1 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,120 Oh, man, we got it going on today. 2 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,800 What's happening? Everybody beats you, at least in 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:19,960 the house. All right. 4 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,120 Got a little hot stove and hissy meth fans. 5 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,560 You feel better about things now? 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:26,480 Have you actually sent the e-mail? 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,120 Have you sent the text? Have you reached out? 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,920 Have you apologized to David Stearns? 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,360 Because you should. All right, wow, we finally had 10 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,840 some real juice where the Yankees are actually involved in 11 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,720 this a little bit as well. And we've got obviously the 12 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,000 entire show's baseball. What's happening, everybody good 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,240 to have you back in. Let's go get the chats going, 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,600 get the hammer at the tax. They know everybody's fired up. 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,720 So basically it comes down to this, right? 16 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,440 The Yanks are running it back and the Mets took a Wrecking 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,160 Ball to their team. Now I understand how this goes, 18 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,400 right? When you really don't do a whole 19 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,680 lot. Now listen, thank God the 20 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,520 Yankees got Bellinger back. I wasn't, and I never wavered 21 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,080 from this. Number one, I thought he would 22 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,080 return. He is. 23 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,920 I'm happy about that. But I also never viewed him as 24 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:07,560 the savior. So if somebody gave him some 25 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,120 ludicrous offer, seven years, eight years, Toronto gets a 26 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,520 little desperate. I would have been fine with 27 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,440 that, although it obviously would have changed the 28 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,120 complexion of the Yankee season. So here we are. 29 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,680 You know, the Yankees win 94 games a year ago. 30 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,240 They've got a plus a run differential about about plus 31 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,640 151. And the Mets won 83 games and 32 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,240 the Mets run differentials right around plus 55 or plus 51. 33 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,200 So you tell me who had more work to do Answer clearly the New 34 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,680 York Mets. And yeah, I got to tell you, you 35 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,360 know, tonight's the live BT and South Show. 36 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,840 I'm pretty pumped up about that. It's going to be awesome and we 37 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,120 we won't stream it live, but you'll capture, we're going to 38 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:46,600 get this up on video, all that stuff. 39 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,920 There's just some things that we have to guard against like you 40 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,800 know, alcohol and certain sponsorships for for the 41 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,680 channel. So once we edit it and it'll be 42 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,360 done fairly soon, you guys get a chance to see me and Sal and 43 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,440 Boonie and last night I'm watching the Knicks a big deal. 44 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,840 I'm not spending any time on the Knicks today. 45 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,240 If you can't beat the Nets, it's it's officially a wrap, which I 46 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,920 think it is anyway in terms of the championship. 47 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,320 But of course I'm watching the Knicks and they win by 70,000 48 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,840 points, whatever. And I guess I ended well. 49 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,600 I usually go to sports night to watch Sny to watch sports night. 50 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:18,360 Think they do a really good job, right? 51 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,240 As I've said many times and I I don't really remember doing it. 52 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,640 I had a long day yesterday. Good day, but a long day getting 53 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:26,760 ready for the show tonight. Run around like a lunatic, 54 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,320 obviously. So anyway, I'm watching the 55 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,760 Knicks and I I guess just by habit, I click over to S&Y and I 56 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,840 fell asleep, but I really don't remember flipping over to S&Y. 57 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:43,560 Anyway, Long story short, I fall asleep and as I usually do, you 58 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,360 know, my eyes open back up, whatever, right around midnight. 59 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,920 And who do I hear yapping? What, what, what, what? 60 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,520 It's dark in the room. What do I hear? 61 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,640 Take a guess. I hear Sal chirping about Freddy 62 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,080 Perrault from like, you've got to be kidding me. 63 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,320 They actually got Peralta here. So the Mets offseason has been 64 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,640 terrific. The Yankees offseason has been 65 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,160 less than. Although again, if we woke up 66 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,480 today or yesterday, we got the news, but shit was somewhere 67 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,040 else. Then at that point you start 68 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,080 having a pardon me, Bellinger was somewhere else. 69 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,920 Then you start having the conversation as I posed to you 70 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,200 that without Bellinger, I don't view the Yankees as a playoff 71 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,920 team. Now with Bellinger, I don't view 72 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,960 the Yankees as the World Series team and there's still a lot of 73 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,160 questions to go here pertaining to both sides like do the Mets 74 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,480 go out? Do they get another pitcher? 75 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,240 Do the Tigers trade school ball is there? 76 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,240 I don't think they'll sign Valdez, but is there another 77 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,720 lower level move to be made to, you know, further bolster the 78 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,440 Mets rotation, which was an eyesore up until yesterday? 79 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,160 Really too reliant on young kids and an average arms that I think 80 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,360 of overachieved at certain points, whether it's Manaya 81 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:54,160 here, Clay Holmes or whatever. So the the ability right now see 82 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,560 not even the ability. Let me take a step back. 83 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,000 I do hope that everybody's learned a lesson here along the 84 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 way. Because when the Yankees got 85 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,960 Juan Soto couple of years ago, it was flextime. 86 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,760 Puff out the chest, let everybody know ganks are winning 87 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,560 the World Series. Ganks didn't win the World 88 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,200 Series. And then when the Mets got Juan 89 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,480 Soto for the Yankees, it was puff out your chest time. 90 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,720 Let the world know you own the city, Big Brother, little 91 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:19,720 brother. OK. 92 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,280 And then the Mets didn't even win 85 games and they didn't 93 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:26,200 make the playoffs here. So if there's one thing that 94 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,040 should we should really know, especially with baseball, that 95 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,160 we should know by now, the hot stove is fun. 96 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,480 It's great energy. When your team's doing stuff, 97 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,760 it's awesome. The entire fan base is 98 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,520 galvanized when they're not doing something. 99 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,520 The entire fan base is pissed off, like the Yankee fan base 100 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,200 until yesterday. But if we've learned one lesson 101 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,360 and there's been a lot of evidence here that, you know, 102 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,280 baseball games, every game, baseball games, especially the 103 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:53,720 baseball season with such, such, such randomness and some 104 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,920 injuries and a long season and multiple checkpoints in terms of 105 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,160 getting to the playoffs and then advancing that eventually get 106 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,280 into a World Series. Can we at least understand, can 107 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,480 we at least have this as a starting premise? 108 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,920 And I'm not trying to strip away the joy. 109 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,080 And I know the Mets fans a little more pumped up than the 110 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,400 Yankee fan today. I'm not trying to strip away at 111 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,160 anybody's joy. I'm just trying to present the 112 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,080 perspective, the very real reality that while these moves 113 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,280 are nice and these moves are good, and right now I view both 114 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:26,080 teams to be playoff teams right now, nothing set in stone. 115 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,480 It's a long way to go. I actually think truth of the 116 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,320 matter is I think right now on paper the Mets have a more 117 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,640 dynamic certainly roster in terms of batting order. 118 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,560 They're just sending up better hitters on a night to night 119 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,920 basis than the Yankees are. So I I think that the Mets fans 120 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,520 energy now is is is is I don't want to say more justified, but 121 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,000 I think a little bit more applicable to what I I think is 122 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,560 going to happen. Whereas the Yankees right now 123 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,600 again without Bellinger, wow, you want to talk about a lineup 124 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,240 that would have been almost unwatchable. 125 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,400 Nobody's protecting judge still no lead off hitter still some 126 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,400 issues still too many guys who strike out and the Mets I still 127 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,960 think one meet need one more arm in the rotation. 128 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,960 But the like the the way it's kind of flipped here and the way 129 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,400 you guys went from just and I get it, you know, we've talked 130 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,960 about this a lot, the emotion of losing them O losing Diaz, 131 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,760 losing Pete, a complete overhaul, complete 132 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,400 recalibration, a complete resetting, which by the way, was 133 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,400 necessary, which by the way, is the reason why I've been 134 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,320 imploring you for a while now. Give Sterns a chance to cook a 135 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,200 little bit guys. He was brought here for a 136 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,760 reason. And if you know how he operated 137 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,520 in Milwaukee without a real budget, you knew he placed 138 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,960 emphasis on on pitching you. We placed emphasis on catching 139 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,200 the baseball. You know, we placed emphasis on 140 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,200 getting athletic bodies on the field. 141 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,800 That's why when you delete somebody like Pete who can't 142 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,200 run, Nimmo who can't throw, and you suddenly look at like up the 143 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,960 middle for the New York Mets. Simeon upgrade, Lindor really 144 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,760 good at short, though he took a step back a year ago with the 145 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,920 numbers. And then obviously yesterday, 146 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,640 Louise Robert enters the equation, who's a terrific 147 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:02,640 outfit. I don't know what he's going to 148 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,080 hit. I don't know where he's going to 149 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,840 hit. I don't know if he's going to 150 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:08,040 stay healthy. He seems to miss 30-40 fifty 151 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,880 games every year. But like that, the Mets went 152 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:16,840 from 7576 wins to a team and a fan base right now that can 153 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,440 absolutely, you know, feel good about the prospects of making 154 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,760 the postseason. And listen, like, I can't help 155 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,240 but do this. I'm sitting here last night. 156 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:27,920 Things are breaking down. Sitting here this morning. 157 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,520 I'm trotting out the lineups. I'm looking at what do we do? 158 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:31,600 What do we do? What's going on? 159 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,920 What's the possibility? Is there anything coming? 160 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,760 Listen to these lineups here. First thing Yankees, then the 161 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,120 Mets. And you tell me if at least my 162 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,720 instincts are are at least today, on point and on par with 163 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,360 what I think that and what you think both of these teams will 164 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,240 be, all right, which will be playoff teams. 165 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,560 Neither team's going to win 9596 games, whatever. 166 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,640 So you've got for me, gangster, the Yankees, Grishman, center, 167 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,960 Judge, obviously, 2, Belly, three, probably Stanton, 4. 168 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,080 You want to break up the lefties? 169 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,800 Ben Rice, Jazz, Chisholm, Caballero, Volpe and Short when 170 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,440 he comes back, obviously Austin Wells behind the dish, a lefty 171 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:06,960 and the UK. I'd like to get another righty 172 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,640 catcher as a backup and then Ryan McMahon at third base. 173 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,720 Now the rotation to start the year is going to be very 174 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,760 different from what we see when we get to mid season. 175 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,200 You know, early on some combination obviously Freed 1 176 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,200 Schlittler heel, Warren Yarborough and then you get Cold 177 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,840 and Rodon back whenever they get back. 178 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,720 And that's where I think that the real excitement is going to 179 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,600 be generated within the Yankee fan base. 180 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,080 Because I really do think now people that tell me last night, 181 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,799 I've seen on Twitter, Mets have the best rotation in baseball. 182 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:39,840 Mets don't even have the best rotation in New York. 183 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:43,200 I mean, I understand you guys are fired up, but jeez, take a 184 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,720 break, take a breath, relax. You can you can, you know, think 185 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,840 two different things. You have to mesh them here. 186 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,200 Like what the Mets have done is very, very good in terms of 187 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,720 trotting out in everyday lineup, which I'll get to in a moment. 188 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,080 I'm going to run down the pluses and the minuses for each one of 189 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,800 these teams here. But the rotation still a lot of 190 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,120 questions. I think that's fair. 191 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,480 And we don't know that Devin Williams is going to is going to 192 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,320 be like Diaz. Matter of fact, I would bet that 193 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,240 he won't be. You just hope that he's really 194 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,560 good. He's just not going to probably 195 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:13,440 be great like Diaz has been for a couple of years. 196 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,600 But you know, I I'd like to have more excitement and we'll talk 197 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,200 to Boone about this tonight. BT and South live show over at 198 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:20,960 the Vogel Theatre in Red Bank, NJ. 199 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,800 And I am excited because I know the Yankees will be a playoff 200 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,360 team as they always are. And I really do believe the 201 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,840 prospects of of what they can become from mid season on. 202 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,640 Like that juice, that energy, that belief that that elevated 203 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:35,280 perception of what the Yankees could be. 204 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,440 Not to mention they can make a trade like the Mets can and 205 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,520 everybody else can at mid season to address whatever weakness 206 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,160 they really need to address here. 207 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,800 But like when that Yankee rotation gets humming and if 208 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,920 Derek Cole's 8085% of what he was before he got hurt, then the 209 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,560 Yankees have the best rotation of baseball. 210 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:52,840 I honestly believe that provided. 211 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,360 Now, listen, there's variables here. 212 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,120 Like if Schlittler took a massive step back, that would 213 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,880 change things a little bit. I don't think he will. 214 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,200 That's how much like McClain, there's some stuff that you see 215 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,160 early provided they stay healthy and they're diligent and they 216 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,320 you know, they attack their craft and they understand the 217 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,080 league's going to make adjustments and then they make 218 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,040 adjustments like there is nobody that can convince me that that 219 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,600 Kim Schlittler doesn't have ace stuff. 220 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,640 I believe that he's and I think the same for McClain. 221 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,200 So when you get into All Star break ish provided judges 222 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,400 healthy and you know the Yankees are hitting a ton of home runs, 223 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:27,920 which they will get. I don't love their lineup. 224 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,400 I like the Mets lineup better here and I'll get to the Mets in 225 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,360 a moment. But again, I'm looking at this 226 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,320 and I'm saying, all right, So what do I love about the Yankee 227 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,560 lineup? Well, without Cody Bellinger, 228 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,280 the Yankees are like an 8384 win win team and and the real 229 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,000 prospects, by the way, without the two aforementioned pitchers, 230 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,320 Cole and Brodan coming back whenever they get back. 231 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:49,800 What I was worried about, which is why I wanted the Yankees to 232 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,000 be in on Bichet, certainly a righty stick and he's not coming 233 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:53,920 here. So I don't need to to waste 234 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,760 energy on that. But I was actually really I'm 235 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,080 less concerned about it today. It's been stabilized with the 236 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,640 return of Bellinger, but I was really worried given the Yankees 237 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,400 rotational issues to start. I mean, you're giving the 238 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,880 baseball and I like Warren, but you're giving the baseball, you 239 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,200 know, to a Yarborough to a Weathers. 