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What will the NEW YORK YANKEES do this offseason? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  Ladies and gentlemen, we are now talking to former 10 year MLB
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  shortstop, 16 year MLB manager and founder of Bobby Valentine
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  Sports Academy. The one, the only Bobby
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  Valentine. Bobby, what's up, buddy?
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  Wow, what an introduction. Hey, I've been listening to you
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  for the last 20 minutes and I you want me to talk a while just
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  to give your voice a break. Good job, dude.
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  I mean, you could, you could yell with the best of them, I'll
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  tell you that. And very succinct.
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  Good job. What's going on?
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  What do you want to talk about? Well, we got to talk about the
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  Mets. I mean, the Mets have looked
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  like a, a complete, I don't know.
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  It's, it's been like a drama story.
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  I, I don't know what you want to call the New York Mets.
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  I wrote a story about David Stearns there.
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  There was some kind of love fetish for the New York Mets
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  when they brought this guy in. And I mean, he's been spinning
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  the wheel making the deal. I, I think I, I, I don't know if
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  he's throwing quarters out and trying to bring pennies in.
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  I, I don't understand this man. So my first question to you is
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  David Stearns, when the Mets brought him in here, did they
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  really think that this guy was going to be a game changer?
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  Because the only thing he's changed is an orphan, an
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  offseason where they've lost their their face of their
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  organization, their best relief pitcher and an organization
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  that's trying to find another bat in a lineup that they're in
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  30 year old players because they're trading off their star
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  outfielders. It doesn't make any sense.
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  What do you think is going on with the New York Mets?
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  You. You.
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  Want me to answer all that? Stuff, All of it.
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  All of it stuff. All in one, right?
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  Yes, You know, New York is New York City.
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  So nice. They named it twice.
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  All that good stuff. And it's a big, it's a big
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  world. And I think what you're seeing
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  there is that David is creating a team that he can call his
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  team, or he could call indoors team, or he can talk call Soto's
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  team or he could call Steve's team.
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  But it's not the team that he took over and most of the guys
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  that were there. And I'm a big Met fan, for
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  whatever it's worth. You know, I, I played for him
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  for a while and he wasn't very good.
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  I was a really good coach for him at third base.
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  I was a pretty mediocre manager. But I've been a really good fan
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  of the New York Mets for a whole long time.
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  And what I see going on now is just the the changing of the
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  guard. You know, David's a new guy and,
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  and Lindor's the new guy, and so does the new guy.
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  And the guys who were homegrown and who were there before them
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  aren't going to be there anymore.
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  And I think that's as simple as it is.
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  And let's see what happens with the new culture and the new
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  group. So, you know, I want to mention
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  the ownership change too, like you mentioned Steve Cohen,
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  obviously he's going to the other extreme to what we've seen
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  with the Wilpons. I know.
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  I don't know if you've had your individual run insurance with
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  the Wilpons when when you were there with the Mets, They're
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  the. Coupons, not the Wilpons.
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  Yes, I was going to. I was just hint to get that
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  because the Mets, the Mets operated where they were kind of
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  settling for these outfielders for a while and hitters because
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  they couldn't develop them homegrown probably outside of
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  David Wright and Jose Reyes on the other extreme where they
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  have the hitting now and it seems like they can't find
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  pitching ever. So what are your thoughts to the
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  changes with the ownership we've seen?
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  Well, I think that Steve and Alex Cohen are spectacular.
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  They're spectacular for the organization, for the city and
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  for the game of baseball. I wish other organizations could
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  follow their lead. And, you know, they're they,
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  they put it in the the hands of their GM Steve has to meddle
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  very much. You know, I think their heart is
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  there every day and I think their pocketbook is there every
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  day. And now David just has to spend
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  it properly and get a group in that clubhouse that work
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  together, play together and hopefully at the end of the year
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  celebrate together. Bobby, this is this is awesome
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  that as a baseball fan was always a fan of you because I
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  just love the way you manage and the way you did things.
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  Dude, I don't know how I didn't get you.
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  You know, I think you're almost available one time.
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  And I went to the office and I said yeah, and he could close
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  and he could be our guy. And and then it never happened.
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  All my wishes. That was the coupons though, so.
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  Good to be with you. Yeah, they're.
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  Different. They're different.
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  I wanted to ask you a question. Yeah, where we we're seeing
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  obviously how the Japanese guys are coming into the game and
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  changing it. And I think your perspective of
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  managing and playing from both sides of the fence, I think is
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  really interesting and, and how the game translates from both
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  sides of it, seeing it and how those guys that come over, you
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  know, have have kind of changed a little bit of a dynamic of the
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  game that was here already. And from your eyes, what, what
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  did you see about that game over there managing compared to what
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  it was here? Yeah, well, that's, you know,
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  that's a long story, but let me just say this, that, you know,
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  the one guy I really went to bat for when I was managing, I said,
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  you know, Jabba was one and and Alex was another actually.
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  And each Euro was the 3rd. And I really was out there for
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  each row. And sometimes I try to think
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  about how different things could be if he was the right fielder
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  that I got to manage. But you know when, and many
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  people know how tough it is to acclimate to different work
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  environments. And when your work environment
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  not only changes your uniform, but changes, you know, your
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  country, your yank, your language, your, your
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  preparation, your bed that you're sleeping in, the food
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  that you're eating. It's it's a tough adjustment.
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  But I think enough of Japanese players have been in the MLB and
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  going back with their horror stories or their or their
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  nighttime stories that that people could dream about.
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  And I think it's a little easier acclamation.
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  And as far as the pitching is concerned, what I, what I've
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  seen there and what I have now seen here, that did not
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  translate for a while when pitchers would come over, you
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  know, Tanaka was good and Matsuzaka was good, but a lot of
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  other guys came over. And Nomo, of course, was good,
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  but a lot of other guys came over and they couldn't quite cut
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  the mustard, mainly because they had to throw fastballs and
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  fastball counts. And MLB and catchers and their
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  coaches and their manager demanded, hey, listen, if he
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  gets three and one and two and O, you've got to throw your
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  fastball. And that was against the
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  Japanese mentality of pitching. You know, they had other pitches
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  they could throw when they were behind in the count.
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  And that's what made him successful.
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  And finally, MLB is now adapted that way of pitching.
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  No one throws a fastball, as you guys know and job, you know for
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  sure and two and O and three and one is anything but a fastball
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  count. There's no fastball counts out
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  there unless it's maybe one and two.
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  And that was always a fastball count in Japan.
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  So, you know, I, I think the work ethic, the, the attention
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  to detail, the desire to be as good as you could possibly be,
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  that it is part of all work environments, but it's really
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  part of a main part of the work environment in Japan is helping
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  those these guys translate better each time they come over.
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  You touched on the pitching. Do you think those guys
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  adjustments too? Obviously what you touched on,
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  but do you think the seven day now moving to five days is, is
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  that big of a difference for those guys in that adjustment?
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  Yeah, I think for starting pitchers, it's a it's a big
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  adjustment because of the practice that they don't get.
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  That practice is just, it's part of that baseball culture there.
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  You have to practice and when you don't do well, then you have
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  to practice more and to get to throw 2 and sometimes three
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  times in between starts and change that to throwing one time
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  in between starts. And you know how we try to say
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  that the less is more where, you know, the Japanese mentality is
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  more is more. You know, those bullpen sessions
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  become either either either something that they adjust to or
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  something they struggle with. We are talking to 10 year MLB
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  shortstop, 16 year MLB manager, and the founder of the Bobby
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  Valentine Sports Academy, the one and only Bobby Valentine.
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  Now Bobby. 2000 was a wonderful year for Met fans and Yankee
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  fans. A Subway Series happened.
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  Mike Piazza was one of the great Mets that we can remember.
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  El Duque. I I know you remember El Duque,
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  who is one of the best playoff pitchers of all time.
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  What stood out to you in that Subway Series out of all the
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  things? I mean, we've heard all the
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  stories. I've interviewed a lot of guys
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  that have been a part of that Subway Series, but I never got a
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  chance to speak to you in that particular series.
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  What stood out on why the Yankees just were a little bit
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  better than you guys? Well, I, I don't know, I guess
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  the Todd Zeal ball off the top of the wall, the Derek Jeter
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  first pitch home run in Game 4. You know, the David Cohen at bat
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  against Mike Piazza with the bases loaded when, when Denny
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  Nagle was taken out in four and 2/3 of an inning, which was kind
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  of unheard of in those days. You always left the guy out for
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  five, you know, the they kind of stand out.
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  They they were all game in series changing moments, you
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  know, and, and to add to the circus environment that we were
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  in, you know, you had the the bat throwing fiasco and the
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  almost come back unheard of come back in the same game against
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  Mariano. You know, it was a really
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  exciting series that that hinged on a couple 3 plays that are
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  very memorable. And, you know, without a doubt
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  the best team won. We were hoping that the team
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  that played the best would win. And we were trying our damn
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  damnedest to to play the best. But, you know, when you look
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  back at it 25 years later and you look at the the Hall of
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  Farmers that were on one team and the Hall of Famer that was
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  on another, and yeah, yeah. You understand that we had to be
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  we had to be just about perfect in order to to get four games
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  out of the seven. And, you know, you're you're
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  showing Rodger there who, you know, I mean, that that was one
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  of the craziest experiences I ever experienced, that's for
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  sure. There's no one knew what was
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  going on other than, you know, Rodger was amped up.
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  There's no doubt about that. And, you know, the look in his
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  eye kept people away from hitting him with a bat.
