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Is Aaron Boone to blame for the Yankees woes? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I believe the Mets are going to give him a significant They're
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going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A game where?
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You got to go. Before I told you giant feet
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Saquon Barkley, at this Let's do it.
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worldwidesportsradio.com. After the Yankees were swept by
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the Blue Jays and fell to 3rd in the American League, ace Aaron
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Boone still called the Yankees the best team in the league even
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after losing 2 games to the Mets and losing their 6th game in a
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row. Boone added that these are the
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moments that build character and a good baseball team.
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Jazz, Chisholm or Jism, whatever you want to call them, also
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called the the best team in the league and they just have to
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block out the noise. Gary Sheffield Junior called out
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Aaron Boone and said he has held the Yankees back for the last
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four years. Michael Kay also took shots at
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the Blue Jays, saying they don't have the looks of a first place
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team sports net. Blue Jays host Jamie Gamble took
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shots at Michael Kay and said that Michael Kay's claim was
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only based on the Yankees. Yankees run differential.
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Kay called Campbell a fanboy and said he would never be like that
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with the Yankees. The Blue Jays are three games
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ahead of the Yankees despite the Blue Jays only having a + 12 run
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differential and the Yankees having a + 95 run differential.
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Well, Michael Kay is at it again, ladies and gentlemen.
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He is at it again and he's attacking Jamie Campbell.
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Now. I don't know who Jamie Campbell
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is, but he's attacking them now. I know who Michael Kay is.
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I know him personally and we all know he's a fraud when it comes
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to the New York Yankees. He likes to say that he's not a
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fanboy, the Yankees. But when when it comes down to
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the Yankees and speaking about the Yankees, he knows best,
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ladies and gentlemen, he knows more than everybody else.
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The problem right now with the New York Yankees is pretty
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simple. They depend too much on Aaron
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Judge. That bat is the only bat that is
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alive now. They say Jazz Chasm.
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Fine, he's hot. He came back.
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He's playing very well. Let's see if he's consistent.
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Aaron Judge has been the only consistent one now for anybody
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to take shots. And I know I I don't know Gary
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Sheffield Junior. I don't know him personally.
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I know his father. His father was a great player, I
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think should be in the Hall of Fame.
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Did he do steroids? Yes.
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So did everybody else. Who cares?
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The fact is he was a great player.
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The fact is Aaron Boone is not to be the blame of the way the
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Yankees are not hitting the ball.
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He's not. I know everybody wants to throw
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him under the bus and say he's held the Yankees back.
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How the Yankees played in the first World Series in how many
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years, 14 years last year and you're going to sit there and
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you're going to bitch and moan that Aaron Boone's hold the held
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the Yankees back. Here's the problem with the New
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York Yankees, and it's pretty simple, Simple.
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And I everyone wants to blame Brian Cashman.
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Brian Cashman as AGM, It's he's been a winning GM since he's
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gone there. The Yankees are on a streak
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right now. I don't know exactly.
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It's 35 or 36 years of winning baseball.
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Now, winning the World Series is probably the hardest thing to do
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in professional sports. It is the hardest thing.
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I believe in professional sports even harder than winning a
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Stanley Cup, which everybody sits there and says is the
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hardest thing. 33 years, last one was in 1990. 233 years the
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Yankees have been dominant and a dominant factor as an
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organization. Now, have they won World Series
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since they haven't. They haven't won a World Series
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since 2009. It's been over 15 years.
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We all know that the Yankees are in a drought, but Brian Cashman
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has been successful enough to say that 33 seasons and now he
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wasn't the GM for all those seasons, but I would say 27 of
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them were Brian Cashman. And and to say that Brian
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Cashman doesn't know what he's doing.
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I know Jabba don't like him and that's fine.
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He he heard Jabba's career, he heard a lot of people's career,
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but he has also been a winning play, a winning pursuit of the
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Yankees culture. The Yankees are an organization
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that believes in winning, winning, winning.
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Now winning would also tell you World Series.
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But again, it's not as easy as it seems when you have what do
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they call that now with the the money thing where they they're
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talking about, no, not the deferred money.
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It's not has nothing to do with the deferred money, the salary
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cap capping luxury tax. And ever since the luxury tax
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came into the league, what was that 20 years ago?
