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Julian Guilarte of SI and Latino Sports Oficial Talks Yanks and Mets at All Star Break 7-16-2024 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, I've got a journeyman journalist now
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  he's all over the place. My friend actually, Julian Gulardi. Julian,
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  I've known you for a few years. It's great to have you back on
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  this All Star Week. What an important conversation to have this All Star Week.
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  How you been Alex, Thank you so much for having me back.
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  And it's uh, they've been a crazy year, all the stuff happening with
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  the Yankees and all the other levels of baseball. But like yesterday's game,
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  like you think they're gonna have first back and then you get another play homes
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  some defensevenelt down put into one. So I mean, I'm good though.
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  It's good. You've been writing some great articles on on on various things.
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  I mean, you're a Yankee fan, but I see that you're writing on
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  the Mets, and I want to go there because this this year's All Star
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  Game participant at Holman Derby participant, Pete Alonzo, you know he's been in
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  the rumor mill and you've talked about this. I want to start there is
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  there a chance that that first basement could be traded at the deadline? What
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  are your sources say in the beginning, like I thought that it could happen
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  when I first wrote that piece, but I didn't really say the Yankee.
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  I think the Yankees were a great possibility. I mean it would be cool
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  because they ne to't need it for the Rice call. But I think he's
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  gonna stay now because Comessa playing the ball and they're gonna try to race for
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  that wild card. I think the guys have been saying that his name's kind
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  of in all the market. You know, the Astros are interested from I
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  understand because Jose Bray, but I think that Alonso is gonna stay with the
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  Mets. I think so too. I mean it's it's it was a touch
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  and go there for a bit because obviously it's this contract year. He's not
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  had the best one. All of a sudden, he's got nineteen homers,
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  and you know, he and Judge of really picked up the pace. And
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  of course Aaron Judge is gonna be the All Star for the Yanks this week.
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  And what's your thoughts on him? Because in April Twitter thought he should
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  be Bencher sent down and now he's literally under thirty home runs to sixty three.
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  I mean, this guy is on another record pace. What do you
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  see him from him? I just can't believe it's happening again. It's thirty
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  four home runs. Last time it was less than it said the break because
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  I know Judge just cracked a list of like the most Tom runs before an
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  All Star break with some of the people on eipons at thirty nine. But
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  Aaron Judge is an incredible force. You look at what he thoughts for the
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  lineup, and he just continues to get better somehow, like playing better in
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  the twenty twenty two season. Twenty twenty three was on his way, but
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  he got injured. He's still had forty home runs like comes one hundred games,
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  So it's just a stretch he's been on the past few years. Is
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  really like solidifying his as the best player in the game. You mentioned Ben
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  Rice and I know you probably covered him at Somerset. Any any interaction with
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  him and are you surprised that he's been off to this hot start. Look,
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  it was a low slow there, but then he picked it up.
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  He had the three home runs as a rookie first time ever in a game.
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  Did you see that potential when he was at Somerset? Yeah, there
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  was some chats with Rice been had. I saw the potential for a great
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  bat. I wasn't sure about where it's defense he stood because I didn't really
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  feel like he was the best catcher Yankees. Of a bunch of catchers first
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  base kind of seems like a better fit. He's doing all right defensively for
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  now. A bat's been really good, has some good contact too, besides
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  just the home runs. And I was starting to tape Broth a little bit.
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  But it's the Pigs and Valley's being a rookie, so we'll see how
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  he looks going forward. I just thought that Rice was like very happy with
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  what was going on. He's thankful for the opportunity he has been given.
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  So I think they'll keep working hard and that batch sticking the lineup, and
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  we'll see how what happens if the one results turned so. So, are
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  gonna get to see him again at Woodbridge? Because I'm I'm debating when they
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  go down there. I know it's so out, but you never know,
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  are you going down to see him? No, I'm not going to be
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  there to see him this week, but I am gonna look at that Jack
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  Cory have been with Jose Trevino, Tommy Kinley, and there's one more I
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  forgot. Maybe it's Wall of Cabrari. I will try that one though.
