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Big Stu-ey: Must-Win For the Yankees? (w/Adnan) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: He is in his hometown of Toronto. He is part
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: of Amazon's coverage of the NHL. Adnan Burke is joining us.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: A funny thing happened as we tried to get Adnan
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: on the show today, and he doesn't have a lot
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: of time.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: But Taylor asked him. He said, no, I'm busy. Got it.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: I sent Adnan a text after that saying, hey, I
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: need you for 10 to 15 minutes because Taylor has
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: declared tonight's game two with the Yankees up one to
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: nothing against the Red Sox as a must-win game for
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: the Yankees.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: And Adnan said, I'm in.
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: This is exactly what happened. Taylor texts, and it's just like, hey,
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: I'm busy, as you exactly just said, Stu. Back in
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: hometown Toronto, your beloved Islanders facing the Leafs, Amazon Prime debut.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'd love to help you out. Just, you know,
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: we can't do it. How about tomorrow? No, tomorrow I'm
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: flying home. I got my hockey podcast. Maybe Friday. And
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: then Stu, all you had to say, that was the bait.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: That was the line. Just Taylor said it's a must win.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: When do you need me? I'll put up my schedule immediately.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Such an outrageous take. I will give you 15 to
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: 30 to 45 minutes of my time just to discredit
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: Taylor after that. That's how, that's how I reacted.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: You get a text.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: And you go, that can't be accurate. No, whatever you need,
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: I'm available.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So my argument, why it's a must win.
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: They won nine to nothing, Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: They won nine nothing.
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  Speaker 3: They kicked the shit out of them.
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  Speaker 2: It's over.
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  Speaker 3: It's done.
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  Speaker 2: We're good.
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  Speaker 3: I texted Booney. I texted Booney and said, way to
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  Speaker 3: kick their ass. Finish it tonight. You know what he
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: wrote back? Fist bump emoji. You know what he did
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: not write back? Must win tonight. If the manager of
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: the Yankees had written back, must win tonight, but Booney,
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: are you sure about that? Have you lost your mind? No.
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: He went fist bump. Like, we're good, buddy. We kicked
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: their ass.
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  Speaker 4: Adam, my argument for why it's a must win and
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  Speaker 4: why I think Yankees have to sweep Boston, I hate
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  Speaker 4: to say I'm already looking forward to Tampa Bay, but
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: I do have one eye to Tampa, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: think you need to waste Garrett Cole in a game three.
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: And then going to the Tampa series, you maximize Cam Schlittler,
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  Speaker 4: the Max Freed-Garrett Cole combo, where I really don't want
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  Speaker 4: to see– I know Carlos Rodon has been pretty good
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  Speaker 4: over the past month. I really don't trust him in
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  Speaker 4: a big spot in the postseason. I want the Tampa
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  Speaker 4: Bay series to line up where Cole goes game one
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  Speaker 4: and game four, Schlittler goes game two and game five,
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: and then you have Freed game three.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I was curious about your takes. At least
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: I know some of the reasoning. So it was not
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: that you were being a panic-stricken Yankee fan who was
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: terrified at the prospect of losing to the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 4: It was a little of both.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: It was a little of both.
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  Speaker 3: Mikey, it sounds more like an arrogant Yankees fan who's
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: already looking ahead to the next series. So that's the
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: kind of Yankee fan I'm used to seeing. So that's
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: the good news. Taylor, I would have been more offended
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: if you were like, oh, my God, these Red Sox,
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: if they get us in the road. Buddy, come on,
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: you got them. You're fine. You've got Freed going tonight,
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: who's tremendous. And Ben Rice just had six RBIs. To
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  Speaker 3: your point, also interesting. So I thought you were going
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: to go the other way. I've been talking to a
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: lot of Yankees fans who are not crazy about Garrett
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  Speaker 3: Cole starting game three. Because they're like, he gives up
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  Speaker 3: way too many home runs. And against the Red Sox,
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: he has not been great. And you can see a scenario.
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  Speaker 3: And I know Devers isn't there anymore. You know how
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  Speaker 3: much he was his nemesis. But you can imagine a
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: scenario in the Bronx. A couple of first inning home runs.
