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The Yankees lose Aaron Judge to injury- should they SELL at the trade deadline? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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631672 31 O 8 is then I'm going to call guys.
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You're listening to a new episode of Jabba and the mouth.
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As you know, I'm the mouth. My name is Errol Marx, my Co
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He is back. He's no longer sick, thank God.
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. It has been a crazy, crazy
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weekend. My speaker, my DJing speaker.
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I, I I own a pair of EV 12 inch speakers.
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I've had them for 10 years. Usually they go down in about 7
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years. I've had it for over 10.
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I'm a sound guy, so I, I know how to work the amp this
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weekend. The sound, it'll look like the
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amp was clipping. So ladies and gentlemen, I had
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to order new speakers that cost me 25, twenty, $600.00.
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Just the bags, the ladies and gentlemen, the hold the speakers
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cost me $150.00 each every single.
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What is this like a tariff day for me?
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I everything is up in price. I can't cut it when it comes to
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this, but nevertheless, it is a hot, squirmy, disgusting, heated
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sort of day here in Long Island, New York.
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It was 96°. I can't stand this weather.
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It was a beach day. I was not surfing.
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I don't even go in the water anymore because of the God damn
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sharks. Jabba, what's up, man?
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Melvin we were, yeah, we were about 9097 and I think it felt
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about $1.14. Yeah, it's terrible.
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I I don't like this humidity. It's the one thing I hate about
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Long Island and Florida. I can never live in Florida.
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And one of the main reasons why I couldn't live in Florida is
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the humidity, and I was. Just sticky and gross.
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You know, it's funny because I, I saw somebody at Northwell
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today and I was having a conversation with somebody and
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he said he just came back from Las Vegas and he said it is like
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100° over there. But the weather over there is
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nothing like it is over here because it's dry over there and
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it's so disgusting humid over here.
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He says. I I wouldn't say I want to live
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over there. Yeah, because I felt like I was
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going to pass out in Vegas because it is really, really
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hot, he says. When you, if you dropped ice,
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just a piece of ice on the ground, automatically it will
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turn to water in like a minute. That's how hot it is over there
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in Vegas. It's absolutely disgusting out.
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And This is why I can't wait until the fall.
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I can't wait until the winter because I just every time I walk
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outside, I'm sweating. I'm in the gym, I'm watching all
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these people, you know, work out and they don't, they don't catch
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a sweat. I guess my paws or whatever they
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say. I guess I'm healthy because if
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you, if you sweat as much as I do, I do 25 to 30 push offs
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after every single set and I'm sweating up a storm.
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Guys, if if you ever gone to a gym and you lay on a bench and
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you get up, you know, the back of your head, it's just like it.
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It usually leaves like a little wet stain or something like
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that. Mine, it's soaked.
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It's absolutely soaked. I have to bring a towel.
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You just you just don't have the crease.
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You got the whole. Cheek, salt, salt, absolutely
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salt. I, it was, it's absolutely
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disgusting. You know it, It's funny because
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even the women that I'm working out next to, they're watching me
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and they see me get up and they're like, you're going to
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wipe that. That's why I got a towel over
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there. I just can't stand people.
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I can't. Why are you watching me?
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Worry about what you're doing. I can't stand when people have
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something to say about me. Anyways, we got a special guest
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in the studio, ladies and gentlemen.
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He's been a friend, he's been a colleague.
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He's been a partner of mine for many, many years.
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He started this show, Well, not this show, but he started the
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network with me, the one and only Mikey C Mike, what's up?
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What's going on, brother? How?
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Are you? I'm good.
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I see the background, I guess the Boston Celtics, which I
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can't stand. I can't stand the banners.
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I can't stand the Celtic pride. No, I don't want to get used to
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it. I, I want to stay the hell away
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from it. But yeah, Mikey sees in the
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studio tonight so I'm sure he's going to give me a little bit of
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grief. There's no, there's no Celtic
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information, there's no Celtic stories right now.
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So it's. Good.
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I mean, I'm not going to lie, I could actually sit there and
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say, you know, I think this upcoming season, they're going
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to be so bad. And they're not going to be that
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bad. And hopefully get a high draft
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pick. That's what you're wishing,
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right? That's what you're wishing.
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But I don't think that's going to happen.
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You know, not like Golden State where they messed up on Wiseman
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as the number one. Pick, well, not #2 pick.
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It was an up to pick. And he ended up being a bust
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but. Oh, you have to hold on one
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second. If if you are a Celtic fan and
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you want them to lose, it just shows you how selfish you guys
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are. No, no, no.
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I don't want them to lose. I just feel the way the roster
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is created right now. Well, you have Jaylen Brown, you
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have White. They're healthy.
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And I think obviously the Celtics are still going to have
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quality games and they're going to play quality basketball.
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They're not going to be that bad.
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If Jaylen Brown is 100% healthy, which they're saying that he is,
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I expect them to compete. I mean, did you hear the rumors
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of? Trading one of those.
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Of Ben Simmons partially signing.
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Well, that's automatic tank right there.
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I automatic. Ben Simmons, I think dude is
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good. To play basketball.
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No, but I think he's a good fit with them.
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He's athletic and they don't need him.
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Yeah, he's very athlete. Once a year.
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When Ben Simmons is an athletic basketball player, is he good?
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It remains to be seen. We've seen him.
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He's he's one of the highest paid.
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He has basketball anxiety. He barely plays I.
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Whose fault he's at his I know it's Joel Embiid.
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He's the one to ruin him and Doc Rivers.
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But I don't want to get into basketball.
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This is not a basketball show tonight, OK, we got a lot to get
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lot to get into. But before we get into the show,
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I want to I have an announcement to make and.
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It's that day. No, I'm being serious.
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It's, it's, it's a serious story.
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No, it has. This is not funny, by the way,
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Keith has not been on the show. He's been working a lot.
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He's been dealing with family stuff.
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And this weekend there was a death in his family, obviously a
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suicide. And it's a it's a sad story.
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And I, I want to give a shout out to the family Macaulay
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Kenya, and that's he's from the Rooney family, Pennsylvania,
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part of the Rooney family. He passed away over the weekend.
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A lot of sadness in the family and Keith reached out to me
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before the show and he was telling me about what happened.
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I want to talk about it on the show.
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I mean, it's not something that you you'd go out there and, and,
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and tell everybody's business. But I wanted to give a shout out
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to the Rooney family. That is a horrible, horrible
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story. My heart goes out to the family.
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My heart goes out to Keith, his brother Mike, everybody ever,
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the whole family. It's it's a horrible, horrible
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story. And, and to think that you're
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only on this earth for a certain amount of time.
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The kid was 22 years old, 22 years old and, and so much.
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And I, I, I don't want to get into the back end of what
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happened and, and the depression, but just think about
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it. You, you see all these kids, all
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these people young and old committing suicide over, you
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know, obviously things that are going on in their life.
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I mean, obviously brain trauma and all the different stuff that
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we've heard with the NFL with CTE.
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I'm not saying the kid had CTE, but just think about it, the
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depression and this, this sustained things that could
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happen in your life. And I know because I've seen
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people get abused many, many times in school.
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And I used to, I, I tell the story, I used to beat up the
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bully and I used to see all these kids get, you know, beaten
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up. And it's not a lie when you go
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to a locker room and you see the abuse that some of these kids
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get because they're too thin, too hairy, just dorky, geeky,
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wearing glasses, fat jobby, you know all about that.