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  And they had a Clerk Schmidt too. If I'm not mistaken on Luke Weaver,
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  it's gonna be a big deal on Monday, August fifth. That being
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  said, you know, you mentioned last night the Yanks and New York City
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  Field, and I'm like, wait a minute, Yanks are six, you
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  know, five three high. They lose six to five. I see them
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  highlights. I can't blame Bolty entirely. I also, you know, for
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  what it's worth, Holmes has not been able to be in a safe situation
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  quite often towards the July and June months, so I feel like in that
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  role he's a bit rusty in it. But it doesn't excuse the fact he's
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  now blown two saves. But my question to you is, Yanks have now
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  missed two sweeps the Royals and the Orioles due to all of this Ninth Inning
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  chaos. How do they recover from it after the break? I feel like
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  they can't recover. They didn't recover in Boston, right, and they of
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  course lose to Boston in that ninth in that ninth inning on the Friday night,
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  But how would how should they recover from your eyes in the second half
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  from that those misweeps. They need to make deals because you can't rely on
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  Clay Homes to close it out. He has like six blown saves. We
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  yeah, we mentioned three of them right there. He's just been a wreck.
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  Everything starting fast, and yeah, it's events is at fall, but
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  again, play Homes doesn't miss any bats really, and he also walks too
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  many guys like the guys he shouldn't walk, and that's what gets them in
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  trouble in these situations. I mean, yeah, it's offensive. Plays have
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  to be made by both the Ambers who going the Yankees should win the game.
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  But he they need, he needs to be a lot better and he
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  just hasn't been. Man. They need to make some trades. And I'd
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  also look to call up Jack Neely, but he hasn't pitched a little while,
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  so now I'm wondering if it's her too, which the other guys down
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  there. But yeah, and Luke Weaver, you know, Luke Weaver has
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  been a candidate for closure. They just haven't haven't been able to get that
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  going, should they? In the second half. No, I don't want
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  we were closing because I need him to go multi inning sometimes they need we
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  were in the row is in now, so I would not have him close.
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  I think I broke my role exactly the second part of the seasone.
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  I broke my role there, Julian, it's not the second half, it's
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  the second part. But that's another story. It's really funny, Like I
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  used to always think it was halfway, but like now it's just been like,
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  well more towards the first half being over. You know the thing about
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  these these two teams, the Mets and the Yankees, are despite all the
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  chaos and the and the craziness in this first half, first part of the
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  season, they have ended pretty well to get to the break. And I
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  didn't think that was possible. Like I didn't think the Mets would recover from
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  zero to five. I didn't think the Yanks would be able to go to
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  Baltimore and and and I would say dominate in a sense. Even they lost
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  yesterday, they finally won a series. I didn't see that about a week
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  ago. Is this baseball? Or what did they change up both teams to
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  get into the groove they have heading the All Star break, I think the
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  Mets found a lot of belief and a lot of the players. I think
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  the offense looked good there. Starting rotation has been ben but its own break.
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  Their bullpen's been a wreck, but they've gone some big out so,
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  like I think the Mets are just their runs are performing to begin the year,
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  so I think there was some correction on that, and then they've gone
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  some excellent performances. And the likes of the Antils like Ose Glaciers, like
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  guys who wouldn't expect before season started, which helps when Door has been pretty
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  solid, Nemo has been great, have Alpas his goos. Whenever he plays,
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  they seem to win. So it's like a lot of good stuff clicking.
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  When the Yankees, I'm not fully satisfied because I was surprised they won
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  the series too, But that's the point that you have to finish the job
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  and actually sweep the team, especially to get first place and like have the
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  season series be tied. Like the first two games are really good. I
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  think you just got good pitching and you've got timely hitting, and the Orioles,
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  let's be honest, they're not playing too good either, and they got
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  lucky to even win one game. They got swept by the Cops. So
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  I mean the Yankees got lucky at the Orioles kind of went through it at
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  the same time. Now, of all the rumors going around, what is
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  what is solid? What is just rumor? What? What do you see
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  going down at the deadline? Are the who theanks? Who are the inks
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  in line for in the running for Okay, I'm trying to process all this.
