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Set 2: No Changes at the Top (w/Joba Chamberlain) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't think anything could make Mikey A smile today
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: because his Yankees were eliminated last night. But the sight
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: of Jabba Chamberlain has made Mikey A smile. I had
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: to go to the pen, Jabba. I needed a relief
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: pitcher because Taylor and Mikey A are unhinged.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: They're out of control. They want to fire everyone.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Jabba Chamberlain joins us, legendary New York Yankee and an
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  Speaker 1: old friend of mine and the show. And he won't
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: stop giving me shit about how bad I am at
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: getting back to him.
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  Speaker 2: Love you, Jabba.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Anyway, talk these guys off the ledge, if you wouldn't mind,
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: because they want to fire Cashman and Boone and they're
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: pissed off at the Yankees, Jabba.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a ledge that nobody's jumped
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  Speaker 3: off of or has walked the plank per se, but Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I honestly, like, I don't know the right answer. It's
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: obviously with all that's going on and the lockout looming,
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: you kind of wonder if they're really going to make
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: a decision. A lot of stuff this morning that we
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: read is that they're, you know, they're going to renew
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: their contracts and so on and so forth. Michael Kay
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  Speaker 3: spoke yesterday on his show talking about, you know, Cash has,
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: you know, been to the playoffs. You have a chance
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  Speaker 3: to go to the playoffs every year and this, that,
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  Speaker 3: and everything. But to be the longest tenured GM in
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  Speaker 3: all of, all of sports, all major sports, and to
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  Speaker 3: not have won since 09. It's interesting to me and
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: listening to guys, obviously, that have been around the game
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: and understanding, like, is it a philosophy thing, as A-Rod
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: pointed out yesterday? Is it a personnel thing? Is it
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: the urgency to win? Is it complacency and satisfaction of
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: just getting there? I mean, four years in a row,
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: you've gotten beat on your home field. Watching other people
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  Speaker 3: celebrate on your home turf, that's a kick in the,
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: you know, where, um, and it hurts twice, especially getting
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: swept at home. And, you know, obviously there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be so many things you can look at. Like obviously
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: game two was an absolute, three errors and four hitters.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I would literally have ever seen
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  Speaker 3: that before. Um, not even in little league and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just, there's so many fingers that you could point, right.
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  Speaker 3: But really where's the right one to point. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's literally, there's been no change in the front office
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  Speaker 3: for anything for 20 years.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Since I played, everybody's in the same spot.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Have they gone to the playoffs? Yeah. A hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: As judge said last night, it's like, we're the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: We don't expect to get here or expect to win.
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: So where, where does that change? Do you fire everybody
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  Speaker 3: or do you figure out where you need to get better?
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, the philosophy of, Hey, let's put the ball
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  Speaker 3: in play and make people pay. it's what the Rays
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  Speaker 3: have done and why they've been the best team in
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  Speaker 3: the AL East all year. And, you know, with names,
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  Speaker 3: if you took the names off the Jersey, 95% of
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  Speaker 3: baseball people wouldn't know who the hell half the Rays
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  Speaker 3: are or 90% of them.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Or most of the Yankees. I mean, Right.
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  Speaker 3: Right. And I mean, you see what they tried to do,
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  Speaker 3: switch it up, do this, that, and another thing. And
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  Speaker 3: it's sometimes too little, too late, but I, I, Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I wish there was a right answer. Do you fire
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  Speaker 3: the guys up top? Do you understand that getting there
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  Speaker 3: is one thing, but you want to win? And especially
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  Speaker 3: being in New York, being magnified by what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, realistically, you're losing judges prime years, right?
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  Speaker 3: And everybody's going to be like, oh, you should have played,
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: you should have played. But we saw that's the same
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: injury all these ACLs in basketball have been. And so
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: now you go put a 34-year-old judge out there, he
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: blows an Achilles, you're going to miss a whole nother year.
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  Speaker 3: So you're damned if you do damned, if you don't,
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  Speaker 3: if you bring them back, you lose with them. And
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  Speaker 3: obviously they lost, but then he's trying to go first
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  Speaker 3: to third on a ball in the gap and he
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  Speaker 3: blows an Achilles and you leave them for the year.