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  Speaker 3: You go, oh my God, Garrett Cole doesn't have it tonight.
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  Speaker 3: But I like your take, which is that Well, I
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: don't like the fact that you're already looking ahead to
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: the series. That's stupid. But I like your take that
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  Speaker 3: you're not crazy about Rodon because that was part of
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: my thinking was go with Rodon. Rodon's been awesome down
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: the stretch. But Steve Phillips made the point to me.
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: Garrett Cole. So here's the weakness. Garrett Cole gives up
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: too many of his solo home runs. True. But Garrett
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: Cole's definitely been a big-time pitcher. Absolutely. Has he had
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: post-season success? Yeah. Could you see him shoving for the Yankees?
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  Speaker 3: For sure. Rodon? No. Bit of a, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you can use this term anymore, forgive me, mental midget. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if the pressure gets a little too much
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: for Rodon, watch out. Mikey and Taylor remember the moments
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: when Rodon, I don't remember the playoff game now, but
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: like he struck out somebody who was like, yeah, he
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: was so pumped. And then he had nothing. Then he
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: gave up like five runs the next day. Like, buddy,
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: you got to pace yourself. Like, this is the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: So I thought it was a very interesting dilemma. I
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: thought the worst move Booney could have made, because my
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: dear friend Harold Reynolds had this take. Chew this one.
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: He goes, Garrett Cole should start game one. I go,
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: what are you talking about? And Harold goes, no. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: you paid him $ 324 million. He's your Roger Clemens. He's
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: going to his office. I'm starting game one. I go,
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: are you out of your mind? Kim Schlitter is the
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: best pitcher in the American League. He's pitching game one.
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: The only way you could talk about it, and again,
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: this is Taylor's thinking ahead, is if Schlitter went game
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  Speaker 3: two and game five of the ALDS, well-rested, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: But again, I don't play that game. I'm like, let's
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: just win and move on. So the most outrageous scenario
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: would have been Harold's take. This is Garrett Cole starting
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: game one. And I thought you were going to say, Taylor,
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: you don't trust Garrett Cole in a game three. Instead,
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: you're saying you trust him so much, you just want
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: him rested for the series against the Rays.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: Arrogant Yankee fan. Is there any other kind? I mean, seriously.
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: Put it on the poll, Taylor.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: Is part of being a Yankee fan always looking ahead
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: to the next series? I think if Taylor had to
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: redo the take, what he would say, Adnan, is this
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  Speaker 1: is a game where you don't get Boston life.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: You stomp on them tonight. That's it, right?
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: Right. That's what I thought the take was going to be.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be, yeah, we won,
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: but the game was pretty tight. It was a late
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: grand slam from Rice. You never know what could happen.
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: What if Sonny Gray shoves? What if Freed is a
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: bad start? I don't want a deciding game in the Bronx.
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: Cole might get lit up. Oh, my God, judges. That's
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: where I thought the adjective was coming from. But no,
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: it's completely misguided arrogance. It's Taylor going, no, we've got
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: this series in the bag. We need to beat the Rays.
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: He wants to line up bitches. I will say this.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor's arrogance. I will say this. If they win tonight,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe that they will. And then if they
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: beat the Rays, well, then the arrogance of the Yankees,
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: I think, is quite well-founded. You had the second most
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: wins in the American League, and you just take care
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: of the team with the third most wins in the
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  Speaker 3: Red Sox and beat the number one seed in the Rays. Then,
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: God forbid, if the Yankees gag and lose to one
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: of the Guardians, the White Sox, or the Astros, that
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  Speaker 3: would truly be catastrophic. But that... It is an easier
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  Speaker 3: path for the Yankees, which I'm sure Taylor has already
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  Speaker 3: figured out.
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  Speaker 4: This is one, Adnan, I think we're just going to
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: have to agree to disagree on. But one thing, when
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: I'm watching Ben Rice hit that Grand Slam, and I
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: know Mikey's in agreement because me and Mikey were texting
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: about this after, one thing I think we could all
• 6:22
  Speaker 4: agree on, Elliott Ramos is the worst No. 3 batter
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  Speaker 4: in Yankees postseason history.