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  I think, like, I think Tanner's got to real it's the target,
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  but the problem is there's a bunch of people going for him. But
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  I think that's the guy they should try to pick up for the bullpen.
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  And then I think Carlos Sevens from the Angels, another reliever lines up.
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  I think they might want to get what wes from Fingo with him two maybe
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  a little bit of tornament and Fingo like he does something as well, but
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  I don't know how sustainable it is. But they too need a better option
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  at their base, so I wouldn't be opposed to that one. Maybe maybe
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  Jack Flaherty from the Tigers if they want extra starter, that would be a
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  nice little deal potentially, So that's what I would say. I mean,
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  they need at least like two bullpen arms, hopefully infields are maybe a starting
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  pitcher? All right, Julian, I know you are a frustrated fan,
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  and I know that that frustration bleeds into the Labor Torres camp as well.
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  So are you hoping he goes to the deadline? Do you want him to
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  shape up his contract year? Like? What are your thoughts on Labor?
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  I think the Yankees gotta ride it out. I think they just gotta see
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  if he can get it together in the second because he's a good hitter.
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  When he's on point, he is an extremely helpful part of this team.
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  Can we say that absolutely? And it's all a good sign if I'm like
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  starting a hill with better of these past few games too, I thought he
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  always says decently, came to the yards, he has some hits against the
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  race. I think he definitely will be a lot better in the second half.
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  I think there's zero purpose in trading him because there's two reasons why I
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  wouldn't do it. The first one is that its value is gonna be terrible,
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  Let's be honest about that to start. And then the second thing is
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  that I don't want to create another hole making new position opening, because like,
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  who's gonna play second base if you trade him? What about on the
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  match? I like that we're having this balance competitions by both teams, so
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  that you do cover both teams. And I see that you're with fan Nation
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  and Latino Sports. I know you cover basically the ground of of yank Citium
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  and city Field. So let's go with the Mets as well here. I
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  don't I know people were knocking Tyrone Taylor, but he ends up being a
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  good piece to this lineup. What changes would you make? I mean DJ
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  Stewart is on and off? Is that is a DH spot at so a
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  weak spot for them? No? Because they got J D. Martinez,
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  So I don't know, yes, Martin for them. I think that the
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  line is basically fine if you want to add it that maybe in the I
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  guess outfield. The infield seems a little bit full, unlest they want to
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  try to like do something that second with Jeff McNeil because he hasn't been great.
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  I think that they need bullpen help. The men's need bullpen help,
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  bullpen help and more bullpen help, and maybe a starting pitcher, but I
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  don't know if they necessarily need it. And is retiring, but bull Pen
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  is their main co All right, Now you mentioned JD Martinez. Here's a
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  guy that came up a little later, but from injury and everything like that.
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  But he's provided the spark that I don't think, you know, Met
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  fans were expecting because he's a little older. Right, So what goes into
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  that that magic of JD MARTINZ? What has he changed for JD? Is
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  so good? I mean the team really rallies around JD too, Like he
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  has them take extra meetings, like he's working with all the guys hitters like.
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  So, JD's been a big leader of mensa over the Mets, and
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  you know, he's very professional, is at bats, doesn't get cheated,
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  doesn't take it bad at bat, always quality with him. Even though he's
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  thirty seven, he's still getting the jobs on he's saying. Well, So
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  he's another anchor for that Mets team and the clubhouse is really rallying around those
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  guys. The leaders of the team with the Lindors and Martinez is it's everything
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  is something operate and the fact that they have a third wildcard spot after being
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  eleven games under five hundred. Who would have thought, right, yeah,
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  no, that is so true. I mean they are. They are in
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  the thick of this now after all of that, And of course the host
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  Glacious. Ever known an active player to put out a song mid season,
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  I've never seen that before. That was the first. I absolutely love that
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  story. And he's a good guy too. I spoke to him a little
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  bit. I know there's artists that have made songs before that play baseball and
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  other sports, but like, I can't think of something quite like the post
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  game constant that actually had results like that. Uh yeah, it was really
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  cool. I wish I was there for that one with a fun day,
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  but I saw all the videos and the stadium was going nuts. Good times
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  in Queens right now, Yankees ends on a sort of good note. But
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  in the last game, just like in twenty twenty one when the Yankees got
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  walked off against the Astros and they were up like six to two night inning
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  going into the second half. Well, let me let me ask you this,
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  Julian, because you've also seen a couple guys make their rehab starts in
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  uh in Summerset, right, Garrett Cole made his way down there to rehab
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  and DJ You am I wrong to say they might have brought Garrett a little
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  too soon? Or did you think when you saw him in summer set?