240 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,640 If he makes the rotation to A to a young will Warren to a Louis 241 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:15,840 Hill. I don't know what to expect from 242 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,280 Louis Hill. I mean for the for April, May 243 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,120 into June, like that's a lot of turns to the rotation where if 244 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,560 your offense isn't carrying you, there's going to be some nights 245 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:29,440 where you you're winning and losing 756584, which obviously 246 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,480 compromises the rotation. Probably the bullpen, which 247 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,080 presents a bigger issue down the road. 248 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,160 And really before Bednar, I don't even love the Yankees 249 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,000 bullpen. So the Yankees are not an A+ 250 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,560 team. The Yankees are not an A-Team. 251 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,720 I'm not even sure the Yankees are an A minus team. 252 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,920 I think the right now the New York Yankees are a solid B with 253 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,240 real upside. Maybe AB plus if if Judges is 254 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,600 healthy and is Judge and wins the MVP again because he just 255 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,080 elevates everything around them. But I look at the line up, but 256 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,280 I'm sitting here and I'm saying, all right, do they have a lead 257 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,400 off hitter? And I'm not trying to be 258 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,880 negative. I want to be clear about that. 259 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,480 But I've also told you that as I anticipate Bellinger to return. 260 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,040 This was for a month leading up to this, even with him like I 261 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:10,600 wasn't all in on this Yankee lineup. 262 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,000 I don't think they have a lead off hitter. 263 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,080 So the Trent Grisham thing is a problem for me. 264 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,720 I know he's going to run into some bombs and he's going to hit 265 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,720 some home runs, but he is not a lead off hitter. 266 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,040 I would not I I, I I'd almost rather bat arid judge one like 267 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,800 so so you go righty Judge Ben Rice 2. 268 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,080 I know they reverse to the lefty lefty thing, but we're Judge 1 269 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,000 Bellinger 2, Rice three. I would actually prefer that 270 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,240 then Grisham batting first. Like I don't know how you can be 271 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,560 considered to be a championship team with without without an 272 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:42,920 without an everyday lead off man. 273 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,680 And it's not going to be Volpe. It's not going to be Caballero. 274 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,840 It's just not so they don't have a lead off hitter and Grisham is 275 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,920 what he is. He's home run hitter and I don't 276 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,320 love him against big time pitching problem right then you 277 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,320 get to the stands and stuff. All right, how many games you 278 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:56,560 going to miss? Whatever, Of course. 279 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,840 And then I listen the guy that I think is going to take a massive 280 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,040 step. I think Ben Wright Ben writes to 281 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,640 me profiles to be a three hitter in within the next two or three 282 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:07,520 years. I think he's that good and I 283 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,280 know this young man's putting work in. 284 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,520 He's a smart kid from Dartmouth. He is a he's a very astute 285 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,560 hitter. He is a good hitter. 286 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,200 Go the other way a little bit easy power, good eye. 287 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,880 He's going to be an on base machine real thump. 288 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,000 It is bad. So I love Ben. 289 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,240 I got no problems with Ben rice. Just catch the balls at you, 290 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,840 scoop a few out of the dirt, which you didn't really do that 291 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,400 well last year. So hopefully that changes. 292 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,200 But Ben Rice stud, you know where I stand on jazz. 293 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,520 I don't know if they're going to trade him this offseason, but I 294 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,360 still believe that they're going to trade him at some point. 295 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,840 You know, and then you get to the bottom third with you with 296 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,880 with a with a trio of Caballero and Volpe, Austin Wells and Ryan 297 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,440 McMahon. I mean that there there's a lot 298 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,040 of easier bats to navigate at that point, which to me is very 299 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:49,960 problematic. So I look at that. 300 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,160 By the way, Robert Robert Huertas checking it. 301 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,600 What up, Rob BT what's going on as far as the Yankees, I think 302 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:58,640 Austin Wells is not that good a 220 hitter along with Volpe, our 303 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:00,400 third baseman. Too many holes once you get past 304 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,440 Judge and belly. Well, I do think that you're 305 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,720 excluding Ben Rice. As I just said, Ben Rice. 306 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,120 I I think Ben Rice is, I think you're going to love Ben Rice. 307 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,440 I think there's going to be A6. They didn't come up when he was 308 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:12,920 that young. So I don't want to go nuts here 309 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,360 like a 6-7 year run where Ben Rice is in the middle of the 310 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,800 lineup and doing real damage, like inflicting real damage on 311 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,960 Major League Baseball. I think he's that good of a 312 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,600 hitter. So I do think you need to throw 313 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:25,880 him in there. And I think he's ready to start 314 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,800 doing it now because we did. He did it most of last season, 315 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,080 right? But you're right. 316 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,240 I mean, all right, Caballero's a pest, but here's what he is 317 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,800 Volpe's a low average, low on base guy, strikeout machine. 318 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,080 Austin Wells. I mean, he's he's an above 319 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,640 average catcher defensively. He's got power, but he strikes 320 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,920 out a lot low average guy. And then Ryan McMahon, he's 321 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,640 going to hit two 10215 strikeout 200 times I and then when you 322 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,680 get now see, that's the additional issue too. 323 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:57,680 So when Trent Grisham is in a funk and his career stats tell 324 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,240 us he's very funkible, like he's he's not immune to slumps. 325 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,200 There's a reason why you don't hit 200 for a couple of years in 326 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,280 a row. All right, maybe he tapped into 327 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,880 something. Maybe the Yankees unlocked 328 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,240 something. Maybe he's now trending in a 329 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,440 direction that is more like last year and he's going to hit the 330 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,160 home runs and instead of hitting 190 or two O 3, he's going to be 331 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,440 a 245 ish guy, 250. But I'm fine with that if he's 332 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,160 hitting 7th, right? But think about the sequence 333 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,360 guys and even Jazz. Chisholm strikes out a lot, but 334 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,280 I've got to show Jazz respect as a 3030 guy and maybe a 4040 guy 335 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,440 if he was healthy last year. But the Caballero, Wells, 336 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,000 McMahon Trio, and now you get to the top of the lineup when 337 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,920 you've got those funks that invariably Grisham's going to be 338 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,040 in. I mean, that's pretty 4 pretty 339 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,640 easy batters and outs to navigate. 340 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,360 And, and that's what worries me about this team, Worries me in 341 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,960 April, worries me in May, worries me in June, worries me 342 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,840 in August, worries me in September. 343 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,960 It just worries me. Worries me in October. 344 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,800 Well, chronicled is what it is. By the way, Brad Kaufman, 9035 345 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,080 to 82. What up, Brad? 346 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:01,880 Yeah. I hope you're eating a little 347 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:03,480 bit of crow. I don't know if you like Raisin 348 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:04,560 bran. I don't know if you like the 349 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,280 sugary cereals. I don't know if you have, you 350 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,240 know, almond milk or real milk, which I still drink, or skim 351 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,840 milk or 2%, whatever cereal you had today and whatever crow you 352 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,440 are meeting today. Well, then you better be man 353 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,120 enough to admit it. Because if you're going to come 354 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,360 at David Stearns, the way many of you and you know who you are, 355 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,200 many of you came at him and just eviscerated Stearns, well, now 356 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,360 you got to show a little respect to your Brad's and Minneola 357 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,560 Smithtown. Thank you for that. 358 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,840 And I'm going to get more extensively into the Mets in a 359 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,360 moment. But like the Bellinger signing 360 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,920 only merely gets you or gives you a chance to get back to the 361 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,280 point that you were at a year ago. 362 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,240 Now, there's other subsets here which I'll dive into a little 363 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,520 bit after the Mets. What does it mean for Dominguez? 364 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,120 What does it mean for Spencer Jones? 365 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,080 I mean, are the Yankees still in the market? 366 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,040 Maybe the trade market and, and maybe you throw Jazz in there as 367 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,240 well, as I said, where maybe they look to get another 368 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,960 starting pitcher. The Yankees were in on Peralta 369 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,520 period, and they didn't get him. I, I don't know what their final 370 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,840 offer was. I don't know how deep the talks 371 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,840 were between the Yanks and the Brewers. 372 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,359 I always thought, and I always, and I nailed this. 373 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,520 I always told you that Peralta is going to be a Met. 374 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,520 It just made too much sense. The Mets had too many desirable 375 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,880 prospects and too much of a relationship with Stearns and 376 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,280 the Brewers not to make this happen. 377 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,720 So I'm not surprised. Again, I just didn't want to 378 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,520 wake up, you know, in in a in a deep sleep at 12:09, you know, 379 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,160 here in sports night on loop here, my former partner, my 380 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,760 buddy Sal gapping and crowing about the Mets getting Peralta. 381 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:31,680 That's the last thing I I wanted to hear humble Sal. 382 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,120 I liked I liked Sal better. You know, when they were 383 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:37,600 deconstructing the team and they weren't making any moves. 384 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,800 That's that's the kind of Sal that I want to be around the guy 385 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,760 that I'm going to have to deal with. 386 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,720 Tonight's going to be a complete pain in the ass, much like he 387 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,640 was half the time when we were together on the fan when when 388 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,240 the Mets got so low and you know, the King Cohen trumpets. 389 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,480 Let me tell you something. If I hear King Cohen trumpets 390 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,920 tonight, we're we're fighting on stage like the the King Cohen's 391 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,480 I I can't hear it. If now he's going to be out 392 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,040 there with me. So I don't know how he would 393 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,640 even be able to do this. But if there's any sense of 394 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,320 trumpets or music or the the scepter in the robe, I'm going 395 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,000 to lose my mind. I mean, he he he might look like 396 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,640 early race. I'm going to go Hulk Hogan on my 397 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,280 guy tonight. I I just can't have it. 398 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,080 I mean, because the Mets offseason has been really really 399 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,640 good like that. Listen, I I call it the way it 400 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,560 is. I'm objective Mets have crushed 401 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:25,840 their offseason on 2 levels. As I get to the Mets here, 402 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,200 obviously Yankee and met comments are going to jump 403 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,360 around all baseball today. Not not even wasting time next 404 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:33,880 football. This baseball today hot stole. 405 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,840 We've been waiting for a day like this when they signed 406 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,560 Bellinger on when they do this all. 407 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,400 If this happens, it's all happened. 408 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,560 And I'm not even sure the both teams are fully done, although I 409 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,920 think it would be more ancillary moves, which I'll get to it a 410 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,080 little bit as well. But the Mets had a great 411 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,360 offseason. You know, let me actually read 412 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:54,400 this first. I'm going to get 22 levels. 413 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,600 The Mets had a great off 2, all right, 222 level. 414 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,040 I don't want to lose that thought. 415 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:04,800 All right, boom and boom and then boom and then boom. 416 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,600 All right, so Rich Esquire 896. Wait, Rob Rich, what's going on, 417 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:09,640 buddy? All right, hear me on this. 418 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,120 The Yankees need to bring back Sanchez. 419 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,760 Sanchez the catcher, He has grown his defensive catcher, 420 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,240 cleaned up his game, calling legit power, can spell wells 421 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,240 match against lefties and insurance against injury. 422 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:27,440 You know what, I I I just, I hear that name Gary Sanchez, and 423 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,440 I just think of a loafing, lazy, sloppy. 424 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,760 He's almost like the Karl Anthony Townsend catchers. 425 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,320 Like that's almost how I perceive him. 426 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,160 But you're not wrong. And thank you for that. 427 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:38,880 I appreciate it, man. Thank you for checking in, Rich. 428 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,600 Very generous, very good stuff. Of course, I would take him as a 429 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,760 backup man against lefties. Sure. 430 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,040 I mean, think about some of the catchers the Yankees have had, 431 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:50,360 you know, since the since the Girardi Posada, even the candle 432 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,720 a little bit. At least he had some power. 433 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,280 Not great teams, but yeah, they've had some they've been 434 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,600 running out some guys out there that have left a lot to be 435 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,720 desired here. So, yeah, on a low level deal. 436 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,560 I don't know if I don't know if you. 437 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,560 Wants to come back. He's probably pissed at the 438 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,640 Yankees, but yeah, I'd be fine with that. 439 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,200 All right, so here's where the Mets won. 440 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,040 Not on one level on two, number one, and it's all about Stearns, 441 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:13,120 right? Number 1. 442 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,760 He identified a very clear vision. 443 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,840 He came in when you're hired, right, to elevate something 444 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,960 that's been fairly moribund or at the very least incredibly 445 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,000 inconsistent as the New York Mets have been for a long time. 446 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,120 That's one thing Sal always talked about and I always 447 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,560 understood this because he's a Yankee fan. 448 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,160 I do get this as a Jets fan. I don't recently as a Knicks 449 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,680 fan, I have, which I appreciate, although this team is not it. 450 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,080 But you just want, you know, you you want that year to year 451 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,680 consistency and year to year belief that your team has a 452 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,640 puncher's chance at the very least to get to mess around and 453 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,960 win a World Series. You can't have like, wow, what 454 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,600 an amazing year with buck hit, you know, like a stock market. 455 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,280 Oh, wow, elevating first year with Mendoza. 456 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,600 That was really fun. We get soda 83 wins a disaster. 457 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,960 Like that's that's not the way you build the franchise. 458 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,960 So when Stearns was hired, he had to come in here and assess 459 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,160 the first thing that you have to do is assess what you inherit. 460 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,000 I think anybody who's good at their job. 461 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,440 All right, I think one of the dumbest, most short sighted 462 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,800 things you could do is be, is to be like predisposed or have a a 463 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,800 preconceived notion of somebody or something and then make 464 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,200 changes. And I mean swooping radical 465 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,680 changes without giving, you know, a person a chance to prove 466 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,640 otherwise. Now, I don't mean let's let me 467 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,120 take Harbaugh for a second. He's watching the tape, right? 468 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:32,720 I'm not even going to name a player. 469 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,720 Nobody jumps to mind, right? But tell you, if he's watching 470 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,400 the film as he already has before he took the job and he 471 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,080 identifies somebody like like, I like this guy's taking place 472 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,320 off. This guy's not all in. 473 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,520 This guy's lazy. And then the word around the 474 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:45,920 building is he's not a good teammate. 475 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,760 Like it. There are certain things that 476 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,560 you could jump into and say, you know what, I've seen enough. 477 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,520 I trust my eyes. I've heard enough from people 478 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,080 that I trusted have been here or people around the league. 479 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,360 We're cutting this guy, he's gone. 480 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,360 I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, you know, 481 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:03,320 higher profile players who were really good but have hit a 482 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,280 ceiling and as a group have not won. 483 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,080 So the first thing you do is you come in and you watch and you 484 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,520 evaluate and you calculate, right? 485 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,680 And you get a sense of is there any more upside here with a 486 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,920 different philosophy? Can I can we squeeze a little 487 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,320 bit more out of player X? And of course that was Nimmo and 488 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,520 that was obviously Pete Alonso, McNeil, Lester Extent Diaz. 489 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,000 That was different. They just messed that up that 490 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,560 you wish you had Diaz right now. My God, imagine if you had 491 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,280 Williams and Diaz. So that was the first thing that 492 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,960 you had to do and he won because that was the right move. 493 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,360 That was the right move. You were going to win a 494 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,680 championship with this crew. I don't need to get back into 495 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,600 what I've hit this for years, going back to when me and Sal 496 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,200 first started getting into this on The Fan, and many of you had 497 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,560 an issue with us for doing it. Now we were proven right, but we 498 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,960 don't need to take victory bounds. 