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OneLegUpAlex Sports Gets Terminello's Postmortem Take on The Yankees After ALDS recorded 10-9-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well we're back here on one leg up
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  Speaker 2: so thank you as always for helping me continue this
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  Speaker 1: Well, Alex, I've good to be with you and any
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  Speaker 1: contribution I can make, but it's your talent. You're the
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  Speaker 1: talented guy here. So but I'm glad that I contributed
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  Speaker 1: any any way I can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I know I was waiting to see what
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  Speaker 2: would happen this series. Look, and Yankee Beans are not
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  Speaker 2: gonna like me for saying this, and I'm not usually pessimistic,
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  Speaker 2: but the way the Jays and Yanks played in the
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  Speaker 2: regular season, I'm very low. As you know, expert tations
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  Speaker 2: burthers round and I would say this could have been avoided. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you get the bases loaded on the top of the
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  Speaker 2: fifth with nobody out in one run. That was really
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the end of the series and why
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  Speaker 2: it was only game one, well, because they had to
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  Speaker 2: convert when they had the chance against the Jay's team
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  Speaker 2: that has the offense that could carry them to the
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  Speaker 2: World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Alex, You're right, that was the the key inning, that
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  Speaker 1: was the turning point of the series, when the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: had it set up to get back into the U
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  Speaker 1: into Game one, and they did score a run to
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  Speaker 1: make it two to one, and then obviously the pitching
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  Speaker 1: collapsed and they got they got overrun. But that was
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  Speaker 1: the key at bat obviously, uh, with when Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to do something positive and he had
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  Speaker 1: and he had a very good postseason. He didn't have
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  Speaker 1: an iconic postseason or anything like that. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the first uh uh, the first two games, the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: got bombed. I mean, there's no other way to say it.
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  Speaker 1: And again, Alex, as we sit here the day after
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are eliminated again as a team, they didn't hit.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't hit in the postseason and Alex, they had
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  Speaker 1: five of the seven playoff games that they played at
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  Speaker 1: Yankees Stadium and they were only two and three at home.
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  Speaker 2: Also the judge records. Okay, he did this on the
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  Speaker 2: other first time thisince nineteen twenty eight. But you know
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  Speaker 2: the fact is they only played let me check here,
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  Speaker 2: three there and then for seven games. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: not like it's not like they went all the way
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  Speaker 2: and he had this ruthian postseason. It's just very weird
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  Speaker 2: to make that comparison for an Alds exit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as the Yankees. Has the Yankees now faced
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  Speaker 1: the offseason, Alex, there's a lot of questions. I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are always good. The Yankees have made the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs twenty six out last thirty one years. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: had a losing season in for twenty seven years.
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  Speaker 2: They started thirty three straight years with the non losing season.
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  Speaker 1: But right, it's thirty three straight years since nineteen I
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  Speaker 1: think nineteen ninety two was the last year, so it's
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  Speaker 1: thirty three. I was never I was never good at math.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's annoying because it just feels like another
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  Speaker 2: October down the tubes where they just do not win
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  Speaker 2: a ring. And when my dad was alive, he keep counting,
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  Speaker 2: doubt Well, it's another year since two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 2: it's ten years, it's eleven years. That was seventeen years
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  Speaker 2: going on without a ring. It's very frustrating. I know
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  Speaker 2: you're a Met fan and you probably like the chaos,
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  Speaker 2: but I just I think it's very sad because they
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  Speaker 2: have continually made the same mistakes. And lou you might agree,
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  Speaker 2: you might disagree. This is the first postseason I felt like,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a different animal Every year they say, well, the
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  Speaker 2: post is a different animal. Not for the Yankees. When
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  Speaker 2: you play a couple of days later in the wild card,
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  Speaker 2: when you could have had the division, when you blew
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  Speaker 2: nine games, Devin Williams, I have to riff your Louise.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's it's there are so many things that
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  Speaker 2: could have been avoided the season. Why did they keep
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  Speaker 2: going to Williams. That's their first mistake into why they
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  Speaker 2: didn't get the division and and now why they're out.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't get the right positioning because of that mistake alone.
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  Speaker 1: Louis, Well, everything you just said it's pretty accurate. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this the regular season and the postseason in the Yankees case,
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't two different things. There were, it was they weren't.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't two different animals. As he said, Uh, let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, we said it before. The Yankees sometimes have
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  Speaker 1: it and a lot of Don't get me wrong, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of teams have this problem. But it seems like
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees thrive against bad pitching and have trouble hitting
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  Speaker 1: good pitching. But Alex, I mean, the Yankees have questions.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with? Uh? With Anthony Volpi?
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  Speaker 1: Is he the shortstop in twenty twenty six after a
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  Speaker 1: horrific postseason. I'm I'm sure he's gonna need surgery on
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder. But what do they do? I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 1: that they're gonna go heavy after Dante Bichett. Uh Donte
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  Speaker 1: Baschett's son, Bobbashek, Who's gonna be a free agent. He's
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous player and he's gonna want a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: And that might be somebody the Yankees go after. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that that that's a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: I do, because here's the other thing about this season
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  Speaker 2: is they were, as I might have said to you
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  Speaker 2: off air, they were one bat away from doing something big.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think about this as well. La
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  Speaker 2: Caberra made an impact on that team. He gets hurt
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  Speaker 2: mid you know, in mayor around that time. Rest of
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  Speaker 2: the seasons out for him with that injury, but they
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  Speaker 2: never filled the void. I mean, I guess they tried to,
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  Speaker 2: but they never could fill that bat and that was
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  Speaker 2: pretty much a downfall. And then what's this one? Not
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  Speaker 2: playing just San Domingos at all? In the post that
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  Speaker 2: you I'm on the roster, he sitt there on the bench,
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  Speaker 2: you bring him up to let where was his bats?
