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Monday, 10 days, 10 days, TikTok.
We move toward the NFL draft, which obviously is going to be a
lot of juice here, not just for the local teams.
I think there's going to be a ton of trades and a ton of
action. So the NFL draft is around the
corner. NBA regular season wraps up,
Rory. Rory, you know, we're going to
get to this later with three Bernie questions.
Rory, very interesting to see where Rory is going to wind up
all time. But he was trying to get that
thing away. Scotty Scheffler coming down the
stretch, you know, it was the Masters is phenomenal.
So obviously we've got a lot to do, starting with the circus.
The the I, I don't, I don't know.
I don't know what the Hell's going on with New York baseball
right now. The, the Yankees see there,
there is a difference between the Yankees and the Mets right
now. There's not much, because they
both suck right now. The difference, though, is that
the Yankees aren't performing. And that, and that's a big
enough of an issue. I'm not minimizing that the
Yankees aren't performing. The Mets don't even look like
they care like the and, and really most of that that you
know what, I'm going to take that back and I'm going to say
Francisco Lindor does not look like he even cares.
And really from a Yankee perspective, Jazz has had some
of those moments as well. But like the Yankee issues where
they've lost five straight and the Mets who have lost five
straight, Yankees just have a lot of guys who aren't hitting.
Yankees have pitched very well and they've got, you know,
basically four or five guys hit up to 200 where, you know, the
Mets obviously miss Juan Soto. But I mean, I don't, I don't
know what the story is. Lindor.
It's not just a funk. It's not just a rough start.
It's not just, well, it's what Lindor does every April, every
April. Francisco Lindor has been in
space. He has been an absolute space
outer space from the first game of the season.
And you know, his manager, I think, but Mehndi generally,
well, not more than general. I think Mehndi does a, a really
good job. He's not alone.
I mean, none of these managers really say anything negative
about their players anymore. Everybody's terrified to call
somebody out, even booty. I, I'll tell you what I know.
I, I, I feel today's one of those days where I just feel
like jumping around because there's so many things and
there's a lot of good things, but there's so many things that
bothered me about the baseball over the weekend.
And I tweeted this like, Boones got to kick Jazz in the ass.
You know, Jazz Chisholm got to wake up and Aaron Boones got to
sit him and Aaron Boone seemingly, and I love them, but
he's got no appetite to do that. And that's a problem all right
now and I'll get back. I just had to get that.
That felt that felt oddly cathartic, even though it wasn't
much like I I couldn't not get a little bit on Jazz before I
started the show. And I'll I'll get back to that,
right. Yankees have issues.
I don't think they're as deep as the Mets, but they've got some
issues, right? The Mets.
So when they were playing sloppy ball at the beginning of the
season, I said one of the shows, it was a Monday probably 2 weeks
ago. Whatever it was, you could go
check it out. And I said, Mendy better get
this thing right. You know, Carlos Mendoza better
stabilize this thing because now the excuses are out, you know,
are out the window here. You got rid of Nemo, who by the
way, is crushing it all right? You got rid of Pete, who's doing
nothing. You know, Diaz is gone.
We know what they've done. We know what Stearns has done
here. The only other place to look at
this point would be the manager and the the other store player,
and that would be Lindor. And the other store, of course,
is 1. Soto, who is basically beyond
reproach #1 he's just a lot better than Lindor and #2 he's
not healthy. So Mendoza, like many managers,
as I started to say, they just very rarely give you the blunt,
honest truth about performance. And you know that that is
something that has changed dramatically around sports.
I it bothers me like I'm from the school.
I don't mean that you divulge secrets or, you know, you
embarrass somebody, but like, we're not dumb.
Like we know what we're watching.
You know, when, when we see somebody who either number one,
this is the Lindor Follies. Let let me get to hold on.
Let me open up the the drawer. Let me get the Lindor follies
for 20. It's it's pretty extensive draw
here. We all right, there's all the
filings right there. All right #1A a very strange non
direct path on a double against the pirates opening weekend
where he even took ownership of this and didn't have a good
route. Why not?
You're a good baserunner. You know, you're fast and you're
a smart base runner. So that's on you.
You know, I don't want to hear about the third base coach over
aggressive. Oh, you got a couple of guys on
nobody out. No, no, If the Mets are trying
to play an aggressive brand to baseball this year, which I
actually really like. And they talked about this going
into the series with the Pirates where they thought that they can
run on the Pirates and put stress on their defense.
Well, the moment that you step on the field, you know how
you're going to how the coach is going to react.
We're sending you we're waving you home.
Let's go bowl down the line. Bowl the gap.
Let's go cut the corner of the base and let's go Lindor out at
the plate. All right, I didn't crush him
for that because it's a baseball play, right?
But along the way, let me check the files again.
Along the way we have seen an All Star shortstop not know how
many outs there are in an inning.
We have seen an All Star shortstop over this weekend for
some reason basically veer over to deep second base and not
cover the bag, which by the way is your responsibility.
Which by the way negated a very potential double play which
would have changed the outcome of the game.
We saw about a week or so ago the same All Star looking down
at his oven Mitt. Imagine having a conversation in
1983. Hey, Ricky Henderson got picked
off because he was looking down at his oven Mitt.
I mean, oven Mitt. Yeah, Come on, man.
So he is in space. It doesn't look like he's having
fun. It doesn't look like he wants to
be here. And it doesn't look like he's
going to bust out of it anytime. Because I got news for you right
now. Eventually, Francisco Lindor is
going to hit because I think he's too talented not to.
But that's that's not good enough, man.
And what is what is no longer good enough for me and.
And I, I think Met fans are disgusted by it.
I think that you have hit your limit.
Like there was a point, I remember, I think it was two
years ago, there was a ball up the middle on a Friday night.
I think, I think it was a Friday, maybe a Saturday, but it
was a weekend game. And he booted the ball up the
middle and maybe he could have gunned down somebody to play
whatever. It was kind of a slow roller up
the middle, botched it. And and really this is when all
the stuff was going on at the fan with me talking about the
door. So obviously my eyes perked up
even more. But I got on the air the next
day and I think some people thought that I was going to shit
all over him. And I actually gave him credit
for being a stand up guy, taking the thumb, putting it at the
chest, taking ownership. We know what happened, we saw
it. And really, you know, I thought
demonstrating very tangible leadership qualities by just
being so humble and accountable, Hey, nobody wants to hear it
anymore. Make the place, bro.
Nobody wants to hear you at your locker.
Like I'm done loading Francisco Lindor for just being honest
about his shit performance. Oh wow, what a stand up guy.
Lindor. What a good dude.
Oh, he's such a leader. He's such a team guy Then you
know about that. Lindor always stands up there,
always answers the questions. How about you start making some
plays? Do you have any interest in
doing that at any point? Because here's what's happening
with Lindor #1 and guys, this was visible last year and I
didn't make too much of it because it was counter to what
he had put up, put on film and and really his resume up until
this point. Francisco Lindor took a step
back defensively last year. That's a fact.
I didn't make a big deal out of it, but I didn't forget it.
And now we bleed into this year when now I guess they're buddies
because I saw Nimmo and Lindor talking.
Oh, no, we're good. We're straight.
No problem. Yeah.
OK. Right.
They couldn't. They wanted to fight each other.
They couldn't stand each other. Now everything's good.
That was a bunch of nonsense, that relationship and and it.
Listen, not not that McNeil needs to spill the beans now,
but don't tell me that there was never a problem.
You got. He grabbed you by the throat in
the tunnel. I mean, what, are you kidding
me? Yeah.
I'd have to say that there's a bit of a problem there.
So now everybody's been run out of town.
Everybody's gone. Juan Soto is the golden
parachute, like the golden ticket to Met fans.
Not that he'll never be, and he should be.
Not that he'll never be beyond reproach.
But right now #1 he not even playing.
And #2 when he does play, he hits.
All right. So.
And #3 the other guy who's making a lot of money looks like
a minor leaguer who would rather be anywhere.
I don't know. Is it the campaign trail?
I I don't know where Lindor's head is, but it's not where it
needs to be. So when Carlos Mendoza over over
the weekend using the word weird, you know, that's you
know, for him. I mean, that's that that's
that's akin to him basically saying this guy's a freaking
scrub, which I know he's not. I'm just I'm just making a
point. Like you got to understand that
Carlos spend those and and boom too, too much.
They always defend their guys like everybody else in sports.
All right, God forbid you put the onus on the doorstep and not
just Lindor talking about in general.
Now, just generalities in sports put the onus on the doorstep of,
I don't know, the guy who's making 40 mil, the guy who's
making 45 mil, the guy was making 50 million.
God forbid, God forbid those guys feel the heat a little bit.
You know, how many situations have we had?
And, you know, Boney let Donaldson get away with it a
couple of times when he was pimping home runs that didn't go
over the fence. We've seen it with Mendoza.
We've seen guys not hustle. We've seen Alvarez be a little
lazy behind the dish. Just goes unchecked.
It just goes unchecked. It really is amazing to me, but
the issues it's, it's, it's very, it's very interesting
because they both literally are in a 5 game losing streak.
So right now the Yankees and the Mets very much look the same.
I think the Mets had what was the stat?
They had like 6 extra base hits on or five on the home stand in
in all the games. I mean, the and the Yankees
offense is just equally pathetic.
You got nobody to pinch hit grit.
Shit, get rid of him. Would you call up Jason
Dominguez? Would you get him up here,
please? I don't need to see Grichik.
I don't need to see like the lineup.
The lineups have problems all right now.
I do think that the Yankees chemistry is pretty good.
I think the Yankees pitching is really good.
I know it's going to get better with Gerrit Cole and Rodon.
I'm not worried about the Yankees.
I'm bothered by the Yankees because they look like shit.
I'm bothered by the Yankees because they started out, what,
6 of winning six of seven? And while everybody else was
kind of, you know, dancing around and just kind of throw a
little token jabs, the Yankees were coming out hitting some
people on the chin. And I'm like, OK, they could go
up a couple of rounds on the score, on the scorecard early.
And now they flushed that down the chute because they can't
hit. I know Judge hit the home run
yesterday. He's been invisible.
And you know, Wells is hitting one.
Whatever, Chisholm's a disaster. Ryan McMahon's the worst hitting
third baseman I've ever seen in my life.
I mean, it's just they got a lot of problem, you know, the center
fielder who? Everybody from a Yankee point of
view. I don't mean us, the fans, from
a Yankee point of view. We're thrilled to have back guy.
All right? Trent Grisham back. 22,000,000
bucks on the qualifying offer. Fantastic.
Yeah. How's that look now?
How's it look? Yeah, he's hitting 150.
I mean, there are there are just some gross, gross performances
here, guys, and I really don't understand why.
