If you want to continue to 
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remain engaged. 
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to bear that out where Bellinger
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from anybody. 
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get it, come back to us. 
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badly. 
Find the six years at 30 a pop 

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180. 
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that. 
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year. 
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Aaron Judge is making 40 and 
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$37,000,000 to. 
I listen, I know, I know that 

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it's all about when your 
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mechanism of it. 
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Manning, no disrespect, no 
shade, but at one point Eli was 

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the highest paid quarterback in 
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Eli Manning was never on a week 
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quarterbacks in the NFL ever. 
I'm not here to debate that. 

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That's just the reality of it. 
Champion MVP Super Bowl 2 of 

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them giant legend got it 
understood, but the contract on 

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a year to year basis once he 
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obviously somebody surpassed 
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It was not commensurate with 
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on a year to year in terms of 
touchdown pick ratio wins your 

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all those things right. 
So I get it when your contract 

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is up, you're either lucky based
on the circumstances or you're 

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unlucky based on the 
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Now, with all that being said, 
are you telling me that the 

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Yankees don't have the means? 
And I know they don't have the 

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appetite for this, but the 
appetite should be derived from 

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the ability to do it all right, 
or the inability to do it, which

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they clearly don't have because 
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anybody. 
So what they should do is sign 

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Bellinger and sign Bichette. 
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picture as well, whether it's 
Peralta. 

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I agree, not giving up the 
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You know, in terms of the Cubs 
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That would have been a little 
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Cubs gave up their top prospect.
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It's got good stuff, but you 
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So I'm fine with that, right? 
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bit different and I'm more in on
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Cabrera trade. 
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now, right now you go and this 
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a quiet offseason. 
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eventually they're going to get 
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or Bichette. 
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even throw Tucker in the table 
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You know, the Mets, the word 
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Now the Mets are going to be 
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where their approach with their 
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agency. 
And I may I think that that 

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makes sense. 
What does it mean? 

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Well, if the market doesn't bear
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able to pay Y and it's not ten 
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It's not nine years which he's 
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If if Tucker is amenable to a 
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options, whatever player have 
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that's what you do. 
So I think that will make a lot 

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of sense for the Mets, even 
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putting soda on left and putting
stuff like it's not perfect, but

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they need another stick because 
their offense simply is not good

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enough to do anything this year.
Not neither is their pitching. 

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But the Yankees, right. 
You look around the infield and 

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this is where it's impossible to
justify them not going for it in

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the next month or so. 
All right, who's the 1st 

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baseman? 
And I'm not even going to 

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quibble in and and get into 
skill set. 

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Can he become a good first 
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Can he hit lefties? 
I'm just going to run through 

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this just to get to the next 
thing right. 

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So Ben Rice is your everyday 
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He is cheap. 
He's making absolutely nothing. 

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Now, I do think that the Yankees
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I've said that whether it's this
offseason, whether it's at the 

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deadline, whatever, He's not 
getting the extension. 

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But you could he he's obviously 
a very good player. 

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He's just a little too Spacey 
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buttoned up when you need to be 
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Not a knock on his talent, I 
just don't view him as the 

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ultimate winning player myself. 
Too many empty at bats, too many

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strikeouts, too many 
malfunctions in the field and on

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the bases when you can't have 
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But even with that being said, I
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especially if Jazz Chisholm's 
hitting 6th or whatever he might

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be hitting, if you do some of 
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He's going 3030. 
Seeing fastball guys on base, it

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makes a ton of sense. 
So I would even present to you 

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now and I will like why not? 
And I and I said, I, I, I, I and

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it's separate from me telling 
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will trade him based on what 
I've been told and what I've 

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learned. 
But I'm going to even kind of go

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in the middle here and slice it 
a different way. 

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Well, if you get Bellinger and 
you get Bichette, run it one 

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year with it with, with the with
Jazz, Why not? 

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He's making $10 million. 
They just settled that on our in

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arbitration 10 million bucks. 
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making nothing in terms of a 
3030 guy making ten. 

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That is nothing. 
And by the way, even if he was a

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1717 guy, $10 million in the 
year 2026 is absolutely peanut. 

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So they're not paying their 
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what the production has been. 
That's just, it's not the 

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Yankees fault there. 
That's just the way it lines up 

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in terms of when you know the 
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that stuff, right? 
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Now, it's not a perfect 
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money, all right? 
Volpe got the arbitration 3.25. 

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So you got Volpe when he comes 
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2, two and a half million 
dollars. 

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It's nothing. 
It's absolutely nothing. 

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All right, so first base, 
nothing, second base, nothing 

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shortstop, nothing. 
Now you get to McMahon or and I 

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I love his defense. 
I think he'll hit a little bit 

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more, but he's always going to 
be a strikeout machine. 

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So there's flaws, but there's 
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are are really important to a 
winning team right. 

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So having said that, let me ask 
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market team and he's got two 
years to go at $32 million total

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16 a year. 
I, I, I double checked this. 

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I don't think the Rockies like 
the Marlins with Stanton or are 

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defraying the cost at all. 
I don't think so. 

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And if they are, it's nominal. 
So I'm just going to go with the

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1616. 
Are you telling me that if the 

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Yankees presented a trade, throw
in your 8th best prospect, your 

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11th best prospect, slip them a 
few bucks. 

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The Pirates, the Twins, I don't 
even know who needs a third 

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baseman right now. 
There's a couple. 

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The teams that don't have the 
funds to spend for one, you 

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can't incentivize them where 
after this year it's an expiring

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contract. 
You can. 

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So there's an easy way to get 
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Bouchette comes in. 
Why in the world can't the 

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Yankees have it? 
Infield, Rice, Jazz shortstop. 

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We don't love Bouchette at third
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Or if you really want to be 
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Jazz, Bouchette? 
I know he's not a good defender.

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Do it for one year and then 
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third base. 
Then you trade McMahon in the 

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offseason. 
Boom, Bouchette goes to third 

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base. 
Hopefully Billy Lombard is 

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ready. 
He comes up, and hopefully one 

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of these prospects is actually 
the real deal as a position 

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player for the Yankees. 
That would be nice. 

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All the hype, you know, the 
nicknames, and I never get 

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wrapped up in that. 
I liked. 

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Well, let let me be fair, 
prospects always intrigue me, 

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but I don't base final opinions 
based on projections or scouting

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reports. 
I've got to see something 

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tangible. 
I've seen nothing tangible from 

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Spencer Jones. 
I've seen something tangible, 

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some good, some bad, to be fair 
with Dominguez, but like I have 

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not seen Lombard, but everybody 
outside of some games like on 

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yes or like minor league games, 
highlights, right? 

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But a lot of people around 
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this about the Mingus as well. 
So take it with a grain of salt,

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but a lot of people around 
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Lombards different. 
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then he's going to he's going to
knock the cover off the ball 

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this year and the elevation next
year. 

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If there is a next year with 
baseball, which is another 

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reason based on the economic 
climate, another reason why 

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you've got to go for it with 
with Aaron Judge now, because 

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could you imagine if there is a 
truncated season next year and 

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you go through this year and 
then next year is whatever next 

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year could possibly be, Well, 
now that's another year that's 

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wasted of Aaron Judge. 
This is the runway man. 

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This is the path to get this man
at championship. 

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Reggie Jackson had Munson and 
Nettles and all these studs. 

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Not that I mean, I can run down 
the entire team, but you had 

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stars. 
You had stars. 

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You know who Jeter had? 
I mean a rod when when when Alex

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came, he had to share. 
Obviously Jeter still there a 

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sick pitching stamp. 
Why the hell was the model so 

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different? 
I'm just frustrated by this. 

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Like I played the game and I've 
tried to be fair. 

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Hey, Yankees do spend. 
Yankees do win. 

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I don't know if I know, but in 
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would. 
I would even take this position 

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off a fan a lot because I 
believe it. 

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I do think that the Yankees have
been unjustifiably crushed in 

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the court of public opinion. 
It should never. 

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The vitriol is without merit. 
To that extent, the answer is 

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somewhere in between, like 
everything's not great and 

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everything's not awful. 
It's a lot more good than bad. 

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But there are options that 
could, that are presenting 

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themselves right now that can 
make it great instead of good, 

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you know, and I, I just, I don't
know what they're thinking. 

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I've got no confidence that that
their plan is going to be one 

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that is incredibly inspiring. 
Like when we get to opening day,

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do we think that they're 
trotting out like an army of 

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stars? 
No, I, I don't think I, I hope 

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that. 
Hence the conversation today, 

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but so let me continue spinning 
this around here. 

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Rice cheap, Jazz cheap, 
Caballero, Volpe cheap, McMahon 

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cheap in terms of what it just 
laid out Jones, Dominguez and 

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left. 
OK, they're cheap. 

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If Bellinger's back, he's not 
cheap, but he's your left 

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fielder could play a little 
first bases. 

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We know Grisham didn't want them
one year done, $22 million. 

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So you have to worry about 
Grisham next year or the year 

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after, which is even more 
incentive to go out there and 

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spend it now on a Bichette or 
auto Tucker or obviously auto 

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Bellinger. 
And, you know, it seems like 

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there's no inclination to do 
this. 

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I really don't know why. 
And when you look downstream, 

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and this has to be part of the 
calculus, and I get this, and 

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I'm going to be fair to the 
Yankees here, one of the things 

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they're trying to avoid is to 
make the same mistake that they 

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made for far too long. 
And that is halfway through a 

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contract, having to pick up the 
pieces of a diminished player, 

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deal with the economic strike 
that that presents, and then 

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deal with the logistical issue, 
like where, you know, Player X 

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making a lot of money, which you
would think, you know, you'd 

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have to write his name in the 
lineup every day, but can't run 

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as as much as he used to or he's
injury prone or now he's a 

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subpar defender. 
And you got to work around all 

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that stuff. 
And it is just not the right way

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to build a team. 
Now if Garrett Cole just signed 

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his deal and instead of having 
three years to go, he's got 7. 

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You know, if Rodon just signed 
his deal and and instead of 

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having six years, he's got three
years to go. 

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If Grisham, thank God they 
didn't do this. 

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If they gave Grisham like 4 
years and there's more, three 

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more years after this, like, all
right, those will be impediments

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that I I think would be very 
hard to work around. 

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But I do not think that there 
shouldn't there shouldn't be a 

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lineup on opening day. 
And I'm not even get into the 

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batting order right now, but 
there's no reason why the 

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Yankees cannot roll out in some 
sort of order. 

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Bichette, Bellinger, Judge. 
Rice, Jazz, it just as a 

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starting point and then 
obviously if Stanton's healthy, 

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you know, DH, blah blah blah, 
all the stuff that we hit a 

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million times. 
And then maybe like if Dominguez

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does pop, then maybe there's 
something there or maybe you 

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trade Dominguez for, you know, 
Peralta or something like that. 

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The inactivity doesn't bother 
me. 

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Like I could deal even though it
sucks. 

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I'd love to see baseball. 
I was watching Sports Night last

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night on SNY. 
Shout out to those guys. 

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I love the show I watch, I watch
it a lot. 

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That's pretty much how I fall 
asleep. 

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Politics and then SNY, right? 
And and I think they will do a 

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really good job. 
And last night it was Amon who's

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the host, obviously, and it was 
JJ who's great and it was Harp 

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who's the OG love Harp. 
Harp was there when I was doing 

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the wheelhouse. 
That's I mean, that's how long 

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and I haven't seen him in a 
while. 

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But I mean, I used to have some 
great baseball conversations 

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with Harper. 
Play baseball in college, loves 

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the game, knows the game. 
Great dude and yeah, I was there

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what, 7-8 years doing the show 
and he was there a lot. 

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So I love Harper and they were 
talking about last night 

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certainly the frustrations, the 
calendar how you know, unlike 

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the NFL where it's like free 
agency, you got people waiting 

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in driveways like Rex Ryan was 
waiting in Bart Scotch driveway 

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at 12 O1. 
All right, come on, let's go the

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NBA. 
Bang it. 

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It hits, though, as soon as you 
get like one minute into free 

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agency, you know, Max contract, 
Max contract, Max contract. 

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Like, there's no slow residual 
trickling in that like stifles 

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the enthusiasm and the attention
that the sport could generate. 

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It's really the service of the 
game of baseball. 

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Now, to be fair, without those, 
teams have salary caps. 

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So obviously, there's only so 
many things that you could do. 

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And if you're an agent for a 
Major League Baseball player, 

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you got no problem. 
Your player is still working 

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out. 
He's still keeping his arm and 

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his wheels and his bat in shape.
If he's a hitter. 

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And all you do is you stretch it
out and you played, you know, 

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the top 456 teams against each 
other, and you squeeze out the 

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extra year. 
And invariably, you squeeze out 

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an extra 2, three, $4 million a 
year to get the AAV that you 

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promised your guy. 
Like, I don't think logistically

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it's easy to four, and this is 
what they were talking about 

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last night to foster change 
where baseball copies the model 

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of the other sports that I 
mentioned where there's just a 

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bevy of activity and it's like, 
OK, baseball owns the next two 

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weeks and everything's 
happening. 

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And baseball at is is, along 
with the NFL at that point, is 

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at the epicenter of the sports 
world. 

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So there's opportunity there, 
but it would obviously take both

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sides in terms of the CBA, which
will never happen, to get down 

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on the same page. 
And that's just not going to 

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happen. 
But while I'm frustrated by by 

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the timeline, I, I obviously 
understand it. 

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So you, you're not going to 
fight City Hall if you already 

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know the rules. 
They are what they are until 

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they change. 
They don't change, right? 

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But what frustrates the hell out
of me, not every year is there a

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situation where, alright, man, 
maybe this thing is actually 

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lining up a little favorably 
here for the Yankees. 

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Like you don't have to battle 
Cohen's checkbook this winter 

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for Juan Soto. 
I don't think you have to really

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battle it to the certainly to 
the degree of wand. 

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Nobody's going to get that 
again, and certainly not in a 

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while. 
But they're not going to go 

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after Bellinger the way they 
would like. 

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And I'm not talking money. 
I'm talking energy and like 

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laser focus. 
Like the Mets needed Soto. 

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They wanted Soto. 
Seemed like Soto wanted the Mets

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a little bit more than the 
Yankees. 

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That's fine. 
And it just seemed like a 

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marriage, even though we didn't 
see this during the season when 

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Soto was doing great. 
The more went on you like, 

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that's a good chance he's going 
to leave. 

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Like, I do get the sense that 
Bellinger wants to stay here. 

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Oh, I don't think so. 
Don't want to stay one of the 

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most money Mets repealing. 
Go knock yourself out. 

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Your first year, you didn't make
the playoffs. 

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You won 83 games. 
All right, whatever. 

443
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,040
And it's not I'm not saying it's
his fault, but did you really 

444
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,240
enjoy the first year in Queens? 
I mean, was the locker room 

445
00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,640
good? 
I mean, did you win? 

446
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,040
Did you go to the playoffs? 
No. 

447
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:02,520
Did you hit the clutch? 
No. 

448
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,000
Did you have Aaron Judge around 
you? 

449
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,640
No. 
So now he's got to live with 

450
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,880
that decision. 
And you know, money changes a 

451
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,760
lot of things and he can opt out
and after a couple of years and 

452
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,800
maybe he will. 
And the Mets could obviously 

453
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,320
keep him by throwing five more 
1,000,000 bucks on on on the on 

454
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:16,720
the deal. 
So that's that. 

455
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,200
This is not that. 
Bellinger is not him. 

456
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,280
He will never hit like him. 
Now he's superior on the bases, 

457
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,920
defensively, versatility, all 
that stuff. 

458
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:30,800
But the Mets are not coming 
after Bellinger like a Wild West

459
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,600
shootout with, you know, drawing
the holster. 

460
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,280
Like, oh boy, this is this is 
going to be a fight based on 

461
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,840
Cohen's net worth and desire to 
spend and change perception. 

462
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,520
It's not going to be that here. 
So that should be easier. 

463
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,120
I don't think Bellinger's going 
back to the Dodgers. 

464
00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,760
They don't need them, right? 
All right, maybe Philly, a 

465
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,280
bandbox, whatever. 
You know, they've got to take 

466
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,680
another swing at this thing 
here. 

467
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,840
Maybe a wild card team emerges. 
I'm not saying maybe Toronto if 

468
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,560
they whip on Tucker, but it's 
actually there. 

469
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,840
It is right there, right there 
for the Yankees to Ed Bellinger,

470
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,840
Ed Bachette not have an impact 
too much down the, you know, 

471
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,120
down the road where those 
burdensome contracts are a 

472
00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,480
massive issue because you're not
signing Bachette to be your 

473
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,120
everyday shortstop. 
Might play there this year, but 

474
00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,880
he's not a shortstop. 
He stinks to shortstop. 

475
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,040
So it'd be better at second or 
better at 3rd. 

476
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,240
All right. 
And then when he can move to 2nd

477
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,680
is after this year when you 
decide to move on from Jazz, 

478
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,080
which they will, he goes to 2nd,
Lombard to short, figure out 

479
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,360
third, McMahon or Pichette. 
Like the options are so 

480
00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,800
plentiful and see, the Yankees 
are playing with fire here. 

481
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,680
One thing the Yanks are really, 
I think dangerously close to 

482
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:46,160
doing is trusting and investing 
positive results in the multiple

483
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,600
important pitchers that they 
have injured. 