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  Speaker 2: Like it just there were things that didn't make sense
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  Speaker 2: to me all postseason and especially this round, like where
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  Speaker 2: where was his bad they could have used him?
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  Speaker 1: No, that's well, obviously he's a liability in the field,
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  Speaker 1: and you know they had they were playing from left
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  Speaker 1: to right, Bellinger, Gristram and Judge and Bellinger is you know,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously twenty times the feel that the Mingas is
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  Speaker 1: and even he made another great play last night. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what the Yankees look like
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  Speaker 1: come this offseason. Bellinger is a free agent. Obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna opt out. If he doesn't opt out, he's his
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  Speaker 1: agent is giving him bad advice, because yeah, he was
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee second best player after Judge. I wouldn't you know.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a big Bellinger fan for years and I
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  Speaker 1: would love to see the Mets get a guy like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think there's a chance the Yankees will re
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  Speaker 1: sign Bellinger. There are other free agents, you know, the big,
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  Speaker 1: the big names. Dent Williams. I thought for sure they
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  Speaker 1: were not going to resign him. Now I would say
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  Speaker 1: might be fifty to fifty. He wasn't terrible, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the last six weeks, So I would say that's fifty
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  Speaker 1: to fifty. I would be very, very very careful if
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  Speaker 1: not only if it's the anser body who gives Trent
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  Speaker 1: Grisham a lot of years and a lot of money. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: fier beware. I don't I get more closer to the
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  Speaker 1: nine home run guy he was last year than the
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  Speaker 1: thirty four year old guy, thirty four year old, thirty
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  Speaker 1: four homber guy he was this year. I'd be very
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  Speaker 1: careful for anybody signing Trent Grisham. Is the Jones kids
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  Speaker 1: going to come up? Spencer Jones is gonna come up
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  Speaker 1: next year? I would I would assume that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a possibility where you play him. I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: Lombard is at shortstop. I know he had an up
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  Speaker 1: and down minor league season, so I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees UH look at him, But I haven't fit
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees didn't go head after Bobashet I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the guy. The guy's led the American League
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  Speaker 1: hits twice. He would have let again this year, but
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  Speaker 1: he got hurt, missed the last three and a half weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He averages like twenty four to twenty five home runs
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  Speaker 1: a year. The only downside he hurt his knee in
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  Speaker 1: September and he missed a lot of time last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I forget with what injury, So that's the only
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  Speaker 1: thing you might want to look at. But he's in
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  Speaker 1: a physical prime of his life, his athletic life, twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven years old. So I think that's a possibility for
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees in in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: You may vallid pointier about the free agent market because
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  Speaker 2: they didn't They didn't really do much. Yeah, Bellinger was big,
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  Speaker 2: but they didn't do much last year in the free
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  Speaker 2: agent market that had I'm gonna keep saying talker hands.
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  Speaker 2: That was a big not getting him. I thought they
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  Speaker 2: could have used him, uh this season as well. But
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  Speaker 2: they didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: Strengthen their pitching staff by by signing a Max Freed
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  Speaker 1: and with the with the Garrett Cole injury. Can you
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  Speaker 1: Max he didn't have Max Freed this year? Yeah? I know,
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he got blasted on Sunday. But obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's a he's.
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  Speaker 2: A he was a ninety game winner. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: a cy Young contender.
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  Speaker 1: But there he's got a lot of cy Young votes.
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  Speaker 2: He also overcame a blister injury which did set him
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  Speaker 2: back a little bit. And uh, and we'll have to see.
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  Speaker 1: The next year is gonna be very good again? That
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  Speaker 1: is gonna got you know in June. I guess uh,
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  Speaker 1: in June he's gonna have Max Freed. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: no fan of Carlos Rodin, but he's there again. He
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  Speaker 1: let them down in a big spot, you know, Cam
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  Speaker 1: Schlitler has. You know, I was really impressed with him
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  Speaker 1: last night, more so than I was against the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: First, when he keeps flat in the park, that was
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  Speaker 2: a big deal to He didn't have his.
