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Set 1: Fire Everyone (w/ John Starks) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Woo!
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  Speaker 2: Stu Gatz.
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  Speaker 3: Woo!
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  Speaker 4: I got to be honest with you, Bruce, there's a
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  Speaker 4: good chance I'd be high anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Woo! And I'm wondering how the football weekend was. Were
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: you able to watch it? Wow, what happened? Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: tired of him. I'm serious. How about that? In company.
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  Speaker 5: We are mother shuckers, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Woo!
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  Speaker 6: Bruce, does Faison Brandon's name sound like it's on backwards?
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 6: It's time to get your.
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  Speaker 6: It's time to get your racket to get the all boat,
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  Speaker 6: the all boat. You got nothing right there. This is
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  Speaker 6: not going well.
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  Speaker 2: This is still gots and company. Still back to you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surrounded by Yankee fans.
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  Speaker 4: Not one of them has smiled, including Ricky Mantle to
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  Speaker 4: my left here. Everyone is upset. The Yankees lose. The
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  Speaker 4: Yankees get robbed. The Yankees are out of the postseason.
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Taylor, this is what he told me, Mikey. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Just give me the ball. I said, Taylor, what are
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  Speaker 4: we doing today? He said, it's one of those days.
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  Speaker 4: Just pass me the ball. And I will pass him
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  Speaker 4: the ball here in just a second. But I'm not
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  Speaker 4: certain if Taylor is a little bit happy because he
• 1:01
  Speaker 4: feels vindicated about his takes on this year's New York
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  Speaker 4: Yankees team.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: Because you know when people say, I hate to say
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  Speaker 6: I told you so, but they didn't actually hate to
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  Speaker 6: say I told you so?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: This is actually a case where I do hate to say,
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  Speaker 6: I told.
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  Speaker 2: You so nobody would.
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  Speaker 6: Have loved to be more wrong for when Trent Grisham
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  Speaker 6: comes up in the ninth inning, be a hero. Trent
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  Speaker 6: Grisham hit the walk-off home run, force a game for no,
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  Speaker 6: but it was just a fitting end to the season
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  Speaker 6: where Trent Grisham, the worst leadoff hitter in all of
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  Speaker 6: baseball strikes out. He finishes The ALDS 0 for 11. Also,
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  Speaker 6: great job by Trent Grisham there in that moment, that
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  Speaker 6: first pitch, Mikey. It's called a strike. It was clearly
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  Speaker 6: a ball. Saving his challenge with two outs in the
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  Speaker 6: ninth inning of an elimination game. I'm guessing he thinks
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  Speaker 6: it carries over to next season when he's on the
• 1:53
  Speaker 6: Pittsburgh Pirates. You know, on the topic of Trent Grisham,
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  Speaker 6: you know when I knew that game was over?
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  Speaker 7: When?
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  Speaker 2: 3.55 p.m.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Not the first inning. Not when the Rays scored. Not
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  Speaker 6: when that fan interfered with the Volpe hit. 3.55 p.m.
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  Speaker 6: when the lineup was announced. Trent Grisham leading off. Statistically...
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  Speaker 6: The worst leadoff hitter in all of baseball. And Aaron Boone,
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  Speaker 6: in an elimination game, backs against the wall with the
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  Speaker 6: entire season on the line, decided, this is the guy.
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  Speaker 6: Trent Grisham is the guy that I want getting the
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  Speaker 6: most plate appearances. You can make a better argument today, Stu. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: that Trent Grisham shouldn't have been in the lineup at
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  Speaker 6: all than you can for him batting leadoff ahead of
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  Speaker 6: Ben Rice.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Did he make any sort of changes to the lineup?
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  Speaker 4: Because Gary Sheffield was on with us yesterday. He told
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  Speaker 4: us some of the changes he.
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  Speaker 2: Would have made. Did Boone do any of that?
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  Speaker 6: He put Volpe in at second, which we've been begging for.
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  Speaker 6: He took Ryan McMahon out, which we've been begging for.
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  Speaker 6: They went with a more offensive approach and still, you know,
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  Speaker 6: sputtered to, what, three runs in that game?
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  Speaker 5: It tripled the output, man.
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  Speaker 2: It tripled the output.
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  Speaker 5: We got three runs.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you got to give Gary credit. I mean, perhaps
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  Speaker 4: he should be the next Yankees manager.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and getting, I mean, the big move was putting
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  Speaker 6: Trent Grisham in the leadoff spot where it's like, Trent Grisham,
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  Speaker 6: leave your Jersey at the door on your way out
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  Speaker 6: of the clubhouse. Actually, actually, Keep your jersey on. If
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  Speaker 6: it gets you out of town any faster, consider it
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  Speaker 6: a parting gift. I am so— Wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: Time out.
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  Speaker 4: How would him keeping his jersey on get him out
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  Speaker 4: of town any faster?
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  Speaker 6: Because he doesn't have to stop at his locker and
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  Speaker 6: take the whole uniform off. Keep the uniform off.