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It's been different for the Yankees now George Steinburn in
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the 90s had his way on who he wanted to bring, what veteran he
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wanted to bring in and how it fit with the Yankees culture.
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And they had a they had a core of players.
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They had Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams and Mariano Rivera and
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Andy Pettitte and and Jorge Posada.
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They had players that they built a core of talent.
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The Yankees over the years, the only core of talent they've had
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is Aaron Judge. And it's been a unique thought
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of where the Yankees go when it comes to the trade deadline or
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even in the offseason on how they're going to maneuver
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salaries and and bring in a player of Max Freed or Awan Soto
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signing into a six hundred, $700 million contract.
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It's not as easy as it seems when it comes to a cap and
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understanding how the luxury tax works, how much money the
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Yankees are going to owe to the league if they go after a
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playoff that magnitude. And the Yankees are still a top
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three, top four team right now in baseball when it comes to
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salaries. So I know everybody wants to
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point their finger at Aaron Boone.
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Now, is Aaron Boone a great manager?
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What is a great manager? Seriously, what is a great
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manager? It's it's not easy to win
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championships. Maybe there's one guy that I
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could say is just that dominant of a manager and he's right now
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managing over there in Texas. And you know what I'm talking
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about Speedy. He's the only one that I can
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honestly say. Well, he's an absolute slam dunk
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of a manager because everywhere he's gone he's taking his team
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to a World Series, at least three teams to a World Series.
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He's won multiple championships, so it says a lot.
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And he's won four championships, 2 and 3, three championships,
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one team and and 1 championship with another.
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And that was his first year as a manager with the Texas Rangers.
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He's the only one that I would say is a slam dunk over the
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years. Everybody wants to, you know,
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you know, brag about Joe Torry, how great of a matter he was.
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Meanwhile, he wasn't even the number one prospect.
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He wasn't even the number one slam dunk manager that George
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Steinbrenner wanted to hire. He didn't want to Joe Torry.
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He was the last guy on the totem pole.
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That's the facts, guys. Go look at it.
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Go look at the story behind it. Joe Torry was successful because
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George Steinbrenner and the organization and Watson and
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Brian Brian Cashman over the years built a farm system, built
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a core of players that changed the organization.
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Now again, I I'll go back to Aaron Boone.
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Aaron Boone has not been a successful manager when it comes
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to winning. When you look at set records
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honestly in the how long has he been a manager for the year?
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2018 so that would be. He's now in Year 8.
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Eight years. You compare Aaron Boone Boone's
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record to any of any manager in baseball history in an 8 year
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stint. How many?
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How many guys have a better record than Aaron Boone in an 8
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year stint? I would probably predict maybe
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55 at most. And I don't know off the head, I
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don't know what is the winning 584 right now.
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So he's got his winning. So give me the over the years of
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great managers, tell me what the highest percentage, who has the
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highest percentage when it comes to managers in history and how
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many championships did they win? That's what I want to know.
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These are the questions I, I can't answer.
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I'm not in sitting in front of a computer trying to come up with
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statistics. Brian Cashman has been a, I
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mean, Brian Cashman has been a successful GM and Aaron Boone,
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for the time that he's been with the New York Yankees, has been
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successful with the New York Yankees.
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Do I think it's Brian, Brian Cashman or Aaron Boone's fault
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that the Yankees aren't hitting? No.
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The Brian Cashman gave Aaron Boone, the players that he
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thought would fill in for Juan Soto.
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They haven't provided the offense that they thought.
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Bellinger has not provided the offense that they thought with
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his swing and the way his swing is in Yankee Stadium would be.
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He hasn't had the power that the numbers that he thought he would
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have. So again, you're going to blame
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Aaron Boone because he's not going up to the plate, he's not
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swinging at the balls. Those players are.
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And again, going back to Jazz Chisholm, why is Jazz Chisholm
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opening his mouth? I don't want to hear about Jazz
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and what he thinks about the New York Yankees.
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The Yankees organization don't need a player like this.
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Nick Swisher for years was the bright face of the New York
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Yankees organization and he never even said, oh, we're the
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best team in baseball. We're the best.
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Nick Swisher said, listen, I love playing for the Yankees.
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The Yankees are great organization.
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And I just hope that we're we're playing in October.