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  Speaker 1: Best stuff and he was able to pitch effectively without
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  Speaker 1: his best stuff, so that that impressed me. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: in rotation Uh. So the Yankees starting pitching is going
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  Speaker 1: to be good. It's these holes in the back. What
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  Speaker 1: do you do with jazz? With with jazz Chisholm, he
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  Speaker 1: has one elect on his deal. Do they trade him
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  Speaker 1: or put them out there for trade?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh, that's gonna be interesting. This is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a very interesting off off season for uh,
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees. But again this is the I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees struck out sixty six times in seven games
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  Speaker 1: and Toronto was only second in the league in fewer
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts for their for the batters, uh, in this series
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  Speaker 1: against the Yankees, in the four games they got eighteen hits,
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  Speaker 1: Toronto did with two strikes on them. So it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was not it was not. It's you know, you
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  Speaker 1: could talk about high Volaia home runs. Strikeouts don't mean nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Strikeouts uh uh and ground outs are the same. No,
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  Speaker 1: you don't. You want to put the ball in play
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  Speaker 1: because you never know what's gonna happen. Look what happened
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  Speaker 1: last night. That was a tough play for chishm last
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  Speaker 1: night on that that hard hit ground ball. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's an error. Yes, I agree, that was scored an error,
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  Speaker 1: but they gave they gave a jazz and eerror on
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  Speaker 1: that play. But during last week on that pop up,
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  Speaker 1: they gave Judge a hit. But that's the I just
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  Speaker 1: don't get that one. But whatever, But the Yankees will
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  Speaker 1: always be good. Uh, you know was the primary difference maker.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh and Ernie Clement. I mean that's a
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  Speaker 1: guy who's you know, he's a hell of a player, and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh he is.
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  Speaker 1: Go all the way.
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  Speaker 2: He's the most Eddicadian name of that that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, I gotta I gotta say this. How about
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  Speaker 2: Alejandra Kirk What a what a series he had as well?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that guy has been solid for Toronto. The
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  Speaker 2: only thing I thought about going into this lowligue was, well,
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  Speaker 2: how did the Jays end up slipping to the point
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  Speaker 2: of coming down to that final day against the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they did not have a great second half either,
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  Speaker 2: so I did think while they were overmatched, I thought
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  Speaker 2: about it a little bit more so.
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  Speaker 1: Well so again, second half, Alex, I don't mean, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to interrupted you. They had a great
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  Speaker 1: second half. They didn't have a great second half of
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  Speaker 1: the month of September. You know, they they went one
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  Speaker 1: and six and the Yankees won seven in a row,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where the Yankees tied them. But fortunately they
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  Speaker 1: were one in eight against the Jays in Toronto this year,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what cost the Yankees a chance to have
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  Speaker 1: the buye so again Toronto. I the Bassett injury is
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  Speaker 1: gonna hurt them in the next round if he can't pitch,
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  Speaker 1: and he hasn't pitched since like September twentieth. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how they got away pitching eight pitchers last night.
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  Speaker 1: None of them pitched for more than five outs. When
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  Speaker 1: you get eight pitchers all to pitch effectively. And remember
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees had two hits until the eighth inning. That
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  Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen too often for the Jays, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. I think they rather played Detroit. I am
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  Speaker 1: shock Detroit came back from that three nothing deficit because
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  Speaker 1: they can hit, and then they explode for nine runs.
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  Speaker 1: And they got the best pitcher in baseball going for
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  Speaker 1: them tomorrow night, and Tarik's troubol. I don't like the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers team. I thought that Seattle would finish them off
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and now the pressure all of it. Alex is on.
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  Speaker 1: This is on the Seattle Mariners tomorrow night. They have
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  Speaker 1: my gun.
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  Speaker 2: They could have put them away into kright, and they
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  Speaker 2: just could not. And you know I I are they
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  Speaker 2: sorry wo tomorrow. I don't even know where they're really
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  Speaker 2: starting tomorrow, but.
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  Speaker 1: Not a George Kirby.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's that's just my move. But I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen staff is uh is the main reason why
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  Speaker 2: Seattle got to where they're at as well, So it's'll
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  Speaker 2: be a bit of a duel. I think I think
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  Speaker 2: if you're your Toronto, if you're Seattle, if you move on,
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  Speaker 2: I think you have bigger, bigger things in your horizon.
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  Speaker 2: I really do think they can beat Toronto. I might
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  Speaker 2: be wrong with that, but I just I think they
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  Speaker 2: can contain, uh, contain the Blue Jays. But then again,
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays bats look caught right now. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: have to say, hey, Lou, I gotta ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side of this, on the n L side,
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  Speaker 2: I would love and I know you're not a Philly fan,
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  Speaker 2: but because what happened to the Dodgers. With the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: last year, I would love for them to come back
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  Speaker 2: win tonight and then not come out in Philly on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know if it's gonna happen. But the
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  Speaker 2: the NL lopside in this, I guess more with the Brewers,
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  Speaker 2: Cubs surprised me a little bit. More like I did
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  Speaker 2: not expect the Cubs to go down O two, maybe
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  Speaker 2: split in Milwaukee, but they just the Brewers are continuing
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  Speaker 2: their hots streak as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are two evenly matched teams, the Cubs and
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers. As Alex, Now, this is why last week
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  Speaker 1: made we made predictions, and we usually don't make prediction
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  Speaker 1: on the show. So I said the Yankees were gonna
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  Speaker 1: win four, they lost them four. And uh, I thought
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs would would would would beat the Brewers. They
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  Speaker 1: could be over tonight. So that's why we don't make
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  Speaker 1: for addictions on Terminello's take very often. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs can bounce back and go to to tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I would be surprised if the Phillies do. And the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies have the second best team after the Dodgers in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion. But uh, and you said, I have no
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  Speaker 1: love for the Phillies yet, but I don't care about
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers either, I really, really, uh you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if the Dodgers win or not. I was
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  Speaker 1: surprised that that that the Dodgers got pummeled at home
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  Speaker 1: last night, and uh so it will be interesting. Both
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  Speaker 1: of these games are going to be interesting tonight, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So I definitely want to do a bigger deep dive
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  Speaker 2: on the series and do a deeper dive for the
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  Speaker 2: free agents for the Yankees, because I'll tell you, last
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  Speaker 2: time I said any advice, which was just on me
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  Speaker 2: is leading off. They listened in the one five games
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  Speaker 2: in a row, So maybe I could channel that energy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this story, but one
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  Speaker 2: of the five days of the year many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: George Simonds sent me home with a list of free
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  Speaker 2: agents to look at and told me to get back
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  Speaker 2: to them on it. So maybe I'm feeling that energy again.
