1 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:11,880 is on leash. Are you listening? 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:12,760 Can you hear me? Hear me. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:14,400 This is on leash. Are you listening? 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:15,320 Can you hear me? Hear me. 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:16,880 This is on leash. Are you listening? 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:17,800 Can you hear me? Hear me. 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,400 This is on leash. Are you listening? 8 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:20,280 Can you hear me? Hear me. 9 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,160 This is on leash. Are. 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,480 You listening? What's going on, everybody? 11 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,720 We've got a little, a little hold on, a little noise in the 12 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,240 background there. Let me see what's going on with 13 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:33,560 that. What was that there, J Rod? 14 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,680 That's what happened. What was that? 15 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,680 I, I think I, I didn't hear anything, so you might have just 16 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,040 heard like a pop or something. No, no, it's almost like a a 17 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,640 double track underneath it. We we, we got a different mix 18 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,240 here to start the show. I, I, I don't know, maybe I 19 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,120 didn't hear anything, but potentially. 20 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,080 It is all good. What's going on everybody, 21 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,320 welcome to BT Unleashed. Hopefully everybody's doing 22 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,560 well. Today's show was brought to you 23 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,000 by my friends at Sullivan Pepade. 24 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,440 Of course, fondant patrol law1.com, trial law1.com. 25 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,960 Going to be a big day today. Booty coming up in a bit. 26 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,240 Remember the name Sullivan Pepane and buy premium sausage. 27 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,000 Premium sausage the way sausage should be. 28 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,080 Fundament Premium, foods.com or in your local grocery store. 29 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,480 Thank God they won last night. I don't want to get grumpy Boone 30 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,560 coming up on the show. So Aaron will join right around 31 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,200 10. Yeah, obviously the games moved 32 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,280 up today. We were going to have them to 33 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,840 10:30 and we would have had a little bit more time. 34 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,240 So I've got to get right into this and you know, I no tap 35 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,880 dancing with booty. We got to get into a couple of 36 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,400 the topics that that I deem incredibly important. 37 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,640 And I'm sure by extension, you guys feel the same way. 38 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,920 So we'll get into that little housekeeping note quickly. 39 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:41,680 Heads up for tomorrow. There's going to be an absolute 40 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,320 blast as soon as the schedule drops. 41 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,280 Episode #8 myself and Jake Aspen, Rich Cimini, The Jets 42 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,640 Collective in the house, the three of us breaking down all 43 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,280 the games and we'll see where they're going. 44 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,640 You know, going to be on the road week one, who they're 45 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,880 playing Yeti primetime stuff. That's going to be a lot of fun. 46 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,040 I'm actually excited about The Jets this year. 47 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,760 I think you guys know that we got the Cavs in the Pistons 48 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,400 tonight while the Knicks get to chill a little bit here. 49 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:13,800 So to me, like if I'm listening to to Aaron Boone speak today, I 50 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,200 want to hear there's probably three things now. 51 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,000 There's probably 10 things that we can get into. 52 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,480 I get it. You know, we can regurgitate the 53 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,400 the lead off hitter thing. That is what it is until it 54 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,040 changes. He knows where I stand on 55 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,320 Grisham. I don't even know if I need to 56 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,320 bring it up. And by the way, Grisham did hit 57 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,920 a big bomb last night. Goldie did a good job as well. 58 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,520 Yankees do get the win. Warren really battled. 59 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,200 You know, I thought he really wiggled off the hook. 60 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,840 So I was good to see to get back on track with him. 61 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,240 But to me, like, say, if I'm just driving around and you 62 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,080 know, I I don't do what I do for a living. 63 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,880 And I'm just like you. I'm I'm I'm all right. 64 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,040 Aaron Boone's on with BT Here's what I got to hear. 65 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,720 To me, the three most pressing issues. 66 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,440 And there's a lot of good in the Yankee universe, despite the 67 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,040 four-game losing streak where many of you thought here we go 68 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,560 again. You know, the sky is collapsing 69 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,600 and yesterday's show. I just said, relax, guys. 70 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,520 Yankees pitching staff is going to be on lock all year. 71 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,280 They're going to get it on the bullpen arm. 72 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,840 You know that. And I really, really do like 73 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,400 this version of the Yankees. Now, it doesn't mean that I'll 74 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,920 necessarily be right, but I'm definitely more bullish on the 75 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:18,760 Yankees that I have been outside of the Soto year in years. 76 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,240 Having said that, obviously got to get in a Volpe and and I 77 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,360 think what's going to be incredibly interesting now is 78 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,360 like what do you do with that fifth starter Garrett Coles got 79 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,920 probably two more rehab starts to go. 80 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:36,280 We threw 77 on Sunday over the weekend, at least one, probably 81 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,200 2. And I, I know we hit 98 on his 82 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,280 last pitch. Garrett Coles basically 83 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,560 basically ready. But the fact that the Yankees 84 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,720 are playing well, not that they would rush him anyway coming off 85 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,000 Tommy John, but and they've got a, a really deep bag of 86 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,640 starters. You know, the urgency or, or the 87 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,600 potential desire to maybe get him back a week before you 88 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,920 really need to. That's not going to be there. 89 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,240 But what is going to be there is a, is a really tough 90 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,160 conversation with either Weathers or Will Warren. 91 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,840 So to me that is really interesting. 92 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,960 Who's going to the pen? One of them's going to the 93 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,640 bullpen. So we'll get into that with 94 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,120 Aaron Boone, the Volpe stuff for sure, and the Jazz Chisholm 95 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,280 stuff. Like to me, those are the three 96 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,320 most pertinent Yankee issues. From a negative point of view. 97 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,640 There's obviously a lot of good. The way Ben Rice's look, the way 98 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,080 Caballeros played so far, the starting pitching, the record 99 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,920 plus 72 run differential, a lot of good things. 100 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,840 So Boone's going to hop on from Camden Yards in about 5 or 6 101 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,560 minutes now. Once Aaron's done, we'll 102 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,720 obviously react to that. We'll get your chats up. 103 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,000 We'll have a fun conversation with that. 104 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,400 We'll get some calls as well. But after that, I want to get 105 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,840 into David Stearns Yesterday, what he said, not now, J Rod, 106 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:48,080 but I know that not many of you believe in David Stearns. 107 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,400 And I get it. Like, it's one thing for me to 108 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,840 think the Mets made a great hire when they brought David Stearns 109 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:56,320 in, which pretty much everybody but Joe Beningo thought like we 110 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,680 all thought, all right, you know, here's the young boy 111 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,760 wonder who did, you know, some magic in Milwaukee with not much 112 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,160 of A payroll. What is he going to do with 113 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,440 Steve Cohen's checkbook? Well, here we are. 114 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,960 And even with the win last night like this, nice to see you and 115 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,040 get his first knock, a triple that was he can fly, man. 116 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,680 It's good to see him up there. And Peralta was pretty good. 117 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,720 He battled as well. And who knows, maybe the Mets 118 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,760 were about to take off, but we'll get to the Mets later. 119 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,720 But the one thing that struck me right without even revealing 120 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:27,600 now, if I agree with what Stern said about the character, like 121 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,080 the requisite character and the the the right amount of talent 122 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,160 that he believes are going to turn this around. 123 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,560 We'll have that conversation after. 124 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,520 To me, David Stearns comes across as incredibly arrogant. 125 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,880 Like, dude, who do you think that you are to tell the New 126 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,480 York media, even though the New York media didn't really bite 127 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,320 back, which I in the matter in which I would have hoped that 128 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,960 they they would have. Like, dude, you're not setting 129 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,720 the rules right now. Dude, you're 16 and 25. 130 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,840 You got a bloated payroll. Your team stinks. 131 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,040 All right, every other week it's about, you know, the the job 132 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,760 security for the manager and he he told me the media, Hey, I'm 133 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,600 not talking about this every couple of weeks here. 134 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,360 No, no, you might have to because if the Mets, you know, 135 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,240 say if they lose two or three to the Yankees or they drop the 136 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,080 next two in this series, like it's not going away. 137 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,120 I understand what Stearns is trying to do, you know, trying 138 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,840 to re establish a little continuity and quiet the noise. 139 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,160 I get that and I respect that. I really do. 140 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,800 But understand where you're at here, Stearns. 141 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 You know, once you know if and when you know Mendoza is is ever 142 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,080 relieved of his job, there is nobody that you can pull in 143 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,760 front of you to shield yourself from the shrapnel that is 144 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,200 already coming your way in, in in mass quantity and rightfully 145 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,080 so. I just thought that that was 146 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,080 ridiculous. Like, listen, when you're a 147 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,560 general manager and it's and Cashman, it's funny, Cashman, 148 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,000 not to get into the roster construction, but Cashman over 149 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,120 the years has been a little arrogant. 150 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,840 And you know, that's it's rubbed some of us a little bit the 151 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:57,840 wrong way. But you know, Brian Cashman's 152 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,880 got a boatload of championships. He's been here for 3540 years. 153 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,080 Even when he started, you know, under Bob Watson, he's got some 154 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,240 equity here. Stearns hasn't done a damn thing 155 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,800 except RIP the RIP apart a team and that's seemingly going 156 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,040 backwards. So again, we will have the 157 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,680 conversation. Do I think that the Mets could 158 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,480 turn this around? You know, but I I that jumped 159 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,720 off the page to me like he's just he's got that smirk and 160 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,520 he's like this smarmy. I don't know, like he's talking 161 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,800 down to people. Dude, relax. 162 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,080 Like you're the last dude. And if you think about all the 163 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,440 teams right now, right, I mean, listen, if Joe Shane knows 164 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,280 what's good from Joe Shane's not going to say a word. 165 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,280 I mean, Joe Shane's lucky he's still here. 166 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,360 But there's good energy with the Giants. 167 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,720 There's good energy with The Jets and Mooji coming off the 168 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,240 draft and you know, some positivity there. 169 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,360 I mean, the Knicks are running the show right now. 170 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,240 The Yankees, despite the four-game skid, the Yankees have 171 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,120 been terrific this year for the most part. 172 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,360 And you know, I mean, David Stearns is up there yesterday, 173 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,560 you know, looking at the media, basically trying to re establish 174 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,240 the rules. Don't work that way, buddy. 175 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,640 I, I really thought that he missed the mark there and to the 176 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:08,200 point where if I am Steve Cohen or I don't know if it's somebody 177 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,560 in PR would do this, you know, maybe, maybe if Jay was still 178 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,000 there, Horwitz, he would, he would do this. 179 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,240 But I almost think that he's got to repurpose and, and, you know, 180 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,760 redirect and re channel some of the, the energy. 181 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,320 What he admits. Like you, you got to come in the 182 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,080 side door, buddy. Things ain't going well for you, 183 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,280 Dave, and you're up there telling the media. 184 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,440 Don't ask me about it. We'll ask you what we want to 185 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,440 ask you. Who the hell do you think that 186 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:32,760 you are? Don't ask me. 187 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,280 Like that's where you know. And listen, I I know a lot of 188 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,200 these like Mike Vaccaro, Steve Serbi, I mean, you know, Zach on 189 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,240 the St. John's beat, you know, Rodger 190 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,840 Rubin on the St. John's beat from new. 191 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,080 Like I know a lot of the report. I don't know some of the younger 192 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,480 guys, some of the newer guys, but I know a lot of the old 193 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:50,760 guard and they're as good as it gets. 194 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,120 But, and I don't even know who was in that room yesterday, and 195 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,120 I'm not even directly casting aspersions at an individual, but 196 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,560 I was surprised that the big, bad New York media didn't say 197 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:03,440 anything to him. I'm like, you know, I'm not 198 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,040 going to talk about it. No, I'm be listen there. 199 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,280 Come on, Stearns, if you don't start winning, you're going to 200 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,240 talk about it. All right, Well, we're going to 201 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,720 talk about right now is the New York Yankees and we are joined 202 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:13,880 now. I know he's getting set up 203 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:14,920 there. Like I could see him in the 204 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,480 backdrop there, so I'll let him. I don't know if he is he in 205 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,240 uniform yet? Has he got the batting practice 206 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,360 gear on? He's got the lid on. 207 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:21,960 What's he rocking? Let me get my guy. 208 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,280 Aaron Boone, Of course, the manager for the New York Yankees 209 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,560 and booty is looking to be sitting the camera. 210 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:29,600 He's got his Yankee. Look at. 211 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,720 Come on, You look like Jazz with that hat. 212 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,720 Would you fix your hat, dude? What are you trying to look like 213 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:34,960 Jazz? Jazz in their booty? 214 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,160 Hey, what happened? I don't know. 215 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:41,760 Hold up. We got him there. 216 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,240 Can you hear us? Yes, I got you. 217 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,400 What's up there, Skip? How you doing, man? 218 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:48,440 We're good. All right? 219 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:50,000 Did you hear what I said about the hat? 220 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,120 You look like jazz. Chisholm. 221 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,280 What are we doing? You're old school. 222 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,240 Pull that thing down, Booney. I'm going up this morning. 223 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,360 I got it till I get dressed. I understand man. 224 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,320 Hey, listen, first of all, I really appreciate you doing 225 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,360 this. I know we were supposed to have 226 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,320 you on at 10:30, would have had a little bit more time but they 227 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,000 move the game up. Some bad weather down in 228 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,400 Baltimore. So thanks for hopping on me. 229 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:09,320 How you doing bud? You good? 230 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,440 Yeah, I'm doing well. How you doing? 231 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,880 I'm doing great, man. It's, it's been a while. 232 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,840 We, we've obviously communicated a lot off the air, but the last 233 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,720 time I saw you was at the BT and Sal live show, which was great. 234 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,920 For the record, I, you know, we did handle the, I beat you in 235 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,440 the baseball card game. So I beat you again, just for 236 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,160 the record there. You beat Sal though. 237 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,520 You did beat Sal. The dropping of Sal. 238 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,480 Yes, you, you, you did wipe your wipes out a little bit. 239 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,360 So, OK, because we don't have an hour, so we got about 30 240 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,600 minutes. I want to jump into some things 241 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,760 here. The to me, and this is actually 242 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,320 a good thing, Aaron, but I'm very curious how it's going to 243 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,440 play out Weathers. I mean, the way he's looked, he 244 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,240 obviously looks like somebody who deserves to be a starter. 245 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,000 Same with same with Will Warren. Now, this is ultimately a good 246 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,600 thing, but ultimately you're going to have to have a very 247 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,560 tough conversation with one of those two men, unless it might 248 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,080 be somebody else, which I doubt. Are you already in your mind 249 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,360 playing this out? Like, do you have a sense of 250 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,320 those two guys who might right now be more quick to go to the 251 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,920 bullpen? That's a tough call, man. 252 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,640 I still it's, it's still a couple weeks away at least. 253 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,280 And then and, and I just feel like, you know, that's still in 254 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:28,480 the baseball world a lifetime away, like it's, you know, that 255 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,120 that decision may be made for you before then. 256 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,320 So I try not to get too far ahead of myself with that 257 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,640 because ultimately we'll sit down if we have to make a 258 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,200 decision and make it. So the good thing like you said 259 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,400 is you know, in in the case of the guys you mentioned like 260 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,440 they're throwing great. They're they, they are really 261 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,120 good starting pitchers obviously and a big part of what we're 262 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,560 doing. So if we have to make a 263 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:59,840 difficult decision when the time presents itself, which is still 264 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,680 a ways away, we'll make it. You know, I've talked about this 265 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:06,200 a lot, obviously anticipating the return of Gerrard Cole. 266 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,160 Now, you know, we get so wrapped up and and when when we were 267 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,400 growing up, when we were younger, certainly the symbolism 268 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,520 of of the opening day pitcher. You know, Carlton's going, 269 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,960 Sievers going, Gooden's going, Guidry's going, you know, 270 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,080 Saberhagen, guys like that. It's a little different. 271 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:22,080 I remember a couple of years ago. 272 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,600 Good list. You just rattled. 273 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,240 Listen man, you know there's a reason why I handle you in the 274 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,640 baseball card cave, buddy. I know my names man, and that is 275 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,120 a good list there and the the symbolism of taking the ball on 276 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,560 opening day. There's there's great value, 277 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:38,400 great respect and we all know what it meant growing up. 278 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,160 It's a little different now. Nestor started a couple of years 279 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,040 ago in Houston based on the workload and when guys were 280 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,800 ready. So I like we look at a rotation. 281 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,320 We labeled this guy's the ace. This guy's the two. 282 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,680 You can always manipulate things with off days. 283 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:53,880 I get that. But my question would be 284 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,880 whenever Garrett comes back, you know in whatever order you going 285 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:01,520 to put them Freed 1, Cold 2, Schlit 3, rolled on four and 286 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,640 then either Warren or Weather is five. 287 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,520 Do you have any aversion if it is weathers? 288 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,640 Because I thought about this having 60% of the rotation being 289 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,160 lefties, is that a factor? No. 290 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,400 Not at all, Even with all the righties. 291 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,560 All the right you hit, Really. Yeah. 292 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,000 OK. Is it because they have like 293 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,600 reverse splits or it just doesn't matter at this point? 