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the house. J Rod, what's going on?
Yes. Sir, what's up?
What's up? Unleash fam.
Some nasty some nasty baseball stuff.
I know, man. I mean, and listen, I know
you'll get into the jazz thing, but like, that's one of those
plays I call it's like a grandma.
That's like my word for it. It's like a play that even if
your grandma, who knew nothing about the sport so would still
go. Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What is he thinking? What is he doing?
How do you not know that? I mean, the I'm going to get
into it now. The optics of that now it's it's
about as it's this is like the the I don't know if there's a
better or there probably is. Maybe I'm a prisoner at the
moment, but I don't know that there's a much better
illumination of the disconnect between the modern athlete and
the average fan who's been schlepping and jumping through
freaking hoops to watch on Prime and Apple and you know, channel
Channel 9 and Channel 11, the Mets with the Yanks when they're
on normal TV and S&Y and yes, and what is it that's on
Peacock? What opening days on Netflix,
That imagery of, of Jazz Chisholm sitting in his locker,
twisting his earring, not having a clue, not a clue about the the
rule book is really just about as embarrassing as it gets.
Really. Now I, I listen, I I got to say
one thing too, and I've always got to keep it real.
You know, I love Aaron Boone. I would have sat him down.
Boone is not gonna do that. He's I texted it and I tweeted
it. I all to many people over the
weekend. I would have sat him down.
Send the message, All right? That's not what Boone's going to
do. And by the way, if you're a Met
fan chirping about, you know, hey, Mendy, sit him down #1 the
day that he finally gets two hits is probably not the day to
sit him down. But Mendy's not going to sit
down and do a ride. Not going to happen.
All right, When these guys, when these guys are used to playing
every day and they're making big money, in this case, Lindor more
than Jazz, obviously, they're just, they're basically beyond
reproach. Now, you might get a little bit
of a stern talking to behind closed doors.
I do think that well, because I've had real like real man to
man conversations with Boon when there's no cameras.
I haven't had that with men with Mendy.
So I want to be fair. Maybe he's very much the same
way. I I don't know.
He he very well might think it's a baseball guy, But like I've
had conversations, whether it's on the phone or in personal Boon
and it just talking guy to guy, you know, a couple of F bombs
that he keeps it real with certain players.
I know what he thinks about certain players.
All right, but he's not going to communicate it to you.
And I know that you want it and I know that you want the pound
of flesh. And I understand that on some
level for some crazy reason, because we're all crazy at the
end of the day with these sports teams, right?
It is cathartic. It is I'm not going to lie to
you, like when The Jets when I get on after a Jets game, Jets
lose. Just throw something out here.
Oh, it was a competitive 30 to 6.
This was a tight one. We battled right, Jets lose 30
to 6. J Rod was doing the postgame
show with me for unkillable when I was still with the fan doing
that stuff right and I get on the air, you know, and you know,
I launched into a little tirade. I drop a couple of F bombs, All
right, not the most becoming. It's a little unbecoming
language. I get it for some, but tough
because when I say when I say that, it makes me feel just
oddly is cathartic. It's like a it's like an aspirin
for my football headache. OK, I say it and I if I
punctuated properly, like if I really, really accentuate the K,
like, fuck, you know, I'm not going to just yeah, like, I'm
like, I felt I felt better. I'm I'm good, even though it
doesn't change the result. And it applies as well, J Rod,
to those Yankees and Mets fans who are calling up whether it's
the fan tweeting, doing it, whatever you're doing, sit this
guy, you know, undress this guy. Boonies got to stop protecting
Jazz for not knowing the knowing the rules.
All right, let let let's explore that.
Keep that up there. I'll get that in a minute.
Keep that up there. And, and, and, and think about
this for a moment, guys, right? Let's just say that Aaron Boone
did what some of you want him to do.
So instead of saying, I think Boone's exact quote was, hey,
he's a smart guy. He definitely knew the rule book
or he knows the rule book. It's one of those things that
basically that you just wrotely respond without giving it much
thought. You wrotely respond to a
question from the media and you just try to keep the train
moving and get onto the team bus and whatever.
And by doing that, sometimes you can say something that's either
inflammatory or or or really bothers a fan base like in this
case, right. So if Boone would have taken the
exact opposite approach, Oh, this guy, you know, listen,
Chad, let's just say, hey, I'm going to be I'm going to be
Aaron Boone right now. All right.
I would do this with Sal once while role play.
I'm Boone. I want you to be a reporter and
I want you to ask me about jazz Chism and that last play.
Go ahead. And this is going to be wrong.
Go ahead. Hey, Boonie.
So I mean some kind of disastrous stuff back there.
Well, what were your thoughts on Jazz Chism's last play there?
He's a fucking space cadet. He's absolutely, he has no idea
what he's doing. I mean, I'm tired of it, you
know, quite frankly. Here's a guy who three months
ago was telling the whole world he's going 5050.
Now he's sitting $1.20 my ass, whatever he's at, you know, and
he's a guy who sometimes seems a little bit too consumed with
style and not enough about substance.
So I mean, listen, he's on the team.
You know, once again Castman gave me a shit or shit roster.
What do you want me to do? I got Caballero, I got grid
chick, I got Wells who can't get hit himself out of a wet paper
Bay. What do you want me to do?
I got McMahon who's hitting O 90 before he got a hit the other
day. What would you do?
Who do you want to play? Yeah, just I don't want Jazz
here for a long time. I don't trust that guy.
Would you trust Jazz if you're me?
If you're me and we are playing the Dodgers in the World Series,
you're playing Toronto up up there in October or in the Bronx
in front of 50 to 40, 5000 October.
Do you want that guy up with first and second in a in in a
situational hitting, you know, spot where he's swinging for the
moon thinking he's a skinny Babe Ruth?
You want that? I don't want that.
We all know the answer. This guy ain't long from New
York, but as long as Cashman keeps him here, I got to run his
ass out there. Next question.
All right, that's Jay. Jay.
I, I obviously laid it on a little thick there, but
understand why I did that, right?
I'm just trying to be fair to the conversation.
I know what Boone said was benign.
I don't really believe that he believes everything that he said
to be fair. I don't.
All right, I don't, but if he took the approach that I just
put out there, right? Think about the story today it
is all day. It is all day yesterday.
And now it goes into, well now you got to go back to Jazz and
get Jazz's response and hey listen, you know Jazz, you hear
what Booney said about you, then maybe he says something, you
know, and further inflammatory defends himself, which by the
way, I actually wouldn't be mad if he did.
And then that drags out another day or two and now you got a
shitstorm 5 days story and it's just unnecessary noise.
And really guys, if you think about it now, I've always said I
think he's good, but I've always said Aaron Boone's not Miller
Huggins or Billy Martin in terms of being a, a tactician.
Like he knows the game 'cause he's a fourth generation, you
know, baseball player been around the game forever.
I think he's got, I know he's got the respect of his players.
I, I absolutely believe that. But he's he's not going to.
Be something at this point, 8-9 years in that you want him to
be. He's going to be true to
himself, which I respect. And I actually think Aaron's
greatest characteristic is that he's able to keep those
controversies, those flare ups to a minimum.
And in New York, that might not matter if you're the manager of
the Guardians. That might not Matt, no
disrespect. That might not matter if you're
managing the Twins or the Rays or the Rangers or really any
other team but the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox, the Phillies,
maybe want maybe the Cubbies, you know, that can get away, you
know, and that's probably it. Even the Giants, who are, you
know, who won 33 championships in the 2000 in the 20 tens.
I, I worked there, I did afternoon drive there.
Trust me, I know the fans not as well as people who are from
there, you know, born and raised, but I've got more than a
modicum of, of, of knowledge of how they operate.
They don't operate the way they operate on the East Coast.
They're not wired that way. So all this stuff and it's a lot
of stuff that I threw out there. The bottom line is this Yankees
lineup sucks OK, and the Mets lineup sucks.
And the Mets, to me, have more of a problem because their
second star looks like he wants to be anywhere other than
playing shortstop for the Mets. There we go.
I'm saying that true, just true. Hold on, let me pull up this
super chat. But it's going to be it's going
to be two in one. So it's like this dude really
hooked it up. Shout out Rich Squires 986.
What up, Richie? What up, Richie?
Well, hold on now that you say really hooked it up.
Not that we're out here begging for money, but we had a $50
super chat doing The Jets collected the other night. 50
bucks. Now that's really hooked.
I'm just, I'm not teasing that hat, Rich.
I'm just messing around. Go ahead.
What? Do you got?
That's crazy. So yeah, it's like 2 in one.
So I guess I can go through the first one and then I'll go
through the 2nd. OK.
So you want to read it and then just kind of plug it as you get
to the next one? Sure.
All right, go ahead. All right, same crap.
Different year this is on Boone for how he constructed this team
now he meant to say Cashman he'll.
I was gonna say OK. No accountability and overpaid
players that should have never been signed that are holding
back players in the minors all right now.
Part 2 got it. Meant to say Cashman constructed
the team but I also am tired of hearing.
Wait until judge heats up. If you are relying on one
superstar to carrier team, you can't put the World Series team
together. Yep.
Amen. Richie Squires, I'm with you,
buddy. And those are two very different
things. I like the correction that you
made because as soon as I read that first line, I was grabbing
my pen and I was making that notation.
I was going to go back to it. I don't have to because you did
listen. So, but I did write down to
buzzwords that that you reference accountability and
overpaid terms, overpaid players right now, those are two very
different things. Accountability, I think that's a
a macro organizational thing from how, you know, Yankees not
winning a championship since 2000 and apparently that being
OK because everybody's still employed.
So you have how down to Cashman, Cashman down to Boone, Boone
down to the coaches and to the players.
So that's one aspect of accountability, I think.
I think that you're talking about accountability from the
players and Boone. I don't think you meant it as
big picture. I just wanted to throw it out
there. And then obviously the overpaid
players, that's Cashman thing. All right, So listen, I mean, of
course there there's an expiration point for everybody.
And if the Yankees underachieved this year, then I would probably
say it's time for new manager. And I've I've talked to Aaron
about this. I'm not just going to forever
sit here doing this and saying, Nope, Boone's got to be the
manager. Nope, Boone's my guy.
I will forever sit here and defend that man's character
because then he's got a heart of gold.
And I think he's he's got a, an incredible, he's got a lot of
good in him. And I and I and I, I try to
defend people like that, but I'm not going to do it to a point
where it now challenges, you know, my reputation, whatever it
might be. It is early in the season, but
it's almost a decade of Aaron Boone being here.
Now, that being said, all right to me and a lot of you messed
this up. You don't, I don't mess this up.
You messed this up. A lot of you just push back and
it just makes no sense when you do because it's not accurate.