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  But you know, after he threw that through that, we were kind
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  of paralyzed for a while. We didn't know if he was going
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  to throw at people's head every every time someone got up there
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  and the at bat showed it. And as soon as he got out of the
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  game, that bat bats came alive. And, and like I said, we we
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  almost came back against Mariano.
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  And if we did, oh, what a series that would have been.
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  All right, so Armando, Armando Benitez is a guy that a lot of
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  people didn't like in the league.
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  He's jumped from one team to another.
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  A lot of people just thought he was a choke artist.
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  What type of player was Benitez as a as a player for you?
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  He was the big hearted, wonderful person and a wonderful
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  pitcher. You know, I mean, he had 40
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  something saves in a row. When you talk about little
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  things that happen that change trajectories of careers, you
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  know he was pitching when Derek Jeter hit the home run.
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  That should have been the last out of the game when Baltimore
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  was playing the Yankees in the 96 playoffs.
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  Imagine if Derek Jeter makes the last out of that game and
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  Benitez gets the same. Had Jeffrey Mayer not lean over
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  the wall and interfered with the catch by Tony Tarasco, you know
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  how those careers might have been different in that idea of a
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  choke artist was something that, you know, was hard for him to
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  shake even with, as they said, you know, a fireman of the year
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  award and 40 something saves in a row and bases loaded jams that
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  he get get out of with three strikeouts in a row.
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  But you know, in the World Series he pitched great and the
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  the one game that you know, we we gave up three leads in.
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  He happened to have that at bat against Paul O'Neill and then
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  gave, gave a couple, you know, weak singles up that allowed the
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  Yankees to to go ahead. But he was anything but a choke
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  artist. He was a spectacular pitcher
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  about 99% of the time that he was out on the mound and not
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  many guys could say that. To go to the infamous fake
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  comeback game where you got ejected and then you cut in as
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  the with the mustache out of the glasses at all.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Whose idea was that? Was it was something you came up
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  with on your own? Was it a player idea?
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  Was it a was it a back end guy? Like I want to know the origin
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  story behind all that. The the back story is too, too
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  long to to get into, but you know, it was a stressful time.
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  We we were in first place, then we were in second, then we lost
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  seven in a row and we're playing at Yankee Stadium on Sunday
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  night. My coaches got fired and, you
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  know, I I made a proclamation that in the next 55 games, if we
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  didn't go 40 and 15 and turn the entire season around, that I
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  would quit. Think about that for a second in
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  New York at Yagi Stadium before Sunday night baseball game.
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  Every TV camera, every microphone in your face.
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  And when I'm asked what am I going to do in the next 55 games
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  to turn the team around, I say we're going to go 40 and 15.
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  Yeah, folks. And you could look this up on
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  whatever search engine you're you're searching on.
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  I made that proc and when I asked if we don't go 1415, what
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  happens? I said I quit.
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  How about that? I said I quit.
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  And as it turned out, here it is, Patrick Mahomes throwing a
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  pitch out to Mike Piazza that they call Mike Piazza for a
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  catcher's block and catcher's interference.
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  Think about that. There were two calls to that
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  play. 1 The umpire said the hitter couldn't swing at the
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  pitch, so they gave catcher's interference and let the hitter
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  go to 1st and then he called the catcher's block that Mike
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  stepped out-of-the-box too soon and therefore the runner was
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  allowed to go to second base on a catcher's block.
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  And as I was telling Frank Pulley that I couldn't believe
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  he made this call, and then he said, well, Bobby, I made it.
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  And then I asked him if I could get thrown out for what I was
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  thinking, and he said no. I told him what I was thinking
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  and he threw me out. Well, that's what led to the
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  mustache, right? And they went up into the into
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  the clubhouse. I had coaches.
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  That's Oral Hershiser there. That's Pat Mahomes walking in
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  front with the black jacket on. He had already come out of the
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  out of the game. Oral was supposed to keep
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  everybody from seeing me. What he didn't realize is the
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  third base camera up in the second deck had a pretty good
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  shot over his shoulder and it could see me.
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  So an inning later when we won the game and I came out onto the
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  out onto the field and slapped everyone 5 Some of the reporters
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  saw it and decided it was the worst thing they ever saw in the
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  history of the game and demanded that I get thrown out of the
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  game of baseball. Instead, Leonard Coleman, the
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  president of the league, fined me 3 days suspension and
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  $10,000. And because he was playing golf
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  with my high school teammate in Florida the day before, he came
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  up and gave me a, a little lenient, more lenient
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  settlement. And that was 2 day suspension
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  and a $5000 fine. So where did the mustache came
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  up with the guy said go back out there.
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  You got to go back out to the dugout.
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  I said I can't. They threw me glasses.
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  They threw me a hat. They told me to take off my
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  uniform. They, they, I went into the
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  training room and looked into the mirror.
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  And then I looked down and I saw the old stickums that guys would
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  put underneath their, their eyes, right, the eye stickum.
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  And I took one of them and I put it here underneath my nose.
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  And I took another one and I put it here underneath my nose.
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  And I looked at Oral and Robin Ventura and they said they'll
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  never know. And I believed them and went out
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  into the dugout. Did you?
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  See the magic word though, Bobby?
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  Did you say the magic word? Did you say the magic word when
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  you got tossed? I told him what I was thinking.
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  What do you think I was thinking?
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  Absolutely, I told. I told him it was the worst call
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  that I had ever seen in my life and I was using as many
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  adjectives before those those words as possible.
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  I always love like you had great players that you managed and
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  that's that's a given when we when we watch the game.
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  As fans of the game, who was your most fun player to manage?
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  Wow. Probably the most fun in New
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  York was Benny Agbayani. You know, because he was the
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  spectacular player, but you wouldn't know it by looking at
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  his body. And, you know, he was able to
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  laugh at himself and everybody called him.
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  You know the different names that you would associate with
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  someone who who looked like they were overweight, but he could
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  run, he could hit, he could feel.
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  Got the only game-winning RBI in the series in 2000 was my MVP in
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  Japan when I managed Japan national championship there in
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  the professional leagues. So he, he was always fun.
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  He he could make fun of himself and and he allowed other people
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  to make fun of them all also and that's always somebody good to
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  have on the team. We are talking to 10 year MLB
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  shortstop, 16 year MLB manager and founder of the Bobby
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  Valentine Sports Academy. Bobby Valentine.
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  I like that. It was like, it's it's, it's got
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  an echo ladies and. Gentlemen, somebody wrote that.
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  Yeah, no, I just. Yeah.
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  Well, Speedy wrote it. I just kind of, you know, gave
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  it a little life. Life.
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  You you missed the first part of the show.
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  You said your name wrong the 1st.
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  Time. Oh, I'm sure.
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  I mean, he wasn't. He was reading it and the E was
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  awesome. I was.
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  Valentino, I called you Bobby Valentino, the R&B singer.
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  I also coached in the major leagues, third base for the
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  bets. For 3 1/2 years.
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  I was an athletic director at Sacred Art University, Division
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  One athletic director for seven years.
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  I ran for mayor of my hometown and lost, so all that stuff
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  could be there, too. And I had a 38 year run in a
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  restaurant all. Right.
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  So I've been to your restaurant. I I, I really wanted to get into
• 21:46
  this story. And that was the Red Sox.
• 21:49
  And I thought the Red Sox did you dirty.
• 21:53
  I didn't understand it. I, I, I honestly, if I was, oh,
• 21:58
  look, we put your faces together.
• 22:00
  Bobby Valentino and Bobby V right there.
• 22:03
  We put your face. We kind of like moshed your face
• 22:05
  together. What a beautiful man you are,
• 22:07
  Bobby. But it's great.
• 22:11
  Yeah, Yeah, that's our executive producer, Mr. Aaron Fishman.
• 22:16
  But Bobby, what happened over there in Boston?
• 22:19
  I. Didn't had a terrible year.
• 22:21
  I made a lot of crazy decisions, I guess.
• 22:25
  And you know, the next year they got rid of 16 of the 25 guys I
• 22:30
  had and, and had a good team again.
• 22:32
  But that was just a real weird situation and I I don't think
• 22:37
  that anything but weird could describe it any better.
• 22:41
  It's weird. I mean, think about it.
• 22:43
  If you're a Red Sox fan, you every single Red Sox fan I knew
• 22:48
  was so excited to have you there.
• 22:50
  Your, your, your personality loud and, and, and you, you're a
• 22:55
  great manager. You've done, you've been in the
• 22:57
  league for such a long time, you've been successful.
• 22:59
  You've taken teams to World Series and, and, and the Red Sox
• 23:02
  were looking for that, that, that, that oomph and.
• 23:06
  No, I no, I'm not really. They're just looking for a
• 23:09
  change. And the change was so, you know,
• 23:11
  they got rid of their favorite guy and the guys love Tito up
• 23:14
  there and he walked out in a, you know, in a Midnight Massacre
• 23:19
  massacre along with their general manager.
• 23:22
  They weren't going to have any loyalty to an outsider and I
• 23:25
  don't blame them. There's no reason for that team
• 23:28
  to think that they should should have liked me or trusted me.
• 23:32
  I was a total outsider who actually was forced on the first
• 23:37
  day that I got hired to say that there was no not going to be any
• 23:41
  beer in the clubhouse. No one like beer in the
• 23:43
  clubhouse more than me. And instead of the ownership
• 23:47
  taking that that heat, they made me take that heat.
• 23:50
  So, you know, you take beer out of a baseball clubhouse and
• 23:54
  think you're going to win a popularity contest.
• 23:56
  That shit's not happening. You got to keep beer away from
• 23:59
  Jabba because Jabba told his his wife that he's not drinking
• 24:03
  anymore for the the year of 2026.
• 24:05
  Am I right Jabba? Am I right?