294 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,120 No, I mean like, look, if if someone has to go to the bullpen 295 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:31,360 that they become an interesting option on on days to, you know, 296 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,720 follow somebody and even piggyback and even go close the 297 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,720 game for for on that day. You know, like, like I think of 298 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,640 the Michael King role when before he entered the rotation, 299 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,440 like he was an absolute killer in some 3 inning stints. 300 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,600 So, yeah, yeah. Where where it would be a day, 301 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,920 we'd give our closer the day off because King would take it to 302 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,360 the finish line for us. So that'll work again, that'll 303 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,840 work itself out. What makes the most sense? 304 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,920 Lefty, right? He doesn't probably factor in 305 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,240 too much. So whomever it is and and again 306 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,560 is going to play out over time and and think about some of the 307 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,720 situations like if we were having this conversation as you 308 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,480 and I did, you know, on the phone during the winter, like, 309 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:18,160 hey, is, is, is Dominguez going to make the team or we're going 310 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,840 to see Spencer Jones? Well, you don't know that even 311 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,240 though he gets hurt a lot, with all due respect to big G, but 312 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,440 Stanton gets hurt. That opens up a door for a for 313 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,600 Spencer Jones a little bit or or Dominguez and and then Spencer 314 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,520 and then, you know, obviously with the injury opens up the 315 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,480 door for Caballero. So you're right. 316 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,520 The one thing about baseball is that if you plan too far out in 317 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,480 advance, it's usually kind of a waste of. 318 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,360 Time and there's nothing to plan for right now. 319 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:44,680 True. Like, not like we're getting 320 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,280 somebody ready. Like it's just going to happen 321 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,440 if it does. Understood. 322 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:54,600 See, I look at Weathers and I put this out there and I see now 323 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,560 that he's throwing more strikes and he's healthy. 324 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,680 Two things that plagued him a little bit Miami. 325 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,160 And I think organizationally, you know, you listen, you know, 326 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,120 I've had some issues with Cashman along the year but 327 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,840 years, but I think he does a great job finding pictures and 328 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,120 revitalizing some of these reclamation projects and weather 329 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,800 seems to be the latest example. I don't know, Aaron. 330 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,800 I look at somebody and I know you love Bednar and I like him, 331 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,760 but I look at somebody like Weathers and and I see a guy who 332 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,600 come out of the bullpen in the 9th inning throwing 99. 333 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,680 If you trusted he's throwing strikes. 334 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,800 Does he have that high leverage? If he's the guy, and I'm not 335 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,040 going to, I'm not saying that he is, is he a high, a high 336 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:34,320 leverage late inning come in a man on upper run something like 337 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,960 2 on two out. Like you see him making that 338 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,200 transition maybe easier than Warren if it comes to that. 339 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,920 Not necessarily. And I don't look at them through 340 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,040 a traditional lens. If you're talking about a 341 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:52,320 starter going back there, I look at guys that can on a given day, 342 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:57,000 you know, every 3rd, every 4th day go out and dominate the back 343 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,560 end of a game for three or four innings after, you know. 344 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,760 So I look at it's not so much like OK, we're just implanting 345 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,000 him in A1 inning situation. I think it's a different kind of 346 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,720 role and I would liken it to Michael King, but and not even 347 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,600 saying we're going to do that with those guys, but that that's 348 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,600 how I look at it more. What did you see from Rodriguez? 349 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,880 Obviously you know, some nerves and didn't really command the 350 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:22,760 zone early on. He's got pretty filthy stuff. 351 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,600 I just didn't think he could really use his slider as much as 352 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,280 he wanted to because he couldn't jump ahead. 353 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,800 What did you see in the dugout on the mound? 354 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,480 Like under the hood kind of stuff as as a, as a young player 355 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,000 getting the call and and just kind of trying to fit in. 356 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:43,040 Yeah, just he just, he didn't throw strikes like he does and 357 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:49,280 and will, but I thought he did a good job of not imploding 358 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:50,160 either. Yep. 359 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:55,360 Like like lesser guys that go sideways when you're not, you 360 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,240 know, you're you're up there for the first time and you're kind 361 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,120 of find your way and you're not commanding it like you like you 362 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,200 normally do. And he didn't, he didn't flinch. 363 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,480 So I liked his poise. I love the stuff. 364 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,079 I like his makeup and what I think he is going to be long 365 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:13,040 term. Like I think he's I think he's a 366 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,119 starter in the league for a long time. 367 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,560 So, you know, there were some struggles in there in those two 368 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,760 outings, but there were some some promising things that he 369 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:28,600 showed in in kind of the in the fire, if you will, early in some 370 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,840 games. Yeah, Also, I mean, listen, this 371 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,560 is just the way it worked out. I mean, kind of a tough look, 372 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,080 the poor kid going out there against the same team twice. 373 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,520 I mean, so you don't think that matters much? 374 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,840 Maybe a little bit, but I think if he throws well, you know, 375 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,680 he's, you know, the biggest issue for him was just not 376 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,520 throwing enough strikes and not commanding it like like he 377 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,240 normally does. But I think, I think making 378 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,960 those two starts, I think there's a was really valuable 379 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,920 because because he could become a very important piece as early 380 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,360 as this year for us. So to get up and get some early 381 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:07,840 experience and stack a couple starts, I think there's a lot of 382 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,120 value in that. I remember, I remember where I 383 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,360 was sitting, I was getting ready to go into one of my one of my 384 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,520 kids rec basketball games during the winter. 385 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,680 I think it was right before he went down to Tampa and we were 386 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,320 catching up a little bit and I said, hey, I said Ben Rice going 387 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,640 to have like like A9950 OPS. You're like, whoa, whoa. 388 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,920 I love that you remember that. I love the kid, but let's go 950 389 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,280 stuff. I think I undersold it. 390 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,240 Aaron and I know the advanced numbers last year when he was 391 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,160 not, when the stats weren't there, but he was hitting the 392 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,400 ball hard. You knew it was there, kind of 393 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,360 like Grisham a little bit this year who's starting to, you 394 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,080 know, now get rewarded for hitting the ball hard. 395 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,800 What what, what makes him different from other young hit? 396 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,840 I know he's 27, but in terms of experience from other young 397 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,320 hitters, what? Why is he different? 398 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,240 You know, I think the big thing with let me go back real quick 399 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:00,440 on, on Benny, I think the big thing was 24 more so than even 400 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,200 last year. The underlying stuff like he, he 401 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,720 came up and did some good things for us in 24. 402 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,240 And then if you recall, there was about a month stretch where 403 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:13,760 he really struggled statistically punched out a lot. 404 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,280 But through that was really hitting the ball hard. 405 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,480 So he's hitting 180 or whatever. But it was like that's when you 406 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,000 saw like this guy's got a chance to really hit. 407 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,000 And then obviously he has a great year last year and still 408 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,440 hits some tough luck thinks he does, man. 409 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,400 I think his he's obviously hits the ball hard. 410 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:42,520 I think I think has a real simple swing in how he gets 411 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,400 loaded on his backside and build speed. 412 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,680 So that he, when I say build speed, guys do it in different 413 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,520 ways, but he doesn't really well where he's building speed and 414 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,280 his swing subtly, that allows you to obviously impact the 415 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,120 ball, but then it also just as importantly allows you to shut 416 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:07,920 down and have brakes, brakes on a on a so you're go, go, go, go. 417 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,640 But I've built speed and I can stop my swing to take pitches 418 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,040 that are balls. So added up, he controls the 419 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:20,360 strike zone tremendously. He hits the ball incredibly hard 420 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,960 and he's just he's a really good preparer. 421 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,760 He's very detailed. He wants everything and he 422 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,880 processed like, he processes like. 423 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,480 All right, I know this guys forcing ride breaking like he he 424 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,800 wants to know real specifics and he he's able to go up there and 425 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,200 apply that really. Well, interesting You talk about 426 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,680 building speed and I'm just envisioning it's only you trying 427 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,400 to create this momentum. And if you're not perfect with 428 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,760 it or if it's not in your comfort zone and you're trying 429 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,400 to become that kind of a hitter, I could see you being out in 430 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,520 front a lot on your front foot, out in front of change ups and 431 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,920 and soft stuff. So to build the speed and then 432 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,560 stop on a dime with the pitch recognition, right? 433 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,320 But there's, there's, you know, within that there's a shortness 434 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,160 to a swing. There's not a lot of head 435 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,800 movement. He's loading up on the backside 436 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,040 really well. So he's getting started on time 437 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:16,200 or even early to like ultimately, which allows you to 438 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,200 make a really good swing decision, which he does. 439 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,000 All right, now I don't think we need to spend a lot of time on 440 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,840 this, but I want to at least jump around and hit a bunch of 441 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,400 things here. So I'm going to be honest with 442 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,840 you. You couldn't see me because you 443 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,120 said it over the phone and I'm like, here we go. 444 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,000 And you know, you know, I support you and I believe in 445 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,520 you. But when you said this, I'm 446 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,520 like, come on, man. You were talking about Ryan 447 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,760 McMahon and you said there's more in there. 448 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,160 And I'm like, and I even said I'm like, really? 449 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,920 I'm like, I mean, the guy was in Colorado 7-8 years. 450 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,000 You didn't nothing, you know, they had one Goodyear whatever, 451 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,800 like just leap below league average. 452 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,200 Some of the measurables. I'm like, I I don't see it. 453 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,920 And you said he's he's working on stuff and it's not going to 454 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,240 happen right away, but he's going to be unlocked a little 455 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,480 bit this year, you know, without speaking over our heads and you 456 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,680 know, too deep of the baseball vernacular. 457 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,120 What is different? What is he doing differently 458 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:05,760 here? Booney. 459 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,720 I mean the last few weeks. Yeah. 460 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:09,600 Oh yeah. Oh yeah. 461 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,200 He's hitting well. So to me, he's he's, he's 462 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,840 getting to his backside better, which which is allowing the bat 463 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,640 in the zone longer because he's got real juice like he can, he 464 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,600 can juice the ball to left center. 465 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,480 He's got real pop. He's got some strike zone 466 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,640 knowledge and control. But I felt like, especially the 467 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,680 first couple weeks of the season, you know, there was a 468 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,160 little forward movement and a little steep in and out of the 469 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,120 zone. Now it to me, it's pretty 470 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:43,200 noticeable and and he hasn't changed his stance or anything 471 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:48,720 like that or Yep, you know, but but he I feel like he's maybe 472 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,280 for lack of a better way of putting it behind the baseball a 473 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,560 little bit. More that makes sense, 474 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,800 therefore. He's in the zone and so there's 475 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,760 some margin for error there, which I don't think he was 476 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,560 giving himself early on. Can you send Austin Wells to the 477 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,880 same school? Come on, man. 478 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,880 I'm about. Listen, Booty, I'm waiting on 479 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,360 this kid. I know he's on base a little 480 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:09,800 bit. I know he's got he's got juice. 481 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,320 He's going to hit 20 something home runs. 482 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:16,160 But I thought for sure that he would be a more advanced or 483 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,480 sophisticated hitter. He's just he's just an out 484 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,720 machine too much. What's going on with Wells? 485 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,160 Yeah, Yeah. I do like the fact that he is 486 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,080 walking a little bit this year, but we got to get him going. 487 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,160 I mean, I like you like expect a lot out of them, expect more out 488 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,000 of them. Even what he's done his first 489 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,400 couple years, I feel like there's more in there and we, 490 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,360 you know, we haven't totally been able to unlock that yet. 491 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,120 His I know in in even talked with the hitting coaches the 492 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,560 other day. His work behind the scenes has 493 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,600 been really good and really consistent to where he's a guy 494 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,240 like building speed. Like I want him to have a little 495 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,640 more of a load and a little bit more of a move. 496 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,600 So you're making then you're making good swing decisions. 497 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:07,120 You're recognizing secondary as you, you know, load and get 498 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:10,720 started. He's catching his butt off. 499 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,080 He's doing a great job there. You know, one of the things is 500 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,760 we've gone through this stretch the last like since G's been out 501 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,000 and then you know, we've obviously been very left-handed. 502 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,960 So there's been some games where they've been able to run some 503 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:32,120 left-handed relievers through us where that makes for some night 504 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:33,960 in and night out, tougher match up. 505 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:41,440 So but we got to get them going because I feel like him right, 506 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,880 especially down towards the bottom of the order can be a 507 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,880 real factor with some pop and and getting on base a little bit 508 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,200 so. What, what did you see from 509 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,400 Jones in terms of makeup? But I, I, you know, before you 510 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,600 answer that and listen, the power is ridiculous. 511 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,200 I mean, he, if he sticks around, you know, this year, he's going 512 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,400 to hit a couple in the upper deck. 513 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,600 I don't know what the average will be, but his power is 514 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,720 immense and he's a good fielder. That batting stance makes me 515 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,520 nervous, man. I just, I can't get behind it. 516 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,200 I know that's how he hits. I know, I understand that right? 517 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,520 It's evolved. It's even evolved since since 518 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,960 spring training a little bit. So as long as he's getting the 519 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,000 position early and and getting his foot down and keeping it 520 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,840 simple, I've actually he hasn't really gotten any results here 521 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,920 in this first whatever five games, however many he's played 522 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,440 down. You know, I felt like even from 523 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,120 the from jump, you know, we give him Mesirowski and and Harrison 524 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,560 from the left side of his first two assignments. 525 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,640 Not an easy task. What is it? 526 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,640 That quality was was solid. Like even Mesirowski punched him 527 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,680 out twice and he walked against them like thought he was getting 528 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,560 in good position, thought he was getting off good swings, 529 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,120 controlling the zone a little bit. 530 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:58,920 So, you know, he's been in a really, he had a really good 531 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,720 spring and, and, and in spring there were some days too where 532 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,840 it's like this is going to be a tough matchup for him. 533 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,440 And he went out and was stacking really good at bats even against 534 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,640 some of those in those situations. 535 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,400 Then he went to AAA obviously to start the year, got off to a 536 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,160 good start the first week and then for about 10 days really 537 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,920 struggled some, a lot of swing and miss. 538 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,000 Just in the last few weeks, it's been more in line with who he 539 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,680 was in spring training, you know, obviously earned the turn, 540 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,880 the call up. And so hopefully, you know, as 541 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,080 he gets some run here, you know, hopefully he can get on base a 542 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,560 little bit and, and, and maybe pop a few. 543 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,080 Yeah, I mean, it just looks so much more fluid. 544 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,160 And, you know, I, I feel terribly for Dominguez. 545 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,720 The irony is he gets hurt after making a really good play in the 546 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,240 outfield, banging into the wall. But he's a, he's a more natural, 547 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,800 gifted, instinctual outfielder than Dominguez. 548 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,120 I mean, that that's pretty apparent, right? 549 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:54,240 You guys see that as well? Yeah. 550 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:02,280 I mean, I think probably a tick above, yeah, but they're both 551 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,880 still a work in progress out there. 552 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,160 All right, help us out with this. 553 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,200 I'm always intrigued by this. So somebody like Lombard, you 554 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,840 could call them up today and he could put them in 3rd. 555 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,400 He'd be great, short, great second grade. 556 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,480 Probably throw them in left field. 557 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,000 He'd be fine as well. Kids already A+ defender. 558 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,520 I know that you needed to see him hit last year. 559 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,360 Mixed results this year, thumping the ball, AA, crush, 560 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,640 AAA, some bad luck. But the the advance stuff, he 561 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,000 was really good. Does he have a chance to be on 562 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,280 the team at some point this year? 563 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,760 I know, I know that you think so. 564 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:38,640 Oh yeah, I mean, he's, you know, last year when he went to AA 565 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,320 numbers wise, he didn't, he didn't crush it. 566 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:46,360 But like you said this, like he, he, he the underlying stuff was 567 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:52,120 a lot better for him in AA than what his what the season stats 568 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,320 were. And we recognized that. 569 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,520 So, but we wanted him to go to AA to start this year, 570 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:03,360 especially first, you know, kind of conquer AA, you know, start 571 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:07,080 of the season, it's cold like not race him to AAA right away. 572 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:12,680 He goes to AA, kills it, earns the promotion and and yeah, the 573 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,200 underlying stuff, even a AAA has been really good. 574 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,880 He's walking a ton, he's hitting the ball really hard, he's 575 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,520 hitting some tough luck. He can really defend. 576 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,040 He's different. No, he's different. 577 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:23,520 He. Really. 578 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,280 Defend everywhere. He's different. 579 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,120 He's a different kind of player. He's different. 580 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,280 So absolutely, I think he could be a factor for us this year. 581 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,000 I, I, you know, we don't want to race him up necessarily too 582 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,640 quick because he's just getting to AAA and he's 21 years old and 583 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:42,640 like, but he, he will, if he's, he's not far away, I'll tell you 584 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:43,800 that much. Interesting. 585 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,160 I was surprised and I know that you know, mixed and matched a 586 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,840 little bit in the short time that he was with Volpe. 