499 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,120 We don't need to gloat. We know who nailed it. 500 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,200 We know who didn't. The scoreboard tells you that. 501 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,960 Just Google it, right? Anyway, that was the first step. 502 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,440 The second step was once you side to deconstruct, what is the 503 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,640 plan? What is the pivot? 504 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,560 Well, the plan is to go out there and get more athletic 505 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,200 younger, not long term contracts for for pitcher, something that 506 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,160 he's averse to. And I do think school would be 507 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,880 very different. But unless you are like one of 508 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,920 one or one of two or three in baseball, you just not getting 509 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,160 that 8-9 year deal. Like they wanted Yamamoto, he 510 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,960 didn't want them. They offered they're going to 511 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,040 try to get school bull. It either works or it doesn't. 512 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,720 And if they get them, they'll offer 8-9 to whatever it takes 513 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:28,480 to keep them there. Right. 514 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,160 So he evaluated, didn't like what he he saw smartly and 515 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,400 correctly pivoted and his initial plan was all right, it 516 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,280 might not be perfect with, you know, maybe Soto going to right 517 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,120 and or Tucker going, you know, Soto going to left or Tucker 518 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,160 going to left. Somebody's going to be naturally 519 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,760 out of position. Neither one's in center field 520 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,600 obviously and might not be a great fit, but you know you 521 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,520 know, let me try to entice him with a very high AAV and let me 522 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,840 while endorse still with his prime and we got Soto. 523 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,760 Let me get this banger in here who is a hell of a hitter and I 524 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,600 think one of the top ten. You know, when he's healthy and 525 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,080 locked in Tucker all the round players in baseball. 526 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,960 So let's go there. Didn't work out. 527 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000 All right. What happened immediately bang 528 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,400 both the shit out of nowhere. You kidding me? 529 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,440 So not only did he have an initial plan to respond to his 530 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,680 first course of action, which which was to deconstruct, he 531 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,760 then had a subset to the plan of the deconstruction. 532 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,520 When the when the when the plan of the deconstruction fell by 533 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,920 the wayside. And like everybody else, Tucker 534 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,520 took the easy way out, went to the Dodgers. 535 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,520 Boom, we got Michette. And that was not like, oh, jeez, 536 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,480 hey, guys, we're desperate, man. You know, hey, Bo, it's it's 537 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,080 Stearns. It won't come play for the Mets. 538 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,280 No, it was never about that because as we learned, the 539 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,880 groundwork was laid in December at the meetings and that's how 540 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,160 you run a baseball team, all right. 541 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,760 Your center field position last year was among the worst in 542 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,680 baseball. Taylor can't hit. 543 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:01,760 You know, McNeil play their joke. 544 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,360 He's the horrendous center fielder and obviously Nimmo next 545 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:08,160 to him left field made it worse. Anyway, you go out there, you 546 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:13,080 get a guy who is a a a a very short term investment who could 547 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,480 run, who could go get it with anybody in the outfield and he's 548 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,840 got real juice in his bat. So you tell me up the middle 549 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,680 between Robert and center semi at 2nd Lindor short. 550 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,000 Is that a pretty good defensive, you know, up the middle, which 551 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,680 obviously is something you need in baseball. 552 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,520 The answer is yes. Is it better than McNeil and you 553 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,160 know, McNeil at second or whomever It's Beatty at second. 554 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,400 He's not second. I like Beatty. 555 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,480 He's not saying baseman, you know, and and some sort of 556 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,240 variation of of course the answer is yes. 557 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,960 So now you get to the bets lineup. 558 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,880 You got Lindor, you got Soto, you got Bichette, you got 559 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,760 Polanco, you got Simeon, you got Beatty, you got Alvarez, you got 560 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,080 Robert. Now, if Robert is the Robert 561 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,040 version from a couple of years ago, now he's in that 5 or 6 562 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,920 hole. If he's a strikeout machine 563 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,720 hitting 220 but still running into some balls and you know at 564 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,240 least the threat that you just can't groove fastballs to like 565 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,920 you can to Taylor. Well, guess what? 566 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,520 Well then you could. Then you can either move them up 567 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,760 based on the results or you can keep at the bottom, bottom 568 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,480 third, which is where I think he'll start the season. 569 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,480 So the Mets line up to me is really, really good. 570 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,120 And I expect baby, if he's not Dell, I don't think he will be. 571 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,440 I think baby's going to see a lot of time in left field and I 572 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,080 think he can transition there. I think baby can see a little 573 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,240 bit of time at first base. I think that I don't think they 574 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,200 I don't think that they would mess around. 575 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,000 Like say you want to give Simeon a day off and and he's getting 576 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,280 older. So he's although he does play a 577 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,840 lot. But if you want to give him a 578 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,040 day off, can you can you, can you punt the shit over to 2nd 579 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,600 and put baby? If you could do that, I don't 580 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,440 think they'll do that because I think they want Bechette to get 581 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,040 used to third base and bouncing around 2nd and 3rd is probably 582 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,080 not the smartest thing. And here's the other thing too. 583 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:54,680 Think about the think about the players right as the Duke. 584 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,720 I'm going to go with the Duke, not the Duke, the Duke 1986. 585 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,440 What up BT Jonah here, die hard Mets fan. 586 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,520 Where are you calling in? Where are you calling? 587 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,400 Where are you texting in from? Although the offseason started 588 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,960 off rough, I'm starting to buy into the plan. 589 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,920 There you go. Is that all it took? 590 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,080 Couple of guys who are borderline All Stars and some 591 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,920 and some who actually are. Boy way to come around super 592 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,320 excited about tonight. Nice driving down from Albany. 593 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,240 Fantastic. That is great. 594 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,320 Can't wait to see you keep up the great work. 595 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,040 Thank you. No, thank you for checking in. 596 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,480 Thank you for the Super chat. Like I can't wait to meet you 597 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,920 tonight. Can't wait, cannot wait. 598 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,920 BT and Sal live is going to be off the chain. 599 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,280 Tonight's going to be absolutely phenomenal. 600 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,160 Right. The other thing too, that I 601 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,200 really like that Stearns has done and I do think that this 602 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,920 matters because one of the things about the Mets is that 603 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:44,840 and nobody can prove it. It's not like a it's not a 604 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,040 tangible mathematical equation where we could say, OK, 605 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,760 definitively, you know, the the attitude of McNeil or the 606 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,480 aloofness of Pete. I'm just throwing stuff out 607 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,800 there or I don't know, Nimmo wanting to be captain led to 608 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,400 this percentage of subpar team chemistry. 609 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,360 It's just a deduction based on subpar results. 610 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,640 All right. And things you hear Tommy Pham a 611 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,440 couple of years ago saying it was one of the IT was the least 612 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,000 hard working team he's ever been around. 613 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,480 Tommy's jumped around a league too. 614 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,360 So that was a very eye opening statement. 615 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,080 I remember when we talked about that quite a bit. 616 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,320 But the thing that Sterns is done outside of Robert, all 617 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,600 these guys have won. I mean, Beau Bruschette hit 618 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,120 clutch home runs in the World Series. 619 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:24,120 He's an absolute killer. Simeon won a World Series with 620 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:28,240 Texas and Peralta, while the Brewers never got over the hump. 621 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,360 The Brewers were one of the four or five teams that actually won 622 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,280 more games than the Dodgers. The Yankees did in the regular 623 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,280 season. Yankees did. 624 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,920 The Phillies did, the Jays did, obviously winning the same 94 625 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,680 games as the Yankees and the Brewers did as well. 626 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,760 And the Brewers, you know, say what you will about being really 627 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,240 good, but never cutting through. Brewers go to spring training. 628 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,400 Last couple of years, Brewers expect to be a playoff team and 629 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,840 they were, you know, now they hope they had their heart broken 630 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,560 by Pete with Devin Williams. You know, they had some really 631 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,520 tough losses here. But that is a winning, stable 632 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,160 organization and that's where Peralta's coming from. 633 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,800 So Peralta's a winner, Simeon's a winner, but Shet's a winner. 634 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,240 I mean, that stuff I get, I can't quantify it, but that 635 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,400 really matters. Now without Peralta, it doesn't 636 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,560 matter what the lineup look like. 637 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,880 Before last night with the trade going down, the rotation was 638 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,960 just awful. You know, nowhere near good 639 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,920 enough. And now it changes not good 640 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,720 enough to not it doesn't change enough where it's like one of 641 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,800 the best in baseball. I think some people are getting 642 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,560 a little bit nutsier. But now what you do is it solves 643 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,920 2 things. Number one, you've got an ace, 644 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,960 right? And my son is actually homesick 645 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,840 from school today. And I went, I had to run out, 646 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,160 get gas and stuff and and do some stuff before the show. 647 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,560 And he's on the couch and he's watching some YouTube videos, 648 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,480 whatever he's watching, sucking down some Gatorade, trying to 649 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:44,960 get the other fever down a little bit. 650 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,880 And he said he was so disgusted. He goes on. 651 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,160 That's got Peralta now. So we saw the news, obviously, 652 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,640 but he didn't really know exactly how good he was. 653 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,680 And he said, how good. I said, he's terrific. 654 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,880 I said, he's really, really good. 655 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,440 I said, think about it this way, Cole. 656 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,160 I said, he's not, he's not necessarily an ace on a World 657 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:08,240 Series team, but he's a great #2 and he is an ace for a playoff 658 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,480 team. You know that that like that, 659 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,160 that next year, which is where I think the Mets are, right? 660 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,600 So it's a huge addition because it stabilizes the front of the 661 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,920 rotation. That's the obvious stuff. 662 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:21,280 But the other stuff it does too is that it Shields somebody like 663 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,720 McClain. All right, now Sprout's gone. 664 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,480 Tong is still here. I think Peterson's good. 665 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,480 Oh, see about Banaya. Holmes was fine back in the 666 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,520 rotation. Mets are going to hit like the 667 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:35,760 Mets are going to put runs up here. 668 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,960 I expect the Mets to have, you know, a top 7 or top eight 669 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,400 offense in baseball. I really do. 670 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,280 And and I think the Yankees will have that just based on the 671 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,920 great Aaron Judge elevating everything around them and 672 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,320 hitting a ton of home runs, maybe the most in baseball. 673 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,800 Again, maybe score the most runs in baseball, which they 674 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,440 sometimes do. But I just think that the Mets, 675 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,120 one through 9, have a much deeper, much more challenging 676 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,400 lineup to navigate. Yeah, I really do. 677 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,600 And Can you imagine that? I don't really expect this. 678 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,200 I'm not a huge fan. I'd like to see. 679 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,240 I'm talking about Alvarez because all the names that we've 680 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,760 ripped off now, Alvarez has been largely obscured by, you know, 681 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,400 the players they brought in and last year, the players that they 682 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,000 had and really the fact that he's been injured a lot and and 683 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,840 not really nearly as good as we thought he would be. 684 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,080 He was the number one prospect in baseball. 685 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,280 Now, that doesn't mean anything. Like that's just a label that is 686 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,320 a like an expectation and he has been nowhere near meeting it. 687 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,240 I think he's been a little bit out of shape. 688 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:34,480 I think he's got to lose some weight. 689 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,680 You know, I think you're that young. 690 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,960 I think you're that thick. I don't think that's a good 691 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,000 thing. I know some players can carry it 692 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,520 and still like Barkley, you know, basketball, maybe he's got 693 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,120 that kind of frame, but I I don't think it really is good 694 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,000 for him myself. But even if he never touches 695 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,800 that #1 prospect status, which he won't ever, but if he's still 696 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,360 viable and you know, he's a 20 plus home run guy and he's got 697 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,160 some energy, he's got some personality. 698 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,400 You have somebody like Francisco Alvarez, Batten, 7th or so, even 699 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,840 maybe 8th if everything else is right. 700 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,960 Well, now this Mets lineup becomes almost impossible to 701 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,640 navigate and now you don't necessarily need, you know, top, 702 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,360 top rotation to carve out enough wins to be a playoff team 703 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,120 because the offense will carry you. 704 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480 Peralta was will do his job and and some of the other names I 705 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,560 mentioned as well. And then what I think is going 706 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,760 to happen. Listen, he might get dealt 707 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,120 tonight. He might get dealt next month, 708 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,840 but eventually Tariq school is going to get dealt. 709 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,480 And Can you imagine mid season and there's going to be a long 710 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,160 line. Yanks will be at that line. 711 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,760 I don't know if they have the prospects to get it done, unless 712 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,320 they were to give up a Schlittler, which which I 713 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,600 wouldn't, but not for a rental. But imagine if the Mets got 714 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,200 somebody like Scuba or another ace that kind of falls out of 715 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,920 sorts or what? Something that you just don't 716 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,800 really think right now is plausible. 717 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,360 But it's going to be plausible because it always is. 718 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,080 There's always a stud that's available at the trade deadline. 719 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,160 If you've got the the appetite to part with prospects and 720 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,680 you've got the minor league system that is valued throughout 721 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,640 baseball, you've got the means, you've got the direct means to 722 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,440 make a trade there. So is it completely implausible 723 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,880 that, you know, in August and September the Mets are trotting 724 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,760 out school ball, Peralta, McClain 123? 725 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,000 It's not. It's really not. 726 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,880 So I just think David Stearns has done a phenomenal job. 727 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,120 Still waiting for some apologies. 728 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,440 I'm still waiting for you guys to man up. 729 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,200 Is he still boy wonder? Is he, is he still going to be 730 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,080 called by Joe, the derisive genius, the nerd? 731 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,080 But I don't even know what Joe could. 732 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,440 Joe calls up everything at this point. 733 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,080 But I just thought it was a mess with Joe. 734 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,400 But I think many of you were just way, way, way too early to 735 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,640 the party. It's like showing up, you know, 736 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,120 parties, parties going to get jump and say at 10:10 to 2:10 to 737 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,400 3:00 in the morning. You show up at 8:53, you look 738 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,360 around, you say this party's lame, I'm bouncing, and then you 739 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,200 leave and then your buddies text you the next day, dude, you 740 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,360 missed the banger. I mean, it got high 11:00, this 741 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,040 happened, this person showed up. This was going down. 742 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,880 Wait till I tell you about this story. 