I asked Yankee fans and it's such a simple question and
nobody ever answers it properly. Or I shouldn't say nobody.
Very few. All right, and here's the
question. Name the year.
I'm going to say it's slow, so we can get this one right today.
All right? I'd like to be able to
eventually get this right today and move on.
So it'll have to keep going back to this little lesson.
Come on, you guys are smart. You guys got to know this.
Just think. Put the emotion aside for a
moment and answer it with your brain, all right?
Not the anger that's pulsating through your body because the
Yankees have dropped five straight.
Name the year, name the season. Name the team where you believe
that Aaron Boone has underachieved as the manager of
the Yankees now. I don't mean, you know, name the
year where he had a bad move because, and I crushed him for
it. I got on the air the next day.
Why the hell are you throwing Cortez out there with the bases
juiced in game one of the World Series with Freddie Freeman when
Cortez hadn't thrown a meaningful pitch and Lord knows
when? Who doesn't even have elite
stuff? I got on him for that 100% and I
am on the record Jazz. He would be sitting like I I
would bench people more than he does.
I would not have Trent Grisham bat lead off.
Can't stand them there all right.
Can't stand them bat lead off. These are all things we know.
These are all things we flush through, but answer the question
that you can't. If you're honest, name the year
that you believe Aaron Boone underachieved as manager of the
Yankees. Now, to answer that, let's it
doesn't mean that he's perfect. Those are two separate things,
obviously. But if you answer that and you
like point to a year, whatever. If you want to say a couple
years ago with Soto in the World Series, I would disagree.
Dodgers were better, but OK, what else?
Because if you're saying that it was 2022 or 20/23/2023 or 2121,
whatever it might have been, what you're really saying is
that the Yankees went into a season with the indisputably the
best roster, the best lineup, the best pitching staff, best
bullpen, locked and loaded. Here's our lineup every day, one
through 9, like the old days, you know, and Jeter got Bernie
got Tino, you got this guy got O'Neal in the three hole, you
got Posada. We have the dish.
Switch it and catch with power. Like that was what Tori could
do. Now put yourself in Boone shoes.
And it's not a defense. It's just an acknowledgement of
how poor of a job Brian Cashman has done.
So all these years, because I say that guys, because if you're
not underachieving, I don't really see the need to change,
although admittedly, at some point the voice does get stale
and at some point the messaging falls on deaf ears.
I I get that's a real thing with every team.
I don't care who you are, what the payroll is and and how well
respected the manager is, right? So I don't, I don't think that
this Yankees team is there because I think Judge respects
Boone for sure. I think Bellinger does as well.
And you just got to hit better. And if you don't hit better, it
doesn't matter who's in the dugout.
Could be Billy Martin, but that's that.
Think about that. All the different Yankee
iterations all these years, you know, they've they've really
never had a first baseman till now.
Think about all the different first baseman, you know, broken
down Rizzo, Luke Voit during COVID.
I mean, Oh my God, they've had a Glaber who was a good second
baseman. But let's face it, a source of
our consternation for years because he was a little Spacey
as well, not as much as Jazz, but he was a space cadet as
well. You haven't had a shortstop
since one year, one Goodyear from DD, and then obviously
Jeter, right? You've had 9000 third baseman.
Basically they all stink. You've had 7 left fielders,
basically they all stink. You've had a bunch of center
fielders. You had Judge in center out of
necessity, which is alarmingly cavalier for a big bodied
superstar to have to play center field when you're 67280 because
you got nobody else. Think about all the catchers.
Think about trying to piece together bullpens, thinking
about the rotation before you got freed.
So that's a Cashman thing. All right.
And if you don't see that and you don't agree at this point, I
don't know what to tell you, man.
I don't know what to tell you. But what I am telling you is,
and this doesn't make it right, but to expect Boone to deviate
from his character and lash out at Jazz or bench Jazz, who was
driving me nuts. And I told you that one, there
is no way that they're going to give him a big contract.
I told you that on the fan a year ago.
Oh, why wouldn't you do that? He 3030 he runs, he's one of the
best second baseman in baseball. Are you insane?
They are not long term connecting themselves to that
guy. I can promise you that, right,
because I I was told that all right, So you want to you know,
you want to resist things, certain things.
I'm not asking you certain things.
I'm telling you because I know the answer.
Now you might not get the answer right away, but trust me when I
say it like that because guys understand this, right?
I'm not a news breaker. Like I'm not somebody who makes
a a livelihood of getting in for me.
Although maybe maybe I should try it, maybe do pretty well.
I don't know, you know, oh, this guy's going to get fired.
This team's moving up to make this trade for the draft, blah,
blah, blah, right? That's not my thing.
You know, my thing is and my thing has always been talking
passionately about sports, obviously having fun and I'll
beat half a nut ball when the time is right.
It's kind of happens naturally. But also having enough contacts
where if I tell you something like that, believe me, that's
why what I told you a couple of years ago, hey, Saint John's,
which was always beyond reticent to even thinking about a patino
type because of some indiscretions from Rick in
Catholic University. I told you Saint John's is Iron
Rick Pitino. I told you that.
I told you that and they did. And I'm telling you there is no
way they are connecting. And I told you this for a year,
not just now after a conveniently bad start.
I told you this before the winter started.
What does he want? Nine years, 350 dudes, It is a
long season. I know there are peaks and
valleys. And listen, the one thing, so
I'll get to that in a SEC, Jay. The one thing too is that, and I
want to be fair to the certainly to the baseball conversation,
it's not like, you know, the Giants are O14 or they're or the
the Ravens have an uncharacteristic tough start or
the Niners are scuffling in September.
You know, good teams. So I don't mention The Jets, not
that the Giants have been good lately, but with horrible they
will be. You know, it seems like that the
Bills, the respected teams, the Patriots, again, like it's not
you just not going to attack the 1st 1820 games of the baseball
season with the vigor and the vitriol and the enthusiasm that
you, that, that you will for baseball.
You're not going to you, you can't, I guess you can if you
want. I mean, there are some nut jobs
over the years that have been called stations that can.
I don't like I, I try to compartmentalize, you know, 162
games versus now 17 There. There's it's, it's a different
games, a different blueprint here.
But when you see things like either guys not being locked in
or, you know, friction or precede friction, or that's a
deeper level that I am completely comfortable
commenting on, especially with somebody like Lindor back to
them percent forget about you, man.
Started with that. We get back to you now,
especially for a team that has had chemistry issues for a long
time to the point where guys got shipped out and for what reason,
I don't know. I don't know.
But you know, I mean, your your star player right now is the
complete antithesis of a leader. He is disengaged.
He's in a fog, he's in a funk, which you can excuse
offensively, but I am tired. I will never and I did it for a
couple years. I will never ever into a hot
microphone say, hey, really, You know what guys?
Really good job by Lindor, you know, taking ownership of a
rough night or a rough stretch. That's your job.
If you we know you want to be captain, the fact that you
haven't been named captain yet despite basically begging for it
or others clamoring for it for you tells us all we need to know
and by the way, Steve Cohen said as long as I own the team will
never have a captain, which I I think is dumb to make that
nothing he can't change his mind.
Obviously it's his team, but to have that kind of a blanket
statement, I mean, just doesn't look like it now.
But let's just say Carson Benj, I'll just use him drafted, you
know, develop. Let's say he goes on to have
like a a David Wright in print, even though he's a different
position, whatever, and he doesn't hurt his back and he
winds up, you know, having this incredibly lengthy productive.
You know, certainly the stats are there, but the hustle's
there, the grits there, the leadership's there.
You're not going to make that guy captain.
I mean, why not? I don't understand that, man.
So I thought that was odd by Cohen.
But for the guy who thinks he's the captain or wants to be
captain, he is actually playing like somebody who would rather
be on a cruise ship chilling or playing golf or going to a
political convention or whatever Lindor wants to do.
Because enough of the I got to be better.
I don't know. I got to wake up.
Play ball, dude, get your act together.
Wake up, wake up. That simple nothing's going to
change here at at Cape God 2558 thank you Cape nothing's going
to change here at the stadium's going to be full they'll keep
cashing checks why waste money when the people keep going well,
I are you is he talking about the Mets if we had to take a
stab at. That my guess is Yankees because
my guess is the Yankees because he sent it during the Cashman
chat. Got it.
Got. Yeah, That's a good point.
I mean, listen, one thing I don't get into and I always stay
in my lane with this here. I don't tell you guys how to
spend money, you know, whether it's a parking thing, you know I
told you the story because it pertained to me.
Went to The Jets Browns game last year, was raining.
I think it was October, November, whatever the hell it
was. Another miserable Jet season.
Literally basically drizzling the whole day. 100 bucks for
parking. I'm like wow, 100 bucks to park
to watch this shit. 100 bucks. You should pay me 100 to come
watch that team play. Anyway, forked over the card.
Think, think, think. Thank good Sir, you're good.
Of course going to pay. I don't tell you what to do.
Like the prices are so exorbitant.
You know, a jersey is almost like a real jersey.
What, almost 200 bucks, maybe more actually.
Like I'm not a jersey guy, haven't been one for a long
time, so I'm not exactly keeping up on the prices and the the
youth jerseys are a little cheaper, you know, as I I don't
know, but they very well like the stitched on ones.
I'm sure they're more than two. What am I saying?
So the merch is, is incredibly expensive.
Sneakers obviously very expensive, not that that impacts
sports teams, but parking food, like everybody.
I don't this is just a little side.
I don't I don't understand, and I'm not knocking it.
It's just I don't understand the fascination with it's like some
people get off on talking about food menus.
I don't get it. I don't care.
Give me a hot dog, dude. Get on that series.
Give me like. What are you?
What are you kind of referencing here?
Because. Well, I'm referencing all the
different like menus. Oh.
Like at A at a stadium when they're like, oh, we've got the
sandwich. Shop shit.
No, I'm. So with you, I'm so with you.
I said, you know, it triggered when I was in Texas throwing out
the first pitch for the Rangers. We had that queued up.
But do you still have that somewhere?
Yeah, of course, man. I'm going to pull that up in a
SEC. Hang on if you guys have missed
it. Oh, this is funny.
Guy says my name wrong. I got my head.
No, I'm like, I we'll play it a SEC.
We're walking around the state. We got there pretty early
because logistically we had to get to the right spot behind
home plate and kind of in the bowels of of the stadium, which
is a great stadium, by the way. But I saw one woman walking with
a tray. No joke.
She needed both hands to hold it and it was like a tortilla chip
or like the size of. Come on now.
I'm trying like almost the size of a freaking garbage pail.
I mean in terms of crazy and in terms of depth and the piles of
guac and cheese and I mean it would like I it was.