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: So it's so funny because you look at the moves
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: that Brian Cashman has made, and I'm sure you guys have.
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  Speaker 4: Varying opinions.
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  Speaker 3: Some people love him. Some people hate him. He's been
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  Speaker 3: there too long. Okay, he's had success. He's passed it.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it might be. But sometimes, like, Ryan Cashel makes moves.
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: You go, man, like, David Bednar last year comes in. Like,
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: he's the closer. He fortified the bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: Great.
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: He gets Luis Garcini. You go, man, this guy's great
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: from the left side. Perfect Yankee stadium. And then you
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: see the Elliott Ramos movie, and you go, oh, my God.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: woof like this guy stinks like he he had a
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: really good year of the giants the yankees got up
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: i'm like apparently he forgot to hit like and normally
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: normally you'll get you'll get some separation if a guy
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: is really good there's this whole cliche you go to
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  Speaker 3: new york and struggle five like lost and so to
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: me the most amusing part of all of this was
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: if judge plays they're like well how many right-handed hitters
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: do you want because they've got peyton toley and rangers
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: for his lefties and i'm like I don't want a
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: whole lot of Elliott Ramos in that lineup, no matter
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  Speaker 3: where I am. Like, if it has to be Ahmed
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: Rosario and guys playing out of position, fine. That is
• 7:22
  Speaker 3: one move that has not worked out well. Elliott Ramos
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  Speaker 3: is a Yankee. He's not endearing himself well to the pinstrips.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: Adnan, we have a situation here.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about a guy who's never worn
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Yankee gear before, but today he shows up in Yankee gear?
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: It's Bordot Ricardo. We have dubbed him.
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, we love Ricardo.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we've dubbed him Ricky Mantle.
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: Uh i mean just for the nickname that's fantastic i
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: know ricardo is arguably the biggest baseball fan the entire
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: crew and i believe we discussed last time i was
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: on i think you want to talk marlins baseball with
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  Speaker 3: me is that not right ricardo he's.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: A big marlins yes big marlins fan yes.
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: Right he knows so much i love liam hicks of
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: course the canadian who is now a member of the
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: rays but i was just the marlins and kept him
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: i love anna lopez by the way i'm a huge
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: anna lopez guy 191 hits this season but yeah a
• 8:07
  Speaker 3: yankee fan not wearing yankee garb until playoffs i mean
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: it Again, it kind of speaks to the arrogance of
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: the bandwagon Yankees. Like, I remember talking to Yankees fans.
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: It might have been Mike Hill at ESPN. Speaking of
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: Hill and Schleyer, it's a great ESPN radio show.
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: Mike, he remembers.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: He said one time, he's like, why do I don't
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: pay attention to the playoffs? I'm like, what do you mean?
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: He's like, well, that's when it gets serious. I'm like,
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: let's be nice. This is a spoiled fan base. You
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: make the playoffs every single season. You don't have to
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: care until the actual playoffs show up. Like, God forbid
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Reds are fighting tooth and nail. You've got
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: fans watching baseball in August. Yankees are like, well, we're
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: going to make it. We know we're going to make it.
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: It's just a matter of showing up for the playoffs.
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. The Ricky Mantle nickname alone, I'm
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: all in on Ricardo going deep with the Yankees this year.
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: Adnan, you mentioned that you have a texting relationship with
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: Aaron Boone, and I'm wondering if you could text him something.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: Fourth inning, Yankees are up 1-0. It's first and second,
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: nobody out. Anthony Volpe at the plate. That's got to
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: be a bunt every time.
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: You won. Every time. Every time.
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: I don't care what the spreadsheet says. When Schlittler is
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: dealing the way he is, your magic number is probably
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: like three runs. Let's scratch and claw to get three
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: runs as quickly as possible.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: Now, Stugas knows this because he has famous friends on
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: his phone as well. There's a very fine line between
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: texting messages of support and then critiquing actual game strategy.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure how well he'd react to that.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: I think if it was, I think if it's mid-November
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: and the Yankees have won the World Series, they go, hey,
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: just one thought, going back to game one of the A.L.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: Walker series, wasn't sure why you bunted there. And he'd
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: be like. Okay, well, here's my thinking. We might be
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: able to have a conversation. If I text him about
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: that now, I'm not getting a fist bump back. I'm
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: getting a finger back right from there.