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  Speaker 3: Now who's fault's that?
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  Speaker 5: Where are you?
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  Speaker 3: Whose finger are you pointing at that? So there's so
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  Speaker 3: many ways to look at it, but really when it
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  Speaker 3: comes down to it, the Rays were a better team
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  Speaker 3: and the Rays beat them. That's the long and short
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  Speaker 3: of it. As much as the excuses, you look at
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  Speaker 3: the guys that they ran out there. Obviously Rasmussen has
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  Speaker 3: been one of the best pitchers in baseball and Baker
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  Speaker 3: at the back end and, 90% of the guys in between,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't know who the hell they were.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Right. But we don't play this game on paper. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the exact reason.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Or else the Yankees would have won. We also don't
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  Speaker 1: have enough fingers to point them at enough people. Go ahead, Taylor.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling Taylor... I mean, we don't. You
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  Speaker 1: guys want to fire everyone. You only have 10 fingers.
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  Speaker 6: One person.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's just one person. I want to fire one person.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Jabba, let me get out.
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  Speaker 6: You're not counting toes, though?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get out of the way. Taylor cares about
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  Speaker 1: this team more than anything, okay? He wants Cashman gone,
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  Speaker 1: I believe. So if he has a finger to point,
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a Cashman.
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  Speaker 2: But Taylor, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Jabba, growing up, you were in my Mount Rushmore of
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: favorite Yankees growing up. It was probably you, Derek Jeter,
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  Speaker 4: Hideki Matsui, Melky Cabrera. So for me, this is like
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  Speaker 4: seeing your favorite cousin at a funeral where I wish
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  Speaker 4: we were here meeting under better conditions. My biggest problem
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  Speaker 4: with this Yankee team, Cashman and Boone specifically, they think
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  Speaker 4: they are so much smarter than the fans where every
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: time we're listening to them talk, there's such hubris coming
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  Speaker 4: from them. And it's like, Oh, we've got an ace
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  Speaker 4: up our sleeve. Here's our ace up the sleeve. It's
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: Trent Grisham batting lead off. And it's like every, every
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: fan could have told you from the start, like he
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  Speaker 4: goes over five. No fan is shocked by that.
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  Speaker 3: No. I mean, if you look at it too, like
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  Speaker 3: they look at the analytics, right? Look at his career numbers. Like,
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: if you're going to go based upon that, like you're
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: going to get what you're going to get. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like this dude has been in the big leagues for two,
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  Speaker 3: three years. Like there's, there's some at bats under the belt.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: There's situations where if you want to look at the numbers,
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: look at them, that you're going to get what you're
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: going to get. Did he bet on himself? Did they
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: give him the qualifying offer? Yes. And, but what, what
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  Speaker 3: did that entail? Like it didn't really entail anything in
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  Speaker 3: what they were going to get out of switching the
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: lineup up. Right. Like, Really, what did that do? And,
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: you know, it was just to change things up. And
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: if you want to be analytical, then be analytical. Then
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  Speaker 3: why the hell is he hitting leadoff? If you're looking
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: at the numbers and you're looking at league averages compared
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  Speaker 3: to what he's doing and, you know, just the series overall,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and you can point that finger too. But
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, in the first two games,
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  Speaker 3: when you have as many errors as you do hits,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to win any game. I don't give
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  Speaker 3: a shit what you talk about. Like, that's just really
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  Speaker 3: the case. And obviously they showed a little fight and
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  Speaker 3: a little gumption in game three with, you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: down and then fighting back and doing all that. But
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: like you said, there's, you got 10 fingers. What do
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  Speaker 3: you point at? If you want to do this, then
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  Speaker 3: what are you going to do? Like you have to
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: combat something. It's like when Booney, like I want Caviera
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  Speaker 3: off the bench because he can do so many things
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  Speaker 3: here and there. Then it's like, Oh, do we start
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: Volpe at third? Yeah. That's a perfect time to put
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  Speaker 3: him at third in a playoff game. And he's never played.
