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- 0:01Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, let me
- 0:07Speaker 1: talk to you folks, because I'm so excited that this
- 0:11Speaker 1: is League Championship Series week in New York. Okay, this
- 0:17Speaker 1: is a League Championship Series in New York. And last
- 0:21Speaker 1: night the Yanks kicked it off right with a victory
- 0:24Speaker 1: in Game one against the Guardians. Luke Weaverman ice in
- 0:28Speaker 1: his veins, five out save. You love to see it.
- 0:31Speaker 1: You love to see Soto getting a first postseason homer
- 0:34Speaker 1: with the Yankees, I believe. And then you also love
- 0:40Speaker 1: to see that Judge is running and contributing because you know,
- 0:43Speaker 1: the big thing was what was he gonna do coming
- 0:46Speaker 1: into the series. He's been a big factor. And you
- 0:49Speaker 1: love to see Rizzo getting the bat on the ball,
- 0:51Speaker 1: a few good swings and whatnot. Now, now here is
- 1:00Speaker 1: the beauty of all of this. It feels like we're
- 1:06Speaker 1: back in twenty four years ago and twenty five years
- 1:09Speaker 1: ago when the Yankees and Mets were in the NLCS
- 1:12Speaker 1: and ALCS, and of course the two thousands editions led
- 1:16Speaker 1: to the Yankees and Mets into the World Series. And
- 1:20Speaker 1: for me, that could be a whole chapter in a
- 1:22Speaker 1: book because that time twenty five years ago, who was
- 1:27Speaker 1: my biggest, you know player I followed and even dressed
- 1:32Speaker 1: up as Mike Piazza as someone who liked, you know,
- 1:37Speaker 1: being behind the plate and being catcher. And actually we
- 1:42Speaker 1: had catcher's gear when I was really young young it
- 1:45Speaker 1: was Mike Piazza, and Piazza was on the Mets. So
- 1:53Speaker 1: while I were Yankee gear and I love being on
- 1:56Speaker 1: the Yankees, Piazza just had a grippa me. And then
- 2:02Speaker 1: all of a sudden August of two thousandand or September
- 2:08Speaker 1: of two thousand, there I am with my dad meeting
- 2:12Speaker 1: George Timeberner. So this is bringing up this whole week
- 2:16Speaker 1: is bringing up a lot of memories for me because
- 2:20Speaker 1: I've literally was in the Piazza jersey one day and
- 2:24Speaker 1: then I'm in the Yankee parade the next day. But
- 2:28Speaker 1: that's how connected my dad and I were in this city.
- 2:31Speaker 1: We would roll in to Yankee Stadium and Chase Stadium
- 2:34Speaker 1: for all these playoff games, and I kind of missed
- 2:37Speaker 1: that at thirty three. I love that we just rolled
- 2:43Speaker 1: into the both Shay and Yankee and had quite a
- 2:47Speaker 1: time in the picnic area or in the stadium club.
- 2:53Speaker 1: We were cross Town all the time. There were times
- 2:58Speaker 1: where we go to a Yankee game in the in
- 3:00Speaker 1: the afternoon, in a MET game at night, or a
- 3:02Speaker 1: Met playoff game in the daytime Yankee game at night.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I mean, this was a Rock and City twenty five
- 3:08Speaker 1: years ago, and it feels like we're back there. I
- 3:13Speaker 1: haven't felt this energy in New York City, with all
- 3:16Speaker 1: the bars are showing up and supporting, with the fans
- 3:19Speaker 1: wearing their Yankee blue pin stripes and their Met pin stripes,
- 3:23Speaker 1: and there were blue and orange. I haven't felt that
- 3:25Speaker 1: in a long time. So as a baseball enthusiast, as
- 3:28Speaker 1: a Yankees fan, predominantly Yankee fan now, but with the
- 3:34Speaker 1: soft spot for the match limits put that way. I
- 3:37Speaker 1: love seeing both teams in it, I really do. But
- 3:42Speaker 1: it brings me back to that era, the Bobby vi era,
- 3:46Speaker 1: the Joe Torre era. Just talk with Tino Martinez a
- 3:49Speaker 1: few months ago. He was on that team with the Yankees.
- 3:54Speaker 1: You know, al lighter, good guy. Got to know him
- 3:56Speaker 1: over the years. Jay Payton another guy, you know. Jay
- 3:59Speaker 1: Payton was in the mix of all that run and
- 4:02Speaker 1: we spent New Year's Eve ringing in the New Year.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I believe it was the millennium with Jay Payton and
- 4:11Speaker 1: an arcad, you know, playing golf, that video game of
- 4:14Speaker 1: golf at the Sheratton Hotel in the restaurant when two
- 4:21Speaker 1: thousand happened. Turk Windell, let me tell you ster about
- 4:26Speaker 1: Turk Windell. You remember him from the two thousand and
- 4:28Speaker 1: then nine Mets when he was traded to the Phillies.
- 4:33Speaker 1: He actually came out of the bullpen and said hi
- 4:36Speaker 1: to my dad and I specifically because he remember that
- 4:38Speaker 1: from his time with the Mets. So m Franco Subway Series.