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You were picked on when you were a kid for a little while.
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You, you know what it's like. And so it's to me, it's just a
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horrible, horrible thing. And just to think about this
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story and, and how people can go through these things and not get
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help. And I, I, I, my heart goes out
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to the Rooney family. I just, I'm stuttering because I
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don't even know what to say. And I'm standing by, you know,
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you hear these stories and, and I, I've, I've heard stories over
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the last couple of months, I've had a friend, friend that
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committed suicide, hung himself. And it's just, it's not good.
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It's not fun to go to these, these funerals.
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It, it's not obviously not very good to talk to the families,
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the moms, the dads. So it's a horrible, horrible
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story. And my heart goes out to the
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Rooney family. It's horrible.
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And I I know the grandparents I've known his son was one of my
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best friends growing up. Now I don't talk to him anymore
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because he's an ass. And that's a whole nother story.
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And hopefully he reaches out to the family because that ass is
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just, he needs to be smacked around.
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And you know what I'm talking about, Keith, you know who I'm
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talking about. If you're listening to the show,
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Rooney, Mr. Brandon Rooney, if he's listening to the show and
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if he's not, I don't give a crap.
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But maybe you should reach out to the family and actually show
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a little bit more commitment to your family because that's one
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of your cousins. And now he's gone and you didn't
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say goodbye to him. So my heart goes out to the
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Rooney family. The New York Post reports that
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Aaron Judge will be headed to the 10 day IL list with a right
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flexor strain. The the Yankees training staff
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called the injury and elbow issue, but Aaron Boone said
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there was no tear in Judges UCL. Boone also called out or called
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the diagnosis good news, but also says that Judge will only
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be a designated hitter for the rest of the season.
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John Heyman reports that the Yankees are only hoping Judge
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would be would have ADH for, well DH for 10 games when he
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returns, turns and can transition back in playing the
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outfield. Boone also has talked about
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Giancarlo Stanton about getting into the outfield route and
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having his reps Now the Judge is going to be out for possibly a
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significant amount of time. The Yankees traded for infield
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Ahmed Rosario from the Nationals.
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Rosario has mostly played second base the last two years with the
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Nationals and the Rays, but did play 27 games in right field
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with the Rays in 2024. Judge is hitting 342 with 37
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home runs in 85 RBI this season. It was up for an MVP running.
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Now obviously Raleigh is having an unbelievable season.
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He hit his 40th over the weekend and he's just on a tear.
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A catch. He's got 41 now.
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Yeah, he's he's on a tear, a catcher hitting that many home
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runs and you there's a lot of games left.
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I I think there's like 7877 games left so about. 60.
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No, I think it's. OK, what?
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I think we're at the 100 mark. Whatever it it doesn't matter
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how many games he's got a newer he's got a lot of games.
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He he can hit over 60 home runs, 65 home runs.
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I don't know the exact total how many games left over there for
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for Raleigh, but he's having a tremendous season.
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A catcher hitting forty home runs and hitting at a high
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batting average is pretty it's pretty impressive.
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And Raleigh, now, I'm not saying he's doing anything, but when
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you hear stories like this and he's never done anything like
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this in his career, you question it.
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But again, he's doing something that we haven't seen a catcher
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do ever. And I don't think by the end of
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this season he might be breaking every single catching offensive
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record we've seen. But the interesting story about
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this Aaron Judge injury is that Aaron Judge is a big part of
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this offense. He is really the numeral Uno of
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this offense now. John Carlos Stanton coming back,
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he's, he's on a tear right now. He's playing great baseball
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offensively. I, I, I wouldn't trust that.
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I would trust that he would go out into the outfield.
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You put him in harm's way. This guy is really it.
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It worries you because he could step on his own toe and he could
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be out for a significant amount of time.
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We've seen John Carlos stand over the years.
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Can't stay healthy out in the outfield, playing defense.
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And it worries me that when you put him out in right field or
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even left field, you're putting him in harm's way.
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But again, the Yankees are going to have to do that.
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If Aaron Judge comes back, Aaron Boone saying that he hopes in 10
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games after coming back from his, you know, his IL stent,
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that he, he'll only be ADH for 10 games.
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I I don't think that's likely when you hear something like
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this, you want to be careful. You don't want him throwing the
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ball out in the outfield. You don't want him tearing his
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UCL and be out a significant amount of time.
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Now this is not a pitcher. So if he does tear his UCL or he
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does go in the offseason and goes in for surgery, he will be
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back next year. As we all know, Shay Otani was
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so Shay Otani was ADH for a full season after having his UCL
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tear. Now this is a little bit
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different. You'll probably be back 60 games
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left of the season next year in the outfield.
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So, so it's not putting too much torque on his elbow.
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But when you hear a story like this, it's not a good sign for
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the New York Yankees. The Yankees have not played
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well. They have not played well since
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really three weeks before the All Star break and a week and a
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half, two weeks in after the All Star break.
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They have not been good. Now you're seeing Brian Cashman
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make moves. We expect that.
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McMahon was a big part of that win yesterday.
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So that's a good sign. You're getting offense from a
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guy that you need it. You need offense from and third
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base, which the Yankees have got no offense from the third base
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position and you're getting a shutdown defender.
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So if McMahon can continue doing what he is doing right now, the
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Yankees got him on the cheat. I met Rosario is an addition
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where they added a Major League player.
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Pereza and all these guys that they're bringing up that you're
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hearing they're AAA players, they're not Major League
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players. So bringing it on members are
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now he's not he's not a power hitter.
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He's not a home run hitter. We know him from the New York
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Mets. He was a prospect from the New
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York Mets. He's not a superstar, but he is
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a quality player that can add innings for you as far as the
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offensive side of the ball, he's very good against lefties, not
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very good with right handers. So I that's something that the
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Yankees are going to have to look at and there's still there
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are still questions if they're going to add another back to
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this lineup before the before the trade deadline is over.
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Now there is stories coming out that they could be, you know,
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putting out there for, you know, a superstar young player that
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they have in their front system in Jones.
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Now. I, I, I don't know if the
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Yankees are willing or able to, to do something like that early,
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you know, early in this kids career.
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He's 2122 years old. He's a hot hitter now.
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I know obviously we've heard from Fish over the last couple
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of weeks say, hey, listen, you can get him at the high highest
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point right now. He's playing great baseball in
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AAA. Maybe you move him and you get
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as much as you possibly can for him.
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The problem with the Yankees over the years is they move
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young players and sometimes they don't turn out to anything and
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most of them don't turn out to be anything.
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But something tells me, and I've said this many, many times and
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I've been right over the last two years about some of these
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young players that this kid could be a superstar.
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And the Yankees compare his skills as A5 stool player, a
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left-handed, a left-handed Aaron Judge.
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So I'm not saying he's Aaron Judge.
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And Aaron Judge has really tweaked his his his swing over
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the years when he came into the major leagues.
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And again, Aaron Judge didn't come up till he was 24.
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This kid is 22 years old. That means we're going to wait
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until he's 24 years old that we're going to see him in the
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majors. The Yankees cannot do and
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waiting for the state to come up.
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So maybe they decide to move them.
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But again, you you go back to the Yankees situation and, and
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Jabba and, and obviously speedy your baseball guys.