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  Speaker 7: Like it's, unbelievable, like to thinking that that one thing
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  Speaker 7: is going to make a huge impact in what the
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  Speaker 7: game is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Did, were you expecting maybe a hit or some, some
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  Speaker 3: good at bats, but I mean, realistically, they weren't even
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  Speaker 3: good at bats.
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  Speaker 8: Jabba Stugatz wants to put a fair share of the
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  Speaker 8: blame on Max Freed. And I look at this series
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  Speaker 8: and I go, they couldn't hit, they couldn't string together
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  Speaker 8: any hits. Their defense was terrible. So I, All the
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  Speaker 8: pitchers were going out there thinking, I need to not
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  Speaker 8: be good. I need to be perfect. Can you talk
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  Speaker 8: about what that pressure is like when you know I
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  Speaker 8: can't miss even a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Jabba, just to be clear, I wasn't asking him to
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  Speaker 2: be perfect. Just be good. How's that sound? You know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, good is relative, though. I mean, especially
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: with the playoffs when it's all hands on deck, no
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  Speaker 3: matter what it is. But I think. it sucks because
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  Speaker 3: you kind of put yourself behind the eight ball because
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  Speaker 3: it's like, okay, I feel like I have to be perfect,
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  Speaker 3: but at the same time, I still have to execute
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  Speaker 3: my game plan and pitch to my abilities and not
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  Speaker 3: try and do too much where sometimes you get in
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  Speaker 3: your own way. And it just sucks because when you
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: have that feeling of your defense, obviously not playing great,
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  Speaker 3: not getting timely hits, not doing the little things. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there was a couple of times where you saw You know,
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  Speaker 3: we scored the first run. You got a guy over
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  Speaker 3: a quality at bat that doesn't go in the scorebook.
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  Speaker 3: You get a guy from second over to third with
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: less than two outs. You score a run. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's just kind of the way the baseball goes. But
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: as a pitcher, it's like when you get down 1-0
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  Speaker 3: and it feels like it's 10-0, that sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because you just know it's like, okay, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get beat. Garrett in game one, right? It's a changeup.
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  Speaker 3: One pitch. Did Rasmussen pitch great? Did Cole pitch good
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  Speaker 3: enough to win? Yes. Yes. I mean, but when you
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: get no hit and then, you know, you try to
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: stretch a double into a triple when you ain't breaking
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: no speed records, Austin, I love you. You had a
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: great second half and you know, you had a decent
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: post season, but come on, man, you kill dirt sometimes
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: when you run, like let's, let's keep it at runners
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  Speaker 3: in scoring position. You just broke up a no hitter.
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: Let's not in an unwritten rule. You don't make the
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  Speaker 3: third out at third. Like we, I teach my kids
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: at like 10, 12 years old, like, Hey, these are
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: unwritten rules in the game of baseball, but, So there
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: was just a lot of physical errors, which sometimes I
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: can accept. But mental errors, it's tough to handle when
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: you're looking at guys in this realm of professional baseball
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: at the highest and the best that they are. And
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: in doing things, you're like, why are you making that throw?
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: You know the hitter. You have a card of where
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: you're positioned. You have everything that you need to succeed,
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: and then you still make these 10-year old bonehead plays
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: where it just sucks because then as a pitcher now
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: it's like okay i gotta pick them up and then
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: you try and do too much and then sometimes you
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: just can't get out of your own way because you
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: want to blow up you want to go in and
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: be like hey pull your head out let's go like
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: we're better than this but also you still want them
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: behind you and not wanting to kick you in the teeth.
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: Job but there seems like there's a just a huge
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: lack of accountability when it comes to this Yankee team
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: and then when you don't have the accountability I think
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: there's more things for the fans to get frustrated with
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: like The beards, for example, like the fact that we're
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: even complaining about the fact that Yankees have beards just
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: kind of shows how far removed we are from Yankee baseball.