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  Speaker 2: And that's gonna be my twenty fifth full season involved
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  Speaker 2: with the Yankees, which I can't believe how time's flying.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe twenty five seasons we'll get into a ring.
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  Speaker 2: I would love that to mark that anniversary with the ring.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Well, we'll see, we'll see what happens. Obviously, I
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  Speaker 1: hope another New York team wins the ring first, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll worry about that later.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, let me let me tell you this
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  Speaker 2: about the series. One more thing is and as you
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  Speaker 2: can tell, I haven't talk about this on my show,
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  Speaker 2: so I need to get all this out there. Two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and seven Alds feels exactly like it did. Now, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so Yangs go down two, come back, win that one game,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: then the next night it's over, and or do they
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: lose in five? It was. It was a rough series
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: against Cleveland and seven and then they fired Tori. Now
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think Boone. I don't know what's kind of
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: with Boone, but I just get that feeling of the
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: two thousand and seven Alds all over again, like there's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: got to be some changes coming after the series.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think, yeah, they'll be changes. They're
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be changes to the roster. They like I said,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: they might bring up some of these guys if they
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: think they're ready for the major leagues, like Jones, like Lombard.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, Aaron Boone said postgame, and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I was watching post game that it's been a very
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: tough year for him personally. Now, I don't know what
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: that means. Not professional he said personally, Maybe he meant professionally.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you know, some guys will just get burned
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: out and he might just say, hey, you know, I want
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: time to move on. You know, we see that a lot.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But I assume he'll be back. The Yankees like him.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: He is loved by Cashman. I don't think he did
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: anything wrong in this series Strategy Eyes, except in the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: last series, I would have kept Freed in the game
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: when he when he pulled them. But I really can't
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: see what he did wrong in this.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's more than I think we're all expecting the manager
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: to rally the troops. I mean, you can't let them
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: get down eleven. It just they looked lifeless, and that
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: was the real issue for me, and I think for
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of fans that were watching this is how
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: lifeless on the weekend they looked coming back to New
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: York after, you know, and then having to come back
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to New York down too.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It was just correct. Now apparently there's no dissension in
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the club efforts. They all they all like each and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that's always good. I do not think if Aaron Boone's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: not the manager in twenty twenty six. I think it's
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: his call, not that not that the Yankees is going
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to fire him.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Now. My other theory was they could pull a Mets
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and fire everybody else around him. Could that happen or no?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I mean could they.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: They're not going to do with Mets did where the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Mets fired basically five or six coaches. But they can
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: make a couple of changes. Sure.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, it'll be interesting to watch how this offseason goes.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: And as you say, if they go out and get
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that bat, now they have the arms secured, you gotta
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: get that bat. And a friend of my ass well,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: what do they do with Suspencer Jones? And I said, look,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: they have used rumors, say they use them as trade
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: bait in the in the in the at the deadline.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, who is saying they're not going to try
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that again in the offseason.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Then I'll then I'll say this buyer, beware, when the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Yankees trade of prospect, that means he's not a prospect.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: How many guys have the Yankees trade who they who
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: over the years that would deemed prospects have not panned
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: out when they got traded to other teams, so you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: gotta be careful about that. So, uh so we'll we'll
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: see what happens in well in what should be a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: very very hot offseason for both the Mets and the Yankees,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: because the Mets are gonna make a lot of a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: lot of trades.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: But Alonso switch jerseys here, are they gonna just resign them?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: And what's your thought on that?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's fifty to fifty, I really do. I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: think if he's resigned it's going to be because of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen and not not not Stearns. And uh, of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: course I want him back. I mean, he was second
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in the major leagues and RBIs he was like sixth
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: in slugging, you know. I mean, he's an asset to
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the Mets and he's a homegrown Met. The fans love him.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: But you know, yes, Steve Boris as his agent, and yes,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I know Borros was Boris.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Steve.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Boris a former major leaguer in the sixty Scott Borrows.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you of Scott boruh you know, with Soto's agent.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: So obviously the Mets have a relationship with Scott Borrows,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: who thinks he runs major league baseball and maybe he does.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And uh uh so, so he definitely thinks he has
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: them by the you know what, most of mostly every
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: deal he makes.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So yes, he does. He thinks, I mean, he thinks
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he's more powerful than uh than the commissioner, and you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: know what, maybe in some instances he is. And that's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the scary thing.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I don't see. Uh, I don't see man for going
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: out there signing guys for seven hundred million dollars.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, yeah, he controls, he controls uh uh
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: uh baseball. He has a firm grip on a lot
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: of things what's going on in in major League baseball.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So so we'll we'll see what happens. It's gonna be
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a very interesting uh winter season
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: for the Mets and the Yankees. We'll see. I would
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: love to see the Mets try to get schemes. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: would love the Mets to try to get to reach screwball.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I know, uh, he only has one year left on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: his deal. The if he goes to free agency, the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Tigers are not gonna sign him. So we know that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that's not good for major League Baseball. But that's a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: whole nother story that we've been talking about for years
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: about the lop side in this of who can afford whom,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: because if you, if you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Let you, if you let these guys go out of