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It worries me when you have Aaron Boone coming out and
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saying since the All Star break that this team is a good
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defensive team when they're one of the worst defensive teams in
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baseball. They've been one of the worst
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defensive teams in baseball for the last past month.
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And then he comes out saying that he's not worried.
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This team is not getting offense from really any of their
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positions besides John Carlos. Stan Volpe is an absolute
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debacle. They're not getting any offense
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at the catching position. When I thought Austin Wells was
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going to have a great season. He's up and down.
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You're not getting enough power from that position like we
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expected. And then the outfield, besides
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Dominguez is a guy that I expected.
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Everybody called him the alien. What do they call the Martian?
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Whatever they call him, Well, he's a he's a guy, he's a switch
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hitting player who is, you know, he's up, he's loud, he's up,
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he's down. Is he a moving piece?
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Is he a trade chip for a guy like Brian Cashman to add a
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pitcher to this lineup and maybe use him in a double trade or
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using the three-way deal where you can add a picture and and a
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hitter with another man that you could put out in the outfield or
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maybe another guy that you could put at first or even short?
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The Yankees right now are in a real interesting situation.
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Corey Seeger is a guy that a lot of people are talking about now.
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I know that Fish said Corey Seeger would be a great get for
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the New York Yankees. Now, if you go after Corey
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Seeger, if he is available, you're going to have to give up
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a significant amount of prospects for him.
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He's an injury prone player. Yes, he hits.
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He's a guy that can hit over 300.
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Yes, he hits very well against righties and lefties and he
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would add power to a stadium where he would be able to pull
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the ball in Yankee Stadium and put a lot of big numbers out
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there in Yankee Stadium. I just worry about his injury
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situation. I also worry about the Yankees
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reaching and trading away a young prospect like this.
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He goes to Texas, he goes to Baltimore, wherever they decide
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to trade him, and he becomes a superstar.
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That's what worries me about the Yankees.
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Yeah, you look at the options that they have for trading with
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Spencer Jones too. I think it's kind of limited
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because you want to, if you're going to trade Jones just like
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has that much upside in AAA, it really has to be for that like
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big name hitter that you know is going to be a surefire thing.
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Now, Corey Seeger is that to an extent.
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But like you said, he's injury pro now.
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He's great in the postseason too.
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He won the World Series MVP with the Dodgers and he was very good
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with the post season with the Rangers as well.
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The one, the one I brought up a couple weeks ago could be Katel
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Marte. He's another one that is
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available. The Diamondbacks are shopping
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him. He's I don't know if they're
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gonna definitively trade him. It seems like they're gonna
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definitively trade Suarez, but that's the only one I would
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trade in terms of Spencer Jones, unless you're getting maybe two
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players in the deal too. And that's what makes this Aaron
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Judge situation tricky too, because I don't think there's
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anything on the trademark you're ever going to get the combined
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production offensively with Aaron Judge.
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But now you have a situation where if he has the DH for an
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extended period of time, how much do you want Giancarlo Stan
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playing defense of the outfield too?
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That's why maybe a defensive center fielder attached with a
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player could be an interesting scenario to get a maybe a light
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hitting bottom of the lineup outfielder that could be a
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contact hitter type thing to go along with a potential hitter.
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Now Rosario is a versatile guy. He play second, he can play
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third, he can play outfield, but really doesn't play any of them
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well. I just think of him more as a
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super utility guy. But he's going to probably be
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your lead guy to sub at least in the corner outfield spots and
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maybe move Grisham back to center in the mean.
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Spencer Jones, by the way, just turned 24.
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He turned 24 in May, as Jabba posted up in the group message.
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So it doesn't honestly, it doesn't matter how old he is.
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The fact is, is the Yankees are going to have to decide when are
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they going to call this kid up. Aaron Judge was called up at 24.
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That means Spencer Jones should be up in the next year or so.
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And if I were the Yankees right now, I would see what you have
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to bring them into the big if he's crushing AAA hitting, you
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bring him up and you see what you have.
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Maybe you get a, you know, you get a lightning in a bottle.
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We saw that with Gary Sanchez in the second-half of his
21:49
second-half of the season when he came up as a rookie and he
21:52
almost won rookie of the year that year.
21:53
So maybe you get lightning in a bottle.
21:55
Maybe you give you get this kid, you put him out in the outfield.
21:58
Now that Aaron Judge could be out a significant amount of
22:00
time, he's a pretty good, pretty decent defender.
22:03
He's not Aaron, he's not an Aaron Judge in the outfield.
22:05
But he adds dynamic 5 tool type of player and you could get
22:11
lightning and a bottle from it. So Spencer Jones, if if the
22:14
Yankees are seeing this kid, he's hit thirteen home runs in
22:17
in the in the month of June or whatever it was in the last four
22:20
weeks. See what you have in the major
22:22
leagues. He's 24.
22:24
See what you have that that's where I would go if I were the
22:27
Yankees. I know that's not what Fish
22:29
wants because he strikes out a lot.
22:30
But guess what, if you have something and this kid gets hot
22:34
in the major leagues, we saw what he did in the preseason.
22:38
He was in spring training. He was pretty good.
22:41
It was last year, the year before, he was one of the
22:43
hottest hitters for the Yankees in spring training.
22:45
I know it's spring training. I know it's against AAA if
22:48
you're pitching, I understand that.
22:50
But the guy is hot right now. And if he's a hot commodity and
22:53
he can hit against Major League pitching, even goes for a week,
22:57
comes up for a week and he's hitting when it comes to Major
23:00
League pitching, then if you're just you decide to trade them,
23:03
maybe you can get a big time super side like a Jose Ramirez
23:07
if he becomes available. Because right now AAA, it's
23:11
nothing. There's nothing impressive when
23:13
he's hitting thirteen home runs right now in four weeks in AAA.
23:16
That's not Major League pitching.
23:18
That's all I'm going to. Say, yeah, I was going to
23:19
mention, too, like, I think the timing of it with the Yankees
23:22
and these younger players, too has been kind of up and down
23:24
over the years of when they've been able to come up.
23:26
Obviously they nailed Aaron Judge and like you said, Gary
23:28
Sanchez got off to the hot and then just fell off later.
23:30
But at what point? Like?
23:33
He came up in the second-half and he got hot.
23:35
Yeah, he goes. I think he hit like 1213 home
23:38
runs as a catcher and he was up for Rookie of the year.
23:41
If he played 10 more games, he would have probably won Rookie
23:44
of the year. The last player to do that in in
23:46
that sort of stint I think was Babe Ruth, I think it was, or
23:50
some, some ridiculous number that numbers he was putting up
23:54
in in like 50 games. He was ridiculous.
23:57
Yeah, and again, you never want to really stunt a young players
23:59
growth as it is. And sometimes this late in the
24:01
season there can be pressure to do that kind of thing to create
24:04
a spark. We saw Kansas City do that last
24:05
month with Jack Hagley only calling him up.
24:07
And again, it really hasn't been a big spark for the Royals
24:09
offense. They've still been very bad
24:11
throughout the year. But we also saw with Texas two
24:13
years ago, they played their kids a lot of the time
24:14
throughout the season. They won a World Series even
24:16
though they weren't high end guys.
24:17
So it's a tricky dilemma with what you.
24:19
Don't know what you have until you let him come up and you see
24:22
what he has. I know everybody's afraid.