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  Speaker 5: You don't even have to stop at the locker.
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  Speaker 6: Just keep going.
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  Speaker 4: Plus, if he walks around in that jersey today around
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  Speaker 4: New York City, he won't have to escort himself out
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  Speaker 4: of town.
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  Speaker 2: Someone will just kick him out, right?
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  Speaker 8: Listen, you go out, you take a right, you can
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  Speaker 8: get the B or the D. If you take the left,
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  Speaker 8: you can get the four train.
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  Speaker 5: Just get out.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, don't collect $ 200. Keep on going on this Monopoly board.
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  Speaker 2: Hop on the seven, join the Mets.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, oh my God. Yeah, be somebody else's problem.
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  Speaker 2: Please!
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  Speaker 6: I am so sick of this baseball team. I'm so
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  Speaker 6: sick of watching. the same movie every single October, knowing
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  Speaker 6: exactly how it ends. At this point, I'm rooting for
• 4:16
  Speaker 6: the lockout. I hate to say to somebody who loves baseball,
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to watch this team and I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to watch baseball. If the owners and the players
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  Speaker 6: want to fight over money and cancel games, the players
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  Speaker 6: don't want a salary cap, be my guest. Save me
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  Speaker 6: from myself for having to watch another 162 games of
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  Speaker 6: this garbage just to arrive at the same destination. Let's
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  Speaker 6: go lockout.
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  Speaker 2: Yankee fans, put it on the poll, Taylor. I'm rooting
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  Speaker 2: for the lockout.
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  Speaker 4: That's still got 790 on X. Yankee fans, are you
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  Speaker 4: rooting for a lockout? Just Yankee fans. I only want
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  Speaker 4: to hear from Yankee fans because they're so depressed today.
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  Speaker 2: Mikey, how you feeling?
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  Speaker 8: I'm a little more resigned than Taylor was. I don't
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  Speaker 8: think I had the hope that he had when we,
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  Speaker 8: when we, when we made the playoffs, I just think
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  Speaker 8: it's such a fitting end that our season came down
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  Speaker 8: to the young guy gets on base. Spencer Jones gets
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  Speaker 8: on base in the ninth inning. There's your tying run.
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  Speaker 8: And then it comes down to jazz Chisholm and Trent Grisham.
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  Speaker 8: And as soon as I saw those two were the
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  Speaker 8: next up and Ben Rice was going to be left
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  Speaker 8: on deck with the game on the line.
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  Speaker 5: I knew it was over. I knew it was over.
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  Speaker 5: There was nothing.
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  Speaker 8: There was nothing that, surprised me about how that game went.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It is funny.
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  Speaker 4: There are a ton of things for Yankee fans to
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  Speaker 4: be upset about, and I understand. The home run being
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  Speaker 4: called back. I get all of it, right? The lineup, Cashman,
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Boone. I get all of it. But really what
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  Speaker 4: happened last night, and really the guy you should be
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  Speaker 4: disappointed in, is Max Fried.
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  Speaker 2: No. No, Taylor, come on.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Guys, you're down 2-0. You paid this guy
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: You brought him in for exactly this moment at home
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  Speaker 4: at Yankee Stadium, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Gives up four runs in five and two-thirds. He has
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  Speaker 2: to be better. I'm sorry. He has to be better.
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  Speaker 6: So I do agree with the fact that Max Freed
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  Speaker 6: has to be better. But Max Freed, on the list
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  Speaker 6: of problems for this Yankee team and why this Yankee
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  Speaker 6: team is going home, Max Freed is probably like 25th
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  Speaker 6: on my biggest problem.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that. Specifically to last night, though, he was
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  Speaker 4: a problem. Like you want to jump out to a lead.
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  Speaker 4: You want your pitcher to be an ace.
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  Speaker 2: He is an ace. And he wasn't an ace last night.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, we talked about it with Gary Sheffield yesterday. The
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  Speaker 8: problem is, once that all happens, he starts trying to
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  Speaker 8: be perfect. And once you try and be perfect and
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  Speaker 8: you don't just trust your stuff, that's when you make mistakes.
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  Speaker 8: And he knew he had to try and be perfect,
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  Speaker 8: and it failed. And I don't blame him at all.
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  Speaker 8: I've said you could get Bellinger, Rice- uh spencer jones
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  Speaker 8: george lombard and the starters everybody else can go right
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  Speaker 8: everybody else can go off this team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah i kind of want volpe though you're like fine.
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  Speaker 9: He's utility he's utility he's not a starter yeah but
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  Speaker 9: i think volpe is the starting second baseman next.
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  Speaker 5: Year yes he's going to be volpe at.
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  Speaker 6: Least has proven like he cares about this you you
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  Speaker 6: hear him in the post game and saying like i've
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  Speaker 6: been on the other end of this now too many
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  Speaker 6: times like it's embarrassing like We're the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 6: And Volpe, to his credit, he does rise to the
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  Speaker 6: moment every time in the postseason.