484
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,880
Now I I think Cole's going to 
come back and be Cole, I think, 

485
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,480
but you never know. 
He's not young and it's Tommy 

486
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,000
John takes a while. 
He should be fine, but you don't

487
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,080
know. 
I thought Rodan was really good 

488
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,760
yesterday last year until it 
mattered. 

489
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,880
And you know, he's more of a 
middle back of the rotation guy 

490
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,360
for a World Series team. 
But you don't know when he's 

491
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,240
coming back. 
And that very well could be. 

492
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,960
Let's see if Roldan misses April
and May and Cole misses April 

493
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,640
and May. 
You know you're talking about 20

494
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,040
ish starts. 
More than that maybe 25 ish 

495
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,040
starts total between those two 
men. 

496
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,000
Where now you're throwing out 
there the Warrens and the 

497
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,560
Yarbrough's and Louis heal and 
who knows what the hell Louis 

498
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,120
heal is. 
That'll trust Louis heal to you.

499
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,560
I I definitely don't trust him 
the way Toronto smoked him. 

500
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,120
You trust Louis heal. 
You know, I love Schlittler. 

501
00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:42,400
Freed's been very good year one 
with the Yankee stud, but the 

502
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,160
Yankees are flirting with fire 
because the only way that you 

503
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,040
work around and by the way, the 
bullpens not even that good 

504
00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,640
outside of bednar like they got 
work to do with a pen, but I'm 

505
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:53,880
not going to get into the pen 
now. 

506
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,120
But the Yanks are messing around
and I I think on some level 

507
00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,880
they're thinking well, you know,
we can just kind of tread water.

508
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,360
April and May our pitchers get 
healthy. 

509
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,640
That's fine if you've got a 
lineup that is going to bludgeon

510
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,960
opposing teams. 
Yankees have a lineup that's 

511
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,320
going to do that. 
Right now, Like right now, no, 

512
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,520
you don't have that at all. 
You got a third baseman who 

513
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,280
strikes out 200 * a year. 
You know, I love Rice, so I'm 

514
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,880
not just going to start railing 
on people. 

515
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,920
But yeah, you got to prove you 
can hit lefties and all that 

516
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,760
stuff. 
I think Grisham takes a step 

517
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,040
back. 
I don't think he hits that many 

518
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,480
home runs. 
I don't think he hits 240. 

519
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:29,560
Whatever. 
He hit 245. 

520
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,360
I don't think he's that guy. 
So doesn't hit lefties. 

521
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,920
I don't trust him in the clutch.
Whatever. 

522
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,640
High leverage spots, good relief
arms like high leverage power 

523
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,640
arms like elite pitching. 
I don't like Grisham there. 

524
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,680
So I don't love Grisham. 
I don't love the third base 

525
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,480
situation even though I'm a big 
Volpe fan and and supporter. 

526
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,320
Even when he comes back. 
How do you love the shortstop 

527
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,080
situation, especially to start 
with? 

528
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,760
Caballero was a starting 
shortstop. 

529
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,760
You know Wells, all right, he's 
going to run into 20 something 

530
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,400
home runs. 
He's a 210 hitter, strikes out a

531
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,040
lot until proven otherwise. 
Left field without Bellinger, 

532
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,080
it's Dominguez who can't play 
left field and it's Jones who 

533
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,160
might not be able to avoid 
striking out 2 1/2 * a game on 

534
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,440
the Major League level. 
And God forbid if if the great 

535
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,520
Aaron Judge were to miss time 
again like he did a year ago. 

536
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,760
So let me get this straight. 
So the Yankees think that when 

537
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,520
they get to June with no real 
reinforcements. 

538
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,680
No. 
And I don't just mean bringing 

539
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,400
back Bellinger. 
That's not adding. 

540
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,000
That's just doing what you did 
last year, which, by the way, 

541
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,880
was not good enough, as we all 
know. 

542
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,440
So you bet your ass I'm fired up
over this. 

543
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,200
I'm getting tired of watching 
this and and not getting the 

544
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,760
sense that the Yankees are 
really open and thinking about 

545
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,120
doing what I really think that 
they should do. 

546
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,840
Be bold. 
For the first time in a long 

547
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,440
time. 
Can you do that? 

548
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:50,400
You know, on one of the earlier,
I guess it was maybe the third 

549
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,600
YouTube show Still no YouTube. 
I'm sorry. 

550
00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,160
I do think we'll have it back 
Monday, but I can't even say 

551
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,080
that with great confidence. 
Either way, I'll read some 

552
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,200
messages here. 
It's all good. 

553
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,440
We just plow through whatever 
it's about content as we know. 

554
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:07,280
So I I guess it's Christmas Eve.
I did a show and I gave my 

555
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,000
presence for each of the New 
York sports teams, right? 

556
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,880
And like it, recollect, like The
Jets, I gave them a heaping dash

557
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,720
of, of, of, of luck. 
Like sometimes you just got to 

558
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,600
be lucky, whether it's Mendoza 
falling to them or whatever. 

559
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:24,640
Luck, all right, for the Knicks.
I gave health for the Giants. 

560
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,160
I gave a dash of boldness like, 
dude, don't hire a coordinator. 

561
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:31,880
Don't mess around with this 
nonsense. 

562
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,560
Go out there, get the big fish. 
Now. 

563
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,640
Looks like you know Harbaugh is 
going to be we talked a lot 

564
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,640
about that yesterday. 
You should be terrified that 

565
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,080
he's going to the dolphins. 
That's where I think he's going.

566
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,720
That's the bad news. 
The good news is I really like 

567
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,200
Stefanski and maybe the McCarthy
thing gets older. 

568
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,800
I know I'm I'm always pushing 
McCarthy here. 

569
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,120
I just think the giants need to 
really consider him. 

570
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,880
But anyway, for the Giants gift 
in their stocking was boldness. 

571
00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:01,080
And what I did the Yankees was 
it was it wasn't tangible. 

572
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,080
It was like, I mean, I guess it 
actually you can touch a map, 

573
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:08,120
but it was more like a road map 
to remember how to get back to 

574
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:11,520
being the Yankees. 
Well, you know, sometimes Santa 

575
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,640
leaves a couple of gifts in the 
closet, if you know what I mean.

576
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,840
And we just found one and I'm 
going to give the Yankees 

577
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,000
another one. 
It's the same gift that I gave 

578
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,080
the New York Giants. 
Boldness, B bold. 

579
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:26,120
That's all you got to do, guys. 
We are perilously close. 

580
00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:31,640
I mean, we're inching toward it 
where Aaron Judge like before 

581
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,600
you know it, Aaron, there's 
going to be a ceremony at Yankee

582
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,480
Stadium. 
And of course, rightfully so, 

583
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,840
The monument, the number Aaron 
Judge all suited up at that 

584
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,800
point is beautiful little girl, 
older, you know, his wife next 

585
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,320
to him retired like that. 
That that's, I know that that 

586
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,120
sounds inconceivable to imagine 
now, but you have to. 

587
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,920
That's how close we are to the 
end. 

588
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,960
I mean, this doesn't go on 
forever. 

589
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,280
Yeah. 
If he's healthy, he's going to 

590
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,400
bank 50 plus this year and 
probably win the MVP. 

591
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,480
I don't doubt that. 
But then again, as I said 

592
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,920
before, what if there's an 80 
game season next year or what if

593
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,080
there's no season now? 
He's a year older. 

594
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,880
It's a wasted opportunity. 
The swings got to be now. 

595
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:18,120
And I actually think and I want 
to I want to make sure I'm not a

596
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,240
prisoner of the moment. 
So I'm going to take a little a 

597
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,360
little sip of coffee here for a 
moment, make sure that I'm not 

598
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:30,920
going too nuts. 
Yeah, I feel good about saying 

599
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,680
this. 
So based on what Toronto already

600
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,680
has and has already done and 
will continue to do this 

601
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,480
offseason, you know, I don't 
think the Orioles going to be 

602
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:44,880
great. 
But Pete's going to bank 40. 

603
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:45,960
They've got a lot of young 
talent. 

604
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,200
They brought in some pitching. 
Orioles will be tough. 

605
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,360
The Rays are always scrappy. 
We know that. 

606
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,200
And the Red Sox are on their way
up there inching out of the 

607
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:55,520
grade. 
Out of the grade. 

608
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Pardon me. 
Right. 

609
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,320
So what does all that mean? 
Means it's a phenomenally tough 

610
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,520
division. 
I actually think right now 

611
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,000
Bellinger, Tucker, Burchett did 
not hear so right now. 

612
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,480
Nor have they got that extra 
starting pitcher which they need

613
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,200
right now. 
I actually think that the 

614
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:17,520
Yankees are closer to a non 
playoff team then I believe them

615
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,640
to be a truly viable World 
Series favorite. 

616
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:29,240
Like right now they strike me as
almost like, I mean Judge is 

617
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,680
better than Soto. 
So I was going to say kind of 

618
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,400
like the Mets a year ago. 
Would it stun you if the Yankees

619
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,600
won right now the way they're 
currently constituted, the way 

620
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,560
they're currently built? 
8384 wins 85, you know, rough 

621
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,880
start. 
Cole comes back, Lil rusty Rodon

622
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,680
comes back. 
Lil rusty bullpen outside of 

623
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Bednar, Not that good, You know,
God forbid Judge gets hurt, you 

624
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,200
got to probably bake in 
10/12/15, hopefully not more 20 

625
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,720
games where he's got to rest a 
little bit. 

626
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,200
God forbid that elbow flares up 
again. 

627
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,960
I mean, God, I'm terrified about
that, you know? 

628
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,280
I know he's fine now, but it's a
real concern. 

629
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,800
I mean, you're running out. 
Who's your left fielder? 

630
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,320
You know, I don't love the 
center fielder, your shortstop 

631
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,400
situation, your third baseman 
who's a whiff machine, who's 

632
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,320
going to hit 210. 
You know, your catcher who's 

633
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,920
going to probably hit 215. 
That's a World Series team. 

634
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,600
Let me take that back. 
That's a definite playoff team. 

635
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,960
I think the answer is no. 
So I feel very confident saying 

636
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,120
that, and it is just incredibly 
frustrating. 

637
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,320
It's one thing to jump through 
the hoops and play the game with

638
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,680
Boris. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

639
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,760
Come on. 
All right, I'm playing the other

640
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:34,840
hand. 
Here's some money. 

641
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:35,960
Here's some chips. 
Let's go. 

642
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,480
Come on, let's speed it up. 
Let's go. 

643
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,800
We know what you're doing. 
You did this with soda. 

644
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,280
You've done this with others. 
Let's go. 

645
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,600
Let's get to the end point. 
You want 7? 

646
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,560
How firm are you? 
Because he ain't getting it. 

647
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,440
And if that's what you think 
he's getting here, then take his

648
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,240
ass somewhere else because he's 
gone and we're moving on and 

649
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,240
we're getting Bichette and now 
we're going for Tucker. 

650
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,640
How's that taste, Boris? 
Like I'm done waiting for Boris 

651
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,480
to get this thing settled here. 
I'm done. 

652
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,040
I do think I give the Yankees 
little credit here. 

653
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,440
I actually think the Yankees are
playing this fairly well with 

654
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,000
Bellinger. 
I do like they are very 

655
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,080
competitive. 
I don't, I don't know one other 

656
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,760
offer that's definitive for for 
Bellinger and Boris at this 

657
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,720
point. 
But they've been very aggressive

658
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,880
in the AAV and I think that 
that's smart. 

659
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,440
You know, I'd rather pay 2, 
three, $4 million extra. 

660
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,960
Now what? 
He's obviously in his prime, you

661
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,160
know, and then not have to deal 
on the back end, the residue of 

662
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,240
a decaying player, you know, for
year 6 and year 7. 

663
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,080
So I get their philosophy. 
I agree with it. 

664
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,480
I don't know if that's going to 
work. 

665
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,720
And if it doesn't, are they open
to Year 6 again? 

666
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,000
Year 7 is a drop. 
I'm hanging up on you. 

667
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,120
Like if you're that serious 
about 7 and I mean this, if you 

668
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,600
are unflinching in your 
presentation and demands for 

669
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,840
seven years, the next thing 
you're going to hear is this 

670
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,760
click. 
Now you don't really hear a 

671
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,960
click like the old school clicks
when you hang up on somebody, 

672
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,760
the old phones, but you're not 
going to hear my voice anymore. 

673
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,400
Goodbye, we're out. 
We're not interested. 

674
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,680
Go somewhere else and I'll live 
with the consequences. 

675
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,640
You will not hear from me at 
that point. 

676
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,160
Buyer's remorse. 
If he signed 70, if the Mets 

677
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,600
give him seven years, you will 
not hear me say now, of course I

678
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,400
won't be happy because it's the 
Mets that says a little 

679
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,080
different energy, but I will 
maintain this energy. 

680
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,040
Hey, ain't worth it. 
Congratulations. 

681
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,160
I got 14 years of Soto and seven
years of Bellinger. 

682
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,720
Good luck with that. 
Like, from a baseball 

683
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,960
perspective, I would be able to 
completely compartmentalize the 

684
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,920
differences between a good 
contract, a a, a, an 

685
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,000
irresponsible one and the whole 
Yankee Met dynamic, Which by the

686
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,560
way, I think if you follow me, I
don't get too much. 

687
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,600
I really do try to be, and I 
think I am incredibly objective 

688
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,760
with the Mets. 
I'm not saying we don't have 

689
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,240
fun. 
I mean, jeez, if we can't have 

690
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,760
fun, jam at each other, what the
hell are we doing? 

691
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,760
I mean, that's what we were 
doing the street all the time. 

692
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,080
Donnie's better than Keith. 
Keith's better than Donnie. 

693
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,120
Come on, Kidry is better than 
Gooden. 

694
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,080
I mean, I never won that battle,
but I would say it because I 

695
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,640
didn't see Guidry in the 70s. 
I'm talking Kidry in the 80s. 

696
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,600
I don't know, man. 
I, I, I just, I would love to 

697
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:11,080
wake up or I would love to be at
one of my kids basketball games 

698
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,840
in the next week or two or 
sitting on the couch or 

699
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,480
whatever, laying in bed watching
sports night or watching 

700
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,240
politics. 
Here come the alerts. 

701
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,920
Well, I mean, if I'm watching 
sports and I think they'll be 

702
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,080
talking about it, but if I'm 
watching Netflix or something 

703
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,800
else on prime boom alert. 
Wow, Yankees Bichette and then 

704
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,720
two days later, bang Yankees 
Bellinger. 

705
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,800
Why the hell can't they do that?
Why they could. 

706
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,520
They are electing at least as of
now, not to. 

707
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:43,080
And that is what drives me nuts.
And it's not the same as it's 

708
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:49,000
not entitled Yankee fan. 
You know, I'm not 25 or 30 years

709
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,240
old where all I know is winning 
and dynasties and Hall of 

710
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,600
Farmers and you know, great, 
great times. 

711
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,560
My first introduction to I 
should probably, you know, I'll 

712
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,800
give you this little timeline I 
did. 

713
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,120
I've done it on the radio 
before. 

714
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,160
But if you're new, just so I 
give you a little little sense, 

715
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,640
little tap into my mind and how 
I process the Yankees spendings 

716
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,920
and the entitlement, which I'm 
not with the Yankees. 

717
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,639
So in 77 and 78, when they went 
back-to-back, I didn't watch one

718
00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:16,199
pitch. 
I was three and four. 

719
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,840
I don't even vaguely remember 
the game being on in the 

720
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,159
background. 
And I have a very, very weird, 

721
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:27,280
very early ability, not weird, 
but just an ability to like I, I

722
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,280
have images from what I was like
in my mind, like moments as a 

723
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,320
kid, like even like 2 1/2. 
Like, I remember whether it was 

724
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,719
my grandfather who passed away 
when I was on, on my dad's side 

725
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,560
when I was very young. 
Yeah, I was probably 2 1/2 or 

726
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,520
three. 
But I remember, and he was in 

727
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,280
the, in the, in the Navy. 
I remember sitting on his lap 

728
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,360
and seeing an anchor tattoo on 
his forearm. 

729
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,320
Like, I remember that. 
And I know the year that he died

730
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,120
and I know how old I was. 
So I, I do, I can piece things 

731
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,960
together at a very early age for
some reason. 

732
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,000
And I don't remember one pitch, 
the Yankees. 

733
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,320
That's the .777881 was really 
the first World Series that I've

734
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,800
watched that I've, that I 
watched. 

735
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,360
I remember snippets of the 80 
World Series like Ripken. 

736
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,160
I believe Ripken may have caught
the final out on a line drive to

737
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,120
shore. 
Maybe I'm off on that. 

738
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,560
But I do remember that. 
I remember, you know, because 

739
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,600
Mike Schmidt and I, I knew some 
of the names Pete Rose. 

740
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:26,520
The the 81 World Series is the 
first one that I was locked 

741
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,320
into. 
And I remember my parents either

742
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,840
had a wedding or some sort of 
family party on. 

743
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,360
I'm sure my dad was thrilled to 
go to that Saturday night Yankee

744
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,000
game. 
And I remember we, we had a 

745
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,880
babysitter over, I was either in
kindergarten or the 1st grade. 

746
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,760
And I'm man, I'm key. 
I'm, I'm laying on the couch and

747
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,880
I'm, I'm fighting to keep my 
eyes open. 

748
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,280
And I actually remember seeing 
Bob Watson rest in peace first 

749
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,600
year before cash built, you 
know, help with stick. 

750
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,320
Really, you know, Bob Watson 
kind of gets overlooked in this 

751
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,960
whole because it was stick and 
it was Tory and it was the buck.