24:25
Well, he's at his highest point. If we don't, if we bring him up
24:29
and he tells what, what are you going to do when you bring him
24:31
back down? He's going to lose confidence.
24:33
Stop it. He's 24 years old.
24:35
The guy is killing AAA hitting. He was killing AA hitting.
24:38
That's why he moved up from AA to triple AI.
24:41
Think you, you, you see what you have.
24:43
The Yankees right now are not hitting enough.
24:45
I think he's better than half the guys right now.
24:47
You're going to tell me right now, would you rather see
24:49
Spencer Jones or Dominguez? Dominguez is hot and cold every
24:53
time he goes out there. And honestly, he's one of the
24:56
worst defensive players we've seen come up with the Yankees,
24:59
you know, Yankees farm system in a long time.
25:02
I mean, Florio, remember him? Everybody said this guy was A5
25:07
tall player. He was an absolute bust.
25:10
I want to see more of of somebody like Spencer Jones.
25:14
If you have something, bring them up and see what you have.
25:17
If you look at Gary Sanchez, Gary Sanchez came up at 24.
25:20
Aaron Judge came up at 24. Luis Savarino came up at 24.
25:24
He this kids 24 and he's the hottest hitter right now or one
25:27
of the hottest hitters in to play.
25:29
I don't care where he's ranked in the top 100 guys in baseball
25:32
fish. I know that's what you're going
25:34
to say. Well, he's not in the top 100.
25:36
Who the hell cares? I've heard this many, many times
25:39
and and this guy, it could be a genie in the bottle.
25:43
And the Yankees need that right now.
25:45
They need them. I, I mean, it's, it's tough
25:51
either way because and as I've, as I've said to other people,
25:54
it's you're, you've already stated that judge is going to
25:57
come back as ADH. So obviously you're going to
26:00
take away a bathroom stand. You want Stan to be healthy and
26:05
you want him to, to be to the best of his ability at the
26:08
plate. We don't need him, you know,
26:10
play outfield and it's just I, I don't necessarily know if I
26:14
would use the word liability, but it's pretty darn close.
26:17
Where, you know, there's there's just the aspect of him getting
26:21
her playing the outfield is more so than him just the aging.
26:25
And do you take a shot at Spencer?
26:27
But we don't know how bad Spencer's back spasms.
26:30
He hasn't played in three games. They had an off day today.
26:34
And so obviously getting treatment doing that.
26:37
But I mean, that's obviously the game, but I think it's it's
26:42
catch 22 and I kind of see both sides.
26:44
But right now what depending on what you do at the deadline, do
26:49
you do you bring them up before? Do you bring up after and just
26:55
see kind of the moves we make as far as I mean, it's been stated
27:00
by Jeff Passan Nightingale, like, you know, everybody that's
27:03
talked about baseball that they still want to get, you know, a
27:06
swinging miss reliever, another bat.
27:10
It was just lends me to believe if if we're searching for this
27:12
at the deadline, what were we doing in the offseason that that
27:14
that's the kind of the other question that boggles my mind.
27:18
Well, relief pitchers are tough to judge, too, because they're
27:20
kind of up and down. Year to year.
27:21
As it is, so like you could have traded for somebody that did
27:23
well last year and all of a sudden they fall off.
27:25
But the reliever market has to be something the Yankees are
27:27
going to prioritize if they're going to for the pitching end.
27:29
And then hitting end wise, like you can't really prioritize
27:32
positions as much anymore too. You just need a good bat because
27:34
Jazz, Chisholm and like you said, maybe Dominguez are really
27:37
the only two bats you're getting.
27:39
Stop calling Jizzy. It's, it's jazz.
27:41
It's jazz jism, OK? And that guy doesn't shut the
27:44
hell up. He I, I remember, I, I, I, I
27:47
think I remember him after the Home Run Derby saying that the
27:49
Yankees are still the best team in baseball.
27:51
And ever since they came back, what's the Yankees record?
27:55
What is the Yankees record? When you hear jazz?
27:57
I mean, they've been horrible and and Aaron Boone's going to
28:00
take the brunt of it. It always happens to the
28:02
manager. Everybody wants to get rid of
28:04
Aaron Boone, but Aaron Boone isn't the reason why they're
28:06
they're not hitting or they're not pitching.
28:08
The got the hottest pitcher for the Yankees right now is Carlos
28:11
Rodon. And now we're talking about
28:13
blisters right now with Max Freed.
28:15
This, this would it bothers me right now when when the Yankees,
28:20
could you imagine if Garricko was healthy right now?
28:22
He had a healthy Max Freed and Rodon pitching the way he's
28:25
pitching right now. And then you have, you have
28:28
Louise coming back soon, Lewis coming back, Louise, whatever
28:31
his name is, he'll coming back. So if you have that, you got
28:34
A1234 punch the Yankees would have in the second-half of the
28:37
season. It would it would bother me
28:40
right now if Aaron Boones name is being brought up as as a guy
28:45
that you're going to probably fire at the end of the season
28:48
when it's not Aaron Boone's fault.
28:50
It isn't Aaron Boone's fault. He is a puppet.
28:53
And right now the strings are being moved because Brian
28:55
Cashman is telling him, hey, go out to the press conference and
28:59
say what? Tell him what I'm going to tell
29:01
you. I'm going to give you a list of
29:02
things to say. Don't throw anybody under the
29:04
bus and be a good team leader. That's what Aaron Boone does.
29:08
He's Brian Cashman's bitch. That's the facts.
29:12
That's the facts, guys. And, and, and you guys got to
29:14
stop blaming the manager. Well, we need a new face.
29:17
We need a new voice. Really.
29:19
Who are they going to bring in? What guy out there that you're
29:23
hearing big names out here out there that the Yankees are going
29:27
to bring in? It's just going to blow your
29:28
mind. There's nobody.
29:30
I would love Mark De Rosa. I would love him, but that's not
29:34
going to happen. He's the Yankees aren't going to
29:36
they're good. Yankees are going to bring in a
29:37
Yankee. That's what they're going to do.
29:39
Carlos Beltran's name has been brought up a couple, a couple of
29:42
times. Again, what are you going to go
29:44
with Carlos Beltran? I did.
29:46
That's the problem with the Yankees.
29:48
You're you're hearing these names and they don't, they don't
29:51
satisfy you. It doesn't satisfy me.
29:54
You signed Aaron Boone in the offseason to a three-year
29:57
extension and you're going to blame Aaron Boone for the this
30:00
absolute drop because you're not getting timely hitting.
30:03
That's because of the what do they call it?
30:05
The analytics crew over there, the executives over there,
30:08
whatever as Fish calls it, the MIT guys, MIT guys.
30:11
I mean, you're going to point your fingers.
30:13
That's the guys to blame. You're going to blame the
30:15
analytic guys because you're the one who brought in Bellinger.
30:18
You're the one who thought Goldschman would last for the
30:21
season. I thought Goldschman, I still
30:23
think Goldschman is a good addition.
30:24
He's a good leader in the in the in the clubhouse, but he's not
30:28
doing what he did in the beginning of the season.
30:29
But it would worry me right now when you're sitting here and the
30:33
only thing everybody and all these all these fans are doing
30:36
on social media is it's Aaron Boone's fault.
30:39
No, it's guys like Jazz Chism who goes out there and opens his
30:43
fat mouth and says the things that he says.
30:45
We're a good team. We're a good power team.