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  Okay, he looks ready. What were your thoughts on all that? And
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  DJ? Two, I want to ask you about him as well. Okay,
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  Garrett, I I think they could have maybe did one more rehab,
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  but when they sent him out of Triple A, he was looking good at
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  get like ten K's and around five innings, I was like, all right,
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  I mean, I guess that works. I mean it's not the same
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  obviously to what three rehabs starts to, because maybe to four. I saw
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  you definitely saw some rough Pactice in the beginning against Baltimore the first time the
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  Mets got him really good. Austin wasn't great, but you saw, look
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  Gerrett gold can do against Toronto. He saw he could do against the Oriols
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  this weekend. So I think everything's fine. Now it counts like where it
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  should be. So I guess it was all good. Maybe they could have
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  do one more, but I don't think it's too bad. And then DJ,
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  I mean, look, DJ is finally finding his swing. But that
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  was a guy who had to go through this rehabbing as well. And when
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  he first got called, you know, first got back in the majors that
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  we're so excited. He has struggled since he came back up, but the
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  signs are there. I mean the fact he's going the opposite way with that
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  baseball in the batter's box. You know, hitting the opposite way for him
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  is a big part of his game. Yeah, it is, But I
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  don't really I'll be honest with you, and he might know already, but
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  I don't share the same optimism you do with Djo and Mayhew. I think
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  the Yankees really need to find at their basement quickly. I'm just not sold
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  on anything with him anymore, and his powers now existing, I think his
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  better days are well behind him, honestly, really, all right, I
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  want to talk about the other JD because I gotta be honest, and yeah,
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  I think I voiced this maybe on X or whatever, But I know
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  that Trent Grisham in the lineup kind of irks me sometimes because it feels like
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  he's not conjuring as much as he could or whatever. He's just struggling a
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  lot of the time. Yeah, he has his highlights, but he's struggling
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  a lot. Why aren't they playing guys like Waldo and even you know,
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  you get JD. Davis and he sitting on the bench. I mean,
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  why not give him a few at bets as well. Well, there's a
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  couple of things here I would say. First of all, I think Grishiam's
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  arrow is actually pointing out yesterday he basically put the team on his back.
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  He's been hitting a lot better considering how bad he started the season. That
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  one play against the Reds was awful. I don't know what the hell that
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  was other than that, his defense has been great, it always is.
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  His bat is pretty aggravating. I understand he takes a lot of pitches.
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  Man, he really doesn't like swinging that much, so like that's another problem
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  with him as well. But considering how poorly he started, I think he's
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  actually been swinging the bad relatively well. And then what about playing waldollmore?
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  Because I know that people want like Madison, I know there's Waldoll to play
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  more. Nithan, our mutual friend Nithan, just play Waldomore. What are
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  your thoughts on that? I was about to get to that, So I
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  think, like, yeah, I'd like to see him more in DJ for
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  sure. But the thing is, like, I don't know if he can
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  just be your starring throw base. I don't know if it's seen enough on
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  offense to just like Canton the keys the job fully, but I would like
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  to see some more actions. JD. Davis went down to Summer Folis.