752
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,640
And it was before Bob Watson was
a part of that early 

753
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,840
instrumental wave of infusion of
talent and stability. 

754
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,480
Anyway, Bob Watson, righty 
hitter, play a little first 

755
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,600
base. 
You know, Chambliss, they both 

756
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,880
played. 
And I remember him hitting a 

757
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,920
home run to right field. 
I've actually remember seeing 

758
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,080
it. 
So they lose that. 

759
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,280
And then, so that's the 81 
season, 

760
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:27,120
828384858687888990919293, no 
playoffs. 

761
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,240
My entire wheelhouse, entire 
grammar school, entire high 

762
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:38,080
school, not a single Yankee 
playoff at bat, not one. 

763
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,880
You know, now, if you're my age 
and you're a Mets fan, you, I 

764
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,480
know you get tired of 
referencing the 86 Mets, but at 

765
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,200
least you can recollect and and 
remember being immersed in the 

766
00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:52,200
86 Mets, right? 
I had Donnie, you know, and, and

767
00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,720
that, you know, and, and not 
enough pitching and Ricky for a 

768
00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:57,200
couple of years, but they had a 
few good teams and they actually

769
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,240
won a lot of games in the 80s, 
but they didn't win. 

770
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:03,320
The point is, any evaluation or 
any processing that I have of 

771
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,880
the Yankees is not born out of 
or derived from me with this 

772
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,440
crazy sense of entitlement 
because, oh, the Yankees have 

773
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,080
won an X amount of years. 
The Hell's going on? 

774
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,400
Unacceptable. 
The Yankees never won when I was

775
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,480
young, ever. 
Not once. 

776
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,000
Then again, not have The Jets, 
not the Knicks. 

777
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,640
And it's kind of a theme. 
So this is all practical. 

778
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:31,320
I, I, I believe pragmatic, fair 
analysis, you've got the 

779
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,800
resources to do it. 
You've got multiple targets that

780
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,400
would make you infinitely 
better, particularly Bichette, 

781
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,640
because he's a righty stick that
you definitely need. 

782
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,480
And don't give me a backup 
righty catcher who's going to 

783
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,520
play once a week behind Wells, 
which they need. 

784
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,560
But that ain't the righty stick 
that we're talking about. 

785
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:52,080
We all know that, right? 
So they've got the resources and

786
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,040
they've got this little tiny 
runway to have that all match up

787
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,280
with whatever remains of the 
great Aaron Judge's pride prime.

788
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,760
And if they don't do everything 
in their power to actually 

789
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:10,440
capitalize for that man, they 
will have colossally failed 

790
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:16,080
Aaron Judge more than any Yankee
has ever been failed in his 

791
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,080
lifetime, even a lot more than 
Mattingly, because that's really

792
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,200
the only point of reference 
because everybody else won, you 

793
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,040
know, But at least Mattingly had
the greatest lead off hitter in 

794
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,040
the history of baseball for 
three or four, four years, 

795
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,280
whatever. 
What for? 

796
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,600
In Ricky, he had Dave Winfield 
behind him, who's a Hall of 

797
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,920
Famer. 
He had Willie Randolph in the 

798
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,560
two spots, excuse me, in the 2 
hole, who was a really good, 

799
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,960
especially then, you know, 
second baseman didn't have 

800
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:47,120
power, good fielder, good 
bunter, you know, wasn't 22270 a

801
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,520
little more sometimes steal a 
bag clutch winner because he was

802
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:56,320
on those teams in the 70s 
scrappy tough Ricky, Willie, 

803
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,880
Donnie Winfield. 
I mean, at least he had that. 

804
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,560
What the hell has Aaron Judge 
had since he got here? 

805
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,320
He's at Luke Voit at first base.
He's had a broken down Rizzo at 

806
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,160
first base. 
You know, he's had somebody who 

807
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,720
was catching in college and Ben 
Rice, who's learning. 

808
00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:17,320
I love him to say hit her, you 
know that learning how to play 

809
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,960
first base. 
Who's the shortstop been, you 

810
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:25,640
know, I mean, come on, think 
about the Yankee infield. 

811
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:33,280
I've done this before. 
Toshera, Cano, Jeter, a Rod 2009

812
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,520
champion, not to mention 
Sabathia, Damon Swisher. 

813
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:42,200
All the other guys had this 
infield Rice, Jazz, Caballero, 

814
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,320
Volpe, McMahon. 
I mean, you don't have to look 

815
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,080
that hard or twist yourself up 
in mental knots to come to the 

816
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,400
conclusion that this team ain't 
winning. 

817
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,680
They're not winning. 
That's it. 

818
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:01,080
And they got time to rectify 
that and they have to. 

819
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:06,440
They absolutely have to. 
Let's see here. 

820
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,120
Let's see. 
What do we got All right there, 

821
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,320
Serpico, BT come on. 
They make the playoffs every 

822
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:11,360
year. 
If Judge is healthy, they'll 

823
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,960
find a way in. 
All right, let me ask you this. 

824
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,280
I hear you. 
And they usually do. 

825
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,560
What if Judge is not healthy? 
See, the problem is Aaron Judge 

826
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,960
is so amazing. 
Thanks for the for the text 

827
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,280
there. 
I'm going to read a bunch now. 

828
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:28,240
He's so amazing that he covers 
up so many of the deficiencies 

829
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,360
of the general manager and the 
baseball operations department. 

830
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,240
Like imagine. 
Well, you don't have to imagine.

831
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,760
Just remember what happened to 
the Yankees when Aaron Judge ran

832
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,600
into the wall. 
Those idiots with the Dodgers 

833
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,960
that didn't change the concrete 
slab from 1960, Seventy. 

834
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,440
Whatever the 1970 and poor Aaron
Judge. 

835
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,480
Yeah, it was a Sunday night. 
Yanks had a good well, that 

836
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,320
Judge didn't have a good team, 
but they had the great Aaron 

837
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,080
Judge elevating them. 
Would have wanted MVP again. 

838
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,320
If not, he would have finished 
2nd. 55 bombs. 

839
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,640
He was. 
It was unbelievable. 

840
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:58,920
He gets hurt. 
What happens? 

841
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,440
No playoffs, so you can't build 
the team around one guy just 

842
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,160
can't do it. 
And like that's what the Yankees

843
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,520
do. 
So Serpico, I'm surprised that 

844
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,280
you have that opinion. 
Like to me that is being too 

845
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,320
soft on the Yankees. 
I don't get it. 

846
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,920
I really don't get it. 
Let's see here couple things on 

847
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:20,640
the show and the axe and all 
that stuff. 

848
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,080
What this could be a long one 
here. 

849
00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:26,840
The Martian. 
So and in judges 40 mil and 

850
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:32,480
2026, the Yanks are $134 million
2020 6 we say I want to go over 

851
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,800
300 mill. 
The course literally said 

852
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,320
believe it, bro. 
Oh yeah, the Yankees have all 

853
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,240
the eggs in the basket held by 
those 3 pitchers. 

854
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,960
Well, I understand that, but 
that doesn't mean that I'm going

855
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,680
to let them off the hook for 
being that one sided and how 

856
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,840
they dispersed their money. 
I mean great. 

857
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,680
Oh, they got all that money in 
the pitching fantastic. 

858
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,560
You have that pitching look 
against Toronto had rolled on do

859
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,840
now heels not making money, but 
how did he'll do? 

860
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,040
Where was Cole and it's not his 
fault he got hurt. 

861
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,840
But I'm saying you can't just 
align yourself with. 

862
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,320
And this was really their 
philosophy before they brought 

863
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,880
in Bellinger. 
Yeah, I made some of those. 

864
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,400
The pivot from Soto, their basic
premise for a bunch of years 

865
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,560
was, yeah, we got Judge Bangin 
50. 

866
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,080
We got Cole competing for the 
Sai Young and we'll be fine. 

867
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,360
Our division stinks. 
Baltimore's young, They don't 

868
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,920
spend all right, Tampa scrappy, 
but you have to really worry 

869
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,520
about them. 
Bought too much. 

870
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,560
Boston's in a down cycle. 
They're down. 

871
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,320
They're done for now. 
And Toronto's Toronto and 

872
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,680
they're no longer Toronto. 
They're now, they're now 

873
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,840
becoming a machine. 
That is, they're beginning to 

874
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,720
resemble the Dodgers of the 
American League in a lot of 

875
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,600
ways. 
Like their mission statement is 

876
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,920
so easy to identify and the 
Rogers group, I have to double 

877
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,120
check this. 
I believe that they are. 

878
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:46,600
I believe they've got, I know 
they've got more money than 

879
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:47,680
Cohen. 
I think they're second. 

880
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,200
I mean, they're looking to 
spend. 

881
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,920
I mean, they've got all the 
Canada, no Expos, you know, so 

882
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,280
they're smart in terms of a 
North American perspective. 

883
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,200
You know, they're the only 
baseball team up there as we 

884
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:00,920
know. 
That might change. 

885
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,120
Expos might come back, which 
would be a pretty cool story. 

886
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,720
Whatever. 
Right now it's them and right 

887
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,320
now the brand, you might not 
want to hear this, but this is 

888
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,960
the reality. 
The brand of the team that 

889
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,920
always overshadowed them and 
everybody else, by the way, in 

890
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,600
baseball is now diminishing by 
the year and that's the Yankees.

891
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,520
So let me get this straight. 
So their brand is getting more 

892
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,480
powerful. 
Yankees is diminishing 

893
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,520
opportunistic people with the 
funds to back it up. 

894
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:30,440
It's go time. 
All right now we smell a little 

895
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,840
blood. 
Yanks aren't quite willing to go

896
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,800
all the way. 
We're already better. 

897
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,280
We just beat them or we just 
embarrassed them in the post 

898
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:38,960
season. 
All right, let's go. 

899
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,600
Let's lay it on thick. 
And they're going to like 

900
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,520
they're they're not even close 
to being done. 

901
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:48,240
You know, let's see here, Boris,
we know about that. 

902
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,880
Boris doing his job. 
I understand that. 

903
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:51,840
Yeah. 
Armand White. 

904
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,160
I get that. 
That's why I don't begrudge him 

905
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,200
for doing it. 
He's obviously doing his job 

906
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,280
here. 
And that's why I obviously 

907
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,640
thanks for the text there. 
I obviously separated the two. 

908
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,160
You know, Boris, I I said if you
just do, then, especially now, I

909
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,760
wish Scott, Boris was my agent. 
Yeah, I can promise you I 

910
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,320
wouldn't be having YouTube 
issues, right? 

911
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,720
Or wouldn't be having the 
microphones not working, right. 

912
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,280
Boris is amazing at what he 
does. 

913
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,440
He's a complete cornball with 
these nursery rhymes that he 

914
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,960
these riddles and these rhymes, 
whatever these poems that he's 

915
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,480
drops on these players. 
It's it's embarrassing, but you 

916
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,480
know, it works because he's got 
a stable the stars and every 

917
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,880
team knows we got a Boris guy 
this year. 

918
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,760
Dig in. 
Ain't going to be easy. 

919
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,880
Not only not only is it not 
going to be easy, it's not going

920
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,600
to be quick. 
Like there's never going to be 

921
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,200
resolution during the season, 
even if the guy wants to resign.

922
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,560
No, we'll see in the in the 
winter and we know the 

923
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,240
parameters with Boris. 
He's going to squeeze every 

924
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:43,120
penny from us. 
That's his job and he's great at

925
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:44,720
it. 
I get that. 

926
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,320
But I can separate Boris being 
phenomenal at his job and Boris 

927
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,840
really not being good for for 
baseball. 

928
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:57,800
I I honestly Anthony Tranchina 
BT get Michael Kay on. 

929
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:58,920
Would love to hear you guys 
talk. 

930
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,680
I would love to have Michael on.
I've got to check. 

931
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,720
You know, there's a couple of 
things. 

932
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,280
Well, first of all, you know, 
once we get the ability to 

933
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,520
interview people, that's the 
first step, which is not hard if

934
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,800
it's coming. 
And then, you know, when it 

935
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:15,080
comes to people like Stephen A 
and and Michael, people that I 

936
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:17,440
called good friends and I was 
just with Michael at Alex's 

937
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,440
party a couple of weeks ago, 
spent a lot of time. 

938
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:20,440
But he's great. 
I love Michael. 

939
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,160
Yeah. 
Will he be allowed to do it? 

940
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,440
I don't know. 
I'm not really sure how that 

941
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:25,720
works. 
This is my first bench with all 

942
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:27,920
that stuff here. 
I know if I want to number one, 

943
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:29,560
I wouldn't because it just 
wouldn't be right. 

944
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,720
But I know if I wanted to have 
Michael on the fan, I mean, back

945
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:36,560
in the day, back in the day 
couple of weeks ago, I I 

946
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,160
obviously wouldn't. 
I mean, I I wouldn't even think 

947
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,480
of doing it. 
And I don't think that he would 

948
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,640
be allowed and whatever. 
So there's there's that. 

949
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:45,960
I don't think it's quite the 
same. 

950
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,160
I really don't no, but I love 
Michael, man. 

951
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,640
I was watching the other night, 
the really the other night was 

952
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,680
that Monday night, whatever it 
was, or Tuesday, like the Yankee

953
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,920
Hot Stove show on yes, the other
night was the first time it was 

954
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,960
worth watching. 
Number one, it was two people. 

955
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,240
And I'm not not to diminish the 
other people's talents. 

956
00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:01,280
They've got a good crew up 
there. 

957
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,440
I really do like I like what 
they do right. 

958
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:08,080
But to have K and Curry back and
forth, you know, just volleying,

959
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,080
I thought it was really, really 
good and also coincided with the

960
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,560
the first sign that, you know, a
little bit more detail and I 

961
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,240
trust Curry. 
You know, if he tells you 

962
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:20,320
something, you know, he's 
getting it from the Yankees. 

963
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,400
And he's, he's well sourced with
other people as well. 

964
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,480
I'm not saying he's I'm not 
saying he's carrying the Yankees

965
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:26,840
water at all. 
I think the exact opposite. 

966
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,520
I think he's great. 
I actually think he's one of the

967
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,640
best out there. 
So he's got connections with all

968
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,640
the teams and the agents, but 
he's on the guest network. 

969
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,840
I mean, it's pretty safe to say 
that if if Jack Curry says 

970
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,800
something with great, you know, 
in a, in a really definitive 

971
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,360
manner pertaining to a contract 
or a fielding within the Yankees

972
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,280
building, I think that it's 
probably pretty smart to believe

973
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:47,160
him. 
So I choose to. 

974
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:48,960
But yeah, I'd love to get 
Michael up. 

975
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,640
There's no doubt about that. 
The other thing, I want to throw

976
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:52,760
something else on the table 
here. 

977
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,240
Keep these Yankee ones coming 
in. 

978
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,760
Yeah, I'm gonna hit this one 
real fast here. 

979
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,240
Benji Kleiner. 
That's a new one. 

980
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:03,960
Appreciate you, Benji. 
Thanks for jumping in, dude. 

981
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,840
So if Benji writes, it's it's 
upsetting. 

982
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,120
We didn't show any interest in 
the mind. 

983
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,240
He was relatively cheap, and I'd
rather have him than Warren. 

984
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:13,400
Well, I actually think Will 
Warren thank you for that. 

985
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,480
I think Will Warren has a chance
to be really good. 

986
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,920
Now, I'm not going to bother you
and bombard you with advanced 

987
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,920
analytics now, but for a rookie 
with a strikeout rate, it was 

988
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,840
really encouraging. 
And he had, I think one of them 

989
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,440
was against the Red Sox. 
He had about three starts that 

990
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:34,000
was so bad that really skewed 
his numbers more times than not 

991
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,640
Will Warren was going out there 
with a chance to give you a 

992
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:37,760
chance to win. 
All right. 

993
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,840
That's how I first evaluate a 
young pitcher. 

994
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:41,920
And he gave that with with 
pretty good frequency and 

995
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,240
consistency. 
And he's got the ability to make

996
00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:46,240
people miss. 
So and now he's also really 

997
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:49,000
cheap and I also think that he's
convertible to the bullpen. 

998
00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:52,080
So to your point, you know, if 
if they would have gotten to my 

999
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,880
or to my point, and I think 
others like if they get Peralta 

1000
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,400
and then everybody comes back 
and we should only be so lucky 

1001
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,240
to have a Yankee rotation, say 
All Star break on everybody's 

1002
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:05,240
healthy, everybody's back, 
everybody's, you know, back to 

1003
00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:08,040
what they were at their prime or
before injury. 

1004
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,160
Well, you can have a 12 
combination of Gary Cole and Max

1005
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,760
Freed, which and I love that 
it's righty lefty, but they're 

1006
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,520
just competitors and they're 
both phenomenal. 

1007
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,480
So that's awesome. 
And then, you know, especially 

1008
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,240
if Schlittler looks the way that
I believe he's going to look, 

1009
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,040
and in a small sample has 
already looked when they got 

1010
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,520
Schlittler 3. 
And then you go back to another 

1011
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,200
left in Rodon. 
And then like, or if Perolta's 

1012
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,200
there, Perolta 3 and then Rodon 
4 and Schlittler 5 or Schlittler

1013
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,720
4, Rodon 5, whatever it might 
be. 

1014
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:39,840
And then you've got a surplus, 
not just of capable arms that 

1015
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,720
can, you know, win you A-65 
game. 

1016
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,440
You got guys who are going to be
competing with with each other 

1017
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,280
on a day-to-day basis. 
Oh, what did Cole do last night?