- 4:47Speaker 1: We're sitting in the stadium club with John Franco's brother
- 4:50Speaker 1: and he's so nervously watching his brother pitch and nervously
- 4:54Speaker 1: watching the game. We were there at ninety nine for
- 5:00Speaker 1: the grand single by Robin Manchura. We were at the
- 5:04Speaker 1: World Series game oh oh, first game that extended it
- 5:09Speaker 1: back by Paul o'neo that changed everything in that series.
- 5:13Speaker 1: We were there in game three when Jeter hit the
- 5:17Speaker 1: leadoff over and I was in Droor Torrey's office, you know,
- 5:21Speaker 1: kind of asking him, are you gonna bat him leadoff?
- 5:25Speaker 1: And he said yes, and then sure enough he batted
- 5:27Speaker 1: him lead off, and I thought I'd called the leadoff
- 5:32Speaker 1: home run, because sure enough, that's how the series started
- 5:38Speaker 1: at shay the shady portion of it anyway. So when
- 5:44Speaker 1: I look back at look at this week of twenty
- 5:47Speaker 1: twenty four, I'm very hard pressed not to look back
- 5:53Speaker 1: at what the glory days of ninety nine and two
- 5:55Speaker 1: thousand were. Even ninety eight had a little specifics specialty
- 6:00Speaker 1: to it, but then nine two thousand I remember vividly,
- 6:10Speaker 1: and so I feel like, if I'm gonna write a book,
- 6:12Speaker 1: that has to be a chapter because it gets what
- 6:15Speaker 1: I can freely say this now because George Steinbrenner in
- 6:18Speaker 1: his suite said to me, do you know do you
- 6:20Speaker 1: go to met games? Something losting over there said yes, sir,
- 6:23Speaker 1: we have connections there. So even he knew how connected
- 6:29Speaker 1: in the baseball world my dad and I were. And
- 6:33Speaker 1: twenty four years later, in this social media empire that
- 6:37Speaker 1: w that is, I end up posting about my dad
- 6:42Speaker 1: in the Yankees Empire group, which you should definitely join
- 6:46Speaker 1: us at the Yankees Empire on x twenty thousand members.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I might actually put the link in my description to
- 6:58Speaker 1: the Empire where twenty thousand growing darth, envy and uh
- 7:03Speaker 1: Jacob Baron Drew We've got out before running that really well.
- 7:10Speaker 1: But to see my dad honored after I posted about Howard.
- 7:19Speaker 1: You know he's walking out the East Stadium. There's a jersey.
- 7:22Speaker 1: It just start stay in Jersey, and I'm just like, well,
- 7:24Speaker 1: this is the first real season. Not here is he
- 7:27Speaker 1: blessing stand? Is he blessing the Yankees? And then every
- 7:33Speaker 1: redstart as they win it for Pops people. So to
- 7:36Speaker 1: see my dad and the Yankees Empire group being honored
- 7:41Speaker 1: and people beating off my posts about Pops, yeah, I
- 7:45Speaker 1: think he would want the Yankees to win it. All
- 7:47Speaker 1: I really do was a New York baseball fan and
- 7:55Speaker 1: someone who, as I said, went to bed one night
- 7:59Speaker 1: during the two thousand playoffs with the met Chers with
- 8:01Speaker 1: the Piazza jersey, and the next day is that the
- 8:05Speaker 1: Yankee on the Yangies parade root of mister Simon and bus.
- 8:09Speaker 1: These posters and season runs matters. October baseball matters to
- 8:15Speaker 1: me so much, not just because I'm born in October,
- 8:18Speaker 1: because it is just an exciting time for both teams
- 8:23Speaker 1: are having these deep runs. So Yanks have the second
- 8:29Speaker 1: game tonight before the LCS week shifts to City Field
- 8:34Speaker 1: tomorrow and we're gonna get some reaction from the stadium.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Caleb ce Money three oh one, who you're probably known
- 8:41Speaker 1: on Instagram and X will join me, and then Jane
- 8:45Speaker 1: mac Custom that is oh my god side, I'm gonna
- 8:47Speaker 1: post that interview as well on the med side of
- 8:50Speaker 1: the things. See, I'm a libra, gotta balance it out
- 8:51Speaker 1: a little bit. And I just want to say how
- 8:55Speaker 1: this October three is excited that the League Championship Series
- 8:59Speaker 1: Week is back in New York City. Two teams, one goal.
- 9:05Speaker 1: The road to City Hall and it runs to the
- 9:07Speaker 1: Brothers and through Flushing. Can't get any better than that,
- 9:14Speaker 1: one step away from the World Series. And with the
- 9:20Speaker 1: Mets tying it last night and the Yanks possibly going
- 9:27Speaker 1: too and oh could that road truly run through New
- 9:31Speaker 1: York to City Hall? We gotta find out. But once again,
- 9:38Speaker 1: two goal, two teams, one goal, New York's City Hall.
- 9:44Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garon one leg up on post season baseball
- 9:48Speaker 1: New York has it lead Championship Series Week in New
- 9:51Speaker 1: York City