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Me, what's happening everybody, welcome back to Unleashed here.
So we've got obviously a little bit earlier today, usually go
off at 10, but I've got to get into the city.
I've got to do that that youth sports segment that I'm going to
take that I'm going to tape and we'll be on on Fox on Sunday
night. So I got to get into the city
and I got a couple things to do. So I wanted to make sure we
don't miss a show lot going on. Obviously, you know, I'm going
to kind of skim through a couple of things.
The meat of the show will will obviously baseball.
I just think talking baseball takes cold out the snow.
We're digging out of it. And before you know it, you
know, those visions of, you know, fungal bats and the
beautiful sunshine is is upon us here, man.
So I am I am. I always feel baseball like you
never have to get me too ready to feel baseball energy, but I
feel a little bit more than I usually do today and I'll tell
you why in a minute. Just I want to button a couple
of things up here now. First of all, this, this is
starting to get a little bit of traction.
We'll see where it goes. I'm obviously on.
I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go too deeply
into, but I'm obviously on the record.
The Knicks are going to win nothing.
So I believe they got to make a trade.
Time is ticking. February 5 is the deadline.
If you can get rid of bridges, if you can get rid of Cat,
that's obviously the move for me.
Everybody's thinking got us, which would be fantastic if they
could actually pull that off. What I do find interesting
though, is that now the Knicks are connected to Drew Holiday to
maybe make a move to get him. Obviously it could be a three
team trade or maybe you get him and then you further entice
Giannis to make a power play to get dealt only to the Knicks
because that's his guy. So that's certainly something we
got to keep an eye on here. If you have a you know, if you
would have a starting five, let's say of Holiday and
Brunson, OG Yanis and Mitchell, I mean that that's Mitchell
Robbins. That's that's pretty damn good.
That's a team that's got a better chance to win a
championship then then the team that's rolling out there every
day right now. All right, I just wanted to at
least address that. The other thing too, guys, is,
you know, obviously the Giants have had their day with
horrible, phenomenal, great energy, terrific guy or Giants
are are on the path to being corrected here.
Now. The other thing though, with The
Jets very quickly, I did a lot on The Jets yesterday.
You know, you start to get some news trickle in.
I think Connor who Connor, Connor Hughes has been a really,
really great source for this where he's really connected some
dots. It looks like The Jets are very
serious about Frank Reich. I know, I know, Boomer addressed
this briefly on the show yesterday.
Didn't refute Connor's report. O'Connor's doing some good
reporting, as I said. Now, the only thing that's
interesting about this is that if The Jets were to get Frank
Reich and apparently it wouldn't come with the offensive
coordinator title, which I'm OK with, but it just does lead to a
little bit of confusion. At the end of the day, I am in
the business of getting smart, experienced people, particularly
experienced people in the building around Aaron Glenn
because he doesn't really know what the hell he's doing yet.
They'll think I find interesting, though, while I
like Frank Reich, and I've always liked Frank Reich, and
he's coached two different teams and he won a Super Bowl, though
he didn't call the plays for the Eagles.
Ah, this past year he was at Stanford.
He was the interim head coach for Andrew Luck in the Stanford
Cardinal, which means he's going to be able to weigh in a little
bit on some of these college players.
I'm not saying he's, yeah, he's getting carte blanche to the
draft room, but he's just an additional resource, which is
what smart people do, which is what The Jets never do.
They just roll the dice on people who have no experience
and hope it works where it seems like they're crafting more of a
plan for experience right now, which I really do like, you
know, But it it it does get a little, I don't know, a little
confusing here. Like, where is that power?
Where's that official play call duty coming in?
Because if it's going to be Tanner, who's going to be
retained, by the way, Tanner Angstrand, he's probably not
going to call the plays there. Would The Jets hire Frank Reich
for more like an over like an overseeing of the offense and
work with the quarterbacks? And he has worked with a lot of
different quarterbacks stylistically.
So I do like and I like Frank, right?
He's a good football man. He's been out of the NFL for a
minute. You got to calculate that at
least a little bit there. But I, I, I think that that that
feels like something that's going to happen.
So we're if and when he's introduced or named today or
tomorrow, we'll find out exactly, you know what he's
going to do. But I like it.
I I think that that excites me right there.
Now the other thing real fast before I get into the baseball
here is the, you know, the defensive coordinated position.
What a stunner. Jets have to fill every single
position known to man, which obviously is not an enviable
position to be in. But you know the the thing with
Wink here. So Wink really interviewed about
3 days ago and there's been no contract.
I don't even know if there's been an offer yet.
I know that they value Chris Harris.
I'm going to need a little bit more than Chris Harris to get me
excited here. No disrespect to Chris Harris.
I do like the thought of having Frank Reich in there on offense
and kind of overseeing every like being the general of the
offense. And I do love the thought of of
Wink coming in here, you know, and just blitzing people.
And obviously the The Jets stranded a couple of guys that
can get to the quarterback that they need anyway, whether it's
Wink or somebody else. Obviously Jim Leonard's
appealing to me as as well, but it doesn't look like that's
going to happen. Now the other thing too with
Wink is that he was in Michigan for a couple of years.
So like rank like like Frank Reich for a year at Stanford and
Wink for a couple of years in the Big 10.
Again, you're just bringing people into the building that
have been around the NFL, that have won at the NFL level on a
very high level with coaches, coordinators, different
franchises, different types of players, different types of
buildings and organizational philosophies.
I I at least the semblance of a plan, right?
A semblance of a plan start to take shape a little bit here for
the New York Jets. So if this comes to fruition,
I'll be happy. I'll be happy.
I won't be over the top because you don't want anything without
a quarterback. But at least it will tell me.
And by extension, it should tell you that at least The Jets are
beginning to change how they've done things.
Now, if this breaks down and Wink is not there and it's a
Chris Harris or somebody who hasn't done the job before, you
know, now it's like, all right, kind of seems going down the
same Rd. here. The other thing too real fast,
if you have, I don't know that you go to to wink here, but if
you had Ryke and wink or even just Ryke, Ryke and somebody
else in the building, you know, if The Jets just come stumbling
out of the chutes and why wouldn't they?
They always do and they're one and five and two and six and you
got to make a change where it just seems untenable where you
have to make a change like the Giants had to make a change mid
season or during the season with Brian Dabel.
At least you can trust the team with somebody who's done it
before in Frank, right. So additional value there
experience all the stuff I just mentioned.
All right, so we'll see what happens with the New York Jets.
Now let me get to baseball here right.
So the thing about baseball is very interesting from a Yankee
to met perspective. It's it's actually very
different. Like you think about the mindset
the Mets fan and and their mindset was one that was really,
I would say, riddled in dissatisfaction when the team
was deconstructed. And now they're completely
energized. And I think they've gotten over
that, that emotional kick to the stones that players that they
love are no longer there. Like the Mets fans been
energized now, especially with the I mean, it's one thing to
get both, but shit. And that's really good.
I wish the Yankees would have been on in on him.
I've said that a few times, but now you go out there and get
Peralta. We don't even know if the New
York Mets are done. You got to send a fielder with
some upside, like you've done some things before that a second
baseman who can catch it. So the defense up the middle is
better. You know, you got some quality
clutch bats. I think the Met fan right now is
in it is in a pretty good place emotionally.
I think that they think that they still have a chance at
school, which I would agree with as well if and when the Tigers
decide to trade him. I think the Mets fans also think
that maybe there's another move to be had, whether it's a
starting pitcher, whatever it might be.