30:47
We're the we're one of the best teams in the league.
30:49
We all the best. Team that's not just Jazz,
30:51
that's Aaron Boone. Errol.
30:53
That's all Aaron Boone does. Why is we're great defensively
30:57
after a 4 hour game? We're the we're savages at the
31:01
plate when you're not having good at bats.
31:02
It was a savage. It's a bunch of crabby, let me
31:05
tell you. Three home runs.
31:06
Worst. Worst time I've ever I've That's
31:09
probably the worst Home Run Derby I've ever seen.
31:10
A Yankee half. Well, that's fine, but he Jazz
31:13
is not the reason they're losing.
31:15
No, there's a lot of reasons why they're.
31:16
Losing you guys, you blame them because you're a Yankee fan.
31:20
Here's here's the blame. He's not the only one.
31:22
I think Cashman and Lenny from MIT and all the other guys with
31:26
the torpedo bats up in the in the.
31:28
I love how you gave him the name Lenny.
31:31
I I thought that was fun like some.
31:33
Story about ownership. Well, I look, I mean, let's,
31:37
let's start with the coach. Let's work our way up the
31:40
pyramid, IPC. Hold on before you go there,
31:43
because I have a feeling I know what you're going to say.
31:44
When the Yankees didn't get Sodo, they all said we're going
31:49
to focus on bringing in players like a play defense.
31:52
You needed a third baseman and you didn't want to add the extra
31:55
money unless you got rid of Strowman's contract.
31:57
I blame that on ownership. I don't blame the the Strowman
32:01
deal was a mistake, and it's one of many mistakes Ashman
32:05
routinely makes. See, I blame.
32:07
Ownership for not spending, going above what he wanted to do
32:11
to make the team better. You could have did it there.
32:13
No. Everybody knew Jazz was not a
32:16
third baseman. You played half the season with
32:18
him at third base. Now you're getting a third
32:20
baseman. That's the reason why you let
32:23
Cleba Torres go to move him back to 2nd.
32:25
Base but Mikey they they had the protractor in the booth coming
32:29
up with the angle that jazz would throw at because of you
32:32
know his his hip motions look I can't stand that they went into
32:37
the season without a real third baseman and put their second
32:40
baseman at third base and was like see it'll it'll be just
32:43
fine he did it in a pinch last year and was serviceable they.
32:46
Had a Are you kidding? They had a deal on the table to
32:48
bring in Aaron Nano, Goldsmith's best friend.
32:50
They didn't want it. Aaron Coronado and Goldschmidt
32:53
are both washed up. They're both Mikey.
32:55
Mikey, by the way, that's a false.
32:58
That's a false. Statement There was no Arenado
32:59
deal. Well, regardless of anything
33:01
where a Gold Glove third baseman would have came in immediately
33:04
put Jazz back at. 2nd Jabba's friends with Arenado look.
33:07
Look, I'm with you on that, Mikey.
33:09
See, the fact they didn't do that is strike one against this
33:12
team. Now I don't know if that's
33:13
ownership or Cashman, but it's a huge mistake.
33:16
The thing that gets me with Boone, and I say it all the
33:18
time, is well coached teams don't make them mistakes that
33:22
the Yankees make during games routinely.
33:25
You don't see the bad base running to this extent, you
33:28
don't see the sloppy play in the field routinely and you don't
33:31
see them blowing games that they could easily win.
33:35
It's not just because they're look, they look, There's a lot
33:39
that they miss. There's a lot.
33:40
Maybe you miss Mendoza. Look.
33:43
You know the. Guy went across we could, we
33:45
could, we could joke. I could joke about.
33:47
No, no. What it is, what it is, is he's
33:49
a Met fan, so he's going to he's going to go out there and he he
33:52
likes to pat himself on the back.
33:53
But the Mets haven't won anything since 19. 86 Listen, I.
33:56
Always so I met Dozer's been very, very good.
33:58
He might be up for Manager of the year.
34:01
Well he might be. If they go on, they go on a
34:04
terror in the second-half. They very much good.
34:06
But again, Fish is going to go back and forth what, what, what
34:11
the, the, the stuff that Aaron Boone is doing in games.
34:14
Again, he's looking at his analytics.
34:16
He's getting a call up from the top and they're telling him what
34:18
to do. It's not him making the
34:20
decision. I'm saying not you're in the
34:22
games. I'm not saying you're in the
34:23
games, I'm saying when you get a job.
34:25
But you can comment to this, like when you were with Joe
34:28
Torre or Joe Girardi rather, you know, you got practice at a
34:32
certain time, you show up to the field a certain way, you get
34:35
there and you do your drills every time in a certain routine.
34:39
And I just don't know if Boone has instilled that same lever.
34:44
You just a regular practice you just no.
34:46
Because I I I ask as a coach, as a coach, Errol, I ask why teams
34:51
are sloppy. This.
34:52
Isn't football. I always say it's a bad coach
34:55
team that's sloppy. They don't care what sport it
34:58
is. Basketball, football, baseball
35:00
doesn't matter. It's completely different
35:02
baseball. All the coach teams are sloppy.
35:04
First of all, football it, it's all it's the value of a football
35:08
team goes through the coach. Everybody knows that you don't
35:11
have a good coach, you're gonna fail.
35:13
Doesn't matter how much talent you have.
35:14
We've seen it many, many times. The Cleveland Browns, remember
35:17
that with Baker Mayfield. I, I mean, seriously, I that was
35:21
horrible. Horrible.
35:22
They had tremendous amount of talent over there.
35:24
Everybody said they were the most talented team in the AFC
35:27
and one of the best teams. The Brooklyn Nets.
35:29
Another team. And they thought they were gonna
35:31
win. But basketball is different,
35:32
too, because if you have two great players, you don't.
35:35
Yeah, I'm just. Oh.
35:36
Mikey, hold this on that. We will talk about that later.
35:39
I got that. What I'm, what I'm saying right
35:40
now is baseball is different because if you do have talent
35:45
that'll keep you afloat, but it's not management.
35:48
It's all about quote UN quote analytics.
35:51
And with the Yankees analytics, if they have the best and the
35:55
Yankees are an organization has all the money and they invest
35:57
all their money into these analytic guys and some of the
36:00
best in the business. Why are there analytics all over
36:04
the place and everybody else is is so perfect?
36:06
Is that Aaron Boone's fault? Hey, you know what?
36:08
I'm going to blame Aaron Boone because he doesn't know the
36:11
mathematical equation of WAR. Give me a break.
36:16
OK? I'm not going to blame Aaron
36:18
Boone because he has people calling him up in the dugout and
36:21
tell him, put this guy in, put that guy in, take that guy out,
36:24
take that guy out. I mean, come on.
36:26
It's absolutely stupid. And and honestly, if all the
36:30
Yankee fans want to blame coaching and management, well,
36:33
guess what? The Yankees are never going to
36:34
win because it's not management. It's the way they put this team
36:38
together. Balance.
36:39
Bellinger is not a good player. You know he's not.
36:43
No, I. Don't I just?
36:44
I don't. I don't. 85850 OPI.
36:47
Don't. I don't care.
36:48
I don't care about his statistics in the big game and
36:50
in the big part of the games. He's not doing enough.
36:52
He's not doing enough. He's a decent defensive player.
36:55
I think he's a good fit for the. Team I don't.
36:57
He's playing, he's batting third.