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: I would advise against it, yes.
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: Just tell him Ricky Mantle said it.
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: Ricky Mantle has a quick thought for you. By the way,
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: how about Stanton being available to pinch hit roll? Blew
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: me away, Taylor. I was like, oh, my God. This
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: guy's in play. He's got two bad calves. He had
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: one bad calf and hurt it by favoring the other. calf,
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: and he's still available there as a pinch hitter. I'm
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: hoping Stanton shows up. and hits a Stantonian blast. I
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: think that would be an amazing sight to see.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Speaking of ridiculous takes, he's going to get mad at
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: me right now, but Mikey A said he'd rather have
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Giancarlo Stanton on the postseason roster than Aaron Judge.
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: It's not what I said.
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: It's not what I said.
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: Not what I said.
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: Roll it. Play it back.
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: Before I land base, Mikey, I'll try to support him
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: and say Stanton has been a great postseason player. I
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: think his career OPS is over 900. So if there
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: ever was a guy who was a primetime player, collect
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: performance him. But there's no way Mikey would rather have Stanton,
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: a hobbled Stanton, over a three-time MVP in Aaron Jones,
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: even if he's compromised. But it's a funny take.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: It is a funny take.
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: Let's see Stanton go deep.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's also a take he swears he didn't give,
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: That's sports radio.
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: Adnett.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Let's compliment Taylor on a good take.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: He said early on no one else agreed with him
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: except for CeCe Sabathia.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: And he's mad at CeCe now because CeCe.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Did it when he was starting in the All-Star game.
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: Then he said I'd take Schlittler over Skeens.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: He's the only one who agreed with Taylor.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Taylor did say he would not trade Cam Schlittler straight
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: up for Paul Skeens. It turns out that that take,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: I laughed at it, I mocked him, but he was right.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, especially now the way things have gone,
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: I'm curious how well the take will age a year
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: from now. Like if Schlittler continues, like if he wins
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: another Cy Young, you're like, okay. And if Skeens has
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: another down season, then Taylor will truly be prophetic. And
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: then it's like, oh my God, like Taylor might be
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: a borderline genius. I'm hoping what happens is Schlittler is
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: still really good next season, but Skeens gets back to
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: being that guy and people will still laugh off the
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: take and go, hang on. We've had two good seasons
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: of Schlittler. We've had three great seasons of Skeens and
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: one average seasons of Paul. That's what I'm hoping happens.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: But By the way, I think Jeff Passon also backed
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: you up. I think Stuart said Passon did not laugh
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: off that assertion when you said it.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't. Actually, Passon did not laugh it off.
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: Passon said it's not as crazy a concept as you
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: might think.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 3: To be clear, he didn't agree with you, but he
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: said it's not outlandish.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Well, Mikey's got something.
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: Passon brought that in at the trade deadline, okay? By then,
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: we were already way past. And just to show everybody
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: how much I just lucked into that take, when we
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: had Michael Kay on before the season and we asked
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: Michael Kay– he made the argument that Paul Skeens is
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: younger than Cam Schlitler. And I said, wow, I didn't
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: even know that.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: That does make things interesting. Cause you're right. If you
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: just said to me at first glance, but Paul Schlitler
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: is definitely younger.
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: I was just doing a Homer thing.
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Got to age on him as well. I mean, it's, it's,
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: it's fascinating. By the way, it was just great to
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: have baseball, not to be a TV nerd about this,
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: but great to have baseball back at NBC. Stu and
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: I grew up, used to watch NBC game of the week.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, Costas hosts in the pregame, Joe Girardi in
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: the booth, obviously our buddy, Jason Benetti, who's phenomenal. Benetti
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: calling baseball is great. So I was, I was just
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: thrilled to be sitting back watching Peacock quadruple header of baseball.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: Yep, and you'll get it again today. Ben Verlander was
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: on with us yesterday, and he said he had the
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Phillies and Yankees in the World Series.