587 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,120 And I'll get to Anthony in a moment. 588 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,600 Volpe is starting today, right. By the way, I didn't see is jazz 589 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,160 out there. I'm going to get to jazz in a 590 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,280 second as well. I was surprised. 591 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,240 I mean, listen, I I know sometimes it sounds like I I 592 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,560 think that I know more than you guys. 593 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,560 I know that I don't. But if if I'm you guys, I'm not 594 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,720 playing one board at 2nd at all. I'm putting Volpe at 2nd and I'm 595 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,560 letting Lombard play short. What was the thought process 596 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,480 behind mixing and matching with that experiment? 597 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,520 Well, look, with with obviously the situation with Anthony that 598 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,920 came up when it's rehab, we didn't want to just say, OK, 599 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,800 you're don't option yet and you're going to play this 600 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,760 position that like still a lot of ways, it's still spring 601 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,800 training and his build up and it's like go play part of 602 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,840 George's development plan or his, you know, the last couple 603 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,480 years is he has played everywhere and he's thrived 604 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,240 everywhere. So at least in the short term, 605 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,600 we felt like we didn't want to, you know, mess with that or 606 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,480 ruffle that or put any more on Anthony right away. 607 00:29:54,480 --> 00:30:01,480 So doesn't mean, doesn't mean we won't at some point, but that 608 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,120 that's simple as that. Yeah, no, I get it. 609 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,520 And listen, I also understand, you know, Volpe's trying to 610 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,280 figure things out in a big way with the stick. 611 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,600 I mean, it's complicated coming off the shoulder injury. 612 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,760 So he couldn't really work mechanically on stuff for a 613 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,520 while. And you're right, it is still 614 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,760 early. I, I guess like even though the 615 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,920 arm strength is, is obviously favorable towards Lombard by, by 616 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,680 I think a fairly significant margin. 617 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,280 I can see why you guys would be a little reluctant to start 618 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,160 pumping Volpe to different positions when he's still trying 619 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,280 to figure things out with the stick, which gets me to this. 620 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,440 You know, there's there's promotions based on 621 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,000 circumstances and then there's promotions based on true merit 622 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,640 and earning it. And I don't think it's unfair to 623 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,400 say that Volpe didn't earn this promotion based on the way he 624 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,160 hit. Now I know he's done good things 625 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,920 for you in the past. The Grand Slam in the World 626 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,960 Series, I was there, the Gold Glove. 627 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,800 I get it. I'm more of a Volpe supportive 628 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,000 than not. But to me, you know, if he 629 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,360 doesn't play well during these X amount of games with Caballero 630 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:05,240 on the ILI mean what is the plan if he doesn't perform? 631 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:11,920 Ship them back. Again, I'm not that's first 632 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,480 thing the quickest copies back is 9 days. 633 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,880 That's again in the baseball season a long time. 634 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,040 Like we're not making any decision today on that we'll 635 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:28,640 make we'll make any any decision we have to make when when the 636 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,160 time presents itself. So right now, like he's going to 637 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,960 be in there and needs to be an important part of helping us win 638 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,480 games right now. So that's how I look at it. 639 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,600 Was it a tough decision to once the 20 day rehab stint was over 640 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,120 to to tell him and make that transaction? 641 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,440 You're not coming to the Bronx yet, you got to go to the 642 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,440 minors. What was that like? 643 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,520 Yeah. I mean, I think just first of 644 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,840 all, the respect we have for Anthony and who he is 645 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:02,800 physically, mentally, like he's just, you know, how you want 646 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,520 your guys to be like he's, he's team first. 647 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,320 He works his tail off. He's a grinder. 648 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,560 He's been through a lot. Obviously here at the big league 649 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,080 level, he's a big part of this. So, yeah, it's a tough call to 650 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,760 make. It's a tough thing. 651 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,320 But we also felt like it was absolutely the right thing to do 652 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,800 at that time. So you know, you're, you're, 653 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,400 you're making to varying degrees, difficult decisions 654 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,000 throughout the season all the time. 655 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,200 This was one of them, but one we felt convicted in. 656 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,840 Yeah. No, you guys made the right 657 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,720 decision. Listen, you've been here a long 658 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,240 time and I know that you know, you've got the respect of the 659 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,920 room, certainly, but the judge and and extending downhill from 660 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,520 that, which is obviously very important as the manager. 661 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,600 Did you think, and I know it's an organizational decision at 662 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,200 that point, like with a Volpee or eventually a Lombard if he 663 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,480 comes up this year. Did you think that or how much 664 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,600 did you wrestle with potentially losing not respect, but but 665 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,200 maybe some points in the locker room for maybe unjustly 666 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,600 rewarding Volpe. I'm talking about a week or so 667 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,120 ago and penalizing Caballero when he was playing well. 668 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,320 Guys know who's playing well. How much of a factor was that 669 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:19,000 Skip? Not much. 670 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,320 I mean, you're, you're trying to do what's right for our team 671 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,680 first and foremost. First and foremost, it's about 672 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,960 the Yankees. And then second, secondary to 673 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,760 that is like, so, so you're making what you feel like is the 674 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,440 best decision for us. That's that's where you start. 675 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:40,000 And then you also care about the individuals involved and people 676 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,920 involved and livelihoods and all that. 677 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,680 So you try to be sensitive to that and aware of that and read 678 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:53,120 the room to a degree. But at the end of the day, right 679 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,400 or wrong, you got to make a decision. 680 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,680 You're convicted. OK, All right, so let's get to 681 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,520 Jazz Chisholm here. So he's going to play today. 682 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,400 Got the night off yesterday, hit the reboot, reset a little bit. 683 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,280 I mean, he's he's a mess right now. 684 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:11,080 And you know that just no, the numbers are are alarmingly bad. 685 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,120 It's still early enough to flip this. 686 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,560 I guess. I like Jazz, but he he worries 687 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:17,760 me. I've been on the record with 688 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,920 that for a lot of reasons that I don't need to restate now. 689 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,120 You know what they are. My audience knows what they are. 690 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,360 When he said 5050, like there's a fine line between being 691 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,000 confident. I'm not even going to say 692 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,760 delusional because that like that's supreme confidence. 693 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,520 I'm not trying to diss him, but when I heard that, I'm like 694 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,639 that's a problem because he doesn't have natural 40 home run 695 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:41,600 or 45 home run power. He's never done that talented 696 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,400 guy. I said to myself, this is going 697 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,080 to be a big issue mechanically and he's going to sell out and 698 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,960 the KS are going up and the contacts going down and right 699 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:58,400 now he is a, he is a mess. How when he said what he said, 700 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,840 did your antennas go up? Like I'm going to have to watch 701 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,120 this. I mean, because he does not look 702 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,320 like the same guy. What? 703 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,200 Where do we go with Jazz here, Aaron? 704 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,640 I think it's had zero impact. Really. 705 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:14,680 Yeah, in fact, there's days. There's days he's trying too 706 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:20,240 hard to hit it to left and keep his front shot and he's he's 707 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:28,320 been yes, mechanically off his swing is is underneath the ball 708 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,400 a little too much. Like the biggest thing is his 709 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,880 swing decisions are are in line with who he's been. 710 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:40,480 He's missing pitches that he does damage on, sometimes 711 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,040 swinging and miss, sometimes foul, sometimes pop up, 712 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:50,400 sometimes roll over. So and I would say you kind of 713 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,160 get you kind of, I know it's like he's going to go off at 714 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:54,000 some. Point like. 715 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:59,960 And he's never hit 40 homers, like hit 30 last year and missed 716 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:01,600 a month. Like that's true. 717 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:06,440 Like I'm not saying he's not a flawed or he's not he's this 718 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,920 perfect player by any means, but he is a dynamic, really good 719 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,720 player that at some point pretty soon will go off. 720 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,920 And I mean, look around the league, look around the league. 721 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:25,640 There are dozens of star players that are off to really rough 722 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,880 starts, in some ways rough. Like I, I look every night and 723 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,120 look up on that board and there's like pretty good players 724 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,000 that have have A5 in front of their OPS. 725 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,280 Yeah. I mean, yeah. 726 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,240 And he's one of them, yeah. Well, now he's got a six. 727 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,080 You sure all right, does he? Not against lefties, but I got 728 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,080 you I. Got you. 729 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,240 I got you, although he got a big hit the other night off the 730 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,120 lefty. It's about time he got to hit 731 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,920 off the. Left I I I not not this kind of 732 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,000 like it's been a struggle. And and yeah. 733 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,720 It has been and, and he and I have talked about it, like, 734 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,200 look, you're going through it. There's a lot like hitting. 735 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,720 I say this a lot, but it's so true. 736 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,680 Like hitting is so damn hard. I know it is. 737 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:12,920 And I know it's such a bear like the season, like you get 738 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,160 struggling, you get scuffling, like I don't care who you are. 739 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,760 I don't care if you're me. I don't care if you're some 740 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,280 scrub. I don't care if you're Ken 741 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,360 Griffey Junior. Like you play this game, it's 742 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,080 going to bring you to your knees just hitting hard and, and it's 743 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,400 like, man, you get in your head a little bit, you're trying to 744 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,560 make adjustments and then you're making too many adjustments and 745 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,280 you're over thinking like you got to strike that balance. 746 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,400 So yeah, it's like, it's like booty. 747 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,200 It's like golf, you know, like you fidget with the grip and the 748 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,960 tape back and before you know it you're hitting worm burners and 749 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,840 you drop in your drawers because you didn't hit it past the 750 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,600 Ladies Day. I know it's hard, but he's 751 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:54,400 making it look really hard. I agree, but he will, he will. 752 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,840 He will absolutely get it going. Let me ask you this and I know 753 00:37:58,840 --> 00:37:59,920 he's going to go on a hot streak. 754 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,360 To his cred, I think he's his defense been excellent. 755 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,680 Yeah, he's he's picking the ball. 756 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,920 I got you on that. Let me ask you this. 757 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,560 So we talked about Lombard and he still has, you know, a little 758 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,040 work to do here AAA and this is there's a lot of variables here, 759 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,200 but I want to at least get a thought. 760 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,120 Now I've got one more for you. I know you got to go and get on 761 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,160 the field and do your stuff here. 762 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:22,240 So let's say Lombard crushes it for the next month at AAA and he 763 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:24,600 gets the call. Let's just say, let's say Volpe 764 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,240 really looks good these next 9 or 10 days, whatever it might 765 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,760 be. Caballero comes back, super sub 766 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,800 bouncing around. Is there a situation where if 767 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,440 Jazz doesn't get his act together, you know, Jazz could 768 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,160 be a part time player, maybe just against righties, like is 769 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,040 that on the table? Because it's been so bad? 770 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,400 And I know he's going to wake up a little bit, but if he doesn't, 771 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,200 would would everything be an option at this point? 772 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,320 It's. Major League sports, so there's 773 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:55,720 always of course, but you're playing a lot of play it out 774 00:38:55,720 --> 00:39:00,920 hypothetical. The reality is we feel like, you 775 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,920 know, we feel like we have a really good team and one of the 776 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,840 things that we like about our team is the depth that we have. 777 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,840 Yes, yeah, I agree with that. I like the. 778 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,120 Depth and probably more depth than since I've been here that 779 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:18,520 we've ever had to where, which, which, which that is part of 780 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,000 that depth. That means competition, that 781 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000 means healthy competition for meaningful roles. 782 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,440 So hopefully that continues to play out that way and and we'll 783 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,480 pay attention to what we're seeing and try and do the right 784 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,280 thing for ultimately for this. OK. 785 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,920 All right. Last thing now, I had Kay on the 786 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,760 show not about two weeks or so ago and he used the word 787 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,720 ruthless in a good way. I have used, you know, 788 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:49,040 variations of the word, right? You guys seem to be operating a 789 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,240 little differently this year and whether it's urgency, ruthless, 790 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:54,400 whatever word you want to use and maybe it's because there is 791 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,760 more depth and I agree, you did not have that. 792 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,960 You as the manager did not have the buttons to push that you 793 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,560 have now. All right, I'll leave it at 794 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:02,800 that. I think we all know that that's 795 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,520 true, whether it's Rosario, the other players they brought in 796 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,160 last year. Good job by cash with that, the 797 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,880 pitching aside, right? So to me. 798 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,600 Luis Seal struggles. You're in the minors, McMahon, 799 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,200 your loss for the first couple of weeks. 800 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,760 All right, we got a righty. You're sitting. 801 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,320 Rosario, you hit lefties real well. 802 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,240 We're going to throw out there against the righty. 803 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,320 We're going to do things that are different from what we've 804 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,920 done. Or the Yankees operating at a 805 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:32,280 different speed this year. Urgency, I think you are. 806 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:37,000 Yeah, I've heard this. People have asked me this a few 807 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:42,680 times and I don't think at all. I mean, because I live between 808 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:48,920 the walls for the last 8-9 years here and every year I've ever 809 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,760 been here, there's like that urgency, like we want to win it 810 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,680 all. That's what we're fighting for. 811 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,200 So I don't think that's the case. 812 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,800 I think that does a disservice to again, what we've, what we've 813 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,000 done in the past and what my experience has been like, we're 814 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,840 kind of hell bent on like trying to put a championship team 815 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,960 together and out there. I, I would say the difference is 816 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,800 we are deeper now. So it allows for those things to 817 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,760 happen, which looks like I guess urgency or whatever. 818 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,120 But to me it that hasn't changed. 819 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,440 Listen, I'm not saying that you guys don't want to win prior 820 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,880 years. You know, the payroll is very 821 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,520 high. I know some people get on how I 822 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,440 don't have an issue with how he spends a lot of money. 823 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,200 You know, I've said what I've said about Brian, even though I 824 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,600 respect him. But to me, yeah, I think maybe 825 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,680 behind the scenes you guys have always operated with with that 826 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,720 urgency. But what we're seeing is, and 827 00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:47,800 I'm sure it's based on the depth, if you don't perform at a 828 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,080 certain level, we got somebody else that we're putting in. 829 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,920 And that's why that's why I asked about Jazz if if he can 830 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,960 maybe become a platoon player if it doesn't get going. 831 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,840 And the Volpe stuff and the heel stuff and the McMahon stuff and 832 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,040 all the Dominguez didn't make the team, which I didn't agree 833 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,760 with that I told you that. But when I talked to you in 834 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,160 February, you're like, we'll see. 835 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,880 And I did not think he was going to make the team and he didn't. 836 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,240 And I thought he did it enough last year to show that he was a 837 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:14,080 Major League player. But the fact that he didn't 838 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,040 start the team with the year with the bigs in the banks to me 839 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,160 was like just another under score of hey, we're not messing 840 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,080 around, man. And I I like to see it. 841 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,600 So I I like to see it. What I got to see, though, 842 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,880 coming up this week, I got to see you handle the Mets sees 843 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,800 here, Booney. You can't let the Mets get 844 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,800 going. You can't let them get going. 845 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,720 You can't. Let's go, dude. 846 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,200 That's it. Put them in the grave. 847 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,160 And here's one more thing. And I'm curious when you see 848 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,560 why. I know you got great respect for 849 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,560 Soto, but when you see Juan, are we dapping up? 850 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,840 Are we hugging or are you like this dude left us, man. 851 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,360 I he's great. But yo, you left us, man, you. 852 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,440 You do your thing. I'll give him a big hug. 853 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,800 It'll be good to see him. Hopefully we contain him. 854 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:58,680 But he was, he was great for us. And he was, he was great with 855 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,000 us. Pride. 856 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,720 Pride still misses us. You think so? 857 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:07,120 You don't think he's enjoying 16 and 25 and and like 5 scrubs 858 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,280 around them? I mean you think he misses that? 859 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,520 Where's Volpe hitting today? 7th, 8th, or 9th? 860 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:13,680 8th. He's hitting eighth. 861 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:19,840 OK, Where's Jazz at 6755? Drop him down a slot, make him 862 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,000 earn it. All right, man, I we're. 863 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,400 Well, we're just a little, you know, look, he was hitting six 864 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,640 when he was hit 3030. And you know when G comes back 865 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,560 and certain things, then you know you get into a good spot 866 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,520 there. Hey, by the way, don't be averse 867 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,560 to doing it all the time. I know Goldie's been very good 868 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:37,840 for you guys. I know you love him too. 869 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,040 Great leader. I would bad listen. 870 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,120 I would start against righties. I'm going Ben Rice 1 Aaron Judge 871 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,400 too. That's what I would do. 872 00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:46,880 You don't do it enough. Why don't you do that? 873 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,680 But if Shohei Otani can hit first, why can't Ben Rice? 874 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,000 He can't, and he has before. But I mean all the time against 875 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000 righty skip all the time I would do it. 876 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,600 But then what's the what's, what's it look like after that? 877 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,440 Well, that's up to you. I mean, Bell Belly three's been 878 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:05,480 great. Bellinger's great. 