I don't know what it calls. I don't know how the caloric. 40
bucks or something? It had to be more than that.
But then you see these other concoctions like, you know, 2
hot dogs and, and a pancake with syrup and bacon.
Just give me a hot dog with sauerkraut and maybe a little
bit of onions, red onions if you have them.
Like the guy on the street corner.
I don't care if it's a disgusting dog that that you
made with the remnants from some factory.
It tastes good man. That's what I want to eat for a
buck back in the day. No, no, I'm not calling anybody
out specifically. I just don't care.
Yeah, give me a beer, give me a hot dog, give me a pretzel, give
me a bag of chips and or a bag of peanuts.
I'm watch baseball. We don't, we don't yeah, we
don't need like a five star Michelin resh.
Well, that's what's funny about Yankees.
Just like there's so many just like restaurants now that yeah,
yeah, yeah. Where I'm just like what is what
is going? On I, I, I don't know.
Do you have the first pitch here, Jay?
Let's get. It up there you want me to
throw? It ladies and gentlemen pulling
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He is an Emmy Award-winning national sports bra broadcaster
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Please welcome to the mound, Brandon Kearney.
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Can I give you a quick assign? It's not a complaint, man.
But I mean, I guess it might be a little bit.
Now I'm fucking exhausted today. Yeah, find me Full disclosure
bro Give. It to me.
Last night was the first time, on a serious note, where I was
driving and I actually was like, don't fall asleep.
That's how tired I was. So, yeah, open the window
because my son was asleep in the back seat.
It was, I'm just, I mean, I'm tired, man.
So over the weekend. Listen, you guys know I love
this. There's no place I'd rather be
than spitting sunflower seeds in in a chair watching my son and
his buddies playing my daughter. You know, I I don't always need
to say that. You know, I love youth sport,
right? Well, we played in a, in a in a
perfect game tournament this weekend and we were in this is
actually really cool. We were in Millville, Millville,
MILLVILLA, Millville, PA. Right now, a lot of the PG
events are in Jersey or really Staten Island, some other spots.
This one was basically, I mean, certainly Eagles country.
It's it's deep. It's very deep in the state.
Took two and it basically took for me to and I'm in Jersey 2
1/2 hours to get there. It's Mike Trout's hometown, and
it's Mike Trout's Little League facility.
Oh. That's sick.
Yeah. And I'm not trying to call Mike
Trout out, but Mike, can you cut a check?
I mean, can you can you, can you upgrade a little bit?
I mean, the people there were great.
Like they worked hard. I'm not calling that.
They manicured very old school, like the wooden press box.
And most of these places are turfed out and absolutely dope
and like they're monstrosities of facilities.
Like, you know, it's it's a money grab, whatever.
Even though the facilities are nice, this I found.
I feel like I was stepping into 1987, which for me I've got no.
Problem with because I love the 80s, but I mean, Mike, can you
can you cut a check? Come on, man.
Anyway, 2 1/2 hours away. Now the way these things go, you
get the game. So say if you're playing, you
play Saturday, Sunday, Saturday's pool play and then
single limb on Sunday, you get the the schedule on Monday.
So you don't it's like you get a schedule before the year.
You just you know which events you're in.
You don't know what time you're playing.
So I want to keep this quick. I just want to tell you why I'm
so shot. So Saturday they played at 2:00,
all right, and they played at 6:00 and I think there were ten
teams or eight teams, not 8. I, I think 8 in this one.
And then based on everything that happens on Saturday, which
is pool play, everybody plays two now they seed you for Sunday
and then it's one and done. You lose, you're out in your
home. So we now keep in mind, so his
first game was a two. We had to be there in the
batting cages for one. My wife and my daughter came as
well. She had a birthday party Sunday.
So Sunday was just he and I have.
So Saturday we got the whole car packed that backed up, which was
nice. Anyway, we leave like 10:30 a
long day. We get home and we went
one-on-one where they went why didn't do anything.
They went one-on-one and then we get home at like 11:15 on on
Saturday night right as we're driving.
Game changer gets updated. All right.
We're playing at 10:00 the next morning.
Now my wife and daughter can't go the next day because of that
birthday party for my daughter. So very Long story short, now
this game is at 10. They got to be at the cages at
9. I get home at 11:50, take a
shower, eat, wind down, fall asleep, basically don't sleep
much at all. And then they win the first game
at 10. And then they go, They're not
playing at 12, they're not playing at 2, they're playing at
4:00. So we go, we go and I'm 2 1/2
hours away from home. We go to like LongHorn
Steakhouse, right? Like 7 or 8 kids on the team,
all the mom and dad. It was great, right?
Sat there for two hours. I'm like, come on, I'm getting,
you know, let's go. Then they played at 4:00 and
they won that game and then the championship game was supposed
to be at six, but it's always usually back dated, you know,
because time runs on first pitch 630 and then they lost the
championship. Whatever The other team's really
good play. Good, good team that we see a
lot. Proud of you.
Really good coaches, really good players.
But they have like a medal ceremony because it's a PG
event. I, I got hold.
I, I, I literally was gone for 15 1/2 hours yesterday between
traveling and sitting in my chair.
You know the worst is when you when you're not playing, but you
can't go anywhere because you got to play a game in four hours
anyway. That is just brutal.
Man, yeah, That that was that was a rough run right there.
That was a rough run. But the boys had a good time.
They absolutely did. Let me get the a little bit more
from Kate. Why is the Ming is not up right
now is a defense. That's the answer.
Put him at the lead off spot. They'll be forced to give him
pitches to hit and then bring up Lombard from McMahon.
Can't be worse. Lombards not ready.
All right, I do like the first part of that.
I know he doesn't hit well as a right-handed hitter yet he's yet
to prove that. But Dominguez is absolutely
raking at triple AI. Do not believe he should have
been in the minors to start the year.
Not because he didn't have to work on the outfield or left
field work. I get that defensively, but to
me it's bad messaging. He he showed last year that he's
a Major League player now he didn't show bet he's a Major
League star because he's really just left-handed hitting
dominant and he's a butcher in the outfield. 20 base stole 20
bases, 10 home runs hit 260 above average, slightly above
average league OPS runs like the wind and figure it out, man.
It's not like he went up there and and I actually think Carson
bench is going to be good nice defensive play yesterday.
It's not like he hit 150. Whatever bench is hitting or you
know, other rookies along the way that have just, you know,
tripped all over themselves. I again, I do think bench is
going to be a good ball player. I like I'm not trying to take a
knock at him. Yeah, I would like to.
I would much rather see a 2320 whatever he 23 year old Jason
Dominguez atop the order. Give him a runway.
This is the time to figure it out.
You don't want to have to figure it out in September.
Hey, can he hit as a righty? Can we can we put him in there
against the figure it out now? You lost five straight anyway
with Gertchuk or Gutshuk, whatever the fuck his name is.
OK, I'm like, what? You know, Caballero back up.
I mean, the Yankee fans are now clamoring for the return of
Opie, which tells you all you need to know because many of you
tapped out and quit on Anthony Bolpi.
Now, I have not done that. I'm very worried about Anthony
Bolpi, but he's not going to look worse than Caballero for
sure. McMahon stinks.
I mean, yeah, but Lombard is different.
I absolutely push back on that. He did not do much at AA last
year. The numbers he he actually had a
below 600 OPS tore up high a struggle.
The two AI got to check what he did this weekend.
I've been so busy. I just paid attention to the
Yanks and the Mets. But I know in his first five or
six games with AA this year, 4 double s, two home runs, numbers
look really good. Not a lot of strikeouts so, but
you got to let him grow. He's so young, you know, maybe
if the Yankees had better components, you can kind of
blend them in like the Yankees did with Jeter back in 96.
One of the reasons why Tory, first of all, Tony Fernandez
broke his arm and broke his arm in spring trading.
But one of the reasons that the you know, the the experiment
with Jeter on opening day when he hit a home run against the
then Indians. Remember that at at at the
Jacobs Field, Rizzuto on the call that over the shoulder
basket catch in in left center field from shortstop played
great from day one. But the reason why the Yankees
were cool with that is because they had so many veterans.
You had Bogs, you had Charlie Hayes, you know, you know, you
hit brought in Tino eventually that year.
You got Cecil Fielder in the trade.
You know, you had Girardi was obviously the catcher on that
first championship. Bernie was there for O'Neill.
You had a lot of guys to kind of protect him a little bit.
You know, just got so if he starts one for 19, he's not
going to really feel remember he was bad at the bottom of the
order, you know, for the for that first year.
So they're not calling up Lombard.
They should not. I will talk about Lombard in
terms of gauging his progress and some of the, you know, some
of the numbers, not to geek out, but some of the things that
really matter. Like I, I want to know how hard
he's. Yeah, how I want to know how I'm
going to. I almost said I want to know how
how he's impacting the ball. Like that's manager speak.
What, are you kidding? I almost said.
I want to know how hard he's impacting the ball this year.
What? I mean, tap the brakes, buddy.
And we know you love your numbers, but that's a little
much. But I do want to see if he's
squaring the ball up. I want to see if he's making
consistently hard contacts. I know he could run.
I know he's got an arm and I know we can pick it all right.
But the other stuff, I need him to get some seasoning.
The Yankees, in essence, bypass AAA for Anthony Volpe.
That did not work out, at least not not yet.
It hasn't. So I'm not looking to do that at
Avery Summit. What's up, man?
Boone may have never underachieved with any team, but
the most recent season before Boone Girardi overachieved in
2017. Yeah, that's fair.
More than Boone ever has. That's fans, barometer and
frustration. Let's keep it real or hashtag be
real. That's a good point.
I feel you on that. Now understand though, think
about this. It's a different American
League. At that point when Girardi was
the manager, you know, Toronto was at like really at their
apex. They were basically slightly
above 500 team, never a threat to the Yankees power, never
spent that kind of money. There was a big financial
disparity. They've got the second
wealthiest donor in all of sports, by the way.
You know, I think Cohen's in the top three.
The ownership group out with the Dodgers is obviously in the top
three and the Rogers group is top three.
They might be two actually. I think they are.
And the Yankee like how's like 21 or so?
That was very, I saw that last week, but that was different.
The Orioles were no young players that were good at that
point. They didn't spend any money.
You know, I mean, the Rays were obviously always feisty and
called the ball. How do you get swept by the
Rays, though? That's got to infuriate.
Like, here's the thing. That's the kind of thing, and I
really try not to reach for this too much.
What would George say? What would George do?
Because George, you know, rest in peace.
But also an incredibly complicated legacy, which I
think is overstated sometimes favorably to kind of prove a
point just to kind of take a shot at his son.