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: My biggest problem, I don't know if you've seen this,
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: on this season of Survivor, Mike Pinsky, the assistant director
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: of baseball operations, he's on this season of Survivor, and
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: he left the Yankees in May because he said it
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: was his lifelong dream to be on Survivor.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: George Steinbrenner would have never allowed somebody in the front
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: office to leave mid-season to film Survivor, right?
• 10:59
  Speaker 6: His job is agreeing.
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I got the boss late, but it's
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: still like he was around and his presence was felt.
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: Like you knew, like if you got a look, you
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: knew there was something going on or he would show
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  Speaker 3: up in spring training or whatever. I'll never forget. My
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: dad had came to spring training and of course my
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: dad always wanted to go see George and come up
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: and that was you know george obviously getting to the
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: end and he's still fiery as ever and they were
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: like hey do you know this is and he goes
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: what the hell are you talking about that's java's dad
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: now keep it moving let's go we got a game
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: and i was like whoa all right and it's you
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: know you hear these stories all the time and and
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: that's just who he was and it's it's crazy you
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: if this situation was going on and i i only
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: got to know george for a little bit of time
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: but you know, hearing the stories and, and all of the, Hey,
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: you're fired. And they just show up the next day
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: because George would forget and he'd have something else going on.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: And some people just kept showing up for years on
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: years and yeah, they're still there. But it's interesting that
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: you haven't heard anything from how, and George would, I mean,
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: Derek was talking about in an interview where it's like,
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: he would come in, look you up and down and
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: just walk away. You knew there was going to be something.
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: Or he'd come in and he'd talk to you, but
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: he held you accountable, whether good or bad, it didn't matter.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: And it's just that I'm not saying that all owners
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: are that way, but you would feel like there would
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: be some type of statement. And if I recall, I
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: don't think he made one last year either right away.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if it's just, hey, we got here.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: This is kind of our standard now. And this is
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: how we're going to play it. Or if it's just like, hey,
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm supposed to say, what can
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: I say type of deal. I think the accountability, obviously,
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day is the players, but
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: it's also to put the best product in the best
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: situation that you can on the field. And that accountability
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: comes to the front office and the stats guys and
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: all the other stuff. But when you get to the postseason,
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: it's on feel. It's letting your coaches, your manager understand like, hey,
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: you know what? He's got to come out now. He's
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: at the end. I don't care if it's four and
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: a third, six and a third, or hey, this dude
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: has a good matchup. I understand starting Grisham yesterday because
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: he was six or eight off Nick Martinez, right? So
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: you're playing the numbers game, but don't hit him lead off.
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  Speaker 3: You got other opportunities. I mean, obviously Lombard has came
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: in and done some things. He had some errors, but
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: I think of all, he had some of the best at-bats,
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: didn't get the result of a Ben Rice and Austin
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: and those guys, but he had really good at-bats. And
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: throw him at leadoff. I mean, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: lose anything. Put Grisham down and switch it up and
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  Speaker 3: maybe spark some things. But yeah, it's just the accountability
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  Speaker 3: factor is you still have to go out and execute
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: and win, but it starts at the top and then
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: it's just a domino effect of understanding.
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  Speaker 1: We're all playing the results. I've been doing it for
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  Speaker 1: 20 years. I understand that.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're 6 of 8 off a particular pitcher,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: shouldn't you bat him leadoff? I mean, and you're trying
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: to generate runs?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes and no. You're looking at just one
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: small sample size. Look at his sample size as a
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: leadoff hitter. And let's take the two. He has more
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: at-bats as a leadoff hitter than against Nick Martinez. I'm
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: going to take the one with the bigger sample size.
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  Speaker 5: Fair.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: Jabba, when it comes to- Hey, no, you can.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Say I'm right. That's okay.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Well, no, fair is saying you're right. That's what I did. Fair.
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Hey, you know what?