1018
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,320
And he went seven, gave up five 
hits, gave up two runs. 

1019
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,320
We won 6/1. 
He had eight punches. 

1020
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:53,560
All right, I got to go out 
there. 

1021
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,120
I got to do that. 
I've got to do that Freed. 

1022
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,120
And that's how you have a great 
staff where and it's not 

1023
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:00,840
jealousy, it's just it's 
competitiveness. 

1024
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,600
I want to do what you did last 
night. 

1025
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,040
I'm going to go out, I'm going 
to show you I'm going to do 

1026
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,680
better. 
And that is a, that is a healthy

1027
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,320
starting rotation. 
The thing that bothers me. 

1028
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,400
And they've got a chance to 
really, really have that, which 

1029
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,160
is another reason why if they do
these things, I'm telling them 

1030
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,680
to do and not just Bellinger's, 
I've already laid out and I can 

1031
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,520
do it again. 
Go out there and get everybody 

1032
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:23,440
else and just take one freaking 
massive swing for the top tank. 

1033
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,160
Go upward, go Tino against the 
Padres and hit the hit the 

1034
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,120
facade and have deer go flying 
swing for the fences. 

1035
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,000
Not a 327 foot home run down the
line. 

1036
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:38,600
Go for the upper deck dig in. 
It's 2O. 

1037
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,280
It's three O it's 31. 
It's 21. 

1038
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,240
Here's a cookie fastball. 
We're swinging like we haven't 

1039
00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:47,640
swung in a while. 
That's what they should do. 

1040
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:52,480
Now, the thing with a my and 
this was just, I mean, I, I 

1041
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,360
can't even launch into this now 
because I did this the other 

1042
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,840
day. 
But to address what he said, you

1043
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,600
know, I was very disappointed 
and have been very disappointed.

1044
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,800
This is a Mets thing as well. 
Like the inability of of our 

1045
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:07,280
local teams to structure these 
new contracts, which aren't 

1046
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,800
exactly that new anymore. 
Like, let's get with the 

1047
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,880
program, guys. 
Let's figure it out. 

1048
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,560
Let's figure out how to present 
to a really appealing option 

1049
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,880
that's going to make us better. 
Oh, yeah, by the way, Yeah, you 

1050
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,680
can opt out into the first year.
Sure, you can opt out into the 

1051
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,080
second year. 
No problem. 

1052
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,640
Come on in. 
We'll get good. 

1053
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:27,760
You know why? 
It's a win win? 

1054
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:32,440
Under no circumstance, if am I 
went to the Mets or if am I went

1055
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,760
to the Yankees, had a big 
season, opted out, is that a 

1056
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:37,560
loss for the Mets or the 
Yankees? 

1057
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,600
Under no circumstance, none. 
Because number one, if he's 

1058
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,680
opting out, he performed, win, 
win. 

1059
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,760
If he opts out and he fits and 
he's really good, well, you've 

1060
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,800
got the resources to pay him and
the ability to offer a different

1061
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,480
contract when he opts out, win, 
win. 

1062
00:50:54,680 --> 00:51:00,040
What the hell is the downside? 
Unlike trading for a Cabrera or 

1063
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,680
a Peralta or I think for the 
Mets, eventually, school ball, 

1064
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,720
you're going to have to give up 
so much. 

1065
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,960
And how about that school ball? 
Did you see this? 

1066
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:14,040
The largest gap in terms of 
arbitration in the history of 

1067
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,560
baseball? 
He was looking for what, 32? 

1068
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,320
And the Tigers offered a 19. 
The Tigers stick that up Your 

1069
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,320
behind $19 million. 
Could you be any more insulting 

1070
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,360
than that? 
I mean, so the Tigers are 

1071
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,320
idiots. 
I mean, if the Tigers think that

1072
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,560
they're going to win the World 
Series this year and then just 

1073
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:37,480
let school be waltz into a free 
agency, that might be truly and 

1074
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,960
there's been an abundance of 
dumb moves in the history of 

1075
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,520
baseball. 
But with back-to-back Cy Young's

1076
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,720
in his prime for team that's not
going to win and for team that 

1077
00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:48,600
doesn't have either the appetite
or probably a little bit of both

1078
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,960
with the resources as well. 
I mean, they're not the Rays, 

1079
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:52,600
but they're also not the 
Yankees, Dodgers, Mets, 

1080
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,640
Phillies, etcetera. 
With that money, Toronto like 

1081
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,720
they could pay him, but then 
obviously the rest of the team 

1082
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,960
compromise. 
You absolutely must trade Tariq 

1083
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:05,440
school, not maybe must. 
And you should be doing it now 

1084
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,320
really, because that's going to 
maximize the investment because 

1085
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,240
wherever you're dealing is going
to make 3233 starts for that 

1086
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:15,720
team if he's healthy rather than
all right, you know, maybe we 

1087
00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:17,240
weren't as good as we thought 
we'd be here. 

1088
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,520
We really have to trade school. 
And now you start taking calls 

1089
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,240
in late May, early June, and 
yeah, you'll still get a Kings 

1090
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:27,240
ransom form, but not as much 
because now instead of making 32

1091
00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:31,600
or 33 starts, now he's going 
somewhere he's making 1314. 

1092
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,720
Not that that can influence a 
pen and race, especially if it's

1093
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:37,160
a team that's already a playoff 
team because now he's getting 

1094
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,680
the rock every, you know, every 
other every a couple of games in

1095
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,160
the playoffs here. 
So that would, I mean, you would

1096
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,680
justify trading form. 
But I'm saying from their point 

1097
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,760
of view, they are on the 
precipice of handling this as 

1098
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:52,680
poorly as you possibly can. 
And I understand that there's 

1099
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,920
like that there's precedence and
you don't just hand out money. 

1100
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,200
Oh, man, he's so good. 
You're asking for 32. 

1101
00:52:58,240 --> 00:53:00,360
OK. 
Like there's a reason why it's 

1102
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,160
set up that way. 
You know, the arbitrator and the

1103
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,400
economic system. 
We can push back all we want. 

1104
00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,000
It is what it is. 
And until it's not what it is, 

1105
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:14,200
well, I on, on a lot of levels, 
I understand why teams remain 

1106
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,400
beholden to that because giving 
money away just to placate 

1107
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,560
somebody is idiotic. 
You, you work within the 

1108
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,200
parameters of the rules that if 
you could save yourself as 

1109
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,520
they're trying to save $13 
million, which they won't, he's 

1110
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,560
going to win that. 
And he's not going to get 32, 

1111
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,520
but he's not going to get 19. 
So they'll lose more than they 

1112
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,680
offered. 
What you do is you unnecessarily

1113
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,680
really sabotage relationship and
Jeter's talked about this where 

1114
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:42,720
this was really the, I think the
genesis of the issue where he 

1115
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,760
with him and Cashman like that 
disconnect where and I'm with 

1116
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,520
Cashman on this, he's like, 
listen, Derek, we love you, but 

1117
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:50,880
you know, and you've won a lot. 
We want to keep you. 

1118
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,200
We want to be fair here and 
competitive, but some other guys

1119
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,560
out there who are better right 
now, you know, Troy Tulowitzky, 

1120
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,960
not with the Yankees got him. 
But at that point, you know, 

1121
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,080
Troy's pretty good and he's 
younger and your defensive 

1122
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,160
numbers are dropping and you're 
not a pure power guy. 

1123
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,080
Like there's something to talk 
about here. 

1124
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,800
And Derek was offended by that. 
Now, I can also, I could see 

1125
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,920
both sides. 
I can see why the Yankees did 

1126
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,680
that. 
And I could see why Derek, with 

1127
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,640
all the championships and the 
rookie of the year and 3000 plus

1128
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:18,280
heads and Yankee immortality, 
you know, never an issue off the

1129
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,160
field outside of maybe once or 
twice George saying, you know, 

1130
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,080
stop going to the clubs. 
That American Express 

1131
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,160
commercial, which was 
hysterical, you know, that was, 

1132
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,240
that was a little different 
because Derek had won so much 

1133
00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:31,960
and had so much equity. 
I understand why he felt that 

1134
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,360
way, but I understood why the 
Yankees are doing that as well. 

1135
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,880
That's not the case with the 
Tigers in school. 

1136
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:41,120
So just to insert that, wow. 
I mean, if I'm opposing teams, I

1137
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,720
mean, you've already lined it 
up, but I am just licking my 

1138
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:45,960
chops here, you know, foam it at
the mouth, All right? 

1139
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,720
You know, my, my #1 prospect, my
#3 prospect, my #5 prospect, you

1140
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:54,640
know, my #13 prospect. 2 very 
useful, cheap, ascending town, 

1141
00:54:54,720 --> 00:54:55,640
talented players. 
Here you go. 

1142
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:56,480
Take it all. 
Let's go. 

1143
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,440
We'll take school ball. 
Like that's what has to happen. 

1144
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,080
And I still think that he's 
going to be a Met. 

1145
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,440
I really do. 
Speaking of the Mets, No. 

1146
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:08,240
Amazing day. 
It's pretty interesting. 

1147
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:09,760
I'll get to that in a little 
bit. 

1148
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:19,280
Let's see. 
Interesting to my. 

1149
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,680
Let's see, Boris. 
I don't want to just be 

1150
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,840
repetitive here. 
So yeah, I can't believe that 

1151
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:27,840
Serpico said that they make the 
playoffs every year and he's 

1152
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:29,760
good with that. 
Like, it's got to be a next 

1153
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:31,760
level evaluation. 
It's got to be guys. 

1154
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:35,360
Come on, man, Let's see. 
All right, this one's about 

1155
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:35,840
Beldy. 
I think. 

1156
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,960
Kyle Cicento. 
Are those soft CS? 

1157
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,560
I'm going to go with soft C Kyle
Cicento rather than Kyle 

1158
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,800
Cicento. 
Let me know if I'm right, Kyle. 

1159
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,240
I'm going to go. 
That strikes me as a soft C Kyle

1160
00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:49,280
Cicento. 
It wouldn't be Cicento because 

1161
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,000
it's 2C anyway. 
I'm going to go with Cicento. 

1162
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,480
We had Belli last year. 
We still lost to Toronto. 

1163
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,320
Even if we sign him, we still 
need to do more. 

1164
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,240
I'm with you bro. 
I mean, that's why I just said 

1165
00:55:57,240 --> 00:55:59,560
what I said the 1st 15 minutes 
of the show today, no doubt. 

1166
00:55:59,960 --> 00:56:03,680
I mean, Bellinger just gets you 
back to theoretically where you 

1167
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,880
were a year ago and that's if 
and you know, if he's healthy, 

1168
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,160
you would think that he will, 
but that's if Aaron Judge has 

1169
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:14,480
another out of this world all 
time, another MVP season. 

1170
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,920
If there's an injury or just a 
slight diminishment, whatever, 

1171
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,000
or some of the young players 
that you expect to take a step 

1172
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,280
forward. 
If they don't, then I I really 

1173
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:26,600
don't think that they're a 
playoff team. 

1174
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:30,120
But I said that as well because 
the division is just going to be

1175
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,680
really, really good. 
I don't think anybody even 

1176
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,960
Toronto, and I mean unless if 
they were to get Tucker another 

1177
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,400
arm that's different, but even I
don't think Toronto is going to 

1178
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,400
win 9899. 
I would say they won 94 a year 

1179
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,520
ago tied with the Yankees. 
I would probably sign up for 

1180
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:49,280
that as well because I think the
94, it seems on the surface low 

1181
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,640
for team that's stacked like 
Toronto is and pre Yankee team 

1182
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,760
that could be stacked that they 
actually have the guts to do 

1183
00:56:54,760 --> 00:57:00,160
this right. 
But to get to 94, you got to bag

1184
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,040
on a lot of bad teams in that 
division, and that's not going 

1185
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,120
to be the case like it was a 
year ago. 

1186
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,680
I don't think they'll be that 
stark separation one through 5. 

1187
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,200
I think it'd be much more 
jumbled. 

1188
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,960
I think maybe for the first 
month you might see, you know, a

1189
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,160
team like the Orioles in first 
place or Boston. 

1190
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,160
And then I think Toronto asserts
it's not that they can't start 

1191
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,200
well, but I mean, the 
fluctuations could be 

1192
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,440
interesting. 
Then Toronto asserts itself and 

1193
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,000
they're in first place. 
If the Yankees do these things, 

1194
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,240
Yankees get hot pitching comes 
back Yankees jump in. 

1195
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,680
You know the Rays. 
You know you play in the Rays 

1196
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,960
down there or or or here it's 
always a dog fight 3 games Yanks

1197
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:38,640
can be very as they have very 
easily lose twice because you 

1198
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,920
know Tampa's better on the base 
as they catch the ball better 

1199
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,360
like it's not going to be a 99. 
I don't think we're 100 win 

1200
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,840
season. 
I don't believe for the American

1201
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,120
League East winner. 
I don't see that. 

1202
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,360
I really don't. 
Let's see here. 

1203
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,200
Trust trust heal more than 
Rodon. 

1204
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,760
No, I don't do that. 
Come on, man, stop here. 

1205
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:58,440
What? 
Here Audios good. 

1206
00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,800
No, I know the audio. 
I figured it out. 

1207
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:01,400
I messed up with the audio that 
was on me. 

1208
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,800
What else we got here? 
Did I see the report on Lombard?

1209
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,640
I did not see the report, the 
report on Lombard. 

1210
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,840
So can somebody let me know what
that is? 

1211
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,360
I mean, I started the show at 
10. 

1212
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,280
Obviously, I set the show up. 
Thank you for that. 

1213
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,160
I don't know, Let me throw this 
out there on on amazing day. 

1214
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,400
But this is not the low hanging 
fruit. 

1215
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:27,200
This is not me just taking a jab
at the Mets because I want to be

1216
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:31,040
fair to the Mets in this regard.
Just make sure I have everything

1217
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,480
buttoned up here. 
All right, So there's no amazing

1218
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:37,080
day in Queens as we know now. 
Last year was a wild success. 

1219
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,840
10,000. 
I remember Sal was out there 

1220
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,240
doing something for S&Y. 
I'm pretty sure it was S&Y, but 

1221
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,320
he was definitely out there and 
it was awesome. 

1222
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,280
I saw a lot of the pictures. 
You guys had a blast. 

1223
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,240
I think it's a great thing. 
And by the way, a lot of teams, 

1224
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,880
I remember when I was working in
San Francisco, the Giants did 

1225
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,400
that every year. 
Like to me, a fan fest or an 

1226
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,120
amazing day that's awesome, you 
know, you get a chance to be up 

1227
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,880
close with luminaries of the 
team and yeah, it's just how is 

1228
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:03,680
it not good? 
Number one, you can make money 

1229
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,160
off it, which shouldn't be the 
main motivation, but as a 

1230
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:09,320
byproduct of doing something 
cool, if you're able to also 

1231
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,120
make money. 
Well, that I think that's it's a

1232
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:14,400
home run from a business model. 
So 10,000 of you flocked in 

1233
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,920
there and, you know, just let 
the place up. 

1234
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,440
Yeah, you also got on Cohen's 
ass and you said let's go, let's

1235
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,120
get Pete, which is part of the 
impetus. 

1236
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:26,680
I've always believed that that 
that if there was no amazing day

1237
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:31,520
last year, I can't prove this. 
I can't, but I believe that 

1238
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,160
there's a 7030 chance Pete's not
there. 

1239
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,520
I think that they were so 
sensitive to that coming off a 

1240
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:42,040
really Goodyear, 89 wins and 
unexpected playoff run, knocking

1241
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:43,800
on the door, get into the World 
Series. 

1242
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:48,560
Like the mojo was good and the 
team was thought to be 

1243
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,120
ascending, right. 
They stripped the whole thing 

1244
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:52,760
down, rightfully so. 
But that was I'm going back to 

1245
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:58,760
last year and you know, to 
defuse the enthusiasm by letting

1246
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,720
Pete walk last year would have 
been fairly unjustifiable. 

1247
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,200
You guys showed up, you guys let
it RIP. 

1248
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:10,600
They responded now the easiest 
thing in the world, and you 

1249
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,000
know, I've this is my initial 
thought, but I'm not sure that I

1250
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:14,320
really believe that. 
And I'll tell you why in a 

1251
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,120
minute. 
The easiest thought in the world

1252
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,680
to say, well, Mets have had an 
awful That part's true. 

1253
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,680
In terms of bringing play 
players in, smart, doing what 

1254
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,600
they're doing, but from a PR 
point of view, an awful 

1255
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,840
offseason. 
Guys that you love, I mean, you 

1256
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:33,760
love Pete, you love Nemo Diaz is
different because he wasn't 

1257
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,640
drafted by the Mets. 
But you love Diaz. 

1258
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,120
But it's a different kind of 
affection. 

1259
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:38,720
It's a different kind of 
connection. 

1260
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,320
The Diaz thing was more like, 
man, we need him. 

1261
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,800
Not that not that you not that 
you don't think you need Pete, 

1262
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,480
but it was like this guy's one 
or two top closers in baseball. 

1263
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,200
What the hell we doing for two 
or $3,000,000? 

1264
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:50,880
What? 
How did that go with skew? 

1265
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,760
Whereas Pete, it was a long 
enough conversation, probably 

1266
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:56,240
not going to age. 
All things I've said for two 

1267
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,920
years that, you know, Mets fans 
hated hearing but ultimately 

1268
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,520
proved to be right. 
Righty hitter, average first 

1269
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,440
baseman at best, weak arm 
strikeouts. 