And by the way, the kid Tobias Myers, who was in that trade
with Peralta, somebody that I think is pretty interesting.
So I don't want to get in the weeds on him.
But like that's the Mets. That's the Mets fan energy right
now, the Yankee. And I want to disprove something
here or at least re establish some sanity like the Yankee fan
is, is obviously disgusted. And and let's face it, one thing
that I will say and I get to discuss to A to a large extent,
because it's been the same old thing, the same old
regurgitation every year. We complain about cash.
We complain about how that he doesn't spend enough, which by
the way does. It's not really how's fault that
the people who he pays a lot of money to, to build out a
franchise with all the resources that Hal provides them that they
don't do their job as well as they should.
Well, I mean, that's, you know, I mean, I mean, at least Hal's
cutting some checks here. So I think that that's been
hijacked right now. You can also say you'd like to
see at some point how grow a distaste for the same results
and actually do something different and maybe mix things
up. But he's not doing that going
into the season. But what I find interesting,
right? This is my big take away here.
So again, the Mets fans had a pretty good place.
The Yankee fan, even the Bellinger signing was largely
anti climactic. And I was there as well.
I told you for a month, you know, hey, I think it's going to
get done. Pretty confident about it.
If it goes to seven years, peace out, take a hike.
Don't need you. If you are going to be adamant
about 6 years, I would still say take away, walk, don't need you
go heavier on the AAB, which they did.
They got a little creative finally with an enticing bonus
of about $20 million opt outs after year two and three.
So the Yankees made some concessions that they probably
didn't want to make their. But this is like to me, this is
where things get very misrepresented from a Yankee
point of view. Now the standard should be
higher. Let me get that straight, but
there's also a middle ground here that I think is being
missed by a lot of people. So I'm looking at this last
night. You look at the projected win
totals for Major League Baseball got the dodgers with one O 2
1/2. You've got the Yankees 91 1/2 as
that is a massive mess. By the way, I don't know this to
be true because I haven't looked at these odds in these, you
know, these gambling trends forever.
But I will say that I would guess, I would guess that
there's never been such a bigger disparity in terms of what the
top teams anticipated win total would be.
And then you mix in two and three, like one O 2 1/2 down to
91 1/2 is massive. Like you generally have, you
know, a team that's knocking on the door of 100, but then you
almost always have two and the Yankees are usually one of them
two or three teams that are in the neighborhood 94 and a half,
9595 1/2, something like that. That's not the case now.
So big drop Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, 90 and a half, 90 1/2.
Pardon me, Seattle, 89 1/2. And then the New York Mets at 89
1/2, right. So those are the project
projected over under win totals for the for the game for for
Major League Baseball. Now you get to the World Series
betting odds right now, Dodgers plus 220, Yankees plus 900.
Then you've got Seattle, the Braves, the Jays, and the Mets
who are are +1111140 the Mets, which is astronomical.
And if you don't know what that means, you throw down 100 bucks.
If the Mets win the World Series, you get $11140 back.
It's just I don't want to assume everybody knows that.
Now, that doesn't mean that I'm content with what the Yanks have
done. I'm not, and I'm still very
confused with what they like, why they don't do things that
they haven't done that I think would make them so much better.
Like, all right, you don't want to really stick your toe in the
Tucker pool. That's fine.
I didn't really need that. But to not be like legitimately
engaged, I know that they had conversations like they do with
everybody. Yankees doing their due
diligence, Yankees doing their homework.
But to me, like Beau Bichette is somebody that I wanted on the
Yankees. That's it.
That's all there is to it and there's there's still a lot of
questions that need to be answered here.
Will the Yankees make another move for a starting pitcher?
What do they do to set up the bullpen before you get to
Bednar? Mets got to address the bullpen
a little bit. Do you trade Jones or Dominguez?
I'm not saying that everything is clear here.
I'm not saying that at all. But what I am clearly stating,
you guys got to tap the brakes a little bit here with this, with
this nonsensical. The world is ending and the
Yankee, the New York Yankees and the New York Mets baseball fate
for 2026 is not existent and it's already doomed because the
oddsmakers don't think that. And I don't think that now I
understand, at least from a Yankee perspective, you're used
to being viewed differently like it is the Dodgers by a mild and
and then we'll throw the Yankees a little bit of a bone and we'll
throw the Phillies a little bone and Seattle for the World
Series, odds of the Mets and the Braves and whatever one or two
other teams. Toronto for sure.
But that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that the Yankees
can't win. And I, and I understand it like
it's it, boy, it's gone just full throttle.
The last, however, last couple of years as as it's gotten
further and further away from 2009, which I also get, it's
been a while. Let's go the it's become so
bottom line, which I also get because it's the Yankees, but I
also think it's a little bit of a misrepresentation of really
where they are. Yankees have a chance.
And if you don't think the Yankees have a chance to mess
around and get to a World Series, I don't know what to
tell you now that might not satisfy you today.
You might not like the Yankees on paper today, and there's
elements of that statement or that thought process that I
subscribe to. And I'm going to run down the
lineups in a minute, right? You tell me which one you think
is better. But I think the difference this
year for the Yankees, and not that the Mets can't do this,
they certainly could with a school or somebody else.
But like, we all want, we all want a World Series, you know,
anointing in February or January.
You want to win the hot stove, right?
But the Mets won the hot stove a year ago with Juan Soto.
Mets didn't even win 85 games. But what are we going to learn
our lesson here and understand that you could go into the
season right with a good team, with a team that's got a chance
to win, with an incredibly deep pitching staff from the Yankees
perspective, especially when these guys come back and they're
healthy and oh, yeah, by the way, at that point, you can then
make adjustments during the season.
There's a lot that Bryant Cashman doesn't do right.
There's also one thing and probably more than one thing,
but the one thing that he does very well is that he generally
pivots in a smart manner during the season, like last year.
Think about where we were last year.
And I like the pivot from Juan Soto.
I thought it was a smart, practical, very quick, very
well. What well laid out plan for the
Yankees to have something ready kind of like the Mets this year
when they missed out on Tucker bang.
They already had their Plan B in the hopper.
Let's push this button. We got the shed.
We're ready to pivot. Where is the Yankees were
dragging their feet kind of waiting on Bellinger line in the
sand not going to deviate from it.
And we're all sitting there saying, all right, that's fine
because Bellinger is good not great.
But like if the Yankees don't get Bellinger, what are we doing
here? And there was angst with that
which I always understood and I always said right.
But this thought of of like go back to last year and we were
all pumped. I know I was in terms of most of
the players they brought in. And one of those players would
was Devin Williams, who I mean, outside of the pit, Alonzo home
run before Alonzo dented him in that big moment.
Up until that moment, Devin Williams was the best closer in
baseball. Devin Williams didn't finish the
season as the Yankees closer. Like this is what I mean, what
we see now, what we, I'm going to, I'm going to RIP through
these line UPS in a minute. But what we have right now is
just a general broad basis of where we're going.
You know, both teams have a couple of superstars, both teams
have some real pluses and some real assets.
And then both teams have some players that they're still
trying to figure out. And the Yankees, more than the
Mets are trying to thread this needle of being highly, which I
don't love. I'm I'm not saying that, but I
understand what they're doing. I just wish more of you
understood it right. They try to thread the needle of
being incredibly competitive and give their fans a chance to win,
which they always do. And they're going to have
another chance to win big this year. 90 plus win a division,
win around there too, maybe get a little lucky, maybe bring in
some reinforcements, maybe get back to and win a World Series.