879 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,240 He's been. Really good because a couple of 880 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,800 these times I've like today I only got 2 righties in the 881 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,400 lineup. So you start hitting judgy 882 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:16,080 second and then you've just got all these patches of runs for 883 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,760 lefty relievers, so. Yep, Yep. 884 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,480 That's where you miss kind of big G in the mix too. 885 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,680 Well, listen, you know that. I it's in the middle. 886 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,240 We, we always oversimplify this. I know, I know. 887 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,160 It's never as easy as as as it is. 888 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,400 We make it seem easier than it really is. 889 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,560 Dude, go do your thing. I told you guys listen. 890 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,000 Thank God. That's a Hall of Famer. 891 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,680 That's a Hall of Famer. Who is? 892 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,600 Right. I, I agree with that. 893 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,000 I agree with that, But that doesn't mean he's been as good 894 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000 as, you know, as he was early in his career. 895 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,400 I mean, there's a lot of hold of Famers the last 10 years they 896 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,800 were holding on. I'm not saying Cash is holding 897 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,440 on. He's great out of BT. 898 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,360 He's he's really good at it. Great's a little bit of a 899 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,280 stretch. Come on, man. 900 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,840 Great. Hey, 2009's been a minute, 901 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,240 Booney. Come on. 902 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,680 I. Know all right, so he's good. 903 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,320 He's he's a hold of Famer. We we agree on that. 904 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,240 He's great at it right now. He's great at. 905 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:10,880 It all right, babe, Go get a win. 906 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,800 I appreciate you adjusting the schedule. 907 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,440 Thank you for your generosity. I'll see you later, Boonie. 908 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:17,040 See you man. There you go, dude. 909 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:17,960 There he is. Of course. 910 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,920 The skipper, the Yankees, Aaron Boone, he's got to drop that 911 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,360 last thing at the end. Cash is great. 912 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,040 That's good, that. Was awesome, yeah. 913 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,040 He's the he. I love him. 914 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:32,360 I do listen and people say, oh, you're not hard on Boone, dude. 915 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,320 I I think that you know, because of our. 916 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,840 Friends definitely got some. You definitely digging a little 917 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,560 bit trying to dig. Come on, I'm never going to fuck 918 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,520 around with this stuff. Like whatever needs to be asked 919 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,440 is going to be asked. And he knows that. 920 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:47,440 Like really. Like I'll never forget. 921 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,040 I was going. It was my daughter's rec 922 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,800 basketball game. And the phone rings and it's 923 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,960 him. And one thing I won't, I should 924 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,960 say this too. You know, I do measure people, 925 00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,960 not just not just on wins and losses like I and I know that 926 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,800 that's basically the essence of my job. 927 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,240 But when you have the kind of character that Aaron Boone has, 928 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,040 I'm going to support you now. I'm not going to, you know, I 929 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,560 mean, if the Yankees won 81 games this year, I'd say, all 930 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:14,640 right, it's time for change, man. 931 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,120 Like at some point there's a point of exploration. 932 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,640 But when things went down, personally came into studio with 933 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,880 me and Sal, I mean, he's just, he's just the real one. 934 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:30,040 He's just a great freaking guy. And I know that many of you wish 935 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,480 you had a different manager. You know, I think one of the 936 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:38,400 things that he said right there about the option or the 937 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,360 optionality is a lot of these these coaches and managers like 938 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,760 to you or is GM's optionality. You know, part of the reason 939 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,120 they appear more cut throat this year. 940 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,800 And I do think that they are, despite what he just said, is 941 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,520 that there are more options. And I don't I think that that's 942 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,600 been part of the issue with Brian Cashman. 943 00:46:54,960 --> 00:47:00,520 And that's why in terms of the pecking order of issues, Brian 944 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,440 Cashman has always been far ahead of Aaron Boone for me. 945 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,280 Like you can, you know, listen, this is not like high school 946 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:12,360 basketball where you can have some inferior team, but you 947 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,600 know, you can stall and you could have come up with some 948 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,320 elaborate game plan and there's a massive disparity and talent. 949 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,560 But because you're such an innovative coach and and you 950 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,080 know, everything's so well oiled that you can compete at a level 951 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,520 that you probably shouldn't compete. 952 00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:29,080 This is Major League Baseball. I mean, you get to a certain 953 00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,400 level, you either got the horses or you don't. 954 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:36,080 And and what I've always said about Aaron Boone is that there 955 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:37,560 has not been. Now, some of you disagree with 956 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,760 this, and that's fine that that is fine, but I don't think that 957 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:46,000 he has ever had a season where I went into the year saying the 958 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,840 Yankees should win the World Series and they didn't. 959 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:50,880 Now, I thought they'd have a much better chance to get there 960 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,320 with Soto, but we knew the Dodgers were better now that 961 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,720 that Yankees didn't play well where they were not buttoned up, 962 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,240 kicking the ball all around. Judge the play at first base 963 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:02,040 with Cole and Rizzo, Jazz, you know, in space at second, 964 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,000 understood the play with Volpe and Jazz at third base. 965 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,760 No question about that. Yankees were not buttoned up and 966 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,520 the Dodgers said so. And I thought that was a bad 967 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:13,280 look for the Yankees. But the, you know, the ability 968 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,320 to maximize a roster, you got to have some players to lean on. 969 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,200 Like that's why I have I'm always going to be fair. 970 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,080 And Cashman, the most of the pitchers he picked up last year 971 00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,000 have stunk. They've stunk. 972 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,160 But Rosario, really good addition, you know, Caballero, 973 00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,960 outstanding addition. And to me, you know, you look 974 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,640 back at at the Yankee dynasty now, of course they had just 975 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,600 better great, more great players, obviously. 976 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,280 But like, are you telling me Joel Torrey was a better manager 977 00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,360 than than Aaron Boone? I would tell you that. 978 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,520 Now, I can't prove one way or the other, but I would tell you 979 00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,320 that Joe Torre had a lot more options. 980 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,960 And I don't just mean Tino and Jeter and Bernie and Moe and 981 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,400 Pettit and Clemens and Posada and Daryl and Tim Rains and 982 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,240 Mariano Duncan. Like I'm talking about, you 983 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:04,000 know, across the board, you know, reliable relief pitchers, 984 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,840 Mendoza, You know, obviously Stanton guys like setting things 985 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,400 up for MO. I I just feel like it's always 986 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,640 been more mix and match with the most recent iteration of the 987 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,600 Yankees. So I'm not saying that Aaron 988 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,120 Boone is Miller Huggins and without flaw, but I just think 989 00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,720 that so and I do think he really mismanaged the game over the 990 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:25,360 weekend in Milwaukee, right. But I you know, in terms of the 991 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,440 bullpen, what he did there. I think that and I didn't have 992 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,360 an issue with him pulling weathers the other night. 993 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,920 I know some of you did. I didn't whatever. 994 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,000 I I just think that, you know, you are so disappointed and so 995 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,480 disenchanted with the fact that the Yankees haven't won since 996 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,560 2009, that everything becomes a target, and that's fair game. 997 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,000 I'm not going to tell you not to do that. 998 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,120 The only thing that I would say is that I think you're a little 999 00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:51,160 a little misguided in some of the criticisms. 1000 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,320 OK, That's the baseball point of view. 1001 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,280 All right, One thing about booty that many of you don't know. 1002 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,640 So you know, me and Sal are doing the middays that the fan 1003 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,440 like it's one thing your your Francesor and Chris or Francesa 1004 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,800 solo or even the morning show boomer and card, whatever it 1005 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,240 might be, like, you know, you're going to get a manager or, you 1006 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,680 know, a a a bit like Dolan goes on with Craig. 1007 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,520 Obviously they've got a good relationship and obviously Mike 1008 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,200 had, you know, hooks up the wazoo, knew everybody. 1009 00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,680 I mean, Aaron Boone drove from Connecticut in his car by him. 1010 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,440 No entourage, no Yankee PR people, right? 1011 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,040 Drives from Connecticut and just to hang out with me and Sal, to 1012 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,320 play the baseball card game, just to kick it around, just, 1013 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,760 you know, shoot the shit. That's the kind of guy he is. 1014 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,280 And you know, that's when we were still employed. 1015 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,320 And one of the first calls I got when the news hit was Aaron 1016 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,520 Boone. And I actually remember pulling 1017 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,720 over to the side of the road on my last show, the one where my 1018 00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:47,640 dad came on. You guys remember it? 1019 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,600 December 19th and I talked to Boone for about 40 minutes and 1020 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,120 we didn't talk about baseball once. 1021 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,680 Like we talked about life and we talked about faith. 1022 00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,360 And so if any of you have an issue with the way I treat 1023 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,400 Boone, that's just tough. I mean, you know, he's not 1024 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,160 perfect, but that is a good man. And then when we decided and it 1025 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,280 was my idea to get this thing going, hey, let's do a BT and 1026 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:10,840 South show. Let's see if we could sell this 1027 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,680 thing out and let's, you know, have a celebration and have a 1028 00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,840 live studio audience. You know, obviously, you know, a 1029 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,160 lot of people were disappointed that we were gone from the fan 1030 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,000 and it's all good. And and I'm like all the booty. 1031 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,440 I'm like, hey, can you do me a solid? 1032 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,040 He's like, Yep. He's like, give me some dates. 1033 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,200 What you got? I'm going out of Tampa here. 1034 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,760 I'm thinking late January. Guy shows up, guy drives from 1035 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,400 Connecticut. We offered him a car we want, 1036 00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,360 you know, I had a nice luxury car service. 1037 00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:37,680 He's like, no, I'm good. I got it. 1038 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,640 Drives from Connecticut, goes to Red Bank, NJ hangs out in the 1039 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,840 green room, does a shot of vodka before we go on the stage. 1040 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,960 Kicks it on the stage with me and Sal. 1041 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,800 Sal getting them on, getting on them with Grisham, me getting 1042 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,520 them on with Grisham, you know, some jazz stuff. 1043 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:56,480 Just laughing. The guy is just an awesome human 1044 00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:58,200 being. Now, that doesn't mean that 1045 00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,240 you're the Yankee manager for 25 years. 1046 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,280 You know, you got to win, but that is a good person. 1047 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,880 And you know, I think if you knew him the way that I know 1048 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:11,120 him, you would absolutely agree. And you know, think about some 1049 00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:12,440 of the things that we just did right? 1050 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:13,720 Just to bring it back to baseball. 1051 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,400 That is going to be a tough conversation, man. 1052 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,320 If you are Weathers and they're still probably 2 weeks before 1053 00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,920 Garrett Cole comes back. But if you're Weathers or you're 1054 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:26,000 Will Warren and you know, you get, hey, we got to talk man. 1055 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,640 You going to Boone's office. And whether it's Weathers or 1056 00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,160 Warren, somebody's losing their starting job in the rotation. 1057 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,920 And that's going to be a dent because Warren deserves to be a 1058 00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,360 starter in Major League Baseball. 1059 00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:40,160 And so does Ryan Weathers, who has looked dominant like 4 or 5 1060 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:41,520 starts. He looks unhittable. 1061 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:46,200 So, you know, and and I was surprised and I believe him, you 1062 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,880 know, hey, any, any reluctance to have 60% of your rotation 1063 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,240 lefties because you already have freed your Rodon's already back. 1064 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,320 And if it's Weathers, you know, three out of the five guys are 1065 00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,800 left-handed pitchers and 65% of the hitters in baseball are 1066 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,080 right-handed, right-handed. So, you know, they can play on 1067 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,080 all the numbers, reverse splits and all that stuff. 1068 00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,000 He's like, Nah, he's like, I'm just looking for the best 1069 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,400 pitcher. So I thought that was 1070 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,840 interesting. Listen, what you just heard 1071 00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,520 there as well. Lombard's coming to the Bronx 1072 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,440 this year. You could take that to the bank. 1073 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:21,520 And I said that when they went, when he was raking a AA and they 1074 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:26,480 moved him up to AAA as quickly as they did that told you he 1075 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:31,600 will be in pinstripes this year. This year he will be a Yankee. 1076 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,760 And what's going to be really interesting, and I asked him 1077 00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,160 about this and his answer told you a lot, If Jazz Chisholm 1078 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,240 doesn't wake up, Jazz ain't playing every day. 1079 00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,360 Like they're not just going to keep running him out there. 1080 00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,680 Now, he is going to heat up at some point. 1081 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,120 Weather's going to get warm. You know, he's already got what, 1082 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,080 1314 steals? He's going to hit some bombs. 1083 00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:50,760 He's going to look better than he looks. 1084 00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,640 And I'm not a Jazz fan, but his track record tells you that he's 1085 00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,920 not going to hit 2O2 this year with an OPS of 599, whatever it 1086 00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,440 is. So he's going to get going. 1087 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:05,280 But if he gets going and then he drops back down and Lombard gets 1088 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,800 called up and, you know, and Volpe sticks or even if Volpe 1089 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,840 doesn't play well, they get sent back to the Miners. 1090 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,800 Caballero goes back to shortstop. 1091 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,720 You're going to see Lombard at second base. 1092 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,800 Like so there's so many things at play right now with the 1093 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,440 Yankees. It is incredibly intriguing. 1094 00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,200 It really is. And the bullpen, you know, and 1095 00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:29,120 and it's not just about Weathers or Warren, It's about Rodriguez, 1096 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:33,840 it's about Legrande, It's about, you know, other guys going into 1097 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:38,000 different roles that Clark Schmidt, when he comes back in, 1098 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,880 I would have to say late July or I didn't ask him about Clark 1099 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:41,920 Schmidt. I'll get him back on at some 1100 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,400 point. We'll have a little more time as 1101 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,240 well. But, you know, I mean, this is 1102 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,880 one of the reasons, and they're far from perfect, but this is 1103 00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,400 one of the reasons why I think the Yankees, if they remain 1104 00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,040 healthy, will represent the American League in the World 1105 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:56,200 Series. I really do. 1106 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,280 Now, I've got a lot of respect for Tampa. 1107 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:00,840 You know, I'm not completely bury in Toronto. 1108 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:02,280 You know, there's a couple of other. 1109 00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:03,840 You still got to play well, you still got to perform. 1110 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,360 You still got to get it done. But you cannot tell me with this 1111 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:11,760 starting rotation, a healthy Judge, a healthy Rice, you know, 1112 00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,000 better speed, better defensively. 1113 00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,720 I know everybody's worried about the bullpen, but stop worrying 1114 00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:19,640 about the bullpen. I'm not saying that you can't 1115 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,920 react to blown saves like we've seen the last, you know, going 1116 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,760 back to the Milwaukee series and the other night against the 1117 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,320 Orioles and weathers gem. That sounds weird. 1118 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,000 Weathers is, but it's but it's correct. 1119 00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,760 Weathers is Weathers gem was was flushed down the chute. 1120 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,480 I get it. You got to react to it. 1121 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,160 You're pissed off. So was I, I can. 1122 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,320 We went for maybe watching no hitter to take it in hell. 1123 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,080 Like, I get it. But it's May and the the version 1124 00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:48,440 of the Yankee bullpen now is going to be radically different 1125 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,360 from the bullpen that tries to get those big outs in October. 1126 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,120 Trust me. All right, J Rod, anything that 1127 00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:56,400 you wanted to chime in on there, buddy? 1128 00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,160 What did you take away from the Booney conversation? 1129 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:02,240 I mean, I just find it to be so interesting how a coach 1130 00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:04,680 operates. I mean, obviously we had Pitino 1131 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,880 on, but there's a much different level of scrutiny that you're 1132 00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:12,000 hitting Pitino with questions with versus a guy like Booney. 1133 00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,920 And so I think it's just awesome how it, you know, he has to 1134 00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,600 balance that level of like honesty, but also like sticking 1135 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,840 up for his guys. I think that's just like the 1136 00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,760 most interesting part of this dynamic. 1137 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,280 Yeah, and listen, you have to understand, I mean, having had 1138 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:30,320 enough conversations with Aaron, you know, I, I know how he feels 1139 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,520 about everybody. I, I just do, you know, I know 1140 00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:36,360 who he truly believes in. And listen, there there's things 1141 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,400 that I disagree with. I I told, I told him straight 1142 00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,000 up. I'm like when you, when he said 1143 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,640 about McMahon, if you had a little jiff of me rolling my 1144 00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,840 eyes, literally sitting in my car waiting to go watch go go 1145 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,640 coach my daughter's rec game, I'm like, he's selling me on 1146 00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,560 Ryan McMahon. McMahon like as a hitter, I 1147 00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,400 don't mean as a fielder. I'm like, I don't I don't 1148 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:55,600 believe it. I didn't buy it. 1149 00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,360 And the first month of the season I'm like, this guy is 1150 00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,120 even worse than I thought. But the one thing about baseball 1151 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,720 and the one thing that's very similar to golf. 1152 00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,560 I mean, I guess you could probably apply this to 1153 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,840 everything, but I think those two areas as a hitter, I guess 1154 00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,880 as a pitcher as well, but as a hitter and is trying to strike a 1155 00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,720 golf ball. When you overhaul, even if it's 1156 00:57:15,720 --> 00:57:20,560 not an overhaul, but a a fairly important tweak, when you do 1157 00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,720 that, you are invariably going to step, you going to step back 1158 00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,400 before you go forwards. It's just going to happen. 