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: their markets, it sort of deflates the whole local, you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: glory of baseball in their town. You know what I mean,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: it just it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: But again, until they do something about it, you might
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: as well take advantage of back then the the Yankees
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: or the Dodgers or the Phillies doing it. So again,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: do I like it? No? I don't like it. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: wish they would. I wish they would level a playing
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: field more.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: But oh, and they're saying how a bad a cap
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: would be. Actually a cap would not be a bad
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: thing considering what we've seen the Dodgers do where they
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: now have to pay some guys on installment planes. I mean,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: come on, this is that's not Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: You're you're right, I mean they're what they are finagling, uh,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the system.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And by the way, can I just say this, everybody
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: around Johan Tony's facing jail time and no one thinks
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: that I don't understand this.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It just don't understand it either. But you know, he's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the boy, So I'm not saying that that he's done something.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It's just you're right. It seems everybody around him but
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: him is getting in trouble.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: So it's very odd. But you know he'll go on
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and having Ruthian years as always. So that's that's what
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: it is, all right. If the Giants could go to
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and four in a seventeen game eighteen weeks slate, two
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and four is still feasible. You go one in five,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: that's a problem, but two and four there's still a
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: chance of something. Even the seventh seed at this boy.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Louis okay. They the Eagles have had a tough schedule
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: so far, and but they've been they been inconsistent. I mean,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Barkley well over two thousand yards this last year is
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: on pace for nine hundred and eight. Something looks wrong
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: with the Eagles, even though they're four and one. You know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: they blew a fourteen point ly in the fourth quarter
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to the to the Denver Broncos on on Sunday. This
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: is a very tough spot for the New York Giants.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: It really is. They don't have any offensive skilled players
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: that could I think hurt the Eagles defense. I don't
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: see it can they win you. Anything can happen in
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the NFL. We know that anything can happen in any
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: one game. The one thing about Neighbors being injured, not
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: only because he's a great player, but developing chemistry with
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart this year, that's not gonna happen. Slayton's not
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: gonna play tonight. They get Tracy back at running back.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: They they didn't rush the passer at all three days
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: ago against New Orleans, which was just the head scratcher.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And they turned the ball on their last five over
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: on their last five possession.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Was the most disastrous half and actually end of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: first half I've seen in a football game. I mean,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you have a lead that all of a sudden, the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Saints kick a field goal will take the lead, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: they just cannot recover from them. Then you cough it up. Look,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Dart has to know when to slide. I know he's
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: a rookie, but you can't fumble that ball. You just cannot.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Now, Hey, he's the one thing I like about him.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: He's aggressive, and he's confident and that and that will.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: As he can run. The kid can run. I've seen
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I've seen it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: He's a terrific athlete and the players around him picked
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that up. Do I think the Giants have a chance tonight?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Like I said, football, anything can happen, especially in the NFL.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't. I wouldn't depend on I wouldn't count
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: on it tonight. It's a tough spot for the Giants tonight.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Let's leave it at that.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: It's always a tough spot. I mean, they just yeah,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: they also find ways to lose. I'll put it that way.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It's at that point where I feel like they're getting
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: it's they're just training ways to lose. Also, I also
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm running out of octobers, like we need
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the win some stuff here. I don't.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: It's just getting it's getting laid out here early.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: It certainly is, that's for sure. And you know the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Jets are rowing five and they're going nowhere, and the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Giants might be one in five.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: If let's just say, I'm getting too old for this ship, Louis, Okay.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What do you think I am? I'm ancient.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I mean that is when I was eight years old,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and I'm starting to feel older. That's not get along
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: here so well?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Now? Not good? My friend one thing. I want to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: comment on something that to me is a head scratcher.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Mike Sullivan and the Rangers lost their opening night against
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the Banquets.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we could talk about that. I mean, that's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: only game one of a long season. Yeah, the Rangers
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: will be fine. I mean I think they'll be Okay.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I have no we gotta give We gotta give Mike
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Sullivan more on one game. But I want to talk
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: about something that, like I said, as a head scratcher
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to me. Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon was fined
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars by the Arizona Cardinals for basically
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: disciplining Amari de Mercado. If you saw the play, he
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: was way out in front of the Tennessee Titan defense,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: got behind the Tennessee Titan defense, and when he got
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to the goal line, he dropped the ball. Just dropped
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the ball. He wasn't concentrating and cost it single handedly
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: costs the Cardinals victory. It would put him up twenty
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: eight to six if they the conversion in the fourth
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: quarter and the Tennessee Titans weren't coming back.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Titans, by the way, by the way, Titans were winless
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: going into this if I'm not mistaken, right.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: And they got a couple of the Titans got a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: couple of crazy bounces go their way. They hit a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: field goal on the last play the game, and they
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: lose twenty two to twenty one. Gannon went after de Mercado,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: got into his face, slapped him on his chest, slapped
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: him on his shoulder pad and everybody, a lot of
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: people are upping arms over it. I mean, I don't
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: get it. The Arizona my opinion, finding him one hundred
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars and having apologized to the team that undermines
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the coach. I don't think that the Arizona Cardinal roster