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  Speaker 5: He struck out in the ninth. Literally when it mattered
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  Speaker 5: the most, he struck.
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  Speaker 2: Out in the ninth.
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  Speaker 6: He also had their biggest hit of the game.
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  Speaker 2: He did, Mikey. I mean, you can't blame Volpe today.
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  Speaker 8: You said he rises when it matters the most.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me when it matters the most than the ninth
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  Speaker 5: inning down one run.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, last night he hit a home run that
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  Speaker 4: was taken back. He did not hit a home run.
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  Speaker 5: He hit a double.
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  Speaker 8: Everybody's making too big a deal about the fan interference, okay?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing changed about what happened other than a guy got
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  Speaker 8: kicked out.
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  Speaker 5: That's the only thing that changed.
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  Speaker 2: They are unhinged.
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  Speaker 9: They are very upset. I think they're arguing with each other,
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  Speaker 9: which is great. No, we're trading angry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The problem right now is.
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  Speaker 2: Anger soothes anger.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. The problem right now is we're arguing about the
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  Speaker 6: micros with this Yankee team when it's really the macros
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  Speaker 6: where the Tampa Bay Rays proved that they were the
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  Speaker 6: superior team over the course of 162 games in the
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  Speaker 6: regular season. And then they went out and proved it
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  Speaker 6: again in the postseason, validating their regular season where... The
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  Speaker 6: Tampa Bay Rays should be afraid of the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 6: The Yankees spend roughly three times as much money as Tampa,
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  Speaker 6: and yet we're the ones sitting here at the end
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  Speaker 6: of our season wondering how are we supposed to beat them,
• 8:48
  Speaker 6: and it comes down to the fact that the Yankees
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  Speaker 6: are the most... Arrogant organization in all of baseball where
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: the Yankees, Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, they're so above contact.
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  Speaker 6: They look at the idea of putting the ball in
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  Speaker 6: play and laugh at that notion like contact hitting. That's
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  Speaker 6: for the organizations that can assemble a lineup of mashers.
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  Speaker 6: It's just so arrogant. And you look at right now
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  Speaker 6: where we're at in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The three teams that led MLB in batting average this season,
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  Speaker 6: the Brewers, the Rays, the Dodgers, all three are playing
• 9:22
  Speaker 6: in the championship series. What a coincidence that is. Apparently,
• 9:25
  Speaker 6: apparently Stugatz, they've been playing baseball for however many years now.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently putting the ball in play is still pretty important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, batting average is back.
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  Speaker 6: The Yankees numbers in the 2026 ALDS.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: 130 batting average, 192 on-base percentage, 239 slugging percentage, 431 OPS.
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  Speaker 6: Those are the lowest batting average on-base percentage, slugging percentage,
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  Speaker 6: and OPS the New York Yankees have ever recorded in
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  Speaker 6: a multi-game postseason series.
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  Speaker 10: Ever.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey, I know he's your teammate today, but do you
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: find it... ironic do you find anything funny about the
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: fact of him touting batting average when he is a
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  Speaker 4: month removed from saying he couldn't stand Tony Gwynn you
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  Speaker 4: know what this Yankee team could.
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  Speaker 5: Have used A little freaking Tony Gwynn.
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  Speaker 6: Give me a Tony Gwynn. Give me a Wade Boggs
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  Speaker 6: in front of Ben Rice. Hey, Mikey, we're watching this yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Four of the past five seasons now have ended with
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  Speaker 6: another team celebrating at Yankee Stadium. And the one exception
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: is 2023 when the Yankees didn't even make the playoffs.
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: Where Yankee Stadium, it's supposed to be this house that
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  Speaker 6: represents winning and championships and the most successful franchise in
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  Speaker 6: the history. of American sports. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 6: it's becoming everybody else's favorite place to throw a party.
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: And every October, we're watching somebody else celebrate on our
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: field where Junior Caminero is out there making broom-sweeping motions.
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  Speaker 6: The Rays are mocking us singing New York, New York
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  Speaker 6: in the visitor clubhouse. Why are our fans more embarrassed
• 11:04
  Speaker 6: than people running this organization? And why does it bother
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  Speaker 6: me and Mikey a more than it seems to bother
• 11:09
  Speaker 6: Brian Cashman?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Taylor put it on the pole. I still got
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  Speaker 2: seven on access.
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  Speaker 4: Yankee stadium become a place where other teams come to celebrate.
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  Speaker 8: I would argue that this loss, this series, this sweep
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  Speaker 8: is far more embarrassing than the Dodgers loss two years
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  Speaker 8: ago in the World Series. I think this is far
• 11:34
  Speaker 8: more embarrassing. At least you look at the Dodgers and
• 11:36
  Speaker 8: you go, hey, Freddie Freeman beat you. Hey, Shohei Otani
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  Speaker 8: beat you.
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  Speaker 2: A bigger payroll beat you.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't look good.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 8: If you ask an average baseball fan to name four
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  Speaker 8: players on this Rays team, they're not.