I mean, I'm old enough to have lived through the George years
where I couldn't stand that guy. Like when he was banished, I was
thrilled. I'm like, good, get out.
You know, you suck. Basically, he was destroying the
Yankee brand. He was just a petulant,
unpredictable wacko. But again, what we we tend to do
this so often, you know, whether it's musicians or actors or, you
know, baby people who had some missteps along the way over time
and admittedly varying degrees of of missteps.
I'm not talking about a baseball misstep versus, you know, a
criminal misstep, although he did get drunk with the criminal
stuff, with the Howie Spears stuff too.
Anyway, I think that George is we overly romanticize George.
And you know, my George is a little different than, say, my
dad's generation and the generation after him, because
that generation was sitting on their couch and in bars in the
70s watching Reggie and watching Catfish Hunter.
Massive, first big free agent, then Reggie comes in.
Obviously, you know, Munson, Nettles, all these big studs.
Goose, I didn't watch those guys, watch those guys play in
the 80s. I didn't see them with anything.
So, you know, I grew up with the big looming spectacle shadow of
George, right? And obviously knowing all the
names and you know, like very hazily, if you will, hearing
games are like Phil Rizzuto and, and knowing, just knowing that
the Yankees were obviously a big thing, but not consuming them on
a night to night basis. By the time I started to consume
them, I've told you this, the first year was really 81 where
they lost to the Dodgers in the World Series.
And I remember I was in the 1st grade and I was staying up late
to watch the games. I just started playing baseball.
My we didn't have T-ball back then.
So it was my first year of actually playing baseball and I
was all in. And I'm, I'm thinking in my
mind, I'm sure I'm saying, all right, Yanks are great.
We're going to be here all the time.
That 81 World Series, the next time I sold them in the World
Series was 1996. I mean, that is, think about
that. That's formative years.
And then well beyond formative years as a as a sports fan, but
as a young man, you know, second grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
5th, 6th, 7-8, ninth zip high school, they were an atrocity.
9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, senior year, nothing.
I mean, finally started the corner, turned the corner a
little bit like when they got Gallego and they got at least
some competent players, Jimmy Key talking like 93 ish, you
know, Spike Owen, like that crew, Mike Stanley.
And then obviously 94. They were great.
Season got cancelled, excuse me. And then 95 what happened with
Seattle blah blah blah win the World Series.
So yeah, I mean, I I just anyway, but if they would have
gotten if George was here is the point if they got swept by the
race in Tampa where the Yankees run their operation out of
honestly, I think somebody would have been cut or fired over the
weekend. I honestly believe that like
last night something would there be a missive come that Mike
would be reading on the air, you know, at some point today with
dog doggy. I'm not an impersonation guy.
You know that we've got to miss it.
You know, you get a little paper rattle and stuff like that.
Those days are over. You know, Yanks get swept by the
Rays, Not a peep. Rob Russell, 3023 What's up,
Rob? With all the injuries the Jays
are going through, the Yankees got to get smoking to take
advantage of the Jays situation. Well, that's why it's it's
frustrating because they were setting themselves up to to get
some separation here and stack some wins and build a little,
you know, a little portfolio that would, or a little excess
in the account, if you will, for rainy day.
Because, you know, one thing we know about the Yankees is that
every year they're going through a a swoon.
I mean, where they play basically, basically the Yankee
script is start well, establish yourself as one of the better
teams in baseball and then basically play 7590 games or so
where you look like you're A5, where you're basically a 500
team. And then you're got to
regenerate toward the end of the year.
You pick up some energy, win a playoff round or two, and then
eventually lose short of winning the World Series.
Like that's the Yankee script and the Mets script is very
different. I I don't I don't, I don't know
what to expect from the Mets script because the one thing
that we don't know, I know at least that Hal is patient.
Now he's patient to a point that drives me nuts with certain
things, but he's a patient man, right?
I don't know the level of patience for Steve Cohen with
that exorbitant price tag and now with some of the nonsense
going on with that team. That's why when I told you I
guess about a week and 1/2 or so ago mend, you better get this
thing buttoned up. First year was great.
Second year was not third year is what I'm measuring you by.
And I do believe not only listen, forget about will
because that if I say, if I use the word will, I'm trying to get
in the heads of the Mets brass and I just don't have that
information. So I'm not going to make
something up. But what I'm saying is is me
attribute this to me. Like if the Mets don't wake up
out of this doldrum and I'm going to give him some more time
to do this. But if the Mets don't figure out
a way to play Chris baseball and obviously you would wait until
Soto comes back clearly. But if it looks like this in
another month, I am me. If it's my team, I'm firing
Mendoza and I don't throw that out there very much.
You guys know about that, You know that I'm not just one of
these, you know, reflects of fire, fire, fire this guy, fire
that guy. No, no, no, no, no, no.
But the Mets were. The Mets were very sloppy last
year. They looked very sloppy this
year. You know, don't forget we talked
about Lindor, right? Don't forget, you know, whatever
day it was a couple games ago, Vientos dropping a pop up that
first base. It was fairly benign.
He caught the next one. Nothing happened.
But you drop a pop up, dude. And then you saw Vientos Spika
throwing the dirt on a play at the plate earlier in that in the
pirate series when Lindor got like thrown out the plate there
on that double by Soto in that series.
I'm pretty sure it was that series.
It was a ball where, you know, Alvarez, he boxed it up as a
catcher man on 3rd. You know, check them.
All right, he's staying as he's loafing around, picking up the
ball dude on first base and breaking for second.
Like, that's not being locked in, you know?
So we are seeing a continuation of a sloppy stream of baseball
by the Mets. And if that keeps up and it's my
team, I'm not messing around and I'm moving on from Envy.
Mira Comedy was available. Want to be a Yankee?
Cash been passed on a Kwanzaa left field.
They were traditional lead off hitter.
We need cash been passed. Yep.
With those two alone, they make Trent Jazz and Wells palatable.
Yeah. I mean, listen, Trent Grisham,
you know, I, I just, I, I can't, I could always fake it.
I just but I'm not that guy. Like I'm just not going to
conjure up emotion and start railing on Trent Grisham.
I'm not you know where I stand. I did not think he would sign
the QOI was surprised and not pleasantly.
And then I'll let you know how I felt about that once I found out
that he did sign the QO for 22 mil.
And I was not happy. And I have told you forever.
And I told, like said, it's a boon.
It's not a lead off hitter. He's not, at least not a lead
off hitter for a team that's supposed to win the world here
or trying to not supposed to trying to win the world here.
You want to hit lead off for the White Sox, Be my guest, dude.
You want to hit, you want to hit lead off for the Twins?
Go for it. I mean, nobody.
You want to hear lead off for the Rockies, we're second for
the go for it. Nobody cares what you do, you
know, you can't hit lead off for the Yankees and be taken
incredibly seriously as a team that's got a really well thought
out, well properly constructed lineup that complements each
other with a good speed, power, contact ratio.
McMahon strikes out all the time.
Wells is hitting $1.70. Grisham, all right, Last year
was good. Before the last five years he's
hitting below 200. I know it's early now, but I'm
including it and I wouldn't if the three years before last year
weren't so pathetic. You know what I mean?
Look at his numbers. Like last year was the was the
anomaly. Last year was the I'm starting
to get worked up over aggression, not doing it.
It's not letting, not letting him do it.
All right, Jay, Rod, you know what time it is, right, buddy?
Yes Sir. Wait, read this comment real
quick. It might be my favorite comment
we've ever gotten. OK we got Blaine Hughes 393
Blaine what's happening there buddy?
BT up a 23 year old dairy farmer.
It's officially my favorite time of year baseball season and the
spring tillage work. Listening to you talk baseball
while on the tractor right now is the best I just.
I just love it. You know, it's funny because I
would get that stuff like a lot of people would, would call the
fan and, and they listen on the, the, the Odyssey app, which is a
good app, by the way. And we had a lot of people
calling in from Florida, couple people from Australia who by the
way, followed me to YouTube, some people from Australia, a
bunch of people in the military stationed all over the world
because, you know, you just open your phone, bang, get the app.
And I guess in my mind, I, I don't, I, I don't make that
connection yet, even though I, I understand, obviously I
understand the reach of YouTube, which is limitless, but to hear
a young man, 23 year old, not a tractor cranking out a little
yard work there, That's awesome. Now, I, can you tell me what
state you're in? I'd like to know the answer to
that. Yeah.
I'll be safe. Are we talking like Iowa?
Are we talking somewhere up in the Dakotas?
Are we, I don't know, are we talking somewhere in PA?
Like I would really just tell me where you are working on the
tractor. You know, I've always been a
little bit jealous of people who are able to carve out a nice
livelihood and you bust your ass doing that and you just do it at
your own, your own pace. You know what I mean?
I love it. I mean, it's kind of, you know,
well, granted, my dad, I guess it's not really at his own pace,
but he's done like outdoor construction work my entire life
and like, I love that stuff, dude.
Is that what your dad does? I didn't know that.
Yeah. Yeah, he's a yeah, he's like AI
guess a contractor. Nice.
But dude, I've just always loved like the idea of working with
your hands being outside to me, like that's the biggest thing
in. Life.
Me too, honestly. Me too, man.
Like my, I even look back at a few of my first jobs.
My first couple of jobs were at a day camp across the street.
See, I always knew I wanted to coach it or like even then was
at a day camp, young people's day camp.
If you're tri-state resident, just remember that big yellow :)
a girl that I was really good friends with, her dad owned it
and he passed away, but somewhat recently too.
Good man, good family. And I was there probably three
years, maybe, yeah, probably 3 as a counselor.
And it was great. Like we would go, yeah, we, we
basically that, that'd have the kids throw me batting practice
all day. We do home run therapy.
I'd throw it to them. We do Dunkin contest.
Like it wasn't just sports, but I basically turned everything
into sports. So that was always outside,
always in the sun. And then in college, I did, I
did some construction. I told you that some demo work
Uptown. What else?
Yeah. I mean, obviously I had some
other jobs like Fidelity and some financial stuff, but you
give me outdoors and I can make make a living.
I got no problem with. That I'm with.
You all right? Did he tell you where he's from?
What state? We have not gotten.
We did not get the state. Now you know what?
He's busy. He's he's tractoring away.
You got to keep an eye on the corn.
I got it. Blaine.
Let me know where you're from. And thank you very much.
That's awesome. That's a great shout out.
All right, let's go. 3 burning questions.
You know what time it is there. J Rod, here we go.
You know, we got to get a little music for this.
Now that I think about it, bud, you know, I'm saying we gotta
get a little time, wait, a little backtrack something.
Yeah, good thought. There you go.
Well, it's kind of your job, but I'm happy to share the thought.
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You ready, Jay #1 #1 short sweep a boy.