1159 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,560 I'm not going to sit here and say that Ryan McMahon's going to 1160 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,600 hit 273 this year. I'm not saying that at all. 1161 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,000 But he just can't be an automatic out because too often 1162 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,960 Austin Wells has been an automatic out and too often, you 1163 00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,200 know, in his Yankee career, Anthony Volpe has been an 1164 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,320 automatic out. And if Volpe's playing, which is 1165 00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,480 going to be playing today and certainly the next week or so, 1166 00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,360 whatever, and maybe beyond that, if he plays well. 1167 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,760 But you know, when, when you have Volpe at some sort of very 1168 00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:57,160 variation of or order of Volpe, Wells, McMahon, in whatever 1169 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,080 order you want to jumble them up in, You know, if if you got 1170 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,320 three guys sitting 2O2, I, you know, I understand you don't 1171 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,760 have to be the 98 Yankees or the 61 Yankees or the Dodgers lineup 1172 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,000 from last year. I don't necessarily need that. 1173 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,080 I I don't or the Big Red Machine, but you just can't have 1174 00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,880 three guys who can't put the pole then play, you know. 1175 00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,960 So that was great, man. That was really, really good. 1176 00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:19,920 Everybody enjoy it. What? 1177 00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,280 Seems like it seems like people enjoyed it. 1178 00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,640 People have really gotten into in the chat a debate of whether 1179 00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:29,240 Giancarlo Stanton will be in the Hall of Fame or not. 1180 00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:32,680 That's what they take away from the conference. 1181 00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,040 Aaron John Carlos Stanton making a hold of fame guys get. 1182 00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,640 Your there's a lot of that. There's trade, there's focus 1183 00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,280 here. There's trade jazz, definitely. 1184 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,320 I would trade Jazz in a heartbeat, you know, And hey, 1185 00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:48,360 there is a fine line between being overtly disrespectful to 1186 00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,640 the Yankee manager and and letting him know how I feel. 1187 00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:56,200 He knows I just I mean, I, I, I the the question about Jazz 1188 00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,840 being a platoon player, if this doesn't pick up, that is going 1189 00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,320 to be a very interesting development to this season 1190 00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,760 because I, you know, to me, and that's why I asked him. 1191 00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,360 I'm like, I was surprised that you guys had Lombard playing a 1192 00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,560 little bit of second base. I would have punted Volpe over 1193 00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,200 there. I mean, the arm strength is not 1194 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,560 even comparable superior for Lombard, for Lombard, Obviously, 1195 00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,280 you know, and and Caballero defensively has been phenomenal 1196 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,040 this year and not everybody wanted to hear it. 1197 00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,560 But I do think you know one thing when when Boone talks 1198 00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,240 about numbers, lot of Yankee fans roll their eyes. 1199 00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:31,720 All you had to do is all you have to do is watch Caballero 1200 00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,000 play shortstop on a nightly basis and the urgency in which 1201 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,920 he attacks the ball, the arm strength. 1202 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,600 Like there's a reason why I'm not saying I'm sitting here 1203 00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,080 watching every single shortstop across the board of Major League 1204 00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:45,560 Baseball, but comparing him to Anthony Volpe, he's just better. 1205 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,080 I mean, the eye test, forget about the advanced analytics, 1206 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:49,560 the eye test. He's just better. 1207 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:55,920 So you know, it's options are really, really good and you 1208 00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,560 know, I think for the first time in a long time, I think the 1209 00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,720 Yankees actually have some options where if you don't 1210 01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:02,800 perform, we're not rolling you out there. 1211 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,680 Where is back in the day. You know, what the hell we going 1212 01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:07,200 to do? All right, Aaron Hicks, maybe 1213 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,280 he's not doing anything. Well, I I guess we got play them 1214 01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,000 all right. Anthony Rizzo is playing 1215 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:17,560 concussed and he's hitting two O 3 for two months, but I don't 1216 01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,280 have anybody else got to put him at first base. 1217 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,920 Or, you know, we don't have a left fielder for the 17th time 1218 01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,320 this century, Anthony Gallo strikes out 2 1/2 * a game. 1219 01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,840 But I mean, not Joey Anthony Gallo. 1220 01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:30,800 Shout out to my guy Gallo with the fan. 1221 01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:32,680 Good dude, big Knicks fan, big Johnny's guy. 1222 01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:34,560 I heard him on the air the other day, too. 1223 01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,680 He sounds good. I've told him that he's got a 1224 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:38,240 chance to do some more shows. Good for him. 1225 01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:42,520 But the Joey Gallo, you know, striking out 2 1/2 * a night, 1226 01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,880 you don't have a left fielder. You got to run him out there. 1227 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:48,520 So this is this all represents good. 1228 01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:52,760 Now there's no guarantee that they will navigate this 1229 01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:56,920 perfectly, but to me, the more options you have yes, the more 1230 01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,680 chances you have to make the wrong choice, but the more 1231 01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:01,560 chances you have to make the right choice. 1232 01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,560 So there you go. Let me just kind of let me see, 1233 01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:09,280 let me bump into some of these things before I get to before I 1234 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:12,200 get to some of the stern stuff. But Willie under score, Long 1235 01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:12,640 Beach. Wow. 1236 01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:16,720 Willie Borelli's, my friends over at Borelli, shout out to my 1237 01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,720 guy Quinny over at Borelli's and the entire Long Beach family 1238 01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,440 Love loved Long Beach there. As a Mets fan, I hate that Boone 1239 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,920 is so likable. He's just a nice guy. 1240 01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,360 That's all there is to it. I remember he, you know what he 1241 01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,760 is like. He's just, he's so approachable. 1242 01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,200 He's so down to earth. He's so grounded again that 1243 01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,560 doesn't graduate 30 year lifetime exemption. 1244 01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,760 I I get it. I remember and I always 1245 01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,000 appreciated this about Craig, Craig Cardin. 1246 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:48,720 I remember when I first started on the fan with Tikis before Sal 1247 01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:55,000 Craig was Craig yeah, Craig was obviously still there and I 1248 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,800 think I think this was before he left for TVI guess it would have 1249 01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,400 been yeah, yeah, cuz then Tiki moved in Yeah. 1250 01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:07,960 So he, he reached out and he's this was probably 4 years, maybe 1251 01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,800 five years ago, somewhere in that neighborhood, about 1/2 a 1252 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:14,000 decade and he reaches out and you know, I've always gotten 1253 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,720 along with Craig, but like never professed to have this great 1254 01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,000 deep friendship. I never had an issue and I like 1255 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,120 Craig. I was texting with him the other 1256 01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,160 day. I actually said, I said, hey, I 1257 01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,600 said if you need somebody to come on and break down the 1258 01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,880 Johnny's that went over so well last time, let me know. 1259 01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:28,160 I'll come on with you and see Mac. 1260 01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,320 Those guys sound good. I catch him once in a while. 1261 01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,560 They said they sound good. Anyway, Craig invited me to go 1262 01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,920 to his home in New Jersey to watch the Super Bowl with my 1263 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:40,760 wife and kids. And booty was going, Chris 1264 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:42,880 Christie was going to be there. You know, that's his buddy. 1265 01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:44,560 And Aaron Boone was going to be there. 1266 01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,480 And he's like, I remember Craig's like, dude, just don't 1267 01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:48,560 berate him. Just don't. 1268 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,360 Because, you know, I was getting, I was booty pretty hard 1269 01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,720 at that point. And like what I was saying, I'm 1270 01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:55,840 like, Nah, dude, I'm, I'm not just going to watch the game and 1271 01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:57,680 have, you know, have a couple beers and hang out, shoot the 1272 01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,600 breeze. My son will get a kick out of 1273 01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:03,640 meeting the Yankee manager. But anyway, his youngest son, I 1274 01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:05,880 think he had COVID and he had to cancel it. 1275 01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,040 But like, I mean, just think like, I don't know. 1276 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,960 I'm not saying that Joe Torre wouldn't do that or I don't 1277 01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,000 know. But like the guys just go to 1278 01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,480 Craig's house to watch the Super Bowl. 1279 01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:17,480 He's just that kind of guy. And you see, he really is a 1280 01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,800 sports fan. Like he loves his Eagles. 1281 01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,880 You know, I hooked him up at a St. 1282 01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,800 John's game last year. He came to sad courts out at the 1283 01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,600 John's game. He just loves his basketball, 1284 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,880 loves his football. Anyway, you know how my stand on 1285 01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,040 on on that. All right, So what do you mean 1286 01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:37,160 let's get the poll going here. People are are asking you get a 1287 01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,760 poll. They they, I mean, I know you 1288 01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,280 weren't the biggest fan last time. 1289 01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:44,640 Montage One wants me to drop a poll of how many people would 1290 01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:49,120 rather have jazz over Volpe. Jazz. 1291 01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:51,800 You know, that would be a very interesting poll, actually. 1292 01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:53,880 I mean, what a make it. I'll drop it. 1293 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,040 I drop it. Let's just as long as it doesn't 1294 01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,600 look like it's from 1976. I mean, if you can make it look 1295 01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,560 somewhat modern and current and we could do it. 1296 01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:04,800 You know that woof. I am very curious about the 1297 01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,480 results of that poll there because yeah, get it up there, 1298 01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:09,080 Jay all. Right, I'll toss it up. 1299 01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:13,880 Because I think so many Yankee fans are done with Jazz and so 1300 01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:15,520 many Yankee fans are done with Hopi. 1301 01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:23,760 I think the difference, man, if I had to take a guess, I think 1302 01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:27,800 it would be very close. I think it would be like 5248, 1303 01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:32,560 you know, 53475446. I'll stop there so I don't mess 1304 01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,200 up the math. Favoring Volpe. 1305 01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,320 I think Yankee fans know he's a little bit more locked in. 1306 01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:42,920 I think there's a little bit of intrigue with Volpe eventually 1307 01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:44,840 moving to second base. If he could hit a little bit 1308 01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:49,720 more consistently and get on base, that could be an 1309 01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,800 interesting one. Could be an interesting one if 1310 01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,120 you guys. Are jazz is at 100%. 1311 01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:57,840 That they would rather see jazz than vote be at second? 1312 01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,160 Yep. I mean, how many votes One. 1313 01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,360 No, like 6 or 7 so far, but they're coming in. 1314 01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:04,840 They're coming. In that's book that's going to 1315 01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:05,560 flip. Oh, it's it's. 1316 01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:07,680 It's updated in real time. Yeah, yeah, here. 1317 01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,040 We go, all right, let's get a couple of calls on the Boone 1318 01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:12,600 spot. We'll get to that as well. 1319 01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:14,800 What else do we have? All right, let me get to the 1320 01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:15,760 Mets here. David Stearns. 1321 01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,440 Can you pop that up on the screen there? 1322 01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:23,480 So David Stearns met the media yesterday and here's what David 1323 01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,120 Stearns had to say. Quote, I do believe we can turn 1324 01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,200 it around, but we have not shown that yet. 1325 01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,320 No kidding. We've got the talent on the 1326 01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,480 roster and the character on the roster to make a run. 1327 01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:35,400 We'll get back to that in a minute. 1328 01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,320 There's a lot of season left. That's true. 1329 01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,000 I'm not going to say it's early. That's true. 1330 01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,800 It's not We're we're quarter into the season true. 1331 01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:49,240 It's not early anymore, true, But we have enough season left 1332 01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:50,120 to make a run. True. 1333 01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,960 I I would agree with that. And I think we've got the talent 1334 01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:58,560 and the character to do that. Where's the evidence of that? 1335 01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,000 You got the talent and the character. 1336 01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,000 What are you talking about? Yeah. 1337 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,120 I mean, I mean, you basically have to say that because you're 1338 01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,280 the one who just blew up the team and and built it back up. 1339 01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,680 I mean, so no general manager who is responsible for this 1340 01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:14,240 overall is going to say we suck and we're going nowhere and it's 1341 01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,040 on me. I mean, obviously. 1342 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,280 So do they have the talent? No, I don't think that they have 1343 01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,280 the talent to go on a run here. Now. 1344 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:24,400 I, I would like to know what his definition of a run would be. 1345 01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,520 Are you talking about like, you know, I, I don't think it's a 1346 01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:31,480 lock that the Mets just win 76 games and, and bleed out and, 1347 01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:35,600 and trade, you know, Peralta and trade Bichette and just, you 1348 01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:39,120 know, do a fire sale. Then you see, you know, Clifford 1349 01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,000 up at first base and, and obviously Benjen Ewing. 1350 01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,360 Hopefully those guys are there to stay. 1351 01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:46,600 Like, I'm not saying you're going to see that, but where is 1352 01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,200 the evidence that they've got enough talent? 1353 01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,040 And where I think the better question is where the hell is 1354 01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:52,600 the evidence? They've got the character? 1355 01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:54,520 Where is the character of this team? 1356 01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,440 First of all, you know, it's been, you know, 40 ish games, 1357 01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,560 whatever it's been. So I think it's a little bit too 1358 01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,160 early to determine if the character is really good or 1359 01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:06,680 really bad, you know, and attach a, a level of of definitiveness 1360 01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,760 to it, if you will. I'm not even going to do that. 1361 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:13,240 I I surmise that the characters not where it needs to be. 1362 01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,280 I surmise that the talent, I strongly surmise that the talent 1363 01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,440 is nowhere near where it needs to be. 1364 01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:23,240 I mean, but I don't know. I mean, listen, I will say you 1365 01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:25,040 can get me off. You can get Sterns off there. 1366 01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:28,480 I I think that, and I said this at the top of the show there. 1367 01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:33,240 I think that the more, and I never thought this about 1368 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,640 Stearns, I really never thought this, but yesterday it really 1369 01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:40,280 hit me. You got to drop the arrogant act 1370 01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,360 here, man. It's just it's it's it's very 1371 01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,040 unbecoming. It doesn't fit you and you have 1372 01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:49,040 not earned the run. David Stearns does not earn the 1373 01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:52,040 right to walk around with an attitude that he's starting to 1374 01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,720 walk around with. I, I just, I don't, I don't see 1375 01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,440 it, man. I there's a time, you know, 1376 01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:58,400 remember the old show? What was it? 1377 01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:01,160 Let's make a deal. Door 1, door 2, door three. 1378 01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:04,080 I would go with door one, which is the humble route. 1379 01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,400 You know, just be humble, man. Now you do acknowledge that 1380 01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:08,880 there's it has not been good enough and I respect that. 1381 01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,480 I mean, jeez, I mean, that's a starting off point. 1382 01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,880 If you couldn't admit that, then we have bigger issues than, you 1383 01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:16,439 know, that then then we think here. 1384 01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:20,920 But this guy's leaning on the talent of the team and he's 1385 01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:22,520 leaning on the character of the team. 1386 01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:26,040 I mean, last year's team didn't have any character and that's 1387 01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,359 why it's been disbanded and they didn't have enough talent. 1388 01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,680 This year's team is worse. So I'm not really sure how you 1389 01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:33,439 sitting here saying that there's enough talent and enough 1390 01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:36,319 character. I, I, I just, I, I don't see it. 1391 01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:40,520 But he is going to dig his own grave further because many 1392 01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:43,200 people, I don't know where Evan stands on Sterns. 1393 01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:47,279 I know he's obviously disgusted, but I, I can't imagine he's been 1394 01:08:47,279 --> 01:08:52,680 quite as as definitive or as pointed as says Joe has his 1395 01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:54,840 former partner. I mean, Joe said this day one, 1396 01:08:55,279 --> 01:08:58,200 you know, the, the Ivy geek, which which I thought was 1397 01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:00,080 unfair. I mean, there's a lot of 1398 01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,880 brilliant baseball people. Not that I love the the 1399 01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:08,319 overwhelming infiltration of numbers and implementation of of 1400 01:09:08,319 --> 01:09:11,720 numbers into the game and and many of these, you know, or or 1401 01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,240 IV educated, then God bless you if you're smart enough to go to 1402 01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:15,640 an Ivy school. They would have laughed at me. 1403 01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:17,800 I mean, I wouldn't even that wouldn't even they wouldn't they 1404 01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,319 would have taken my $100, you know, whatever for the you know, 1405 01:09:21,319 --> 01:09:23,680 the application fee and then ripped it up and let they would 1406 01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:25,080 have used it. This toilet paper. 1407 01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:29,279 Will you kid me? I mean, God, Hey, Hey, Jay, so 1408 01:09:29,279 --> 01:09:31,560 you're a Syracuse guy, right, J Rod. 1409 01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:34,279 Now, what other schools did you apply to? 1410 01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:35,680 Just out of curiosity? I don't know if I. 1411 01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,640 UVM. Yeah, what's that? 1412 01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,319 University of Vermont. Oh, OK. 1413 01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,040 Oh, that's a fun school. Yeah, it's a good. 1414 01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,279 I like the, I like, I mean, Syracuse was my top choice. 1415 01:09:47,279 --> 01:09:48,760 Like I applied early decision there. 1416 01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:50,720 So when I got in, I was kind of locked in. 1417 01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:53,200 OK the catamounts though uvm good stuff. 1418 01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:58,280 UVM Delaware. George Washington kind of like 1419 01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:00,800 the basic. I don't know how to describe it 1420 01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,640 like the basic. Cut below Ivy N exactly 1421 01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:08,560 Northeast schools like. A lot of those but none, no, no 1422 01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,320 smaller schools and no massive ones. 1423 01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,800 Like I guess I applied to Penn State but I was never going to 1424 01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:17,600 go there or like in Indiana I don't believe I applied to. 1425 01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:22,160 So it was a lot of like northeast eastern sports ish 1426 01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:23,760 schools like. Got it, got it. 1427 01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,160 All right, so let me get those. So you got hold on Delaware, 1428 01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,040 Vermont, Obviously you went to QS Delaware, Vermont. 1429 01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,520 The GW, my one of my best friends with the GW played 1430 01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:33,560 baseball there. Good school. 1431 01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,240 Fun dude, I liked it down there A. 1432 01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,440 Lot dude, I had I I can't get into the detail. 1433 01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:40,000 I had one of the wildest weekends I've ever had in my 1434 01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:41,920 life when I went down to visit him at GW. 1435 01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:44,600 That's so funny. I remember I got there first of 1436 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:46,800 all, this knucklehead is my best man at my wedding, right? 1437 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:50,120 Went to high school with him. Absolute lunatic. 1438 01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:55,200 And now I was, so I'm up at Maris and it was during the fall 1439 01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,160 and I'm doing my fall season and he's doing his fall season, the 1440 01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:01,480 GW then the fall season's over. We both had a free weekend maybe 1441 01:11:01,480 --> 01:11:05,360 before Thanksgiving. So I, I, I mean, I, I did have a 1442 01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:06,840 car at that point, but I was going to drive. 1443 01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:09,000 So, you know, I need a dad because I didn't have a didn't 1444 01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:10,680 have a pot to piss in financially. 1445 01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:13,760 I needed my dad to, you know, get me an airline, right. 1446 01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:15,760 So first of all, this knucklehead sends me to the 1447 01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:18,360 wrong airport there. There's two airports in in the 1448 01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,040 DC area. He sends me to the wrong one, 1449 01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:22,280 the wrong 1. And I remember I'm like, Are you 1450 01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:24,520 sure this is it? Whether Dulles and then the 1451 01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:28,600 other one, whatever the other I'm forgot, but sends me to the 1452 01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,200 wrong one. I out and I'm like, all right, 1453 01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:33,000 can you take me to blah? You know, someone because he 1454 01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,400 lived off campus so and so near George Washington University. 1455 01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:36,840 The guy's like George Washington. 