743 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,640 Many of you just just really left party early. 744 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,880 And really, we're not fair in your evaluation to Stearns. 745 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,960 But again, most of that was rooted in emotion, which I've 746 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,400 always understood. So I give you a little leniency 747 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,960 to get yourself to get stop walking around, work like a 748 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,960 loser and get your act together. Jorge Castellanos, What's up, 749 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,800 Jorge 1963? All right, if I had to choose an 750 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,880 additional pitcher to add to the Mets rotation, who would you 751 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,600 choose? Well, I mean, I pretty much just 752 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,840 gave it away with school bull there. 753 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:35,080 I mean, they are what the he wants 32 in orb Tigers offered 754 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,840 19. The gap is it's the largest gap 755 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,920 in the history of arbitration. The Tigers have shown no 756 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,920 inclination to even do the right thing by him. 757 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,800 I mean, that's an embarrassing offer. 758 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,800 That's actually, you know, that's offensive. 759 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,239 That's offensive. Now, I know a lot of us have a 760 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,639 rough time saying, how is it offensive when you offer $19 761 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,520 million? Like the Tigers are merely 762 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,480 playing by the rules of the CBA. Understood. 763 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,680 But there are certain people who transcend that and and you just 764 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,640 got to show more respect. And when he wants 32 and you 765 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,800 offer 19, he's saying, Get Me Out of here, I'm done with you. 766 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,440 Even if he doesn't, you know, project that publicly, he's out 767 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,120 and they're going to trade him. So the answer is school. 768 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,320 The answer is absolutely school. Now what I find interesting, 769 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,560 there's 22 primary questions. I think at this point, I mean, 770 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,400 the easy one is, are are the team's done? 771 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,240 All right, that, but whatever, that's boring. 772 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,280 Number one. First the Yankee item and then a 773 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,080 Met item. Will the Yankees trade either 774 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,600 Dominguez or Jones? Now that Bellinger's back? 775 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,800 You've got a an interesting situation, and it's not a great 776 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,760 one because Dominguez has not proven to be a competent left 777 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,200 fielder. They're never going to let him 778 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,760 play center field. Obviously Grisham's here for one 779 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,280 year. Then as they think down 780 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,680 downstream like, well, maybe Spencer Jones in 2027, who 781 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,560 profiles defensively better and set or much better than the than 782 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,400 Dominguez. But I don't even know if there's 783 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,960 a 2027 baseball season. Sure, you can piece piece it 784 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,560 together and put Bellinger in center fuel for a year or so as 785 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,160 you figure it out in 2027, sure, obviously you could give you can 786 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,320 give Grisham a blow this year. Bellinger's fine and he's better 787 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,840 and left better at first. But he's fine in center, highly 788 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,960 competent. Certainly now you can get away 789 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:24,320 with it another year, like as he gets into his 3233 age, that's 790 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,480 going to be a little less palatable for me because he's 791 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,320 going to lose a little bit of juice athletically. 792 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,040 So you'd have to find a real center fielder. 793 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,320 That's a Band-Aid to me. But the question is like, who do 794 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,000 the Yankees truly value between Dominguez and Jones? 795 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,600 And and I would even throw they were part of the the trade 796 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,160 dialogue. Like because I've said this for 797 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,800 a while and I still absolutely believe it. 798 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,400 I just don't know what it's going to happen, but I believe 799 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,800 it's going to happen that Jazz will be dealt. 800 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,120 Now, I don't know if it's going to come this offseason or at the 801 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,880 deadline here, but will they? I'm just going to stick to 802 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,560 Dominguez and Jones because that's the more pressing need 803 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,160 now. If Bellinger would have signed 804 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,800 with Toronto, you're not trading either one, All right, The way I 805 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,720 see it today, I don't think there's any chance Spencer Jones 806 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:05,960 makes the team out of spring training. 807 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,880 I don't care if he hits 712 with nine home runs and he runs into 808 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,000 six light towers and he looks like Robert Redford in the 809 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,960 natural. He's not making the team and no 810 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,560 room for him, right? And the other thing, too, is he 811 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,920 needs some seasoning part. And I've heard this from the 812 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,640 Yankees, right? I've said this on WFAN. 813 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,000 I'm going to say it again here for the first time, the Yankees 814 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,440 do not believe organizationally that Spencer Jones will ever be 815 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,440 able to regularly handle big league pitching enough where 816 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:37,880 he's not a his his strikeout rate is is is anything that they 817 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,160 can accept. I mean, when you're striking out 818 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,800 literally more than two times a night in the minors against 819 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,720 minor leaguers, what are you doing at the highest level 820 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:48,640 against filth? What are you going to do? 821 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,000 And he needs more seasoning now. He went to Vanderbilt. 822 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,120 So he's not a young kid. He's getting to that age where 823 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,440 and Judge came up late. I get that. 824 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,400 It's not Amber Judge. All right, let's just end the 825 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,000 suspense. Spencer Jones is not going to 826 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,840 transform into Aaron Judge. I'm not giving up on him. 827 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:07,960 But if the Yankees were to make a high level trade, I would 828 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,560 trade Jones more than I would trade Dominguez. 829 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,040 I still believe in Dominguez. I I really do. 830 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:15,960 I don't understand. I understand. 831 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,480 Well, I do understand that some of the stuff is really 832 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,920 overstated. You know, the Martian, which 833 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,960 I've never called them nicknames or idiotic at that age, Right? 834 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,400 Switch hitter Mickey Mantle, runs like the wind, hits like, 835 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,520 you know, hits bombs, you know, has a cannon, can play center 836 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,160 field with anybody. OK. 837 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:33,920 The Yanks didn't even let him play center field. 838 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,520 That's how much they trust him. So I thought that that was yeah. 839 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,960 Now I'm not saying in real time I wasn't like, oh, let's say I 840 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,080 can't wait till the biggest gets here. 841 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,360 I was because I get I I do get an excited about prospects, but 842 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,720 I never become so enthralled with prospects that it it would 843 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:50,560 prevent me from making a move that can make me better now, 844 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,160 especially when the when the clock is ticking on Aaron Judge. 845 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:58,440 So looking at it today, as we get toward, you know, the end of 846 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,600 January, early February, Dominguez is obviously going to 847 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,800 make the team unless he's traded, I don't think there's 848 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,760 any chance because there's no room for him for Jones to make 849 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,960 the team and he needs more work in the minors. 850 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,400 And I I think that that's how it's going to go. 851 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,320 Now, the problem and and this really complicates it. 852 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,240 It really truly does. And This is why you know it. 853 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:21,680 It's really hard to look at the Yankees lineup and feel great 854 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,960 about it. By the way, I appreciate that, 855 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:23,560 Joe. Thank you, man. 856 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,840 Great show was always BT Joe from Jersey salute to jersey 857 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,000 salute to Joe. Thanks for popping in, Joey boy. 858 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,560 Now think about what Dominguez does really well, right? 859 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,640 He runs really well and he hits from the left side. 860 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,520 Well, they don't even let him hit righty. 861 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:42,800 So I mean, I would say that he can't hit righty, but they don't 862 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,000 really let him try. Excuse me, I've got a little 863 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,120 cold today. I think I'm getting it from my 864 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,920 son. Oh, man, I so I don't even know 865 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,400 if he can be a functional righty hitter because they they don't 866 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,640 let him hit righty. Kind of, Hey, this guy can't 867 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,160 shoot threes. Well, have you let him shoot any 868 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,280 threes in the game? I I mean, if you don't let him 869 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,520 do that, this quarterback can't throw a deep ball. 870 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,480 Did you throw any go routes? Is there any evidence here? 871 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:09,640 But I look at Jones and Dominguez, right, and I see 872 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,120 Dominguez's floor. Steady enough and reliable 873 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,520 enough on some level. Now hopefully there's an uptick 874 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,520 in, in performance and of, of repetition that still be placed 875 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,920 more. But I, I know he's not going to 876 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,080 be a 190 hitter who strikes out all the time. 877 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,280 He has shown good patients at the plate. 878 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,960 I mean, he stole 20 something bags a year ago, barely played. 879 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:31,480 There were two months he didn't play. 880 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,240 He didn't play. I did think the power would be 881 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:38,080 there a little bit easier, a little easy power. 882 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,920 And, and maybe that does come. It could from the left side. 883 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,120 And if he could just be functional in left field. 884 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,880 And I have a hard time believing anybody. 885 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,120 And it wasn't just the Yankees hike machine that made Dominguez 886 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,680 out to be this great prospect. It was everybody in baseball. 887 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,680 And when you have that many eyes on you and in scouts and 888 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,600 personnel departments and everybody says, man, this guy's 889 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,440 this, this guy's that, this guy's going to do this. 890 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,040 This guy's going to do that. I mean, all right, maybe if 891 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,520 they're a little bit overstating your center field prowess, how 892 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,400 the hell, Somebody explained to me how the hell you can't be a 893 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,520 functional left fielder. I refuse to believe that he 894 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,960 can't be serviceable left. And if he can't, well, then it's 895 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:17,600 just a disaster. It's a disgrace. 896 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,840 And then he's got to go. And at that point, his value 897 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,160 will be diminished and whatever. But I think he's on the team. 898 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,960 I think Jones is in the minors now. 899 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,920 It would be perfect. Instead of being a superior 900 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,320 lefty hitter, wouldn't it just be great if he was a superior 901 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,080 righty hitter because then he could play against lefties 902 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,840 because then at that point Belcher hits anybody lefty, 903 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:42,080 righty, soft stuff, you know, up in the countdown on the count, 904 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,680 bullpen starter. I mean, Belly is a pros pro, 905 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,960 which is why I'm really happy that he's back and he really 906 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,000 does hit lefties and he's proven to be really good protection for 907 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,520 Aaron Judge. So when you have a tough lefty 908 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,040 out there, if things were set up differently, well, Grisham, I 909 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,880 don't like him against lefties. Boom, Bellinger's in center, say 910 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,360 those 30 to 40 times. Maybe not every lefty, but those 911 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,200 tougher lefties, the splits, whatever, Do all the research, 912 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,880 they know the numbers. And then you can have Dominguez 913 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,760 in left field if his strength was being a righty. 914 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,240 And then that would make them a little bit more righty oriented, 915 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:17,120 which they sorely need. I mean, you look at the lineup 916 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,360 right now, right? Grisham lefty, Judge righty, 917 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,800 Bellinger lefty, Stanton righty, Rice lefty, Chisholm lefty, you 918 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,680 know, obviously shortstops different wells lefty, McMahon 919 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,280 lefty. I mean, that's just that's not 920 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,720 going to cut it there. So because he has not proven the 921 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:37,680 well, because we don't know if he can hit righties, I can't or 922 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,440 hit as a righty, I can't definitively say that that's a 923 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,240 good option because I don't really see him hit righty. 924 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:46,280 So it would just be how the words that would be almost 925 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,120 ideal. And then I'd be like, OK, now I 926 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,320 really do like the outfield configuration where as much as 927 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,240 I'm I'm the Yankees for the qualifying offer for for for 928 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,200 Grisham. Judge is the best hitter in 929 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,600 baseball. You know, obviously in center 930 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,840 field with Grisham, he's going to run into a bunch of home runs 931 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,720 against tough lefty. Sit him down. 932 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,440 Don't have to worry about being overmatched. 933 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,600 Bellinger in center and then Dominguez as a potent righty 934 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,640 hitter. It just gives you more options. 935 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,800 It makes you a little bit more righty oriented, as I said, but 936 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,400 it also just makes you a better lineup. 937 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:18,080 But he doesn't hit righties. So that that's that issue there. 938 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,360 And then a little less on the radar, at least in the immediacy 939 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,520 of the of the offseason here will be do they trade Jazz? 940 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,280 And that's to be determined, right? 941 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,280 And again, I have heard from the Yankees that they just don't 942 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,040 trust Jones's ability to be able to really handle big league 943 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,240 stuff that I mean, you talk about a 40% strikeout rate, 40, 944 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,120 it's like that would be in the three or four percentile in 945 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,640 baseball if you're a big Savant fan. 946 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,400 Wow. Now that's what remains of the 947 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,000 Yankees offseason. And by the way, also as a subset 948 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,400 to that and the supplies to the Mets and everybody that with 949 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,360 pockets in a desire to win, if school is really dangled in the 950 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,880 next month or so before spring training, the Yankees would be 951 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,840 all in on that. I don't know if they get them, 952 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,680 but they would be all in on that, right? 953 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,960 So I think that's the unknown aspect of what's staring at the 954 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,240 Yankees the next month or so from the Mets. 955 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:14,000 I think the only question for the Mets now. 956 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,680 And the Yankees obviously need to get some some medium leverage 957 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,280 arms in the bullpen. All right. 958 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,760 I like Bednar. They got a couple of guys with 959 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,160 good stuff down there. You know, they do have a couple 960 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,680 of starters early who eventually will transition. 961 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,680 You know, whether it's a Yarborough, Bob Yarborough, 962 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,680 Weathers who's done that before, Schmidt when he comes back, 963 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,320 whatever. So they've got good arms and 964 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,080 they've got young. They've got two or three, at 965 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,920 least 2, and I know this because they've told me this, that 966 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,400 really high leverage, explosive power arms that that they think 967 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,280 will be viable this year. That's one thing with the 968 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,760 Yankees I give them the benefit of the doubt on like dear Reed 969 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,760 on pitching is pretty good. Yanks have a great staff. 970 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,960 I know it's banged up to start. Yankees have a fantastic staff, 971 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,360 Not worried about that. But you do need another arm or 972 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,360 two in the bullpen. Whereas with the Mets, I think 973 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,400 really the only question at this point is at least the main 974 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,640 question is are they done with starting pitching? 975 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,040 I don't know that answer. I guess a smaller question would 976 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,080 be, and I do find this really interesting, like how much 977 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,480 runway are they willing to give Brett Beatty in left field? 978 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:18,720 Now I can expand on that a little bit more because I've 979 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:20,360 already touched on the pitching. I've run through the Mets 980 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,560 rotation. We know who's out there. 981 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,400 They're going to be only in on school ball. 982 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,560 You know, I, I don't think they signed Valdez. 