1270
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,680
I know the average was back up 
last year and he had a really 

1271
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,640
good year, no doubt. 
But I just, I was never behind 

1272
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:13,440
giving him a lengthy extension 
because of the baseball 

1273
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:14,760
principles, nothing else. 
That's it. 

1274
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:19,360
And then obviously, Nimmo, you 
know, drafted by the Mets, young

1275
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,360
came up grinder. 
You love them, you know, just 

1276
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,480
you love Nimmo. 
Good guy, you know, religious 

1277
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,720
guy, projects the right things. 
It's really hard to not like 

1278
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,680
Brandon Nimmo as a person and 
there are a lot of things as a 

1279
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:32,840
player that you could like as 
well. 

1280
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,520
But you know, no harm whatever 
injuries now last couple of 

1281
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:38,960
years. 
Having said that, not to re 

1282
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,080
litigate the Mets year or the 
Mets offseason back to amazing 

1283
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:47,080
day instead of set things up to 
to have an amazing day this year

1284
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:55,840
would have been so I think 
detrimental to the perception 

1285
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,560
that the noise it would have 
been ugly. 

1286
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,240
I don't mean violence. 
I'm not saying that, but you go 

1287
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,960
last year was ugly. 
I mean, yeah, some people may 

1288
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,600
have ripped down some fences now
that I think about it, like if 

1289
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,520
you, I think last year's amazing
day was January 25th. 

1290
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:11,760
I'm pretty sure that was the 
date, right. 

1291
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:15,640
So I mean, we're only a couple 
of weeks away from January 25th.

1292
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:16,800
So let's say it's in the same 
neighborhood. 

1293
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,360
If they were having it this year
and nothing transpires between 

1294
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:23,000
now and then, and there's a good
chance that nothing will, it's 

1295
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:28,920
just delete, delete, delete. 
That place would have been ugly,

1296
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:33,400
and I think the very easy 
observation would be all right. 

1297
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,400
They are trying to proactively 
and preemptively avoid that, 

1298
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,800
which on a human level I 
understand. 

1299
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,200
Who the hell is going to 
willingly subject themselves to 

1300
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,800
getting roasted by their fan 
base with all the disgust and 

1301
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,560
the frustration that's going on 
currently within the Met fan 

1302
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:49,880
base? 
I mean, that's just dumb. 

1303
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:52,600
So I get it. 
Now this is where I've got to 

1304
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:53,680
look down. 
I want to make sure I have this 

1305
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:57,360
part buttoned up. 
So to my understanding and I 

1306
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,400
looked this up and I believe 
that this is accurate the the 

1307
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:02,680
Mets last year I found the press
release. 

1308
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,920
The Mets press release last year
was January 23rd and that's when

1309
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,880
they announced what they were 
going to do fan amazing day, 

1310
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,520
their fan fest and then January 
25th to Saturday. 

1311
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,080
It was executed. 
Now, as I was looking that up, 

1312
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:16,840
that's why I'm a little 
surprised and I, I believe 

1313
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:20,080
that's 100% right, but I'll 
leave a 1% wiggle, wiggle that 

1314
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:25,360
it's not like to me the 
logistical aspect of getting 

1315
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:28,840
everybody there in 2 days. 
Maybe you just let everybody 

1316
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,280
know in advance if you announce 
it January 23rd, whatever. 

1317
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,800
And tickets go on sale January 
23rd. 

1318
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,720
But I find it really hard again,
logistically, forget about the 

1319
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:42,960
emotion logistically to on 
January 22nd have this concept 

1320
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,040
really come to final fruition in
life. 

1321
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:48,200
And then the next day, boom in 
the morning, here's the press 

1322
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:49,280
release, here's what we're 
doing. 

1323
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,840
And then in two days fly out all
the former players all the cuz, 

1324
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,680
you know, they did cuz Cohen's 
first class blessed with that 

1325
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:58,840
fly everybody in book the hotels
do this, do that, set things up 

1326
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,240
vendors, blah, blah, blah. 
I mean, I'm not saying it's 

1327
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:02,960
impossible. 
Nothing really is when you have 

1328
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,800
money, but it seems fairly 
implausible to me. 

1329
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:12,760
So the easy reaction is Mets 
bagged amazing day because Mets 

1330
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:16,560
are afraid to face their fans or
if you don't want to use the 

1331
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,040
word afraid, they had no 
interest in doing that right now

1332
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:20,200
because it's not going to be 
positive. 

1333
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:22,800
All right, I understand why you 
think that. 

1334
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:27,360
My first thought was that that 
I, I don't really necessarily 

1335
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,600
believe that. 
I don't, I'm going to give them 

1336
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,960
the benefit of the doubt there. 
I could be naive. 

1337
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,800
I, I don't think it's the issue 
that some of you now again, it's

1338
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:42,600
part of the equation. 
So, you know, I, I, I understand

1339
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,360
why there's vitriol there, but 
you know, whatever. 

1340
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,160
Let me get Nikki for motto. 
Nikki, what's going on, Nick? 

1341
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,800
Honestly, I think it's Cashman 
and how trying to keep Boris in 

1342
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,800
check. 
Frankly, they benefit, not 

1343
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,800
benefits the league so that 
Boris isn't fleecing the league.

1344
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,000
I mean, I don't know Nikki may 
be an interesting theory. 

1345
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,000
Let's kick it around for a SEC. 
You think that they're trying to

1346
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,880
check Boris now? 
I, I wish you would have 

1347
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:08,960
elaborated more. 
I I can only deduce that maybe 

1348
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:12,280
you're incorporating their, 
their animosity from the way the

1349
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,760
Soto stuff went a year ago and 
this is their way to get back, 

1350
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,160
if that's what you mean. 
All right, maybe then I'm fine 

1351
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:19,600
with that. 
Like I have no problem being 

1352
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,960
petty with certain things like 
that, you know, Hey, you help us

1353
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:26,280
with the fire. 
We kept going up 77273740 Oh, 

1354
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,640
now you got a suite, you got all
this whatever, we're good. 

1355
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:30,760
Like you walk this to the line 
of fire. 

1356
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:32,800
Now we're going to walk back 
without getting burned. 

1357
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:38,040
And and he pushed them in a 
very, very Yankees want to know 

1358
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:41,800
part of that 14 year, 50, eight,
$800 million, whatever Mets had 

1359
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:45,120
to do it for a lot of reasons. 
Yankees, I would have liked them

1360
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,240
to retain Soto, but they didn't 
have to quite do it. 

1361
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,200
The mission was different. 
And and I think we all know that

1362
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,880
unless you just predisposed to 
always say that the Yankees are 

1363
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,080
cheap, which is idiotic and just
flat out wrong based on the on 

1364
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:57,960
the on the salaries where they 
ranked. 

1365
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:01,520
So I don't know about that. 
I I think it's much more 

1366
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:05,520
circumstantial. 
Whereas the players who are 

1367
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:10,600
available this year, there's 
some things that come with them 

1368
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:14,200
that are holding teams up from 
jumping into the pool full steam

1369
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,440
now. 
And I'm going to run through 

1370
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,000
each one of them very quickly 
here. 

1371
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:22,200
All right, Kyle Tucker, now it's
floating around baseball. 

1372
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,200
Does he really love baseball? 
Is he all in? 

1373
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,320
He's kind of a detached, quiet 
personality. 

1374
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,600
And you know, I find it 
interesting. 

1375
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:33,960
Cubbies want no part of them. 
They just played for them. 

1376
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:36,720
At least Soto played for the 
Yankees and the Yankees really 

1377
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:39,120
wanted them back. 
The the Cubs don't even want 

1378
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:40,720
Tucker. 
And by the way, neither did the 

1379
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:42,880
Astros. 
That's two teams that let him 

1380
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,520
go. 
So there's the question about 

1381
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,600
his personality. 
Not that he's an issue in the 

1382
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,240
clubhouse, but that he's very 
quiet. 

1383
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,040
And is that going to fit New 
York? 

1384
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:57,400
I I think that's part of it. 
The other thing too, is, you 

1385
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,720
know, he's not like Soto in the 
outfield. 

1386
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,360
He's better, but he's not like 
Bellinger in the outfield. 

1387
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:08,040
He's had some injuries and right
now the thought is that his from

1388
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:12,520
his team, he's worth 10 years, 
you know, 400 plus $1,000,000, 

1389
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:15,560
which is not happening. 
So I think the expectations of 

1390
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:20,120
the of the of the contract are 
not in line with what the market

1391
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,320
is willing to pay. 
So there's that stagnation. 

1392
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:26,240
They're really good hitter, good
speed, good defender, not great 

1393
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,920
good player. 
I mean, really good. 

1394
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,760
But enough issues where this 
thing's going to be stretched 

1395
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:36,000
out. 
Bichette, I love Bichette. 

1396
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:38,080
I I love it. 
He's a gamer. 

1397
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:42,200
He just emits a he emits an 
energy that not not enough 

1398
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,640
Yankees really emit. 
You know what I mean? 

1399
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,200
You need that loose wire a 
little bit like you need a 

1400
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:49,880
posada. 
You need a Swisher, you need a 

1401
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:51,800
Damon. 
You need that guy who's just 

1402
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:55,120
ticking to his own beat just the
way you, even though I know that

1403
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,760
this doesn't matter, but in 
terms of performance, but like 

1404
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:01,640
even the way he wears the 
uniform, like he just looks like

1405
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:06,400
a pain in the ass and somebody 
that you want on your side in a 

1406
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:09,160
fight or in a game, which is 
really what matters in a game. 

1407
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,600
So I love Michelle, he's writing
Yankees have that need. 

1408
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:14,600
He's a shortstop and he's a 
terrible 1. 

1409
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,080
So that is kind of the hold up 
there. 

1410
01:08:17,279 --> 01:08:21,000
Couple of years younger than 
Bellinger, a little not much, 

1411
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,000
slightly younger than than 
Tucker. 

1412
01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:28,120
So the hold up would be Toronto 
apparently is willing to let him

1413
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,640
go. 
And the market for Bichette is 

1414
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:37,160
fairly, fairly benign right now 
because there are two or three 

1415
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:40,120
teams who are in a kind of a 
waiting pattern to see what 

1416
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:42,600
happens with Bellinger. 
And one of those teams is the 

1417
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,920
Yankees. 
Now, I've said I get them both 

1418
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:47,680
and we we all know that it 
probably won't. 

1419
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:51,439
But Bichette's defensive prowess
is it's it's problematic. 

1420
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:53,840
He's not a shortstop. 
What's the willingness on his 

1421
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:55,359
end? 
Is he going to be OK playing 

1422
01:08:55,359 --> 01:08:57,640
second or third for the meat of 
this contract? 

1423
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:00,760
Is it 8 years, which is stupid? 
Is it 7? 

1424
01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,760
Could be, is it 6? 
Sign me up and we'll figure out 

1425
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,800
the rest there. 
But again, there's enough 

1426
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:10,160
obstacles there in the 
evaluation of Bichette where you

1427
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:13,200
like, all right, I, I can 
understand why it's not done 

1428
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:14,920
yet. 
And then we get to Bellinger, 

1429
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:16,880
who we know more intimately 
because we watch them every day 

1430
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,279
and he's he's basically a plus 
at everything and good runner, 

1431
01:09:20,279 --> 01:09:24,439
good fielder, good stick, good 
leader, easy, easy personality, 

1432
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,240
plays everyday gamer. 
So those things are in his 

1433
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:29,319
corner. 
I think it's an unrealistic 

1434
01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:31,479
contract demand. 
What else is new with Boris? 

1435
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,359
So that's part of the hold up 
there. 

1436
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:38,439
And you know, if Bellinger put 
up in the years before that, now

1437
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,240
I know that the circumstances 
with some of those bad years, 

1438
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,680
the shoulder with the Dodgers 
and you know that he changed his

1439
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:46,800
swing because the shoulder was, 
which I get. 

1440
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,120
I think that that's a real 
thing. 

1441
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,880
All right. 
His exit below is not that good.

1442
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:52,479
He doesn't hit the ball, doesn't
barrel it. 

1443
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,800
And this is all quantifiable. 
It doesn't barrel it up as much 

1444
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:57,360
as some of the stud hitters in 
baseball. 

1445
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:58,560
It's true. 
Well, you know why? 

1446
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:00,480
Because with two strikes, 
instead of swinging for the 

1447
01:10:00,480 --> 01:10:03,760
fences selfishly to hit a home 
run, he tries to flick it the 

1448
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:05,160
other way. 
And guess what? 

1449
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,680
When you flick it the other way 
with two strikes, you're not 

1450
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:11,560
flicking it 109 off the bat. 
You're flicking it 79 on a bloop

1451
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,320
down the left field line, you 
know, and guess what? 

1452
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:18,920
Your average will be in the two 
70s ish or 280 instead of 220. 

1453
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:23,280
But you're the measurables that 
a lot of executives lean on goes

1454
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:26,000
down, all right. 
So so to me, I'd rather have a 

1455
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,640
lower K rate and a better 
average and some pop rather 

1456
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,560
than, you know, be Giancarlo 
Stanton, who has out of this 

1457
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,720
world exit velocity but strikes 
out a ton and does nothing else.

1458
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:36,360
Give me the more well-rounded 
player. 

1459
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:42,720
But if Bellinger did exactly the
four or five years prior, even 

1460
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,600
if you take away that massive 
MVPCS with the Dodgers and 

1461
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,800
diminish those numbers and put 
the numbers from last year there

1462
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:52,880
and plug them in, I think 
Bellinger is a much easier 

1463
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,560
player to evaluate. 
There's some red flags in 

1464
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,680
previous performances. 
They're they're just is now. 

1465
01:10:57,960 --> 01:10:59,560
He silenced the critics a year 
ago. 

1466
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:00,960
We know he could play in New 
York. 

1467
01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:02,960
We know he could play in in 
Chicago. 

1468
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:06,680
We know he could play in LA. 
He is big market proven. 

1469
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,240
So that's less of a concern than
say, maybe somebody like a 

1470
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:14,280
Tucker or somebody like a Bell 
Bachette whose defense is really

1471
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:19,200
bad at his primary position. 
You know, what do we got here? 

1472
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:23,760
Want to give you a little. 
I got to make my picks too, man.

1473
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:25,520
While you guys are fired in some
good ones here, I just want to 

1474
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:27,880
get something good here. 
All right, You know what? 

1475
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:29,120
Let me attack this here. 
I don't know. 

1476
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:33,280
Let's see, Bruce Bejesi. 
These names are tricky. 

1477
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,080
I mean, a little bit easier on 
the radio. 

1478
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:39,400
Bruce isn't flushing, you know, 
let's get Joe and Caldwell. 

1479
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:43,440
Bruce be Bruce Bejesi or Bessie.
All right, thank you, Bruce. 

1480
01:11:43,440 --> 01:11:45,920
So do you think the prime years 
of the average Major League 

1481
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:48,320
players now in the 24 to 28 
range, how many players are 

1482
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:51,600
declining after age 30, which is
affecting long term contracts 

1483
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,800
being offered? 
That is a great question. 

1484
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:57,480
It's a fantastic question. 
It's a massive issue right now. 

1485
01:11:57,840 --> 01:11:59,720
I I it's never going to reverse 
itself. 

1486
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:02,280
That's what stinks unless there 
is something collectively 

1487
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:05,360
bargained and floors are 
elevated and this caps whatever,

1488
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,440
which is down the road and 
probably never going to happen, 

1489
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:13,000
certainly not anytime soon. 
I think that the prime of a 

1490
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,880
baseball when I was growing up, 
the prime of my my dad would 

1491
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:21,080
always say the prime of a 
baseball player was 28 to 32. 

1492
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:24,320
All right, now, part of the 
reason. 

1493
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:27,320
And of course there's outliers 
like, you know, Mattingly comes 

1494
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:30,240
up going back to my youth, Daryl
comes up, Doc comes up. 

1495
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:34,920
There's obviously, you know, 
phenomenal talents that that 

1496
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,480
challenge that Winfield didn't 
play in the minors went straight

1497
01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:40,360
to San Diego. 
You know, George Brett was 

1498
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,320
really good. 
Wade Boggs was not. 

1499
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,120
That's an example counter to 
that. 

1500
01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:47,200
I didn't see any young Carew, 
but I know that, you know, with 

1501
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:49,640
the twins, he was he was 
statistically awesome fairly 

1502
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:51,520
young as well. 
I think that Schmidt was pretty 

1503
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:52,720
young. 
I think that there's examples 

1504
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,120
across the board both ways. 
But I think what's really 

1505
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,480
changed here, and this is a 
direct correlation to the 

1506
01:12:58,480 --> 01:13:02,560
explosion of youth baseball. 
I mean, I I am on a youth 

1507
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:06,760
baseball field every single 
weekend, not always coaching on 

1508
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:09,400
the club level, just watching. 
You couldn't pay me to coach 

1509
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:10,040
club. 
Wow. 

1510
01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:15,840
And the level of talent is 
absolutely frightening. 

1511
01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:21,920
It is it is insane. 
It's out of this world now. 

1512
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:23,880
There's burnout. 
There's other factors that I'm 

1513
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:25,560
not going to get into now. 
Nobody cares about that now. 

1514
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:30,520
But I mean, there were kids at 
the age of 10 and that was the 

1515
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:34,440
my my son was 10 you a year ago.
There are kids, a few in New 

1516
01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:39,720
Jersey we plays with and a 
couple nationally who throw 66 

1517
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:43,720
miles an hour at the age of 10 
from 46 feet. 