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: now can could take their coach seriously. And it's not
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon's. It's the Arizona Cardinals management of fault. Have
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we gotten so soft? I mean, Alex I went to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a game in nineteen ninety two. Notre Dame was number one,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Michigan was number two. A Notre Dame lineman and happened
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: right in front of me. Notre Dame lineman did something wrong.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I forgot what it was. Kind to the sideline. Lou
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Holtz all one hundred and sixty pounds of them, grabs
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: this two hundred and seventy five pound lineman by the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: face mask, shaken them aggressively.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I've I've seen that highlights somewhere over the years.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, so and this is the NFL, this is your job.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: And he had to apologize to his team and one
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars comes out of his pocket. And de Mercado,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: who had a good career at TCU, was undrafted. Cardinals
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: gave him a chance. And I feel sorry that the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: kids screwed up, But that's on the kid. I would
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: be ticked off myself. You know, there's only seventeen chances
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: to win games in the NFL. You can't give him away.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: And the mccardo is the reason, the main reason why
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals gave it away a game on Sunday.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Actually it was, it was it was actually normal to
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: see a coach react like that. I mean it was, uh,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: it was. It was disgusting. It was disgusting to drop
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: it on the goal, you know, the goal end like that.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: But see it's the gentle parenting that all these coaches
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: are expected to do now. And I mean you look
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: at it. Who was it a few years ago? Oh
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't it? Joe Judge? Oh, why are you running your
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: guys so hard? Are you freaking serious? Why are you
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: running it?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: And look at look at the Yankees. The reason why
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: they had to get Aaron Boone in there was because
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Joe Girardi was appairently too tough on his teeth, like,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Just it was. It really is head scratching. It's mind boggling, Alex.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So that's my two cents on that and the other
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: news of the week, which obviously didn't get a lot
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of play, especially south of the border. Conor McDavid signed
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: a two year extent at twelve point five million dollars
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: a year, which is low through twenty seven to twenty eight.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Obviously a couple things here. He took the extension because
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he wants to give the oil Is enough cap room
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to add to the team so they can try to
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: finally win the Stanley Cup. But the two year extension
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: through twenty seven to twenty eight indicates to me that
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: he's going to be the first twenty million dollar player
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: in the league because the cap is going to go
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: up significantly over next two three years. So he's either
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: going to sign a seven year deal with the Edmonton
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: at the end of the twenty seven to twenty eight
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: season when he's thirty one years old so he'll still
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: be in his prime, or I don't. I don't think
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. He's gonna go elsewhere. But I
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: think the reason he signed a two year deal too
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: prong keep cap room so we can improve the team now.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And you know, I'll well, I'll sign you know, we'll
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: sign that seven year, twenty twenty one million dollar deal
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: in you know, when this twenty seven to twenty eight
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: season contract is over. So that's all I got. That's
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: all I got for you right now, Alex.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I know it like you should come to me to
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: America and it would have been turn of GRETX. Yes,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: but you know what, he loves Edmonton and I think
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: he wants to win. And by the way, what if
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: we happen to say for a third time, Hey, he's
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: gotten to the Stanley Cup. This could be his thirty
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: year in a row. I'll have to see if that happens.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: But you know, that extension was weighing on people's minds
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: even before the season ended last year. So it's it is.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: It makes sense for him to resign with the Edmond Teilers.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: It just wouldn't feel right if he went else elsewhere.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: You know, it would not.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Dry side Leon dry stylis teammate, his great superstar teammate
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: is making fourteen million dollars a year. So I mean,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: so I'm sure they I'm sure this negotiation with the Oilers.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I would be shocked that he doesn't if he doesn't
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: sign that twenty million dollar, twenty one million dollar deal
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: when the cap goes up in a couple of years
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and his contract runs out at the end of twenty
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: seven to twenty eight.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: So there are no early impressions about the NHL right now.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: We're literally fresh start. But everybody's making a big deal
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: about the first lost of the year for the Rangers,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: and I just say, let's calm down. But I do
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: want to remind people, now you go from a World
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Series chase to a Cup chase, not just one. You've
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: got two cup chases at the Garden, the NBA Cup
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: that you know they have mid season, and then you
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: got I forget what they actually call it, and they
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: got the Stanley Cup and the Larry O'Brian, So now
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you had two cup chase to look after at the Garden.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: The Rangers, though with Mike Sullivan, should be in good hands.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't freak out over one loss the first night
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: of the season. I just I would not.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Everybody is overreacting, that's for sure.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Entrepreneur, you know, entrepreneur in and Miller is not a
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: good way to start the year, that's true.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And I know that he's he's going to play in Buffalo,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: so that's a good thing that he's not uh injured
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: where he's not gonna you know, he's not going to
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: uh play. I'm looking forward to seeing how the Island
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: is going to handle Matthew Matthew Schaeffer. I mean, how
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: they if they can limit their minutes and see how
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: they're going to use them. Obviously he's gonna be on
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the third pairing and he's he's going to start with
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Scott Mayfield, which it's good. He's a veteran and uh,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I just hope these other teams don't run the kid
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and and try to rough them up. So so he
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: would be interesting look at and the Devil's obviously this
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: is the Devil's year to take the big leap as
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: we've talked about, and we'll get more into the hockey