• 24:08
  No more, no less. Good job.
• 24:10
  Well, Jabba. Jabba looks good.
• 24:12
  I don't know if you've noticed, but Jabba lost a lot of weight.
• 24:16
  He's he's in better shape than he was as a baseball player.
• 24:19
  Am I right Job? Yeah, I still, I actually still
• 24:22
  play kept my son. Him and his buddies are they
• 24:25
  were watching the Nebraska game and I made 15 lbs of pulled pork
• 24:29
  and wow, they crushed it and doing all that.
• 24:33
  But what I what I want to get to like my son's a sophomore in
• 24:36
  college. I want to touch on why you chose
• 24:39
  USC over Nebraska. I'm, I'm really intrigued on
• 24:42
  that, Sir. Oh, that's a long, long time
• 24:46
  ago, dude. I'll tell you, I, I had offers
• 24:49
  to, to play football at both, actually.
• 24:51
  But you know, the pack 8 out there in USC and they had won a
• 24:55
  lot of national championships in many sports back in the 50s and
• 25:00
  the 60s. And this is the late 60s I'm
• 25:02
  talking about. They were going to allow
• 25:05
  freshmen to play varsity sports. They're going to be the First
• 25:09
  Division one school to do that. And I was a cocky dude who
• 25:13
  thought, well, that's where I want to go because I want to
• 25:16
  play varsity sports as freshman. And a week after I signed that
• 25:21
  letter of intent to go there, I signed a professional contract
• 25:26
  as the number one draft for the Dodgers.
• 25:29
  But Nebraska was, you know, they were one of the great football
• 25:31
  teams out there at the time. And I went out.
• 25:34
  I did a little visit there as I can recall.
• 25:43
  Speaking of the Dodgers, I want to go back to another thing
• 25:45
  earlier in a career too, You actually, you actually were
• 25:48
  playing for Tommy Lasorda when Tommy Lasorda I think was
• 25:50
  managing the Dominican team or something like that, one of
• 25:52
  those Dominican League teams before he became the Dodgers
• 25:55
  manager. What was he like as a younger
• 25:57
  manager and if you collaborated with him since when he was with
• 26:00
  the Dodgers at the time or even after his career when you were
• 26:03
  manager? Yeah, actually I managed.
• 26:06
  I managed against them a couple games, but I played for him in
• 26:10
  rookie league when he's a rookie league manager.
• 26:12
  I played for him the Dominican Republic.
• 26:15
  I played for him in AAAI, was his MVP for three of the four
• 26:19
  years I paid, played for him and he was the manager of the year.
• 26:22
  So we struck up quite a relationship.
• 26:26
  I gave the eulogy to at his son's funeral and I gave eulogy
• 26:30
  at his funeral. So we became quite a twosome I
• 26:35
  guess out there and and he was spectacular.
• 26:38
  Tom Lasorda was the most unique and and talented person that I
• 26:44
  have ever been around. A great manager, a great guy to
• 26:49
  have fun with. When he wasn't in uniform, he
• 26:52
  could open up a White House press conference and I saw him
• 26:55
  do that and keep everyone mesmerized for 30 minutes.
• 26:59
  I saw him speak to the cadets at West Point.
• 27:02
  I saw him speak to the the nuns in in Tennessee, that in a
• 27:09
  convent and then everywhere he ever spoke, he got a standing
• 27:12
  ovation and he deserved it. And you know, the to win World
• 27:17
  Series, in particular that 88 World Series against the Oakland
• 27:21
  A's where he was the the best manager that I've ever seen
• 27:25
  against Tony Larussa's great Oakland A's team.
• 27:30
  He had Mickey Hatcher batting 3rd and that's where Kurt
• 27:33
  Gibson, Gibson had one at bat and he hit the home run against
• 27:37
  Eckersley. You guys might remember that if
• 27:39
  you're, if you're old enough, but he, Tommy was sort of put on
• 27:42
  18 hit and run plays in that World Series and 15 of them
• 27:47
  advanced the runner. And that being part of baseball,
• 27:52
  not only folklore, but history. Why managers today and general
• 27:57
  managers today and and talking pundits today don't understand
• 28:02
  the value of a hit and run, I'll never understand.
• 28:06
  And Tommy was just the best. Now there are a lot of
• 28:12
  documentaries and one that just came out the a Alex versus a
• 28:17
  Rod. Have you checked it out?
• 28:19
  I haven't yet, no. Well, I know you.
• 28:22
  You've played against Alex, and you know what type of player
• 28:24
  Alex Rodriguez was. What could you remember?
• 28:28
  What do you remember about Alex Rodriguez that really stood out
• 28:31
  to you in his whole career as a player?
• 28:35
  Well, you know, he was a great player, but what stands out to
• 28:38
  me personally is the fact that he was a free agent and we
• 28:42
  should have signed him. And life would have been
• 28:45
  different in in in Flushing, if in fact we did.
• 28:49
  And somehow they came up with some cockamamie 1 + 25 because
• 28:55
  we had this decrepit clubhouse in Stadium.
• 28:59
  As you probably remember, I love playing at Chase Stadium.
• 29:02
  I hated dressing there. I hated taking batting practice,
• 29:05
  the batting cage, because most of the time I was worried about
• 29:08
  getting bit by one of the rats that were running around.
• 29:11
  In the stadium. Including in my office office.
• 29:14
  But you know, one of the things that Alex wanted was a private
• 29:19
  area where before and after games, he might be able to, you
• 29:23
  know, deal with his agent and deal with the people who are who
• 29:27
  are there to see him or, or there to to the give him giving
• 29:31
  him endorsement. And because he mentioned that
• 29:35
  they they got on this idea that, oh, he didn't want to dress with
• 29:39
  the team and he wanted to be separate from the team and got
• 29:42
  the entire city to think that he was a bad guy.
• 29:46
  And for my money, Alex wasn't a bad guy.
• 29:48
  He wasn't Derek Jeter, He wasn't that personality.
• 29:53
  He wasn't even Johnny Franco at that personality.
• 29:56
  But he was one hell of a baseball player and would have
• 29:59
  changed the the destiny of the New York Mets franchise for
• 30:04
  sure. One more question and I, and I
• 30:07
  know I don't want to keep you here too long because you've
• 30:10
  been here giving us such a great interview.
• 30:13
  I, I look at the game of baseball and all these different
• 30:17
  rules and you know, the pitching clock and, and the bigger bases
• 30:22
  and no, no shifting anymore. What do you think baseball needs
• 30:27
  to do? Maybe with an an additional new
• 30:30
  rule or a change to make the game a little bit better?
• 30:37
  Well, I think they should go to an automatic umpire.
• 30:40
  I think it's ridiculous that we have the technology to call a
• 30:43
  strike a strike and a ball a ball and we don't do that and
• 30:46
  that MLB has convinced people to to say this thing.
• 30:51
  Which one of you would say if I asked you what you thought about
• 30:55
  having it a robot call strikes or a an umpire, 11 of you 3
• 31:01
  would say, oh, I like the human element.
• 31:04
  Well, you know what the human element is.
• 31:06
  The players who are playing the human element does not need to
• 31:10
  be the officiator any longer because you have the technology.
• 31:15
  And if we use that technology to call balls and strikes, I think
• 31:18
  they should make it so that 51% of the ball, now you could do
• 31:22
  this because the robot's doing it, but 51% of the ball has to
• 31:27
  be on the plate for it to be a strike.
• 31:29
  And if they did that, you know, it'd be a fairer game, there'd
• 31:34
  be more hitting and it'd be more exciting.
• 31:37
  That's what I would do. 51% of the ball has to be on the plate
• 31:41
  for it to be a strike. And let the robots call it.
• 31:45
  All right, Bobby, I got one with all the boys and my son.
• 31:49
  And this is from Jackson Moore. He you've been in the game a
• 31:54
  long time. Who do you think the greatest
• 31:59
  baseball player to ever play is? Wow.
• 32:03
  Well, you know, the, the Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter and
• 32:08
  player that I ever saw. You know, Otani is someone I saw
• 32:14
  up and up close and personal for three years.
• 32:17
  I've been a senior advisor to the Angels general manager out
• 32:21
  here. So I saw his his duty and he's
• 32:25
  as great as I ever saw. But I would think between Barry
• 32:30
  and and Otani, I'd have to say to the people I ever saw they
• 32:36
  they're the two best. Interesting.
• 32:39
  All right, Johnny, Johnny Errol. That's funny.
• 32:41
  Yeah, well, he's one of very few because there are other guys
• 32:44
  that believe Aaron Judge is the great player in the.
• 32:48
  League Well, you know, I believe Aaron Judge is one of the
• 32:50
  greatest players. Also, I'm sorry I didn't mention
• 32:53
  him in New York. I mean, you know, I, I think
• 32:56
  he's absolutely spectacular and I think he's just one notch
• 33:03
  below the two that I mentioned. Interesting.
• 33:05
  And it's a small notch, all right.
• 33:07
  I just want to finish off with your, with your Academy.
• 33:09
  How is that ending up founding Obviously your restaurant as
• 33:11
  well. Anything else you've been
• 33:12
  involved? I've been to your restaurant
• 33:13
  when I was a kid, I was probably like 11 or 12 years old.
• 33:15
  I was with my family went there. It was very cool with all the
• 33:18
  memorabilia in it. So all that stuff like
• 33:20
  especially your Academy now, like stuff that you're doing and
• 33:23
  any like events or promotions that you guys that you guys
• 33:25
  have. Well, it just got a great group
• 33:28
  of guys, Stanford, Connecticut, if everyone wants to do
• 33:31
  baseball, soccer, lacrosse or just training for sports, they
• 33:35
  have it all there. It's, you know, 60,000 square
• 33:38
  feet of fun. And you know, we've been there a
• 33:41
  long time. We're going to be there a long
• 33:42
  time after. So come in and check it out.