36:59
Do you want him batting 3rd at this point?
37:00
His career? Maybe not.
37:01
Shouldn't. Be a third place hitter, but I
37:03
think he's athletic enough and he's I think he's a good fit for
37:06
what the team. Needs.
37:07
I don't. I don't want Bella.
37:08
He could. Play.
37:09
I like him in left field a lot. He.
37:11
Could play. I mean, he can play.
37:12
First, OK, Would you rather? Who but who else would you
37:15
rather have? Kyle Tucker right now, Kyle
37:17
Tucker and Kyle at the end of the season, No, but that's what
37:20
I'm saying. Are you going to extend
37:22
Bellinger at the end of the season?
37:24
He'll get a yeah, but people in hell want ice water too.
37:26
But let's let's play with what we got right now, OK?
37:29
I think they don't have, I think.
37:31
They don't have nothing. I think they don't have nothing
37:34
is your first baseman. They have garbage.
37:36
The Yankees are a garbage team right now.
37:38
Let's be honest, Jazz Chism coming out and and you know,
37:41
shooting his load all the time. When he comes out of his mouth,
37:45
I don't want to hear him because the team sucks.
37:47
They're absolute garbage. Without our judge in the lineup,
37:51
they're garbage. The veins pop it out because
37:53
it's the truth. It's a garbage team.
37:56
What we're seeing being trailed out there on a field is garbage.
38:00
When your best pitcher, no offense, Carlos, your Carlos
38:03
wrote down is your best pitcher, that's scary right now.
38:06
It is scary when you look at their bullpen.
38:08
You give you're traded for Devin Williams, you bring that idiot
38:12
in and he can't pitch a lick. His ERA was 11.
38:15
What what 2530 games into the season that they had to move him
38:19
out as a closer when he was one of the best closers in baseball?
38:23
Why is it when you come to the Yankees, you can't really cut it
38:27
in New York? And that's is why I go out there
38:31
and I'll say I'll tell the truth.
38:32
If I were the Yankees, I'm Sellers.
38:34
I'm sellers right now. I trade away pieces and build
38:38
for next year. You have Cole coming back next
38:40
year, you'll have Max Freed, you have Rodon, you'll have you'll
38:44
have Louise. You'll have all these guys.
38:47
They'll be back next year. And I know he's not going to do
38:50
that, though. They'll never do that.
38:53
They fire cash. They'll still have a winning
38:55
record. They'll still have a.
38:56
Winning record. I know what the Yankees need.
38:58
They need one soda. No, stop.
39:01
They're going to do what they did with McMahon, get guys that
39:03
have a couple of years of controllability, you know, No,
39:07
no, seriously, they'll get guys like McMahon who you have passed
39:10
this year so that even if he can help you some this year, you're
39:14
not like going all in trading for Ryan McMahon, right?
39:17
You're giving up your 8th best prospect in your 20 something
39:20
best prospect. That was a great, it's a good
39:22
move. He plays much better.
39:23
I mean, he won the game for us on Sunday.
39:26
I mean, he did with his defense and his offense.
39:28
He's a good. I mean, the guy's a good player.
39:31
Roseanne for Roseanne. A nice player.
39:34
Well, Rosario will only play against lefties, right?
39:36
So you didn't have a guy like that before.
39:39
We're judging because you were trotting out your vivas, you
39:42
were trotting out garbage. So I think those moves are fine,
39:46
but you said it Errol, you have a problem.
39:48
You got Dominguez, who's mediocre at best and bad on
39:51
defense. You've got now you have Stanton,
39:53
who's going to need to play the outfields.
39:55
Well, I got and. You have Spencer Jones, who's
39:57
also an outfielder. I got to That's three guys.
39:59
You're not playing one spot. You're.
40:01
Not bringing Spencer Jones up I. Don't.
40:03
I don't think it also. So what do you do?
40:06
The question is, is it you move Dominguez and you bring Spencer
40:09
Jones up? No, there's a guy so that he can
40:11
play that spot. I think would be a perfect fit
40:13
for the Yankees, and that's Tyler Ward of the Angels.
40:15
I know he doesn't have a high batting average, but he has the
40:17
power. I've had him in fantasy forever.
40:20
I'm. Reading Motel.
40:22
I'm reading what Keith is saying.
40:23
He says the Yankees aren't bad and Williams is pitching well.
40:26
His ERA is 4.58. That's not great.
40:29
This guy career wise in the last four years had the bet, one of
40:33
the best, one of the top three, ER as as a closer in the league.
40:37
His ERA last year was what, 1.10 or something like that?
40:41
And right now for the Yankees is 4.58.
40:43
You think he's pitching well? Get out of here, Keith and Well
40:46
and Bellinger. Since the beginning, you know,
40:48
like he started at 11. If you're at 4 now, that means
40:51
you've been at like a one since. Then it doesn't, right?
40:54
It doesn't matter if if you're if this guy's going to get a lot
40:58
of money next year because that's what he's going to get.
41:00
He's going to be asking for about 1415 million as a closer.
41:05
You've got to put out those numbers.
41:06
And he hasn't this year. He's just he hasn't.
41:09
And as a Yankee fan, you're going to sit here and say this
41:12
team is good. Come on guys, the Yankees aren't
41:14
going to win this year. And at that, if the Yankees are
41:17
all about winning, right? Is that what they're all about?
41:20
It's all about going into a season knowing that you all have
41:22
a chance to win. The Yankees are not they're not
41:26
a winning or they're not a winning team this year.
41:28
And if I were the Yankees right now, I'd start moving chips.
41:32
You'll still have a winning record.
41:34
I I still think the Yankees have a winning record.
41:36
They're they're just not going, they're not going to be better
41:38
right now than any of the teams right now in the Central.
41:41
They're gritty teams, all the teams and I think 2 teams are
41:44
going to come out of the Central.
41:45
And if you look at even the, the, the West, the American
41:49
League West, I think there are two teams that are going to come
41:51
out of the American League West. And there are two teams that are
41:53
three teams that might come out of the American League East.
41:56
And I just think if I was, if I were the Yankees organization
41:59
right now, I'm trying to rebuild my farm system, which is ranked
42:03
right now 27th in baseball. That's scary right now.
42:07
If you look at where the Yankees are ranked in the second-half of
42:10
the season, they're ranked 27th in farm systems.
42:15
That's not good. And here we go with let's bet.
42:17
Let's bet. We're not going to bet anything.
42:19
The Yankees are going to make the playoffs and they're going
42:21
to lose. You want to bet on that, Keith?
42:24
You want to make a bet that the Yankees are not not going to
42:27
make it to the World Series this year.
42:29
They're not even going to get into the they're not even going
42:31
to get into the ALCS. They're not even going to get
42:34
into the ALCS. You want to bet?
42:35
I'll bet on that. What do you want to bet?
42:38
I'll definitely bet on that. The Yankees aren't good enough.
42:42
They're not. And there's other teams in the
42:43
American League that hasn't, can afford to make that kind of
42:45
bigger swings, too. If the Yankees aren't going to
42:47
trade Spencer Jones and maybe Houston goes for that big bat,
42:50
maybe Detroit, it definitely is a team that can go for the big
42:52
bat. I heard the Tigers are very
42:53
interested in Suarez, too. And then there's other teams in
42:55
the American League East to the Red Sox, the Rays, that could
42:57
definitely make moves. The Rays are selling a lot.
42:59
More the Rays could be selling. They're one of those kind of
43:02
weird fringe teams like Arrow was saying.
43:03
There's enough AL Central teams with good farm systems too that
43:06
can make something happen. And who could be the Tigers of
43:08
this year and make that big second-half run?
43:10
And, and again, I know a lot of Yankee fans are looking and, and
43:13
again, I'm looking at Cody Bellinger and what he's doing
43:17
right now with the Yankees, okay, and he's 282, nineteen
43:20
runs, 58 RBI and 59 runs, Okay. You're also playing in Yankee
43:25
Stadium. You're also playing in the short
43:26
porch. What is he going to do in a
43:28
playoff game? What is he going to do?
43:31
And I don't even know if the Yankees are making the playoffs
43:33
again. The Yankees have played terrible
43:35
baseball. And if they're not playing team
43:37
baseball and if they can't play defense, they can't play a lick
43:40
of defense. This might be the worst
43:42
defensive Yankee team I've seen in 10 years.
43:44
That's how bad this defense is. And you have guys like Aaron
43:48
Boone and you have guys like Jism and Bellinger coming out
43:51
and saying that we're a quality defensive team.
43:53
Where where's the quality? You have an old man playing at
43:56
first base. You have a guy at Wells, and I
43:59
like Austin Wells. I think he's a good player.
44:01
Austin Wells was, he was a much better defensive player last
44:04
year than he has been this year. And he's not putting up the
44:07
offensive numbers I thought he was going to put up this year.
44:09
I thought Austin Wells was going to hit closer to 30 home runs
44:12
this year. Is he going to get anywhere
44:13
close to that? Is he going to get anywhere
44:15
close to that? I mean, Yankees fans got to
44:18
stop. And I'm just speaking the truth
44:20
here. If you think the Yankees are a
44:22
World Series contender, you're on drugs.
44:25
You're on drugs, you're you're selling something that isn't
44:28
true. They're not.
44:30
They're not going to be World Series champions.
44:33
And that's why I think they should be sellers.
44:35
If you're not going to win, what are you playing for?
44:38
You're playing to make the playoffs.
44:40
Good, let's play to make the playoffs again.
44:42
How many times is that in a row for the Yankees winning?
44:45
Are you saying are you saying sellers of?
44:47
Like all of you. No, no, no, I'm saying or.
44:50
I'm trade. One or two guys trade away some
44:52
pieces and add to your farm system.
44:54
Your farm system sucks. You'll rank 27th in baseball.
44:58
What are we looking forward to? Spencer Jones?
45:02
I mean, Lombardo, what are we looking forward to?
45:05
That's the problem right now for the Yankees.
45:07
There's nothing. And you're going to sit here and
45:10
I, Keith, you're a Yankee fan and you know, baseball and, you
45:12
know, beds get better. Whatever.
45:14
You like the pitcher that got called up, Shitler?
45:16
I, I think, I think he's going to be good, but the Yankees are
45:19
probably going to have to trade him.
45:20
If they're they're going to add talent, they're going to add
45:23
talent, they're going to have to move something.
45:25
So and you're not going to try. I don't think the Yankees are
45:28
training Spencer Jones. I, I don't, I cannot see them
45:31
trade to me their best power prospect we've seen since Aaron
45:36
Judge. I can't see it.
45:38
I, I, and he does have great stuff, Keith, I admit it.
45:41
He he, the kid has great stuff, but he's a he's a chip that the
45:44
Yankees are going to have to move if they want to make the
45:46
play offs. Because the other options after
45:48
that if they don't want to trade Jones or either him or probably
45:50
Warren. It worries me if you're a Yankee
45:53
fan right now and you think for one second the Yankee like the
45:57
Mets, they have an abundance of talent in their farm system,
46:00
abundance. They could do whatever they want
46:03
if they want a piece. And you know, Stearns is not
46:05
going to move these pieces unless he knows he's getting
46:08
something special. He's just not going to say, hey,
46:10
I'm going to trade this guy. I'm going to trade Azuna, I'm
46:13
going to trade this guy. I'm going to trade that guy.
46:14
He's not going to do that. He's going to he's going to sit
46:18
and he's going to wait and he's going to see what's out there
46:20
before the trade deadline and see what's going to be offered
46:23
to him. Now the again, when you have
46:25
abundance of talent like that, the Mets could sit still and
46:28
wait until A-Team calls them and say, hey, we what do you want
46:32
for this guy? What?
46:34
What could you give me for this guy?
46:35
Right. I mean multiple players too from
46:37
the same team. Because see, the Mets have like
46:39
3 guys for each position, and two of them are young on every
46:43
single position. So the Yankees are sitting
46:46
there. What do they have to offer?
46:48
Nothing. There's Spencer Jones.
46:50
That's right. Coach Fish, let's go out and
46:53
trade away one of the best young talents we've had since Aaron
46:57
Judge. Let's do it, guys.
46:59
If we get Jose Ramirez, make the move.
47:01
If if they can get Jose Ramirez make the move, Cleveland's not
47:05
training. They're not training him.
47:07
They're not trading him. Not only that.
47:08
He's there for life. He took less money on a contract
47:11
because he loves it there. Huge bargain, I think.
47:13
And you know, and Houston has some talent.
47:15
Houston's never trading with the Yankees.
47:16
The Yankees, the Yankees reached out for them, for Kyle Tucker
47:19
and they were. They wanted top prospects to get
47:22
Kyle Tucker. Now, Kyle Tucker is a guy that
47:25
the Yankees are going to reach in the offseason.
47:27
We'll see if he becomes available.
47:29
If the Cubs gonna make sense, you see them.
47:30
Yes, 500 I, I, I do. But how bad the Yankees are in
47:34
their farm system? The Yankees farm system is so
47:36
very bad right now. They're going to have to spend.
47:39
If you say Tucker, I'm just going to play hypothetical.
47:41
Where do you play them? Left field.
47:43
Left field. And so 900 for a player that
47:46
good, it shouldn't matter. Left field because John Carlo
47:48
has one more year left and then they can move them for the extra
47:51
year that they have so and John Carlo probably allow the Yankees
47:55
to move him after next year so he's got two more years left so.
47:59
When do you move judge to 1st? I don't think he could play
48:03
first. It's like one of those.
48:04
I don't know if what it is but I feel like 6-7 he would just
48:08
feel. Like I think he'd be fine.
48:09
He's very. I think he would look weird.
48:10
I think he's very athletic. I played a lot, played with
48:12
Richie Sexton. He was taller, yeah.
48:14
Yeah, he was. Yeah, Richie Sexton, wasn't he
48:18
at third base when they moved to third first base?
48:20
Like when you kind. Of like he's probably the size
48:23
of what Aaron judges legs. I know.
48:24
That but I'm. Saying when you when you play
48:26
infield, you already kind of have, you know that mindset of
48:30
playing the infield. So move from one corner to
48:32
another. The only thing you just gotta
48:33
learn is your feet positioning and scooping.
48:36
You know what? You know what I hate?
48:37
And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna attack Keith here
48:40
again. He's 24.
48:41
He strikes out a lot. And that's what Fish says.
48:43
Guess what, you got to put him out there and you got to see
48:46
what you have. Who cares if he strikes?