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to three individual teams the league in general, as you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: as we go go forward. But obviously tonight was we
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: want to recap the Yankee playoff situation and uh, and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that's all I got for you, buddy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I know there's not much to unpack until the World
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Series downe then all free agency stuff and all that,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and of course the MVP debate's going to heat up
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: because everybody's on this coast thinking Aaron Judgers and the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yankee dumb. I still say cal Rally's gonna get the MVP.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it. You gotta give it to
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: cal I mean it, just he's the no brainer here
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: with that. And I'm rooting for him because actually I
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: got to talk talk to him last year the Mob Store,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm ever since I met him. He just had
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: this record year, so I'm hoping he uh he might
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: bring a ring in the Seattle. That would be kind
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: of interesting if that happened. So if you're asking me
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: who I'm rooting for now, I'm definitely rooting for the Mariners,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: just because it seems like it could be their time.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: So we'll have to see.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: It could be their time. You got you got that right, ther.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: One last piece of history this year this week was
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: October eighth, nineteen fifty six.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Remember it well, I was only three years old, but
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I know what happened that day. Unless you're gonna tell
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: me something else happened that day.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, the perfect game, and I of course, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: of course I've talked to Bob Wolf about it, because
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: he called the perfect game. He did Beryl leaping in
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the arms of Larsen, and the rest is history. I mean,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I think that's why Yankee fans today are so sad,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: because they have this rich history and yet look at
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: what they're doing. It just it doesn't make sense. How
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: then years later that, my dear.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Friend, you're sounding like a jaded Yankee fan. The Yankees
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: had a great season. The Yankees are always in the playoffs.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can ask the other twenty nine major
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: league teams and they would all say, yeah, we'll switch
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: with you. I mean, no Yankee fan. Yeah, you're to
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: be disappointed. I get it. I understand you want to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: winever the post.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: He's expected to go this way, although beating Boston was
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: a very big bonus to me.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: But Boston, and they should have beaten Boston. This was
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: not a big Boston team. I mean, that lineup was
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: full of holes. They should if they didn't be Boston,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe Boone would have gone fired. But yeah, yeah, no,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you should be happy they won ninety four games. They
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: beat all the crummy teams. I wish the Mets had
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: beaten some of those crummy teams that they didn't. The
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Mets swept the Phillies. The Mets beat the Dodgers far
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: out of seven, but they lose those two home games
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: to the Nationals. They had won those two games, they
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: would have been in the playoffs, not that they were
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: going to do anything. So you should be a Ante fan. Yes,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you should be disappointed that they've had another playoff bump
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: in the road, but overall you should be You should
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: be happy they have the best players.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: More, I'm more still bummed out that the regular season
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: was not what it should have been. That's kind of
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: where my my thing is because I could see the
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: postseason against the Jays coming from a mile away. Because
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: the Jays just they have the bats, they have the
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: they have the offense. I don't know if they have
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the arms per se, right, but they have they have
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: the offense that can make up for everything. So and
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you got to get.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: The chase a lot of the credit. They last year
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: they finished fifth, they were last.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: And one more thing because people, not people, but some
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: might have reacted. I wish in that first game with
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the bases loaded for Vlad or that second game, I
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: guess you walcomem you know what he did the night before.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: You intentionally walk them every time up after that because
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: that Grand Slam was evident and if they don't, it's
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: eight to six or eight five or whatever. And and
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: the Aks have a chance, but they they pitched them,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and they decided to pitch them, and I think that
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: was a mistake all series long.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Well, look what Schneider did last night. He walked Judge
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: with nobody on base.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: That was that was why, I mean nobody on base.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: The greatness of Aaron Judge and Aaron. And he changes
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the opponent's game plan. That's the ultimate sign of greatness.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Changes how you how you plan uh to play against
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the Yankees.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: So I can't pin it on him that they lost. Serious,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I can't even pin it on Remember I was saying
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Jazz is double play botch was No, this series was
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: was long.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: They had two hits the after seventy and things last night.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Was long behind that before that double play botch up.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I actually think Jazz is a good player for the Yankees.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I really think he he has his energy. He yet
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: same to it with BOLTI when he's good, when he
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: is healthy, he's a good energy for this team. It's
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: just he's not been healthy. And again we've talked about it.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Rizzio last year with a concussion. They didn't tell us
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: our twenty twenty three. They didn't tell us. Then it
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: tells about Volpi till September. It's very odd to me,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: but I knew he was bothering because were at that
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: game where he made the awkward dive. Would you probably
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: saw lou and that changed the whole season for him.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: And the guy still drove him on seventy five runs.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: What the nineteen twenty home runs and the kid's only
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: twenty three years old. But again, if the Yankees have
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: a chance to sign Bolbaschett and this I haven't heard
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: this anyway, This is just me. That's an upgrade Bulbachett's
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: an upgrade from Volpi.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: One last thing on this whole thing. He keep Ben Rice.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I really like the kid. I don't think you should
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: trade him. I think you gotta keep him as your
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: everyday player. I like his I like the way he
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: hits the homers. I like the way he's just in
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: that lineup and can mesh well his little hiccups was that?