This is going to be fun. Over under 2 1/2 NFL first round
trades. I am going over and I am going
over by a mile. First of all, I fully, well,
maybe fully is a bit strong. I strongly think that The Jets
are going to make it. So let me just start with my
team. I think The Jets going to make a
trade. I think the other reason why
there's going to be a lot of traction here is I know he's
highly coveted, but obviously can you draft the running back,
you know, 3456 for everybody? Like I think that somebody is
going to make a trade to get Jeremiah Love from Notre Dame.
I think the name Sonny Styles has trade written all over it.
Move it up to get him. I think Caleb Downs could be a
target as well. So outside of The Jets and
Darren Moogie has shown a strong propensity to freight anyway, so
that's easy. Like I know that he's open to
it. And I believe that The Jets are
a little unsure whether it's Bailey, whether it's Reese,
whether it's something else that they might do.
So I think The Jets are are a big possibility.
I think Dallas guys, Dallas has two first round picks.
They're going #12 and they're going #20 and it seems like
Dallas is motivated to make a trade.
I think that the Commanders are actively trying to trade out of
the seven spot. And I think even if you look
behind The Jets at #2 I think the Cardinals at #3 watch,
watch, maybe I'm going to give you the Cardinals and Rams as
possible trading partners. And if they don't, you know, do
a deal with each other. I absolutely think there's a
good chance, even if the Cardinals stay at three, that
the Rams, who are 13, by the way, the Rams could trade with
The Jets. I think that there's a real
chance that the Rams make a trade.
So think about this. You got The Jets strong
possibility, Dallas, the Commanders, the Cardinals, the
Rams, and then you know names like Love and Styles and Caleb
Downs and the other name too. And because there's such a wide
scope of how he's viewed here. I mean, somebody's making a move
move for Ty Simpson. Whether you know, I don't know
if The Jets going to draft him at 16.
I don't think that they will actually like 10 days before the
draft. I that's my opinion.
Now I don't think that they will and I'm good with that.
But you want to tell me The Jets scoot out of 16 and go to 20
something possible or somebody early in around 2 moves up into
the back around 1 for Simpson possible.
Like I just think that it's going to fly by in terms of 2
1/2 over. So I am absolutely juiced for
the draft #1 it's going to be a fun draft.
You got 5 receivers, you know, you got a couple of defensive
profiles that are very similar, some projections that you're not
sure about it. I think it's going to be
tremendous. All right #2 do you agree with
the Knicks inning players yesterday or should they have
gone for the more favorable first round matchup?
All right, we hear this a lot, not just with the New York
Knicks either. Now, man, they finish up at 53
and 29. If they would have played
everybody, they probably would want, if they would have played
anybody, really not everybody, anybody, they probably would
have won. Even though the Hornets were
tricky team, I would say, you know, I don't listen, even
though maybe it would have meant something to Mike Brown or
organizationally, like if the Knicks would have won yesterday,
that would have been their highest win total since Woodson
won 54 games. Carmelo Amari, Tyson Chandler,
that crew, Jay kid, all those guys right?
Listen, I I do agree, though, at the end of the day, I agree with
resting players rather than going for the more favorable
first round matchup. Now yes, would I rather play the
Raptors? Sure, because they just they won
thirteen straight against the Raptors.
Now, they've won two of the three games against the Hawks
this year, but it's a different style and the Hawks have won 11
of 13 since they made that big trade.
You know, I think it's going to be a little bit of a tough first
round match up. I think the Knicks will win.
But I'm more concerned with being healthy.
All right, being healthy and I do.
And I've been, you know, a little little down on these
Knicks this year. You know, that I love.
I don't know what the hell took so long, but I love the fact,
love the fact that Brunson and Cat are starting to figure out
some pick and roll that actually gives me some hope that the
Knicks could really do something.
It's not a it's not a prediction.
It's just me for the first time, like, oh, OK.
I see them evolving. I see them working.
I see them becoming more dangerous, more compatible, you
know, another couple of days because the Knicks don't open up
until Saturday. Obviously, like everybody, OG
can rest up the ankle. You know, Deuce got to produce
McBride got to play 30 minutes yesterday, so we can shed the
rust a little bit more. I I see both sides, but at the
end of the day, do you do what you do all right, and rather
than trying to and this applies to everybody, not just the
Knicks, because you see it all the time.
Oh, if I sit these guys and I lose, I I play this team.
If you believe in what you do and you are healthy, then you
should not need to do that. All right, that's number two,
number three, Oh man masters. I was following on my phone.
Obviously, I was at the ballpark for basically 13 hours.
It's basically the first Master Sunday that I did not get to
watch a shot live. Isn't that nuts?
And again, much rather be with my children.
But it's the Masters on Sunday, something I love here, man.
But I got home late and I watched the highlights and I was
recording some stuff and I obviously knew shot for shot
with Chef Lauren Rory, I mean, a leaderboard was very crowded.
Can Rory ever crack the all time top five golfers of all time?
Now now you got to look at this now this is obviously subjective
once you get past a couple of points here Well, I mean really
you can even say tigers number one for me, Jack is obviously 1
Tiger is 2. You've got us.
I'm just going to throw some names out there.
All right, you got to look at somebody like Bobby Jones, the
greatest amateur of all time and you know, he just he's got like
multiple degrees once the Georgia Tech and bypassed money
on the tour to maintain his amateur status.
Anyway, Bobby Jones, maybe he's pure bull striker of all time.
Sam Sneed you talk about Ben Hogan, the great Walter Hagen
and then he don't forget Arnie Byron Nelson, Gary Player.
I mean, Gary players great. Phil, Nick, Faldo, Watson.
All right. So when you look at just the
sheer totality of majors, you've got Jack with 18, you got Tiger
with 15, and you've got Kagan with 11.
Now understand that Rory has 6 now, and he's in the
neighborhood of Phil and Faldo and Leach, Ravinia, who I, I did
not mention before. All those guys have 6.
Rory's still pretty young and Rory's still pretty healthy.
To answer the question directly, do I think Rory can ever crack
the top five? No way, no chance.
Do I think he could ever crack the back end of the top ten?
That might be the better question.
And my answer for that would be yes, because with with the six
already, he could conceivably he could pass certainly Phil
Mickelson, who I love. Phil's my all time favorite,
even though he's a little weird with certain stuff, but I love
Phil. He could pass Faldo, he could
probably pass Watson. You just never going to pass
Jack and Tiger. I mean, listen, like when you
say Sam Sneed, that's akin to saying like Babe Ruth or Willie
Mays. When you say Ben Hogan or Walter
Hagen, that's like saying basically Kareem or Magic or MJ
or Bird or Oscar Robertson. I mean, it is incredibly, if not
impossible, incredibly difficult to crack the top five.
So no, I will not I will not float on the middle of the fence
worry even with multiple more majors and he might get them
will never crack the top five. I think his most realistic
target back end top ten. There you go.
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Papayne. You see, I, I'll tell you I, I
hope the YouTube unleashed family here, the BT unleashed,
the YouTube unleashed saw a little bit of diversity in BT's
game. The golf, the golf convo, the
golf background is there. You know, I love talking.
I, I can't hit his pulp for shit, but man do I love talking
golf. I have read a lot.
I probably read too much really. That's like it's like paralysis
by analysis my mind in terms of trying to figure things out,
which at this point I just assume I never will as a player.
But I love the history of golf and I I got into that so late.
So let me see a point of reference.
And Jay, you won't get this because you're just too young,
but most of you will. When Jack won his the when?
When Jack won the Masters in 86 at the age of 46, Right.
Which was old back then, like when you were 46 back in the
80s. You just look different.
I don't know. Yeah, I'm.
Sure, like you look at the movies from back then like a 46
year old dude would look like he's like 66 today.
Yeah, Yeah, Exactly, Exactly. Exactly.
So it was it was really a stunning achievement.
Now, you know, you got guys. I mean, if Tiger's back, I
promise you, if Tiger's body held up, Tiger wouldn't be
dominating the way that, you know, he did.
Because, you know, guys are catching up.
Schaeffler, the world's changed, but I guarantee you'd have a
couple more wins in his back pocket.
But the point is, is that in 86 when he won that Augusta and I
can still see him dropping that putt in his rate raises putter
as it goes up. I was not like I was 12.
I was not watching golf at all. Like golf to me was for nerds
was for just like hard to explain.
Golf to me was just something that was not in my world.
Like I don't know, man, I looked at these guys on TV and you got
to remember Jay, even Jack wasn't now already had big
forearms and Gary players a piece of steel.
He still works out. God bless him, man.
Sit ups and push ups and it looks amazing.
The black knight there South Africa.
But the the guys back then like they all had these little
bellies and they all wore like except Norman like khakis and
like boring shirts and like those saddle shoes.
The white with the little brown swashbuckle like this is I get
no interest in watching. Why am I watching this?
This is boring. These guys look like they're
nerds. They're old, they're fat,
they're slow. I'm not watching golf and
they're really Tiger. Well, a little bit before that
Greg Norman actually began to change and revolutionize the
apparel aspect of it with I remember getting right around
maybe a year or two after that, right Like when I was first,
yeah, happy year or two when I was first allowed to go to the
mall with my friends without my mom, you know, take the bus,
whatever. I remember I would always go to
a sports store and get my dad like a golf shirt for Father's
Day or for even for Christmas. And that the only real apparel
was Greg Norman. He had his signature shirt with
the little like not rainbow, but like the multi colored shark.
And other than that, I mean it was just boring Izod khakis and
again, guys with bellies in these or whatever.
And then he he changed that a little bit and then and Tiger
changed everything, you know, just his body and how we walk
the court. And I remember Jordan calling
him. I remember Michael Jordan saying
a long time ago, Tiger Woods like look like a safety playing
a golf, you know, and all these guys are pretty old.
Look at the Shambo who, you know, shit, the bed couldn't get
out of the bunker on Friday, didn't make the cut.
Yikes. Three shots get out of the green
on, on, on on the last hole on Friday.
But these guys are just it's different anyway.
It's very different. And somebody like Rory now who's
not a kid, but he very well might have a few more wins in
his back pocket. I think he's going to win
something again at some point. And he's only I should have been
served this before. This is a good historical
football. He's the only only the 4th
golfer to ever win the Masters back-to-back.
I know, I know, Tigers definitely won.
I wrote it down. I want to see if I can remember
it though. Tigers won worries 2.
I think Faldo and may have been Jack.
Let me just double check that it was, I guess.
I didn't write down the name. I didn't write down the name,
but it is 4 and he's the 4th. All right, Yeah, I love talking
golf there. I really do.
I was 25 and 86 and that was the best Masters Sunday of my life.
There you go. No mine.