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: I'll, I'll, I'll take an inch. I'm not trying to
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: take a mile.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. I thought I made a good point
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: and I thought you made a better counterpoint. And I said, fair.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: And then I got, you know, I was trying to
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: keep it moving. That's all. I mean, you were right, Jabba.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, I gotta, I gotta get this in. I
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: can't cause I might be, I might not have any,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: this might be all great.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: Jabba, I forget if it was Jeter or A-Rod in
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: the post game, in the post game post show.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: The post-game show, Taylor.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: The post-game show. They were talking about the.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Volatility that comes with the lineup where every day you're
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: showing up to the stadium and you don't really have
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: a good feel of who's playing where, what position, where
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: you're going to be batting in the lineup. Do you
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: think there's any truth to that where it's tough for
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: these players to get into a routine when you have
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: so much unpredictability?
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they touched on it there too. And
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: then Curtis Granderson and J-Roll touched on it as well.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: And physically, we can get ready at any time. Physically,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: we know what our body needs, especially at this time
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: of the year. But mentally is the hardest thing. Because
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: if I'm coming in, I'm like, okay, do I do
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: this to prepare to come off the bench? Or am
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: I doing this to prepare to start? Because those are
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: two different things. And Booney came out and even said
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: he didn't tell Jazz he wasn't playing. Does that mean
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: he told Volpe as a younger kid? to mentally prepare, like, Hey,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be starting at second. This is going
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: to go on. I think it's very important. I was
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: fortunate enough to play with managers that definitely did it
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: the night before always, or most of the time that
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: we were able to, you know, conversate with guys and
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: be like, well, I'm, you know, I'm down. I played
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: or as, as pitchers, it'd be like, Hey, you've pitched
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: four out of six, you know, you're down tomorrow. So
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you can still prepare physically, but mentally I can kind
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: of just shut down because it's a long season. And then,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: especially when you get to the playoffs, you know, you're just,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: you're grinding. And I think it's, it's really important from
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the communication factor of mentally being prepared on how I
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: get prepared to be the best version of myself at
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: that point. And if you don't give me that and
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I'm showing up to the yard, like, well, I'm going
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: to have lunch and then I'm going to show up
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: and let's just walk in and see if I'm in
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: the lineup. I think that's tough. Because we know what
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: we need to do to physically get ready, but let
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: me mentally prepare because at this point, I need to
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: know because every out counts, every, am I two steps
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: shaded to the right? Am I playing more up the
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: middle against this guy? Let me go look at some film.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Let me go look at this stuff where essentially if
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you're just throwing in and you're like, okay, you're in
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: group one because you're starting today. And you're like, well, okay, well,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: let me scratch my head a little bit, see if
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I can get some extra work in to prepare for
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: this mentally to be in the best position I can
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: be to help this team win.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Jabba, we've seen baseball move more towards the three-outcome style
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: of baseball, and nobody has leaned more heavily into that
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: than the Yankees. And if you look back to your
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: 2009 World Series team, Eight of the nine starters in
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: that lineup batted over 270. The Yankees don't have a
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: player on their roster batting 270. Is this baseball moving away,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: or is this the Yankees kind of just digging their
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: heels in? Like, could you find eight players in a
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: lineup that could bat 270 in baseball today?