But I just think guys like I'm at the stage because I've seen
too much where there's such an overreaction to what is on the
lineup card now in late January or in a week early February.
And we we want it now. We want it.
We want that immediate gratification, which is kind of
unfortunately a reflection of society, which I don't think is
a great thing. I mean, you want, you want, you
want you want. Sometimes you got to wait, you
know, sometimes you got to let things go.
Sometimes you have to let things mature and develop and clear up.
And what the Yankees are trying to clear up is, you know, what
are they going to do with the Jones Dominguez duo?
They're both not making the team.
I mean, I don't know how you put Spencer Jones in AAA again.
He's going to be 25. I mean, at some point you got to
either move them up or you got to move them out.
Unless Billy Joel once said moving out, he's got to move out
at some point or move up. And I don't think he's moving up
because I don't think he's better than Jason Dominguez.
So I think the Jones is going to get dealt.
And I'm OK with that because I think if you pair a Jones with
I'm just throwing stuff out or will Warren, somebody like that
or one of these younger Yankee arms that a lot of people around
baseball really, really like, you can get something really
meaningful. I don't know if that's Nico
Horner. I I don't know about that.
But you can still trade jazz. There's still a lot of things
that the Yankees can do. Not big ticket things.
Tucker's gone, Bashet that's gone.
Peralta has been acquired. You know, Suarez signed the five
year deal with the Red Sox, of course, leaving the Phillies.
So that helps the Mets out there.
But just understand, everybody is so consumed with winning now.
Got news for you? Don't get trophies for winning
now. You might get a couple more
phone calls on a station. You might get a couple more
tweets, you might get a couple more messages here.
But you don't win now You don't. And even some of the players
that have signed, right, like Kyle Tucker, who's a really,
really good baseball player, you know, his advanced metrics
backed that up. You just even go to WAR, like
he's one of the best war players in baseball the last five years.
You know, he's on that list with Judge and a couple of others.
Like so that the justification to want him, I understand, but
he's also a little injury prone is also some whispers because he
really love baseball. There's some whispers.
Can he really flourish in a in a big market?
Those whispers were following him around in Chicago.
So just relax, tap the brakes, everybody relax.
I can promise you this with a with a maybe promise is strong,
but with an an incredible degree without saying it's 100% because
it never is incredible degree of confidence and near certainty.
I can tell you that when the Yankees start, if this is the
lineup on opening day, Grisham, Judge, Bellinger, Stanton, Rice,
Jazz, Wells, McMahon, Caballero, until Volpe gets back right, I
can promise you that that's not going to be the opening day or
the the the Game 1 lineup. You know, if and when the
Yankees make the playoffs like they always do.
And maybe because last year at this point, Caballero wasn't on
the team, Rosario wasn't on the team, McMahon wasn't on the
team. The Yankees had a real issue
when they had some injuries early in the year.
You had to find a third baseman who could catch the baseball and
the Yankees. Now I don't love Ryan McMahon.
You know, I thought he was a good fit based on what they
needed. But I also thought Colorado
would eat some of that money. But you know, kind of like the
Marlins ate some of that money with Stanton back in the day
with $10 million for a couple of years here and they didn't do
that. That's that's done by the
Yankees. I mean, you think Ryan Mcmay,
you think the Rockies really wanted to pay Ryan McMahon.
It's like you go to watch Albert pool holes, you know, who's been
there 8-9 years and he got an extra 10.
Twelve 15,000 Rocky fans reaching into their pockets to
go watch the. Great Ryan McMahon, who just
provides this incredible economic boost.
So like I really he's not even a league average hitter in Coors
Field like that. The that the Yankees didn't get
that contract those numbers diluted a bit is criminal and
that's just bad business because it happens all the time.
But McMahon wasn't here and even let think about this, right.
So last year Grisham was a guy that we didn't want to play at
all because he was a 190 hitter. Now I don't love Grisham.
I just want to show you how things change, how quickly
things can change, right. So Christian was a throw in, you
know, Oh God, this guy hits 190-190-5198.
It's got a weird looking swing at Grisham.
I 4th outfielder, fantastic. And then funny thing happened.
And again, I'm not a fan. I'm I'm not trying to convince
you that everything's great because it's not.
I'm just trying to provide some context that it's not nearly is
dire. As many as you as many of you
think. So Grisham goes from what we
used to think about him to guy who runs into 34 bombs.
Perfect player, No. Did his defense take a little
bit of a step back? Yes.
Do the metrics back that up? Sure.
Do I want to batting lead off? Not a chance in hell.
I do not think he's a lead off. Forget about a World Series
team. I don't think Trent Grisham's a
lead off hitter on a division winning team.
I just don't. I don't like him there.
Too many empty at bats, can't hit lefties.
So while I don't love Grisham, think about our perception based
on what he showed us as a player before last year.
And while we don't love him now, he's certainly much more viable
than he was. All right, That's Grisham.
Obviously, Judge is the best I've ever seen.
Boom. You know, Bellinger had a really
good year with the Yankees. Fine.
Stanton in the four spot. We know the deal with him.
If he's healthy, he's gonna hit some bombs.
He'll miss 50 games. Whatever.
What did you think about Ben Rice a year ago?
Because what you thought about Ben Rice going into the season
is probably not what you think about Ben Rice going into this
season. Where I actually think what it's
all said and done. I think that Ben Rice, now I
know you got a lefty, lefty, lefty, righty.
You got to split them up and all that stupid stuff.
To me, I'd put the best hitters in the best spots, which to me,
I think Ben Rice has a chance to be a three hitter for the
Yankees. That's how good I think Ben Rice
could be. So think about that.
And it's not like this inflated perception based on what he did
in the minors or what the word around Major League Baseball is
or all the Martian like a nickname or all this guy's the
number one prospect. You watch Ben Rice hit and you
watch Ben Rice bang. Ben Rice could hit and he and
he's going to hit. So this year's version of Ben
Rice versus last year's version 2, totally different planets.
Now, Jazz brings a lot of good. He also makes you scratch your
head. I actually thought the opposite
where I thought going into last year, Austin Wells will be a
little bit better. I'm a little down on him now,
but he's still a 20 home run catcher is going to bat in the
bottom third of the order. You do a lot worse than that.
Your third baseman wasn't McMahon, which I don't love, but
he's your third baseman now. And Caballero was on a different
baseball team. All right, So that's how fast
things change. All right, What did we say
about? I don't think now I like
prospects like I, I follow, follow it not like a nut job,
but I, I know who's valued. I, I, I follow it enough to
follow it right More than rudimentary terms.
I don't think I mentioned Camp Schlittler's name once last year
at this time. I really think about it and I
don't think anybody else did, because every time somebody said
Camp Schlittler's name, they would say Camp Shit Hitler like
everybody would like. I remember when we were saying
it on the radio, even though it's unintentional, you know,
you got FCC guidelines, certain things you can't say.
And if you if you you know, if you're you know, as I sometimes
do, especially me and Sal going back and forth, you know, you're
in the middle of a debate about I I heated conversation.
You say Cam Hitler. You know, I mean Schlittler like
you catch yourself quick. You know, we didn't mention his
name once. I didn't.
I'm going to forget about we I'll speak for myself and I'll
put my baseball knowledge up against anybody, anybody.
I wasn't talking about Cam Schlittler last year.
Look what he did against the Red Sox.