1456 01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:38,200 It's like an hour and 10 minutes away. 1457 01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:41,080 I'm like, what? So that was like 100 bucks, 1458 01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:45,120 which I barely had as well. Anyway, I get there and it was 1459 01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:48,720 like an early flight and this is how this is it. 1460 01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,240 When I I and I always had that be we we had we had so much fun 1461 01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:53,640 together. But this one, I knew it was 1462 01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:55,320 going to be an off the charts while weekend. 1463 01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:59,320 He left the key to his apartment with the concierge, right. 1464 01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:03,320 And there was a note on on the on the on the table. 1465 01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:07,480 And he's like, he's like, yeah, I'll be home at like noon, Like 1466 01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:13,480 he was still out from the night before I got home. 1467 01:12:13,480 --> 01:12:15,120 Yet. We had fun, man. 1468 01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:18,160 So GW was great. Never hung out of Delaware. 1469 01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:21,920 I know it's a lot of fun. I've got some friends that went 1470 01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:23,680 there. Good academic school. 1471 01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,240 Good, good. Just good school. 1472 01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:28,240 Flacco went there. It's a good it's. 1473 01:12:28,480 --> 01:12:31,120 The campus is beautiful. I've heard, I've heard, and 1474 01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:32,560 then. But how's the Vermont campus 1475 01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:36,120 compared to Delaware? I mean, it's certainly not as 1476 01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:39,000 beautiful because it's more woodland similar size. 1477 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,520 It's pretty big. I mean, I I liked it up up there 1478 01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,400 a lot. It was just like beautiful kind 1479 01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,600 of woodland area. Burlington itself is like it's 1480 01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:50,680 like a pretty nice ish town. I think it's nicer than 1481 01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:54,920 Syracuse, certainly smaller, but it's got a cute little vibe to 1482 01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:56,920 it I guess. Yeah, good little basketball 1483 01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:57,840 team too. Who's that? 1484 01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,720 Who's that dude? Who's that, David? 1485 01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:01,440 Roddy. No, no, before. 1486 01:13:01,440 --> 01:13:06,840 And the white guy for Vermont, you going back 15 like he was 1487 01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:08,040 really? I know you're talking about. 1488 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:12,440 Good, man, Really good. I mean, they may be wait, they 1489 01:13:12,440 --> 01:13:13,960 may be in Syracuse and they haven't. 1490 01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:16,760 They're, I mean, oh, back in the day, Gus. 1491 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,120 No, not Gus. Y'all, if you say it, I'll know 1492 01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:22,680 it. Anthony Lamb, Taylor Koppenrath. 1493 01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:24,440 Koppenrath. There you go. 1494 01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,040 He was good. Now what year was that? 1495 01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:32,720 2005 Yup, his number 22 jerseys retired and he led UVM to their 1496 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:35,680 first tournament win. Against Was it against Syracuse? 1497 01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:37,560 Let's see. I thought they beat Syracuse, 1498 01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:40,280 like in A-125 matchup. He was awesome. 1499 01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:43,840 Tyler Koppenrath was great. He was great. 1500 01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:45,600 I remember watching them on TV quite a bit. 1501 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,200 Good little Gym. Yeah. 1502 01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:52,040 Wow, I actually played against Vermont when I was at Maris. 1503 01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:55,040 Syracuse in OG there you. Go. 1504 01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:57,280 That's much. I remember playing against 1505 01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:59,760 Vermont when when I was at Maris and then they dropped the 1506 01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:01,120 baseball team like Providence did. 1507 01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,120 Title 9 had to spread the money around. 1508 01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,560 They lost their program. See the thing and we'll get back 1509 01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:07,160 to the show. I remember I just applied to 1510 01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,760 basically all these schools. I mean, I was going to apply to 1511 01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:12,240 like what what schools were looking at me obviously for 1512 01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,560 baseball and back. I guess you could still do it 1513 01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:19,120 now, but the baseball coaches would just waive the the fee, 1514 01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:22,200 the application fee. So I think back then it was 100 1515 01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:23,880 or whatever it was. They would just waive it. 1516 01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,640 No way. It was 100 because I feel like 1517 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,520 it was 30 bucks for my age. No, no, it was a much more than 1518 01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:30,880 30. But no, no, not that I ever 1519 01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:32,160 really paid it, but they would waive it. 1520 01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,040 So I would just apply to all these schools even if they 1521 01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:37,000 didn't, because listen, the way the recruiting goes is even if 1522 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,560 they don't really want you, you know, they, they, they, you 1523 01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:41,600 know, they're going to. So I was applying to some of 1524 01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:45,080 these big schools like rejected, rejected, rejected, rejected, 1525 01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:49,200 rejected next. Oh man, is the Yankee line up 1526 01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:50,600 up. Let me see if I can pop this on. 1527 01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:52,120 I'll find it. I'll probably find this pretty 1528 01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:53,080 quick. Well, I mean it's got to be up 1529 01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:54,360 now. It's eleven O 5 here. 1530 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,840 Let's see here go to the old twitsky a little Twitter go to 1531 01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:00,760 the old Yankees. Oh, here we go. 1532 01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:02,240 All right, not first thing that popped up. 1533 01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:05,200 Grisham Rice, Judge Belly, Jazz McMahon. 1534 01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:08,440 Well, McMahon moving up in in the line up Spencer Jones in 1535 01:15:08,440 --> 01:15:11,920 right field. OK, interesting there, Booney. 1536 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,240 Then we got Jaycee Ascar. Thank God Wells is not playing. 1537 01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:19,960 Max Freed, Volpe 8, so Grisham one in center, Ben Rice 2 at 1538 01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:22,080 first. Judge DH and get him off his 1539 01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:22,720 feet. Good. 1540 01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:24,320 Getting ready for that Mets series. 1541 01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,840 Third batting, batting third DH. Bellinger left field, batting 1542 01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:31,480 4th, Jazz in the five spot back at second base, McMahon 6th, 1543 01:15:31,480 --> 01:15:35,920 third base, Jones 7 right field, Volpe 8 short and Ascara behind 1544 01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:37,640 the plate. Max Freed on the bump there. 1545 01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:42,160 So, you know, it's, you know, some of the numbers where I, I 1546 01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:44,640 have them written down. I didn't want to just, I didn't 1547 01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,880 want to just bombard them with just trust me. 1548 01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:51,360 If anybody knows how bad the numbers are with Jazz, boom 1549 01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:53,360 knows I'm going to geek out for a second. 1550 01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:55,720 It's not going to be long. But here's three things you know 1551 01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:57,240 about you need to know about Jazz right now. 1552 01:15:58,440 --> 01:16:03,480 His barrel rate right now, his barrel rate is 5%, which is in 1553 01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:05,880 the 31st percentile in baseball. Awful. 1554 01:16:06,440 --> 01:16:10,160 His weighted on base average is in the five percentile in Major 1555 01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:14,080 League Baseball and is expected slugging percentage in is in the 1556 01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:17,720 11 percentile. The 11 percentile. 1557 01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:22,440 Man, I'm telling you and listen, they are not going to run him 1558 01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:26,040 out there If they if they have a more viable option and I don't I 1559 01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,320 don't know that they will. You know, I really don't know 1560 01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:29,880 what to expect from Anthony Volpe. 1561 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,280 I I'm happy he's back, man. I'm a Volpe. 1562 01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:37,160 I'm a Volpe fan and you know, I listen, Sal would always get on 1563 01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:38,160 me with this. I would always. 1564 01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:42,080 I just have a soft spot for local kids going back to Mark 1565 01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:46,080 Jackson, you name it. I mean, I just to me, it's, you 1566 01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:50,240 know, if you're a local kid and we went to high school 15 miles 1567 01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:51,520 from where I'm sitting right now. 1568 01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:55,080 We grew up a Yankee fan, first round pick, shortstop Bill 1569 01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:56,120 Barton. Come on. 1570 01:16:56,640 --> 01:17:01,320 And no, played with like wit and all those guys, Henderson, like 1571 01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,440 Team USA, all those teams growing up the ranks, those like 1572 01:17:04,440 --> 01:17:07,280 15 and 16 year old team, junior Olympic stuff, whatever. 1573 01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:09,760 He's not playing like a first round pick. 1574 01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:13,320 And there comes an expiration point like, yeah, like there was 1575 01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,360 a conversation last year, should the Yankees send them down? 1576 01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:17,840 Should the Yankees send them down to the end? 1577 01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:21,400 I said no, I do not believe there's any value with him being 1578 01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:23,160 sent down. I just, I didn't believe it 1579 01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,240 then. And and and they didn't do it. 1580 01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,880 Now, maybe it's the wrong move. Maybe if they would have done 1581 01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:28,960 it, something would have clicked. 1582 01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:33,400 I still don't think so because until Anthony Volpe goes through 1583 01:17:33,440 --> 01:17:37,360 a complete overhaul of his approach and his mechanics where 1584 01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,720 he's not chasing loft and you know, he's more flat through the 1585 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,760 zone and more to right center field and letting the ball get 1586 01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:47,120 deep and getting on base and not whipping its sliders in the 1587 01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,560 dirt. So it's all one and then found 1588 01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:50,960 it. The fast found the fastball 1589 01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:52,400 letter high cuz it's a little bit high. 1590 01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,320 You can't get on top of it. It's all two and now you're 1591 01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,080 dead. When you're O2 in Major League, 1592 01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:58,320 I don't give a shit who you are. You're dead. 1593 01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:00,840 It's over. Like the, the, the, the drop. 1594 01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,480 If you look at the hitter's counts, even one O, there's a 1595 01:18:04,480 --> 01:18:12,160 real favorable advantage. 102-0213 O3 one versus O1O212. 1596 01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:16,920 It is a massive disadvantage from a hitter's perspective when 1597 01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,360 you when you get that hole there because it just opens up so many 1598 01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:23,160 more pitches and the ability to expand the zone because you're 1599 01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,280 not going to walk somebody if you throw it 7 inches off the 1600 01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:28,040 plate. But somebody like Volpe or Wells 1601 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:31,960 or, you know, maybe a Spencer Jones or Dominguez, those young 1602 01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:35,160 guys are going to swing at it. And, you know, the evidence has 1603 01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:37,440 not been there that there's going to be enough growth for 1604 01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:40,560 Volpe. But I'm I'm to justify him, you 1605 01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:44,960 know, staying around and let's face it, you know, if he didn't 1606 01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:47,680 get hurt still in AAA right now, that's all there is to it. 1607 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,640 And you know what was both these numbers collectively here played 1608 01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:57,080 nine games in AA and nine games in AAA and his average, I 1609 01:18:57,080 --> 01:19:00,680 believe combined 205 with a 580 OPS. 1610 01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:03,560 Like it's not like I feel a little bit better if he had, you 1611 01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,680 know, 5 double S hitting 312, eight steals, like just 1612 01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,440 terrorizing minor league. But now I know it's his spring 1613 01:19:09,440 --> 01:19:10,560 training. I get that. 1614 01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:14,280 And and I'm sure, I mean, I shouldn't say I'm sure, but 1615 01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:16,800 like, say if the Yankees would have sent him to the minors last 1616 01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:20,480 year and but he was still fully in rhythm and you know, he was 1617 01:19:20,480 --> 01:19:22,480 playing every day at the big league level, just wasn't 1618 01:19:22,480 --> 01:19:24,640 playing well. And then he go to the minors and 1619 01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:26,840 there's just not the quality of pitching that there is in the 1620 01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:28,800 bigs. I'm pretty sure Volpe would have 1621 01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,680 hit like I I would think, but he did not hit in the minors. 1622 01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:35,640 So he it wasn't based on merit. It was based out of necessity 1623 01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:39,760 and based on circumstances here. And you know, Caballero's a dog. 1624 01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,240 Like you don't you don't care about about Volpe. 1625 01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:46,720 He's trying to plant his flag as a major leaguer, trying to get 1626 01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:51,000 paid instead of being a super sub like he was with Tampa and 1627 01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,400 like the Yankees had designs on him being when they acquired him 1628 01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:56,600 and like he was when he first got here. 1629 01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:58,680 You know, a little right? Little second, little short, 1630 01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:00,400 little third, bounce around, little pinch run. 1631 01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:03,920 So he's trying to get the bag and yeah, I'm not saying he's 1632 01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:07,080 going to get $100 million, but you know, if Caballero puts up a 1633 01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,400 season where he steals, you know, I mean, he always steals 1634 01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:13,440 bases, 40 something steals. I'm just throwing numbers out. 1635 01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:19,000 You know, he's got four or five home runs now, 1415 home runs, 1636 01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:24,680 hits 265 on base at a much higher rate than Volpe and and 1637 01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:27,800 plays a superior shortstop, which he's been great so far 1638 01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:29,960 this year. As I said, you know, whenever 1639 01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:32,120 it's time for, you know, the pre orb is up and he's going to 1640 01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,840 yeah, if he does that for 2-3 years, you know, you're going to 1641 01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:40,440 get, you know, a three-year deal for, I don't know, 153045 ish, 1642 01:20:40,440 --> 01:20:43,520 $1,000,000 in in the in at least in the ballpark. 1643 01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,040 So I don't care about Volpe. He didn't care about Bill 1644 01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:47,280 Barton. He doesn't care about New 1645 01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:49,120 Jersey. He doesn't care about the local 1646 01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:52,680 boy, cares about himself. And he did not want to go on the 1647 01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:54,760 IL. And I know he protested 1648 01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,200 vigorously with Boone. I guess Boone said that. 1649 01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,240 I was watching his pregame press conference last night, the 1650 01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:02,520 dugout in Baltimore, He's like, yeah, like, you know, it was not 1651 01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,080 easy. He didn't want to go. 1652 01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,240 And the last thing that he said when he was leaving the 1653 01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:10,240 clubhouse last night, he's like one day down, 9 days I'm back. 1654 01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,880 Like, this guy is hell bent on coming right back. 1655 01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:17,520 And if Volpe doesn't play, well, it's a very easy decision 1656 01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,160 because he did not earn the elevation here based on 1657 01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:23,880 performance. So if he's, you know, 2O3180 1658 01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:26,960 couple of strikeouts, if there's no other injuries, you know, 1659 01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:29,520 knock on wood, Volpe's going back down to the minors. 1660 01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,800 It just is. You'd have to think, no, it's 1661 01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:33,680 certainly not going to play every day. 1662 01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:36,560 Like now. We are absolutely past the point 1663 01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:40,280 of if you don't perform Volpe. And it's it's been kind of the 1664 01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:44,560 mantra of the 2026 Yankees. Even though Booty said there is 1665 01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:46,320 no more urgency. I see it differently. 1666 01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:48,360 You know how I feel. I think there is more urgency. 1667 01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:51,280 We'll see. How's the poll doing, by the 1668 01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:53,960 way, Why'd you take it down? Oh, I took it down just because, 1669 01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:55,800 you know, make sure for the content. 1670 01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:58,440 Come on, it's looking clean when we when we drop that Stern 1671 01:21:58,440 --> 01:22:00,760 segment. Oh, I got look at you. 1672 01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:05,840 Can you update what do? We got here Jazz 67, Volpe 33. 1673 01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:07,800 You guys would, yeah. I mean, listen, Jazz has a 1674 01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:11,520 little more life in the bad. I get it, but you know, I'm just 1675 01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,640 basically the comments are not very hot on Volpe I. 1676 01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,240 Have to No, I know they're not. I know. 1677 01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:18,000 Why would they be? I mean, there's no. 1678 01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:19,840 Evidence or there's not enough evidence. 1679 01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,000 I get it. Listen, there is an expiration 1680 01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,360 point on everything. You're always going to get more 1681 01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,480 room, more runway if you're a first round pick. 1682 01:22:27,480 --> 01:22:29,960 Like let let's see if The Jets are whomever they draft, you 1683 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,640 know, arch whatever they do with the draft next year, 2027, 1684 01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,480 whatever quarterback they get, you know, in in round one. 1685 01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:39,960 You know, you'd have to imagine they'll do that unless Klubnick 1686 01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:43,560 winds up being the guy, which you know, whatever the that 1687 01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:46,840 evaluation, you know, it's it's going like Darnold, you know, 1688 01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:48,520 got, although Darnold didn't get as much. 1689 01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:51,040 I mean, Zach got a little more room, but you get somebody like 1690 01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:54,240 Brady Cook or somebody like Mike White, you get a couple of games 1691 01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:56,960 and if you know, if you are not drafted or barely drafted, 1692 01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,480 you're out. Like so many of these decisions, 1693 01:22:59,480 --> 01:23:03,120 you know, and fans don't want to hear it, but it matters or tied 1694 01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:05,680 to the economics and the investment in terms of draft 1695 01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:07,800 equity and what kind of contract you have. 1696 01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:11,160 That's just that's life dude. It's the way it goes, you know? 1697 01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:18,320 So I cannot shake this cold man. Crazy. 1698 01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:20,160 You have been fighting that thing man. 1699 01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:21,440 Little bit right? Get some water. 1700 01:23:21,440 --> 01:23:26,000 Here, Jay, what else is cooking? Yeah, What are people saying 1701 01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,200 about Stearns? I mean, this guy up there trying 1702 01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:30,400 to recreate the rooms? Let me see. 1703 01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:39,520 Let me jump back to the Stearns. GWGW Well, here's one Alonzo's 1704 01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,120 comment about. Stearns made. 1705 01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:42,400 My day. Great. 1706 01:23:42,440 --> 01:23:43,440 I mean, it was great. Yeah. 1707 01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:45,200 Willie and Long Beach. How about we get somebody? 1708 01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:46,920 Other than Willie and Long Beach, I love Willie. 1709 01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:50,240 I love Long Beach too. But yeah, there's no doubt about 1710 01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:51,720 that. That was, yeah. 1711 01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:54,960 Now that was a couple of years ago. 1712 01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:58,000 What he said publicly is he's bit his tongue and he said the 1713 01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,440 right thing because, you know, when the Yankees first played 1714 01:24:00,440 --> 01:24:03,720 Baltimore S&Y, rightfully so goes out there. 1715 01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:04,760 Hey, you know, what do you think about that? 1716 01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,000 Same thing with Brandon Nimmo when the Rangers came to the 1717 01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:08,480 Bronx. You got to get those sound 1718 01:24:08,480 --> 01:24:09,840 bites. You got to get those clips. 1719 01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:15,520 But man, I mean, I I would love to have heard, you know, Pete in 1720 01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:17,360 in real time say what he said there. 1721 01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:18,760 How about Avery Summit checking in? 1722 01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:23,000 Speaking of GM attitudes, when will Cashman admit he he aired 1723 01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:25,000 with his Volpe take in the preseason? 1724 01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:30,160 Let's see Oh Oh yeah, in that little fight, a little back in 1725 01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:33,120 fight strong. How about contentious exchange 1726 01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:35,320 with John Heyman a couple of years back? 1727 01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:38,040 I don't know that he's ever going to admit that. 1728 01:24:38,040 --> 01:24:39,840 You know, I really, because think about this, he's either 1729 01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:43,160 going to come back now and play well and then what he might do 1730 01:24:43,160 --> 01:24:44,600 is take a victory lap at that point. 1731 01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:47,720 If he does play well, that he would do right now. 1732 01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,560 And if he doesn't play well, well, then it's on to the next 1733 01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:52,960 point, as Jay-Z would say. And then he just kind of, you 1734 01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,120 know, if the Yankees are doing well and the Yanks are winning, 1735 01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,640 well then it's a non story and you bury it in the side of the 1736 01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:00,480 corner of the room. So no, I would not anticipate 1737 01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:05,600 that that that Brian Cashman would would willingly go back to 1738 01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,200 that. Now let's say that the Yankees 1739 01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,960 fall short of the World Series this year and it's the end of 1740 01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:13,960 the year press conference, state of the Yankees, offseason plans, 1741 01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:17,280 all that stuff. And they hold the that that 1742 01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:18,720 press conference, which they always do. 1743 01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:21,400 And when Boone speaks and, you know, maybe Hal would say 1744 01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:24,000 something, you know, Cashman wouldn't be able to run and hide 1745 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:25,680 from that. That wouldn't be primary. 1746 01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,280 I mean, at this point, Volpe is just, yeah, he's the seven or 1747 01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:29,840 eight hitter. He's he's a role player. 