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, you only had eight total that hit over 300,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: so grab all those guys. But of those guys, look
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: at them. How many guys are talking about launch angles?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Chandler Simpson didn't hit a homer all year and hit
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: over 300. So you're looking, Luis Uraz, he's going to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: hit 300, but he ain't going to hit you 40 homers.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And that's all that's launch angle. It's all this other stuff. Like,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, you bring up a great point. Everybody's like, oh,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: they want to see home runs, launch angles. Is that
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: winning games? Is that really what winning games? I mean,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: you obviously seen the Dodgers. They scored for the first
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: time yesterday without hitting a home run. And that's crazy.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And it, and it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't work,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: but I think the analytic part, I think there's a
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: space for it in some capacity, but then also baseball
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: is baseball. Like it's been baseball for a hundred years plus.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And you have guys that love to hit for average.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: That's what they are. Is it sexy? Now you can
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: make a butt ton of money hitting 200 striking out
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: 200 times and and hit 40 to 50 homers, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: you're going to get paid. The odds of Chandler Simpson
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: getting a $ 100 million deal aren't great because they don't
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: see launch angle. They see him putting the ball in play,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: hitting 300. Yes, he stole a bunch of bases. Did
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: he get thrown out a lot? Yes, but he's forcing
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: an issue. You have to be perfect to get him out.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Put the balls in play. What happened? Game two, errors
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: because they forced him to put it in play. You know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: going on contact with the runner on third, Lombard tries
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to field before he gets it, boom, error, scores a run.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: You know, there's just certain things that part of baseball
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: still needs to have that, where 270 back in the day,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, you had an okay year. 270 now,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: everybody's like, damn, he can hit. And that's just, that's
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: the way the game has changed.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Melky Cabrera would be Joe DiMaggio in this lineup, huh?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, 100%.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: He's hitting leadoff for us.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: All right, we have a game for you. It's called
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: One Table, and I'll get to it in just a second,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: all right? But you are a big Nebraska fan, and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Nebraska plays Indiana this weekend, and I am wondering, do
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you think there is a job of thing that Nebraska
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is going to pull off the upset here?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And I can't believe I'm saying this.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: We are living in a world where I'm asking you,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: will Nebraska upset Indiana in college football?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Well, now, okay, the conversation, too, before I answer the question,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: is Indiana a football school or a basketball school?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: We've been asking everyone. You tell us.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I still like the movie Hoosiers.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think it's a basketball school forever. I don't
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: care how many national championships they win playing football.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I feel you. I wish I'm hopeful. I mean, obviously,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: our schedule has been very, conducive to us winning games.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Michigan State was our toughest battle, and they're doggy doo-doo.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: But I opened up at 9 1⁄2. It's at 7
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: 1⁄2 now, so obviously people are laying some money on Nebraska.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: It's at home. It's an 11 o'clock game. We've had
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: a couple good upsets at 11 o'clock games. I think
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: it's going to be tough. I think we cover, but
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think we win.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Let's get to our game here, One Table. I'll explain
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it to you afterwards. It's not that hard.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Give me the imaging.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: There's one table left at the hottest spot in town,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: and everybody wants it. Who's getting it, and who's getting
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: left outside? Greatness gets seated. Everyone else waits. This is
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: One Table.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: All right, so it's New York City. It's Jabba's Steakhouse.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: We did this with Sheffield yesterday. Jabba Steakhouse. There is
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: one table, and there is one seat at that table,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and two people are walking in at the same time.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Who is Jabba giving the table to? The seat to? Taylor,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: take it away.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: So, Jabba, the first one, Robinson Cano walks in. Nick
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Swisher walks in. Who gets the table?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Robinson Cano. Wow. Didn't even think about it. Wow. You know. Yes.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: That was easy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: That was an easy one. All right, Mikey A., go ahead.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Jorge Posada walks in.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Mariano Rivera walks in. Georgie.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Really? He's a catcher. I get it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Sandman.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Wait, explain. Oh, you're a catcher. Yes.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he used to pee on his hands. He's
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: a gamer.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: What? Oh, yeah, he did. All right, Taylor.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: And he is one person you do not want to
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: piss off. I can tell you that right now.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: That's the second person to say that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, why? Like, explain, please.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: I saw him leave a golf ball-sized knot on Jesse
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Carlson's head when he pissed him off. I thought he
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: was going to– literally, we cleared benches. I come off,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and he is– I mean, he's laying hammered down. And
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I'm like– I'm screaming, and then all of a sudden,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: somebody just lifts my big ass off, and I'm like,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: who is behind me? And it was CeCe, so I
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: was like, all right, I'm out the way.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Taylor, I mean, listen, no one has played the game
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: better than you. Everyone has to think about it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: They're torn. They're stressed.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: They don't want the other person to be upset with them.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: You don't care.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Java doesn't give a bleep. Go ahead, Taylor.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: CeCe Sabathia walks in.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: You don't even have to ask.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: What do you mean? Derek Jeter walks in.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: That's CeCe.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: What? Wow.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: You're kicking the captain to the curb?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, and Rivera. I mean, it's.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: That one's probably the toughest one. I mean, but it's just,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, see Derek, Derek was great to me, um,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: for reasons that I can't talk about, um, on air
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: off air. It's a great story, but, um, yeah, no, see,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: it was just, we didn't even play together. And one
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: of our clubhouse guys, Skip, he was like, you would
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: love this kid and whatever. So I met CC like
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: my rookie year and He was just always generous and great.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: And not to say Derek wasn't because he was too.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: But it's just it was it was different. I did.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I did get yelled at by Derek because I didn't
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: invite him to my birthday party one time. But I
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: was like, you're not going to come out anyways. He goes,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I'm on the DL so I can come out now.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And I was like.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: My bad, I'm sorry.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Just bring the rye carrot with you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: It was at my bar and restaurant. I was like,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I guess I am an asshole.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Sorry, my bad. You pissed off the captain.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: How about Jalen? I got one for him. CeCe Sabathia,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know Jalen.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, it's your business. You own the restaurant.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Who do you want sitting in that restaurant? Jalen Brunson
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: or CeCe?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Right now or?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Right this second.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: CeCe would give it up for Jalen, though, right?