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You never hear that. Jazz Chisholm actually believes
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that the New York Yankees, these are the best team in baseball.
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Meanwhile, they've been the worst team in in baseball in the
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month of June. So it's not been good for the
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New York Yankees. But again, if they need, if the
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Yankees believe that they need another face in the dugout to
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get these these players playing, We've seen this before.
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It has helped many over the years when it comes to baseball.
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Maybe that's what the Yankees need to do.
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Not because Aaron Boone is not a good manager, just because the
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Yankees are not hitting for him. The Yankees are not playing well
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with him in the dugout dugout. He has a career 581 winning
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percentage, which actually again, the qualifiers are tough
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because of dead ball era stuff and stuff like that.
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But it actually with that is 21st all time in Major League
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history. There are some that didn't in
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the dead ball era that didn't manage anything else in an 8
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year span, so the eight-year span I'm still trying to figure
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out, but that is still an impressive regular season
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winning percentage number. Yeah, I found similar data on
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that one. Errol and Speedy Boone is
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sitting there. Really only active guy that he's
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behind is Dave Roberts, and he's decent way behind Dave Roberts.
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But you know why Dave Roberts is there?
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Because he's got an even more stacked team and more money than
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the Yankees do. So I think I think you got to
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point a lot of fingers at all these other names are Hall of
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Farmers or guys that were like just interim coaches that had
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good. Records Who has the biggest?
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Who has the best winning percentage out of all the
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managers in baseball history? How about the Yankees?
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How about the Yankees? A lot of games, all time.
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Yankees, Joe. McCarthy with the Yankees from
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1926 to 19561540. Percentage.
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Joe McCarthy was the murderer's role coach.
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OK, Yeah, with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
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And he coached all the way through the DiMaggio years until
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the first half of the DiMaggio years.
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So he's definitely way up there. There's some other names that
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are in the Hall of Fame. I've never heard of him, so it's
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forever ago. George Wright, Ted Simmons, Al
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Spaulding, Comiskey, Comiskey Park.
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He's there. Earl Weaver.
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Give me the Yankee managers. Out of all the Yankee managers
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in history, where does Aaron Boone land of managers of all
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time with the Yankees? Because I would say he's
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definitely a top five. You can't argue that he is.
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Percentage wise, he definitely is if he's #2 on this list right
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now. And like Fish and I were saying,
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there's not many, there's all dead ball era guys in between
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which have been managing right at the same time as as McCarthy.
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So winning percentage wise, yeah, there's only there's two
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years that's not going to count, 2 years not going to count.
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So McCarthy's 627, Casey Stengel will be 623, but that's his
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career. So that's not even with the
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Yankees. Joe Torry 6O56.
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O5. And.
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Miller, Huggins, Billy Martin, 59.
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Billy Martin again, another one that bumped around different
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teams. So that wasn't all with the
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Yankees. True, but let's just say he's
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right up there with the ones that did the winning.
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Errol, you your point is actually valid.
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That's what we're saying here is Aaron Boone should be winning,
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except there's a problem. And it's not the run
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differential that Michael K was pointing to, because I would say
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that's too rudimentary of a stat.
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We talked about it last week, Speedy.
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It's the lack of being clutch. It's the lack of coming up when
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the game is on the line and actually doing the right thing.
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And I always thought that good teams come through when it
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matters and and the Yankees haven't done that under Boone,
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except for a couple of guys you mentioned them, Judge, obviously
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having a Hall of Fame, you know, type of career.
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If you can do this for another couple of years, you could do
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that in short order. But there's other guys just not
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stepping up when they need to. And it's not just the the
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hitting, it's the pitching as well.
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It's the I was going. To say I was going to go back to
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the story that broke in 2023 or so right after the trade
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deadline where a lot of people were criticizing the Yankees
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analytics department. And some of that has to do with
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the prospect development. I think a lot of why a lot of
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these, the prospects either got hurt, got rushed up or the other
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way around where they get stashed in the minor leagues too
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long and they either getting hurt there or end up losing a
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lot of value too. And Brian Cashman actually got a
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lot of the scrutiny for it for like either not changing them or
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not evolving with some of the new concepts in baseball post
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the lockout era. And I think that's where a lot
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of these young players have not come to fruition.
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We were talking about a couple months ago with Dominguez.