I got you. I can I can imagine why the I
remember. When did Tiger win that last
masters? I mean God, it's like 5 years
ago at this point. I think it was kind of right
around COVID slightly after. Not not the Masters, which is
always in April, obviously. And then right after the Final
Four, like it always goes, the Final Four is on on Monday night
that you have 20/19/19. There you go.
I knew it was in that neighborhood.
Thank you. Because the Masters is always
the week after that Monday night NCAA men's championship game.
So I remember all those years me Antique were going to the Final
Four when we were doing that national show for CBS Sports
Network and Nance when he was still calling the games for
basketball would be in Indianapolis or Houston or San
Antonio, wherever we were right. And and he would call the
championship game on Monday and then he would go right to
Augusta from site, I'm sure on the CBS private jet, obviously.
But so that was I was just trying to remember when the
because what they did for COVID was the Masters is always in
April, but that one year they pushed it into I think November
to recalibrate based on COVID. And I knew that that wasn't the
year the Tiger wanted, which is my point.
But for me, my favorite masters was when Phil won because I was
such a big Phil fan and and that, but when Tiger won at that
age, his dad no longer with us, all the issues, the surgeries.
I remember sitting there, my daughter was just a little bit
too young. So this was 19.
So my son was about 3 1/2 and I, I was trying to impress upon
him. I said I, I took a picture of
him because it was a chilly day here.
I remember we had the fireplace on and, and the, the TV mounted
to the, to the stone. And I just took a picture of him
unknowingly looking up at Tiger Woods.
So I can have that like you're, you're watching Tiger Woods.
Like it's like I, it's so different.
But they just didn't have it. Otherwise I'm sure they would
have done it. Like, imagine if my mom or dad
had a picture of me at age 3 1/2 or 4, you know, looking up out
of out of video of, jeez, I don't know already, Palmer.
I mean, yo, Mike, it's the same thing.
What else we got here? J Rod obviously crushed the
Yankees, crushed the Mets here, Rory here.
What else we got? Oh well.
OK, here's a quick one. Here's someone from D Shout out
to Ryan Chucha from Ottawa, Canada.
Nice. There you go.
I love it. Dude, that is awesome.
Canada. Canada.
Yeah, Well, that's that's why I asked you the other day, you
know, J Rod, he's like, yeah, we're talking about team and you
said organization. Yeah, I'm about to get on you
for something. Then don't come at me with for
the organization. I'm coming at you for Tuberware.
Well, why would you mean tuberware by by the way?
Absolutely. Well, you got to get on me.
You have full license get let it RIP.
What did I? Mess up because the organization
was fair like that was fair to get on me for.
But then I saw a comment. This thing was hilarious.
It was about you. So the last episode you it was
something about the tuberware. Well, my mom, somebody asked me
what was the No rules Friday. Somebody said what was the first
Yankee game you ever went to? I told the story with my dad and
my sister, and my mom was either hosting or was at a Tupperware
party. Isn't it Tupperware?
Like with peace, I know it's spelled differently.
But I think it's pronounced Tupperware.
I don't think so. Well, that was what the comment
got on you for. Well, you got to make sure the
comments right. He is right, He is.
Right, it's Tupperware I how do you?
Spell it I I saw something ironically over the weekend.
It was like a quick short. I don't know where it was on
either Instagram or maybe. PUPPERWARE.
That's the company. That's the company name.
TUPTU. P.
All right, I that was that was wrong, man.
Hey, I didn't say I was hosting the party.
I was at the Yankee game stuff in my face with Lord knows what
at age 878. I don't know how old I was.
I and then I saw somebody. I may have been on TikTok.
Some dude was calling it Tuboware, like TNC.
You saw that with Chris. What's his?
Name Chris, Not Chris D'elia. Chris.
He's Italian comic. He's hilarious New Yorker.
So I'm like this everybody's thought about tuberware, but he
was saying it like T UB-O hyphen, you know, WEA www.here
or WEAR tubberware and I was saying tuberware.
I thought it was one word TUBBERWARE.
You're telling me it's TUPP? TERP, there we go.
I didn't know that. You said we're even.
We're even. Yeah, we wanted one.
All right, man. Omar, what up, Omar?
Knicks winning yesterday had no bearing on their on their first
round match up. They were locked into three and
Charlotte was locked into the 9:10.
No, but what I'm saying it would have, it would have mattered,
Omar, with who they would have played there.
Like, to my knowledge, unless I'm messing this up, which I
don't think that I am, if the Knicks would have won, they
would have played the Raptors. Yeah, I believe, I believe.
You're right, my roommate. Now we're talking about it.
Yeah, you're right. Come on, Omar, you gotta come.
Correct, man. I mean, there's gonna be enough
things to catch me on. You gotta at least be right,
though. What else?
We got a couple of more good ones here.
Here's just. A follow up to the to his point
about the 2017 Girardi. Team All right, all right.
Girardi was let go. Couldn't connect to the young
guys. That's true.
Meanwhile, Torres, Sanchez, Fraser, Andujar, heel, Volpe,
Dominguez that are all stagnated, regressed under
Boone. Well, I mean, Sanchez, what
about Gary? Sanchez to me is just lazy.
All right, number one, I think that that's unfair.
Avery, you're lumping in a lot of different situations here.
Keep that up there so I can see all the names.
All right, the Labour, Torres, I think that Boone let him get
away with some nonsense. I would agree with that.
That was like the first time. That's even before I really met
Aaron or even talked to Aaron. I remember being all over him
for that. Like I would have benched him.
He used to bother me. A good player, not great good.
I thought he was going to be great.
You know, I've never said at one point I thought that the Labour
was going to be the Yankees 3 hitter for a long time now that
one year that he hit the 38 home runs, but a ton were against the
Orioles, whatever, before they changed the dimensions, which
they'd now since changed a couple times here.
And then he just was never the same player, good player.
But I'm just like, man, he's a little bit too on autopilot for
that glove. And for that he's just like a
little too cool for school. Kind of like kind of like Jazz,
although Jazz is a better, more electric athlete.
You know, Gleber's never going 30 or 40.
You know, you steal 3040 bases anyway.
Sanchez was just lazy. And, you know, the fact that
Gary Sanchez has really never been a starter anywhere since
tells you all you need to know about Gary Sanchez.
To me, that's not an Aaron Boone thing.
That's a Gary Sanchez thing. I mean, we're gonna really lump
Frazier into this year. I mean, who picked up Frazier
after it? First of all, Frazier was
brought in from a different system.
So whatever they were espousing in that previous system, right?
I mean, it didn't really. I know he was a hot prospect but
you know he wasn't. He wasn't a good outfielder.
It didn't hit secondary stuff very well.
Was very arrogant. All right, I mean, on Duhar I he
flourished under. I mean, he had he had a really
good well, let me see on Duhar. I was a move that I didn't like
when the Yankees got rid of him. You know, double S power, good
player. He'll did win the rookie of the
year under Aaron Boone both be won a Gold Glove under.
Now he hasn't gotten better. He's gotten worse.
I'm not trying to be unfair here, but there's a lot of
elements to play. You know, Dominguez very well
might just be, you know, might just be overrated.
Now, I don't know that I could say that Dominguez is stagnated.
I don't know that you can say somebody is stagnated or
regressed if you didn't see them prior to the bakes.
Like we could have these thoughts about what a player is
going to be or what they're supposed to be or, you know,
what's the height going to match the the ultimate results going
to match the scouting report, like like Dominguez, right?
But just because somebody's overhyped, Aaron Boone wasn't
the one hyping him up. He was busy managing the real
Yankees. So to say that he's stagnated or
regressed under Boone, you would you would have had to watch him
play in the minors all the time and not just look at the
numbers. And, you know, how did he do
from the right side of the play? How did he do in the outfield?
So I I think it's a little unfair.
I'm not saying you're totally wrong with everything, but, you
know, not really feeling that completely here.
What else, J Rod, any other orders of business, Sir?
What do we got here? How much more leash does mehndi
have? I mean, listen, you know, the
stove is on. Yeah, let me put it there.
You know, when you turn the stove on and you get that little
like the pilot trying to ignite, you know, and and then it
finally goes on. You guys know what I'm talking
about. The.
I believe that that click, we've heard a click, all right.
I don't think there's any visible flame and it's certainly
not high, but somebody and I'll say somebody, Cohen, his hand is
just he just gave it one click just to warm it up just in case
like that's my read or at least that should be the read.
I think anything that happens, number one, it's still early to
be fair, but this is continuing from last year.
They were sloppy and they were disjointed mess.
Fundamentally, chemistry point of view last year has seeped
into this year, and that ain't good for Mendy.
Now, anything that happens because it's early, you've got
to give a more runway to stabilize it because I think
he's earned that. OK, based on the based on the
first really good year. But then, of course, you've got
to be fair to the man and give him a chance to, you know, run
out of lineup for, you know, three weeks or a month with Juan
Soto back in it. So nothing's imminent, but you
know, I have shot a flare across the sky because I said that
coming into the year and I said that at the end of last year on
the fan. Some of you said that you would
have fired him. Then I said no, not yet.
But I remember saying year 32026 now is going to split the
difference. Great start, shitty year 2,
let's see who you really are. And there's a lot of examples of
guys, most distressing the pseudo captain who looks as if
he does not want to be here. And that is up to Mendy.
Well, it's up to Lindor to fix because you get paid a lot of
money to fix it. But like, Mendy's got to he,
he's got to stabilize that, you know, he's got to at least
connect to Lindor in a way that's meaningful to get Lindor
back to a space where he's incredibly productive again.
And then once he's incredibly productive now, you would think
that there'd be more positive energy from within and he'll be
a little bit more alert and not sleeping and sleepwalking on the
field. But yeah, I mean, at this point,
nothing would surprise me because I listen, I thought the
Mets coming into the year, we're going to be a good team.
Not great, but good. Like, you got a problem with
Peterson as a starting pitcher right now.
Minai is showing signs of coming back, so maybe they swap at some
point. Kanga got his Kanga Sanga.
I knew I wasn't sound the right Sanga got his teeth kicked in
over the weekend. My God.
And I actually thought he showed some visible signs of.
I didn't like his body language. Not going to make too much of
it, but just follow that away in the mental notation department.
Didn't love his body language, but I think with Sanga,
obviously with Peterson, you know, Mcclain's a horse.
You you love Peralta. You know, you got Scott throwing
the ball well in the minors, Jonathan throwing the ball like
they've got answers downstream as well.
But there's like we don't know is Simeon Dunn like when they
got him, he looked kind of finished as a hitter, but a
massive because there's two year profile prior to that said that
he was right. Maybe a new city, whatever.
New York energizes him. Still an elite defensive second
baseman. The numbers bear that out.