1748 01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:32,040 He's not the lead off hitter we hoped he would be. 1749 01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,040 He's not a primary part of the team. 1750 01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,640 I mean, the Yankees have, you know, the best record in the 1751 01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:39,920 American League in a + 72 run differential, which is second 1752 01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:41,280 best in baseball behind the Braves. 1753 01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:44,200 And Volpe hasn't seen one pitch. So it's not like they can't 1754 01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:47,120 function without Volpe. But yeah, that would come up at 1755 01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:50,320 some point. And I would be curious, but he 1756 01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:53,320 is stubborn. He, Brian Cashman is stubborn as 1757 01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:54,920 a mule. He is. 1758 01:25:55,440 --> 01:25:57,960 And you know the crazy thing about Cashman? 1759 01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:01,680 And I would really, I would, I'd really love to get Brian on the 1760 01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:04,120 show. I, I, I don't know that he would 1761 01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,320 come on the show. I don't know. 1762 01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:14,360 I've talked to Brian probably, let's see, I think 3 times I've 1763 01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:17,160 interviewed him once back in the day, once back on the day, once 1764 01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:20,000 back in the day on 1050 years ago. 1765 01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:23,000 I think it was all over him for the that was contentious. 1766 01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:24,520 I think they were all contentious. 1767 01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,240 Let's see. Then I had him on, I believe 1768 01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:31,760 once with Tiki and then once with Sal on the fan. 1769 01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:34,800 Oh, yeah, no, we definitely had him on the fan at least once. 1770 01:26:35,480 --> 01:26:38,480 And if it was only once on the fan, then it was twice a 1050. 1771 01:26:38,480 --> 01:26:40,240 But no, I definitely interviewed him. 1772 01:26:40,440 --> 01:26:42,880 And you got to watch him because, you know, listen, if 1773 01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:45,360 anybody knows about rambling and turning a short story into a 1774 01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:46,960 long one, it's it's me. I, I get that. 1775 01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:49,160 I own that. But I mean, Cashman could just 1776 01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:51,240 go on. You ask him a you got to be 1777 01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:54,200 quick, You got to listen. Like the thing about Cash is 1778 01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,520 when you have them and you ask him the question, you know, you 1779 01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:59,080 get a little filibuster going on here. 1780 01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:00,800 Let's let's make sure, let's not deviate. 1781 01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,560 Let's go, let's let's go. All right, Cash, all do, Brian. 1782 01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:05,880 I don't mean, I don't mean to interrupt there, Brian, all due 1783 01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:07,560 respect. And you got to get it back on 1784 01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,640 the road. Otherwise this guy's hijacking 1785 01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:10,640 it. Like he could go on. 1786 01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:14,200 Brian Cashman could give you a 2 1/2 minute answer and it could 1787 01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,800 sometimes be a non answer. But funny, I actually do like 1788 01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,080 the guy and I do respect him. I do. 1789 01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:22,680 I absolutely respect Brian Cashman's career. 1790 01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:25,640 And you know, Boone was saying he's great at the end. 1791 01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,600 No, he's not. He's not great, but he's had a, 1792 01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:30,480 he's not great now and he's not been great for a while. 1793 01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:35,120 With all due respect to Boone and Cash, but he's had a great 1794 01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:37,000 career because he's in the Hall. He's going to be in the Hall of 1795 01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:38,920 Fame. He's a Hall of Fame executive. 1796 01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:42,200 That to me is undeniable. Yankee fans flinch when I say 1797 01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:43,640 that. Yankee fans protest. 1798 01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:45,080 Yankee fans roll their eyes tough. 1799 01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:48,640 I mean, if you do that, if you can't acknowledge that all the 1800 01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:52,080 years now Watson and and stick Michael built the first part of 1801 01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:57,200 the dynasty, obviously, and then but you know, Cashman has has 1802 01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,640 distinguished himself the the fight that the last two 1803 01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,880 championships after that and then obviously O 9 and even 1804 01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:05,120 getting to the World Series in O3 and getting to the World 1805 01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,920 Series in 2024. You know, I'm not here to defend 1806 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:09,160 the guy. I mean, if anything, I've got 1807 01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:11,680 I've got more issues with him that I've got more good things 1808 01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:14,480 to say, but man, I would love to get him on the show. 1809 01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:16,520 I don't know. I don't know if he thinks is he 1810 01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:18,800 beneath coming on a YouTube show? 1811 01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:23,640 I don't know no one. Just come off, Listen, no, I 1812 01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:25,800 feel like most and most people. Aren't like. 1813 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:28,760 That anymore because a YouTube show to me is like kind of like 1814 01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,800 a higher thing than most other programs now. 1815 01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:33,960 Oh, I agree with that. No, and certainly in terms of 1816 01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:37,600 reach and all that other. Stuff, yeah, but I I don't know. 1817 01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:40,200 I'm trying to remember the last time we had them on. 1818 01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:45,120 It was it was we we get after it a little bit there, a little bit 1819 01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,440 back and forth, But that's that's another good thing about 1820 01:28:47,440 --> 01:28:49,400 cash. But like he'll let you go like 1821 01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:52,520 he might internalize it and like personalize it like when he 1822 01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:54,720 walks away like this motherfucker, I can't stand this 1823 01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:55,760 guy. Like, why did I do that? 1824 01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:57,360 I'm sure there's a little bit of that. 1825 01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:00,600 But he does let you, you know, jab and he'll spar with you and 1826 01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:04,840 I've always appreciated that. I really, I really phook your 1827 01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,680 couch. Sterns doesn't have any answers 1828 01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:09,080 right now. And going to be in front of the 1829 01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:11,200 cameras is and going in front of the cameras is death. 1830 01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:13,920 Well, don't sign up for the job. You know what New York's all 1831 01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:14,880 about? You win. 1832 01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:16,560 Those cameras are great. You lose. 1833 01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,560 Those cameras are a death trap is what it is. 1834 01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:20,440 We all know the deal. We all know the score. 1835 01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:24,640 What do we got here? The match, The Mets, The Mets. 1836 01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:26,280 The Mets. The Mets. 1837 01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:27,840 The Mets. Will win two games against. 1838 01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,400 The Yankees, good luck. I mean, listen, I'm not going to 1839 01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:31,880 sit here and say, no, they won't. 1840 01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:35,640 I mean, it's baseball, Susan. I I mean, they very well could. 1841 01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:38,800 I mean, if you told me that this is the heart, the start of a 1842 01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:42,920 little, you know, energetic streak here for the Mets seas to 1843 01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:46,440 get their act together a little bit, I'm not going to shut the 1844 01:29:46,440 --> 01:29:48,680 door on that possibility. I mean, there was a reason why I 1845 01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:50,560 thought the Mets would win 91 games. 1846 01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:52,880 I, you know, I wasn't sitting here saying the Mets were going 1847 01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:56,280 to be, you know, trash, some wretched outfit, some comedy 1848 01:29:56,280 --> 01:29:58,440 show of errors. You know, I didn't think they'd 1849 01:29:58,440 --> 01:29:59,760 be great. I didn't think they'd win the 1850 01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:01,680 division, but I thought they'd be a playoff team. 1851 01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:04,240 Let me just see if this would even come up here. 1852 01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:08,760 See if I can get an advanced look at the Yankee Met pitching 1853 01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:11,200 matchups here. Let me see if I can get this. 1854 01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:13,800 I should be able to. I've done it before. 1855 01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:14,560 All right. Now I got it. 1856 01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:20,080 All right, so where we at here? Why is that not OK? 1857 01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:20,720 I got it. All right. 1858 01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:22,200 So obviously Fried's going today. 1859 01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:23,480 Schlittler. I mean, how about that? 1860 01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:25,440 I mean, and then think about when Cole comes back. 1861 01:30:25,440 --> 01:30:28,120 Fried, Schlittler, Cole, bang, boom, boom. 1862 01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,840 Chew on that. Fried and Schlittler. 1863 01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:34,760 So we got free today, 1:05 first pitch. 1864 01:30:35,120 --> 01:30:37,680 Then we've got Slitler. Yeah, that is going to be 1865 01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:40,160 filthy. That is going to be awesome, 1866 01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:43,520 man. Friday night we got Roldan. 1867 01:30:43,520 --> 01:30:44,800 Yeah, yeah. And we got. 1868 01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:48,200 Roldan. You know, I like Roldan, I love 1869 01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:50,400 him, but I like him a little bit more than some of you guys do. 1870 01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:53,280 I mean, you show him no respect. The guy's a competent, above 1871 01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:55,800 average Major League pitcher and he doesn't have to be the ace 1872 01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:58,440 and he doesn't have to be the number two or the three. 1873 01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:00,680 He's fine. That's how he's got six years to 1874 01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:04,520 go on the deal. So easy with the Rodon hate, but 1875 01:31:04,520 --> 01:31:06,520 freed today. Love to see the Yankees win this 1876 01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:08,480 one man. How about Judgey a little three 1877 01:31:08,480 --> 01:31:10,560 run bomb. How about Volpe a little, you 1878 01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:13,640 know, couple and here we go couple of the singles, couple of 1879 01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:16,120 the steals, you know, maybe Benny ball game, but two run 1880 01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:19,960 gapper, you know, we got we got freed now let's have him go 7 to 1881 01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,600 the 3rd 8 strikeouts, one walk, four hits. 1882 01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,280 Yankees win 7 to 1. Nice tidy win. 1883 01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:28,040 No high leverage relief pitchers necessary. 1884 01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:31,640 Easy lifting before the day off Roll into Queens. 1885 01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:36,440 Schlittler rolled on Weathers. Yeah. 1886 01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:39,000 And then how about Weathers against Soto? 1887 01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:42,320 I mean, Soto's great, but Weathers is an uncomfortable at 1888 01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:43,880 Batman. That dude is just. 1889 01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:45,520 I would. I would, I would not really want 1890 01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:47,600 to. I don't know what he's going to 1891 01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:49,520 do with the rotation. I mean, I asked him. 1892 01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:52,640 Everybody wants to know. It's still to be determined 1893 01:31:52,640 --> 01:31:54,840 because Cole's not yet back. So I get it. 1894 01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:56,560 You don't need the immediate answer. 1895 01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:03,000 If I'm them and nothing, nothing changes negatively and they've 1896 01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:05,600 got to make a decision, which they have to eventually. 1897 01:32:06,480 --> 01:32:09,120 I go back and forth. I, I do vacillate on this 1898 01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:14,400 because I, I look at Will Warren as a staple of the Yankee 1899 01:32:14,480 --> 01:32:18,320 rotation for, I don't know, 5-6, seven years. 1900 01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:21,200 He's young, he's good. And then I watch Weathers pitch 1901 01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:23,360 and I'm like, the guy sometimes is untouchable. 1902 01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:27,120 So, you know, and he's a lefty and he throws gas and he's got 1903 01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:29,720 that, that weird why the where he conceals the ball. 1904 01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:33,120 Very athletic delivery. So I I mean, good luck to that 1905 01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:34,800 man. It it's going to be it's going 1906 01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:37,320 to be a tough choice. And I don't know what they're 1907 01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:38,440 going to do. I really don't. 1908 01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:40,560 All right, we get some calls here. 1909 01:32:40,920 --> 01:32:43,600 I was at 11/20 shows flying. We started early today. 1910 01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,280 So let's get a couple of calls, get a couple of more chats. 1911 01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:47,760 Who's first up today, Jay, what do you got? 1912 01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:50,440 Got our friend Benji from Upper East Side. 1913 01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:52,400 Benji, I hope. I hope Now I don't really know. 1914 01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,120 I don't know if. Benji is a Yankee or a Met guy. 1915 01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:56,080 I know he's a big Nick guy. Benji, what's going on, bud? 1916 01:32:56,720 --> 01:32:59,800 What's up BT? Hey, yeah, sorry. 1917 01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:01,200 I couldn't call in the last couple days. 1918 01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:05,000 I I I've been this has been an insane week of of scouting and 1919 01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:09,600 rest for the next scouting. OK, coach Believe. 1920 01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:11,640 Me, I'm scouting. As far as the Yankees go, I'm 1921 01:33:11,640 --> 01:33:13,800 actually a huge. Yankees fan Nothing touches the 1922 01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:16,360 Knicks for me. Obviously, they're my heroes, 1923 01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:19,880 but when I was a younger kid, I used to do birthday parties in 1924 01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:21,920 the Yankees box. So I used to have a bunch of 1925 01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:24,360 friends. We'd rent out my family. 1926 01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:26,920 My father would rent out the box in the metal hall. 1927 01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:28,520 Jesse Barfield days. Yeah. 1928 01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:30,480 How much? I mean, so this guy growing up 1929 01:33:30,480 --> 01:33:33,960 the right way we would. Go to Burger King and do pin the 1930 01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,120 tail on the donkey. This guy sitting in the Yankee 1931 01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:42,080 suite with ten of his buddies. Lucky you, I was in a 8 year old 1932 01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:44,360 kid but. And I remember how bad we were 1933 01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:47,280 back in the day. Oh, so you talk in late 80s? 1934 01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:50,080 You talk in Barfield. Mel Holes, you said Stump 1935 01:33:50,080 --> 01:33:52,800 Merrill, right? Andy Hawkins. 1936 01:33:52,920 --> 01:33:55,080 Actually. Actually, it's funny because. 1937 01:33:55,160 --> 01:34:00,040 I referred to not not exactly a family member of mine, but there 1938 01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:05,560 was sort of a related a related person in a family event and and 1939 01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:08,040 I and I said to them as a young kid, I said, you look like Stump 1940 01:34:08,040 --> 01:34:10,240 Merrill. They're a little bit offended by 1941 01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:11,800 that. I mean had no neck, man. 1942 01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:13,040 I mean, I can understand why it looked. 1943 01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:16,120 It kind of looked like Shrek, you know, like, you know, like 1944 01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:19,520 that big, thick neck and stump was a baseball life for all. 1945 01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:21,320 Respect. All right, So what do you think 1946 01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:23,560 about the Boone spot? What'd you take away from what 1947 01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,320 Aaron said? I loved it, I think. 1948 01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:28,480 I think Aaron's. Personality really comes 1949 01:34:28,480 --> 01:34:30,920 through. He's a really relatable, down to 1950 01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:33,160 earth person. He's there's no pretentious 1951 01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:36,920 aspect to him whatsoever. I think those types of people 1952 01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:40,280 are super refreshing. You know, obviously when you ask 1953 01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:43,480 him .2 questions, it's difficult for him to say, oh, this guy's 1954 01:34:43,480 --> 01:34:46,800 better than this guy, of course, but but, but, but I think, yeah, 1955 01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:48,760 I think a phenomenal. Job by both you. 1956 01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:52,160 I think we have to be thrilled with whether the Yankees are out 1957 01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:55,200 of 27 and 16. They've had a couple minor 1958 01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:57,280 losing streaks. I think one of six games, one of 1959 01:34:57,280 --> 01:35:00,040 four games, I think it was 5. I think they lost five straight 1960 01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:02,240 at that point. I thought it was 5. 1961 01:35:02,840 --> 01:35:05,480 Either way, no, no worries. But but yeah, I mean, they're 1962 01:35:05,480 --> 01:35:06,160 the. Pitching. 1963 01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:09,200 The pitching has been very a big pleasant surprise with Will 1964 01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:13,160 Warren's got a 1.16 WHIP. Schlittler's been, you know, one 1965 01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:15,640 of the the best, if not the second best pitcher in the 1966 01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:18,560 American League so far. We don't even have coal. 1967 01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:20,240 We know Rodon is good. With a. 1968 01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:24,760 Caveat is he's my biggest issue with Rodon is that he has those 1969 01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:27,680 games where he he kind of unwinds, where you'll see him, 1970 01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:32,360 where he'll be like he can't get it out and it's 66 hitters in 1971 01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:34,080 and the guy's drenched. In sweat. 1972 01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:37,120 And it's been 30 minutes and he can't get it out. 1973 01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:38,480 And you're just like, oh. My God. 1974 01:35:38,480 --> 01:35:41,840 Well, but then listen. That's why he is not an ace and. 1975 01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,200 Even though the Yankees kind of paid him, you know, that big 1976 01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:47,600 money to to got to to be the Co ace with Gerrard Cole, you know, 1977 01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:49,520 you don't need him to be that guy. 1978 01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:52,960 I mean, if listen, he's not going to be the 5th starter, but 1979 01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:56,160 he's the what? Once there is the, you know, the 1980 01:35:56,160 --> 01:36:00,400 return of Cole and then whatever recalibration of the starting 1981 01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:03,760 rotation they wind up doing. I mean, Carlos Rodan's going to 1982 01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:06,360 be going up against a lot of fours and fives from other teams 1983 01:36:06,360 --> 01:36:08,320 and they don't have somebody like Carlos Rodan. 1984 01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:12,400 I mean, very few teams do the back of the rotation. 1985 01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:16,280 That's a great point. I I think as far as the. 1986 01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:19,680 The bullpen goes my my favorite, my honestly my favorite league 1987 01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:21,000 pitcher. And this goes for last year. 1988 01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:22,320 Fernando Cruz. I love him. 1989 01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:24,640 I've always said that. I love his fire. 1990 01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:26,520 Yes. Obviously he loses control at 1991 01:36:26,520 --> 01:36:28,520 times. Walks a couple guys, he has a 1992 01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:31,240 blip here and there, but but overall he can be unhittable. 1993 01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:36,120 He he and and Tim Hill has been absolutely mesmerizing so far. 1994 01:36:36,120 --> 01:36:39,280 He's got a 1 ERAI got to tell you man and and Benji, let me 1995 01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:40,400 get bouncing here. We'll talk. 1996 01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:43,320 Nick's obviously have fun watching the Cavs or the Pistons 1997 01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:45,160 doing that scouting. Good job on that, coach. 1998 01:36:45,160 --> 01:36:46,600 I appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon. 1999 01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:48,080 Thanks, man. You got it, buddy. 2000 01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:50,760 So Tim Hill, I I don't know if I I don't know if I said this on 2001 01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:54,120 the air the other day, he comes in and my son's like, God, Tim 2002 01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:58,560 Hill. See, I'm like, dude, you got to 2003 01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:00,040 put some respect on this guy's name. 2004 01:37:00,480 --> 01:37:04,080 I understand he doesn't look the part like he's not, you know, 2005 01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:08,880 some big flame throwing. You know, stop clowning Tim 2006 01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:10,120 Hill. Like I'm saying to myself, you 2007 01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:13,320 only wish that you could at some point get to what Tim Hill's 2008 01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:16,640 doing in the majors. Tim Hill is a Yankee, has been 2009 01:37:16,640 --> 01:37:19,280 phenomenal. He has been absolutely 2010 01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:21,680 phenomenal, man. He knows his role. 2011 01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:24,680 He's incredibly reliable. I just want to look something 2012 01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:26,760 up. And so there will be no 2013 01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:28,920 including in my house. There will be no Tim Hill 2014 01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:30,880 slander. I'm not here for it. 2015 01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:35,800 I mean, come on already. I mean, Jace, he just, he 2016 01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:40,520 doesn't elicit the most confidence, you know, And the 2017 01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:42,080 thing about as I'm looking something up, the thing about 2018 01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:44,600 Fernando Cruz, who I've always likes, I do love his energy. 2019 01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:48,360 But when you are a splitty, when you're a splitty guy, you know, 2020 01:37:48,480 --> 01:37:51,280 the feels got to be there. And if the feels not there from 2021 01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:55,880 the outset, you're going to have issues, which is why I really, 2022 01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:57,360 you know, and they don't do it a ton. 2023 01:37:57,360 --> 01:38:03,120 But like when Cruz comes in with a man on base, you know, get 2024 01:38:03,120 --> 01:38:06,520 them out there 6th inning, 7th if necessary until the bullpen 2025 01:38:06,520 --> 01:38:10,320 gets reshaped, which it will. And then, you know, let them see 2026 01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:13,200 if that splitter is is starting at the right spot and then, you 2027 01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:15,960 know, dart into the proper spot. Because if it's starting too 2028 01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:18,520 low, it's not going to present itself as a strike. 2029 01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:21,520 It's going to hit the dirt. If it's starting too high and 2030 01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:23,880 they recognize the spin, obviously it's a different kind 2031 01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:25,160 of a spin. It's a tumble. 2032 01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:28,560 And if it starts high and then it, you know, by the time it 2033 01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:31,160 drops, it's it's, it's in the letters, it's in the wheelhouse. 2034 01:38:31,440 --> 01:38:34,440 Then Cruz is going to get hit a little bit, but his splitter is 2035 01:38:34,440 --> 01:38:36,560 awesome. But it's just, it's like every 2036 01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:38,440 pitch. It's not always there. 2037 01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:43,000 Now, if you're a sinker guy or a cutter guy like MO or I mean, 2038 01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:45,880 nobody was just MO with the cutter and then everybody else 2039 01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:48,160 wishes they had most cutter, but you know what I mean. 2040 01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:52,560 Or heavy curveball reliant or sweeper, more modern baseball, 2041 01:38:53,120 --> 01:38:56,360 you know, I think it's easier to get that feel the split finger, 2042 01:38:56,480 --> 01:38:58,760 you know, outside of Bruce Souter, back of the day with the 2043 01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:01,720 Cardinals and a couple of others, Rodger Craig, like 4 2044 01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:05,400 ball splitter. It it's, it's a little hit or 2045 01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:09,680 miss, but I do I'm with Benji. I am a huge Fernando Cruz fan. 2046 01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:13,320 I this guy loves being a Yankee. You know, he's a dog. 2047 01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:16,840 I look at his numbers as a Tim. I mean, this is this is 2048 01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:19,960 ridiculous, man Tim Cruise been here. 2049 01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:23,080 Tim Cruise, Tim Hill's been here three years, right? 