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  Why I didn't see him this weekend, But I'm very aggravated the fact that
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  they called Vivas and the only men use him like. I thought they could
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  have gave him some shots out there, especially without bad we've been hitting,
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  but that was just the holes of bench spot. I get, so there's
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  that. But yeah, I mean, I'm alright with Walls though, but
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  I need to see him hit a little bit better if he's gonna play like
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  more. But with that being said, the attitude on him and then one
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  DJ, yeah, I know, the stomach flu thing was really weird because
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  you know, it was just an odd thing to go down with, but
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  that's what it was. Now. In talking about Vivas, I know everybody
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  was excited to see him play, you know, call him up. What's
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  it like for you though, to get to know all these guys at the
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  double A, triple A level. I mean, is there sort of a
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  privilege you feel or pride you feel that you get to interview all these guys
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  before they get called up. Yeah, I mean I do enjoy some of
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  it. It hasn't been a fun ride, like saying that we could talk
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  to some of the people before they go all the way up like the Rises
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  of the World, the Hole Bees maingas well. But like, yeah,
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  it's a little bit tough because, like you want the guys to get called
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  up, take a while. Sometimes sometimes it doesn't happening. They get trade
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  to other teams because now it's deadline season, so a lot of guys are
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  gonna be going that we like. So it's gonna be a little bit tough,
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  but we'll love to see what the returns bringing them. It's actually worth
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  it. It's definitely been very hither the mess since last few trades headlines for
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  sure, So a lot of stuff's gonna go down and hopefully it's the right
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  moves to get them towards the World Series. Yeah, that's the thing.
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  Everybody still says Cash should be fired and Boone should be fired. But I
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  mean, what are your thoughts on that. I am not in that camp.
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  I think we gotta let the season play out. What are your thoughts
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  of the thoughts I need to see something different super sooner around away. They're
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  like, yeah, let it go now, don't do anything right now,
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  But like I want to see the team needs to make the World Series in
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  the minimum but not win it. And I can't see another early playoff exit.
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  And it's the same with all like get into the al Yes, does
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  nothing for me at this point? Well right, and to me, the
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  only thing I would say, as I mentioned before, I know Grisham was
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  picking up with that was a week spot which frustrated me. But you know,
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  if he can produce, that's all we want. We want these guys
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  to keep hitting and whatnot. Julian, who was your favorite interview You've done
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  this whole first part of the season. First part of the season. I
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  did just talk with Dustin Brown, Who's gonna get drafted. He's Kevin Brown's
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  son, So I'll just give you that one. Well, I was gonna
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  ask you about the draft because now you got a whole new selection to cover
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  down in the miners. Who is the best draft pick? Lass? You
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  know? Over on Sunday night for the Yankees, I just was looking at
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  some of the stuff. I think Cunningham was maybe a better pick than has.
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  I was a little surprised with S. I think Cass will be all
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  right. Probably felt like it was the word the twenty six pick. Like
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  I'm not going to be an expert and say like, definitely not, but
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  like I was a little surprised. I thought they'd look towards third base maybe
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  even though some reports came out they wanted a lot of pictures. But I
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  think both guys have high upside. Though apparently they could both be like two
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  to three stars if everything goes well. So we'll see how that looks.
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  I think they want to replace some pitching, the pitching and the system taking
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  a little bit of behay recently, so I understand it from that standpoint.
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  But to me, like and I think you're gonna groo me too, and
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  we're talking about it's team desperately needs a future third basement. They have no
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  answer for someone to play third base going forward. Yeah, that third base
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  slot is going to be, uh, you know, a competition everyone.
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  Now, you mentioned college and I just remember this. You were down at
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  the SEC Tournament for that crazy game, right if I'm not miss taken,
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  tell us about your time covering the SEC tournament this year. I covered ACC
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  and Charlie acc that's right, Sorry about that. Yeah, no, so
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  the crazy game I le so I can edit it cleanly, okay in three
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  two one Now, Julian, Now, I asked you your favorite interview,
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  but the favorite game you covered might not have been from the Major League Baseball
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  right you got to cover the a SEC tournament this past spring. Yeah,
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  I think the favorite game I covered this year was probably UNC versus Wake Forest.
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  I saw Chase Burns throw six show scoreless, came up maybe one run
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  actually, but like fourteen k's my one run of fifteen k's. But regardless
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  of the point, he got the second overall by the Reds last night and
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  for good reason. And then there was a battle North Carolina xtraining some North
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  Carolina came back and after being down for nothing, then wake Forest ties in
• 22:57
  the night and then wake Forest an extra. So it was a crazy game.