983 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:28,960 I've hit that for a couple of days now. 984 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,440 I don't think he's a high character guy. 985 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,800 By the way, Peralta, who's not only really, really good, is 986 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,640 said to be a fantastic addition to the locker room, which the 987 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,000 Mets sorely needed. And then you get Bichette, who's 988 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,320 a game or you just the whole DNA has changed. 989 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,000 Better players, better athletes, more explosive arms. 990 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,960 I I really do like what the Mets have done. 991 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,840 I don't know if they're done though yet from the starting 992 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,800 pitching perspective Now, Beatty to me and we've seen whether 993 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,840 it's Hunley back in the day, if you're old enough or Piazza 994 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,280 trying to play first base, which was a disaster. 995 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:05,360 Like to me it it doesn't take very long for me to look at a 996 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,760 player and say, do I think that they can transition to a certain 997 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,600 position now #1 when you're in the infield and you go back, 998 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,680 it's always easier. It's always, it's always, I 999 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,880 don't know how Mookie Betts has done it, but I know he didn't 1000 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,840 hit last year, but he's done it defensively. 1001 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:24,480 I don't know at that level how you go from the outfield in not, 1002 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,000 I don't mean first base, I mean short or third. 1003 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,800 That's tricky. But to go from third base to 1004 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,360 left field, I think Brett, Brett Beatty can handle that very 1005 00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:35,560 well. I, I really do. 1006 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,440 I think he's a good enough athlete to do it. 1007 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,000 And he's got a guy I know he's got a good enough arm and I 1008 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,280 think he's a baseball player. That's been one of the problems 1009 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,800 here and really with both of these teams, Like there haven't 1010 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,960 been enough well-rounded baseball players, guys that can 1011 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:53,920 beat you when you go over 4. And that was when I'm not trying 1012 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:55,520 to pile on. He's gone and I, I really hope 1013 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:56,960 he does well and I think he's going to do well. 1014 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:01,560 But that was one of my main gripes with Pete Alonso where if 1015 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,120 Pete doesn't, you know, bang a free run home run, where is Pete 1016 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,600 elevating the bottom line? It's not on the bases and it's 1017 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,720 not a first base. So and he strikes out a lot, 1018 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:14,840 right? So to me, all right, the home 1019 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,280 runs are great. He's going to hit 40. 1020 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,760 He's power. He's a power presence behind 1021 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,080 Soto, he's a pro. He's proving he can do it in New 1022 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,040 York, right? But it was the other stuff that 1023 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,560 was lacking that I thought really should have been the 1024 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:28,960 impetus to, to move on from him. And they did. 1025 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,040 Whereas somebody like Beatty, and I'm, I'm not trying to, I'm 1026 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,200 not saying he's Ricky Henderson, man, but somebody like Beatty to 1027 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,080 me has a little more value #1 he's got positional versatility 1028 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,560 that I don't like him at second base. 1029 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:41,960 I don't think he's a second baseman. 1030 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,240 I do like him at third base a lot. 1031 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:46,600 Now. Bichette's going to play third. 1032 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,080 I get it. And you'll take that trade off 1033 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,440 there. But like watching Beatty play 1034 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:56,320 third base and watching Vientos try to play third base, that's 1035 00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,800 not even close. Brett Beatty superior and it 1036 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,440 came up as a shortstop. He played a lot as a kid and I 1037 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,440 don't mean 8 years old in in Little League. 1038 00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,920 I mean he was a high level shortstop as many of these third 1039 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,680 baseman and 2nd baseman and center fielders are. 1040 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,840 Like that's one way the game's gone and you want to talk about 1041 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,480 one way the game's really changed here. 1042 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,600 And it wasn't like this when when I was coming up either as a 1043 00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:20,600 as a player, but obviously as a fan. 1044 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,400 Like you had a lot of guys at first base that couldn't move. 1045 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,760 You had guys like Bob Horner at third base for the Braves who 1046 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,400 couldn't really move. You had guys in the outfield 1047 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,240 like Greg Lezinsky certainly just couldn't move. 1048 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,000 But if you can mash, you could play. 1049 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,640 And they're like, all right, because they weren't looking at 1050 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,720 like runs above, you know, defensive outs, whatever, 1051 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:40,680 whatever the terminology is escaping me right now. 1052 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,840 But you know what I mean? Like there was no focal point. 1053 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,960 You look at a guy and say, all right, he's got a week, all 1054 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,160 right, he's a step slow, just hit, we'll figure it out. 1055 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,560 He'll be fine. It's not like that anymore. 1056 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,960 There's so much evidence that a guy is hurting you night to 1057 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,800 night if he's an inferior defender. 1058 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,640 So really, and this, I remember saying this to Tiki when we were 1059 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,400 doing the national national show and that, I mean, we started 1060 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,760 that in 2013 and it was early in the relationship. 1061 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,800 And I remember he was asking me something about baseball, forget 1062 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,200 what it was, but I remember telling them then there was this 1063 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,720 big shift and, and the shift that occurred way before 2013. 1064 00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:16,240 So it's only amplified even more. 1065 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,920 What these teams basically do is they they just draft a ton of 1066 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,600 shortstops, right? High school shortstops, 1067 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,840 collegiate shortstops. And then through natural 1068 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,200 attrition, you know, as they go through rookie and low A and 1069 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,080 high A and eventually move through the chain and and 1070 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,920 attrition happens in the sense that, all right, you either hit 1071 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,720 or you don't, or you either prove to be able to hand shorts 1072 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,840 handle shortstop or you don't. And if you can't handle 1073 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,240 shortstop, but you've got that natural shortstop bag, if you 1074 00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:47,840 will, of skills, well, we can move you to left. 1075 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,800 We can put you in center, we can put you at 3rd, we can put you 1076 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,960 at 2nd. So that's why the games become 1077 00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:56,400 so much more athletic, you know, and, and I think that somebody 1078 00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,360 like Beatty now, I'm not saying he's a great athlete, but he's 1079 00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,400 kind of a byproduct to an extent of the last 20 years, the 1080 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,960 philosophical, maybe even slightly more the philosophical 1081 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:07,880 philosophical change in how you draft. 1082 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,480 You just draft a lot of middle of the infield guys and you just 1083 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,760 see what's what, 2-3 years down the road when they put weight 1084 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,400 on, when they learn how to hit and they and they kind of like 1085 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,840 tweak the mechanics and really learn how to handle the high V 1086 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,680 low. And you know, the off speed 1087 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,360 stuff, they're nasty off speed stuff. 1088 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:26,560 And then you either make it or you don't. 1089 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,120 You get your chance. You either hit or you don't. 1090 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,880 And you either stick with the big league team. 1091 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,400 You don't, but generally guys who don't make it now, they 1092 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,240 don't not make it because they're not good enough 1093 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:38,320 athletes. They don't make it because they 1094 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,680 just don't hit enough. So I do think that Beatty can 1095 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,200 handle left field. To me, that's an interesting 1096 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,640 part, a little bit of a subset of what the Mets do moving 1097 00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,560 forward here. But I just think that it's it's 1098 00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,120 been fun. It went from nothing. 1099 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,360 It went from really being stagnant here. 1100 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:57,000 Really, if you think about this guys to you know, to like you 1101 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,160 got you got to love what you get in here and you got to love the 1102 00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,440 way the Yankees told Boris, screw you, take a hike. 1103 00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,960 Hey, five years, 162 and a half million dollars. 1104 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,240 You don't want us, then that's fine. 1105 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,720 Then we'll just and I'm not saying I would love rolling the 1106 00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:11,840 combo of Jones and Dominguez out there and maybe they would have 1107 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,800 made a trade, whatever. Maybe they would have moved jazz 1108 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,800 to the outfield. I, I, I don't know, they would 1109 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,160 have had a plan BI don't think it would have been incredibly 1110 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,640 appealing to me in terms of proven viable Major League 1111 00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,920 players, but they were not, you know, they were not bending down 1112 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,520 and kissing the ring of Boris. Those days are over, man. 1113 00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:34,120 And, you know, with Bellinger's age and with some of the deeper 1114 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,800 analytical numbers that aren't overly kind to him, you know, 1115 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:42,400 like exit below and some of those things that, that, that 1116 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,080 matter, you know, I he was never going to get that. 1117 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,400 Hey, all right, you know what, You know what? 1118 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,520 We can't figure this out. Hey, how about two years with an 1119 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,080 option at $50 million a year? Wasn't going to happen. 1120 00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,720 You know, nobody came knocking down his door. 1121 00:51:55,720 --> 00:52:00,000 And what the Yankees did on an incredibly high level is they 1122 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,240 exerted patience and the temptation to flinch. 1123 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:05,840 And not just because the Mets are like, I don't think that the 1124 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,560 Yankees, the Mets shouldn't react to what the Yanks are 1125 00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,280 doing. And the Mets shouldn't and the 1126 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:11,800 Yankees shouldn't react to what the Mets are doing. 1127 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,040 Now, I know that sometimes that gets intertwined with fans, you 1128 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,440 know, and it's fun and it's juice and it's energy. 1129 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:18,480 And that's never going to change. 1130 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,120 Going back to the whole Mattingly Hernandez debate, you 1131 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:22,960 know, Donnie by a mile, by the way. 1132 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,840 But I think when you try to construct a team based on the 1133 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,840 headlines or based on talking points sometimes, like George 1134 00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:33,920 did back in the certainly in the mid 80s when the Mets on the 1135 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,120 town for a couple of years with Doc and Daryl and those guys. 1136 00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:41,360 I you know, I, I, I don't, I don't, I, I just think that the 1137 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,120 the patience here when the Yankees were getting crushed in 1138 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,800 the court of public opinion. Peralta's dealt didn't get him. 1139 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,120 We all want to Bichette didn't get him. 1140 00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,360 We're never really in at all on Kyle Tucker. 1141 00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,480 And I wanted him, but I didn't want him for eight or nine 1142 00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,480 years. It would have been nice to be in 1143 00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,120 the conversation though, like really would have been nice to 1144 00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,640 be seated at the at at the Kyle Tucker table and the bowl 1145 00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:04,640 Bichette. And I know that they were 1146 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,680 engaged in Bichette, but I mean, was it really that serious? 1147 00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,400 They knew that they were going to get Bellinger and they played 1148 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,160 it well. And there's certain times to 1149 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,360 crush the Yankees, and I will. And there's certain times to 1150 00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,360 acknowledge that the Yankees did it well and I will happily. 1151 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,160 There's certain times to crush the Mets and I will. 1152 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,520 And there's certain times to step back and say, you know 1153 00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,400 what, the Mets have played this very smartly and I will and I 1154 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,240 have. And I am because I've been 1155 00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:31,080 saying that about Stearns now for a while. 1156 00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,000 And here I am giving the Yankees praise, not going over the top 1157 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,920 because they merely are what they were a year ago, You know, 1158 00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,840 with the retention of somebody like Bellinger contracts, 1159 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,160 interesting, you know, opt outs after year two and three, full 1160 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,360 no trade, $20 million signing bonus. 1161 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,120 You know, and and that's that's really that's really all there 1162 00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,200 is to discuss with the Yankees. The Mets. 1163 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,240 There's just more juice. I wish there was more juice with 1164 00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:55,280 the Yankees. I really do. 1165 00:53:55,680 --> 00:54:00,640 You know, I'm going to give you a number, all right, right now. 1166 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,200 And I said earlier in the show, I think that the Yanks and the 1167 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,000 Mets right now, we're both playoff teams. 1168 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:10,120 I did not think that before, certainly before the Mets got 1169 00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,280 Peralta, although they were moving that direction. 1170 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,640 And I always thought that Peralta would be a Met. 1171 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,080 By the way, I have nailed a lot of stuff. 1172 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,240 Let's call for what it is. I mean, I don't want to pat my 1173 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:20,680 own back here. You know, I I'm not that 1174 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,480 flexible like I used to be. But I mean, I basically got 1175 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,640 everything right. If you really think about the 1176 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,480 evaluation here, I'm talking about the last month or so. 1177 00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:31,560 Oh, actually, I'm talking really deeper than that. 1178 00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,920 Like I'm talking about years now, you know, get rid of 1179 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,960 Alonzo, get rid of McNeil. I was never really on the get 1180 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,760 rid of Nimmo train just because I didn't really think that with 1181 00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:43,440 that deal seven years when they signed them. 1182 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,760 I don't think it was necessarily doable, but I certainly 1183 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,320 understand it and I certainly acknowledge it was a good move 1184 00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,440 anyway, you know, I've been telling you for years, got to 1185 00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:52,960 move on from Pete. Mets aren't going to offer a 1186 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,360 bank. They didn't moved on the other 1187 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,280 things with Peralta becoming a MET. 1188 00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,840 I've always said and I always said that the Yankees would be 1189 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,040 in the conversation as well, but I always thought that he would 1190 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,480 be a MET and he's a MET. I never once flinched, although 1191 00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,960 I very, very directly told you guys, I don't want Bellinger 1192 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:11,920 even 6th year. But if they start getting like 1193 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,920 that, greedy, take a walk, see it, don't let it hit you on the 1194 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:15,880 way out. Don't need you. 1195 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:17,280 You're good. That's the deal. 1196 00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,520 We're going to leave it a good and the certain things that you 1197 00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,240 do very well, you're not great, you're not transcendent, you're 1198 00:55:22,240 --> 00:55:24,960 not a superstore. You fit, you're versatile, 1199 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,040 you're a pro, and I want you, but you have to stay. 1200 00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,840 You have to come back on the terms that that are congruent 1201 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,240 with your skill set. And I've always said that. 1202 00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:35,560 And I always thought that the Yankees would hold a hard line. 1203 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,440 I eventually thought that Bellinger would acquiesce, and 1204 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:39,400 he did. So let's see. 1205 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,480 Bellinger, correct. Peralta, correct. 1206 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:44,200 Alonzo, correct. That's not bad. 1207 00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,720 Not bad. Three big items right there. 1208 00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:51,840 I like it. Grisham, Judge. 1209 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:52,760 Bellinger. Stanton. 1210 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:53,680 Rice. Chisholm. 1211 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,000 Caballero. Volpe. 1212 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:59,160 Wells. McMahon, Lindor, Soto, Bichette, 1213 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,560 Polanco, Simeon, Beatty, Alvarez, Louise, Robert or 1214 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:04,800 Robert. Yeah. 1215 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,120 Mets lineup is better. Yanks rotations better. 1216 00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:13,240 Mets lineup is better. Both bullpens have some real 1217 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:16,240 assets and some real needs here. Yeah, here's the crazy thing 1218 00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:22,040 too, because you know, there was some noise that Mendoza and his 1219 00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,120 seat was getting hot last year, which I believe was true and I 1220 00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,000 believe not. Not that they were going to fire 1221 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,600 him during the season. But you know, there's a little 1222 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,760 spark here. Maybe not in go fully in flames 1223 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,840 like that jiff that you see with the dog sitting in the middle of 1224 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:36,040 the room with the flames everywhere. 