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I think it was. He was a little nervous this postseason.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I have to say, I think it was a little
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: maybe a little nervous or something. I don't know, but
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I mean he's.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: The left hand hitting, power hitter playing the antie stadium.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I keep them people.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: You can't. You can't trade everybody, and I don't see
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: why they would have to trade a trade rise on
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: that again, unless somebody throws them a deal they can't refuse.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I want to do a little news here because we've
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: seen the hostage crisis back in seventy two and the
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: way you talked about it before. I want you to
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: just give us this historical context since we saw a
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: different circument. We saw it in Munich and you you
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: were really impacted by that. So take us down history
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: that this is not the first time we've had a
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: hostage crisis here, and of course the deal is very interesting.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: But give us some historical perspective, because this has been
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: a problem for many, many decades. And you told it
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: perfectly the last time I asked you about it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Well, the Summer Olympics in nineteen seventy were later than
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Summer Olympics. It wasn't in July like I think the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: twenty eighth Summer Olympics is going to be. I think
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I to mean July. This was in September. And obviously
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the terrorist group Black September, I believe they were called
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Rush the Israeli compound on at the Olympic Village. It's
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: almost hard to believe now that security was that lax.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Now of course that that was, you know, fifty five
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: years ago, fifty six years ago, and they were able
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: to get in to the Israeli complex at the Olympic Village,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: held them for twenty four hours and some died. Of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the one of them died immediately, was shot immediately, if
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I remember correctly. And they wanted obviously a prisoner exchange,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: and they wanted a plane out of out of Munich.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: And long story short. At about three o'clock in the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: warning New York time, they the German authorities, rushed the plane.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: There was they were shooting. The entire Israeli Olympic team was.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't a large number of of players on
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: their team. They were. They were all there were as
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: as a great. Jim McKay, who took over that night
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: becoming a newsman not a sportscaster, famously said they were
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: all gone. And they did get the terrorists. But it
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: was a sad day for sports, sad day for the world.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: The I think the Olympics were only postponed for one day.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: There was some calls to postpone the Olympics for good,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: to cantal the rest the Olympics, but Avery Brundage, the
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: president of the Olympic Committee, who wasn't the best guy
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: in the world, decided to keep the games going. Uh
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: he was. He had been involved with the Olympics for
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: many many years. He wasn't uh he was. He was
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: probably anti Semitic, and he continued with the games. Two
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: days later, Mark Spitz, the the American Jewish great swimmer,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: had finished winning his his competition. They quickly got him
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: out of Germany and got him back to the United States.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I do remember that, but it was said, I mean
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: it's it, you know, politics missing mixing with sports, and
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you know with this this hostage crisis hopefully ending this
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: week and they're going to release the remaining hostages out alive.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Just Alex again, just think, just think these poor people
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: they have been they have been in captivity for two
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: years in those tunnels. They were eating their breadth as
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: to when they were uh well, when they were captured
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: that two years ago on October seventh. It's mind boggling. It.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I just don't know how, well, how people could be
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: so evil. It's that's that's my two cents on it.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: It's just and it seems like it seems like you
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: can go back fifty years, evil is around. They'll always
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: be evil around, but it seems more evil.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Than ever it's and and that's why sports escapes us
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: from that evil. I remember twenty four years ago how
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: much that World Series meant to New York, even if
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: the Anks loss it. My god, it helped us escape
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: from the horrors and the and sort of built us
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: back up a little bit from a month earlier. And
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: we need that momentarycoverment. We haven't had that bounce back
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: feeling of like unity as in October seventh. We need that,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: we really, we really do correct. So that's why we
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: talk about sports. You get people's mind off of it
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: because we we could talk about what's on our television
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: screens all day long er, we could just delve into,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: you know, the lighter side. And yeah, the angs losing
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: is tough as ever, but then again, uh, it is
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: a lighter side compared to the everything else going on
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: in the world. In fact, it's a minor inconvenience compared
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: to what everything else going on in the world.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: And think about it, it's a minory convenience. You yeah,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: But we we care about it. That's why we talked
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: sports on this show as well.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's why we we talked sports. And I love
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: talking about it. And you know, as I told you many,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I knew early in my early teens that I wasn't
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: going to be an athlete, so I had to get
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in the business somehow, So I'm glad. I have no regrets.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: So that's why I love talking about it, and I
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: love that I was in it for all those years.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: So uh, you know, like you said, it gives us
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: our escape from from reality and from the stress of
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the world. That's for sure.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Yes it does, all right, Well, we can only hope
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: that tonight the Giants are going to distress us a
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: bit by winning, and the Rangers are on right now
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: as we speak, So let's go focus on that and
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to you next week. Blue on Terminillo's take.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex,