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The NEW YORK METS are making moves, but are they the WRONG ones? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  the right way by talking about some New York baseball we're
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  going to talk a little bit about.
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  We're probably going to talk about half of them ETS.
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  I'm sorry. Now, the Mets earlier today
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  shipped away Jeff McNeil to the Oakland Athletics for a rookie
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  ball pitcher and cash considerations going to the A's,
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  meaning McNeil is basically being paid to play for another
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  team. That's what the Mets think of
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  him at this point in his career. That's just the latest in
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  subtractions from the Mets roster this offseason.
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  We're going to talk about who they've added that seem to be
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  from their crosstown rival in a second.
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  So we'll stay away from that. We'll get to that in the next
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  segment of this. But man, you got to think
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  there's got to be some kind of big swing coming from Stearns
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  after everyone's being jettisoned here.
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  I know Speedy is a Met fan and I, I, I definitely want to hear
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  his take to it. But we've seen this before with
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  Mets. They, they let these guys go,
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  they go to a team and they completely just become stars
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  again. And McNeil, he at one point was
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  a great defender and he was a decent hitter.
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  I mean, he hit for average very well at some parts of his career
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  over there. They did this with Daniel,
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  what's his name, Daniel Murphy. Daniel Murphy went to the
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  Nationals and was very successful there.
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  I could see that with McNeil. But what's interesting to me is
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  the New York Mets have been known to bring in guys that you
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  never heard of, you know, prospects from all other
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  organizations. And I know this is this is
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  Stearns. And we'll see how this bolds.
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  Well, when it comes to the A's and some of the prospects,
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  because the Yankees have sent prospects to the A's and they've
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  never amounted to anything. I'm going to tell you this right
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  now, I will believe I've never heard of these prospects that
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  they got or the main prospect and I think they're going to
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  fall flat on their face. McNeil is going to be become a a
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  pretty good player for the A's and the A's are going to move
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  them to the Yankees at the trade deadline and he's going to be a
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  player that the Yankees could put at their base or second base
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  because Jazz Chism goes down. I think the Mets are going to
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  regret doing this. I do believe that.
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  Yeah, it it's inevitable. When it seemed like Rory
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  Polanco's contract, who is a better player at this point, but
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  they don't want to spend all that money all at once in the
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  infield. Obviously they're not paying the
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  Entos anything but Lador now trading for Simeon and then
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  paying Polanco now like. Polanco played in Seattle.
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  I know and Polanco's, he had like 2 good years with the
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  Twins. Offensively, he had a good year
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  last year, obviously was picking the playoffs, but he's a
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  notoriously streaky player throughout his career, so I
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  don't know how much I trust it now.
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  Mcneil's been that same kind of thing too when he's been kind of
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  pole ball happy. He hasn't been the type of
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  hitter overall. Buck Showalter his first year
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  changed that kind of thing in 2022 and and avoiding A batting
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  title, but he's been pull happy again.
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  So what offense you're going to get out of it is another
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  question. But I always like the
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  versatility with him. He's been improved as a
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  defensive outfielder, so I'm surprised they did it for this
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  small. I was I was thinking they might
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  shop him and see what they get. Do you?
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  Believe. Do you believe that that Nimmo
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  and McNeil had their problems with Lindor and Soda?
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  Because that's the story right now.
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  The locker room, they were kind of split apart and what I heard
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  is Nimmo and Soto did not get along.
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  And I know Nimmo and McNeil were very close.
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  Do you believe that maybe the Mets were just trying to get rid
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  of the poison or just get these guys out of there because they
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  wanted to make their superstars happy?
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  I think that makes more sense because to just throw away
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  Nimos, a pretty good player, and then and send them to Texas and
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  then give McNeil away for nothing.
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  The prospects we never even heard of, I think they're to me,
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  the Mets are reaching here. Yeah, it's interesting because
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  the Nimmo, Alonzo and McNeil, those are the core that came up
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  in 2019 before Lindor. And oh, by the way, I forgot
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  Pete Alonso is no longer with the team either.
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  That's. The core that came up before
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  they traded for Lindor in 2021, Now Lindor obviously being named
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  the captain of the team, I guess maybe that has, I guess some say
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  in it. I just hope they have a better
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  Plan B with the money if they're going to get rid of Mcneil's
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  contract because again, it wasn't a great contract.
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  It seemed like a good one at the time when actually it was Eppler
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  that signed it after he won the batting title.
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  And it still wasn't much at the time, but he fell off badly
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  offense. And again, his defense is
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  improved. But again, it's not like it's
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  like this guy's a Gold Glove caliber defender.
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  And that's where I think they better Cern's better of a good,
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  better Plan B with that kind of money.
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  So, you know, I heard the Nimmo thing and I almost did a sports
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  minute on it a week ago when I first started.
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  I decided not to, wanted to see if it plays out in what I heard
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  is that it was political nonsense that they just didn't
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  agree politically. And I I just don't understand
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  why that's something that's going on in the locker room.
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  I guess that's something that teams have to navigate these
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  days. But The Jets, The Jets, the Mets
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  just getting rid of everybody. I guess they're trying to reset
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  around their stars that they spent all their money on.
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  If Jeff McNeil is making 17, do you?
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  Think it's a kowinky dink, and I say that a lot Do you think it's
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  a kowinky dink? That Soto was there for one year
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  and their three players, their core players are now gone after
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  one year? Come on man, something tells me
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  there was something not working in that locker room because how
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  do you let you know I. Heard like Soto and Lindor don't
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  really get along either so. I I don't, I've never heard that
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  because they train in the offseason with each other.
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  So like, it's just not approachable.
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  I don't know. I don't want to speculate.
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  I used to teach in the Bronx. If you act, you know, it was
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  like a big deal if you accidentally called a Puerto
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  Rican kid Dominican or a Dominican kid Puerto Rican.
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  Doesn't always work. Those two, those two groups.
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  Just saying, I've been in those communities, but you never know.
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  I do hope that they get it together because it doesn't seem
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  like they're doing anything special other than signing a
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  bunch of former Yankees. This offseason, they've added
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  both Devin Williams and Luke Weaver, the closers for the
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  Yankees for the last two seasons.
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  I don't know, Errol, if you asked me as a Yankee fan what
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  was the weakness of the team, I would say late inning bullpen.
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  Yet the Mets and Sterns, they they're watching.
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  They're just, they're just carving up, you know, like
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  licking their chops. Oh my God, look at look, Weaver.
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  He's tipping his bitches. We'll fix them.
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  He's going to be great. What a great value I'll get,
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  just like I did in Milwaukee. And oh, Devin Williams, I had
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  him in Milwaukee. I can fix him.
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  He throws, there's great spin rate on his change up still.
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  I I don't know, Errol. I thought they were two of the
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  worst late inning relievers in all the baseball last year and
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  it's why the Yankees weren't good enough.
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  You tell me. My question to all you Met fans
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  is how did Clay Holmes work in the second-half of the season?
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  That's what I want to know because Clay Holmes was a
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  reliever for the New York Yankees, a close at one point,
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  and for the first half, first month, month and 1/2, he was
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  unstoppable, untouchable, and just like the Yankees in the
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  second-half, falls off as a starter and was nothing.
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  And eventually during the playoffs, the Mets moved him to
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  the bullpen. He stinks.
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  And I'm, I like Luke Weaver. I like him.
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  I, I like what he did with the Yankees two years ago, but he
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  was really bad this year. And Devin Williams, he did not
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  fit well with the Yankees as far as the bullpen is concerned,
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  especially in New York. Maybe Bell going back to the
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  National League and playing against the National League type
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  of talent. I don't know what it is.
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  But what I do know is this is typical.
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  This is very Met like for them to take a Yankee or a bunch of
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  Yankee players and bring them to the Mets and think that they
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  could fix them. Juan Soto, he's a special
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  player. There's no question that he is,
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  and he had a very good season. Juan Soto couldn't get the Mets
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  over the hump. Juan Soto with Pete Alonzo
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  playing the way he was with Lindor, playing at some aspects
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  at the top of his game, couldn't get over on the hump.
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  What makes them think Devin Williams and Luke Weaver is
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  going to get them there too? So I think it's a joke.
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  I think it's very Stearns like. I got a, I've got a a motion for
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  this. I got something that from that
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  fans could use. Now if it doesn't work, I did a
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  Stearns. Yeah, it seems like he's trying
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  to obsess with all these types of hybrids at this point.
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  I think Clay Holmes overall for the Mets last year was a net
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  positive compared to what they had.
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  But yeah, it's still not the ideal of like, OK, you want to
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  sign all these big signings and give them double digit money per
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  year. When you have this Uncle Steve,
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  you know, we'll let me spend money.
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  I always bashed him for not going after the younger starting
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  pitcher, like in their prime or in their prime starting pitcher.
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  Doesn't have to be an All Star level, like school, but maybe
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  two of the next tier of type of guys.
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  And yet they're settling for all these guys at this point, I
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  don't really like the strategy either.
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  Weaver was good as a starter for one year at the Cardinals and
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  one year as a reliever. The Yankees came over, did well.
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  But again, it's too streaky for my liking, too.
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  I'm not crazy about it. All right, well, let's move on.
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  The next major topic is going to shift a little bit to the other
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  side of New York, to the Bronx, where it appears the Yankees
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  just think they're good enough as is right now.
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  Let's lose both of our again, not so great late inning
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  relievers. We kept, I believe we kept Paul
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  Blackburn. Is that right?
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  Is that? The was it Chase Blackburn was
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  the former Giant who just got fired as a special teams coach.
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  But you know, that's who that's that was the big move.
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  They got some other Flyers. They're they're poking around
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  the edges. Kyle Tucker sitting out there.
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  Cody Bellinger still sitting out there.
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  You think that they're going to be in on at least one of them?
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  What in God's name are they waiting for, though?
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  Because it appears that they think that they're fine.
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  And this is one of those like things that makes you go crazy
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  about Cashman. Things that makes me go.
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  Guys. Remember that song Things that
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  Make Me Go? No, I don't remember.
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  That you don't know. See CNC Music Factory.
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  You never heard that song? Remember it?
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  No. If I heard it maybe once or
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  twice, if it was remembered, I would have been like -11 years
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  old. But I I do think.
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  You're not that much younger than me buddy so.
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  CNC. Music Factory nineties, 90s hit.
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  It's like. All right, we'll look it up at
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  during the break. The inaction of the Yankees is
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  obviously one of the stories right now.
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  What are they doing? It just makes me think that they
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  they're too smart for their own good over there with Lenny MIT
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  and all the guys in the windowless room.
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  Another tow job keeps on the hamster.
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  That. That's the most I've gotten from
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  Jabba all night. Another tow job.
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  Oh, this makes my pecker hard. Here's the thing.
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  I think the Yankees are waiting. They're sitting on it.
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  They're going to spin the wheel and make the deal if Cody
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  Bellinger is not signed by January 1st.
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  And remember, spring trading is right around the corner and
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  pitchers and catchers are going to be meeting in February.
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  I think the Yankees think that they can get Cody Bellinger on
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  the cheap, maybe save themselves 1015 million.
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  I think that's what Hal is doing, Hal sitting Pat and
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  seeing how other teams are going to attack this.
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  And usually after the new year, this is when these players get
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  signed. I think that's what's going on
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  right now. I think the Yankees will sign
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  one or the other. It seems like it's going to be
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  Cody Bellinger because I think he wants to be Yankee and him
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  and Aaron and Judge have become very close friends.
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  They're wives have become close friends.
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  So I, I could see that happening.
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  But Kyle Tucker is not going to be a Yankee.
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  You can tell. I, I, I mean, you can book that
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  how Steinberg coming out and saying what he said recently
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  about the deferred money and the fact that the Yankees are trying
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  to save it and that money is going in the wrong places tells
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  me that Hal is not going to dig deep into his pockets for Kyle
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  Tucker. Cody Bellinger makes a lot of
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  sense. It's going to be either the
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  Yankees and the Mets. I, I would push more to the Mets
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  to get Cody Bellinger. But if the Mets strike out, I
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  don't think Cody wants to play for the Mets.
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  I think he would rather play for the Yankees.
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  So I think that's the only way. If the Yankees give Cody $10
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  million less and Cody wants to be a Yankee, that's the only way
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  he stays a Yankee. I don't know what's going on
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  with the Yankees. Maybe the Yankees see themselves
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  bringing Spencer Jones or Spencer Jones is going to have a
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  higher rating of opportunities early this season to be up in
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  the big leagues. That's about it.
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  That's the only thing I could say.
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  Yeah, and also since obviously since the Mets trading McNeil
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  now the outfield void, it's definitely could be there for
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  Bellinger too. There's going to be the first
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  base void if the Entos doesn't play there.
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  So the Mets, you think could overpay for Bellinger.
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  The Yankees, I agree with you. They're trying to play smart.
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  Brian Cashman trying to get that same kind of combined value.
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  And like Brian Hoke was saying last week, are the Yankees
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  trying to like balance it out where they know like maybe one
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  free agent is going to win everything?
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  Because Kyle Tucker had a really bad second-half of the year.
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  He was benched in certain games during August.
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  And I think the Yankees and I think I heard the Dodgers who
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  are not willing to give him a seven-year deal.
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  So it'll be interesting to see how that shifts the market.
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  Maybe. I think I've always said he goes
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  back to the Cubs. Maybe that helps the team let
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  the Cubs get in there, maybe helps the team with the Blue
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  Jays get in there. That I know we're interested in
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  him too. But I agree, the Bellinger seems
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  more likely the Mets than the Yankees.
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  I will say this, I want to give a shout out to Phillip Rivers
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  again, 14 for 21176 yards, 2 touchdowns, no interceptions,
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  175. I mean, this is a guy that
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  hasn't played in five years and is playing this well.
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  It's pretty, that's pretty amazing.
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  Steve Weich, not a Hall of Famer.
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  Your dinner with him will be great in 2030.
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  Oh please, how could you not say this?
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  Guy So before we move on, I'm just saying before we move on
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  the Kyle Tucker slander Speedy, I have some more inside
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  information about that because I've been a Kyle Tucker owner in
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  fantasy in my my dynasty league that I do.
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  And what he did is the Baker Mayfield thing.
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  Errol where Baker Mayfield played in Cleveland with a bad
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  shoulder and played poorly and they gave him no respect for
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  gutting it out when no one else would step up to the plate or
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  step up to the job. And Kyle Tucker played with a
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  broken hand, didn't complain about it.
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  He played like crap for about a month and 1/2 two months got a
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  little bit better as it healed. He should have had surgery, he
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  should have came back late season and they probably would
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  have had a better record because he was an absolute, you know,
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  like hole in the lineup when before.
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  That we know where fish. 15 best players in the league during the
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  first half of the season. So whoever gets him is getting,
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  you know, if he's a depressed asset, I'd be all in on that
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  one. I, I, I personally think he's a
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  much better player than Cody Bellinger.
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  I would take him before him, like every time he's younger, he
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  had better stats, he's had better stats.
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  He's only younger by a year. Cody's had the back injuries
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  back Stone Age. Well, you know, give me give me
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  like a fluke, a hand injury versus a bad back.
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  But we'll see how it goes. There are some trades and you
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  mentioned one. Let's revisit that one by the
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  Red Sox. Get in their catcher, Wilson
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  Contreras heads to Boston. Here's the deal and trade with
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  the Cardinals. The Red Sox acquire first base
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  and Wilson Contreras, the second big deal between the teams this
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  winter. Contreras, 33 years old, is a
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  right-handed hitter, one of the better gloves at the catcher
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  position in the league. Elite.
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  They're going to. Red Sox are going to get
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  $8,000,000 to cover the remaining 42 1/2 on his
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  contract. The Red Sox also send back
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  Hunter Dobbins, as well as right-handed pitching prospects
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  guy that I'm not going to try to pronounce his name of, and Blake
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  Aida to the Cardinals. So again, that Sonny Gray deal
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  is the earlier deal with Boston, which I mean, we thought was
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  just just a hilarious landing spot for Sonny.
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  Good luck. He'll have his battery mate
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  catching him now. I don't know if that's a
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  coincidence. I would be willing to bet it's
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  not. What do you think?
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  I like Wilson Contreras. I think he's going to be very
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  good for the Red Sox. He's hit very well against the
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  Yankees when he's played against the Yankees.
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  I'm not saying that's why they brought him to the to Boston,
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  but I think it has a lot to do with Sonny Gray.
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  They want to make sure that Sonny Gray is comfortable
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  pitching in Boston and Sonny Gray at some point.
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  I mean, he could be their number two guy this year and that's
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  what they estimate him to be if he's playing at the top of his
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  game. Now, I, I again, I don't know
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  what Sonny Gray is going to do in the American League East.
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  And he's got the Yankees got a bone to pick with him when they
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  do play the, when he does play the Yankees.
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  So I'm sure the Yankees are going to go full force after
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  him. And I think Wilson Contreras,
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  he's a good hitter. He's he's to me an elite
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  defender, elite game caller. I think he's perfect.
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  I think this is a slam dunk for the Red Sox.
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  I think this is good for both teams actually because the
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  Cardinals needed to get younger for a while.
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  And we don't know what those guys are going to be.
• 19:09
  I will say this though, Fish though the one name that has the
• 19:12
  hard spelling. I think they actually call him
• 19:13
  Scrabble, the nickname of it. He actually was a versatile
• 19:17
  outfielder and show some flashes last year.
• 19:19
  And I do like I ate as a prospector.
• 19:20
  So I didn't think the Cardinals got it.
• 19:21
  Got better as well, but the Red Sox need to get power within the
• 19:24
  catcher and first base position. Casas has not been healthy and
• 19:27
  the catcher position was a really big weakness for them
• 19:28
  offensely, so definitely a good move.
• 19:30
  For them as well, really when Casas went down, that's kind of
• 19:33
  when they kind of had to go into scramble mode.
• 19:36
  They never really figured out the infield last year.
• 19:39
  They thought, you know, that the Campbell was going to be the
• 19:43
  answer. After a good first month at
• 19:44
  second base, they had to send him down.
• 19:46
  They paid him and then had to send them down, which is wild.
• 19:50
  I mean, no one's really talking about that.
• 19:52
  That's one of the worst GM moves of last season.
• 19:56
  But again, the Red Sox are doing things.
• 20:00
  The Yankees are just sitting on their hands.
• 20:03
  There are some other teams in the AL East that are deciding to
• 20:06
  deal with each other. Errol as the Rays traded Shane
• 20:10
  Baz in the division to the Baltimore Orioles, who
• 20:15
  absolutely needed the pitching. The Orioles acquired
• 20:18
  right-hander Shane Baz to trade with Tampa Bay Rays, sending a
• 20:21
  four prospect package and the draft pick in a rare a vision
• 20:26
  deal. So the Orioles wanted Baz.
• 20:29
  They paid a lot for him, although he you can argue he
• 20:33
  didn't have a very good season last year. 166 and a third, 176
• 20:39
  strikeouts. So more than a strikeout, an
• 20:40
  inning, 64 walks and a 487 ERA. Got lit up for much of the
• 20:48
  season. Had a good first month and 1/2
• 20:50
  or so. He had one of the best ER as in
• 20:52
  baseball and then he was one of the worst pitchers in baseball
• 20:55
  for most of the rest of the way. Good strikeout pitcher, though.
• 20:59
  Kind of brings Dylan Cease to mind when I when I think of him.
• 21:04
  Good, good strikeout numbers, yet gives up way too many big
• 21:09
  hits. The Orioles needed an arm, but
• 21:11
  they gave up a lot. You know, again, these
• 21:13
  prospects, but they gave up a high draft pick.
• 21:15
  They gave up. They gave up, you know, kind of
• 21:18
  like an All Star level type of package.
• 21:20
  I I think I I. Think that when you look at the
• 21:23
  O's, the O's are reaching and the Rays are going to win this
• 21:27
  trade. They always do.
• 21:28
  They always win these trades. These players become stars or
• 21:32
  two of them become stars out of the bunch, and they're just
• 21:36
  other targets for other teams in the future.
• 21:38
  They they, they use them, they slice them, they dice them until
• 21:41
  they don't need them anymore and the Rays throw them out and they
• 21:44
  get more back for them. I think this is a great move for
• 21:46
  the Rays. This is very Rays like I shame
• 21:50
  boss. I've seen him pitch a couple of
• 21:51
  times against the Yankees. He's been up and down against
• 21:54
  the Yankees over the over the last two seasons.
• 21:56
  I don't know what shame boss is going to be.
• 21:59
  I do know that this is the American League East and this is
• 22:02
  the hardest division in in sports, the 100 hardest division
• 22:05
  in baseball, and they have to face off against some of the
• 22:08
  best teams, including the Red Sox and the Yankees.
• 22:11
  And now even the Rays just tells me that they're barking up the
• 22:16
  wrong. Oh, and the Blue Jays, too,
• 22:17
  barking up the wrong tree. So I, I, I think this is a bad
• 22:21
  trade and I think the team that's going to be smelling the
• 22:24
  roses is the Rays, as they always are.
• 22:26
  Yep, the Rays needed quantity. They have a lot of these
• 22:28
  pitchers that have been injury prone and Mcclanahan obviously
• 22:30
  was the big name. They had Tommy John surgery
• 22:32
  recently shot Taj Bradley, another one Fish that had
• 22:34
  probably could strike out numbers, but a lot of a lot of
• 22:36
  home runs and bars. In that same kind of way the
• 22:38
  Orioles get a lefty, maybe they could trust their new ownership,
• 22:41
  their new analytics department to help them out a little.
• 22:44
  But yeah, it's definitely a lot for just one pitcher.
• 22:46
  They need more than depth to start spending more on pitching.
• 22:49
  Well, guess what? The Rays had more to do, and the
• 22:52
  Rays never seem to lose these deals.
• 22:55
  One more thing left here in INSIDE baseball.
• 22:58
  Every couple of years someone says, oh I know who's stupid,
• 23:01
  the Pirates. Let's see if they'll take an
• 23:04
  aging player who used to be really good coming off of
• 23:08
  probably his last good season. Pirates trade for second baseman
• 23:12
  Brandon Lowe from the Tampa Bay Rays.
• 23:14
  It's part of a three team deal that also included the Astros.
• 23:18
  The Rays send Lowe, left-hander Mason Montgomery and outfielder
• 23:21
  Jake Mangum to Pittsburgh. The Pirates deal right-handed
• 23:25
  pitcher Mike Burrows to Houston. Tampa acquires a bunch of
• 23:29
  prospects from Houston as a part of the deal not listed there.
• 23:33
  I can give. You the answer right now about
• 23:35
  this, by the way. But I guarantee you those
• 23:37
  prospects are better than whoever was traded because it's
• 23:40
  the Rays. The Rays and the Rays get
• 23:43
  richer. I I this is a joke.
• 23:46
  It's an absolute joke. The Rays are smiling.
• 23:48
  This is a joke. I I honestly think about it.
• 23:52
  They made two trades and they got a boatload.
• 23:55
  This could be their roster in about 5 years.
• 23:59
  They got about 7 guys for two and honestly not very good or
• 24:05
  three and not very good. They're okay players.
• 24:08
  I, I think this is an absolute slam dunk for the race.
• 24:10
  I don't even think there's any argument to this.
• 24:12
  I don't even think we got to go deeper into this.
• 24:15
  Who cares what Houston got? Who cares what the Pirates got?
• 24:18
  I want to see in five years what the Rays got, because whatever,
• 24:24
  anywhere you spin the wheel, make the deal, you play dice or
• 24:27
  you're playing any kind of card game, you're going to bet on the
• 24:30
  Rays every single time. I'm betting on the raves.
• 24:34
  This is this is just absolutely a joke.
• 24:36
  I don't. There's nothing more to say
• 24:37
  about this. Yeah, like a serial, nothing
• 24:39
  more. Burroughs is not really that
• 24:41
  good of a pitcher. I don't think Houston's going to
• 24:42
  get anything out of this. Magnum, I think is good.
• 24:44
  Lao, You're right, Fish. The best days are behind him.
• 24:46
  The Rays are definitely winning this deal.
• 24:48
  So wait, isn't it Brandon Lowe and it was Josh Lao?
• 24:52
  Yes, and and it was, and it was Nathaniel.
• 24:54
  And it was Nathaniel Lowe too, when he was there as well a
• 24:58
  while ago. That was confusing, but here's
• 25:02
  the thing, Low in this situation, power hitting second
• 25:06
  baseman, not a lot of guys like that.
• 25:07
  He's only 31 years old. The problem with him is that he
• 25:12
  has a bad back, Errol, and he's 31 and he has a much worse back
• 25:16
  than Cody Bellinger, who's hasn't had a bad back in number
• 25:19
  of years. He just had his first healthy
• 25:21
  year in a while. He's only a rental because he's
• 25:24
  only got one year left on his deal.
• 25:25
  He ain't staying in Pittsburgh because it ain't going to be any
• 25:28
  good. Who?
• 25:28
  Cares the raise the raise, but. They get the Rays always get the
• 25:31
  prospects they find the way to get.
• 25:34
  They're a smart organization that know how to buy into
• 25:37
  prospects and building prospects.
• 25:39
  And that's why the raise and I, I, I wouldn't be surprised by by
• 25:43
  the six or seven players they got in.
• 25:46
  These two trades are part of their lineup in the net or in
• 25:49
  pitching staff in the next five years.
• 25:52
  And they're big parts of those of those pieces where they can
• 25:56
  make a run for another World Series, which fall in short
• 25:59
  every single time. But eventually they're going to
• 26:01
  get it right. That's all I'm going to say,
• 26:04
  Tyler Glass. Now you'll look at all the other
• 26:06
  guys that they've had over the years and that what what kind of
• 26:09
  prospects they've gotten from all these guys, and they're
• 26:12
  going to do the same thing to McClain, right?
• 26:14
  Mcclanahan. Mcclanahan Mcclanahan will come
• 26:17
  back from his UCL tear and he'll pitch well for one year and
• 26:22
  he'll be trading and he'll get a boatload for.
• 26:23
  Him, I think he's already getting offers this off season.
• 26:26
  He'll he'll get, they'll get a boatload of players back for him
• 26:30
  as well. So there you go.
• 26:32
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this Tic Tac.
• 26:34
  No. Morris right in the butt.
• 26:40
  We get the prizes cheap because they're stolen.
• 26:42
  No, no. No, no, no, no, no.
• 26:51
  Sometimes I sit on it. I got the bubble gum.
• 26:53
  I had to take a shit. He's probably taking a crap
• 26:55
  right now because he's hanging out with the fam, eating some
• 26:58
  soup, eating some chicken liver. I don't know if he's eating
• 27:02
  chicken liver, but he's eating some.
• 27:03
  Chicken liver. Chicken liver.
• 27:05
  Yeah, Chicken liver, you just said.
• 27:07
  Like chicken liver, like it was like a sexy thing to eat.
• 27:10
  I don't know, maybe it is to Jabba Chamberlain.
• 27:13
  Liver. Dude, he lives in Nebraska in
• 27:15
  the cornfields. What do they eat?
• 27:17
  You think they eat chicken liver in Nebraska?
• 27:20
  What did you mean they eat? They eat like.
• 27:22
  Cinnamon. Rolls dipped in chili.
• 27:25
  Whatever that mysterious food that he brought.
• 27:26
  Up the rump roast runs. Us as.
• 27:29
  Long as she runs us taking care of my 2 hole I'm good and.
• 27:32
  It's probably going to be taking.
• 27:33
  Every. After the end of the.
• 27:35
  Night he'll have to take care of his 2 hole if he's eating
• 27:36
  chicken liver. All right, taking.
• 27:38
  Shit, since John was not here we'll actually start Tic Tac
• 27:40
  though actually with some with some hockey.
• 27:42
  So Sidney Crosby gave up as a surpassed Mario Lemieux in terms
• 27:46
  of all time points on the NHL all time list.
• 27:49
  So four of the top ten all time scorers, including Crosby and
• 27:52
  Lemieux, played with the Penguins during their career.
• 27:55
  Jager was the other one. Crosby, Lemieux, Who was the
• 27:57
  4th? Ron Francis.
• 28:02
  It is Ron Francis. Very good.
• 28:03
  There you go. I was either Ron Francis.
• 28:05
  It was either Ron Francis or Mark Recky, one of those guys.
• 28:08
  Recky is not top 10. I know, but I that was that
• 28:11
  would be my guess. One or the other so.
• 28:14
  All right, all right, let's go right to the middle.
• 28:17
  Next question, Speedy? All right, so Mike Tomlin has
• 28:20
  clinched his 19th straight winning season, or most non
• 28:25
  losing season I should say, tying Bill Belichick for second
• 28:28
  all time, who is first with 21 straights. 21 straight.
• 28:34
  Yep, 21 straight non losing seasons.
• 28:36
  Shulu. Nope.
• 28:41
  How do you want non losing? Tom Landry.
• 28:44
  Yep, very good. Nice, that was another one that
• 28:46
  was stuck in my head too. Man, I'm on fire.
• 28:50
  Usually I don't get another one right for like 3 weeks at this
• 28:54
  point though. Let's see, piss on him a few.
• 28:57
  Let's go bottom left. Maybe that'll give us some
• 29:00
  better luck. I actually lost my head on that
• 29:02
  one. All right, let's go all.
• 29:06
  Right. I'll give you the 1 basketball
• 29:08
  what I have. So the Bulls and the Hawks
• 29:10
  recently in their game on Sunday, I believe it was
• 29:12
  combined for 302 points in regulation.
• 29:15
  Which was the most? I think it was like the fifth
• 29:18
  most of all time combined in a regulation game.
• 29:21
  So the highest scoring one was in 1990 between two Western
• 29:25
  Conference teams. Which two teams were they?
• 29:28
  You guys get 2 guesses each. In the 1990s.
• 29:32
  Yep, the highest scoring game in regulation in NBA history was
• 29:36
  one was in 1990. The year 1990 exactly.
• 29:39
  Go ahead, fish, you go first. Portland and Seattle.
• 29:44
  Nope. None of them.
• 29:46
  I'm out neither one. I'm going to say one of them is
• 29:51
  Utah. Nope.
• 29:53
  No, in the 1990's the Lakers. Nope.
• 30:01
  All right, so you. And Tommy each got one left to.
• 30:03
  Try to get both teams. So you basically you both have
• 30:07
  to be writer. Speedy wins.
• 30:11
  Lakers Why? Can't I think of Western teams
• 30:14
  in the hotel? In the Western Conference, I'll
• 30:21
  take a guess there. You go.
• 30:23
  The Spurs No. I was in A7.
• 30:25
  All right, that's it, Speedy, What is it?
• 30:28
  Was the Warriors against the Nuggets?
• 30:30
  Warriors for team. Warriors and Nuggets, all right,
• 30:34
  Speedy going for the block, I'm assuming here.