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Should they trade him? Should they keep him?
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Now? He started to hit a little
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better, but the defense really hasn't gotten there.
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And then, like I were talking about last week with Volpe, with
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when Josh Towers was on the show, he fell off a Cliff badly.
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And now you're questioning if the Yankees are even going to
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get any value if they they're going to be stuck hanging out
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over this year. And then maybe you have to trade
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him in the offseason. It's it's interesting.
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It is interesting when you look at obviously where the Yankees
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are and where the Yankees could be after the All Star break.
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But I don't think the Yankees should quit on Aaron Boone.
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I think they got to give him a chance to finish the season and
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see where everything lies. The Yankees don't fire managers
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in the middle of a season. I've never seen a Yankee manager
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get fired in the middle of the season.
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Not. In the long was how long was his
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extension? Three years, I think it was.
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Three, yeah, 3, three years. They did that right away as
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everyone was like. Because a lot of people weren't.
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You had a better manager, they would have put performed better
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in the World Series. And I still think that might be
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true. But at the same time, how do you
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get rid of someone? Well, the Yankees did that with
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Girardi the year they fell short to the cheating Astros in 2017.
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And then they that's when they went to Boone in the 1st place.
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So there's precedent for going really far in the playoffs.
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I mean, we saw it in basketball with the Knicks getting rid of
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Thibodeau in the Eastern Conference finals.
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So you don't have to have a bad season to get fired.
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I I don't know if Boone, if he can't turn this around, if they
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just say, you know, whatever, the Yankees will take the two
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years hit on your salary. But we need a new voice in there
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because I'm starting to get real worried that they can't compete
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with teams that I thought they were better than.
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I thought they were better than the Blue Jays.
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I thought that they're better than the Tampa Bay Rays, or at
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least on the level. And they're not playing as good
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as those two teams right now. And that's that's very worrisome
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because I don't think those two are even the best teams in the.
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AL, I think it's early. I know everybody wants to say
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that. It's it's still early.
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How many games are we in? What are we in 80 games?
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Wait a little bit. No, we're past that.
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It's like. 88 I don't know give me give me the game.
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So 88 games speedy, give me the. Over the halfway.
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Mark All right, so we're. It's exactly 90.
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Right now, all right, so we have 90 games and there's 162 games
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in a season, so that means there's 70 games left.
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There's a lot of baseball left, so I'm not going to quote
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anybody saying that the Yankees are out.
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They're not going to win the division.
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I still think the Yankees are going to win the American League
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East. They're the best team in the
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American League East. They haven't played that way in
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the month of June. They've been horrible in the
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month of June, but I think eventually when the bats start
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to figure things out, the lineup starts to figure things out.
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I think that lineup is quite better than it was last year.
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Even with Juan Soto, Bellinger has not hit yet.
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I haven't seen Bellinger even get hot.
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I think he was on a 17 game hitting streak and then after
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that he wasn't the same player. Hasn't been the same since that.
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So the questions will lie about where the the opportunity is at
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the trade down line where the Yankees can add another bat.
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And I think the Yankees will. Maybe.
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Two bats, yeah, they it's interesting because they have
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seven guys with with 10 or more home runs.
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Obviously Judges 33, which double S the amount of the next
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guy. But it's it's all in phases like
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you're saying Trent Grisham had his hot month and a half to
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start the year, 16 home runs, but that's really all the bulk
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of his offense. Ben rights has been kind of up
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and down. Bellinger it's really all in
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that stretch of the hit streak. And Volpe had a good first month
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with the torpedo bats. Since then he's been a mess.
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So you can't have that kind of consistent offense unless
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there's somebody else picking it up and there just hasn't been
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enough consistency. Like you said, Goldschmidt is
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really his splits are really drastic.
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It's like double the OPS to to righties or lefties to righties.
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It's it's not good. They they knew that they weren't
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getting a star player when they they signed him.
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They were hoping for what they got at the beginning of the
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season. It's not going to last.
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This is what he was always going to be.
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It's fine. And if they can get good pitting
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out of rice from the left side of the plate and Goldie from the
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right side of the place plate, you can piece together first
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base. That's better than what they've
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had there in the past. I'm not worried about that.