1225 00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,720 It was never like that. But it's going to get to that 1226 00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:42,880 point if the Mets aren't really good this year, like there's no 1227 00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,160 more excuses. And the thing about the Mets, 1228 00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:50,840 like the Yankees are, are steady in terms of their, I think their 1229 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,360 their connectivity. I don't think there's any issues 1230 00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,520 within the locker room. I think Boone's got a good grip 1231 00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,160 on the team. They they usually win enough to 1232 00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,920 at least on, on a bottom line assessment on some level, kind 1233 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,760 of stiff arm the the fans and say, hey, we didn't win the 1234 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:05,960 World Series, but we're pretty good. 1235 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,960 And that bothers me. I'm not trying to make an excuse 1236 00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,640 for that, but it's true. You know, Yankees won 94 games a 1237 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:12,960 year ago. They beat the Red Sox in the 1238 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,320 playoffs and you know, it, it was it was a pretty good year. 1239 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,680 Wasn't great. Mets 183 with Soto didn't make 1240 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,800 the playoffs, so let's not let's not make the same things even 1241 00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:23,400 now. Maybe they get even this year 1242 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,840 all right. But if Mendoza, if the Mets 1243 00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,080 don't get off to a good start, especially if they were to make 1244 00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,680 a move for another starting pitcher, well, there could be a 1245 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,320 scenario. And at that point, I'd have to 1246 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,480 say there should be where if they are languishing this year, 1247 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,200 then Mendoza is going to get fired during the season. 1248 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,080 That's it. Like he's got to come out 1249 00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:43,360 humming. They got to come out. 1250 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,680 They got to look right. They got to look complete. 1251 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,440 They got to look smart. They got to stop running into 1252 00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,720 outs on the bases. They have to be better on the 1253 00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,240 bases. They got to catch the ball 1254 00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,560 better, which they will just based on the upgrade. 1255 00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:58,920 Simeon Taylor, obviously Robert Center, but Taylor's good center 1256 00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,000 as well. Mets defense will just be 1257 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:02,320 better. I even think Polanco is going to 1258 00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,840 be a better first baseman than Pete, and I think a Beatty gets 1259 00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,560 some real runway in left field. I think it's going to be better 1260 00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:09,480 than Ammo. I do. 1261 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,240 And Sotos fine, you know, I know we make a lot of his outfield, 1262 00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,600 you know, mistakes, whatever. He does have a good arm. 1263 00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,160 You know, too often he takes a step in and the ball goes over 1264 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,080 his head at inopportune times. But he's fine. 1265 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,840 I mean, to make it seem like he is an absolute butcher in right 1266 00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,240 field it it's not accurate. I, I think he's fine. 1267 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:28,960 You know, he's got average speed. 1268 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,040 He's got a slightly above average arm, if not a little bit 1269 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,680 more than that. He just doesn't track the ball 1270 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,520 great. But over 162 it might 1271 00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,280 egregiously hurt you seven or eight times where you're like, 1272 00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,040 dude, how did, how, how do you not get a better break on that 1273 00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:46,280 bull or Oh my God, look at that step in and it hits the wall 1274 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,160 where if he would have taken a step or, or really got to freeze 1275 00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,320 because once you take a step in, you're dead. 1276 00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,240 Like you can't, I don't care how fast you are like Willie Mays 1277 00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,440 Hayes ain't recovering from taking a step in on a line drive 1278 00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,840 with, you know, 100 plus Velo. That's, you know, at your 1279 00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,680 slightly elevated, you got to freeze. 1280 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:03,760 That's why they take you to freeze. 1281 00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,280 They call it a prep step, right? Especially infield prep step 1282 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,760 outfield, you get ready as the pitch is delivered. 1283 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,600 You want to kind of jump into position on the balls of your 1284 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:14,840 feet. And as you do that, it coincides 1285 00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:19,280 with the ball basically reaching the proximity of home plate in 1286 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,520 an area where the hitter is getting ready to swing. 1287 00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:25,840 And then just as that starts to happen, you start to now hop 1288 00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,800 into it. Some guys actually hop into it, 1289 00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,920 some guys walk into it. It doesn't matter as long as 1290 00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,600 you're into it on the balls of your feet, on the tips of your 1291 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,320 toes. And then now you're ready to go 1292 00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,320 either way. Bang ball on my right, boom ball 1293 00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,200 my left, boom, get there right. But if that, and I think the 1294 00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:40,800 hardest play is the one right at you. 1295 00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,840 So I'm not saying it's easy. When that ball scores, then you 1296 00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,840 like like coming in, coming out, But once you take that free, you 1297 00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,360 just got to program your body. It's just through repetition. 1298 00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:53,400 It's also through instinct and IQ and Soto's not great with 1299 00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,320 that. But that first step, you're 1300 00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,040 dead. Whereas at least if you take a 1301 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,120 step back, it's easier to come in, much like it is easier to. 1302 01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,160 I was just explaining this to my son the other day. 1303 01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:07,840 Right so. He plays plays basketball and 1304 01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,080 he's a good player. He's not great because he 1305 01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,480 doesn't play all year, plays his ass off, gets to the rim, knows 1306 01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,240 the field, the court, kind of sees a basketball court like he 1307 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,720 sees a baseball diamond at shortstop or like he sees the 1308 01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:22,360 football field as a quarterback, right? 1309 01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,080 But if he wants to keep playing hoops, which I know he does, 1310 01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,120 he's going to have to put it like he basically goes from, you 1311 01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,880 know, the season ends in March to not picking up a basketball 1312 01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,880 until November. And, and, and he's good. 1313 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,080 I'm not he's not great. He's good, but I was telling him 1314 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:38,680 the other night, I'm like, you got to start making bounce 1315 01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,400 passes buddy. And I was explaining because he 1316 01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,560 always throws the and and usually does not get stolen. 1317 01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:45,320 But I'm I'm just thinking next level right? 1318 01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,760 And if I'm a defender, This is true. 1319 01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,680 This is proven through physics. I just had this conversation 1320 01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,280 right outside in our living room. 1321 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,440 We were actually throwing the basketball, passing it right 1322 01:00:55,720 --> 01:01:00,440 where yeah, if you throw a pass, a chest pass that's on a line, 1323 01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:02,600 it's always easier for defender to go up. 1324 01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,400 Now it might look the same, right? 1325 01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,840 Quick hands high and low, quick boom, boom. 1326 01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:09,400 It's actually a tick slower going down. 1327 01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,640 So if you throw a pass here or slightly elevated that defenders 1328 01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,800 hands going up, he's picking the ball up, He's picking the ball, 1329 01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:18,160 he's picking it up and he's picking it off. 1330 01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:22,320 Whereas if you throw a bounce pass, by the time that ball, by 1331 01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,840 the time that hand gets down, it's it's usually passed and 1332 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,200 provided it's got a little juice on it. 1333 01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,120 So it's kind of the same concept. 1334 01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:31,680 We're taking a step in versus taking a step out in the 1335 01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:32,840 outfield. You know what I mean? 1336 01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,720 Coach BT with a little coaching lesson here today. 1337 01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:41,280 And trust me, that's true. What else we got going on the 1338 01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:44,360 trades? Yeah. 1339 01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,120 Oh, I didn't give you a win total, which I'll do right now. 1340 01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:58,880 Right now, right now I think both the Yankees and the Mets or 1341 01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:03,120 in that 88 to 90 ish maybe even 87. 1342 01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,240 Let let me die. I got a little more bullpen 1343 01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:10,360 stuff for the Mets and the Yankees 87 to 90. 1344 01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:13,440 And I really probably more comfortable going 87 to 89 1345 01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:16,440 because I don't look at either team and say guaranteed 90 wins. 1346 01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,920 Like I think they'll get there. So I'm going to actually lower 1347 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,280 that. Like if I'm placing the odds, 1348 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:25,200 the BT sports book here, I'm going to come up with 87 to 89. 1349 01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,640 I'm not saying that that's what they're going to come out with 1350 01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,240 when the the projected when I'm telling you what I think, right, 1351 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,080 which is what matters to me. You know, Vegas is Vegas. 1352 01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,920 I think the Yanks or the Mets on paper right now, 87 to 89 wins 1353 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:38,680 now. And again, the difference is if 1354 01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,160 you just if you're just tuning in, the difference is that the 1355 01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,960 energy level, while the pretty much to me equates to the same 1356 01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:47,840 finishing place. Neither team's a World Series 1357 01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:50,640 team, although they both should be playoff teams and I think 1358 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,960 will. But the Mets energy of the fan, 1359 01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,320 like the fan base is just through the roof right now, 1360 01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,840 understandably so. The Yankee fan is like, all 1361 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,760 right, good job, you know, good job bringing back Bellinger way 1362 01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,320 to retain him. Without him, it would have been 1363 01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,480 with it. Put it this way, if I was giving 1364 01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,040 you a win total right now and Bellinger just signed with 1365 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:13,800 Toronto or the Mets, let's say Toronto, then I would say the 1366 01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,320 Yankees or not a playoff team, as I've said before. 1367 01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,840 So I don't think it's a gaudy win total Where I do think it's 1368 01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,280 going to change now the energy for the Mets fan, which is 1369 01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,000 incredibly high right now, very well might, might last for the 1370 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,360 duration of the season. You go into spring training. 1371 01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,400 If even if you don't make another move, which I think you 1372 01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,160 might, I actually think you're going to get another pitcher. 1373 01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,120 I really do. I don't think the Mets are fully 1374 01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:40,600 done any, but even if they are the energy's high winning team, 1375 01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:43,680 good line up top of the rotation guy and Peralta, Mcclain's going 1376 01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:48,320 to be a beast whatever everybody else slots back a slot and it 1377 01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,640 should be playoff worthy. And you keep that energy because 1378 01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:53,760 the Mets give you reason to keep that energy, right. 1379 01:03:54,160 --> 01:04:00,240 Whereas with the Yankees, the energy is a little lower. 1380 01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,880 But I actually think that the uptick in energy in the middle 1381 01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:07,720 of the season has a real chance to be higher than the Mets when 1382 01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,440 Cole and Rodon come back, provided they're the same. 1383 01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,440 I mean, I'm not worried about Rodon being being the same guy. 1384 01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,160 You know, and with this situation with Cole and with 1385 01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:20,720 Freedom with Schlittler, he's going to be more 4-5 guy rather 1386 01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,960 than, you know, two behind Freed like a year ago. 1387 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,520 I and I, I think that's where the Yankee fan gets a little bit 1388 01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:30,440 more juicier. Boy, Rob just loves hammering 1389 01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,400 these, these is this guy like a billionaire. 1390 01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,680 I mean, every, every, every questions got a little little 1391 01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:35,600 dollar. Yeah. 1392 01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:36,920 You don't have to do that, Robert. 1393 01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:37,920 I appreciate it. But you don't. 1394 01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,480 You really don't, man. You don't. 1395 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:41,440 I think everything's come full circle. 1396 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:42,920 Robert. Wear this for me now. 1397 01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,040 I saw the Yankees win 5 chips. I've been to Game 6 and 96. 1398 01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,920 I was there as well. I just want #23 in the Hall of 1399 01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:49,960 Fame. Not sure if he's going to get 1400 01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:51,800 there. Yeah, today's not the day for a 1401 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,240 Hall of Fame discussion. Of course, I did a lot of Hall 1402 01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:59,120 of Fame yesterday. If you guys missed it, then I I 1403 01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,640 do think that with some of these concessions, I don't know how 1404 01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:03,560 else to frame it. And I don't mean Beltran. 1405 01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,800 I don't mean yesterday's with, with Beltran and Jones, but some 1406 01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,160 of these other names and some of these inconsistencies. 1407 01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:11,800 And even like Posada, I was railing on this. 1408 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,640 Yes, this annoyed me. Like Posada getting less than 5% 1409 01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,360 of the vote is a switch hitting power catcher on multiple 1410 01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:20,200 championship teams are are are what in the middle of the 1411 01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:21,840 batting order for those championships? 1412 01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,640 It's just disrespectful. It's just not consistent with 1413 01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,760 what he did and who he was. It's not a representation of his 1414 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,240 of his baseball career. I'm not saying he's got to be in 1415 01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:33,840 the Hall of Fame next to Johnny Bench or Court Fisk or Punch, 1416 01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:40,640 but less than 5% joke. And then even Bernie, you know, 1417 01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:45,240 9% just disrespectful all those championships, which hitting 1418 01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:49,480 center fielder, big moments, clutch moments in the middle of 1419 01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,200 the batting order for all that stuff. 1420 01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:54,840 And he gets 9% of the Hall of Fame vote. 1421 01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:56,680 I mean, who the Hell's doing this? 1422 01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,360 What a crock of shit. This has begun real. 1423 01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:01,480 I can't get back into it. I I I really can't. 1424 01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:07,720 But with Mattingly, yeah, I think Donnie should be in and I 1425 01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,680 think it should be culmination of of a baseball life. 1426 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:13,120 You know, if he would have won a championship with the, you know, 1427 01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:15,160 the Dodgers as a manager, whatever. 1428 01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:18,200 But come on. I just tend to place more value. 1429 01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,920 It's a personal thing. I place more value. 1430 01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,120 You know, when you were in your prime, whatever your prime was, 1431 01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:26,080 you know, before injuries or whatever that problem equates 1432 01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:28,160 to, were you one of the best players in baseball? 1433 01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,880 And to me, if you lived it, the answer is clearly yes. 1434 01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,880 He was the best player in baseball who could do 1435 01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:36,920 everything. So I, I just think the 1436 01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:40,520 inconsistencies and the disrespect and not just for 1437 01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:42,760 Mattingly. I can make a case for somebody 1438 01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,200 like Albert Bell. I can make a case for somebody 1439 01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:48,240 like Keith Hernandez, as I have, you know, of course I've already 1440 01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:51,680 made the case for a rod and Bonds and and McGuire, not not 1441 01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,520 Sosa, but the other guy, Clemens, the guys that have been 1442 01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,800 implicated in the, in the PED stuff like what are we doing 1443 01:06:57,800 --> 01:06:59,280 here? And like, it's, it's just a 1444 01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,560 fallacy that, that the Hall of Fame has a shred of integrity 1445 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:04,040 anymore. What does it mean? 1446 01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,960 I I don't really, I know what it meant when I was growing up, 1447 01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,280 when I heard the term Hall of Fame, you were like, man, Hank 1448 01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:15,840 Aaron, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter 1449 01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,720 Johnson, you know, and that is I got a little eventually, like I 1450 01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:20,920 was like Mike Schmidt, George Brett. 1451 01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:24,840 You know what? Ozzie Smith is the best 1452 01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:30,200 defensive shortstop of all time. Cal Ripken, middle the order, 1453 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,520 you know, champion 83 shortstop before shortstop's really 1454 01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:35,680 banging the ball around the yard. 1455 01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:39,160 Not many of them, did you know? So I don't really know what to 1456 01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:44,000 tell you except that I agree with your premise that it is all 1457 01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,000 over the map, wildly inconsistent. 1458 01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,160 And, you know, I don't really know what's going to change 1459 01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,120 anytime soon here. So I got to the win totals 1460 01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,600 there, ran through it, listens to basic philosophy. 1461 01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,880 At this point, Yankees decide to run it back and we'll see if 1462 01:07:56,880 --> 01:08:00,320 that works out. Now it's more acceptable for a 1463 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,280 team that won 94 games and a playoff series. 1464 01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,560 By the way, I actually sold them short. 1465 01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,800 Their run differential last year was plus 164. 1466 01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,920 So to run it back and say that the Yankees suck is just wildly 1467 01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,920 off base and disrespectful. And if that's what you say, I, 1468 01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,160 I, I, I, I can't help them. But that's your opinion. 1469 01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,640 Great. And the Mets with a complete 1470 01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,160 overhaul. And the Mets needed one. 1471 01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:26,160 They needed one from a just an overall DNA in terms of the 1472 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,640 chemistry, the clubhouse and also a skill set. 1473 01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,840 Too many players were limited. So Yanks run it back, Mets 1474 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:33,840 overhaul. And when you win 83 games and 1475 01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,680 your managers on the hot seat and you know, there's chirping 1476 01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:38,359 out, this guy doesn't get along with this guy. 1477 01:08:38,359 --> 01:08:39,600 And this guy wants to be the captain. 1478 01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:42,040 And this guy's jealous. We, we got to, we got to fix 1479 01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:45,359 this thing with a, with a, with a + 51 run differential where 1480 01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:47,560 for two months you're hoping that you started gives your 4 1481 01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:49,760 innings clean, which they didn't too often. 1482 01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,399 I mean, really the guy who was doing it more not was Clay 1483 01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:54,319 Holmes, who was a converted relief pitcher. 1484 01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:59,120 So it's going to be interesting. This was juicy, this was good, 1485 01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,800 this was fun. And this is what is the I think 1486 01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,920 that this is the stuff that's going to make this channel 1487 01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:07,399 absolutely go through the roof. I really once we get to baseball 1488 01:09:07,399 --> 01:09:10,960 season stuff like this, man, let me give you one thing. 1489 01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:14,560 Speaking of the channel. So I was dialing into the 1490 01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:16,920 analytics and I I'm not going to even the numbers didn't take too 1491 01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:18,560 long. I was texting J Rod. 1492 01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:19,720 J Rod, by the way, what's going on? 1493 01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,160 Where's J Rod, everybody? J Rod in the house, he's 1494 01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:23,680 sleeping. Did he cut out? 1495 01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:25,439 No. Hello. 1496 01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,720 Hello. Hey, you can hear me. 1497 01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,200 How's it going? I got you. 1498 01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:30,120 You good? Everything OK? 1499 01:09:30,399 --> 01:09:34,000 Yeah, looking good. Pod's going great so far. 1500 01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:35,680 Yeah, it is a lot, a lot of good talk. 1501 01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,760 A lot of people chiming in. So far it's been been our 1502 01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:42,880 biggest at least since I've seen biggest current viewers for an 1503 01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,160 episode. We're at like 500 almost at one 1504 01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:46,680 point so. OK, there you go. 1505 01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:48,960 We got to get that up to 1000. Hey, no, listen, I'll take the 1506 01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:50,920 five for now. I'll take eventually 1000, 1507 01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,160 eventually 1500. The goal is, listen, you got to 1508 01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:54,720 lay down bricks. You got to lay down some the 1509 01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:55,920 foundation, which is what we're doing. 1510 01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,440 And Speaking of the and I'm not going to give out the numbers as 1511 01:09:58,440 --> 01:10:00,880 this is going to take too long here, but and I sent this to 1512 01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:02,800 Jared. I actually did send J Rod the 1513 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,880 numbers this morning. So I was on the analytical page 1514 01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:07,320 of my of of the YouTube page here. 1515 01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:09,960 BT unleashed right, going back to last week, right. 1516 01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:13,800 So last Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and 1517 01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:16,120 then this Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 1518 01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,200 And based on what he just told me with the, the, the largest 1519 01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:21,560 live view in a while, I know we had a thousand or two the first 1520 01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:24,920 couple of shows there, but yeah, 500 is a pretty decent number 1521 01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,520 for now. We have had eight straight shows 1522 01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:30,120 backed up by data. Just take my word for it. 1523 01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:33,920 I'm why would I lie? We're eight straight shows where 1524 01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:37,560 the viewership and the click rate has gone up, literally up. 1525 01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,840 Not like 4 up and then one down and then one up. 1526 01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:44,280 It literally has been eight straight shows in a row, 1527 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:50,200 culminating with yesterday being the largest view on BT Unleashed 1528 01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:54,200 ever, including the first day. And you know, you know, hey, I 1529 01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:58,280 just left WFAN on December 19th. I decided to jump right into the 1530 01:10:58,280 --> 01:10:59,680 flame here. Let's get it going. 1531 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:01,720 I got work to do. I'm not wasting time, I'm not 1532 01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,440 messing around. I launched it. 1533 01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:05,880 It was during the holidays and a lot of people are moving around. 1534 01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:07,800 Whatever. We still got a massive number 1535 01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:10,840 that first day. Yesterday's show exceeded the 1536 01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,680 first show we've ever done. And again, eight straight days 1537 01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:16,000 with growth. That includes comments, that 1538 01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,880 includes likes, that includes views, which obviously matters 1539 01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:22,320 in terms of my ability to do do more and more and more with the 1540 01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:23,680 show. So I'm really proud of that. 1541 01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:27,040 I'm really happy with that and I'm really thankful for that. 1542 01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:30,680 So J Rod, I just don't want J Rod to get a big head because, 1543 01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:32,760 you know, he might think that it's because he showed up. 1544 01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:36,280 No, no, we got to. We'll keep it humble, keep it 1545 01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:38,840 pushing. You know, as they say, this is 1546 01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:40,840 all the fans, this is all the audience. 1547 01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:43,000 You know, we're just the con. Do it. 1548 01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:45,400 That's right. The that was an interesting way 1549 01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,560 to say con do it, The con do it. It's the con. 1550 01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,160 Do it. I I had to throw a little extra 1551 01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:52,640 flair on. You know when you try to church 1552 01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:54,040 it up here, it's like you threw an extra. 1553 01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:57,120 Hype in there, trying to Walt Fraser it a little I guess. 1554 01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:58,680 Yeah, that's true. That is true. 1555 01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:00,080 At least the Knicks did win last night. 1556 01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,000 They won by I think it was like 55 or 60. 1557 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,520 Either way, J Rod, good job, buddy. 1558 01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:04,720 I'm going to start wrapping things up. 1559 01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:06,400 I got to actually run through the store. 1560 01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,880 We got BT and Sal live tonight, which is going to be absolutely 1561 01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:11,440 awesome. Let me see if I can pop just a 1562 01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:14,240 few of these in here. I'd like to get a couple at City 1563 01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:16,040 Moons. Been trusting Stearns all along. 1564 01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,120 I was elated when when Pete signed with the Olds. 1565 01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:20,560 OK, so that is one. I'm not saying there were none 1566 01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:23,600 of you, obviously, but the overwhelming majority of you 1567 01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,520 were bagging on Stearns. Didn't have any faith. 1568 01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:30,280 Ripping the move to let Pete go. Confused, angry, a little bit of 1569 01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,160 everything. Do you still feel that way? 1570 01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:34,880 But apparently City Moons never felt that way, so I respect 1571 01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:36,680 that. That is a good job by you. 1572 01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:41,200 How about the let me pop in Ed Edward, Edward Protzman? 1573 01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:43,080 I miss putting BT and Sal on my radio. 1574 01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,560 I appreciate that. And I don't like to speak for 1575 01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:47,400 other people. I'm sure deep down South 1576 01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,040 obviously appreciates that as well. 1577 01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,880 Is what it is. Hey, listen, WFM wanted to move 1578 01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,840 on and I'm fine with it. Yeah, I got, no, I got no bad 1579 01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:56,920 blood there. I got love for a lot of people 1580 01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:58,320 in the building. I truly do. 1581 01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:02,560 I was in that building for 13 years, 13 years, swiping the 1582 01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:05,760 same doors, seeing the same security guards going through 1583 01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:09,120 the same, you know, the same walk after I parked my car and 1584 01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:13,680 get into 345 Hudson, go up and swipe another door and see all 1585 01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:16,160 the faces and and listen, I missed some of those faces. 1586 01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:17,760 A lot of good people in the building. 1587 01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:21,680 You know, I've I've got you. I don't know if you guys believe 1588 01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:23,200 this. I think that some of you thought 1589 01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,480 when I weighed in on some of the comments that Chris Olivero made 1590 01:13:26,480 --> 01:13:30,280 about the decision to move on from us, get away from us and 1591 01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:33,120 bringing bring Craig back and he was on Marsh and Pod. 1592 01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:37,040 I jumped in because I saw some of the comments and I wanted to 1593 01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:39,840 validate 100% that he was upfront with us. 1594 01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:41,880 Now, that doesn't mean that I think that he did the right 1595 01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:43,160 thing. With all due respect. 1596 01:13:43,480 --> 01:13:45,960 Like if I'm running a station, there is no way in hell I'm 1597 01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:48,640 getting rid of BT and Sal. I've said that before. 1598 01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:50,840 I don't say that from a cocky point of view. 1599 01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:55,520 I just, I just say it because it's true because to me, BT and 1600 01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:59,520 Sal was the epitome of what WFAN represents. 1601 01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:04,720 And that is, you know, passion, that is fire, that is chemistry 1602 01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:07,920 that undeniably got better. Like I look back at the first 1603 01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:10,200 year, certainly the first couple of months, I'm not saying we 1604 01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:14,280 didn't have any good shows, but when me and Sal got to the last 1605 01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:17,080 year or so, really the last seven or eight months, we, we 1606 01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:20,120 hit a level that was, that was big man. 1607 01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:22,600 And yeah, I mean, it was a little frustrating that they 1608 01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:24,360 pulled the plug on it. You got 2 choices. 1609 01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:25,920 You just lay down here, you get up and you fight. 1610 01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:31,000 And as I said, as I said on my last show, full time show on the 1611 01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,600 fan the day my dad, by the way, my dad's coming to the show 1612 01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:35,320 tonight and I was looking forward to seeing him. 1613 01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,960 So is my mom, but might have to have I'm going to have to let my 1614 01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:39,800 dad stand up and feel the adulation. 1615 01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:41,360 Many of you love that last segment. 1616 01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:42,800 Pops is going to be in the house tonight. 1617 01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,280 Anyway. That last show that I did, you 1618 01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:48,480 know, I was getting emotional because it represent the change 1619 01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:51,760 and I'm an emotional person and I always wanted to be a WFAN, 1620 01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,320 but that doesn't mean I'm going to let WF and control my life. 1621 01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,320 I mean, I did a lot of good things before WF and that's for 1622 01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:00,720 sure. And I remember saying that, you 1623 01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,040 know, I'm going to do something big, you know, and I had tears 1624 01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:04,160 in my eyes. I remember as I was getting 1625 01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,600 ready to wrap it up and I even said, you know, I'm going to do 1626 01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:07,760 something. I can promise you that I'm going 1627 01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:09,160 to do something big. Look it up on YouTube. 1628 01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,400 That's exactly what I said and this is what I meant and we are 1629 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:15,680 getting there and it's not nearly as big as it's going to 1630 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:18,080 be. It's not nearly as good as it's 1631 01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:19,920 going to be, but it's going to be. 1632 01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,480 So I hear you. I appreciate the sentiments. 1633 01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:25,280 I'm just a look forward guy, not a look behind you kind of guy. 1634 01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:27,640 Doesn't mean I don't like to reminisce about certain things 1635 01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:31,160 and all that stuff. But you know, as Tony Soprano 1636 01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,320 once said, the lowest form of, of human dialogue, human 1637 01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:36,760 conversation begins with remember when. 1638 01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:41,200 And you know, it's a great line. And when you think about it, it, 1639 01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,280 it's, it's true. Because if all you do is, hey, 1640 01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:45,880 remember when, hey, remember when we, oh, remember when we 1641 01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:47,280 did this? Oh, remember when that happened. 1642 01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:49,680 I'm not saying it's not fun when you, when you're sitting around 1643 01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:51,640 with your buddies on a golf script, you know, shooting the 1644 01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:54,440 shit, having a couple beers and you know, oh, remember when this 1645 01:15:54,440 --> 01:15:56,440 happened in college? Oh, dude, remember when you did 1646 01:15:56,440 --> 01:15:57,600 that? Remember that night? 1647 01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:00,760 I'm not talking about that, but if you're constantly wrapped up 1648 01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,920 in what was, you're not focused on what is. 1649 01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:06,080 And this is the present tense and the press. 1650 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:09,640 I feel great about it and I feel even better about what's in the 1651 01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:12,320 future. So I do appreciate the sediments 1652 01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,320 and and I'm I'm always going to have love for the fan. 1653 01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:17,000 It's the most powerful sports station in the country. 1654 01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,600 I always wanted to work there and I'm really happy that I was 1655 01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:24,400 able to do it because the other thing I said on my show is that 1656 01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:28,240 if I wasn't able to to have ever touched WFN professionally, it 1657 01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:31,280 would have felt incomplete because that was always my main 1658 01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:34,440 aspiration when I first started, you know, going to Pennsylvania, 1659 01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,800 going to Vegas, going to Detroit, going to 10:50 and 1660 01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,680 always looking even. No disrespect to 1050, I loved 1661 01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:42,520 it there. But when I was on a 1050, you 1662 01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:43,880 don't think I was looking over at the fan. 1663 01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:45,400 Like, man, it's where I want to be. 1664 01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,680 They've got the signal, they've got the history, they've got the 1665 01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,240 juice. So everything about it, even the 1666 01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:52,880 10 years nationally, like man, am I ever going to get a shot 1667 01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:54,120 here. Like it would have been 1668 01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,680 incomplete. But that I, I checked that box. 1669 01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:59,880 I checked that box through hard work and, and I deserve to be 1670 01:16:59,880 --> 01:17:02,280 there and I still believe I deserve to be there, but I'm 1671 01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,680 fine that I'm not It's cool, it's OK. 1672 01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,440 No animosity, straightforward. That's it. 1673 01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,600 Otherwise, the other stuff is, is energy that you going to trip 1674 01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,600 over and it's going to prevent you from from doing better 1675 01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:14,920 things. And I'm not going to let that 1676 01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:18,840 happen at Armand is amazing. I need to Weld this check all 1677 01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,560 the Stearns haters. Joe B being number 1. 1678 01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:24,760 He has been the number one Stearns hater by far. 1679 01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,760 All that you better apologize. Stearns had and will have a 1680 01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:31,000 plan. I would even add to this and and 1681 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:32,400 Armand. Thanks for checking in, brother. 1682 01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,560 Not only did he have a plan, he had another plan when the first 1683 01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:38,400 plan didn't work out because the first plan was Tucker after the 1684 01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:40,440 deconstruction plan. That was the first plan. 1685 01:17:40,440 --> 01:17:42,600 Let me get rid of this guy. This guy and this guy got a 1686 01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:45,040 reboot, got an overall smart agreed with it. 1687 01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,200 And then the next plan was let's get Tucker. 1688 01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:49,120 And then immediately, well, guess what? 1689 01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:52,600 I got another plan. So all the nonsense that you 1690 01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:57,200 guys talked about, Stearns, just be big enough to either whether 1691 01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,720 it's on your text chains with your buddies, if you're on the 1692 01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:03,480 air, if you're texting now, if you're shooting the breeze with 1693 01:18:03,480 --> 01:18:06,680 your buddies on the golf course, whatever it might be, just let 1694 01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:08,920 them know. Oh, I I may have misread Sterns. 1695 01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:13,120 You know, I don't have to apologize profusely, but don't 1696 01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:15,840 pretend you didn't say it because most of you did. 1697 01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:19,800 I would have to if I had to throw in a percentage like guess 1698 01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:24,800 educating what at that? What percentage do I think of 1699 01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:28,760 Mets fans? We're really begging on Stearns, 1700 01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:34,240 either a lack of belief in his ultimate vision or just disdain 1701 01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:36,200 for what he just did or a combination of both. 1702 01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:41,680 I don't know about 70 percent, 75%, I mean, there was a very 1703 01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,760 small amount of you that we're down with what he was doing. 1704 01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,360 Now everybody's happy. Funny how that works, huh? 1705 01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,440 Let me see if I can maybe get one or two more on here before 1706 01:18:51,440 --> 01:18:57,200 we start to call it a rap. Let's see, no, J Rod did not 1707 01:18:57,200 --> 01:19:01,640 have another quiz today. He did just enough and we're 1708 01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,720 going to allow J Rod to to continue. 1709 01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:06,840 Now, if there's any mess ups there, we're going to have to 1710 01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:11,720 obviously re evaluate that. But J Rod has proven to be a 1711 01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:14,480 viable asset to the show here. BT Unleashed. 1712 01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:18,040 I can't wait till we get J Rod on some of his dates. 1713 01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:19,400 You know, we got to get this out report. 1714 01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:20,680 We were talking about that the other day. 1715 01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:22,720 If you missed it, you know, I got to get to know him a little 1716 01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:24,360 bit better. We work together on the 1717 01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:27,560 unkillable stuff. All the live reaction to the Jet 1718 01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,640 games over the years. And so I knew him and that's why 1719 01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,680 I wanted to hire him. But you know, as we get to know 1720 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:37,320 J Rod the person, you know, we were talking about how it's such 1721 01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,280 a different dating pool and the swipes and the phones and the 1722 01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:43,840 politics and the nonsense and what, what, Oh my God, I 1723 01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:46,480 couldn't deal with that, You know, and really how you no 1724 01:19:46,480 --> 01:19:49,120 longer need game to get a date. You know, yet back in the day at 1725 01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,080 #1 you have stones to actually go up and talk to somebody. 1726 01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:53,720 Hey, how you doing? Can I buy you a drink? 1727 01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:56,040 What's going on? You know, I mean, that's the way 1728 01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:57,720 it used to go. And then you start a 1729 01:19:57,720 --> 01:19:59,720 conversation. And if the conversation goes 1730 01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:03,240 well, you either get the number or you get another drink or 1731 01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:06,400 whatever happens, happens. And if it doesn't, all right, 1732 01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:09,160 good seeing you peace out now you got to sit next to somebody 1733 01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:12,040 that you just met on the phone. And you see a profile with a 1734 01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:13,800 picture. And by the way, the pictures are 1735 01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:17,200 probably 5 years old, probably filtered from every single 1736 01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:19,880 conceivable angle. And at this point, it might even 1737 01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,520 be AI. Who the hell knows what's going 1738 01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:24,200 to show up when you keep swiping. 1739 01:20:24,480 --> 01:20:28,080 So, and what I'm going to do, by the way, not yet, not yet. 1740 01:20:28,480 --> 01:20:32,600 Once, once J Rod meets somebody that and I'll, I'll get to know 1741 01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,280 him more and more. And by extension, you will get 1742 01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:37,760 to know him more and more. When J Rod shows really real 1743 01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:42,000 interest in somebody, I'm going to actually set up a date for 1744 01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:43,880 him and her. And I'm going to take care of 1745 01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:47,280 the check and I'm going to send them somewhere where I go where 1746 01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:49,200 the chef will come out. You know, I got to come. 1747 01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:54,160 I'm not going to start dropping names yet, but I will and chef 1748 01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:57,080 comes out and you know, feels like a big deal. 1749 01:20:57,120 --> 01:21:00,280 Bills taken care of, little vino, whatever you drink there 1750 01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:02,560 meats, you know, hopefully you guys eat meat. 1751 01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:04,360 You're not vegetarian, not there's anything wrong with 1752 01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:05,480 that. But you know, I want the whole 1753 01:21:05,480 --> 01:21:08,280 the full sample little pasta. I got to get work and then 1754 01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:12,080 that's all I can say. I got to hit the pavement ASAP. 1755 01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:15,560 Yeah, and by the way, man, Jay Rod, just to be clear, I don't 1756 01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:19,960 mean like, hey, I met this girl from, you know, in Brooklyn who 1757 01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:23,000 she looks, she and she looks pretty and we have a, we have a 1758 01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:24,240 match, whatever the hell that means. 1759 01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:28,360 I'm talking about second, third, you know, real, real. 1760 01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,640 Real potential here, yes. Yeah, You know, you try to close 1761 01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,160 things out a little bit, you know, coming out of the bullpen. 1762 01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:38,000 Let's get the closer BTLBTL closing for you from a distance, 1763 01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:39,040 all right. Appreciate it. 1764 01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:39,920 See you again. Yeah, Yeah, no. 1765 01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:41,120 Doubt. You got to let us know. 1766 01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:42,800 You got to let us know about that. 1767 01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:46,160 All right, man, Let me see if if I get maybe one more of these 1768 01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:48,200 here. I mean, listen, this is 1769 01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:50,680 obviously a common thought. I've talked about that DNY says 1770 01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:53,600 what up Bellinger back gets them right back to where they were, 1771 01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:56,120 which is not good enough. Yeah, I agree, which why I don't 1772 01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:59,080 think the Yanks were a World Series team, which is why the 1773 01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:02,240 only way the Yankees going to elevate to a point where I will 1774 01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:04,840 have a different level of faith. I believe they'll be a playoff 1775 01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:06,000 team. I told you both right, right. 1776 01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:09,000 Right now the Yanks and the Mets both field to me 8789 wins right 1777 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,920 in that vicinity. Whatever, you know, up, up the 1778 01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,400 game, down a game, just in that general neighborhood and thank 1779 01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:17,240 you for that. But when coal comes back and if 1780 01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:20,800 Schlitter is really humming and you got a free coal Schlitter 1781 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:24,480 123, not to mention like the real Dons and the Warrens and 1782 01:22:24,480 --> 01:22:27,640 maybe the Schmidts and the Yarboroughs or the the Weathers 1783 01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:29,960 is taking care of those. You know, the 4th and 5th 1784 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:33,040 pitchers against other teams during the regular season just 1785 01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,680 to bang in a lot of wins to make sure you're a playoff team. 1786 01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:38,640 Well, that's where I think the Yankees could elevate, could 1787 01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,000 really elevate. I'm just talking about how I 1788 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,160 would feel about them. Like if Garrett Cole looks like 1789 01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:45,920 Garrett Cole and Freed's what he was a year ago and Schlittler's 1790 01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:47,440 the real deal, which I believe he is. 1791 01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:49,960 You know, even if the Yankees offense is a little 1792 01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,000 inconsistent, which is going to be, you know, too many 1793 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:55,640 strikeouts, I would think that would trigger a belief that, all 1794 01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:59,560 right, you know, maybe they can mess around and and actually win 1795 01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:01,520 the World Series. But we're away from that. 1796 01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:05,120 Cole's a couple of months out. Lesser extent, so is Rodin. 1797 01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:08,280 And obviously, you know, we'll see if the Mets make another 1798 01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:11,040 move. Let me get Nikki for Motto. 1799 01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:13,640 Nikki, East Rutherford, what up? Nick, what are your thoughts on 1800 01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:14,960 the Yanks going after righty catcher? 1801 01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:16,400 Give some rest to Rice and Wells. 1802 01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,120 Yeah, I've said that before. Somebody brought up Gary 1803 01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:21,840 Sanchez's name. Listen, I'd like to get now. 1804 01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:25,880 This does not satisfy their need, nor does it satisfy mine 1805 01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,360 for a legitimate righty stick here. 1806 01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:29,720 Yikes. Just too lefty laden. 1807 01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:32,400 I mean, every lefty, lefty, lefty, lefty, lefty righty, 1808 01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:34,440 lefty righty. There's just no, there's no 1809 01:23:34,440 --> 01:23:35,840 righty. So which is why Bob Bruschette 1810 01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:37,640 would have been phenomenal for me. 1811 01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,480 You know, they would have gotten, they didn't get him, but 1812 01:23:40,480 --> 01:23:44,040 if they would have gotten Bob Bruschette, trade Jazz, right, 1813 01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:46,040 starting pitcher, whatever, whatever you want to do. 1814 01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:48,040 Or maybe if you want to put Jazz in left, I don't know. 1815 01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:51,360 But trade Jazz Bruschet at second keep McMahon at third 1816 01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,440 base for for defensive purposes, and now you got that righty 1817 01:23:54,440 --> 01:23:56,960 stick and now you got a lead off hitter in Bichette righty. 1818 01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,880 Then you get Bellinger 2 spot. I know that he protected judge a 1819 01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:03,680 year ago, but how would how would Beau Belly and judge? 1820 01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:05,400 How would that and then Rice sports. 1821 01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:09,360 So righty lefty, righty lefty legit legit, legit legit. 1822 01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:12,400 Instead, you got a lead off hitter who I don't want hitting 1823 01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:16,880 lead off and you know, the injury prone Stanton in all 1824 01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:20,240 probability in the four hole. So it's it's not perfect. 1825 01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:22,160 Nobody's sitting here saying that it is. 1826 01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,040 And I don't really think there's really another move to be made 1827 01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:28,200 that will make it perfect, at least on paper. 1828 01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:32,320 So kind of feel like we're the Yankees are now just given their 1829 01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:34,640 lack of engagement throughout this entire process with so many 1830 01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,560 people, I think the Yankees are kind of a finished product. 1831 01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:39,960 I think of the two teams and I don't love that. 1832 01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,080 But I'm just giving you the reality of the situation. 1833 01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:47,160 And I think that the Mets, Mets might have one more move now 1834 01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,320 what they can't do and they won't. 1835 01:24:49,560 --> 01:24:53,240 You're not going to trade like a tongue for anybody other than 1836 01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:54,720 school ball. And it would take more than time 1837 01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,160 to get that sprouts gun. You have tongue. 1838 01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,440 So the big power flex would be a schoolable trade, which may or 1839 01:25:02,440 --> 01:25:07,480 may not happen before spring training either begins or ends. 1840 01:25:07,480 --> 01:25:11,680 But I I think if anything with the Mets don't care where the 1841 01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:13,640 the Mets and the Yanks would get another bullpen arm here. 1842 01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:15,600 But I think the big moves are primarily done. 1843 01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:16,960 All right, that about wrap it up. 1844 01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:19,240 Let me go here. I got to run to take care of a 1845 01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:21,960 couple things before the BT and Sal Live show tonight. 1846 01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,760 I know Sal's going to be squawking like a happy, proud 1847 01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:27,320 Peacock, like he likes to do what he thinks the Mets does 1848 01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:29,920 something to do something. Well, which they have. 1849 01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:32,080 I mean, you know, I've always been one thing to give credit 1850 01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:33,640 here. So I'm going to get up on that 1851 01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:37,320 stage tonight with Sal, with Boone Talk shop, flip some 1852 01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:39,160 baseball cards, going to RIP a few packs. 1853 01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:40,880 Hopefully me and Sal could beat Boone again. 1854 01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:43,920 Hopefully I could beat Sal. I mean, I'm only two against 1855 01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:45,640 Sal. Want to know against Boone. 1856 01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:48,880 So as a show we're undefeated against the Yankee manager. 1857 01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:52,280 Drinks will be flowing, good food, phenomenal venue. 1858 01:25:52,480 --> 01:25:54,640 So if you guys bought tickets, can't wait to see you. 1859 01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,960 We're not going to stream it live, but we we will obviously 1860 01:25:58,000 --> 01:25:59,480 record it all and put it out there. 1861 01:25:59,480 --> 01:26:00,560 Let you get a sense of what's what. 1862 01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:04,120 Because the plan is to do a couple of these hopefully for a 1863 01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:05,760 year. I mean, you know, one of these 1864 01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:08,840 every couple of months with a New York luminary. 1865 01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:12,200 Maybe we set something up with John Horbaugh moving forward. 1866 01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,240 You never know. I wouldn't say that that's 1867 01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:16,280 impossible. We have boom tonight. 1868 01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,000 I would imagine we get Pitino there at some point. 1869 01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:21,560 And yeah, because a lot of you have asked like, hey, how come 1870 01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:22,920 you guys aren't doing something every day? 1871 01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:25,320 He's doing it. And Congrats on the podcast 1872 01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:26,800 launch to him. Go follow him. 1873 01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:29,520 Sal's pot is up. Go have a little fun with that. 1874 01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:32,320 I don't think he's going live as much as just kind of popping in 1875 01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:34,800 when things go down. So he's got his thing. 1876 01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:37,760 I've got my thing, including Saint John's games and the TV 1877 01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:39,040 show. So I'm busy with that. 1878 01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:42,200 I've got a couple of public speaking engagements coming up 1879 01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:46,400 which, which I am more and more involved in, which I really 1880 01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:47,720 love. So it's kind of a 1881 01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:50,800 diversification of, of, of what I was doing compared to what I 1882 01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:53,120 am doing. But Sam and I have always said 1883 01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:55,760 if we can find a way to get together, you know, a couple 1884 01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:57,800 times a year and do something big. 1885 01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:00,080 And obviously I'll have him as a guest on here. 1886 01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:02,360 I'll be a guest on his show. Like that's, I'm not talking 1887 01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:04,080 about that stuff. I'm talking about big things. 1888 01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:06,640 We're all for it. You know, we had a great show. 1889 01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:08,680 We had great dynamic, great chemistry. 1890 01:27:10,480 --> 01:27:12,440 I'm friends with Sal. I consider him a friend for 1891 01:27:12,440 --> 01:27:15,640 life, even when he acts like a nut with the Cohen nonsense, 1892 01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,440 which you probably do tonight. So big things to come. 1893 01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:21,160 So appreciate you guys checking in. 1894 01:27:21,480 --> 01:27:23,600 Can't wait to get that update. You know, J Rod, you got to get 1895 01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:27,400 moving here, man, because and by the way, the longer you go 1896 01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:31,920 without this thing moving toward the red zone of you eventually 1897 01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:36,280 scoring 1/3 or 1/4 meaningful date with somebody, then I, 1898 01:27:36,440 --> 01:27:37,600 there's nothing I can do about it. 1899 01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,120 I I, I do have to get one more answer from you, J Rod in the 1900 01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:44,400 grand, like in the pantheon of dating right now, let's say you 1901 01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:48,080 got midfield, you're pinned inside your own 10, you're 1902 01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:50,320 inside the red and then you're in the tight red. 1903 01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:54,520 So I I'm just going to guess and if I'm off you tell me I'm not. 1904 01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:55,960 Trying to be a jerk? You're good. 1905 01:27:56,400 --> 01:28:00,040 I would say that right now you're at your own 13 yard line 1906 01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:03,240 and it is about second and 13. You just got sacked. 1907 01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:06,400 Is is that fair? Yeah, I'd say that's that's kind 1908 01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,280 of around. I'd say that's pretty fair, 1909 01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:09,920 yeah. Come on dude. 1910 01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:12,560 Yeah, young single guy, you should never be pinned inside 1911 01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:13,840 your own 20. I guess I'm not. 1912 01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:15,760 I wouldn't say. I wouldn't say pinned, I'd say 1913 01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:19,280 say it. I'm kind of like the let's see, 1914 01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:23,160 I'm the receiver, I'm going for the punt rush and the person's 1915 01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:26,800 they're they're punting the ball and the whole field is wide 1916 01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:29,120 open. We're just seeing, we're seeing 1917 01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:32,040 which maneuver to cut down, cut down the field. 1918 01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:34,840 I can live with that. Kind of read the blockers, 1919 01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:37,800 follow behind, maybe crank out a couple of first downs, cross 1920 01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,800 midfield, open up the playbook. Now everything's on the table. 1921 01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:44,640 Pass run. All right, we'll take that we'll 1922 01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:46,520 take that J Rod, good stuff, man. 1923 01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:48,040 All right, J Rod, appreciate it, buddy. 1924 01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:49,760 Good show today, man. He's going to obviously get the 1925 01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:52,800 clips up there, all the shorts, all the stuff that that Jared 1926 01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:54,960 does tremendously. So we'll see him tomorrow. 1927 01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:57,760 We will see you guys, some of you tonight, BT and Sal live in 1928 01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:00,960 Red Bank at the Vocal Theatre, which is going to be phenomenal. 1929 01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:04,400 Hey, follow not just this, obviously Twitter, Instagram, 1930 01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:06,240 all that stuff. Spread the word. 1931 01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:07,720 Appreciate. Appreciate you guys checking in 1932 01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:11,240 with the comments and I will, I'm probably going to be 1933 01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:12,560 exhausted tomorrow. Tonight's going to be a late 1934 01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:15,960 night, but I will be here tomorrow at 10 AM and I look 1935 01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:18,200 forward to it and look forward to really meeting some of you 1936 01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:20,480 guys tonight. So have an outstanding Thursday. 1937 01:29:20,480 --> 01:29:24,000 Awesome show, loved it, Great contributions, Good text there, 1938 01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,720 good juice, good energy. This is what Unleash is all 1939 01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:29,120 about. And you know, as I gave you some 1940 01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:32,600 of the numbers and some of the growth here, that is you and I 1941 01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:34,920 could, I could provide the content, I could do what I do. 1942 01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:37,960 You can believe in me, but if you guys aren't following me and 1943 01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:40,640 those numbers aren't taken up and they clearly are and it's 1944 01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:44,600 awesome and it excites me even more and I'm pretty excited, but 1945 01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:46,880 it excites me even more about what this is going to grow into. 1946 01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:49,280 So I appreciate it. I will catch you guys tomorrow 1947 01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:50,320 at 10. We'll see you. 1948 01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:50,720 Bye bye.