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: It's a bold take by Ben. I love that. He's
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: a great guy. Phillies, geez. Steve Phillips, again, the aforementioned,
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: he blew me away. I said, you're calling Phillies over
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: the Braves? I said, this is the same Phillies team
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: whose offense is about as limp as you can imagine.
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: They were horrific down the stretch, and you're telling me
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: now they're going to beat Atlanta, and then Ben going
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: much further to say they're going to go to the
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: World Series. That is about an outrageous take. It might
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: be worse than Taylor's take.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I like it. You're swinging for the fences.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Go for it.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: Why not? I'd love to see the odds you have
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: on that. Philly's making the World Series. They barely got
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: into the wild card on the final day of the
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: regular season. They're going to somehow beat the Braves. and
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: or Dodgers or Brewers along the way. Wow. If he
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: sees it, again, Ben Brewer is a lot smarter than me,
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: but I cannot see it. Yankees making it? Sure. If
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: they get past the Red Sox and the Rays, then
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: I'd feel great about that, even if they get past
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox. Compelling match with the Rays. But a
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: Yankees-Phillies World Series, very tough for me to imagine. I'm
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: pulling hard for the Brewers. I love Mizorowski. I hope
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee gets it done.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: Adnan, I'm doing this research, and I'm on one site,
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: and it says there are three other series going on
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: at this time. What are your thoughts there?
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: The reason I laugh is I did an interview with
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Awful Announcing, and they always ask that question. They go, hey,
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: what's the best series going for you? And I go,
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: how is that even a question? Yankees, Red Sox. Okay,
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: what's the second best series? And I go, well, I
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: love Tatis. I said, I think the Padres are a
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: fun team, great bullpen. And, of course, Tatis goes deep.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: He's great in the postseason. And they kick the crap
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: of the Cubs, eat nothing. Okay, what's the third best series?
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, really, to be honest, there's really only
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: two series. But, okay, the third best. Oh, my God,
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Philly's brave.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, I don't think anyone really cares about
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: White Sox Astros. That's the one. That's the Chargers winning
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: the West at 7-9. You go, okay, does anybody actually care?
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Are we just gluttons for punishment? Like, do we have
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: it on? Do you have to watch this? I'm like,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: I guess they have to. So good for the White
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Sox winning it 6-3. The only thing that could make
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: that series compelling is if Pope Leo shows up for
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Game 2. You go, oh, my God, the Pope is
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: in attendance. here to cheer on his white socks because
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: as far as baseball that's an 81 win team that
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: won the division and you guys remember this i said
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: if you finish below 500 you're not allowed to make
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: the playoffs well everyone's allowed to make it sadly the
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: astros just got in 81 81 if you're 500 you're
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: allowed to be in the playoffs in the adnan burke
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: rule book doesn't mean i like it doesn't mean i
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: care for it but uh The White Sox is an
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: 84-win team of a slight favor. I hope Chicago beats them,
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: and I hope Chicago gets wiped quickly by Cleveland. I
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: don't want these inferior teams going deep.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: There's a reason Astros' White Sox is being placed at
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: 5 p.m.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Eastern on your drive home.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: It's a great point. Originally, I said to myself, when
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: you put the lousiest game, it's always like, I love
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: wild card week, and you go, what's that 4.30 Saturday
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: ABC game? That's the crappiest game. The Saturday 8 o'clock
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: NBC is pretty good, and the Sunday 4.25 is great.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: You go, hey, what's that throw? That's got to be
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: the Titans game. It might be a Jaguars game.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: The Texans.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Right, Texans game is always that Saturday 4.30. I'll put
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: the Texans there. That's a good spot. You would think
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: the lousiest game, you'd put it too, but you're right. No,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: like if you're on the West Coast, that's 11 a.m. Eastern.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I'm going to go watch the Phillies-Rams
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Or.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Maybe you get out of work early to watch it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: The five o'clock, the toughest of cells. And that's why
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: that game is in that slot. You're right.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: And then you have a hockey NHL on prime back
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: tonight and you're in Toronto for that. Who's winning the