1518
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:47,920
Now they go to 50 this year. 
They move up a year, 6566. 

1519
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,400
And I don't mean just gas. 
I mean, oh, here's a little 

1520
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:51,800
wrinkle, here's a little change 
up. 

1521
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:55,840
And I mean with the proper 
disparity, 11/12 mile per hour 

1522
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,680
difference, I'm sitting there 
saying, jeez, I I don't know if 

1523
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:00,920
I'd want to be in that batter's 
box and I would pretty good play

1524
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:03,240
it. 
I loved it, you know, so I, I 

1525
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:07,080
say that because what's 
happening now is that players 

1526
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:11,920
and, and perfect game is, is a, 
is an incredible outlet of it. 

1527
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:14,400
It's the best, it's the best 
players in the country, period. 

1528
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,680
And that doesn't mean if you 
play under the umbrella that 

1529
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,800
you're one of the best. 
I'm not saying that, but the 

1530
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:24,320
best players in the country play
for perfect game and the 

1531
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:27,800
exposure, whether it's 
international or domestically. 

1532
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:30,800
I mean, at an early age, 2 years
ago, we didn't do it this year 

1533
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:32,360
because of football. 
Two years ago, my son went to 

1534
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:37,400
Houston in Florida in December 
and Houston in February. 

1535
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:40,360
And the first game we played 
with Juan against Juan, Pierre's

1536
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,560
son, who's phenomenal. 
I'm like, jeez, we just got off 

1537
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,680
the football field. 
Like now we're playing some of 

1538
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,320
the best kids in the country 
because some of these kids just 

1539
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,200
play all year. 
So they're more prepared. 

1540
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:52,280
So to answer that a little bit 
more directly, it's a great 

1541
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:55,320
question. 
I think that they're ready with.

1542
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:59,440
So their stints in the minors or
less and they're coming up now. 

1543
01:14:59,440 --> 01:15:02,360
I mean, there's not many 19, 
there's not many Juan Sotos and 

1544
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:07,120
Dwight goods, not many of those.
But you know, 2021, whereas in 

1545
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:08,680
you look at somebody like 
Mattingly. 

1546
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,560
I know that's just a my default 
example. 

1547
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:18,280
You know, Donnie came up 82 like
8 or 10 at bats, 83 a little bit

1548
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:22,680
more and then and then obviously
84, he wins the batting title 85

1549
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:24,880
he goes MVP, 86 he should have 
won MVP. 

1550
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,960
Rodger won it 87 the home runs, 
consecutive games, blah, blah, 

1551
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,080
blah, right? 
But if you look at his minor 

1552
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:34,360
league run, I think that his, I 
think his AA team, for some 

1553
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:35,600
reason, I think it was in 
Nashville. 

1554
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,240
I, I could be off on that, but 
it was Columbus AAA. 

1555
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:42,640
Each level was spent where there
was no rush. 

1556
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,760
Like truly the best players back
then were in AAA. 

1557
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,760
AAA was really the like the 
spawning in the feeding ground 

1558
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:53,000
for the Major League team. 
That's why George would always 

1559
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,480
send Bobby Meacham down when he 
messed up the AAA Columbus. 

1560
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,080
The Columbus shuttle was an 
expression you heard a lot. 

1561
01:15:58,440 --> 01:16:01,760
You know, now on some some teams
you get guys getting called up 

1562
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,760
from AA and that just didn't 
really happen. 

1563
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:09,280
So they hit the league later 
back then, they're less equipped

1564
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,440
because take somebody like take 
somebody like Mattingly, right? 

1565
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:19,080
I don't know for sure what Don 
Mattingly faced in high school, 

1566
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:21,760
but I can. 
Or even Legion ball. 

1567
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:24,720
I know there was a guy or two, 
some big farm kid from Indiana 

1568
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,040
throwing 90. 
Oh man, we're playing, we're 

1569
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:31,080
playing Jimmy this weekend. 
Jimmy's, Jimmy's throwing 90 and

1570
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:33,160
back then. 
So you're talking 70s when 

1571
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:37,400
Mattingly's doing this. 
Mid to late 70s, late 70s, high 

1572
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,080
school. 
What are they throwing 8045? 

1573
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,240
You know, now you got kids with 
13 throwing that and more and 

1574
01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:44,240
that's not even necessarily 
good. 

1575
01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:45,680
But again, I'm not going to get 
into that. 

1576
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:48,760
I don't want to just, you know, 
weave 9 topics into this. 

1577
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:53,240
It really is a great question. 
And because they are coming up 

1578
01:16:53,440 --> 01:16:56,720
younger and because they are 
more equipped to prosper 

1579
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:00,360
younger, you know, all the the 
controllability which is so 

1580
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:02,640
important for all these teams. 
They don't have the money to pay

1581
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:07,400
these big contracts. 
Excuse me pre R Barb one blah 

1582
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,240
blah blah. 
Well you know now when they 

1583
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:14,920
really do get paid in a position
to get paid for the first time. 

1584
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:23,120
Most of these guys are 27 ish. 
Some are older like Tucker, some

1585
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:26,240
are older like Bellinger, you 
know, some are older like Aaron 

1586
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,200
Judge. 
There's obviously examples to 

1587
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:29,920
the contrary to support what 
I've already said. 

1588
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:34,720
But when you get that big deal 
and you're 28 going on your 29 

1589
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,920
season, and I don't mean a three
or four year deal, but it's 

1590
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:40,680
going to be 789 for the special 
player, you know that you're 

1591
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:43,880
paying 25% tax on what they've 
already done. 

1592
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:46,600
Like you're paying for past 
performance, which doesn't 

1593
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:48,920
behoove anybody involved in this
except the player. 

1594
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,200
And you know, on the back end, 
those last one or two years are 

1595
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:56,480
going to be a massive problem. 
So I don't have the answer. 

1596
01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:00,040
I'm just very, very able to 
identify it being an issue. 

1597
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:06,520
I really, really do. 
Other than Bichette's poor 

1598
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:09,280
defense, he checks all the boxes
for the New York Yankees needs. 

1599
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:12,440
Yeah, I I I understand that. 
I I know, I I get that, Kyle, I 

1600
01:18:12,440 --> 01:18:15,440
hear you on that. 
But that's easy to sit here and 

1601
01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:19,480
say in January. 
Hey, Bichette, outside of 

1602
01:18:19,480 --> 01:18:22,400
defense hits all the boxes, you 
know, righty stick, high 

1603
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,880
average, good athlete, you know,
clutch gamer, blah, blah, blah. 

1604
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:26,800
Winner. 
No doubt. 

1605
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:29,320
We already know that. 
But what's your reaction going 

1606
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:33,680
to be if he's playing shortstop 
when he boots a ground ball 

1607
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:37,240
bottom of the eighth, Yanks up 
one, ALCS against whomever, 

1608
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:40,680
wherever, and it's a play that 
he's got to make and he doesn't.

1609
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:46,000
And it's not an outlier because 
anybody can boot one, even if 

1610
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,320
it's at the worst moment. 
But it's a continuation of what 

1611
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:52,320
he has been since he became a 
major leaguer, which is a poor 

1612
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,240
defender. 
I promise you that you won't be 

1613
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:57,600
right in that to me that night 
when I do my post game reaction,

1614
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:01,360
I I don't think well, you know, 
Bichette, he hit and she's not a

1615
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:02,720
good shortstop. 
Cost is a big game. 

1616
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:05,520
Probably not going to the World 
Series as a result or probably 

1617
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,920
not, you know, moving past the 
ALDS as a result. 

1618
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:09,400
You're going to have a different
energy. 

1619
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:10,840
You can have a very different 
emotion there. 

1620
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,640
You just are. 
All right, let me get to I want 

1621
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:17,120
to do a little football here by 
the way guys, obviously this is 

1622
01:19:17,120 --> 01:19:20,320
streaming on XI know that go to 
YouTube, check out the past 

1623
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:23,600
content, the prior content like 
it subscribe it comment. 

1624
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:25,760
You know you could tell if you 
jump into one of the videos. 

1625
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,560
I am very responsive. 
I love the engagement. 

1626
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,720
It's a way for me to connect 
with you guys it's a way for me 

1627
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:35,160
to build this thing out and just
go out there at BT unleashed on 

1628
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:38,040
YouTube. 
All right now gave you the 

1629
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,800
Yankee stuff. 
Let me give you a little gave 

1630
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,160
you a little amazing day stuff. 
Where's the football stuff here?

1631
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:44,200
The hell did I write that? 
OK, here it is. 

1632
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:48,960
So now I absolutely love wild 
card weekend. 

1633
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:50,480
I love it. 
I always have. 

1634
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,160
It's my favorite. 
I just like it better than 

1635
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,000
anything else. 
Maybe because there's more games

1636
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:57,400
and I know that you get and it's
funny because I think it's going

1637
01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,080
to be a really good game that 
they're playing this year. 

1638
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:03,120
But how many times have like the
Texans, like Matt Schaub, like 

1639
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:05,280
all these quarterbacks that were
some for some reason playing for

1640
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,440
them in a in a wild card game? 
There, there's a chance. 

1641
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:11,400
Tyrod Taylor with the Bills 
years ago, no disrespect to 

1642
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:14,440
Tyrod, like you get a lot of 
situations, although this year I

1643
01:20:14,440 --> 01:20:17,000
don't think we have it, which is
why I'm excited where you get a 

1644
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:18,480
team that really has no 
business. 

1645
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,120
If it wasn't for the expansion 
of the sport in terms of playoff

1646
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,360
seeds, they would have no 
business being anywhere near a 

1647
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:26,880
playoff game. 
And, and I do think that that's 

1648
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:30,600
reflected in the, in the lines 
in the spreads this week and 

1649
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:33,080
also in the storyline. 
So I'll take you through it all 

1650
01:20:33,080 --> 01:20:34,800
now #1 and listen. 
And I love it. 

1651
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:36,200
You got 2 on now. 
I've got a lot of things I've 

1652
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:38,680
got to do tomorrow. 
Both of my kids have basketball 

1653
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,160
games. 
My son's got his baseball, his 

1654
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:42,160
his birthday party tomorrow 
night. 

1655
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:44,760
We're having a guy come with a 
baseball. 

1656
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,440
I don't even know what you call 
it, like a baseball card guy. 

1657
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:49,920
And he's going to bring all 
sorts of cards. 

1658
01:20:49,920 --> 01:20:52,240
And we bought cards for the kids
too, like 13 kids, whatever. 

1659
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:54,920
And he's going to teach him how 
to grade cards. 

1660
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,720
It's amazing how like when I was
y'all get to the football in a 

1661
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:00,320
second. 
Just telling you, wow, I was 

1662
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,160
going to be tough to juggle the 
two NFL games tomorrow, which I 

1663
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:04,840
really don't want to have to 
juggle, but I will have to. 

1664
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:08,960
When I was young, I would go to 
the, you know, CVS with a not 

1665
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:13,360
even CVSI would go to the the 
local pharmacy right by 

1666
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,360
Buckley's in Brooklyn. 
If you know, Buckley's right, it

1667
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:16,680
was Crest. 
It was called Crest. 

1668
01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:21,320
Get the Wiffle balls, get like a
Mother's Day card, you know, get

1669
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:23,520
the baseball stickers that you 
put in the book, get baseball 

1670
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:27,720
cards. 
And not once did I look at a 

1671
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:31,360
baseball card as something that 
I can monetize. 

1672
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,800
It was I would open every pack. 
All right, where's the Yankees? 

1673
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,400
And even if I would get like, 
you know, Bobby Meechan or Dale 

1674
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:39,160
Meechan or Dale Barra, I was 
pumped. 

1675
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:40,240
I'm like, I got a Yankee. 
Nice. 

1676
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:42,960
And even when I got the Mets, I 
was excited because, you know, I

1677
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:45,240
was watching both teams every 
night because as you know, my 

1678
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:48,080
dad was a Met fan, grown up, a 
Dodger fan grown up, and then a 

1679
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:49,760
Met fan. 
But then as he also told us on 

1680
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:52,520
the fan, my last show, he's been
a Yankee fan for a while. 

1681
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:54,840
So in a lot of ways, my dad is 
the kind of baseball fan that I 

1682
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:57,280
RIP all the time. 
But because he's my dad, I'm 

1683
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:58,560
going to spare him that RIP 
right there. 

1684
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:01,880
We get the cards and we had a 
couple games, right? 

1685
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:03,480
There was one game. 
Let me see if I can. 

1686
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:06,040
So there was one game we would 
actually take a card like this, 

1687
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:07,880
right? 
And I don't even know who came 

1688
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:09,720
up with his name. 
It was called Fozzzy, right? 

1689
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:13,520
We'd fozzie him and he would 
just flick it and like it was 

1690
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:16,920
really like, if you did it, you,
you could really fire him and 

1691
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:19,800
they would catch velocity. 
But then like the physics of the

1692
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,600
air or the wind or whatever, as 
they start to decelerate, they 

1693
01:22:22,600 --> 01:22:24,160
go in all these wacky 
conditions. 

1694
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,320
And if you were good at it or, 
or directions, if you were good 

1695
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:30,360
at it, which I was right, 
because there was no randomness 

1696
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:32,440
was David with the next game? 
There was a little randomness. 

1697
01:22:32,440 --> 01:22:35,800
This was a skill game. 
If you could flip it, then you 

1698
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,480
can kind of ride the curve 
almost like a banana bowl and 

1699
01:22:38,480 --> 01:22:41,880
golf, which I don't want to hit 
but I do if I don't dribble one.

1700
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:44,680
But you could actually ride it 
and get that extra little 

1701
01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:47,440
distance and it's one O 1. 
Like you got a little line, you 

1702
01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:51,160
got 5-6 guys there and whichever
card goes the furthest, I 

1703
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:53,840
Fozzie, you Fozzie, my car beat 
you by a foot. 

1704
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:55,240
I pick up both cards, I get 
them. 

1705
01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:57,080
That was one game. 
The other game, this is pretty 

1706
01:22:57,080 --> 01:23:00,720
common, knock down. 
So we just line up like 6 cards 

1707
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:03,280
or maybe even 10 and it was the 
Fozzie. 

1708
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:06,520
What are you talking about? 
There was the Fozzie principle, 

1709
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:08,200
right? 
Where you'd stay not too far 

1710
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:12,000
back and knock down how many 
throws, how many Fozzies right 

1711
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:14,640
did it take you to knock down 
every single card? 

1712
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:18,520
And if it took me 5, but it took
my buddy four, he gets all the 

1713
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:20,440
cards right. 
And then the other one, which 

1714
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:25,680
was a complaint complete random 
1 flip, right, you'd call, I 

1715
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:27,080
guess you'd call heads and 
tails, yeah. 

1716
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:29,400
And heads. 
Heads was the front and then the

1717
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:33,440
back was the stats. 
So you'd flip it and then if you

1718
01:23:33,480 --> 01:23:36,080
identify the proper flip and 
it's heads and you say heads or 

1719
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:38,560
you say tails and it's the 
stats, then you you get both 

1720
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,040
cards as well. 
But never, and I would just, you

1721
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:43,680
know, I put them in my bike and 
I and once a night, I know a lot

1722
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,000
of people say they did that. 
I didn't do that that much, but 

1723
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:50,200
once in a while they were laying
all over wet, dirty, you know, 

1724
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:53,880
candy on them, chocolate milk, 
like I didn't attach an ounce of

1725
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:57,720
value to them one bit. 
And I the purity that in in that

1726
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:00,520
was awesome. 
This new, this new generation, 

1727
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:03,560
you know, and and they're young,
10, some eleven couple of of his

1728
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:06,440
buddies who were older turn 12, 
like they're still pretty young.

1729
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,480
And it is like business time, 
like some kids walk around with 

1730
01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:14,960
cases and like it's a real 
ability to make money, which and

1731
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:16,680
that's awesome. 
Anyway, this guy's coming 

1732
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,120
tomorrow and he's going to teach
them how to grade and it's going

1733
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:20,720
to be some games and stuff. 
So I'm looking forward to that, 

1734
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,280
but I've got to juggle that in 
addition to the football. 

1735
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:25,680
So that was a little diversion 
from from that. 

1736
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:26,880
Now let me give you the 
football. 

1737
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:31,240
All right so there's only one 
game where there's a big spread 

1738
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,600
here right You've got you got 
the Rams. 

1739
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:35,880
Let's gotta look at it this way 
the Rams still getting used to 

1740
01:24:35,880 --> 01:24:38,800
the layout the Rams laying 10 
1/2 over and I'll make each pick

1741
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:42,040
in a in a moment Rams over 
Carolina, massive spread Rams, 

1742
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,360
you know Stafford, phenomenal 
year, great coach blah blah blah

1743
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:46,600
Rams laying 10 to the hook 
that's Saturday. 

1744
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:48,880
Then you get the Packers 1 1/2 
point favorites in Chicago. 

1745
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:51,640
That's gonna be sick. 
That is going to be sick. 

1746
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,120
What did I say? 
I heard a stat the other day. 

1747
01:24:55,480 --> 01:24:58,760
I was in the car and I had and 
it was Evan and Tiki. 

1748
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:00,640
Sean may have even come up with 
a stat. 

1749
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,520
The last time the Bears beat the
Packers, not the Packers beat 

1750
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:09,520
the Bears, the Bears beat the 
Packers was the Sunday after 

1751
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:11,920
Pearl Harbor. 
We're talking World War Two. 