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I would Jalen for sure.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Your hesitation means Jalen Brunson. We get it. We understand.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I'm actually trying to get my guy from Nebraska basketball
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: with Jalen Brunson's agent.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: You need help with that?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: You don't help me with nothing anyway.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I couldn't help on that front anyway. You left it there.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to do with it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can help me getting on your show, but
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I know that's few and far between.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have you on more often. You keep
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: telling stories. I just want Posada stories. You come on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: whenever the hell you want, and that Jeter story publicly.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Sato still denies that he flipped me off one time
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: when I shook him off, and he flipped me off.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: You guys have another for him? I got one more.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: All right, go ahead.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: David Ortiz walks in.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Brian Cashman walks in.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. Wow, wow, wow.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Am I inviting them to dinner or peeing on them?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: You got to give one of them the table. Listen,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: they're both sitting around. Yeah, Big Papi. Wow. Cashman's not
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: getting a seat.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Literally, it was my dad's favorite player.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Over his own son.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Could Cashman walk in? Is there anyone in which you
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: would choose?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Can we present you with any scenario in which the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: answer is Cashman?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: We're booked.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: There's no tables available.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: So, Jabba, this next one is not in New York.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: This Jabba restaurant is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Eric Crouch walks in.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Tommy Frazier walks in.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Wow. Who gets the table. Wow, wow.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Crouch. Wow.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Over a two-time national champion.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: What if I just did?
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I did an event with Crouch. He's a great dude.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And he brought the Heisman.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: The Heisman has its own carrying case. It's sweet.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yes. Now Mike Rozier walks in.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Mike Rozier, literally, we were staying at the Marriott Maquis
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: in Times Square, Carter and I, and I met him
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: and Johnny Rogers billions of times. And we're walking in,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: and Mike Rozier, you've got to know Mike Rozier. He's
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: in a faux mink coat, hat, everything. He is himself.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: And so I'm signing autographs or whatever. He comes up
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: to me and goes, who are you? And I go, sir,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I've met you a bunch of times. My dad works
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: at the stadium. He's the fat guy in the scooter
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: in the West Stadium. And I was like, I've met
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: you plenty of times. I went to Nebraska, blah, blah, blah.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And he goes, do you want my autograph? And I
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: was like, no, I'm good.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: That is fantastic.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I love that you just go with a guy that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you like the most. That means the most to you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: You don't care about it. You're not a star bleeper. Jabba,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: we love you, buddy. We have to run. I apologize.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: We will, I promise you, do this more often, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I will call you, I promise you, but it won't
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: be for another week.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I have a weekend coming up.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: If it happens in a week, I'll do somersaults naked.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: If Nebraska wins, I'll call you every day for the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: rest of the time. How's that sound? You know what?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be mad at that. I'd probably tell you
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: to shut up and don't call me anymore.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: We love you, buddy. You look great. It's great seeing you,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: and thank you for doing this, man. You got it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Take care, guys.