He looked like Roger Clemens. He looked like Vintage a
right-handed Randy Johnson. He looked like Kurt Schilling.
He looked like Pedro. So all.
And then you mix in the fact that last year, as I said, we
thought Devin Williams was the closer.
Nope, Fedor was and he was better.
So I get it. I get it.
It's not the conventional presentation.
Hey, we just got Reggie. We just got Catfish.
We just got Ricky Henderson. We just signed marked.
I'm just throwing out there. We just signed Mark Teixeira,
you know, a switch hitting in his prime, you know, power
hitting, slick fielding first baseman.
We just got CC Sabathia, the ace that we sorely need.
We just signed Matsui from Japan or Tanaka from Japan.
I know it's is different and I also know that it's less than,
but we've got to at least provide a little bit better
context and get this thing back on the rails.
I mean, because if you don't believe what I'm saying, you
should at least believe the odds makers.
Now, that doesn't mean they're always right.
But do you think that they're just saying, well, you know,
Yankee fans are a little downtrodden right now.
Let's make them feel good. So let's you know, let's put out
the second highest win total in terms of projection.
And I don't know, just so that the Yankees can will themselves
pass this, this mental, you know, demise that they find
themselves in. Yeah.
You know what, on top of it will make the Yankees the second
shortest World Series odds. You think they're just doing
that for a favor? Now, I also understand that
teams like the Dodgers, and I don't mean this iteration, just
the Dodger name, the Yankee name, the Dallas Cowboy name.
Like I'm not going to get into it now, but there is a certain
recipe that goes into these over unders, you know, season win
totals for the NFL. When you bet a Cowboys game,
you're very rare Steelers, you're very rarely getting a
truly accurate line that that is reflected in terms of what you
know. It.
It's more about let's get this amount of money in because
people who blindly all Dallas will win, all the Steelers will
win, all the Yankees will win, stuff like that.
So that that's baked in. I'm not saying it's a perfect
representation of where the Yankees are, but it's in the
ballpark, it's in the neighborhood.
It's not 5 states away. So everybody just chill out, all
right? I can promise you that lineup
that I just read you that I put together last night and ain't
going to be it and ain't going to be it as you go to October.
It's not going to be it after the trade deadline.
And I think that there's still a chance because I do think the
Yanks are going to make a trade. You can clip this.
You could save this. I believe Spencer Jones going to
get bailed. They're not trading Jason
Dominguez unless it's for a player and then obviously more
because Dominguez wouldn't get you a superstar.
But like if it's a Dominguez and what you know, the names like
the pictures that people desire or even you throw jazz in there.
I, I, I don't know, like, but if Dominguez is part of a package,
it's not going to be for a 7th inning set up man, or, or even a
higher leverage 8th inning man. I can promise you that.
And if it is, it's idiotic and I will crush the Yankees.
Like you don't do that. Like I don't know what Jones is
going to be, which is why I'm willing to move on from Spencer
Jones. The K rate, the age, all that
stuff. You know, they've got some
blockage here. Now, if they didn't sign
Bellinger, that's a little different because at least
there's a path for some some playing time because he profiles
better defensively in center. And you know, maybe you could
have mixed and matched a little bit.
What whatever, But there's going to be a trade at some point,
could be before the start of the season.
I'm not even sure this is the open day lineup, despite what I
just threw out there. All right, now you get to the
men. Oh, and by the way, even if it
is, and this is the one thing that I really leaned on from a
Yankee point of view, now a couple of things have to go
favorably. I get that you don't know that
it will. Understood.
But you've got to look at like strength in numbers and you've
got to compute the odds. What are the odds based on what
they already have? Answer this question what they
already have, right and calculating what will eventually
return and the upside for those men that will return at some
point fairly soon. What are the odds that the
Yankees have the number one rotation in baseball this year?
I don't mean the staff, I mean the starting, starting rotation
one through 5. What is it?
It's pretty high. I think the Yankees are going
especially. I'll make a prediction now if
Gerard Cole comes back to, I want to be a little conservative
here because I don't think he's going to be right right away and
he doesn't need to be. He's got to be right when it's
time to be right and which is obviously, you know, stretch
run, October. I think that as long as Gerard
Cole is 85 to 90% of what he was right, then I think the Yankees
have the best rotation in baseball because now you got a
1-2 combo of Freed and cold or cold and freed and they roll out
Schlittler. I mean, so that's part of the
impetus to for me to to feel what I feel honestly.
So, you know, at that's what are the perks?
Yeah. Who's that?
Emma M Cardoza. One of the perks of not being at
the fans, staying inside. Yeah.
Although I do have to leave at 10:30, which is why I'm on
earlier today. I've got to go to the city.
I'm looking forward to taping that over at over at Fox today
with the. It's, it's a full youth sports
segment. It's myself.
It's a professor at Georgetown. Yeah.
Who's going to be the smartest guy on that table?
Not me, Probably him. I bet you didn't play like I
did, though. Anyway, that's going to be a lot
of fun. I'm looking forward.
It's going to air on Sunday. I'll give you more of the
details. But that's why I've got to leave
early. But yeah, it's one of the perks
for sure. Now, one of the downsides of of
always being home is that you're always home.
And now I love being home. I genuinely, I love my home.
Just the actual physical being of my home.
I love it, I love my neighborhood, I love not having
a schlep in and drive and crawl to the Holland Tunnel everyday
and pay $1000 a month for parking.
Which is what I did like an idiot for basically 13 years.
And it went up incrementally. So it wasn't always, but Can you
imagine that 13 years paying that?
Here you go, here you go, here you go, here you go.
ZAP the card, ZAP the card. Good God, what?
Not to mention gas and then not to mention the miles that I put
on my lease, a car. I'm a big lease guy.
I have not bought a new car. And matter of fact, I don't
think that I ever will again. The rest of my life.
My dad started leasing cars. We went from, you know, rundown
cars that you hope would get us to wherever we had to go.
And this one, he was, he was on the job.
So he just didn't, didn't have much money.
And the cars like he, he would buy a car maybe like $500 in
cash or 1000 in cash from somebody is back in the day when
you see on the street, you know, for sale and you call the
number. That's how we get our cars back
then. And then when he was done on the
job, he opened his his own because he's a very smart person
and he opened up a business and that's the first time he made a
few bucks. So we went from, you know,
having the shit mobile to having cars that actually ran smoothly
and that were brand new. And he just taught me and my
dad's not a car guy, right? So he said, hey, you know, get a
three-year lease. All right, It's not the smartest
economic move because you're basically paying for something
with with no equity at the end of the road when you get the car
back, but there's no headaches, something breaks, something a
little problem. Here you go, here you go fix my
car. So when you do that as as I do,
and I've leased cars now I get a new one every three years.
But when you're driving in, as I was for 13 years, that's 25
miles each way, each way, each way.
So what happens is when I go to turn the lease in, I'm always
over the mileage. So that's another benefit.
I'm not having to go into the city today.
I'm going to the city, but they're picking me up.
I'm not driving. They're sending a car.
So all right, anyway, the, the whole thing's out of whack here.
The whole thing is out of whack. There's just this crazy visceral
overreaction, which again, I I do understand to an extent, but
what's happened here is that it's really, it's just it, it's
from the previous year. It's like, all right, last year,
get your face kicked in by Toronto.
That bothers us. So that carries into this year,
especially when there's nothing really done except the retention
of one of your best players right in, in Cody.
And then what happened the previous year with that when the
Yankees got to the World Series and lost it?