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I'm worried. The fact that Jazz plays third
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base when he's a second baseman and they have a shortstop,
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that's one of the worst starting shortstop in shortstops in
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baseball right now. And I guess DJ Lemahieu is our
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starting third baseman who really shouldn't be starting
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anywhere in Major League Baseball right now either.
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That's the big problem. They have two guys that are just
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hole 2 positions on the left side of the infield.
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Complete holes on this team. Well, Volping, not even only
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defensively, but offensively, he's left.
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Over 150 runners on base. That's only second to casting
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honors from the Phillies. So it's not that he just costing
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them the glove, he's just not getting it done at the plate
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either. So Jabba, this is something that
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I always think about because this is not one of the stats and
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I always like what are some things that I wouldn't know
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unless I played. I don't feel like Volpe has
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competitive at bats. And I think that's something
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that I hear more of in analysis today.
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And I think as a pitcher, you know, you you would be able to
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say like, is this guy, if I just throw a couple of pitches to
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him, this guy's going to put himself in a hole and then it's
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going to be an easy at bat for me.
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I'll throw him some junk and he'll swing through it.
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And that's that's fun. This is the way I can save some
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pitches. I know this guy's going to
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either ground this one right into the ground.
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If I throw this change up, he's just going to swing right over
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the top of it, you know, or whatever slider, whatever it
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was. Do you see that with the
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Yankees? Because I feel like outside of
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Judge, outside of Bellinger, when he's going well, I don't
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like the at bats man. I don't.
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Yeah, it's it just, I think there's, there's a lot of, I
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guess we call them, you know, from the pitching side, NCPS and
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non competitive pitch. But there's some at bats where
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like, and I don't know if this is just me, but I, I feel like I
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watch a lot of their games. Like it just looks like, I
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wouldn't say deer in the headlights, but sometimes when
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he goes to the plate, it looks like he's already beat.
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Like, I don't know if it's a like just the exuding confidence
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or, or what have you, but it just it, it really like
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sometimes when he goes up and and I that may be my own in my
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own Dome, because I realize and I see the numbers of how many
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guys he's left on base and where sometimes, you know, and it's so
21:15
hard not to know anymore because everything is so analytical and
21:20
you have literally a Dang iPad as soon as you're at bats over.
21:24
So you get AC your last 10 at bats, how hard, you know,
21:27
whatever that case may be. So I think it's a little bit
21:31
harder to get away from it now to get out of that funk where,
21:34
you know, back in the day, it was like you had to go searching
21:39
to sit in the video room and to be like, OK, I need, I want to
21:41
get see all my right-handed, you know, guys that I face against
21:45
left-handed, see my split. So you you had to make an effort
21:48
to go where some people it's like, OK, I just want to get
21:52
away from it. I got it.
21:53
You know, it's like they say you miss 103 pointers, you shoot 100
21:57
more, you're going to figure it out at some point.
21:59
But I think it just it gets so hard now with the access that
22:04
you have that's ready available. I mean, literally you can't walk
22:07
in there and not see it or it being talked about because it
22:10
it's on everywhere. So it's just, it does feel like
22:14
sometimes he goes up and it's just it's it's already an out
22:18
and it's not going to be a competitive at bat.
22:20
And it's try to swing early. So he doesn't get, you know,
22:23
beat and in counts like that where, you know, it's kind of
22:26
the exact opposite of Soto. Yeah, he's not going to hit you
22:29
300, but he's probably going to have more walks than he is
22:33
strikeouts. And he's going to give you he he
22:35
on averages sees almost 5 pitches in that bat.
22:38
You loved that when you saw Soto as a Yankee was just you had so
22:42
such competitive bats to the way that his he would stare the
22:44
pitcher down to just added some some energy to it.
22:49
I I really, I'm getting a little distracted.
22:51
I know what's going on in the studio.
22:52
I was like. What's he doing?
22:53
Getting a little wild over there, but I, I just don't see
22:56
the at bats being very good. And I think that comes from a
23:00
mindset and that comes from leadership.
23:02
I think a better manager would kind of reach some of these guys
23:05
that are younger that are not doing those things.
23:07
Luckily for the Yankees, they do have a couple of former MVPS in
23:12
this lineup, such as Goldschmidt that can come through in the
23:15
clutch for that. I don't.