• 33:45
  I don't need to promote anything else.
• 33:48
  You know, there's a book out there, Valentine's Way, which is
• 33:50
  kind of a fun little story that I wrote during COVID and, you
• 33:55
  know, go get them. That's all I got to say.
• 33:58
  Look forward to seeing the the Rocky movie where the president
• 34:01
  of my film company was the executive producer and of I play
• 34:07
  Rocky. It's going to come out the 50th
• 34:11
  year anniversary to the day next year of the 50th anniversary of
• 34:18
  Rocky. And this is about the making of
• 34:20
  Rocky. It's a pretty spectacular
• 34:23
  endeavor. And also with all that college
• 34:25
  sports stuff that you guys talk about, one of the documentaries
• 34:28
  my film company did was schooled the price of college sport.
• 34:33
  And it was basically the thing that there was out in front of
• 34:37
  all the NIL situation and and all the situation that we have
• 34:41
  going on in college sports right now.
• 34:44
  And if you want to know about the Dominican Republic, the last
• 34:47
  thing I'll say, Pelletiero is a wonderful documentary.
• 34:50
  He did about a 16 year old Dominican kid.
• 34:53
  And he he wound up being a Major League player, but we follow him
• 34:56
  around when he was 16. You get a glimpse into the life
• 34:59
  of the Dominican Republic baseball player.
• 35:02
  That hasn't changed so much since 2007.
• 35:06
  I mean 2011 when that film was made.
• 35:09
  Well, we really. He didn't drop that tidbit.
• 35:12
  Oh, I want to film something. To my.
• 35:15
  I had to just drop that out. There, sorry.
• 35:18
  Dirt off his shoulder. Do now you know, that's one of
• 35:21
  the things I get excited about. Well, then, you know, you got to
• 35:25
  you got to reach out to me and Jabba will be, you know, I'll be
• 35:28
  an extra in the movie. Jabba could be a lead role or
• 35:31
  I'll be the lead role and Jabba will be my.
• 35:33
  You know, what do they call that?
• 35:35
  The. You are the lead role, don't
• 35:38
  worry about that. Keep the camera going and and
• 35:41
  save all the good clips it'll make.
• 35:43
  It'll make a nice little little short documentary someday.
• 35:47
  Well, we love you, man, and we definitely want to get you on
• 35:49
  the show again. I know you're a busy man as you
• 35:53
  were just telling us you're writing books.
• 35:54
  Jabba's got a book out too, by the way, 62.
• 35:59
  Yep, I'm in that one. And then I'm writing my own book
• 36:01
  right now. There you go.
• 36:03
  So where? Make it happen, dude.
• 36:05
  Job is throwing those curveballs.
• 36:07
  Baby pain in the ass. It takes so much time.
• 36:09
  One life to live, yeah, but take the time to do it and let AI
• 36:13
  help you with it, yes? Bobby V Yes, AI can help.
• 36:21
  It'll lend you a helping hand. Anyways, Bobby, we love you.
• 36:25
  Thanks guys. We'll we'll talk to.
• 36:27
  You soon. Thank you.
• 36:28
  OK. Good luck with the football
• 36:29
  season. Have fun.
• 36:30
  Stay safe. Happy New Year.
• 36:32
  Thanks. Bobby V, ladies and gentlemen,
• 36:35
  who's now a big fan of ours. So there you go.
• 36:38
  And he knows his baseball. He gave you, I have to, I got to
• 36:42
  give him a little bit of credit. I, he really kind of like
• 36:46
  smoothed around the Red Sox situation.
• 36:50
  I I mean, because he was being nice, because I don't believe
• 36:55
  that the Red Sox were treating him or treated him right.
• 36:58
  When, when they decided to part ways with him after a year, I
• 37:01
  thought it was wrong the way the Red Sox treated him.
• 37:04
  I thought they threw him out and, and told him to go sit on
• 37:07
  it. I thought it was wrong.
• 37:08
  So that's just my opinion. I I got to I got to say that he
• 37:12
  was very gracious on the whole situation between him and the
• 37:16
  Red Sox. I I thought it was going to be a
• 37:18
  backlash and he was going to smack if the candy ass on the S
• 37:23
  on the on the Red Sox. But that's just my opinion.
• 37:26
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, save your tears.
• 37:29
  Mom, what's one thing that you can't talk to me about?
• 37:33
  My sexual fantasies say your sorry.
• 37:38
  It is not ideal, but if it's what it is not ideal.
• 37:41
  But if it's just not ideal. But if it is, what?
• 37:44
  You can't treble stamp a double stamp.
• 37:45
  You can't treble stamp a double stamp Lloyd.
• 37:47
  You can't treble stamp a double. Stamp, Lloyd, you guys, now it's
• 37:53
  time for save your tears. Welcome everybody to save your
• 38:00
  tears. No job the last week of the
• 38:03
  regular season. We have already figured out who
• 38:06
  our champion is. Again.
• 38:07
  This is the game where we all get $15.00 of salary cap.
• 38:10
  We get a certain roster of players that we get to pay from.
• 38:16
  We'll take a look at this week's in a second.
• 38:18
  Here it is. We took.
• 38:20
  These games, the Giants. And Cowboys game?
• 38:24
  Oh, mistake to do that. We had a couple of guys go on IR
• 38:27
  right before the game and then our $5 receivers caught one pass
• 38:31
  each and took a seat. For the entire game.
• 38:34
  Interesting way the game went here in week 18, but that's week
• 38:37
  18 for you. That's why they don't do fantasy
• 38:39
  in week 18. Pulled it out of my shit is
• 38:40
  crazy. Anyway, let's take a look at the
• 38:44
  winner of the last week. And it should not surprise you
• 38:46
  that the winner of the last week is the same winner it's been all
• 38:49
  season, the one, the only the champion of 2025.
• 38:53
  Save your tears Speedy PD with a massive I didn't take a shit our
• 38:59
  write in guy. Who was it again?
• 39:02
  Is this Nathan's friend? No Java.
• 39:04
  This is one of our fans, Jeremy. So, Jeremy, you got the silver?
• 39:09
  Oh, he beat Java. He beat Java.
• 39:11
  He he actually did pretty well. Again, you know, the thing with
• 39:14
  Jeremy is he had a receiver that didn't play and when the guys
• 39:19
  didn't play, I had to give the next closest receiver.
• 39:22
  My endo. Wasn't anybody.
• 39:24
  I gave him the next dollar guy down and that was Kroba for the
• 39:28
  Panthers and he had a touchdown. So.
• 39:30
  That helped him get that silver and then everyone else kind of
• 39:35
  not so great. Jabba, you end up getting the
• 39:37
  bronze. Thumb up my ass in.
• 39:39
  The final standings for the regular season, Speedy PD is the
• 39:42
  gold medalist. I need a blow up.
• 39:45
  Nathan, yes, you. Just lovely, Sam.
• 39:48
  Gets the silver and Tommy poops with the bronze.
• 39:52
  We're going to play a playoffs version.
• 39:54
  Of titties. And we'll talk about what kind
• 39:56
  of advantages the gold, silver and.
• 39:59
  Bronze. Medalists have next game on
• 40:03
  Thursday on Save Your Tears. Dodger.
• 40:09
  Oh, and so here we go with a compliment chorus.
• 40:12
  Speedy, the last time of the regular season.
• 40:15
  It's time for you to get your compliments in last place this
• 40:18
  week. Snatch Oh well, you come in
• 40:23
  first place and all the fantasy leagues, so you got to come in
• 40:26
  last some way or another. Speedy, I know they want me to
• 40:31
  do at least 50%. So I'll I'll be nice tonight.
• 40:35
  You know I love you. You're, you're my protege.
• 40:37
  You're a guy that I've always looked up to and leaned towards
• 40:40
  over the last 10 years. So I think you're a hard
• 40:44
  working, dedicated person. You do make mistakes.
• 40:46
  Everybody makes mistakes, but that's what makes us human.
• 40:50
  I love you. Keep up the good work.
• 40:52
  My pinky is bigger than yours, I mean.
• 40:57
  Your pinky is bigger than mine. That's not.
• 40:59
  That's very literal. My dog wants your Pussycat.
• 41:01
  Oh God, you're going. To use that one in a while.
• 41:06
  Speedy well, I'm next. Congratulations my friend.
• 41:11
  Once again, just putting on a clinic, working us over like a
• 41:15
  speed bag, like it was like Mayweather.
• 41:17
  I got to go back. Casually just scoring points
• 41:21
  left and right against every opponent in his career.
• 41:24
  Basically. You're basically Floyd
• 41:27
  Mayweather Junior of Save Your Tears.
• 41:30
  Congratulations on your regular speedy's mom.
• 41:33
  Speedy playoffs are holding another beast.
• 41:35
  Let's see if you could hold on to the throne.
• 41:37
  Good. Luck.
• 41:39
  Do you want to jerk me off? All right, Tommy, next.
• 41:43
  Yeah. So speedy, man.
• 41:44
  I mean, like fish set to begin. I mean, none of us are really
• 41:47
  that surprised. You have been absolutely killing
• 41:49
  it in this. Game.
• 41:50
  I hope not. Literally the past couple of
• 41:52
  weeks and literally the entire season.
• 41:54
  You are rightfully deserved. That's the. 1st place to
• 41:57
  champion within our standings so see what the playoffs have in
• 42:02
  store man. Congratulations, Mr. Speedy.