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  This guy Nick Cruin who was picked by the eight's fourth overall, and
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  like a big home run and a big double, so all the big players
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  ended up playing really well with Dan Suny from North North Carolina. So that's
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  why it was a really special game, Like you got a marquee matchup with
• 23:18
  like the top end talent playing really well and it was for the best game
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  by far. Now in your college coverage, But is that always fun to
• 23:29
  see these guys perform and then get called up? I mean, do you
• 23:32
  ever maintain connections with them after get called up. I've never had a guy
• 23:37
  go I knew in college, like go all the way through. Like most
• 23:40
  times, it's been like I'll meet them after they get drafted. I never
• 23:45
  religiously followed someone's college career like all the way through. But that will change
• 23:49
  this yere. But we'll we'll see how long it takes these guys, because
• 23:53
  like it's gonna be a little bit probably, but on everyone's skiings so love
• 24:02
  to see. However, that is amazing your thoughts on Skiens getting in there.
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  He's a rookie, he hasn't played the amount of time. I mean,
• 24:11
  is the exception to be made, though, I feel like it is
• 24:12
  for him to be in the Alcar game tomorrow night. I actually thought they
• 24:17
  handled this great. I'm really surprised he ends up getting a nomination. I
• 24:21
  didn't think they were gonna. I thought they were too dumb to do it.
• 24:23
  So they actually got out of their own way. They made the right
• 24:27
  decision that would everyone know early. I think it's good for the game.
• 24:30
  The game needs starts just exactly what he is, and we're gonna get to
• 24:33
  see him try to mow down the best hitters on the planet with like one
• 24:37
  hundred mile an hour stuff, and it's gonna be great. I think he's
• 24:41
  only gonna throw anything probably, I would guess maybe too if the person's really
• 24:45
  light. But it's gonna be special to see him pitch and guys of the
• 24:48
  unique talent, and I think he deserves all of And honestly, he's a
• 24:53
  rookie that's hit no hit a couple of teams here through seven. Now that's
• 24:57
  the big part through seven. Why are they taking out early? I mean,
• 25:00
  is there a lot of babying going on that you are pissed up it
• 25:03
  as a baseball fan, Yeah, there is a little bit. I would
• 25:07
  have liked to see him go get it too. I mean, I guess
• 25:11
  they say he'll have plenty of chances to get more. I mean, I
• 25:12
  guess he probably will, but it's like he'll be had ninety nine like they
• 25:17
  could. But the thing is like, if they decided to go a little
• 25:19
  bit, they probably would have had to go like all the way. So
• 25:22
  maybe they just didn't want to like put themselves in that position to like have
• 25:26
  to pick a weird number. By the way, people are so excited about
• 25:30
  Skins, judge, or aren't you. I'm excited to see that matchup.
• 25:33
  I think it's gonna happen the first thing tomorrow. But I'm not mistaken.
• 25:36
  You know it should happened. I'm sorry for it. Maybe so of those
• 25:40
  schemes too, that'll be interesting as well. Skeens is really incredible. I'd
• 25:45
  like to see him pitch live two. I've never about to see anything from
• 25:49
  him. Guy's electure splinker like he's got a million pitches shrugs out about the
• 25:56
  eleven Brewers the other day with seven to zero innings as a robot. I'm
• 26:00
  excited to see what he's gonna do. Yeah. Sometimes LSU doesn't miss with
• 26:07
  their talent, that's for sure. I mean, luk Wels came out of
• 26:08
  that college organization one Joe Burrow, right, so they don't miss with their
• 26:14
  Now their football is ridiculous. Their baseball's getting pretty good too, Honestly,
• 26:18
  I'm very Now here's a good question for you. So you want the Yankees
• 26:21
  to take a shot at Tommy Tags. So you you know more about the
• 26:26
  draft than I do. I just followed from the journalists perspective, but you
• 26:29
  know, I always think it's amazing how they're able to draft and then you
• 26:36
  know, guys do make make it to the bigs. But I haven't followed
• 26:41
  that closely. But tell me, tell us more about Tommy Tanks. He's
• 26:44
  a big power hitter. He's really not a third basement per se. He's
• 26:48
  probably more of a first basement of the h which might even start of the
• 26:52
  problem. But Tommy Tanks is a great hitter, and he has like a
• 26:55
  bunch of home run records. Now let's he's and he actually hits for average
• 27:02
  well, so I don't think it's k rates so bad, and I think
• 27:04
  he walks a decent amount. But like I guess, we'll see how it
• 27:08
  translated and at the next level as he goes up. I felt like this
• 27:12
  College World series, this whole playoffs thing with the College World was most watched.