2050 01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:29,600 He's got a 2.44 ERA and spits in 125 games. 2051 01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:32,440 I mean, they roll them out there a lot and his WHIP is barely 2052 01:39:32,440 --> 01:39:34,920 over 1. Doesn't give up a lot of hits, 2053 01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:39,040 doesn't get barreled a ton and doesn't give up a lot of walks. 2054 01:39:39,480 --> 01:39:41,520 You know, So really, they'd actually like, I'm, you think 2055 01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:43,320 I'm joking, but it didn't like when my son said that. 2056 01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,280 I'm like, dude, stop enough. Like, you know, you watch enough 2057 01:39:46,280 --> 01:39:48,320 of the Yankees, you know, you got to stop dumping on this guy. 2058 01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:51,800 Yeah, I know it's it's you know, it's not Goose or it's not MO 2059 01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:55,920 whatever or it's not, you know, Chapman years ago. 2060 01:39:56,520 --> 01:40:00,560 Guy's pretty good. So Miami Tim Hill fan and I'm a 2061 01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:03,000 cruise fan as well. What else we got here, Jay, let 2062 01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:06,000 me get some of these tweets or or or chats, whatever it is. 2063 01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:08,840 How are we doing with the with the poll here? 2064 01:40:09,800 --> 01:40:12,280 I haven't had it up yet since SO. 2065 01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:16,000 I mean everyone answering the answering the one or two in the 2066 01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:18,800 chat for the poll, but still looking at the same numbers. 2067 01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:21,160 All right, this is an interesting thought. 2068 01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:23,440 You know I didn't get. Into this with with Boone, you 2069 01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:26,280 know, maybe I could have I only had 30 minutes and wanted to get 2070 01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:29,240 all the other stuff how to cram it in so we couldn't really mess 2071 01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:30,920 around like I wanted to have some fun. 2072 01:40:30,920 --> 01:40:34,400 We'll get them back on more, you know, longer format and if they 2073 01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:37,440 didn't change the game time that we would have had a longer 2074 01:40:37,440 --> 01:40:39,960 format. But anyway, out-of-the-box this 2075 01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:42,960 is a good question. With Cole's age, recent injury 2076 01:40:42,960 --> 01:40:46,040 history, low walk rate and bulldog mentality, which is 2077 01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:49,400 true, why not put him in the closest role for 2026? 2078 01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:51,040 We got more than enough starters for now. 2079 01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:54,880 Need major bullpen boost. It is a very fair thought. 2080 01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:59,200 I think it would be a good move. I don't think there's any chance 2081 01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:00,760 it's happening. You're just not doing it now. 2082 01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:02,720 You're going to ride out Gerrit Cole for the length of his 2083 01:41:02,720 --> 01:41:05,080 contract, which I think is 2 more years this and one more. 2084 01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:08,280 I believe it's obviously more on the short term side. 2085 01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:12,160 It's a starter now. We've seen this in the past with 2086 01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:16,320 Johnny Smoltz. It's not happening here. 2087 01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:18,840 I just, no, I don't I don't see it at all. 2088 01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:22,160 But Avery, I, I'm with you. I wish I would have asked him. 2089 01:41:22,160 --> 01:41:24,000 That would have been interesting if he would have just been like, 2090 01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:26,720 dude, are you what? Or, and that's probably what he 2091 01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:27,800 would have. That's what I would say. 2092 01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:30,720 Like if I'm sitting in the Camden Yards manager's office 2093 01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:34,880 talking to me and I get asked the question and I'm the manager 2094 01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,440 of the Yankees, a skip any thought about moving Gerard Cole 2095 01:41:37,440 --> 01:41:39,840 to the closing role? Like, what are you, an idiot? 2096 01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:41,640 Like, that's probably what I would have said or at least 2097 01:41:41,640 --> 01:41:44,400 thought. But it's not an idiotic thought. 2098 01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:50,320 It's actually a very sound baseball query, like really 2099 01:41:50,320 --> 01:41:52,240 like, I don't I don't know. I don't know. 2100 01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:53,280 Who do you like in the game tonight? 2101 01:41:53,280 --> 01:41:54,280 I got to start wrapping things up. 2102 01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:56,400 I got things to do today. I wanted to get boot on. 2103 01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:58,320 You got the Pistons or you got the Cavs. 2104 01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:02,200 Pistons laying 4 1/2. It's in Detroit series title 2. 2105 01:42:02,480 --> 01:42:05,160 You were wrong on the last one. I know that's what I mean. 2106 01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:08,880 And so now I'm like. All right, tonight, Pistons won 2107 01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:09,720 last. Wait. 2108 01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:12,440 Cavs won the last game. Cavaliers won the last game. 2109 01:42:12,440 --> 01:42:13,760 Yeah. Remember we had Cunningham in 2110 01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:16,360 Detroit. Rough game, 5 turnovers, 9 for 2111 01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:20,480 19 shooting and Mitchell had 43. Because it's like, you know, are 2112 01:42:20,480 --> 01:42:22,880 the Pistons going to have that? Comeback or are the Cavs going 2113 01:42:22,880 --> 01:42:25,200 to kind of keep their foot on the gas? 2114 01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:28,200 I'll take the Pistons. I'll take the Pistons. 2115 01:42:28,480 --> 01:42:29,840 Get a ride the home team tonight. 2116 01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:30,960 Yeah, why not? Why not? 2117 01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:32,600 I think I. Go ahead. 2118 01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:33,040 I'm sorry. Finish. 2119 01:42:33,040 --> 01:42:35,680 Up your thought no, that I. I guess that's what I didn't do 2120 01:42:35,680 --> 01:42:37,640 last time and. So that's where I'm going to 2121 01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:42,800 correct my mistakes. I think I agree with you now. 2122 01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:47,400 In a perfect world, you know, I it's almost like I want the 2123 01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:50,840 Pistons to win tonight because if the if the Cavaliers, Well, 2124 01:42:52,280 --> 01:42:56,200 yeah, if the Cavaliers were to win tonight and not only am I 2125 01:42:56,200 --> 01:42:58,200 going to pick the Pistons, but I'm going to lay the four and a 2126 01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:00,640 half there, give you a little little pop on that. 2127 01:43:00,960 --> 01:43:02,560 I'd say Pistons by about 8:00 or 9:00. 2128 01:43:02,560 --> 01:43:05,400 But if the Cavs win, I'm just thinking solely from a Knick 2129 01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:08,160 point of view because that's all I care about with this if the 2130 01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:12,240 Cavs win. Now, I'm not saying the Pistons 2131 01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:14,400 couldn't go to Cleveland and win, but you would think that 2132 01:43:14,400 --> 01:43:16,440 there's a greater chance that the Cavs will win the next game 2133 01:43:16,440 --> 01:43:18,320 at home. So if and especially with 2134 01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:20,800 desperation, maybe a little more friendly whistle kind of stretch 2135 01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:22,560 that series out from the NBA's point of view. 2136 01:43:22,960 --> 01:43:28,320 If the Pistons lose tonight and the Cavaliers go up 32, you 2137 01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:31,640 know, there's there's a, I don't know what percentage, but decent 2138 01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:33,000 chance the Cavs win the next game. 2139 01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:36,440 And then they they they win four games to two play Sunday and I'm 2140 01:43:36,440 --> 01:43:38,280 looking to go 7. I want this. 2141 01:43:38,280 --> 01:43:40,280 Thing just keep. Hitting each other, let those 2142 01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:42,960 bodies get tired, You know, a couple of hard fouls, a couple 2143 01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:45,320 of bumps and bruises. I don't want anybody to get 2144 01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:46,560 really hurt. But, you know, a couple, like 2145 01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:49,440 the Knicks have some bumps and bruises with Cat always hitting 2146 01:43:49,440 --> 01:43:53,160 the deck and Brunson's ankle and obviously OG's hammy. 2147 01:43:53,440 --> 01:43:56,480 You know, Bridges is a massive big minutes guy. 2148 01:43:56,480 --> 01:43:58,320 You want him to rest up a little bit more. 2149 01:43:58,600 --> 01:44:00,520 Even though he's an Iron Man, I'm not worried about him, you 2150 01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:02,840 know, getting tired. But the more rest they have, the 2151 01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:06,040 better for the Knicks here. So I I think from a Knick point 2152 01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:08,480 of view, I think it's better if the Pistons win. 2153 01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:10,960 Yeah, I'm winning. But even aside, like really even 2154 01:44:10,960 --> 01:44:13,480 aside from that, I just think the Pistons will win. 2155 01:44:13,560 --> 01:44:15,560 And I think the Piston, I'll still win the series. 2156 01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:18,480 I'll take him tonight just because I think of that poor 2157 01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:19,480 performance. Last game. 2158 01:44:19,480 --> 01:44:22,080 I think Kate will be back with a monster game tonight. 2159 01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:25,280 Yep, Yep. Yeah. 2160 01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:27,480 Listen, Cade's got to do a better job protecting the ball 2161 01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:30,000 when they were running that second defender with that trap 2162 01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:32,400 and and give the cavity because sometimes it was hard. 2163 01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:34,600 There's not a good defender, but he is 6566. 2164 01:44:34,800 --> 01:44:37,400 So when he's that second guy coming over, getting his arms up 2165 01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:39,920 and when you trap somebody, you play, listen, you play 2166 01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:42,480 basketball. You know, if you trap them right 2167 01:44:42,480 --> 01:44:45,360 as they come across the timeline and they're in the middle of the 2168 01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:47,200 court, you know, you go left, you go right. 2169 01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:51,040 Passover and Cade 66 we could Passover you, 65 Passover you. 2170 01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:54,320 But when you start running that second guy and the timing is 2171 01:44:54,320 --> 01:44:58,000 perfect and it's it's precise and you're buttoned up and now 2172 01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:01,040 you're using basically the the end line, the, you know, the the 2173 01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:04,000 out of boundaries by the benches as another defender. 2174 01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:06,520 Well, you got the out of bounds is the third defender. 2175 01:45:06,520 --> 01:45:08,960 Basically you got the two guys who are converging on cave. 2176 01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:11,920 He's got to recognize that quicker because the Cavaliers, 2177 01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:14,600 but when they were doing that, they made him look very 2178 01:45:14,600 --> 01:45:16,800 uncomfortable. Even plays that didn't go as 2179 01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:20,000 turnovers. The offense lack continuity and 2180 01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:22,520 he didn't shoot well and they got him off his rhythm. 2181 01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:25,760 So now you talk about adjustments, and in the series 2182 01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,600 at this point, it's always about adjustments after somebody does 2183 01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:32,280 something to you that you either don't react well to or don't 2184 01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:35,160 anticipate or both. I'm very curious. 2185 01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:37,840 And Bicker stabs very good. Cunningham's going to be a 2186 01:45:37,840 --> 01:45:40,800 superstar in this league, but he's had a lot of games where 2187 01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:43,600 he's turned it over a lot. I was like, you can't like five 2188 01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:46,240 times the other night he had a game with eight in the prior 2189 01:45:46,240 --> 01:45:49,520 series, you know, so we'll see that little bit of Westbrook. 2190 01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:52,000 Yeah, a little bit. We we, we saw that from a 2191 01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:54,200 different kind of players, as you know, big time. 2192 01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:56,000 Yeah, just on the turnover front, but. 2193 01:45:56,040 --> 01:46:01,240 Also all the, you know, all the not all of them, but a lot of 2194 01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:06,480 these ball dominant point forwards now will usually always 2195 01:46:06,480 --> 01:46:11,000 end up leading the playoffs in turnovers like 2024 Tatum and he 2196 01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:14,680 I guarantee he still holds the record for most turnovers in a 2197 01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:16,800 in a playoff run. No. 2198 01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:19,360 Well, well, I we'd have to define that, because then we 2199 01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:20,680 get. In the weeds now, but in in a 2200 01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:25,040 playoff series, no run, run, run in an entire run I. 2201 01:46:25,280 --> 01:46:30,680 I think Tatum has that record by like a mile really from 2024. 2202 01:46:30,680 --> 01:46:34,080 Dude was throwing it. He was, he was getting assists 2203 01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:36,520 for the. Back in the day, I swear. 2204 01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:39,040 I, I, I'm not saying that, no, I'm not saying he wasn't sloppy 2205 01:46:39,040 --> 01:46:41,880 with the ball, but. Let me see Tatum. 2206 01:46:42,080 --> 01:46:44,040 I got to find the game log. This could take a second. 2207 01:46:44,280 --> 01:46:45,640 What? What year were we talking about? 2208 01:46:45,640 --> 01:46:50,880 Tatum 2021? 2022 the Warriors run actually 2209 01:46:51,080 --> 01:46:55,000 funny enough, he had 100 turnovers during the run. 2210 01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:59,520 He beat LeBron out by 6. Yeah, he beat LeBron out by 6 in 2211 01:46:59,880 --> 01:47:02,440 in 20/17/2018. All right, let me see. 2212 01:47:02,480 --> 01:47:04,880 So dude, he was you talk about the just the playoffs. 2213 01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:07,280 Right, just the playoffs, 100 turnovers. 2214 01:47:07,760 --> 01:47:09,240 You know what? Yeah, why? 2215 01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:10,720 You nailed it exactly. Look at Jay. 2216 01:47:11,920 --> 01:47:15,840 Oh no, I mean, I remember that dude because then like. 2217 01:47:15,880 --> 01:47:19,200 I mean, you know, that's a pretty tragic season for me. 2218 01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,560 Not tragic. We made the finals and we were, 2219 01:47:22,120 --> 01:47:23,720 Yeah, what am I saying? Dude, I'm blessed. 2220 01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:27,200 But we made the finals and we got and we got smacked up by the 2221 01:47:27,200 --> 01:47:29,640 Warriors. But I just remember this dude 2222 01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:32,280 was just throwing it over and it's because we had Marcus. 2223 01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:34,520 Smart as the point guard at the. Time, you know, I remember. 2224 01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:37,280 I like sport, all right? I mean, I like, I loved. 2225 01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:41,120 Him in college and he was tough all right, so first round 2226 01:47:41,120 --> 01:47:43,960 against the Nets averaged 5 turnovers in the in the 2227 01:47:43,960 --> 01:47:46,200 four-game suite. The next round against 2228 01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:49,800 Milwaukee, I think that was 6, but that's 73. 2229 01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:54,800 No, that was 7. He averaged 3.4, and then the 2230 01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:57,600 next series against the Heat, that was also a deep series, 2231 01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:01,120 averaged 4.7. Rounded up, that's five so so 2232 01:48:01,120 --> 01:48:02,960 far. Two of the first three playoff 2233 01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:05,320 series he was in, he averaged 5A game. 2234 01:48:05,800 --> 01:48:09,160 That's a lot. Pays to break the record if he 2235 01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:11,040 played the same. Amount of game, that's where I 2236 01:48:11,040 --> 01:48:13,400 was kind of going, yeah. And. 2237 01:48:13,840 --> 01:48:16,480 Then. Six and then the Warriors, I 2238 01:48:16,480 --> 01:48:19,280 think that was a six game. Series let me see was it wasn't 2239 01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:23,040 seven with three Yep, Yep, six games and he averaged 3.8 2240 01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:25,520 turnover. So that is a lot of times you're 2241 01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:28,600 giving it to the wrong team and you're right, you know, you 2242 01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:31,200 know, luckily, you know Cade will not have that opportunity 2243 01:48:31,200 --> 01:48:34,000 because he will not get to the NBA Finals, if he even gets to 2244 01:48:34,240 --> 01:48:37,000 the conference finals. We'll see, which I think he 2245 01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:38,920 will. I yeah, I still think they'll 2246 01:48:38,920 --> 01:48:40,160 make the conference rounds, but no. 2247 01:48:40,840 --> 01:48:43,960 If they are playing the way they are looking currently and the 2248 01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:47,160 Knicks continue to play even a semblance of what they're 2249 01:48:47,160 --> 01:48:50,720 playing, I like I, you know, I'm one who's hopeful that the 2250 01:48:50,720 --> 01:48:52,640 Knicks will continue this level of play. 2251 01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:57,680 But I, I don't know if you can expect 57% from three on any 2252 01:48:57,680 --> 01:48:59,880 given night or something. Of course, you can't expect 2253 01:48:59,880 --> 01:49:01,720 that, you know? Well, there's no way. 2254 01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:04,000 But you can't you I don't. Even think that you. 2255 01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:06,560 Can really expect 80% of the way the Knicks are playing right 2256 01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:07,680 now? No, no, no. 2257 01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:09,640 I mean, what what the Knicks are doing, the Knicks are. 2258 01:49:09,640 --> 01:49:11,200 Establishing playoff. Records. 2259 01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:13,120 Oh, forget about franchise records. 2260 01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:16,040 I mean, the Knicks are establishing all time playoff 2261 01:49:16,040 --> 01:49:19,360 record margin of victory. I mean, what what they are just 2262 01:49:19,400 --> 01:49:23,640 annihilating every but they won by 51 points in a playoff game, 2263 01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:25,960 dude. I mean, that's like, you know, I 2264 01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:31,000 don't know, that's like Alabama playing some poor by game in in 2265 01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:33,680 September in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa. 2266 01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:37,960 And they win, you know, 66 to 6 because they called the dogs 2267 01:49:37,960 --> 01:49:40,600 off. I mean, this is not common stuff 2268 01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:42,000 here. No. 2269 01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:45,000 And now I I think of course the numbers will drop from an 2270 01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:47,560 efficiency point of view. Now you hope they don't drop too 2271 01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:48,880 much and I don't think that they will. 2272 01:49:49,160 --> 01:49:50,720 But what I don't want to see change. 2273 01:49:50,720 --> 01:49:53,040 And we'll get more into this, obviously, as we know who 2274 01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:55,760 they're playing and we start to ratchet things up for the 2275 01:49:55,760 --> 01:49:57,680 conference finals from a Knick point of view. 2276 01:49:58,120 --> 01:50:00,560 But they just can't change their style. 2277 01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:03,240 They've got to remain. Now, the other teams will make 2278 01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:04,520 some adjustments. I get that. 2279 01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:07,600 And and the Cavaliers are different personnel wise than 2280 01:50:07,600 --> 01:50:09,760 the Pistons. Cavs are longer. 2281 01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:13,280 Pistons are stronger and and and a little tougher, a little more 2282 01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:16,040 stout, a little bit more physically, you know, resolute 2283 01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:19,080 inside the paint. You know, Allen's skinny, Mobley 2284 01:50:19,080 --> 01:50:20,920 skinny, whatever. But the point is, is that 2285 01:50:20,920 --> 01:50:24,760 whomever they play, they better not deviate too far away from 2286 01:50:24,760 --> 01:50:27,040 still funneling things through Karl Anthony Towns. 2287 01:50:27,480 --> 01:50:29,760 That's not going to change. And if it does, they're not 2288 01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:32,600 going to win. Yeah, I don't think simple. 2289 01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:34,080 I mean, simple as that. I feel like they've. 2290 01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:37,680 Figured out, you know, the way this guy is most, I don't know 2291 01:50:37,680 --> 01:50:40,400 if it's the most comfortable cat is with playing, but it sure 2292 01:50:40,400 --> 01:50:43,520 seems like it's it's an area where he's very comfortable. 2293 01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:45,960 Top of the key dishing it out, that being that kind of 2294 01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:48,400 facilitator as a player. So yeah, man. 2295 01:50:49,240 --> 01:50:50,400 All right, man. All right. 2296 01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:51,680 I think we're getting ready to wrap it up on. 2297 01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:54,040 That no, do me a favor, just pop on that jets collective thing. 2298 01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:56,480 Let everybody know one more time tomorrow night. 2299 01:50:56,760 --> 01:50:59,480 I can't wait. Like I I listen as a jets fan, 2300 01:50:59,480 --> 01:51:02,480 there's really, I mean, this is like, you know, the the AFC 2301 01:51:02,480 --> 01:51:05,040 championship game, if the draft is our Super Bowl. 2302 01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:08,320 I mean the schedule release is, is kind of like the, you know, a 2303 01:51:08,480 --> 01:51:11,960 while at least a wild card game. I'm excited, man, I am excited. 2304 01:51:11,960 --> 01:51:16,680 So it's going to be me and Rich and Jake that'll be tomorrow and 2305 01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:19,160 I know Rich has to just finish and following up the story 2306 01:51:19,160 --> 01:51:21,400 there. So he'll join us right around 2307 01:51:21,400 --> 01:51:22,880 eight O 5. But we're going to fire this 2308 01:51:22,880 --> 01:51:25,440 thing up on YouTube. We're going to go live episode 2309 01:51:25,440 --> 01:51:29,560 number 8 of The Jets collective, which will be phenomenal. 2310 01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:31,800 If you guys have been checking us out. 2311 01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:34,640 We appreciate that. If you've yet to do it, jump in, 2312 01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:36,760 give us a sub, give us a like and all that good stuff. 2313 01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:38,560 All right, J Rod, you got a little work in front of you 2314 01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:39,800 today, buddy. You got to start chopping up 2315 01:51:39,800 --> 01:51:42,320 that boonie interview. You've got a lot of work to get 2316 01:51:42,320 --> 01:51:44,200 to man. So you got the booty stuff, you 2317 01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:46,800 got the stern stuff, which will will carve up. 2318 01:51:47,040 --> 01:51:50,320 We he will carve up in in individual segments. 2319 01:51:50,320 --> 01:51:53,120 We'll get that out for you. Listen, make sure you guys 2320 01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:56,040 support it, like it, get it out there, spread it, share it, let 2321 01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:57,920 your buddies know that we had Boone on the show. 2322 01:51:58,800 --> 01:52:01,400 Obviously the comments, the feedback helps with the, you 2323 01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:05,480 know, the growth of the show, which I've told you many times 2324 01:52:05,480 --> 01:52:07,920 here. So, and again, special thanks to 2325 01:52:07,920 --> 01:52:11,600 Aaron for I was going to my daughter's softball game 2326 01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:15,240 yesterday, which by the way, the final score I think was 20 to 14 2327 01:52:15,480 --> 01:52:18,360 softball game. J Rod, 20 to my goodness. 2328 01:52:20,720 --> 01:52:25,440 Yeah, no, you get a lot. Well, I guess not really. 2329 01:52:25,440 --> 01:52:27,280 Yeah. Defensively, that must have been 2330 01:52:27,280 --> 01:52:29,920 an eyesore. Well, I mean, they're, they're 2331 01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:31,360 so young. They're nine years old. 2332 01:52:31,360 --> 01:52:33,960 Man, they're, they're cuties, they're awesome and I coach some 2333 01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:36,880 of them on the rec teams. I love watching them and played 2334 01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:40,320 the lady Knights, but we we dropped a tough one there. 2335 01:52:40,760 --> 01:52:43,760 But when I was I just got to the game and I sit in my folding 2336 01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:45,680 chair. I got my speed, my seeds. 2337 01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:48,480 I'm getting ready to spit out bottle of water, watch the girls 2338 01:52:48,480 --> 01:52:50,680 get after it and I get a text from Boone. 2339 01:52:50,680 --> 01:52:53,760 He's like, they just they just they just changed the time of 2340 01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:55,680 the game. I can't do tomorrow. 2341 01:52:55,840 --> 01:52:58,240 I'm like, or he's like, I don't think I could do tomorrow. 2342 01:52:58,640 --> 01:53:00,480 I'm like, oh, man. And then I texted J Rod. 2343 01:53:00,480 --> 01:53:01,560 I let him know what was going on. 2344 01:53:01,560 --> 01:53:03,920 I texted Aaron, I'm like, because he was going to come out 2345 01:53:03,920 --> 01:53:07,840 at 10:30 and, you know, I said, well, what about maybe 9:30? 2346 01:53:08,080 --> 01:53:09,920 What about 10? And he's like, I could do 10. 2347 01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:12,440 I'm like, awesome, dude. I mean, just just the guy. 2348 01:53:12,440 --> 01:53:15,160 I mean, I got like, like, that's like, like, like he's got to do 2349 01:53:15,160 --> 01:53:17,160 that, you know what I mean? Could have easily been like, 2350 01:53:17,160 --> 01:53:18,960 dude, it's just not going to work out logistically. 2351 01:53:18,960 --> 01:53:20,440 Come on. You know, we're going to wrap up 2352 01:53:20,440 --> 01:53:22,240 this series. You know, I want to make sure we 2353 01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:23,880 win the series. I'm a little bit busy. 2354 01:53:23,880 --> 01:53:25,400 We'll hook up in a couple of weeks. 2355 01:53:25,720 --> 01:53:27,960 I made it happen. And I really, really, truly 2356 01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:30,280 appreciate that. So thanks to the Yankee manager, 2357 01:53:30,280 --> 01:53:31,920 Aaron. Boom, thanks to you guys. 2358 01:53:31,920 --> 01:53:35,120 Like it Subscribe Jets collective tomorrow night. 2359 01:53:35,240 --> 01:53:39,000 We'll be back tomorrow at 10 and that's it Have a great rest of 2360 01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:41,600 your day enjoy the Wednesday and I will catch you guys tomorrow. 2361 01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:41,920 Peace.