Yeah, it was great to be back and it was nice to be on that
stage again. And that could have been a lot
more competitive. If, you know, Judge doesn't drop
the pop up, if, you know, they don't kick the ball around the
the infield like Jazz. When when when the ball trickles
in from the outfield and he's just looking around like, oh,
what's going on? Or.
And I love him. But Boone made an awful call
bringing in Nestor Cortez to face Freddie Freeman.
That was just a bad move. I said it then, I say it now.
I love Boone, but when he makes a mistake, I got to I got to
tell you what I see. And I said that the next day and
I went, I went very aggressively on that.
And I stand by it. Real move and pitched a lot.
Whatever bad matchup didn't like it.
So the way the Yankees looked in the World Series, they were
getting mocked. I mean, the Dodgers after it
saying, ah, we knew that if you put stress on their defense,
they'd kick it around. And like, Yankee fans are
getting tired of all these failures each year stacking up.
So the presentation is 1 big angry ball of energy and a lack
of conviction in anything that they do.
And I'm saying two things could be true, honestly.
And I I believe that two things are true here.
Yes, the Yankees have made a litany of mistakes over the
years. The Yankees don't operate the
way they used to, which infuriates me.
And I'm talking about how the Yankees have been too OK with
status quo. And I'm talking about how and
his conviction to remain married to Brian Cashman.
All those things stack up, but I can now push those to the side
and say, do they have the best player in baseball?
Yeah. Do they have a chance to have
the best rotation in baseball? Yeah.
So those are things. And oh, yeah, by the way,
reinforced by the numbers, whether it's Vegas, whatever,
win totals and World Series odds.
So that's the Yankees, right? Changes are going to happen,
even if it's not conventionally on your timeline.
Now the Mets lineup, now I don't know where they're going to hit
Bichette. I'm hitting Bichette third.
So the way I would do it, I would go Lindor, Soto, Bichette.
I would go Polanco 4, baby five, maybe Robert 6, and then
Alvarez, Benj and and Simeon. All right.
So to me, like the Mets lineup is just better.
Like if you, I'm going to actually go player for player
right now, I don't think the Mets are better, but the Mets
lineup is better, right? It's better in more places.
There's fewer easy outs, there's more interesting power speed
combination. There's more, I think intriguing
some of the younger players that will get a real chance or on the
on whether it's a a baby or a bench, something like that.
Now the difference is that era judge is so much better than
everybody in baseball, including Juan Soto from an offensive
point of view that judges insane Ruthie in production elevates
the product passed to a point where like it it really isn't on
a night to night one through 9 in the order basis.
But anyway, just little little little bleeps and giggles time.
You ready, Lindor Grisham advantage Mets.
I'm going to actually do checks here.
All right, Lindor, Grisham, boom Soto, Judge advantage judge
Bichette, Bellinger advantage Bichette, but I really do like
Bellinger and he fits the Yankees great, but Bichette
clutch higher average, whatever. Polanco, Stanton, I'm going to
actually go Polanco here. I'm going to go Polanco.
Obviously Stanton is going to run into some 470 foot bombs,
but I just think you get fewer strikeouts, more grinded out of
bats that plays more over 1162. I'm going to get the the edge to
I'm not going to incorporate defense here.
Just going one through 9 of the batting order.
Beatty or Rice, give me rice. But I really do love Brett
Beatty. You know that you know I like
Beatty, Luis, Robert or Jazz. Give me Jazz, you know, now if
Robert catches what he was, and you know the thing about
somebody like Louise Robert, why there's intrigue #1 he can fly
#2 he could pick in the outfield, He's got power.
But a guy like that, it's very easy to become disengaged in
baseball when you are a part of such a losing team.
To me, there's a thought that just being around some some some
better players and you know, the residual impact of Soto in the
lineup and Lindor, but certainly Bichette watching Bichette's at
bats. I, I, I think that Louise
Roberts definitely going to have a better year than he did a year
ago. I'm not going to say he's going
to be an All Star again like he was for a minute with the White
Sox, but I think Louise Roberts is going to be good.
I do just not as good as Jazz. Jazz is 3030.
He could have gone 4040 didn't get hurt.
Alvarez, Wells, I'm going to take Austin Wells.
I just don't trust Alvarez. I don't even I like Wells.
I don't love him. I just don't trust Alvarez.
Not in good shape, always hurt, not productive enough.
And then you get to the Benjamin McMahon, if that's where it's
at. I mean, I'm going to give
McMahon the edge just because I've never seen Bench do a
thing. But everybody around baseball
loves him and he's going to be a plus outfielder for sure.
And McMahon's A+ defender. So I would have to think that
Bench, even if he just if he strikes out less than McMahon,
he might have a chance to be better.
And then you get to the Simeon, the Simeon and the Caballero or
Simeon and Volpe. You got to give the advantage to
Simeon. So like I said, like to me,
there's just there's tougher outs to navigate.
Like I look now when Luis Roberts is in one of these
funks, you know, he's a two or three strikeout a game guy.
He's an easy out to navigate when he's in a funk.
So is Alvarez and that's kind of it.
I'm going to even give Benz the benefit of the doubt because
he's his profile in the minors is one of little more contact,
whatever when some of these Yankees are in a funk.
I mean, Stanton's capable of going one for 27 with 17
strikeouts. Jazz can just swing all night
and not come close to contact, same with Austin Wells.
Same with Ryan McMahon. Caballero's a different kind of
grinder. So I'm not too worried about
him, but and and I like him, but he'll be at his best when he's
in that super sub role. So, Oh, I just gave you a lot,
right? And really, if you want to boil
it down to one statement or one thought process, just relax,
just chill. My goodness, I don't remember
doing this when I was younger. I, I really, I don't now part of
that when I want to say, you know, I mean, as a kid, you know
what, like the Yankees got Winfield.
I was kind of young and he was awful in the 81 World Series.
I was about 7:00. So I was processing it very
differently. I'm like, oh, yeah.
I I don't think I ever saw him play.
Maybe against the Mets when the Padres came in and, you know,
baseball courts. I knew the name and I knew he
was this massive figure with power.
I mean, I was pumped, but I don't know if there was a whole
lot of baseball intellect behind being pumped because I was 7.
You know, Reggie, I don't even remember when they got him in
in, in 70 after the 76 World Series when the Yankees got
swept. So it was more about, you know,
after as the dynasty, dynasty started, you know, and then it
was like by now I expect to get these guys.
So there was nothing to complain about.
It went from most of my childhood, Yankees weren't good,
no playoffs from after 81 through the 94 cancellation.
I didn't see a single pitch in the I've talked about this.
Think about that. We are thinking about somebody
who loved baseball the way I did, played in high school,
played in college. You know how much I love to
coach and just a devout lunatic baseball fan.
So from the age of 7 all the way up until college, I didn't see a
single playoff pitch for my team.
And so that was like a different level of frustration.
No wild court. Toronto was good, Tigers really
good. For a minute in 84, Tigers
started 35 and five that year in 198435 and five.
Think about that. And then all of a sudden, all I
did was expect to win, and they did.
Now the difference with me, I'm like some younger Yankee fans,
is that I had, I had become a calloused fan because there were
many times I was pissed at George and I was frustrated.
The product and Mattingly hurt his back and they had no
pitching even when they had Ricky.
Donnie and Winfield, like how do you not make the playoffs when
Ricky Henderson is your lead off man?
Don Mattingly is your 3 hitter and this is vintage Mattingly.