• 30:37
  Indeed. Do you remember who was the
• 30:39
  point guard starting point guard of that 1990 Warriors team?
• 30:43
  Our friend Tim Hardaway. That's right.
• 30:44
  Yep. And who?
• 30:46
  I think it was Van Exel for Denver back then maybe.
• 30:50
  No, then, no later. Later.
• 30:52
  Who was the later? Yeah.
• 30:53
  It was Alex English still there. Maybe it wasn't Alex English.
• 30:57
  I think that, but it wasn't. This is like pre mcdice.
• 31:00
  This is like before that. Right before that.
• 31:02
  I think, OK. All right, Speedy, next one.
• 31:05
  All right, we'll go to the last time Miami played Ohio State in
• 31:08
  the national championship. In 2003, Ohio State beat Miami
• 31:12
  to broke break the record for most consecutive wins by which
• 31:16
  quarterback? Say that again.
• 31:20
  So Ohio State upset Miami in the national championship game in
• 31:23
  2003, which broke the. Answers Ken Dorsey.
• 31:25
  It's. Ken Dorsey, Very.
• 31:26
  Good. Were you watching the game or
• 31:28
  somebody gave you that info? Because I know they probably
• 31:30
  used that in the. Game I That was probably where I
• 31:33
  was at the height of my college football fandom, 2003.
• 31:36
  I was in high school senior year.
• 31:39
  I remember everything about that team.
• 31:42
  Yeah, if you don't remember. Shocking.
• 31:44
  How about Brock Purdy tonight? 4 touchdowns thrown.
• 31:47
  Thank. You all right?
• 31:48
  We're getting a two way go here by going there.
• 31:50
  So we're going to have a chance two times in a row to defeat
• 31:54
  Speedy. He's got to block us twice.
• 31:56
  Speedy, what you got? All right, we'll go to the NFL.
• 31:58
  Back to the NFL. So obviously Miles Garrett
• 32:00
  chasing the sack record right now.
• 32:02
  So since the since the new stacked technology came in for
• 32:06
  sacks, Michael Strahan and Gassa now didn't have the all time
• 32:09
  record. It was actually Al Baker who
• 32:12
  broke that record in 19, 1978 when he played for what Midwest
• 32:15
  NFL team. Jesus Jesus Christ, Midwest.
• 32:20
  Midwest who? Knows.
• 32:24
  Vikings. Not the Vikings.
• 32:26
  Good guess though, they did have a lot of good defensive lineman.
• 32:27
  Chicago Bears. Nope.
• 32:29
  Are the Lions considered like? Lions.
• 32:31
  It's correct. Very good.
• 32:32
  Oh, it's a lion. It wasn't very good.
• 32:37
  Interesting. That's for the win, right?
• 32:39
  You're staying with the stay with the same division theme.
• 32:42
  From. Last week.
• 32:44
  Like a serial killer, this dobber in the dirt.
• 32:47
  There was definitely a dobber in a dirt on that right?
• 32:49
  What a guess. What a guess for the.
• 32:52
  Rudolph theme is back. Nice.
• 32:54
  Oh yeah. Rudolph.
• 32:56
  The Red whore may beer to what? We meet you this time, Speedy.
• 33:01
  Whore reindeer. Never heard of that.
• 33:02
  That might have been my best performance ever on tic tac now
• 33:05
  that. Was that was without Jabba,
• 33:07
  ladies and gentlemen, without the jobster.
• 33:11
  Anyways, Anyways, when we come back I said anyways, like twice.
• 33:14
  I don't know, I'm losing it. That went over like a farting.
• 33:17
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• 33:40
  year. We got one more show before the
• 33:42
  new year next week. It'll be another five hours
• 33:45
  show. How fun don't I love these but
• 33:49
  no job at tonight. Shout out to the job.
• 33:52
  Shout out to the Chamberlain family.
• 33:54
  Hopefully they had a fun time in their family get together.
• 33:57
  And yeah, who do we have on next week?
• 34:00
  Speed. Nothing yet for the Monday.
• 34:03
  We actually on the following week, though on January 5th do
• 34:05
  have at 9:00. Bobby Valentine will be joining
• 34:08
  us. That'll be fun.
• 34:09
  Bobby V That's awesome, yeah. Bobby V Mr. V as a V for
• 34:16
  Vendetta, because I'm sure he has a vendetta for the New York
• 34:20
  Mets, I'm sure. Good movie, yes.
• 34:22
  I actually like that movie, too. All right, that's it.
• 34:25
  Goodnight. Thank God.
• 34:26
  Farewell. It is the Worldwide sports Radio
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