• 42:07
  All right, and. Jenny One.
• 42:13
  Speedy I mean it's it's a given me know we all we all turn to
• 42:17
  you for certain things, me more so and I appreciate everything
• 42:21
  you do on the back end and and for me personally.
• 42:25
  The back end. If I could only be half as good
• 42:30
  as you at this, I would definitely.
• 42:32
  Be winning waves. And that as well.
• 42:37
  But they're awesome to have it and for you to be the dude.
• 42:42
  Dissectable Inventory. Beneficial.
• 42:49
  That that's exactly beneficial. All right, that has been save
• 42:57
  your tears. And if you didn't like the
• 42:59
  results, you can't cry about it. You got to save your tears.
• 43:08
  Errol's favorite? Segment.
• 43:11
  Because I'm always losing. You finished ahead of me in the
• 43:16
  standings. I came in.
• 43:18
  I came in last. Even our intern beat us, beat me
• 43:22
  or tied me. I would say, I think, I think
• 43:24
  your track record this is still better than sounded out though.
• 43:26
  That's true. Oh, Speaking of sounding it out,
• 43:29
  it has been a curious offseason for the Yankees as they have
• 43:34
  mostly stood pat while rival teams have added additional
• 43:39
  players and improving their teams.
• 43:42
  On New Year's Day, the Houston Astros sign Japanese pitcher,
• 43:46
  the top Japanese pitcher on the market this offseason in my I to
• 43:51
  a three-year, $54 million contract.
• 43:53
  Two days later, the Blue Jays added a Japanese third baseman,
• 43:58
  Akamoto, who has the most home runs in the top Japanese league
• 44:04
  in 2015 and like many of their players, doesn't strike out
• 44:08
  much. The Yankees were reported to be
• 44:11
  in on a my but did not pursue Akamoto after trading for Ryan
• 44:19
  McMahon last season. The MLB Network's John Heyman
• 44:23
  reports that the Yankees did give Cody Bellinger a second
• 44:26
  offer and mention that Bellinger would prefer to stay in New
• 44:31
  York, but no deal has been reached yet.
• 44:33
  According to the MLB dot Coms and Friends Show, Brian Hoke,
• 44:38
  the Yankees are also interested in signing free agent Beau
• 44:42
  Bichette as their second baseman as rumors continue that the
• 44:46
  Yanks are shopping second baseman Jazz Jazz up.
• 44:53
  Thank God, Hulk adds. The Yankees have also expressed
• 44:58
  interest in trading for Marlins starting pitcher Edward Cabrera
• 45:05
  and are one of the teams, according to Ken Rosenthal, that
• 45:08
  are interested in All Star pitcher Freddy Peralta along
• 45:13
  with the Mets, the Red Sox, the Braves and the Dodgers so far
• 45:16
  this offseason. And the Yankees have only kept
• 45:19
  three of their own players. Ahmed Rosario, Ryan Jarborough,
• 45:25
  I don't even know. I barely watched him play and,
• 45:27
  and Trent Grissom and signed a few minor league players.
• 45:31
  I will say this, I, I know a lot of Yankee fans are upset and,
• 45:35
  and, and, and I, I know the thought of where the Yankees are
• 45:40
  this offseason. You kind of question what Brian
• 45:42
  Cashman is doing. I know Jabba can't stand them.
• 45:45
  As we all know, Jabba can't stand Brian Cashman.
• 45:48
  He thinks Brian Cashman is a big ass and and honestly what Brian
• 45:51
  Cashman did to chop a trampoline, he should think that
• 45:53
  Brian Cashman is an ass. But this is also an organization
• 45:58
  that sits and they wait. I do believe the Yankees will
• 46:02
  land Cody Bellinger. I wouldn't be surprised if they
• 46:05
  bring in Beau Bichette. I said that before the season
• 46:08
  ended, that Beau Bichette would be a good fit with the Yankees
• 46:11
  if he can stay healthy. He's got a lot of power.
• 46:13
  He pulls the ball a lot. I think he would.
• 46:15
  His swing would fit very well in Yankee Stadium.
• 46:19
  The fact here is they haven't made any moves and we're going
• 46:23
  into a new year in 2026 and usually after the holidays,
• 46:26
  these guys come off the board. Tucker is still on the board.
• 46:30
  You use Cody Bellinger is still on the board, but Shet is still
• 46:34
  on the board. You have all these stars that
• 46:35
  are still there, out there that are not signed and you question
• 46:39
  what are the Yankees trying to do here?
• 46:41
  Are they sitting Pat and waiting for the first ball to drop or
• 46:45
  something? I don't know what the Yankees
• 46:47
  are thinking, but the fact here is the Yankees are going to have
• 46:52
  the best pitching staff in baseball next year.
• 46:54
  Think about it. Garrett Cole will be back in
• 46:56
  July, maybe early June. The questions are how healthy is
• 47:01
  he going to be? They got Max Freed.
• 47:04
  They've got a tremendous amount of talent with their pitching to
• 47:07
  pitching staff. Schmidt's coming back.
• 47:10
  I, I mean, they have Warren. I, I mean, this is a good
• 47:13
  pitching staff and fairly young if you look at the rotation.
• 47:18
  So to say that the Yankees don't have anything to look forward to
• 47:21
  next year is crazy. They still have Aaron Judge, the
• 47:24
  American League MVP. They have talent there.
• 47:28
  Now at the shortstop position, I don't know what Volpe is going
• 47:32
  to be moving forward. I still wonder if the Yankees
• 47:37
  are making the right decision sitting Pat at that shortstop
• 47:40
  position. Our man Rosario is not the
• 47:42
  answer. OK, I don't know what any Yankee
• 47:44
  fan thinks. When you hear our man Rosario
• 47:46
  signs a $20 million deal. Nobody cares.
• 47:50
  The fact here is the Yankees are trying to figure out what
• 47:55
  they're going to do with Jazz jism, OK?
• 47:57
  And are they going to sign him? Because he's going to want a lot
• 48:00
  of money next year. You're talking about probably
• 48:03
  around $200 million and the Yankees, because of his his
• 48:07
  ability to hit for power. This is a second baseman.
• 48:10
  I hit over 30 home runs this past year.
• 48:12
  He was one of the best hitters in the American League at his
• 48:14
  position and one of the best hitters at his position
• 48:17
  throughout the league. So we know what type of player
• 48:19
  he is. He couldn't hit at the Home Run
• 48:21
  Derby, but he could hit the regular seat.
• 48:24
  The question here is, are the Yankees, the same Yankees that
• 48:30
  we can remember with George Steinbrenner?
• 48:31
  And the answer will be and always will be no.
• 48:35
  How is not going to go out there and overpay for players?
• 48:38
  He's just not. He was going to overpay for Juan
• 48:40
  Soda. There was no question he was
• 48:42
  willing to give Juan Soto, as far as what we hear, $760
• 48:46
  million. That was the story, but they
• 48:48
  lost out on him. He decided to go to the Mets and
• 48:51
  look, the Mets had a a debacle of a year.
• 48:53
  They fell off. The last month of the season was
• 48:56
  probably the worst month we've ever seen a team ever have.
• 49:00
  So having the best player doesn't mean or bringing in
• 49:03
  great players doesn't mean championship.
• 49:05
  You got to bring the right players in.
• 49:08
  Is Cody Bellinger a good player? Yes.
• 49:10
  Is he the right player? Well, let's let's be honest.
• 49:13
  What did he do in the playoffs last year?
• 49:15
  He didn't do much. And you sit here, you wonder,
• 49:18
  this has been the problem for the Yankees year in and year
• 49:21
  out. They don't hit for average in
• 49:23
  the playoffs. They don't get enough hitting it
• 49:25
  for average in the playoffs. They traded away.
• 49:28
  They let Torres go away. They they're they have Giancarlo
• 49:31
  Stand, who can hit in the playoffs but can't stay healthy
• 49:34
  in the regular season. They don't have future big time
• 49:39
  superstars in their farm system. They have one and Spencer Jones,
• 49:42
  but he's a power hitter. He we know as of right now, he's
• 49:46
  not going to hit for average. And the Yankees don't have
• 49:49
  players in their farm system that really stand out that are
• 49:52
  going to come up and be that superstar player that you could
• 49:55
  build your team around like Aaron Judge.
• 49:57
  They thought that was going to be Volpe.
• 50:00
  So now you're sitting here and you're going into what you have
• 50:05
  pitchers and catchers, what, in three weeks?
• 50:08
  3-4 weeks, yeah. 3-4 weeks and Cody Bellinger is still on the
• 50:13
  list of players not signed Kyle Tucker.
• 50:16
  You got to remember too, a lot of those guys will get there
• 50:19
  early because this is the WBC year. 100% Here's what I'm going
• 50:22
  to say. If I was the Yankees right now,
• 50:25
  knowing that everybody is counting them out, I would make
• 50:28
  a bid for all three of those guys.
• 50:31
  I would make a bid for Kyle Tucker, Cody Ballinger and Beau
• 50:35
  Bichette. What do you What do you have to
• 50:38
  lose? Honestly.
• 50:39
  Rosenthal reported, though, that they don't see Beau Bichette as
• 50:43
  a shortstop. I know he's not going to play
• 50:45
  shortstop again. Probably so then he's already
• 50:48
  said he he would move to 2nd, but then then they have to move
• 50:52
  somebody, right? Yeah, or they have to try to
• 50:54
  convert him to 3rd, which he's never played in his career and
• 50:56
  really doesn't have the arm strength for it.