And by the way, still absolute vintage Ricky.
And Oh yeah, by the way, mostly still vintage Dave Winfield 134.
What? So it was like frustration and
that it was I expect to win, but because I didn't win at all as a
kid, I was never one of these. And you know who you are that
cocky, come on, I love you. But that that punk Yankee fan
just always sticking in the Mets fans face and the Red Sox fans
face and nobody could beat us. I didn't have that.
Like I I understood I'm old enough to remember when the
Yankees weren't good. So I was going to walk around
with that mindset like that's what we do.
So maybe maybe I'm processing this more in a more balanced way
because I've had experience with this, you know, rather than just
let it RIP like a lunatic. I also understand baseball and I
also understand it's a long odyssey, all right?
So it's not even February, which means you could still do
something now, all right? And then you play it on a well,
you start in March, all the April, all the May, all the
June, All right. I remember saying the sound to
me what baseball's become is the 1st 2 1/2 and I don't love this,
but this what's what it's become the 1st 2 1/2 months.
You evaluate what you have it just kind of you throw it out
there, you make your offseason moves.
If you're going to give the young kids some run, you give
them some young run or you give them some run early.
So you figure out what you have, right?
All right, If somebody was hurt the year before they get back,
what do they look like? Somebody like Gary Cole,
somebody like Rodon, kind of assess the physical aspect of
it. Injury wise young players, you
see if they can adapt and adjust and handle the added, you know,
strain of playing Major League Baseball on a daily basis.
And if not, you got to sit where you got to ship them out.
It's a valuation. Yes, you want to win, you don't
want to get buried, but you're not winning any divisional title
in April and May. You just not so April, May and
even into early June. You're evaluating what you have,
right? And then once you get to around
the middle of June, you kind of know what you have.
Now the next phase of the baseball season is you go out
there and you get what you don't have.
You address what you need to address.
So first a couple of months. All right, we've got this.
I like this. This is working.
Thought this might be a little bit more viable.
We got a hole here. This guy's not getting it done.
He's back in the minors. Evaluate, then you react to the
evaluation and then the last part of the season is now you
kind of hit the reset with the team and the additions and
reinforcements you brought in to make a run for a World Series.
That's the baseball season in a nutshell.
I just boiled it down to you. I I really did.
So I know that it's one of 162, but they're not really all the
same. They're not all, even though
they literally are from a mathematical point of view, the
way that the calculus works for these front offices, they, it's,
it's exactly what I just told you.
It's really, it's a first couple of months, a runway to get up
and, and gain some altitude and validate your belief in your
opening day roster and lineup. And then if you're proven to
have made some sloppy or erroneous misreads, you address
it. And then you go from there.
Batten down the hatches. We got two months to play ball
with the reinforcements. Let's go.
Like when the Yankees got Bednar, they realized like, all
right, this is even though, even though Devin Williams stabilized
things, right? the IT was fairly obvious,
certainly in April when his ERA was nine.
Wow. Where he just.
Yeah, like this. It doesn't look right, doesn't
feel right, doesn't smell right. I don't trust this guy in a big
spot. Is he spooked by New York?
Is he spooked by the pinstripes? I don't know what it is, but
this guy can't be on the mound closing games when it matters.
Up in Fenway, up in Toronto. Not that they want in Toronto.
You know, I thought Baltimore would be better coming in.
Down in Baltimore, you know, the Tigers are a pretty decent team.
You know, the good teams, right? So you've got to get that
evaluation and they will and they'll react to it.
You know, and I think that when I look at both of these teams, I
I would have to say the the main points of evaluation going into
the season would be a varying degrees of importance.
But you know, Ken Polanco really handle first base.
I think it'll be fine. Can Beatty handle the outfield?
I think you'll be fine. Which version of Louise Robert
do the Mets have? I don't know.
Hey, get off the pot time for Alvarez.
Like we're getting the answer this year that I don't need to
even need to church it up. Are you going?
Are you not? And if you're not, you got to
leave. So we'll get the answer on
Alvarez, we'll get an answer on Binge and we'll find out if
Simeon has any real true life in his baseball body anymore.
I like the move because Jeff McNeil just you had to get rid
of him. Simeon's a great defensive,
defensive defensive player. He's a good clubhouse, guys a
World Series champion. Even if he's not, you know,
doesn't bounce back with a vengeance from the average and
the the offensive output perspective, I think it's an
upgrade. So those are some of the
questions for the for the Mets. And then you calculate a tongue,
you calculate year 2 of McClain. All right, Is Devin Williams
really going gonna go back to being that guy in in Milwaukee
or for a month or two or three that he was with the Yankees?
Or do we have an issue here? You know, evaluate that.
Do we meet? Do we need to really just put it
all on the table and say whatever it takes, we need
school. Hey, we're better than we
thought. We can win this thing.
Dodgers have an injury or two. We're going for it.
We're going for the World Series.
That's all in season processing and then evaluation and then
reacting to it. And now from the Yankees point
of view, and there are a lot of questions for both of these
teams, I just don't think it's nearly as dire or some of you
do, you know, is Grisham really a lead off hitter?
I know my answer, but they'll probably still evaluate that.
You know, is is is Rice an adequate enough first baseman to
play there every day? I think he will be, but I want
to see it. Is he the hitter that we think
that he will be? I think so.
Do they trade Jazz that that's really still on the table?
Is Wells going to turn the corner or is it going to be one
of these massive strikeout, low average, you know, run into some
fast balls to hit some home runs, kind of a catcher, which
is, I mean, you'll take that better than the guy was hitting
two O 9 with five home runs, but not not optimal.
You know, Do they move on from Ryan McMahon?
Do they entice somebody to make a trade?
If you maybe you throw Jones and McMahon in a pitcher and you eat
some of the money with McMahon and I don't get Nico Horner,
Well, I'm just throwing stuff out.
I don't know. I don't know what the Hell's
Volpe look like when he comes back?
What's Schlittler like in Year 2?
Where's Gary Cole? Where's Rodon?
All questions. But you guys want these things
answered today, and I just don't.
Well, I understand that. I just don't agree with it.
Of course I understand that. You're lunatics.
You're a baseball lunatic like myself.
I'm just a little more mature these days.
J Rod. What's cooking, buddy?
What's going on, man? Where's J Rod?
How we do? He is.
How's it going? Give it up.
For J Rod, good morning, good morning.
What up player? Nothing much.
How are you? I'm good, I'm good, man.
So do you agree? Do you agree?
You don't have to dive too much into the sports opinion here,
but do you agree on a on some level?
And you can if you want to. I just, I just don't know how
how, how much you're into it. That while the reaction is kind
of fun, you know, and getting worked up it that it really
largely misses the mark. Like, it's a lot of energy
that's wasted that at the end of the day doesn't really mean that
those are like the results we're going to get when it's all said
and done. Are you with me?
Yeah, I mean, absolutely. I think, you know, as they say,
time tells all. I think you can't really
overreact just based on, you know, some offseason moves, some
offseason rumblings. You really have to see how you
know things will play out. OK, All right.
There you go. No, I'm I'm with you, Don
Taylor, Don Baylor. You know I was not Don Baylor
was on the Yankees for a minute too.
Yeah, I hear you. Let me get a couple of these
tweets in here or I always say tweets.
They're not tweets. They're I always say though, I
always but yeah, but it just I always do it.
Let me get glad four O 6 in in Is he in tie?