• 27:17
  I mean a lot of people were watching this, more so them before.
• 27:19
  What what do you think the change has been to get more people involved
• 27:22
  with college baseball. I think they're showing it more they'll give you more options
• 27:26
  to watch it, which is good, Like you can stream a lot of
• 27:30
  the games on your phone. Like back in the day, there was no
• 27:33
  coverage of like the other games. I just remember like College World Series.
• 27:37
  Maybe they did like Super Regionals, but they never did regional coverage. But
• 27:41
  now you can watch all them on your phone ESPN plus. I think people
• 27:45
  are getting more excited. I think there's two things. I think it's because
• 27:49
  you've got the correlation of the prospects, probably more in the minors. People
• 27:52
  are playing way more attention to that. And with that, people want to
• 27:56
  know like how they're getting there from college and like high school and all that.
• 28:00
  So like that's like making people watch college more to see like who the
• 28:04
  the prospects are going to be. Yeah, it's it's and especially for me
• 28:11
  with Saint John's a half mile from my queen's home, you know, seeing
• 28:15
  them go far and then the go to some of the I'm guessing you went
• 28:19
  to some of the baseball games. I wish. I was actually in Port
• 28:23
  Washington most of the the spring, you know, working like a hospitalized in
• 28:27
  May, so it was a little bit of a challenge. But I'm trying
• 28:32
  to strike up a connection with them, because you know, there are sort
• 28:33
  of a hometown baseball team and to see them do well. I don't know
• 28:37
  if you saw. I did the play life play a little bit when they
• 28:40
  were down in uh in Virginia because I felt no one else could listen to
• 28:42
  this, so let me do a little bit. I tag one of the
• 28:47
  guys and now I got a Saint John's baseball guy followed me, So there
• 28:49
  you go. It just it happens like that. Yeah, I want to
• 28:55
  check out some John's ball to next year, maybe in Rutgers. Like Rutgers
• 28:59
  wasn't great, but they have all right players, so I want to see
• 29:03
  some more local college ball. For sure, it was Ruvera Johggies because we've
• 29:07
  been a local team. Like I wish we could get a super regional regional
• 29:11
  peers and how that's never going to happen because like to be like a top
• 29:14
  sixteen team to get that, we just don't have the animal a peer.
• 29:17
  I mean, that'd be great. I think City Feel will be a great
• 29:18
  venue or Yankee Stadium to do something like that, you know, that would
• 29:22
  be kind of special. But that being said, I want to sort of
• 29:26
  wrap with a couple more questions here. Yeah, firstly, is one sort
• 29:30
  of the culture change that I thought he was going to be in April after
• 29:34
  you made that incredible throw to nail down, you know, at third and
• 29:38
  all that on opening Day or home? Rather, is he the culture change
• 29:42
  that we thought or what I feel like his second part of the first half
• 29:47
  of the season has been, you know, since the Artist's Forum, a
• 29:49
  little a little slower. But what are your thoughts on him? Is he
• 29:52
  a culture change with his team? That's actually a very good question. Like
• 29:56
  I'm torn, I'm going to wrestle with this. I'm going to give you
• 30:00
  two sides to the snake gear. But like I would say, I wanted
• 30:04
  to say yes in the beginning and I was fully on blurred with that,
• 30:10
  And the second half of this beginning hasn't been in this goal. But he's
• 30:14
  still getting into He's still Homer. The other night, I know we won
• 30:18
  that game six to one, but like I think it's tough to say it's
• 30:22
  fully change the culture because of all the stuff we just still happened as bad
• 30:26
  stretch, Like I thought that was something we would get away from. But
• 30:29
  I'm not going to fully put it on him. But like there's issues with
• 30:32
  the team that go way deeper than him, Like I'm not sold them,
• 30:36
  like the structure of how they do things still, and like you see the
• 30:40
  pitching problem was there's nothing to do with him, and then the injury bove
• 30:44
  that continues to go over the team, and you have all these guys injuring
• 30:47
  the minors that no one even fully knows about. So I don't know.