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  Speaker 5: Going to be able to do it. And they made
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  Speaker 5: the Yankees look terrible.
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  Speaker 8: And you trotted out Cam Schlittler, who's going to win
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  Speaker 8: the AL Cy Young, and he lost. You trotted out
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  Speaker 8: Garrett Cole, who's... one of the better pitchers of this generation,
• 12:04
  Speaker 8: and he lost. And you trotted out Max Fried, and
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  Speaker 8: he lost. You threw Giancarlo Stanton up there twice to
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  Speaker 8: watch him wave at pitches. This is one of the
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  Speaker 8: most embarrassing losses, and you were the only team to
• 12:18
  Speaker 8: make the division series.
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  Speaker 5: That got swept.
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  Speaker 8: This is far more embarrassing to me than losing in
• 12:25
  Speaker 8: the World Series the way they did two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor, just hear me out here.
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  Speaker 4: I know this is not what you want to discuss today,
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  Speaker 4: but Max Freed, just hear me out, okay? He was
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: brought in from the Braves two years ago, and I
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: just want to give you the postseason stats on Max
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  Speaker 4: Freed because he was, what was he, 19-5 last year?
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  Speaker 2: He was good.
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  Speaker 4: 21 innings for the Yankees in the postseason, 22 hits,
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  Speaker 4: 12 runs. That is awful, Taylor, awful. And you're not
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: kicking him out of town, just poor Trent Grisham. It's again, it's,
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: it's like, it's the bigger issues with this team. Like even,
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: even if cam or had his best stuff in game one,
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  Speaker 4: even if Garrett Cole had his best stuff in game two,
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  Speaker 4: The way this Yankee team has constructed their offense has
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  Speaker 4: been absolutely horrific. They have no plans for any offense
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: where you're looking at this log jam at first base.
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  Speaker 4: We ran it back with a, however old Paul Goldschmidt
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: is probably 55 at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Old Schmidt.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah. You have Ben Rice, who is a bad
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: fielder at first base. He cannot play in the field.
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  Speaker 6: So he has to now be the DH. But the
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  Speaker 6: problem is, Giancarlo Stanton also has to be the DH.
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  Speaker 6: And you brought in Luis Garcia, who can only play
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: first base, which is the position that you're putting Ben
• 13:46
  Speaker 6: Rice to try to hide Ben Rice in the field. Oh,
• 13:48
  Speaker 6: but you also spent all spring training telling us that
• 13:50
  Speaker 6: Ben Rice was a catcher. And Ben Rice didn't catch
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: one inning this season where this, yes, Max Freed was bad. Yes,
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: the starting pitching left a bit to be desired in
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: this series.
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  Speaker 4: I just didn't want to leave him out in terms
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: of who is the blame pie.
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  Speaker 5: The blame pie.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: 3%.
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  Speaker 6: Max Freed, 3% yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: 3%.
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  Speaker 2: 3% blame pie.
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  Speaker 6: I'm okay with that. 97.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, you're the decider of blame pie?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I mean. Okay.
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: Well, Taylor's the decider, but I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think you should be. No, I think you
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: should be. It's okay.
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor's in charge of enough around here. You know what, Taylor?
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  Speaker 5: I want a full blame pie. I want 100% blame pie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: For you on how you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: This is easy. 3% free.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wait, actually.
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  Speaker 5: We're down to 97% here. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of pie left, though. So, I'm going.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Somebody's going to have to keep track of this. 3%
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  Speaker 6: for Max Freed.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm writing it down. Hold on a second.
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  Speaker 4: I passed you the ball so I can write things down.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. 3% Max Freed. Yep.
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  Speaker 6: 2% that fan in left field.
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  Speaker 2: 2% fan in left field. Well, hold on a second.
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  Speaker 2: Fan in left field.
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  Speaker 5: Disagree.
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  Speaker 2: 0%. That ball wasn't going out of the park.
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: I don't think it was going out. Right.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: But.
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: Have a little situational awareness.
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: It did nothing.
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: Have a little situational awareness.
• 15:04
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: It did nothing.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: Know that replay is being installed and know that you're
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: not going to have a Jeffrey Mayer moment.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: So now I'm at 95%. All right.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: So wait, hold on. 3% free, 2% fan.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: I have some good news for Taylor to make him
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: happy here. I'll let him know about it in a
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: couple of minutes. Keep going with your pie.