He's that's that's what I. Was picking up from that, Yeah,
I think so kind. Of looks like the avatar is wow,
glad I found you BT there's nobody no one like the passion
it's insane. Thank you.
Well, thank you. I mean, you're checking out,
you're checking me out, checking us out from Thailand.
We got to be doing something, right.
I'm not even sure what time it is in Thailand, if that's indeed
where you are. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate that.
That is, that is one thing that if I, if I had to really, if I
had to really kind of come up with like a working definition
or mission statement for BT Unleashed, passion and, and
energy would, would obviously be somewhere very high in the
description. And hopefully intellect and
balance and fairness and a little wackiness and having fun
and all those and diversity and all those other things.
And you know, just a real pure passion for sport.
But like, this is me. Like this is not I, I just, I
love doing this stuff. Like I, I love talking.
The art of communication is something that has always been
appealing to me. I'm glad you guys are feeling it
and that means a lot. Thank you very, very much.
Thank you. What do we got here?
Anthony's going to check in. Anthony Mellie, 53 O 5.
Yanks are good enough line up to win the American League.
Mets have a little bit better line up, but will be harder for
them to get out of the NL. Yeah, I I think that most of
that's fair and I don't know if it's all accurate, Anthony.
I think that, you know, through the Yankees really, truly have a
good enough lineup right now. I don't think that they do to
win the American League. But that's also because I don't
have the answers yet on the pitching.
That's why it comes down to a Garrett Coleman Rodan and he
running out the stat that one through 5.
And then obviously by extension, you're taking whether it's a
weathers, one of these cats when they when everybody's healthy
and you're putting them in like a 6th inning relief role or
maybe even closer to a high leverage point.
If they could adapt to that. Well, now, yes, now I think the
lineup with Judge, you know, and with Bellinger and you know, you
still need one more. Like that's the thing, like I'm
trying to convince and I don't I don't love the lineup, but like
just imagine if it was if you had Bichette somewhere in here,
like if you have Bichette now, it changes everything because
what you could do and they don't have them.
So I'm not going to waste a lot of time on this, But rather than
putting Grisham in a lead off spot, you know what?
You can lead off Bichette, you can lead off Bo Bichette,
there's your righty. And then what I would then do, I
would put Bellinger in the 2 hole, even though he protected
Judge a year ago, I got Bichette, Bellinger contact,
intelligence, clutch boom, hit your belly, hit lefties, hit
righties, Bichette hit everybody as well.
Then you put arrow judge 3. And now at that point, you could
then justify putting Ben Rice 4. So you'd have a righty lefty,
righty lefty. I know they're looking for that,
but you got a lot of power, you got a lot of IQ, a lot of
contact, a lot of guys on base like without that one extra
potent bat. I I do understand that you're
reaching in certain spots like, you know, Caballero, opening day
shortstop, big man at third base, few of the other spots
we've hit, but you know, that's what trades are for.
You know what I mean there. Jay Rod.
Yes, Sir. Here's a here's a question from
Armand. OK, you throw that one up first.
What do you got there? OK, Thank you.
Oh, well, I'm not hitting anything.
Why is that? Actually, I didn't hit anything.
All right, thank you, Jay. Rod.
There we go. There we go.
OK, All right. Armand is amazing if the owes
owed Framber Valda, if they if they add Framber or Gallon, are
they better than the Yankees? No, I don't know about that.
I I don't know about that. I think I was very surprised the
Orioles weren't better than they were a year ago.
That's one thing like I didn't expect that.
I I didn't think that they would win the division, but their
young core and the players that they had AI thought that I I
actually thought they'd probably be more of a chief threat to the
Yankees than Toronto going in now Red Sox have good pitching a
little light on the sticks there.
The Orioles had Pete if they had another arm.
I mean that that's why I don't even if they don't add another
arm like Valdez. I I do think that well, I mean,
shoot, if they I mean you got you get CC.
Just really think this through position players.
I don't love Valdez for reasons that I've talked about here.
His second-half numbers were very worrisome.
And then the character issue crossing up his catcher, I I
can't reconcile that. But I'm talking it's about the
Orioles. So if they want to deal with
that and they think it's OK, go for it.
I wouldn't do it. But they're trying to win Valdez
and Cease. Yeah.
I mean, at that point, I'd have to say that maybe you kind of
flip a coin like it, is Pete going to go there and hit 32
home runs or is Pete going to just go bonkers year one?
I'd have to think he's probably pushing 40 more so than 30,
right? So I think the Orioles were a
real threat. If they get somebody like
Valdez, even more so. But I think they're going to be
competitive now. And there's a reason why I don't
think that, you know, last year nobody won more than 94 games in
the East anyway. So I don't think it's going to
be like that 9899 win, total hundred win.
So I just don't really see that myself.
This has come up quite a bit at Nice Putt.
We got a golfer here. Can't wait to start playing
golf, bad golf, but I can't wait to start playing Tatis for
Dominguez and Jones. Well, I would have to think they
would want a controllable pitcher as well.
Like, I don't. I don't think that that gets
done if it's Dominguez, Jones and whomever else they covet
other than Cam Schlittler. Yeah.
I mean, of course you make. There's no doubt that you do
that. Of course, Yeah, I see a couple
things. I thought the show started at
10. It usually does today.
And I, I tweeted this out, guys, it starts at 10.
But today I got to jump out. I got to do some stuff here.
So I'm hopeful now I got to look at the trademark stuff, but I'm
hopeful that I'll be able to take the segment from Fox on
Sunday about youth sports and upload this year.
I've got to ask them. So when I went on Tina's show on
on Fox Sports Extra about a month or so ago, I got
permission to do it and they were cool with it.
So hopefully that's the case and and I'll be able to do that
again. And if we can, then we'll
absolutely do it. What about how do you say how
are we saying this name M Cordoza?
I think it's. M cordoza that that's what I I'd
run with. We'll do that.
Yeah. Trade idea for Tatis.
They want Dominguez. All right, So this is where.
Oh, no, it's the way to Dominguez and Jones.
Fine, Lombard. I really don't want to give up
Lombard. That's like the one guy that I
want. LaGrange is really high, like
Boone loves him and Schlittler. So really to me, what it comes
down to, I almost have to take Dominguez and Jones out of there
because I'd be OK. Of course you, you give them up
for him. Lombard give up LaGrange, even
though I think they really love him.
And I, I don't know that I could justify giving up Cam Schlittler
at that point. I mean, man, that's a tough one.
You, you got me. I I don't know, I really don't
know Tatis. They got Tatis in here.
I mean to see the problem with that and then the Yankees start
to run into a problem that they're still addressing now,
which is what I'm trying to avoid.
Like let's say that they give up Cam.
I think Cam's going to be a multi time All Star Jay, you can
get that off the screen. Thank you, brother.
I I think he's going to be that guy right.
So if you get rid, I'm not saying I don't trade him under
any circumstance, like if if I knew they were going to get
schooled with an extension, which is not going to happen,
but that's that's grounds for me.
Like, OK, I could give up Cam Schlittler.
And even then I wouldn't really want to do it because Cam
Schlitt like I don't know, is Tariq school going to be twice
as good as Cam Schlittler? Probably not.
If Cam is 70% of school, 70%, he's making $900,000.
You're going to have this guy making 50 million a year.
And with how that matters with Cohen, not as much.
But the issue with moving away from somebody like Cam is, you
know, Garrett Cole's getting older.
Will Don's contract is up soon. All right, Max Freed, first of
us, what, 7 year deal? I think it was 7.