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: cup this year?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Wow. What a start.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: What a start to the season last night with the Panthers.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: A 4.8 seconds to go. Forsling with that goal.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Amazing.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Taylor alerted me yesterday that the hockey season was starting.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: A thousand percent. Somebody asked me the other day, who
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: do you like out of the West? I go, wait,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: are we talking hockey already? It's late September. I'm not
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: ready for this, but I do think the Panthers come
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: roaring back. It's an easy pick. And I think the
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Avalanche out of the West. So I'm going to go
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Panthers and Avalanche. The one that I really love to say,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: and maybe I'm just kowtowing to you guys and Stu
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: and the Panthers loyalty, but I'd love to see the
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Canadians go deep. But as Stu knows, it's kind of
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: funny the fact the Canadian team has not won since 1993.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: So the drought should not end just now. But I'd
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: love to see Canadians avalanche. But just to stick it
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: to my own people here in Canada, I'm going to
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: say it'll be Panthers avalanche.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: And Stu mentioned that he was shocked to find out
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: that hockey was back yesterday. I have something even more
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: surprising to tell Mike and Stu Gotts when it comes
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: to the NHL. What is it? They're playing 84 games
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: this year instead of 82. What?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing. For people who are like, why
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: is the season starting so soon? I'm like, they added games. Like, wait, what?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: When the NFL goes from 16 to 17, the whole
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: world knows. If baseball for some reason went from 162
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: to 154, we would all be aware of this. Hockey
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: went from 80 to 84, like, meh, just slip that
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: one in. A couple extra games, no big deal. Playoffs
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: will still end in June, not a big deal. So
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: that is why the late September start for hockey, which
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: is just baffling. To be honest, I'm not crazy about it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I like hockey starting in October. I'm not crazy about
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: the NBA starting October 20th. I like NBA starting after
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the World Series is over. But we're just colliding all
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: these sports together. The good news is we do get
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: the sports equinox, or maybe it's equinox in October, when
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: all four of those teams are going together. When you
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: can watch hockey, football, baseball, basketball, nothing better.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I just don't get it. Why?
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Why? It's a good point, too, with football. It's like,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: you know, people love football. It's a sensational appetite. Let
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: me get one more game. Who were the people going,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: you know what would really make hockey a lot better,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: like truly make the sport dynamic and as good as
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: any other sport? Two more games.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: It's so weird.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: If we get two more games, that's going to change
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: the landscape of sports in America.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, sure.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: 84 games. Done.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: All right. We appreciate you.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: He went from having no time to having like 25
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: minutes for us.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Whatever you guys need. I'm happy to be here.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: All he needed was a must-win. A declaration of a
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: must-win game for the Yankees from Taylor tonight.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I've never seen a swifter turner from saying unavailable today. Sorry, guys.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: One line was still like, whatever you need. I'll clear
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: up my entire schedule. I'll do one hour. I'll show
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: up late to Amazon. That's Taylor's take. Go out on
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: this tonight, Stu.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: That was his chum, his bait. He threw it in
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the water and he let me finish it off. Promote
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: what you're doing with Amazon tonight before you get out
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: of here, I did.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Islanders and Leafs tonight, Sunos, Matthew Schaefer, one of
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the most exciting players in hockey, won the Calder Trophy
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: a year ago, Rookie of the Year, up against Gavin McKenna,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: who's the favorite to win the Rookie of the Year
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: this year. A new year for the Islanders and Leafs,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: so yes, I'll be on hockey tonight, but of course,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I'll have one eye watching Red Sox and the Yankees
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: in a pivotal must-win for New York. Let's see if
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: they can get it done.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I think at times it will be both eyes, if
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I have to be honest with you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: He says it's one eye, and I am thrilled I
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: get 84 games of Schaefer now.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Breaking news here. More hockey.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: More hockey.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: There's two more games that make a big difference.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Enjoy your hometown, and we'll be watching tonight. Thank you
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: for doing this, man. Awesome.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you, boys. Talk soon.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: All right. See you.