• 50:59
  Like he's Yeah, he was. He was a good defensive
• 51:00
  shortstop early in his career, but lost of some range since
• 51:03
  that injury. But arm strength was never his
• 51:05
  big thing, so I don't even know if he could convert to third.
• 51:08
  So they're going to convert Chesen back to 3rd.
• 51:10
  Would you put him in the outfield?
• 51:12
  I don't know. The Yankees have enough
• 51:13
  outfielders already. Like I don't think it's worth it
• 51:16
  at this point to just try that unless.
• 51:17
  You're going to well, they they sign Trent Grissom.
• 51:20
  He had a good season. I don't think he's going to
• 51:21
  have. Another season, he's another
• 51:23
  weird split. Guy, but he's not an everyday
• 51:25
  player, so you can have him off the bench.
• 51:28
  If if, let's say Aaron Judge needs to sit here and there.
• 51:31
  John Caller, Stanton is only going to be there for one more
• 51:33
  year and then the Yankees are probably going to pay him out
• 51:36
  and let him go. I mean, the Yankees are
• 51:38
  positioned if, if they want to bring in two of the three guys
• 51:40
  or even all three of the guys, they're going to have the money
• 51:43
  to invest into those guys. I would make a bid for all three
• 51:46
  of these guys. Why not?
• 51:48
  Nobody's expecting it. And this is very Yankee like.
• 51:52
  You're waiting, you're waiting to the last minute.
• 51:55
  I don't know if the Kyle Tucker's going to get the money
• 51:57
  that he's expecting. He wants $400 million.
• 52:00
  I don't think he's getting that Cody.
• 52:01
  Bellinger wants. I think with Bellinger they
• 52:03
  offered another one. But from what I hear from all my
• 52:06
  guys is it's the years that are holding it back.
• 52:09
  Yeah, because he's another one that his analytics splits last
• 52:13
  year, it was good before the Yankees, like the Yankees traded
• 52:15
  for him. They saw that even though his,
• 52:16
  like, raw numbers weren't amazing, like, he could have
• 52:19
  been even better with the analytics splits.
• 52:20
  But there were other years that was the opposite direction.
• 52:22
  And that's why he's been a notoriously streaky player
• 52:24
  throughout his career. And since he won his MVP with
• 52:27
  the Dodgers in 2018, which I think Christian Yelich Shilson
• 52:30
  won that year, that his splits have been very inconsistent year
• 52:34
  to year. And that's why I think you can't
• 52:35
  trust that kind of thing for A5. What?
• 52:37
  Is this love fetish for the Blue Jays?
• 52:39
  I, I honestly don't understand it.
• 52:41
  They had one good season and one good run and everybody's like,
• 52:44
  oh, the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays.
• 52:46
  I remember before the season started, nobody had the Blue
• 52:49
  Jays making the playoffs. Nobody.
• 52:51
  Me, Jabba, Nick, Goody, nobody. They make a run and now all of a
• 52:56
  sudden in the blue, watch out for the Blue Jays.
• 52:58
  Watch out. Come on.
• 53:00
  But what I think why I think that there is because they're,
• 53:03
  they're actually doing something right now.
• 53:05
  So I think like realistically, when you look at it, if if
• 53:09
  you're not making changes and I had this conversation on Twitter
• 53:14
  today with, with a bunch of fans and it's like they're just going
• 53:18
  to sleep, sleep and then sign somebody.
• 53:20
  And then cash is going to come on and say they tried, they did
• 53:24
  whatever. But I think why the fetish is
• 53:26
  because they did get to where they're at and they've actually
• 53:29
  made some moves that have made them better and spent some
• 53:32
  money. Maybe did they overpay for
• 53:34
  cease? But they they're, they're doing
• 53:37
  it right. And I think that's why it, it
• 53:40
  comes to the forefront because they're staying relative.
• 53:43
  And what they do and a lot of the fans that I've talked to is,
• 53:47
  is their consensus is like now they're just happy.
• 53:51
  The Yankees are just happy with getting to the playoffs.
• 53:54
  And I I think it's it's making people shy away from and not
• 53:59
  talk about it so much because it's becoming a pattern of what
• 54:02
  they're doing right. And then they'll sign maybe
• 54:04
  somebody here and there where it's not a splash like when we
• 54:09
  did it in O nine. Yeah, we obviously got CC after
• 54:11
  he did what he did in Cleveland. And for him to do what he did in
• 54:15
  that year to have the most complete games in the American
• 54:17
  League and the National League, it is unbelievable.
• 54:20
  So they they got him for what it was.
• 54:23
  Then we got AJ for a little cheaper.
• 54:26
  And then we we didn't even know, like Tex was like a surprise
• 54:30
  Super Sox. Yeah, Like we didn't know that.
• 54:32
  Yeah. Another, they stole Tex from the
• 54:35
  the Red Sox, because I, I remember that the Red Sox were
• 54:39
  making a bid for him and the Yankees snuck right under the
• 54:42
  Red Sox again and stole Teixeira because he didn't want to play
• 54:45
  for the Red Sox. He wanted to play for the
• 54:47
  Yankees. If there was any team out of the
• 54:49
  two teams he wanted to play for the.
• 54:50
  Yankees side like somebody like Casey Kotchmidt or?
• 54:52
  Something. Said it.
• 54:54
  Was I remember. Jabba, I want to go back to what
• 54:58
  you were saying with the Blue Jays, though.
• 54:59
  Like you look at a team, teams that get as far as they do
• 55:02
  either in surprise circumstances or like circumstances that you
• 55:06
  would say maybe this was a core that was not going to get on a
• 55:09
  run like that. And we were discussing it a few
• 55:11
  weeks ago with the Mets. Like they did the opposite of
• 55:13
  what they should have done in 2024 when they had a surprise
• 55:16
  and they they went too much of that same philosophy.
• 55:18
  One of your contacts with these pitchers and they stayed passive
• 55:21
  at that point. But outside of Soda, the Blue
• 55:22
  Jays are doing the exact opposite.
• 55:23
  They realize, OK, maybe some of these veteran guys they're
• 55:26
  probably still stuck with under contract that maybe don't look
• 55:29
  like good contracts with their pitchers are going to fall off.
• 55:31
  So sees as another high upside strikeout type guy, even though
• 55:34
  he allows a lot of home runs that can make that kind of thing
• 55:36
  work. It's same kind of thing with
• 55:37
  their hitting. They know sometimes that their
• 55:39
  lineup was top heavy, so they decided to fill it out with a
• 55:42
  high upside Japanese hitter and again, potentially some other
• 55:45
  contributions with those young guys.
• 55:47
  Why? Why is it always like he can't
• 55:49
  figure out how many lefties to have in the lineup?
• 55:52
  Like a few years ago he had no lefties in the lineup.
• 55:54
  Not a single one. And now he's Cashman is
• 55:57
  complaining. There's too many, we're too
• 55:59
  lefty dependent. And it's just like, can't you
• 56:02
  just figure it out? Like you swung from one extreme
• 56:06
  to the other? Obviously the answer is
• 56:08
  somewhere in the middle and you want the lefty protection
• 56:11
  protection for judge. Like that should just be common
• 56:13
  sense. So you got to have that guy.
• 56:16
  How about a guy? I mean, or just get the best guy
• 56:19
  available. I think Kyle Tucker's 100% the
• 56:22
  best guy available. Errol, he's so good.
• 56:25
  Listen, he had an injury last year.
• 56:28
  No, John, you're 100% right. And Errol, you brought it up and
• 56:32
  like go for all three of them. I don't, I don't think that's
• 56:36
  the mindset right now with kind of what they're doing.
• 56:39
  But fish, you hit the nail on the head.
• 56:41
  It's like, if that's what you say or and figure it out, like
• 56:45
  why don't you go after the best available player and he's
• 56:49
  left-handed, he can protect and then maybe figure the years out
• 56:54
  with Bellinger. Is he is he going to take a
• 56:56
  lesser deal? Probably not because Scott's
• 56:59
  obviously representing him and he's going to wait.
• 57:01
  And I honestly think that's kind of why he's waiting to see what
• 57:05
  the Tucker market brings for Bellinger, because he does that
• 57:09
  from like, and he'll, he'll make people wait.
• 57:12
  And it's, I mean, and he is great at what he does.
• 57:15
  It's obviously I, I remember my first meeting with him and my
• 57:19
  dad, God rest his soul, kicked Boris out of the meeting.
• 57:23
  He. Was.
• 57:24
  Like this is too long. Like you're just giving us
• 57:27
  numbers that aren't relative to any like you're just trying to.
• 57:31
  I was the they were going to be advisor at the time because I
• 57:33
  was still in college and my dad's like this doesn't mean
• 57:37
  anything. My son might never get there,
• 57:39
  like all these cool things. And what the Strada broke the
• 57:42
  camel's back was he's like, what's the first car you want?
• 57:45
  And I was like, oh, an Escalade. And he's like, yeah, we got
• 57:47
  deals for that. And I'm just like, my dad was
• 57:49
  like, all right, it's been 4 hours.
• 57:52
  We're good. And it's funny because
• 57:57
  obviously, like I'm sitting there and it's, it's Scott.
• 57:59
  Boris. I'll never forget when dad
• 58:01
  called me. This is when they left messages
• 58:06
  on your answering machine back then.
• 58:09
  And he's like, you'll never guess who called and left a
• 58:11
  message. And I was like, too.
• 58:12
  And he said Scott board and I'd literally like my mouth dropped
• 58:15
  because I was like, that was the epitome of baseball.
• 58:17
  If if they looked at you like you were you were that dude.