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: I'm going 15% Trent Grisham. Okay, so 15. Because he's terrible.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: 15, Grisham, who's on his way out of town. That's 18.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: That's 20%. You have 80% of the pie left.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: I'm going 10% Jazz Chisholm.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: 10% Jazz. Can't stand him.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Okay, can't stand Jazz. So you have 70% left.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: 70% will split it half and half, Aaron Boone, Brian Cashman,
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: because I think they're the two biggest culprits right now
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: in terms of putting up with this organization where, I'm
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: sitting on my couch yesterday and I'm absolutely disgusted. I'm
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: watching another team celebrate once again on the field at
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: Yankee Stadium.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: And the people... In my mind, I'm disgusted, but I
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: know in the back of my mind, the people responsible
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: for putting this team together are just going to come
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: back and do it all over again next season.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Or.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: Even worse, they're taking weeks off to go play Survivor
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: in Fiji. I said I was rooting for Mike Pinsky
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: in Survivor.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I lied.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: I hope he gets blindsided worse than anybody has ever
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: gotten blindsided in 51 seasons of Survivor. I hope his
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: closest ally takes a metaphorical shift to him when he
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: least expects it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Are you hoping that Pinsky doesn't come back? Because I
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: believe he's already back, right?
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: He's back already.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: He survived it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Yes, the pre-taped. I hope there's a plot twist coming
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: in this season where he gets completely blindsided.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Would you mind doing me a favor just on a
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: piece of scrap paper? I want you to tweet out
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: on social media. Just put your blame pie. Make it
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: as sloppy as you want. Let's put your blame.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Pie for the Yankees.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Out on social media because it's funny he's doing it
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: right now no but i want a pie taylor i'm.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Gonna okay i'm just writing down what.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Slices yes i love a good pie.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: So i don't want it to say 35 boone 35
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: cashman well you did already no.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: I want 36 34 no.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: I don't want it to say 35 35 i want
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: them to be in the same slice of the pie
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: and it says 70 percent Okay. With both their faces.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: On.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You're drawing now?
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because I want it to be very clear that
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: they are the majority here.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I understand your frustration.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: It seems like those guys could do whatever they want,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: not make it to the World Series, not win a
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: World Series, and the Yankees haven't done that in quite
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: some time, and they'll be right back there doing the
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: same old jobs that they've been doing forever.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I get that. That's frustrating.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: And the worst part about yesterday, the worst thing that
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: could have happened was Aaron Judge getting hurt. Because not
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: only is losing Aaron Judge devastating, of course it is.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: He's a three-time MVP. But because now, Mikey, we know
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Brian Cashman has his built-in excuse. We know exactly what's coming. Oh,
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: they're going to throw their hands up. Well, we didn't
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: have Aaron Judge. We were missing our best player. It's
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: hard to win in October without your superstar. And everybody
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: in that front office, all the yes-mans, all the Mike
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Pinskys in that office, they're going to nod their heads,
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: push pen to paper, and Cashman will go back to
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: his office. Boone will come back next season. We'll do
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: the whole thing again. There's just no accountability and no consequences.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: He's losing his marbles, man. Jesus Christ.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: And let's not forget. This offense was already one of
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: the worst offenses in baseball without Aaron Judge this season. Yes.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Aaron Judge is feeling pretty good about himself, though. I mean,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: whether he wants to admit it or not, he probably
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: is today.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I feel the worst for Aaron Judge today
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: because you're looking at next season.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Just in terms of his own value. Yes. That's what
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I meant.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Yes. Aaron Judge. he's going to be 35 years old
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: next season. And it's like, when are we going to
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: have the conversation that the New York Yankees have completely
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: wasted the prime of one of the greatest right-hand hitters
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: in the history of baseball? And like, how many, how
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: many years are we going to ask this guy to
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: carry the entire organization on his back? Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: We, we mocked the angels for years for wasting Shohei
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: Otani and Mike Trout.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: The Yankees are doing no better. with Aaron Judge. They're
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: doing no better.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: They got him nothing. They brought in Giancarlo Stanton on
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: the tail end of his career.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: No they didn't know.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Better i think the season before mvp i mean mikey
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: also they went to a world series i mean the
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: angels didn't even get the.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: Playoffs you paid for the things he did you didn't
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: pay for what he got vlad guerrero jr would have
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: a grand old time on this team.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: So mikey's point we do highlight like how inept the
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Angels ownership has been. The angels have one world series
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: in the past 26 years. The Yankees have one world
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: series in the past 25 years too. And it's like, they,
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: they have wasted Aaron judges prime where Aaron judge is
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: supposed to be the centerpiece of a championship team. Instead,
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: he's the only thing keeping this entire organization afloat and
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: from being exposed for what they actually are. This Yankee
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: team is frauds. Like there there's no better word to
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: describe this Yankee team right now than frauds, where if
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: you want to understand the Aaron Boone error, Under Aaron Boone,
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: the Yankees are 1-7 in postseason series against teams that
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: finished ahead of them. And then they're 7-0 in postseason
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: series against teams that finished with the worst regular season record.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: This is just who the Aaron Boone Yankees are. Where
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: me and Mikey A, let's just be clear with one thing.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: We are not asking for the core four 90s Yankees
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: baseball to return. We're not asking for a dynasty. We're
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: not asking for four championships in five years.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: We are just asking the Yankees to start acting like
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: a championship organization because the only thing right now that
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: they're elite at is just making excuses and feeding the
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: fan base just a BS narrative every offseason. And congratulations
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: to Tampa Bay. You deserve it. You built a better
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: team for a fraction of the price. For a fraction
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: of the price.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: If I told you.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Blind test these two teams one of these two teams
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: payroll is 300 plus million and the other is a
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: third of it you would have guessed the yankees were
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: were the team that was a third of.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I probably would have guessed the Yankees were the team
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: that were responsible for two-thirds.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Just for the play on the field?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: The play on the field was not great. I understand that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: The Rays are a good baseball team.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: They're fundamentally sound.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: They go about their business.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: They're as good, or I should say they're as impressive
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: to me as just about any organization in sports. Just
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: because of the way they operate, the amount of money
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: they have to operate with. and the fact that they're
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: usually relevant. So I understand your frustration losing to that team.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you guys want me to tell
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: you to soothe you. I understand why you would be upset.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I would just tell you that just about every fan
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: base would 1,000% take what it is you guys get
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: every year, and that's the postseason.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: That's what you get every year, whether you win or not.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Fan base. No, that is, that is the last thing I.