So I'm going to give him a little bit more room.
You know, I don't know what kind of I like Polanco and I like the
shift in direction here, but it's got to work.
You know, it has to work. It's easy to sit here in, you
know, March when Benj looks like a stud in the Miners down to
Port Saint Lucie and say he's going to seamlessly fit in.
Well, I think eventually he will.
You know, I think he's, even though he's, you know, made a
couple of errors out there, whatever, he's made some good
place as well. I think he's a baseball player.
I think he's going to figure it out, but he's not going to be up
here for three months. If he's hitting 190, he's going
to be down at some point. I mean, the Mets is called the
Tommy Pham. You know what Tommy Pham is, is
an old school ass kicker and I believe that he was brought up
here, not necessarily to get, you know, 28 at bats a week.
I think he was brought here to your help, whatever the hell is
going on with endure to pull him out of the doldrums and get this
team from point A to point B because he is a guy who's not
putting up with this nonsense. You know, when he was here.
Remember personally, he he's just that is a you don't want to
mess with a dude like Tommy Pham.
He's just, he ain't playing. You know, if you owe him money
and you don't pay up, you're gonna you're gonna knock out.
I mean, that's Jock Peterson. He's gonna walk right up to you.
And during batting practice, where's my money?
You don't have it bang. And he's gonna just level you.
He's gonna walk away. That's what he did.
So if he does that in full view and you know, whenever his
cabers and, you know, even though the stadium's not full,
but there's a lot of people out there, what do you think he's
gonna say behind closed doors? If you get your face kicked in
nine one and you run into two outs on the bases and you have 3
errors, Tommy Pham's gonna let you know.
But Tommy Pham's not here to play every day.
So they've already, they've already, they're already hitting
a button or reaching for a lever because they know that they've
got to change the composition of whatever's wrong with this team,
all right? And Tommy Pham's the same guy.
Now. Most of these guys are gone.
Lindor's still here, but I think they have a very good
relationship. He said a couple of years ago,
that was that, 2022 or 2023. It's blending in now the bad
year, obviously. So it wouldn't have been 20.
I think maybe 2023 where he's like, I've never seen a a, a
less professional team. Like I've never, I've never been
around a team and he's played for everybody.
Never been around a team that works, you know, less hard than
this team. I mean, he talked about it.
Indictment on the franchise. My goodness gracious.
It's about the worst thing you could say.
I mean, really. So we'll see.
Hopefully it's a little jolt of energy for the Mets.
The Yankees got to start hitting.
I know they're going to go on a little run when when when Judge
goes out of two week binge with six home runs and, you know, 17
RBIs with an OPS at 1300. But it should not be his sole
responsibility to always just dig this team out.
And that's fundamentally my issue with the Yankees where if
Aaron Judge, God forbid, ever got hurt or if Aaron Judge, I
want to say God forbid, I don't want to, you know, misuse that.
But if Aaron Judge were to have an average year for him, Yanks
got big problems because the only reason the Yankees win, you
know, a regular season games at the frequency that they do is
pretty much because of Aaron Judge.
That's really the bottom line. Is Goldie in the witness
protection program? Yeah.
I don't know what they're doing with the lineup.
I just don't know. Snoop.
I have no idea. I don't like it.
I don't get it. You know, I do think they've got
a couple of decent options like, you know, Rosario and and Boone
went with the gut last week, got rewarded two home runs
game-winning three run bomb for Rosario.
And then he started against a couple of righties and then you
see why he doesn't really play against righties.
But there's just a lot of internal options right now.
You know, if you separate like the logo and the branding and
the mystique and the aura, which I have done for years from the
Yankees, like I just don't I don't waste my time with that.
Like I could do two things. I can appreciate the history of
the Yankees and tell you right now that it means nothing today.
Means nothing today. I need things that I can
quantify. I can't quantify Aura and I
can't quantify mystique. Nobody's afraid of the Yankees
anymore. Nobody.
Just us. Nobody.
Oh, God, we fuck got to put the Yankees.
The A's rolled in. Yeah.
We're going to beat you. Yankees rolled in.
They just fixed the trop right after the hurricane.
They're Rays. Like we're going to sweep you.
We're going to beat you. Playing you 3 times.
We're going to win three times. Nobody fears the Yankees.
Nobody so you know, that's got to that's got to rectify itself
from within because they are just they they they're they're
hitting. It's really amazing.
Like because I was very busy this weekend, most of the games
and I mean, I'll follow it all. Obviously I'll do my homework
for the show, but you know, I'm checking and going on the app
and I'm like, Oh my God, for both of these teams.
I think for the last week I flip on my phone, you know, 5th
inning, 6th inning, 7th inning. Yankees have one run, Mets have
no runs. Mets have one run, Yankees have
no runs. You know, up, Yankees tie the
game up. There we go.
They were raised one at late because Grisham doesn't know the
free, Jazz doesn't know the rule.
You know, Mets 6 home games, five extra base hits.
You know 0000 they scored a run, 0000.
It has been, as we say, fugly. It's a little hybrid word for
you, baseball. It has been.
It's a long run, it's a long season.
A lot of things can change and will change.
I can promise you that. The Yankees and the Mets will
not have seven or eight guys combined hitting below 200.
That will not happen, all right. But some of the things that
really ailed these teams, there's also no guarantee that
they resolve themselves to the point where they are both, you
know, healthy, easy playoff teams that can kind of roll into
the middle part of September, set up the rotation for the
postseason. I mean, this might be a nip and
tuck. You know, this might be you
might need 160 games or 161 or even 162 to determine your
postseason fate. And when you do that, there's no
guarantee, you know what I mean? So that's just an early read.
And I'm generally, I was going to say I'm generally pretty calm
with this stuff. No, I'm not calm, but fairly
pragmatic with baseball understanding.
It's it's just not the same energy or evaluation.
At least it shouldn't be of an NFL season, all right?
Shouldn't be. We got some issues here, though,
and it's incumbent upon them. I'm pointing them out like, you
know, all right, it is up to them.
It is up to the New York Yankees and the New York Mets to figure
it out. And if they don't, you're going
to start talking more and more. And this is just, it's going to
be what it's going to be job security, be talking about a lot
of stuff. And I prefer not to do that.
But if I have to, I promise I will.
Oh, you remember the camp commercial?
Yeah, you go with the yellow :) very nice.
Yeah. Young people's day camp.
Also, real quick, let me clear Omar Yousef's name here.
He's right. But it, it was an, it's a, it's
a, it's kind of convoluted. It's like the Knicks game didn't
have a ton of bearing, but then every other game did have an
impact. Yeah, like the magic?
Yeah. Magic 1 The Hawks 1.
So yeah, it was like a it's it kind of the Knicks game itself.
Like didn't have the band, some other other thing did.
Variables there you go J Rod way to button things up buddy.
Any before I bounce here? Great show.
Pretty pretty good views of today at.
All I mean, awesome shot. I feel like topics were
poignant. The chat was buzzing.
Out of Boy J Great, great. What?
What a better way to start the week, no?
Honestly, no, I'm with you. I think I have to go get the car
washed here. That's the other thing too, like
when you get out of the car, and I know many of you can relate to
this, when you get out of out of the car, I'm sure it's the same
with a hockey weekend. Football's different because
it's one game and in and out, boom.
And but when you get out of the car and as you know, I'm a
fanatic. I'm a nut ball with my car
because I just like it to be clean.
That's why I pay 80 bucks a month where I can go anytime.
We talked about that last couple weeks ago where I could just go
basically every day if I want. I get charged a monthly rate, so
I'm going to go now. But when you do a baseball
weekend, multiple games Saturday, multiple games Sunday,
the shit that you want to see. I mean, you know, they leave
around. My son leaves banana peels like
he's in the jungle, you know, But honestly, because I try to
like the other thing that's hard too is like when you have to get
up early and like drive, unfortunately, you do kind of
compromise a little bit what the kids eat in the morning.
You're not going to get up and make freaking, you know, what
kind of omelet would you like? Son and daughter, you know, and
we go, come on, we got to be the car 15 minutes because we got to
drive an hour and 47 minutes to get to this field because you
have batting practice at this time.
You got this uniform, you got this hat.
Let's go, you know, so I try to at least, you know, present some
nutrition, you know, so I'll have like a yogurt for him.
I'll have, I'll give him a banana, maybe a protein bar,
always a Gatorade, but then it's just screwing all over the car.
Then of course, and I actually enjoy this.
Then we go to Wawa, which is money and we get the big
slushies, right? Daddy might even get a slushy
here and there. But then the next step, empty
yogurt bottles, banana peels, you know, is 711 slushies, wah
wah Swash was, you know, slushies, napkins, socks, you
know the cup, he takes the cup. It's just a disaster.
So I got to go and clean the car cuz I get nervous.
I get uneasy when my car is filthy.
And right now my car is beyond recognition.
So yeah, you're right. Really good start to the week,
man. Guys, 10 days until the NFL
draft. Can't wait, cannot wait.
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the draft and some of the things Aaron Glenn said and a lot of
focus on Muji blah, blah, blah. So that's coming up Wednesday of
this week here. All right, let me get stop
popping these up because if you don't, if you don't, I'll I'll
read this, but if you don't pop it, if I, I don't want to just
leave somebody hanging. So the more you pop up, the more
I got a stick. Let me get at LV127781-BT.
Like I said earlier in the text that I said he got hit in the
head. He got hit in the head at A tag
out at second base and he got up slowly Lingor.
I know, I know he could be dealing with a concussion that
was never addressed. I mean, I guess I'll leave the
door slightly open for that, I guess, but you know I am then
then have a doctor look at it. Let me tell you, you know, I'm
not trying to be incenses, but especially with the head trauma.
But I mean, if the Met team doctors are that dumb, which I
know they're not, where somebody bangs their head and he's a star
player and he's making $35 million a year and he's a little
hitter. You know, you might want to keep
tabs on them. You know, how we doing, you
know, give them the eye test. You know, check the concussion.
Listen. And again, not to make light of
it ever, but it is tricky to diagnose a concussion.
There's obviously warning signs that there's different degrees
and when you do this more for football like or, or hockey, I
guess rugby too. When you get a concussion, the
real danger for a young kid is that they come back too soon
because then you got the then then you have a micro concussion
within the first concussion and then that that's that's
downstream residually. That could be a real issue.
But again, I'm not trying to be unfair to Lindor.
If that's the case, then he's got to speak up or, or more
importantly, if he's trying to grit through it.
And I don't think that that's the case.
But if he is, then somebody's got to step in and protect him
from himself. So that's it.
J Rod, good job today, buddy. Good to see you.
Have an awesome Monday, buddy. You too.
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