• 58:21
  And so I I think that's kind of part of of what's playing into
• 58:25
  this factor. But you're 100 go if you're
• 58:29
  going to make a decision. And like Speedy said, like why
• 58:32
  the Blue Jays are doing what they're because maybe they did
• 58:35
  overpaid, but they're doing something like go get the best
• 58:38
  player. Like you haven't won in 15
• 58:42
  years? I think they know they played
• 58:43
  over their heads to the Blue Jays.
• 58:45
  Right. So they're trying to build
• 58:46
  patches that that they have. But the Blue Jays always spent,
• 58:49
  they're always throwing money into bringing these players.
• 58:52
  In literally one of the richest owners.
• 58:54
  Oh yes, the Rogers. Family dude they went after.
• 58:57
  Throwing stuff at the wall, hoping it sticks.
• 58:59
  That's what they do in Toronto. They've done it for years, you
• 59:01
  know, and sometimes it works out better than it does.
• 59:03
  Remember Jose Batista? They just picked them up off the
• 59:06
  scrap heap. And he was like a journey with
• 59:08
  like three other players. Iris, They waved him.
• 59:10
  He got waved by the freaking Pirates.
• 59:13
  You know what I mean? Like, and that's that's a
• 59:14
  typical Toronto type of thing. Listen to Tucker.
• 59:17
  I got to Tuck because I had him on my dynasty league and I can't
• 59:20
  keep him because I had to pay too much for him.
• 59:21
  But I would try to get him because I think you're getting
• 59:24
  him on a deal. He played through an injury
• 59:26
  similar to the Baker Mayfield thing where he played through
• 59:29
  the bad shoulder in football and then he couldn't find the team
• 59:31
  for a couple of years. I think his obviously someone's
• 59:34
  taking Tucker, but I think his value might be a little lower
• 59:37
  than if he had a full season playing at the clip he was when
• 59:40
  he started. Listen, I got his stats before
• 59:42
  the end of May, 291-390-5537 good for 931 OPS.
• 59:48
  He stole 20 bases in the 1st 83 games.
• 59:51
  You project that out to a full season.
• 59:54
  That's a guy you want on your team and every single time you
• 59:57
  want him hitting right behind Aaron Judge and you want them
• 1:00:01
  just make put in the fear of God into the rest of the league
• 1:00:05
  because now there's nothing you can do.
• 1:00:07
  Or maybe you put him in front of Judge and you, I mean, I
• 1:00:11
  probably put him behind because maybe he can get on base, drive
• 1:00:13
  Judge and then he could run a little bit and let the next guy
• 1:00:16
  drive him in. So I, I just think it's a no
• 1:00:19
  brainer. I remember him killing us with
• 1:00:21
  the Astros. So I'm I'm old enough to
• 1:00:24
  remember that I would take the guy that killed.
• 1:00:26
  I will say this, if the Yankees are an organization that is
• 1:00:30
  going to go out there and show that they're the Yankees you're
• 1:00:34
  bringing, you're bringing in two of the three guys or all three
• 1:00:37
  of these guys. You have the money there.
• 1:00:40
  There's definitely going to be money shed off in the next year
• 1:00:43
  or two. John, if we.
• 1:00:44
  Get 2 of the. If we get 2 of the three, yes,
• 1:00:48
  that's a win. 100% I think, I think that if I was Brian
• 1:00:52
  Cashman right now, I'm waiting a little bit longer and I'm
• 1:00:56
  jumping on Kyle Tucker and I'm jumping on Cody Bellinger.
• 1:01:00
  I think if you get both of those guys, you put Cody Bellinger at
• 1:01:03
  first base, now you have your your bona fide first baseman and
• 1:01:06
  then you have Kyle Tucker playing left field.
• 1:01:08
  If you have Spencer Jones, you want to move Spencer Jones or
• 1:01:11
  you want to trade Dominguez and move Spencer Jones eventually to
• 1:01:14
  right field and have Aaron Judges your everyday DH.
• 1:01:17
  That's what you do in the future.
• 1:01:19
  But right now I think you're going after two of those guys
• 1:01:23
  and, and if you want, you want to bring back jazz jism or
• 1:01:26
  whatever the hell you want to, you want to do with that guy
• 1:01:28
  thing you do that. I don't know, you could wait a
• 1:01:31
  year. You don't have to move him right
• 1:01:32
  now. You could decide.
• 1:01:34
  Keep him for what his value is now because I I know you hate
• 1:01:37
  him which is fine. I don't hate him, I just don't
• 1:01:40
  like him. I don't hate him.
• 1:01:42
  Is abandoned. It's a bad term for me, baby.
• 1:01:44
  It's a bad. Yeah, he hasn't reached the bar.
• 1:01:46
  Dislike him? Sorry, I apologize.
• 1:01:49
  Baseball's a game in numbers, right?
• 1:01:50
  We talk about it all the time, and he put up numbers and he has
• 1:01:58
  the demeanor of what that clubhouse needs.
• 1:02:03
  Because you have to have a little bit of that.
• 1:02:05
  Because you have Aaron Judge, you have Aaron Judge, you don't
• 1:02:08
  have to worry about the leader of the clubhouse.
• 1:02:10
  You don't have to worry about the leader of the clubhouse
• 1:02:12
  that's taken care of. You know how that's going to
• 1:02:14
  happen. And Aaron does a great job of
• 1:02:17
  like letting those guys. And then it's it's kind of like
• 1:02:21
  Derek. Derek would call you out when he
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  needed to, but would wait for it to happen to do it behind closed
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  doors and make it make sense. And I think that's what he does.
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  And allows, like, to know for your team as the captain to be
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  successful. Yeah, it's different because he
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  grew up in the organization and gets it, but he knows the right
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  time to call somebody out grab them or hey Jazz.
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  All right we we might need to cool it a little bit or do this,
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  but it's exactly what we talked about a minute ago and what
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  Speedy said what the with the Blue Jays is like.
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  They were top heavy so where did they fill pieces in?
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  And you have to fill the pieces in to win yesterday overachieved
• 1:03:10
  because nobody picked us and do it.
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  And so we have to do exactly what Fish said is go get that
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  best player because we already have one of the best players on
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  the planet. Let's go make him better.
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  Because what did Cody Bellinger do?
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  He made him better. Stanton makes him better.
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  And then you add another one that is a way above average
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  outfielder when he's healthy. And then you get a great
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  defense, of which I think Cody's defense gets very overlooked,
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  that you can put a dude at first that knows the position can play
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  it. And then if Judge needs a day
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  off, he DHS where you can move, you can move Cody out there,
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  right? I was shocked.
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  That's what I just transformed his defense.
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  Like when the Dodgers first put him in center field that year, I
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  was like, where is this really going to work?
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  I thought they're OK, they're just doing it to keep his bat in
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  there and then they just rotate and he's.
• 1:04:03
  Actually also got those plus degree of growing up in a
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  baseball field like you, you did everything and that's.
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  There's something to be said yeah about a kid that can do
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  that and that's why I just feel like his defense is very
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  overlooked at times. I like it because of what he did
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  it at the plate. I.
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  Like it, you know, I like the idea of having him as maybe Ben
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  Rice. I think it's going to play a lot
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  of first base. Maybe I'll touch a catcher.
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  Maybe they do that. And then if they can get
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  Bellinger, he can platoon the other side, he can platoon a
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  little bit. They can rotate guys.
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  He can play a bunch of first, he can play a bunch of left field
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  right. Field.
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  OK, Fish. Fish right now.
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  Perfect world right there. OK, you put Ben Rice, you've
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  seen flashes of what he can do. But then you have an outfield of
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  Kyle Tucker, Cody Bellinger and Judge.
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  Come on now. Come on now.
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  And and think about Stanton DH ING.
• 1:04:59
  Stanton DH ING. You have a young kid in Spencer
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  Jones, you can move. Dominguez.
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  That's why you get those guys and get rid of Dominguez.
• 1:05:07
  I think that's the thing that if they're going to make a trade
• 1:05:11
  this offseason and you assume he's going to do something, I
• 1:05:16
  just don't know how he could do nothing.
• 1:05:17
  All he's got in is like, he's minor.
• 1:05:19
  A lot more than you guys think he's going to do.
• 1:05:22
  So if he is Dominguez is clearly the piece that's being moved
• 1:05:26
  because they have enough outfielders and they want to
• 1:05:28
  sign outfielders. So get that guy while his values
• 1:05:32
  is high. Don't let like the end Duhar
• 1:05:34
  thing happen again where the guy's value completely goes to
• 1:05:37
  the point where you have to cut. Him and this is, this is kind of
• 1:05:40
  what we talked about too when we were talking about like bringing
• 1:05:42
  Spectra Jones up or not. I think if I'm looking at it
• 1:05:46
  from that perspective and you have an opportunity and maybe
• 1:05:49
  they make the splash and that's exactly what we get.
• 1:05:52
  But where the teams that are going to make a trade, Dominguez
• 1:05:58
  is big league ready because he's been on a big league field where
• 1:06:02
  you have a little bit more value instead of the projectability of
• 1:06:06
  what Spencer Jones can do. And now you're going to get the
• 1:06:09
  same thing. And that's why I think if I was
• 1:06:13
  in the front office, you didn't bring Spencer Jones up because
• 1:06:16
  that may be where they're thinking and they just haven't
• 1:06:19
  done it yet, where now it's like, OK, we can make a trade
• 1:06:22
  because you have a big league ready guy right now, right now.
• 1:06:26
  And that's a big trade piece compared to, yeah, Spencer Jones
• 1:06:29
  numbers were great when he got to AAA.
• 1:06:32
  And then, well, we don't know if he's big league ready because we
• 1:06:35
  haven't even seen him. But Dominguez has shown clips of
• 1:06:38
  being able to be productive and. Switch hitter, switch hitter and
• 1:06:43
  you have a lot you still have. Wells.