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: Want to hear today.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: The last thing I want to hear today is, Hey,
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: you guys make it every year. I don't care about
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: being relevant, relevant. I care about winning championships. That's the
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: only thing I care about.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: You're the most relevant team in sports, man.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Mikey, I hate to break you. You're saying this is
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: not who we are. This, this is who the Yankees
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: are at this point.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: And that's not who I am. That's not who Yankee
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: fans are. That's who that organization, that front office is.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: That front office is perfectly okay winning 90-plus games, sneaking
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: into the playoffs. Hey, maybe the AL East is down
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: this year and we win the division. And maybe it's
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: not and we'll get a wild card. We're guaranteed a
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: wild card every year because they made three of them.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: And now, all of a sudden... They just run into
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: much better teams, much better constructed teams to win. They
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: are a team that is built to beat up on
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: the bottom half of the AL Central.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Stu, isn't it ironic that we are very clearly heading
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: towards a path where we're heading towards a lockout? It
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: seems like the lockout at this point is inevitable, and
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: the main reason is the little teams want a chance
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: to compete, and the little teams need to show that
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: they can fight back against the Dodgers.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: All that's left is little teams. The three teams, the.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Three teams left in the American league are 27th, 28th
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: and 29th in the MLB and payroll. The only team
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: below them, the Miami Marlins.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Who incidentally have the same amount of world series victories
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: since 2000 as the Yankees.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Throw that in there. Oh, boy. What did
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Sal say yesterday?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I don't recall anyone in the media, certainly not in
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: New York media, yesterday bringing back up Jeffrey Mayer. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: somehow I remember Sal saying those words. I don't even
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: know what he was talking about. Let's play the sound
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: here from Sal, who was on with us yesterday.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Sal Licata.
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: At home where a pop-up to right field could be
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: a grand slam like come on this is a big
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: difference here with yankee stadium with all those lefty bats
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: they just have to get one in the air in
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: right field and it's going to be gone and if
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: not a fan will catch it and bring it back
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: jeffrey mayer style like you've got to expect the yankees
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: at home to have different offense here with everything in.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Their favor nailed it to sal's credit.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: I think you could have listened to you know, the
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: full lineup of shows yesterday on New York sports radio,
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: you could have listened to WFAN all day. You could
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: have listened to ESPN, New York all day. I'm fairly confident.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Not one person, not one host. across that tri-state area.
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Even uttered the word Jeffrey Mayer.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: He should get his job back at the fan.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: That was like Babe Ruth walking up to the plate
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: and doing the call your shot here.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Where it was like.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: He pointed to a fan. Sal invoked the name Jeffrey Mayer.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: It was like, oh, Jeffrey Mayer. That's a reference from
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: the 90s from a series against the Baltimore Orioles. Nothing
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: about that is relevant in the past.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Three decades since that moment happened.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Well, they put replay in. I was going to say,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: it's not relevant now. That would have been a home
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: run without the replay, right?
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: The closest thing we've had to the Jeffrey Mayer situation
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: was probably that World Series moment where the fans along
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: the right field line was like, fighting who was it
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Mookie Betts those guys were.