• 30:51
  I can't say it's fully changed it, but I think he makes the team
• 30:53
  a lot better, if that's we'll say. You wish this team was the
• 30:57
  first pitch hitting team that the other Christmas I have heard of this team that
• 31:00
  if I'm hitting in the first picture taking their pictures, you know, the
• 31:03
  nineties teams are able to ground down all these pictures. But is this a
• 31:07
  different game where they have to swing it that first pitch. Sometimes I don't
• 31:11
  hate this first pitch hacking, but like again, like I need people who
• 31:14
  are more selective as well. The nineties teams they wore you down. The
• 31:18
  early two thousands team soons in a win, but those guys walked a lot
• 31:21
  too. I remember watching the guys grind and be a bat like the Giomis
• 31:26
  and the shares of the world, never really swarming a pitch the ain't like
• 31:30
  and that's you see what wants so it as well. I think if you're
• 31:34
  on the lower half of the batting order, you should be looking to jump
• 31:37
  the first pitch is more probably And on that note, uh, who will
• 31:45
  lead off in the second part of the season is going to go back to
• 31:48
  Bolpi? Is it going to be for Dugo? What are they gonna do?
• 31:52
  That's the problem as well, And I think they need to address that
• 31:53
  turn a trade deadline because I don't see anyone on this roster it's actually earned
• 31:59
  the right off. I mean ben Rice has been solid, but you don't
• 32:02
  put up probably not really honestly, he's probably better in the middle of the
• 32:07
  lower part of the order, within the five if you actually Ben Rice is
• 32:10
  hitting like in the six or seven hole, like that's why better way you're
• 32:14
  seeing Now. This is no discredit disrespect to him, but he's a rookie.
• 32:16
  You've been he's hitting first, it's hitting four, Like what are we
• 32:20
  doing out here? Like we need standing back? Like this isn't how it
• 32:22
  should be, all right, And on a person of your goals as a
• 32:29
  journalist, this entire rest of the season. Any big names you want to
• 32:32
  land to interview, either through your podcast or blog you're writing. What's your
• 32:37
  goals for the second part of the season, Yeah, I mean I want
• 32:42
  to get some more rain content on, some work to do later today and
• 32:47
  then like, yeah, interviews, like sure, yeah, I don't know
• 32:51
  the exact people right now, but like I definitely want to try to get
• 32:54
  some decent names for the show and all that, see what we could do.
• 32:58
  But like we'll see how that goes. I don't really happen anything to
• 33:02
  reveal right now. All right, well, we'll keep our eyes keep both
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  your Twitter and your Instagram. On X you are mister Julian Guillardi g U
• 33:15
  I L A R T E one and on on Instagram it's eleven, right,
• 33:21
  Julian gard eleven. All right, Well, thanks again for your time
• 33:24
  as always, and let's catch back up in September when the call ups.
• 33:29
  So maybe to know some of the guys they're gonna make the forty man roster.
• 33:31
  Yeah, bro, I mean, I'm always down. Uh, I'll
• 33:35
  share it when it comes down all that. Thanks for having me on.
• 33:37
  I appreciate you, and hopefully I can play a second half a lot better.
• 33:42
  I came yesterday off, but know what are you gonna do? Live
• 33:46
  to see another day? That's all. Now, hopefully you and I get
• 33:50
  to see each other at the stadium this summer. We got a whole have
• 33:52
  to go, so let's let's link up this year. Yeah, let me
• 33:54
  know, Well, you know what games I go, So I haven't been
• 33:57
  going after as much so being a little bit busy by h when they try
• 34:00
  to do more in the second half. We'll see Julian Gallardi on the Alex
• 34:05
  Gartt Podcast Network. Thanks again, Julian, thank you. Have a good one.