48:48
When Aaron Judge got called up, he didn't strike out as much as
48:50
Spencer Jones, but he they said that he swings out a lot of
48:53
pitches and he strikes out a lot.
48:55
OK, so and Aaron Judge figured it out.
48:57
He changed his swing. They said Spencer Jones on the
49:00
offseason changed his swing and that's why he's hitting.
49:02
He's hitting a lot better this year than he was last year.
49:04
And he got moved up from in the beginning of the season.
49:07
I think he started at single A. He went in 10 days up to AA and
49:11
then within the half of the season he's up at AAA.
49:14
He went really from three, three spots and now he's at he has a
49:19
chance to make the Major League, Major League team.
49:22
He's no Aron, OK, whatever. I'm not saying he's Aron Judge,
49:27
but again, he's A5 tool player, which they expect him to be.
49:31
And you're going to see here, OK, Keith, what are you going to
49:34
do? You're going to train Spencer
49:35
Jones. Train him for what?
49:37
What are you going to get for Spencer Jones?
49:39
You think you're going to get a top top level talent for him?
49:42
What are they going to get? Well, straight up, one for one,
49:44
nothing but. They're going to get nothing.
49:47
Nothing one for. One, they're going to get
49:49
nothing and the Yankees are not going to sit there and just
49:52
straight away probably one of the best prospect power power
49:55
prospects that they've had since our and Judge I would.
49:59
Throw five guys and try to go after O'Neill Cruz.
50:02
I think that's just. And put him, put him in center
50:05
field, and there's your future center fielder.
50:07
That's interesting. I think I would take all 5
50:09
Shitler, Spencer Jones, Dominguez, Warren and someone
50:13
else for O'Neill Cruz. That's interesting because his
50:16
defensive center fielder, I mean, he hasn't.
50:17
Been great. Then you really don't have a
50:19
farm system. But about at least you have
50:21
young, you have so many young manning center field.
50:24
You know that is amazing. Once he learned to strike zone a
50:27
little bit better, the guy hits nukes.
50:30
Yeah, he does, Keith. And Keith says if he's so great,
50:32
why wouldn't they get anything? And here's here's the here's the
50:37
reason why. If he doesn't play in the major,
50:39
he's not up at the Major League level and they don't know if he
50:42
can hit in the Major League level, they're not going to give
50:44
away a top chip for him. So if the Yankees think they
50:48
have something, which I believe they do, bring them up and see
50:52
what you have in a week. If this kick gets hot in a week
50:55
and he hits two home runs or maybe gets a couple of double S
50:58
and, and maybe a home run, now you have something.
51:01
Well, this guy went up 3 levels and now he's up at the Major
51:04
League level and he's hitting against Major League bitching.
51:06
That's when you move them. That's when you can get yourself
51:10
a pretty good player. You can't just sit still and say
51:13
oh, he strikes out too much. I it's ridiculous.
51:16
Bring the kid up and see what you have with him.
51:18
That's, that's what I'm saying. If you don't have anything, you
51:21
don't have anything. Dominguez was great at AAA.
51:23
Look what he's doing in the Major League level.
51:25
Can't stay healthy? No, that's the problem with the
51:29
Yankees. There is no talent in their farm
51:33
system. Not enough of it.
51:35
Not enough of it because they're ranked 27th.
51:37
And they've also had a prospect development issue too, just in.
51:40
General Volpe. Volpe was a top five prospect
51:43
when he got called up. What has Volpe done since his
51:46
first season up in the Major League level and getting his
51:48
Gold Glove? Crap crap torpedo.
51:51
Take his torpedo back and shove it up his ass.
51:54
OK? The Yankees are selling chopped
51:57
meat. That's what it is.
51:59
It's bad meat and I'm choking on it and I'm so tired of listening
52:03
to goddamn Yankee fans trying to sell me.
52:05
Well, let's use Spencer Tone as a turn chip.
52:09
It's so ridiculous. I'm so tired of it.
52:13
If the Yankees were a smart organization, which I do believe
52:17
they are in some kind of way, well, trade away some of these
52:21
pieces and get some young talent in their farm system.
52:24
Build it up for next year. When you got Garrett Cole, Max
52:27
Freed, Rodon Louise Hill, then you have something.
52:32
Stop with this garbage, go in the offseason and put all your
52:35
marbles into Kyle Tucker. That's what I would do if I were
52:38
the Yankees. I know you shake your head, but
52:40
they don't have any farm system. They don't.
52:42
So they're going to have to spend if they expect to win.
52:46
That's the way it goes. That's the way it goes.
52:49
Keith, Keith, Before we move on, I wanted to ask Jabba, what is
52:52
your assessment of this Yankees team?
52:56
I mean, it's kind of up in the air, honestly.
52:58
I mean, there's a lot of ways they could go.
53:01
Will they go that way? I, I think you give him a shot.
53:05
I don't, I don't know the exact right answer on when you do it.
53:10
Do you do it before or after? See what you can get for him.
53:13
You know, throw him out like, you know, bait on a on a hook to
53:16
see if if anybody's doing it. But I mean, there's, there's a
53:19
lot of a lot of ways you could go.
53:21
Obviously they need added pitching depth and and another
53:24
swing and miss guy out of the pen and obviously another bat.
53:27
So it's time will tell. Is he gonna make a big move or
53:30
is it gonna be those Rosario McMahon moves where it's like,
53:33
hey, I did something so yeah, you can't say I didn't do
53:36
anything. Or is it gonna be a splash?
53:37
I don't think it'll be a splash, but hopefully he surprises.
53:41
Us Thank you to Mike for joining us.
53:42
I know he's been busy setting up for his it.
53:47
Well, it's kind of your daughter, right?
53:48
It's your niece, but my niece, you raised her.
53:52
So it's kind of like your daughter her 30th birthday.
53:55
So whiskey neat. So he's setting it up next
53:58
Friday. Next Friday.
53:59
So congratulations to, you know, Mike and his his niece or
54:03
whatever whatever he wants to consider She she is because my
54:06
niece. Yeah.
54:07
Well, no, you said you you raised her.
54:09
So it's kind of like your daughter, you know, I.
54:11
Like it, but technically. All right, she's your niece
54:14
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55:00
Anyways, thank you again. What do we have on on Wednesday?
55:04
Nothing yet on my end. I'm not sure if Nathan and
55:06
anyone yet but nothing yet on my end so still working on that.
55:08
And Mike, I'm anytime, man, anytime.
55:11
You want to come and join us. I mean your takes, the
55:15
lackluster of takes because we didn't talk much about the
55:17
Celtics. Mike, if you don't talk about
55:20
the Celtics, no, you don't talk about the Celtics, he's off.
55:24
And and by the way, he is not a giant fan, as much as she wants
55:28
you to believe that he's a giant fan.
55:29
He's a New England Patriot fan as he's turned over the years.
55:33
So he's a lying sack of crap. Just remember, just remember,
55:35
Drake made top five quarterbacks.
55:37
Ryer. Ryer.
55:38
Yeah, right. You're 1.
55:40
Three more years. Yeah, right.
55:41
Everything. Five years.
55:42
Good luck, good luck. Watch Watch how bad he.
55:45
Watch how big of a step he takes this.
55:47
Year. Oh yeah.
55:48
I can't wait. I can't wait to watch him fall
55:50
flat on his face. Anyways, that's it.
55:51
We'll be back Wednesday. Goodnight.
55:53
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