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: Just idiots I mean those guys are just it's a
• 25:40
  Speaker 13: stadium full there's a difference between the balls coming at
• 25:42
  Speaker 13: me and I want to reach out to grab it
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: right and I could clearly see it in his glove
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: and I'm going to rip it out.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Okay like all right how's the pie chart coming along
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: there we're working on it did you guys were you
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: so uh were you so frustrated and angry that you
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: couldn't sleep you stayed up and watched that Padre game No.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. What a moment.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: You guys miss the moment of the post season where
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Manny Machado thought he had hit a home run. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: think it was the bottom of the eighth and the
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: announcers were saying, this is going to be the last
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: chance to score because this is the only good.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Part of their lineup.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: And I think they were down a run Machado. There
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: was a man on base. He hit it to straightaway
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: center field. He got all of it. Guys, he got
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: all of it. He was so confident it was going out.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: He had bubble gum in his mouth. The second he
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: hit the ball, he blew a bubble. And he was celebrating.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: He thought it went out. The wall in San Diego
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: is not big enough. It's just not tall enough. It
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: stayed in the park. The catch was made, and the
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Padres end up losing that series. It was an amazing,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: breathtaking moment. Machado, the range of emotions from thinking you
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: have done what they brought you here to do, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: then a guy taking that moment away from him.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: It's crazy when you see moments like this where you're thinking,
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: as a neutral, postseason baseball is probably only second to,
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: the Stanley cup playoffs, I would say like the Stanley
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: cup playoffs are, are pretty awesome in terms of rising
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: to the moment. Post-season baseball feels like they rise to
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: the moment more, more often than not. And it's like, man,
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: if I was a neutral, that that's such a great game.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: And then I'm looking at it as a Yankee fan,
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Padre fans are probably looking at it. Like, yeah, we
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: absolutely hate our lives.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: And we're in the sick part, this, the sickest part
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: about saying like, Oh, how miserable I am today as
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: a Yankee fan. It's like, I'm already counting down the
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: It was 3-1. They were down 2 in the ninth.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Machado would have tied it up. That goes out in
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: just about any other park. I mean, or if he
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: hits it to any other part of the field, right?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Straight away center field.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: You guys don't want to talk about this today.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Mikey, what's the only thing I could do? Taylor's in
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: such a bad mood. I know you are as well.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: How can I make Taylor happy? What would you suggest?
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Something that would make Taylor happy today? Because I have
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: an idea.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: A Nick.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: You read my mind. How about a Nick's legend?
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: I don't care enough.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: I'm leaving.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: You're that upset.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I feel so bad.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Call Izzy or something. I'm not talking to a Nick.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I don't care.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: You get out of here, and I'll bring in Izzy,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to try to make Taylor happier by
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: bringing on John Stark's New York Knicks legend.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: He'll join us next.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: One of my favorite basketball players and athletes growing up,
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: John Starks is with us. He is with us on
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: behalf of Pepsi. John, thank you for joining us. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: tell us, what are you doing with Pepsi and the
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: New York Knicks?
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Well, we're introducing the PepsiX Knicks Championship can, which is
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: to celebrate and commemorate what the Knicks have done last
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: year in winning the championship.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: How emotional? I'm sorry, go ahead.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead. Sorry about that. Go ahead.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I was going to ask you, how emotional were you
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: when the Knicks won that championship? I am a lifelong
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Knicks fan. My executive producer said Jalen Brunson has changed
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: his life. We're going to play a song that he
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: put together about Jalen Brunson for you in just a second.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: We were emotional. I was crying in my daughter's arms.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: What was John Starks doing when the Knicks won that title?
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I was so excited. Myself, Patrick, Clyde, as well as Allen,
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: we were sitting up in the.
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: Stands when all that unfolded in game five at the
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: end of the game.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: Once it was over, we just all hugged each other
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: And it was just a celebration like no other, you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: just to see us finally getting it done, you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: after 53 years of waiting. And to be up there
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: with the last champion in Clyde Drexler, it was just
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: a special moment. And just to watch all the Knicks
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: fans celebrate in San Antonio, it was just amazing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 14: John, when you look at Jalen Brunson and just what
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: he's done at his size and obviously leading the Knicks
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: to a championship and after, you know, you mentioned 50
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: some years, where does he sort of rank in your
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: eyes in terms of one of the greats, one of
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: the great point guards, period? Because I think people underestimated
• 30:45
  Speaker 14: him so far. I don't think you can underestimate him anymore.
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  Speaker 7: No, you just scale on that to make him. You know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: he's right up there. Right now, he's trending in the
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: top 10 point guards of all time. If you keep
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: on this path that he's on, you know, to be
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: able to lead a team to a championship, especially in
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: New York, and we know how hard it is to
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: win in New York and the way he's done it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: I can't think of anything that any other guard outside
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: of Michael have done to win a championship in a
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: closeout game. He was just special throughout that whole playoffs,
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: but really special during the finals and the way he
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: played and the way he led and getting everybody involved
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: in the game, knowing that at times he had to
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: take over the game and he was more than comfortable
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: doing that. It was just a special, special moment.
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  Speaker 6: John, my favorite part of the home playoff games during
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: this Knicks run was seeing you guys on the baseline
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: with the energy that you guys were bringing every night
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: to the garden. Do you ever get caught up in
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: the moment? Like, I think I could go out there
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: and drop 20 points.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably do.
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  Speaker 7: If you watch me on that sideline, I probably got
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: caught up a lot of times in the moment. You know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: people were saying, yeah, like you were part of the game.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I was just, you know, As.
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  Speaker 15: A former player, those moments and that energy comes back
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  Speaker 15: to you all of a sudden, and you want to
• 32:24
  Speaker 15: be out there on the court, but you.
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  Speaker 7: Know you can't. I was getting close to being.