1752
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,040
What? 
So anyway, Packers favorite 1 

1753
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:16,200
1/2. 
That's, I mean, the spread is 

1754
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:17,400
nominal. 
Flip a coin. 

1755
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:20,240
Then you get to Sunday Bills in 
Jacksonville. 

1756
01:25:20,360 --> 01:25:23,040
If the Bills don't play well, 
Mcdermott's name might be on the

1757
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:26,040
coaching in the coaching cycle. 
Jacks look great. 

1758
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,160
That's going to be a fun game. 
Bills 1 1/2 point favorites, 

1759
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:29,680
Philly. 
I think this spreads a little 

1760
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:33,320
bit too big myself, but Philly's
host of the Niners -5 1/2. 

1761
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:35,120
All right, it's a fairly sizable
spread. 

1762
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:38,840
But then the next one, Pats -3 
and a hook over the Chargers. 

1763
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:42,440
And then the Texan Steelers 
Monday night, Houston -3 that's 

1764
01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:45,240
an at Heinz Field. 
So the Steelers are home dogs. 

1765
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:51,040
I think that every one of these 
games, maybe with the exception,

1766
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:53,520
I just don't see how Bryce Young
is going to keep up with the 

1767
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:54,720
Rams. 
I'll make my picks now. 

1768
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,680
I think every game now, it's 
just not going to work out this 

1769
01:25:57,680 --> 01:25:59,600
way. 
But on paper and based on match 

1770
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:02,800
up, anticipated match up, I 
think every games going into the

1771
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,160
fourth quarter, I really do, I'm
going to take the Rams. 

1772
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:07,520
Now, listen, if you're really 
betting, then I would say shave 

1773
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:12,680
down the half a point because I 
excuse me, I don't think 10 1/2 

1774
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:15,440
now, I don't think you'll get a 
surge of late Carolina money. 

1775
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,040
I just don't see that which 
would bring it down to if 

1776
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:19,400
anything, I think it goes up to 
11. 

1777
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:23,240
So if you like the Rams, I mean,
it could stay pat as well, but I

1778
01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:25,080
think there's more of a chance 
it goes up than goes down. 

1779
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,840
If you love the Rams either by 
the half a point we're jumping 

1780
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:32,480
now so you don't have to worry 
about 11 And then and then, you 

1781
01:26:32,480 --> 01:26:34,440
know, I, I, I just, I don't know
how you put any sort of real 

1782
01:26:34,440 --> 01:26:37,200
money behind Carolina. 
I don't know how Bryce Young and

1783
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:40,040
he's had some moments and and 
they're they're OK, but I think 

1784
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:42,000
the Rams whack them. 
The Packers. 

1785
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:43,280
I think the Bears are going to 
win this game. 

1786
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:45,680
It's in Chicago. 
I think the Bears, their 

1787
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:49,960
turnover ability, their coach, 
that there's good synergy right 

1788
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:50,880
now. 
Just trying to throw out these 

1789
01:26:50,880 --> 01:26:52,440
cute words. 
Synergy, their coach. 

1790
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:54,120
I just think the Bears are ready
to win. 

1791
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:56,240
I have not liked the way the 
Packers have looked all year. 

1792
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,760
You know, there's been a lot of 
smoke around Lafleur as well. 

1793
01:26:59,960 --> 01:27:03,200
Not as much as with Horrible and
Tomblin, whatever, but if that's

1794
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:05,840
ugly, he might be out. 
So I do think the Bears win the 

1795
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:06,760
game. 
I don't think it's ugly, but I 

1796
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:08,800
think the Bears win. 
You get to Sunday. 

1797
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,320
I'm taking the Jaguars. 
I like the Jaguars to win this 

1798
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:13,440
game. 
Bills -1 1/2, It's in 

1799
01:27:13,440 --> 01:27:15,880
Jacksonville, the Jags machine 
right now. 

1800
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:18,560
Offensively, it's it's, it's 
really interesting. 

1801
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,600
Give me the Jaguars. 
You know, I'm going to take the 

1802
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:24,040
5 1/2. 
If this was like 3 1/2 or even 

1803
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:26,040
maybe four, I would probably 
take Philly. 

1804
01:27:26,600 --> 01:27:30,080
I think Philly probably finds a 
way to win, but I'm going to 

1805
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:32,800
take the Niners. 
Give me 5 1/2 for a coach I 

1806
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:37,600
respect, a franchise I respect 
and and my philosophy in a game 

1807
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:40,080
like this now, I think top to 
bottom, I think Philly's better.

1808
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:44,280
It's in Philly, 3000 miles time 
difference, but whatever. 

1809
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:47,920
And Philly's, you know, Philly's
just better slightly. 

1810
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,600
But if there's a matchup that I 
like and I look at the number, 

1811
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:56,440
I'm like, all right, 5 1/2. 
Do I think like, is this 

1812
01:27:56,440 --> 01:27:59,960
inconceivable? 
Niners, Eagles get the ball, 

1813
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:04,080
Niners get a stop or Niners get 
the ball and Niners score. 

1814
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:07,040
And even if it's not a 
touchdown, but you know, even if

1815
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:09,440
it's three, now that 5 1/2 
becomes 8 1/2. 

1816
01:28:09,440 --> 01:28:12,240
And if it is 7, well, that 5 1/2
becomes 12 1/2. 

1817
01:28:12,480 --> 01:28:14,040
And now you're playing downhill 
a little bit. 

1818
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:16,480
You're like, OK. 
And then once you kind of get 

1819
01:28:16,480 --> 01:28:18,440
that early, this one can't play 
so hard. 

1820
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:21,520
Once you get that early tone 
that's established that maybe 

1821
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:25,160
people didn't expect, now it 
just everything changes on a 

1822
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:27,240
dime. 
You might sit down, Philly's 

1823
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:29,880
going to pull away Philly's, but
they don't always do that. 

1824
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:32,160
So give me the Niners plus the 
five and a half. 

1825
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:34,240
You know, I I got to look at the
money line. 

1826
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:36,920
If I had a guess, I could be way
off on this. 

1827
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:41,440
If I had a guess, maybe Niners 
plus 180, maybe 190, I might 

1828
01:28:41,440 --> 01:28:42,960
throw a little something on 
Niners money line. 

1829
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:45,440
I might mess around with that. 
I might do both, you know, play 

1830
01:28:45,440 --> 01:28:47,920
both sides. 
Pat's over the Chargers is a 

1831
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:51,080
really tough game from a betting
perspective. 

1832
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,560
I'm not going to touch it from a
picking a winner. 

1833
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:59,240
I'm going to pick the Pats. 
Great coach, Love May Harbaugh's

1834
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:00,880
great coach. 
Well, Herbert's really good too.

1835
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:04,480
But I, I, I think the Chargers 
cover, I think this is a 

1836
01:29:04,480 --> 01:29:07,080
three-point game. 
I think it goes right down to 

1837
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:09,000
the end. 
I think the Pats find a way to 

1838
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:10,920
win. 
But I do think the Chargers 

1839
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,440
cover and then Monday night, I 
said this the other day, kind of

1840
01:29:13,440 --> 01:29:14,960
gave it away. 
I got the Texans. 

1841
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:16,560
I think, I think the Texas 
straight up win. 

1842
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,480
I think they're better. 
Steel's going nowhere. 

1843
01:29:18,480 --> 01:29:20,160
Steel shouldn't have even won 
the other night against the 

1844
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:21,200
Ravens. 
They got lucky. 

1845
01:29:21,480 --> 01:29:24,800
You know, I, I, the Texans 
defense and I'm happy Rogers is 

1846
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:26,600
playing in the playoffs. 
I'm a Rogers fan. 

1847
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:29,120
I'm a Rogers guy. 
He's not perfect, but I 

1848
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,680
certainly don't just rail on him
because I want to rail on him. 

1849
01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:33,480
I like the guy and he's, he's 
one of the best ever. 

1850
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:35,520
So I'm rooting for him to play 
well when I was rooting from 

1851
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:37,440
this year except week one 
against The Jets. 

1852
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:40,960
But I think the Texans defense 
is going to make his life hell. 

1853
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:42,640
Now. 
I think the Texans going to win.

1854
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,800
And as I just look back at this,
so give me the Rams to win. 

1855
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,560
Give me the Rams to cover. 
Give me the Bears to win. 

1856
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:52,920
Give me the Bears to cover. 
Give me the Jaguars to win at 

1857
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:57,000
home plus 1 1/2. 
Give me the Niners to lose a 

1858
01:29:57,000 --> 01:29:59,440
tight one to cover the five and 
a hook. 

1859
01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:04,680
Give me the Jimmy the charges to
cover plus 3 1/2 paths to win. 

1860
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,720
Give me the Texans. 
I think even kind of win going 

1861
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:08,720
away, maybe from Pittsburgh. 
And I think that's what it's 

1862
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:10,240
going to take. 
Not that I'm rooting for it, but

1863
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:13,320
I think that's what it's going 
to take for for Mike Tomlin to 

1864
01:30:13,320 --> 01:30:15,960
be ousted, as crazy as that 
sounds. 

1865
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:18,960
Think about the instability, 
man, with with our football 

1866
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:21,400
teams and it's it's absolutely 
amazing. 

1867
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:24,520
And here we are like, you know, 
they win every year, but I got 

1868
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:25,720
to get rid of them. 
Didn't win enough. 

1869
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:28,360
This one from Double H, we got 
Triple H. 

1870
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,240
We got to get Triple H on the 
show first. 

1871
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:32,080
We'll get triple first. 
We got to get the guest thing up

1872
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:34,200
now we got Double H and we get 
Triple H. 

1873
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:36,640
We, I think Sam and I had him 
once we did. 

1874
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:39,440
Anyway, what's up? 
BT Yanks the best will maybe 

1875
01:30:39,880 --> 01:30:42,240
have maybe three more solid 
years with Judge before he 

1876
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:43,640
declines. 
Such a shame he's getting no 

1877
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:45,920
protection. 
I like Cody, but seven years? 

1878
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:47,080
Nuts. 
I'd rather get Tucker. 

1879
01:30:47,440 --> 01:30:49,760
Let me tell you something right 
now there is not a chance in 

1880
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:53,480
hell 0.0 that he's getting seven
years. 

1881
01:30:53,480 --> 01:30:55,440
Yanks aren't giving them that. 
And if they do, they're idiots, 

1882
01:30:55,440 --> 01:30:57,080
right? 
And they're not going to do it. 

1883
01:30:57,800 --> 01:30:58,960
And then they might pivot to 
Tucker. 

1884
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:00,760
All the things I hit. 
If you just missed it or we just

1885
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:03,160
tuned in, you can rewatch. 
I'm going to upload this to you 

1886
01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:05,200
on YouTube immediately after 
this, as we always do. 

1887
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:13,480
So the the problem, as I've 
chronicled many times here, like

1888
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:15,960
I'm seeing too many 
similarities. 

1889
01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:18,840
And we all know how it ended. 
And I'm going to ask you a 

1890
01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:20,240
question before I make the 
point. 

1891
01:31:20,240 --> 01:31:21,760
You got to be old enough to have
lived it. 

1892
01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:26,120
But did the Knicks do right by 
Patrick Ewing? 

1893
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:29,600
Did they? 
Did the Knicks support Patrick 

1894
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:31,640
Ewing's true quest for a chance?
I don't think they tried. 

1895
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:34,440
Did they effectively do it? 
The answer is no. 

1896
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:37,280
Think about all the times they 
almost beat Jordan. 

1897
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:40,440
Imagine if they had a real 
second star next to Patrick with

1898
01:31:40,440 --> 01:31:42,360
the defense. 
They probably would have won. 

1899
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:47,080
Instead you had, you know, I 
love them, but the X-Men for a 

1900
01:31:47,080 --> 01:31:51,480
year, Kiki Vanderwey, Roe 
Blackman, who's back was and 

1901
01:31:51,480 --> 01:31:55,240
Kiki's back shot, you know, we 
know what they had. 

1902
01:31:55,280 --> 01:32:00,760
They didn't have enough. 
And Patrick Ewing to me is in a 

1903
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,560
lot of ways one of the most 
disrespected NBA stars of all 

1904
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:05,240
time. 
Even though Elijah want schooled

1905
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:07,000
him in the finals, he just flat 
out destroyed him. 

1906
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:09,360
Patrick shot 38% didn't play 
well. 

1907
01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:12,680
Elijah want clearly a better 
player and clearly a better 

1908
01:32:12,680 --> 01:32:14,680
series. 
I said yesterday it came up. 

1909
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:17,560
I don't know how probably 
something about the Knicks from 

1910
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:20,360
from this team, whatever, but 
Elijah wants to me is one of the

1911
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:22,360
10 or 11 best players in the 
history of basketball. 

1912
01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:25,360
And one day I'm going to 
actually give you a list and and

1913
01:32:25,400 --> 01:32:28,480
and do some of those other shows
where I record them and and have

1914
01:32:28,480 --> 01:32:30,520
some historical stuff that I 
think you guys will enjoy in 

1915
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:33,160
terms of content. 
But you know, I also think even 

1916
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:35,240
and that's objective. 
He's 9, he's 10, he's 11 

1917
01:32:35,240 --> 01:32:38,080
whatever, but I definitely 
believe he is the most 

1918
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,280
underrated superstar in the 
history of basketball. 

1919
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:44,080
Hakeem. 
I think that Patrick is the most

1920
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:48,480
disrespected superstar in the 
history of basketball and much 

1921
01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:50,600
of now I know he missed the 
finger roll, wasn't always 

1922
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:52,480
clutch at the line, didn't 
always have good hands. 

1923
01:32:52,480 --> 01:32:56,000
I know Patrick deficiencies as 
well as anybody if you watched 

1924
01:32:56,000 --> 01:33:00,640
them, I get it. 
But Patrick in like the pantheon

1925
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:06,560
of great NBA stars is relegated 
to a a, a, A tier that is 

1926
01:33:06,560 --> 01:33:09,280
probably not commensurate with 
his actual talents and what he 

1927
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:13,200
did for the franchise because 
he's being judged as a non 

1928
01:33:13,200 --> 01:33:15,240
champion. 
Forget about the points and the 

1929
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:17,880
rebounds and the blocks and this
and that and the old story that 

1930
01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:21,360
if Patrick was a champion, you 
don't think he'd be elevated 

1931
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:22,840
higher. 
He only be be perceived 

1932
01:33:22,840 --> 01:33:24,160
differently, not just by Knick 
fans. 

1933
01:33:24,480 --> 01:33:27,000
I mean by everybody. 
Ironically, though, I think it's

1934
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:29,200
Knick fans will probably 
penalize him more than like the 

1935
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:31,040
national media. 
You talk to and even talk to a 

1936
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:33,320
Bird, you know, you talk to him 
alone. 

1937
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:35,560
You talk to a Barkley, you talk 
to an MJ. 

1938
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:37,240
Like Pat's obviously getting his
respect. 

1939
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:40,400
But when you get that debate 
going, he's always punished for 

1940
01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:42,840
lack of a championship. 
And we're going down the same 

1941
01:33:42,840 --> 01:33:47,040
Rd. with Aaron Judge, which is 
much more painful. 

1942
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:52,960
Forget about because in baseball
you can be an all timer and not 

1943
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:54,560
have a championship like you 
just can't. 

1944
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:56,520
It's different. 
Like Ernie Banks never even 

1945
01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:58,840
played an inning in the in the 
playoffs for the for the Cubs, 

1946
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:02,280
500 home run Summit first base. 
But a lot of shortstop, right? 

1947
01:34:02,280 --> 01:34:04,640
One of the great players 
certainly of his generation and 

1948
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:07,520
of all time, right? 
No championships, no playoffs at

1949
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:10,760
bats. 
But that's OK because it's easy.

1950
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:13,600
You know, one guy can do what he
did and you just can't change 

1951
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:14,840
the outcome. 
We know that, right? 

1952
01:34:15,320 --> 01:34:19,000
So just like if Soto doesn't get
much more round him this year, 

1953
01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:21,400
no matter what Soto does, Mets 
aren't going to be very good if 

1954
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:23,400
they don't get pitching or they 
don't get some bats around him. 

1955
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:24,840
And that's not going to be 
Soto's fault. 

1956
01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:27,480
That's the reality of baseball 
where if you have one great 

1957
01:34:27,480 --> 01:34:31,200
basketball player, you know, 20%
of the time he's on the court in

1958
01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:34,080
terms of usage, rate, shot 
selection, those numbers skew 

1959
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:35,920
favorably. 
He takes more shots. 

1960
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:37,960
He plays big minutes. 
Offense goes through him. 

1961
01:34:38,400 --> 01:34:42,920
That player is going to be much 
more, you know, involved in the 

1962
01:34:42,920 --> 01:34:44,880
ultimate success or failure of a
team. 

1963
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:46,680
All right, because think about 
this. 

1964
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:48,640
Knicks are down a point and it's
late. 

1965
01:34:48,960 --> 01:34:50,600
You know, you get the ball to 
Brunson. 

1966
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:52,440
Brunson either make something 
happen or he doesn't. 

1967
01:34:52,640 --> 01:34:56,160
Yankees are down one run late 
and they got 678 coming up with 

1968
01:34:56,160 --> 01:34:57,880
no assurances and our judge is 
getting up. 

1969
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:01,240
So I mean, there's just so many 
things where arrow judge can't 

1970
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:03,240
impact the bottom line. 
All right. 

1971
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:07,240
And because of that, he is now 
it's it's about the 

1972
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:08,240
championship. 
Sure. 