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  Run. Yeah, you.
• 1:06:47
  I think you move Rice to catcher.
• 1:06:49
  He doesn't have to be an everyday catcher, but Rice is to
• 1:06:52
  me. I think he can do a lot of
• 1:06:54
  things at the plate that Wells can't.
• 1:06:56
  Wells is up and down all the time.
• 1:06:59
  I move Wells. He's a better catcher.
• 1:07:01
  Yes, but I would move, I would move Wells, I would move Warren,
• 1:07:05
  I would move Dominguez and try to get back some talent.
• 1:07:08
  And then you use Rice and then you bring the Yankees always
• 1:07:11
  have a good catching farm system, always do.
• 1:07:14
  They always have somebody in that farm system that could
• 1:07:17
  catch the ball. So I think you bring somebody up
• 1:07:19
  to help Rice out and that's the way I would go.
• 1:07:22
  And then you move Cody Bellinger to 1st.
• 1:07:24
  That's to me. If you want to win a
• 1:07:26
  championship, you got to make, you got to put eggs in the back.
• 1:07:31
  I would love to see this. And I've never said like
• 1:07:34
  anything that nice about National League baseball, like
• 1:07:38
  the old school without the DH and the pictures bunting all the
• 1:07:42
  time. But if you're going to do this
• 1:07:44
  and you're going to get just like a great defensive guy who's
• 1:07:47
  going to hit like $1.95. I know what you're going to say.
• 1:07:51
  I know what you're going to say. I want to see the sack bunt in
• 1:07:54
  the 9 hole getting guys in position and then you can lead
• 1:07:58
  judge off and then you can do what you did and get him the 607
• 1:08:02
  hundred plate appearances. And then you put Kyle Tucker
• 1:08:05
  behind him in the 2 hole and then you kill everybody all
• 1:08:09
  throughout the lineup. And then you just have a guy
• 1:08:11
  that can move a guy over at the sack bun or he's just good at,
• 1:08:14
  you know, situational baseball because I'd love to see
• 1:08:17
  situational baseball in New York.
• 1:08:19
  I don't think we get enough of it currently.
• 1:08:21
  I think that's something that we're missing.
• 1:08:23
  I don't want to. I want to stay on here too long
• 1:08:24
  because we have a lot more segments to get into.
• 1:08:26
  But I will say this, Aaron Boone is a lot smarter than people
• 1:08:30
  make him out to be. He's a good manager.
• 1:08:33
  I think if the Yankees give him the right players and the right
• 1:08:37
  positional players, I think the Yankees can win a World Series.
• 1:08:40
  And out of the three guys that we mentioned, if, and I do
• 1:08:43
  believe it by the way, for all you fans out there that doubt
• 1:08:46
  Brian Cashman and Al Steinbrenner for what they said,
• 1:08:49
  trust me, the Yankees are going to make at least two to three
• 1:08:53
  moves before 3. Weeks Errol you say that though,
• 1:08:57
  but at the same time we've had people that we talked to and
• 1:09:00
  that we know that they're not get the the front office not
• 1:09:05
  going to let Aaron boot like let him coach the game.
• 1:09:09
  Let let him do you give me the players let me manage.
• 1:09:14
  That's that is the root word of manager correct yes, so let him
• 1:09:18
  do it. Don't don't be calling me from
• 1:09:20
  up there and saying what we need to do like let me watch the
• 1:09:26
  game. You're he's a baseball mind he's
• 1:09:29
  a base like we I just said it pedigree.
• 1:09:33
  He has a feel for the game numbers play a part.
• 1:09:36
  I understand that, but there has to be a feel for the game.
• 1:09:41
  You can't go always by that and we've seen it bite people in the
• 1:09:44
  butt plenty of times. So when you say that, I
• 1:09:48
  wholeheartedly agree. Or give him the players, but
• 1:09:53
  then let him manage. I agree with you and I, I think
• 1:09:56
  obviously if you're a Yankee fan, you're upset.
• 1:09:59
  You should be upset. But hopefully that the Yankees
• 1:10:03
  have something up their sleeve and they usually do.
• 1:10:05
  So I'm going to, I'm going to bet that just because the
• 1:10:09
  Yankees haven't really done anything yet that Yankee fans
• 1:10:12
  are like, Oh my God, they're not spending money.
• 1:10:15
  The Yankees aren't doing anything.
• 1:10:16
  Trust me, the Yankees are sitting Pat because I believe
• 1:10:22
  that two of these guys are going to be signed by the Yankees.
• 1:10:25
  I believe it. I just.
• 1:10:26
  Got to hope that move doesn't turn into the next.
• 1:10:27
  Josh Donald, no, you don't want to see that.
• 1:10:29
  But I I do believe that two of these guys are going to be
• 1:10:32
  Yankees one way. Or, I know I haven't said this a
• 1:10:34
  lot, but I hope you're right. Yeah, I hope you're right.
• 1:10:37
  I. Know.
• 1:10:39
  Probably one time this. Year you'll say that Java
• 1:10:41
  rocket. Thank you.
• 1:10:46
  Fans are going to be shooting me after this take.
• 1:10:52
  Thank you to Bobby V Bobby Valentine or Bobby Valentino or
• 1:10:58
  Valentino or whatever we want to call them.
• 1:11:01
  But Bobby, you were great. Thank you very, very much for
• 1:11:03
  joining us and sorry I messed up with your name for a little bit.
• 1:11:06
  Anyways, thank you to all the fans on Apple on Spotify on the
• 1:11:12
  video and audio section over there, keeping us at the high 2
• 1:11:15
  hundreds and right now just fighting to get to that 100
• 1:11:19
  spots. So thank you to all the fans out
• 1:11:21
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  Instagram, Facebook X and YouTube fans jabba in the mouth
• 1:11:28
  worldwide sports radio network. We really appreciate you guys.
• 1:11:31
  We love you. Keep up, you know, keep
• 1:11:33
  following us, keep understanding the work and and the time that
• 1:11:38
  we put into this. And and we expect big things
• 1:11:41
  this year, a lot of big things and, and get ready guys.
• 1:11:44
  We're going to hit home runs and steal a lot of bases in baseball
• 1:11:49
  terms. But yeah, it's been a great one.
• 1:11:52
  It's been our first show of the year if we're in 2026.
• 1:11:57
  And like I said, ladies and gentlemen, get ready for the
• 1:12:00
  ride because we're going to take you on a big one.
• 1:12:02
  So that's it. We will see you Thursday.
• 1:12:05
  Speedy, who do we have on? Actually, Nathan has our guest
• 1:12:07
  for Thursday. So your glasses, Nathan.
• 1:12:10
  Grow up. Hey, hey, whoa, Doo Doo.
• 1:12:14
  I First of all, great show today with Bobby Valentine.
• 1:12:17
  I loved it. He bought a lot of great stuff.
• 1:12:20
  Yeah. So Thursday books for my good
• 1:12:22
  friend Timmy Witherspoon. He's a two time heavyweight
• 1:12:25
  champion boxing legend. He'll be coming on at 8:45 PM
• 1:12:29
  Eastern. Originally it was John Mensch,
• 1:12:31
  but he can't make it. So my guy Tim Witherspoon will
• 1:12:34
  be joining. I want to, I want to tell
• 1:12:35
  everybody Tim Witherspoon I met when I was a kid.
• 1:12:39
  I was, I was at the Poconos and I was sitting in a hot tub and
• 1:12:43
  he was talking and he had a conversation with my father.
• 1:12:46
  I'll never forget it. And he was like, oh, I was the
• 1:12:48
  heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1:12:50
  And I was like, who the hell are you?
• 1:12:51
  He's like, I'm Tim Witherspoon. I was like, I never heard of
• 1:12:54
  you. I've heard of Mike Dyson.
• 1:12:56
  I never heard of you. And he laughed and and we
• 1:12:59
  actually hung out with his family the whole time when we
• 1:13:02
  were there. So I'm going to mention I think
• 1:13:04
  he's going to Remember Me because I was the crazy white
• 1:13:06
  boy. So that's what he called me.
• 1:13:08
  It's a true story. Yeah.
• 1:13:12
  I'll never forget. I got into a fight with my
• 1:13:13
  father That, that, that time that we went to the Poconos and
• 1:13:17
  I ran through the woods because trying to get away from my
• 1:13:20
  family and I went. So the, the, the, if you ever
• 1:13:23
  been to Poconos, it's all there's a lot of woods.
• 1:13:26
  I ran through, took a detour and met them on the outside.
• 1:13:30
  My father didn't know how I got through the woods and got to the
• 1:13:33
  end of the detour faster than they did.
• 1:13:35
  So that's a true story. I'll never forget that time And
• 1:13:38
  I, I did meet Timmy at that time, so I, I don't know if
• 1:13:41
  he'll remember it, but I, I did. His sons were young.
• 1:13:45
  It was a pretty funny. It was a good time.
• 1:13:47
  I love the Poconos. So Tim Witherspoon.
• 1:13:50
  All right, first time on Jabba in the mouth.
• 1:13:52
  All right. Anyways, it's been a great one.
• 1:13:56
  First show of the year, something to remember.
• 1:13:59
  And ladies and gentlemen, we've got a lot more to go.
• 1:14:03
  Until then, this is Errol Jabba, Speedy fisherman.
• 1:14:08
  The old myth and the poop shoot saying good night.
• 1:14:13
  Oh, and Speedy, good night. We'll talk to you then.
• 1:14:15
  Good night everybody. It's the worldwide sports radio
• 1:14:19
  network, Radio network.