And it fits very, very well for the Yankees last year.
I don't want to see the situation where the Yankees are
always having to fill the voids in the rotation with these big
contracts. Like the idea of building a team
building should consist of this. If you're a legitimate franchise
in a first rate operation that drafts well and develops well
and has all the international resources and all the other
stuff buttoned up and you know what I mean, whatever it might
be encompassing everything, you just, you're on point.
Well, you would love to have like 2 transformative players
that you've discovered on your own.
The Yankees have won in terms of position players and Aaron
Judge, you'd love one more now both.
Bee was supposed to be that guy. He's not that guy.
Dominguez was supposed to be that guy.
Not that guy yet. Although I actually think
Dominguez is going to take a big step.
I'm actually really excited about Dominguez.
Watch it get dealt as soon as we get off the show, off the show
today. So if they would have had that
like then, then it changes things.
It it just changes the way you have to compute what you need to
do. The fact that they outside of
judge, they haven't produced those kind of players.
Now you got to chase and you oh God, we don't have 1/3 baseman.
You know, we don't love McMahon, but he could catch it.
All right, let's trade for him. Then you stuck with two years
left at $16,000,000.32 total for a guy who strikes out 200
something times a year. And that's how you know, you
could still be competitive that way and you could still win a
lot of games to be a playoff team that way.
But that's really not the way to win a championship.
So as I wrap it up and I look at it this way, because I got to
go, the car is going to be here in 30 minutes.
I got to take a shower. Got to shave the Dome, you know,
got to shave the Dome. My wife's like, no, you should
let it grow out. Grow out.
No, wait, that that's the worst look.
You got the George Jefferson look going on here.
See that? So I got it here.
I'm not as bold as ever. Like if I grew it out, it would
be, but you see the sides are a little thicker.
Can't be having that. Like to me, I think you look
older. Like if you're losing your hair,
just take the plunge. Just go.
What are you waiting for? Shave it.
I mean, there's still some dudes I still like.
I'll take my son to get a haircut.
I still see some people in a Barber chair where like, you
know, they don't, they don't have anything up here.
And like the barber's shaving the sides not with a razor with
a with a one or two or three clip.
Like, dude, just go all the way. Who are you fooling to me?
You. You're drawing more attention to
your boldness when you've got fur here and nothing here.
What are you doing anyways? I got a shave, so I got to get
rolling because the car's coming here soon.
I think that last thought on this, when you you look at how
the Dodgers have done whatever they want and they get whoever
they want and doesn't seem fair and they're playing by different
rules and they're deferring money.
Well, what are the Dodgers doing?
Do they have wink agreements? Wink and not agree?
All the Japanese players want to go there.
All right, It's cyclical it all, Michael, Tony's not going to be
this prime forever. You know, eventually dynasties
Peter out. So I'm not worried about that.
And then there's going to be a complete recalibration of the
economics of baseball, which is why 2027 is going to suck in
terms of a work stoppage or some real deep labor stripe.
But the point is, the energy is twofold.
The Yankee energy is you're bothered by the fact that the
Dodgers doing whatever they want and you're not nearly as
aggressive as you used to be and you want how to be so.
And I get that. Like when you throw those two
emotions together, well, now you it's it's, it's, it's a little
combustible. Now you're pissed off and you're
on edge and you're a little ornery.
Right. But when you actually step back
from the situation and look at it pragmatically and understand
that number one, they're not done #2 they're picked to win as
many games as anybody outside of the Dodgers, then you know that
there's a different route to get to where you want to go.
And I think that that's, you know, that's what you got to
hang your hat on right now. And for the met point of view,
you know, they were sitting there saying, my God, we got rid
of Nimmo, we got rid of Pete, we got rid of this guy.
We got rid of that guy. And then it didn't really seem
like they were going to sign anybody.
Like when they got Polanco and Sydney and a lot of you were
like, the hell we doing here. But then the other moves came a
little younger, more athletic, so and more aggressive.
You just you don't know what tomorrow brings.
I know that that's such a basic statement.
So just try try to straddle the line.
All right, be invested, be engaged, be passionate, but also
be realistic and understanding that there's this thing called
the trade deadline and there's thing this thing called the
calendar. And right now it still reads
January. That's all I'm saying.
Just understand that at Strat strategy, not an easy word to
say. Strategy or stratagry either
way. Yeah, just shave it.
Look how? Look how clean I look.
I mean, you have to, you have to.
I remember once in a while Tiki, that's where I came up with the
George Jefferson reference from Tiki would come.
Now, Tiki looks like an Adonis looks like an absolute Adonis.
Like you see Tiki in these clips on YouTube.
He is absolutely swole, like his arms are jacked.
His check. Now he also goes with the SH
medium. You know, I mean, Tiki likes
those tight shirts. And by the way, if you look like
that, I don't blame you. But he's also very
proportionate. Like, you know, he's got not to
sound like I'm. Yeah, they think the guy, you
know, they're trying to date the guy, but he's got these like his
thighs are stacked, his chest is stacked and he's got these
perfect white teeth, right? Got a perfectly chiseled face.
He always dresses well. It looks like a gazillion
dollars, right? He really is a good looking guy
who presents himself really well.
But every once in a while he would come as when we were on
the really more so on the fan, because when we were on the fan,
we weren't on TV, but when we were doing the national show,
when we were on YouTube, whatever, But so you can watch
us there. But we weren't on a network like
we were when we were doing the national afternoon show on CBS
Sports Network. So they wouldn't dare do it.
Then every once in a while, Teak would roll in and he'd had the
sides here. And you know, even though I've
got a little of the horseshoe, he's got a full blown George
Jefferson horseshoe. I'm like, what in the world are
you doing? No matter how good you look,
it's offset by what's up, what's going on at the top of your
head. What happened?
All right, anyway, let me bounce.
I had to do a little bit of a shorter 1 today just because I
do have to jump in the shower, shave the Dome.
Cars coming to 10:30. Go talk about some youth sports
tomorrow. Back to usual. 10:00 You get the
safe yet? If you had, you know, I had to
take a guess. I feel like The Jets will end up
with Frank Reich. I feel like Wink, I think
there's a little bit of a trapdoor there, you know,
interview three days ago, still going back and forth.
I'd be good with Wink. Something tells me that that is
not going to happen. That's my guess with that.
So I'll go Frank Reich and I could see them going to Chris
Harris, which I don't, I don't really love, or Leonard, which I
would like more. And then obviously this other
thing and I just spent 2-3 minutes on it.
But this Bears watching as we get toward February 5 in the NBA
trade down. Talk about baseball trade
deadline, the NBA trade deadline where, you know, I mean, the
Knicks right now, a lot of rumblings taking a look at Drew
Holiday trying to get that third team involved.
And, you know, now you got people, you know, trying to
align themselves with Giannis. Hey, I could get you to your
preferred destination. And I mean that would be a next
level move if the Knicks are able And I I I don't know if I
mean, it's possible. I think it's a lot.
It's a lot to expect because of their lack of first round picks.
It's just a it's a very complex deal.
But if they walk away with Drew Holiday as defensive big shot
back court mate for Jaylen Brunson, I mean, and you get
Giannis and you ship out cat and bridges, which is all the
rumblings there. I'm in and it's on.
So hopefully that happens. I would say the odds maybe
twenty 2530% that all that does come to fruition.
But hey, I'm here for it if it does so have a great Tuesday.
I will obviously see you tomorrow at 10.
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