1973
01:35:08,480 --> 01:35:13,200
And connecting to the 
championship is the is the the 

1974
01:35:13,240 --> 01:35:17,640
the lowering of his place in the
all time Yankee universe. 

1975
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,480
Now, are you telling me I never 
saw him play? 

1976
01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:24,160
Obviously. 
Are you telling me that Yogi 

1977
01:35:24,160 --> 01:35:25,920
Berra was better than Aaron 
Judge? 

1978
01:35:26,560 --> 01:35:27,960
I mean, you're going to really 
tell me this. 

1979
01:35:28,400 --> 01:35:30,280
I know it's a different world. 
It's a different game. 

1980
01:35:30,280 --> 01:35:32,040
I understand. 
I know we always got all the 

1981
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:32,920
championships. 
I know. 

1982
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:36,040
Are you telling me that? 
No, I'll tell you one guy that I

1983
01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:39,240
think might have been, I think 
Joel DiMaggio may have been 

1984
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:42,200
like, when you look at how 
literally struck out center 

1985
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:44,960
field, the average retired 
young, like lost, like many 

1986
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:46,760
players lost a couple of years 
to service. 

1987
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:49,800
You know, back then Ted Williams
as well, many did Bob Feller as 

1988
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:52,800
a pitcher. 
I think that I I don't have an 

1989
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:54,800
issue putting DiMaggio in a 
different stratosphere. 

1990
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:56,280
I just think he's different 
myself. 

1991
01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:59,480
Are you telling me Jeter's 
better than Judge by what? 

1992
01:35:59,480 --> 01:36:02,720
Measurable. 
There's no way Derek Jeter can't

1993
01:36:02,720 --> 01:36:05,040
shine Judge his shoes as a 
player. 

1994
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:07,880
But think about the success 
based on what was around there. 

1995
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:09,880
And of course, Derek was clutch 
and he performed. 

1996
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:13,120
It's not knocking Derek, it's 
just contextualizing how 

1997
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:16,520
difficult it is when you don't 
have enough around you. 

1998
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:21,160
Do I think that Mickey Mantle 
was better than Yeah, get this 

1999
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:23,160
in Francesca's lap, he'll have 
some fun with this. 

2000
01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:24,840
And no, no bigger Mickey fan 
than that. 

2001
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:26,440
Maybe. 
I don't know if he'd come on. 

2002
01:36:26,440 --> 01:36:28,040
I'd love to have Mike on. 
We'll talk about this. 

2003
01:36:28,040 --> 01:36:31,840
But at some point, was Mickey 
Mantle discernibly better than 

2004
01:36:31,840 --> 01:36:33,440
Aaron Judge? 
How? 

2005
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:36,320
How was he better? 
I'd like to know the answer. 

2006
01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:39,120
You know, because now the judge 
has crossed that bridge of being

2007
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:40,920
a 270 ish hitter. 
Whatever. 

2008
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:42,800
Now he's winning batting titles 
man. 

2009
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:46,800
Now he's hitting three 18322 
like you are now in a 

2010
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,000
neighborhood where nobody is in 
baseball. 

2011
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:52,960
You got like 7 or 8 guys hitting
300 and he's hitting with that 

2012
01:36:52,960 --> 01:36:55,800
power and at 1100 OPS. 
What? 

2013
01:36:56,440 --> 01:36:58,520
And he should have had another 
MVP if the Astros weren't 

2014
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:00,960
cheating. 
So anyway, not to turn this into

2015
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:05,960
a completely different subject, 
but it is driving me nuts that 

2016
01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:09,520
the Yankees just continue to not
support him. 

2017
01:37:10,080 --> 01:37:12,320
And I know that they think that 
they're trying, and I know that 

2018
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:13,960
they think that they're doing 
right by him. 

2019
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:16,280
They're not what they're trying.
They're just not trying hard 

2020
01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:17,960
enough. 
And what they're doing is not 

2021
01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:19,600
working. 
So that calls for a pivot. 

2022
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:25,040
And the pivot should be 
Bellinger and Bichette and the 

2023
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:27,320
pitcher. 
And you roll it out and you have

2024
01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:30,600
the best staff in baseball. 
You have a lineup that is going 

2025
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:33,880
to destroy people. 
And now the insertion of a 

2026
01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:36,240
righty bat and Bichette, which 
is much needed by the way. 

2027
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:39,120
And then he get after it. 
And maybe you actually do get 

2028
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:41,160
back to the World Series and you
have a better team. 

2029
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:43,000
You know, pop ups aren't 
dropped. 

2030
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:44,560
People don't forget to cover 
first base. 

2031
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,120
All those things that happened, 
you know, shortstop, third base,

2032
01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:49,280
the little flip to Jazz that 
doesn't happen, even though that

2033
01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:52,320
was probably more Volpe's follow
the bad throw, whatever that 

2034
01:37:52,320 --> 01:37:55,040
doesn't happen and they win. 
And then think about the 

2035
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:59,760
elevation in for Aaron Judge. 
Like, imagine if Aaron Judge and

2036
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:04,640
not just baseball, if Aaron 
Judge wins the championship, 

2037
01:38:05,280 --> 01:38:10,160
let's say Aaron has, I know he's
going to play a lot more than 

2038
01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:11,880
three. 
Well, maybe not a lot, but he's 

2039
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:13,240
going to play more than three 
years. 

2040
01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:14,960
Obviously. 
I mean, his contract says that, 

2041
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:18,760
but let's say he has three more 
3, not even going nuts. 

2042
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:21,120
I think that that's fair. 
I don't think that that's overly

2043
01:38:21,120 --> 01:38:22,800
ambitious. 
I don't think that's too 

2044
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:26,000
conservative. 
I think three more years of 

2045
01:38:26,360 --> 01:38:31,120
Aaron Judge doing damage is the 
expectation. 

2046
01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:33,480
Now imagine three more years and
pile up. 

2047
01:38:33,480 --> 01:38:36,800
Three more years. 
Let's say he averages 5000. 

2048
01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:41,440
Fifty more home runs. 
Let's say he has 123. 

2049
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:46,280
Another 360 ish RB is on his on 
his resume. 

2050
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:50,600
Let's say one of the years he's 
over 1100 again. 

2051
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:54,280
The other two years you know 
close to 1100 but just under it.

2052
01:38:54,360 --> 01:38:59,200
Another MVP, maybe 2 and a World
Series championship and maybe 

2053
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:02,960
another batting title as well. 
Like now forget about just 

2054
01:39:02,960 --> 01:39:06,640
thought about where he resides 
in the Yankee universe or the 

2055
01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:09,680
baseball universe. 
I don't think it's irresponsible

2056
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:12,120
to talk about is Howard Judge 
being the one of the greatest 

2057
01:39:12,120 --> 01:39:15,520
athletes of all time. 
I will do that deeper dive down 

2058
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:17,920
the road. 
But that's how important this 

2059
01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:21,720
offseason is obviously to us as 
fans, you as fans, we want the 

2060
01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:25,280
Yankees to win. 
But to the guy that it most 

2061
01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:31,440
intimately impacts, the 
superstar who is watching a a 

2062
01:39:31,480 --> 01:39:35,400
roster that is just less than 
and he's seen other people go 

2063
01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:38,600
for it. 
And he's just too classy and has

2064
01:39:38,600 --> 01:39:41,080
too much character to push back 
on that. 

2065
01:39:41,280 --> 01:39:44,240
I know we stepped up for for 
Bellinger with support, you 

2066
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:48,720
know, but his style is not to 
rattle the cage. 

2067
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:50,400
And he's just taking it on the 
chin. 

2068
01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:52,760
Take it like a big boy, take it 
like a leader, take it like a 

2069
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:56,360
man, you know, And I don't know.
I don't know how what I would do

2070
01:39:56,360 --> 01:39:57,800
if that was me. 
Where I'm looking around, I'm 

2071
01:39:57,800 --> 01:39:59,840
seeing, I don't see a whole lot 
of stuff around me. 

2072
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:03,800
All right, let me get one more 
here. 

2073
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:05,120
You did. 
Did I see the. 

2074
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:07,720
What is this the the 
commissioner want to realign the

2075
01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:09,000
teams and they had two teams. 
Yeah, I saw. 

2076
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:10,480
I saw some of it. 
I didn't hear it. 

2077
01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:13,120
I saw some of the transcripts. 
They actually played some of it 

2078
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,480
last night on sports. 
I know Craig and CMAC had them 

2079
01:40:17,480 --> 01:40:20,200
in. 
Manfred was in studio. 

2080
01:40:21,480 --> 01:40:23,600
Yeah, I mean, to me, Manfred's 
just not a good commissioner. 

2081
01:40:23,600 --> 01:40:27,200
I don't, I don't think he is. 
I think he's a really good #2 I 

2082
01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:29,040
think he's well attentioned. 
I think he's a gentleman, all 

2083
01:40:29,040 --> 01:40:30,880
those that I mean that. 
But I don't think he's a good 

2084
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:32,520
commissioner. 
Much like I don't think that 

2085
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:33,840
Adam Silver's a good 
commissioner. 

2086
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:37,600
You're either A1 or you're a 2. 
And if you're a two in the in 

2087
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:39,480
the seat of a one, that's 
generally not good. 

2088
01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:43,880
If you're a one and you're in 
the seat of a two, well, if the 

2089
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:47,040
guy who really is the one is 
weak, that's not a good dynamic.

2090
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:51,960
And if you are a 1 and in the 
seat of a 2 and the guy who is 

2091
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:55,000
the one is an equal one, well, 
that could be powerful or it 

2092
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:57,240
could be toxic. 
If you can work together and 

2093
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:00,600
align yourselves the right way 
and the number 2, not to try to 

2094
01:41:00,600 --> 01:41:02,360
subvert the number one that that
could work. 

2095
01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:06,840
But I have always been of the 
whether it's a a new business 

2096
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:09,680
endeavor in the tech world, 
whatever it might be, whether 

2097
01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:12,480
it's somebody in office, whether
it's the president, whether it's

2098
01:41:12,480 --> 01:41:14,400
a vice president, whether it's 
somebody more locally. 

2099
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:20,920
If you are really a number 2 and
you are unjustly or positioned 

2100
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:24,920
as a number one, your sport or 
your business will be less than 

2101
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:27,160
it should be. 
Yeah, I, I heard some of the 

2102
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:29,880
things he said and I think some 
are interesting. 

2103
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:31,760
By the way, you know, about the 
realignment. 

2104
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:34,560
The one thing that I caught my 
and I, I go back and forth on 

2105
01:41:34,560 --> 01:41:38,840
this and, and the whole, you 
know, when realignment comes and

2106
01:41:38,840 --> 01:41:42,120
I, I get expansion as it should.
I think there's a lot of fertile

2107
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:45,960
markets out there. 
I think Montreal 2 point O could

2108
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:48,520
work. 
I think Charlotte could work. 

2109
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:49,960
I mean, I wouldn't touch 
Portland myself. 

2110
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:51,680
I don't think that that would 
work for a lot of reasons. 

2111
01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:57,560
The weather, whatever Tennessee,
there's some really viable 

2112
01:41:57,560 --> 01:42:01,240
markets out there that that I I 
would investigate and eventually

2113
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:02,920
they're going to get there as 
that that's common. 

2114
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:04,840
That's not it. 
That's when but you got to get 

2115
01:42:04,840 --> 01:42:07,120
32 makes it more uniform, makes 
it easier. 

2116
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:08,440
You know, the divisions break it
up. 

2117
01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:11,840
There's days where I'm like 
Yanks and Mets in the same 

2118
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,720
division would be awesome. 
And then there's days where I'm 

2119
01:42:14,720 --> 01:42:16,600
like, yeah, it's going to be a 
little overkill. 

2120
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:20,920
Listen, I love the Subway 
Series, but you know the Subway 

2121
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:22,960
Series. 
It's just not what it was. 

2122
01:42:23,200 --> 01:42:25,720
I'm not saying there aren't 
moments like when Castillo drops

2123
01:42:25,760 --> 01:42:30,440
a rod's pop up or, you know, 
when Bellinger big step play in 

2124
01:42:30,440 --> 01:42:32,600
left field and and guns him out 
of first base. 

2125
01:42:33,040 --> 01:42:34,640
I mean, they're Yankee 
highlights. 

2126
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:36,640
Of course, we'll Maliki. 
There you go. 

2127
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:39,400
You want one Maliki tied up the 
tied up the Yankees and knots 

2128
01:42:39,400 --> 01:42:44,480
there in the first one. 
What, 97, 96? 

2129
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:46,680
Wait, not whatever was, I don't 
know. 

2130
01:42:47,080 --> 01:42:48,720
It's everything's blended 
together at this point. 

2131
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:51,920
I do like it, but it's become 
too common. 

2132
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:56,280
And when something's too common,
it's kind of like, but then 

2133
01:42:56,280 --> 01:42:59,240
there's days where you're like, 
could you imagine the Yanks and 

2134
01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:02,280
the Mets and in the same 
division in September? 

2135
01:43:02,520 --> 01:43:06,240
And it's one or two game 
separation and, you know, based 

2136
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:07,760
on the other. 
And this would happen at some 

2137
01:43:07,760 --> 01:43:10,240
point based on the 
circumstances, Not like, wow, 

2138
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,120
whoever doesn't win the series 
or whoever doesn't win the 

2139
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:14,640
divisions or wild card team. 
But no, like one of those teams 

2140
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:16,840
are on the precipice of not 
being a wild card team. 

2141
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:19,160
But if they don't win the 
division, it's I mean, it would 

2142
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:20,720
be bonkers. 
I, I think it would actually, I 

2143
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:22,560
think the city would implode. 
I don't know if we can handle 

2144
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:24,120
it. 
I don't sound what I would have 

2145
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:26,240
imploded if we had to deal with 
that. 

2146
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,760
Oh, my God. 
All right, So I'm gonna wrap it 

2147
01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:30,480
up, man. 
I gave you my football picks. 

2148
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:32,280
Thank you very much for the 
question. 

2149
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:33,440
There. 
I see them all. 

2150
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:35,880
I don't want to just ramble like
the thing that's a little 

2151
01:43:35,880 --> 01:43:37,680
tricky. 
I'm reading in real time. 

2152
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,440
I don't want to just, you know, 
sit here idly and read and not 

2153
01:43:40,440 --> 01:43:43,200
have anything going on. 
So, you know, I'll selectively 

2154
01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:45,000
go through a few. 
I think it is easier. 

2155
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:47,560
By the way, if you use the 
hashtag, ask BT where you 

2156
01:43:47,560 --> 01:43:49,720
preface the question. 
If you just want to comment, 

2157
01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:52,000
hey, you love the show or this 
or that, that's fine. 

2158
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:53,880
But if you really have a 
question as we move forward with

2159
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,160
this, if you can use the 
hashtag, I can see it. 

2160
01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:58,760
It's more visible. 
It will be more visible to my to

2161
01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:04,000
my producer moving forward. 
There's also on the YouTube 

2162
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:05,600
page. 
It's just an SBT. 

2163
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:07,720
It lives live. 
Any questions about the show, 

2164
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,320
about the industry, about the 
direction of the show, about 

2165
01:44:10,320 --> 01:44:12,560
some teams, whatever, Then you 
have to be about sports. 

2166
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:15,000
I mean, as you can tell, I'll 
take some side turns and talk 

2167
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:17,760
about other stuff. 
Enjoy the football, all right, 

2168
01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:20,800
Have an awesome weekend. 
If something does break over the

2169
01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:23,880
weekend, a Bellinger AI mean I'm
waiting for something to break 

2170
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:26,720
where I could jump on and and 
not go out of 10, which I'll 

2171
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:29,280
always do. 
But come on, I'm raring to go. 

2172
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:32,920
I want something good here. 
I want to I want to I want more 

2173
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:34,080
definitive. 
We're not going to get it with 

2174
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:35,320
the giants. 
I was going to say I want more 

2175
01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:36,720
definitive, but you're not going
to get that. 

2176
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:38,840
So that's unrealistic. 
But eventually we will. 

2177
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:42,160
And it might not be, you know, 
the night before when I'm 

2178
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:44,600
sleeping and then I'm getting on
at 10:00 in the morning and 

2179
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:46,960
doing it very well might be at 
7:00 at night. 

2180
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:48,760
Boom, in the office fired up. 
Let's go. 

2181
01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:51,320
Same If the Yankees sign 
somebody, the Mets sign 

2182
01:44:51,320 --> 01:44:54,280
somebody, something happens. 
I am waiting to utilize this. 

2183
01:44:54,280 --> 01:44:56,440
I'm excited to do it so, but I 
can't force it. 

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Like it's got to be, it's got to
be a real thing. 

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And then obviously as the Yanks 
and the Mets store playing 

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bigger Knick, bigger Knick 
games, I'll start to do some 

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live stuff after a big St. 
John's game when I get back from

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the game, maybe I'll mess 
around, do some stuff like that.

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But Spartan wish everybody an 
awesome weekend stream was was 

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popping today at BT unleashed on
YouTube. 

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Go check it out. 
Follow me on Twitter. 

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We're going to also stream this 
on on Instagram. 

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That's coming. 
That's actually pretty easy. 

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I just don't I don't want to do 
it yet, but eventually I will. 

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That's coming. 
That's it. 

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So have a great weekend and 
check it out. 

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Hit the content, like it, 
subscribe it, spread the word. 

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Appreciate you guys. 
You know that and I will talk to

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you Monday if nothing goes down.
Otherwise, I will talk to you 

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when something does go down. 
All right, we'll see you.