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  Speaker 12: Out there on the court at times, but it was
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: just fun and exciting just to be down there with
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: my former teammates, as well as a lot of the alumni,
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: and just watching this team perform the way they played.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: Performed throughout the whole stretch, run, you know, winning 13
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: straight playoff games, and to be able to come out
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: on top and to do it in such a classy way,
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: it was just special.
• 32:56
  Speaker 14: John, the one thing I worry about when I look
• 32:58
  Speaker 14: at the Knicks going into this year is between Brunson, Hart, O.G., McHale,
• 33:04
  Speaker 14: and Katt, they've played a lot of games the last
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: three seasons, including, you know, the playoffs.
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  Speaker 11: They have.
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: Do you worry about them going into this year? Is
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: that probably their main concern? Because, you know, outside of Mitchell,
• 33:15
  Speaker 14: they're basically running it back.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think Coach Brown probably is going
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: to take that into account. I think looking at the
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: team that we have now and looking at our bench,
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: I think our bench probably may be even stronger than
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: it was last year. And so I think, that we
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: have enough to kind of limit those guys' minutes early on.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: You know, you feel good, but as the season progressed,
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: then that's when it starts to hit you that last
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: season was very long and we had a short, you know, summer.
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: And so Coach Brown been in that arena many a times,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: you know, with Steve Kerr on his staff as well
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: as Popovich. So, I think he has a good grasp
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: on what it's going to take to get these guys
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: re-energized and get them through the season.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: John, I'm going to play a song for you in
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: a second. We'll ask you about Pepsi again in a
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: minute here, but I am wondering here. What would you
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: make of LeBron saying, had the Knicks not won the title,
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: he was going to go to the Knicks?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: What would you make of that?
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Oh, man, that's funny. That's so funny. LeBron, I think
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: he just liked teasing people. I think that's what it is.
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: He just got something in there. He just liked teasing people.
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: You go back to.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: When he came here and did the big announcement over
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: in Greenwich Boys and Girls Club, you know, everybody thinking
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: he's coming to the Knicks. And, you know, he's funny.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I can say. Leave it right there. They
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: don't have to worry about it anymore. They did win. No, no.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: We don't have to worry about it. Thank God. Right.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: We have the trophy. All right.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: I'll ask you about Pepsi after this song here. Our producer, Taylor...
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Loves the Knicks. He said Jalen Brunson has changed his life.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: All he's ever wanted is a Knicks title.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: He got one.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: He also put together not a song, but an entire
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: record of Jalen Brunson songs.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to play one of them for you, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: you grade it. One to ten.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: He already knows.
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  Speaker 3: I come back from a garden night. My mother asked
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: that the Knicks must have lost right. Oh, mother dear,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: we're now the fortunate ones. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: New York has Jalen Brunson.
• 35:56
  Speaker 14: Oh, there's more.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: The ball is in, and the score is tight. My
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: father yells, best thing to happen in my life. Oh, daddy, dear,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: signing him is number one. New York has Jalen Brunson. Oh,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: New York really has.
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  Speaker 5: He's all we really want.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Brunson will win the game when it is done. Because
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: New York has Jalen Brunson. New York has Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 14: That was before they won a title.
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  Speaker 6: Before they won anything, he wrote that song.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I heard you laughing. I don't know if that's good
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: or bad. Let's rank that 1 to 10. He's the producer?
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Me, John. Thank you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, don't lose your job. But in the spirit,
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: in the spirit of the Knicks winning, I'm going to
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: rate that a 10. Wow.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I'd love to go to a game with you. Maybe
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: if we can make that happen.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: All right. You're surrounded by Knicks fans here, except for Izzy.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: He's a Heat fan, but don't worry about that. We'd
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: like to have you around here more often, John.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: We appreciate it, man.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: You were one of my favorite athletes. This has been
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: a thrill.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: One more time on the way out here. Tell us
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: what you're doing with the Knicks and with Pepsi.
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So this Pepsi, we got the Pepsi X Knicks championship can,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: which is a commemoration of the Knicks championship to celebrate
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the fans. and the fans get a chance to get
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: into the sweepstakes when they purchase the championship Knicks can
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: at the point of sale.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: So, you know, you have to go in and buy it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: You just can't go in there and scan and think
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: you're going to get in the sweepstakes. You have to
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: spend a little.
• 38:00
  Speaker 11: Money, not much, to get Knicks tickets. And so we
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: just want to encourage everybody to go out and participate
• 38:10
  Speaker 11: in this. And the can is a beautiful can. And
• 38:13
  Speaker 11: it's a keepsake can. So something to remember what this
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: year was all about.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: And it was about the Knicks winning the championships.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: All right, John, we appreciate this. Hopefully we'll do it
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: again soon.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I promise you a couple hours from now, you won't
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: expect it, but you'll be walking around, wherever you're walking around,
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: and you'll start singing that song.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Thank you for doing this. He loves it. Thank you
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: for doing this, man. We appreciate it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: All right, John.
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.