23:17
Think I I don't think the MVP, I think they.
23:20
Just, well, here's what it means.
23:21
Take a look at this picture of this video I got Zach to put up
23:25
of former NLM VP Cody Bellinger making one of the.
23:29
This is the only reason the Yankees won one of these games
23:31
in the last week. He makes a shoestring catch and
23:34
on the run nails Lindor going back to first.
23:38
Not just any runner. Who's Lindor?
23:40
So it's not like it was a bad baserunner.
23:42
This is just as good of a play that you can make in left field
23:46
that you can't make a. Bet the Yankees didn't bring him
23:48
only for his arm. They brought him for his
23:50
offense. And and that's what I know right
23:51
now. He's not providing the offense
23:54
they they they obviously need. And, and, and the Yankees have
23:57
problems in the middle of this has been a problem for the
23:59
Yankees for years. And I'm going to go back to it
24:02
is they they have one guy that can hit or two guys that can
24:05
hit. Last year was Juan Soto and
24:07
Aaron Judge. And then Giancarlo Stan showed
24:10
up to the playoffs like he always does and, and smashes the
24:12
ball. The Yankees lineup is just hot
24:15
and cold, hot and cold. It's never hot.
24:18
And look what the Dodgers did against the Yankees in the World
24:21
Series. They got hot.
24:22
Besides Ohtani. That whole lineup was hot.
24:25
Ohtani didn't hit really in the World Series, but he hit
24:28
throughout the playoffs and everybody else, Friedman bets.
24:31
Everybody was hitting in the World Series but Otani, and that
24:36
says a lot. The Yankees were so worried
24:37
about Otani, they weren't worried about the other guys
24:40
like Edmund and all the other. Guys.
24:41
And he was still walking a lot, too.
24:43
Yeah. So I that's that's why the
24:45
Yankees are never going to win a World Series until they find the
24:48
right guys and the right mix of guys that are going to fit in
24:51
with Aaron Judge. They thought Bellinger was going
24:53
to do it. Goldschmidt is good.
24:55
He's everything that the Yankees wanted him to be after coming
24:59
for, you know, the bad season last year wasn't the same
25:02
hitter. This guy three years ago was an
25:04
an MVP. He's obviously getting a little
25:07
bit there, a little bit older. Look what Nolan Arenado is doing
25:10
right now over there in Saint Louis I Nolan Arenado could be
25:14
available at the trade deadline. Do the Yankees make a move for
25:16
him, Bring them to that roster, put them at third base, which
25:19
the Yankees have had problems defensively over there.
25:21
So the Yankees are going to have to look and be a little bit
25:24
smarter. Don't trade away the big pieces,
25:26
the big, you know, franchise players that they have in their
25:29
farm system. And if they think Dominguez is a
25:31
piece that they can move, is that they can add another big
25:34
bat to that lineup. Maybe that's where the Yankees
25:36
go trading Jason Demigas. And it's also, it's also tough
25:40
because you also look at the positions of the Yankees really
25:42
need badly. A lot of the ones it's like we
25:44
discussed Fish, like second base is a big weakness just across
25:47
the league this year. Like they need, if they need
25:49
that, if they want to go to Chisholm, the third or a third
25:51
baseman that could be available. Is that going to be realistic?
25:53
Same kind of thing with relievers.
25:54
They're very fluky if they want to go for more bullpen depth
25:57
too. So they need it in some kind of
25:58
combination that maybe is a little more creative, but it
26:01
comes to show what Brian Cashman has been criticized for.
26:03
Like sometimes he settles for the second third tier moves and
26:06
maybe it isn't enough even if he's making the good moves.
26:09
We've seen Cashman do that like $0.10, like, oh, I'll get 3 guys
26:14
instead of the one guy I should have got.
26:16
And then the three guys are like Jacoby Ellsbury and Carl Pavano
26:20
types. And the thing with Cashman, that
26:23
and Jabba, we're going to let you take the ball and run with
26:25
this in a second. But Cashman, I feel like he's
26:29
gotten lucky a bunch of times and he's one of those guys who
26:32
thought who was lucky and thought it was because he was
26:34
good. And I think he's made a bunch of
26:37
good choices. He's been solid, but he hasn't
26:40
been a spectacular general manager.
26:42
He's had many misses. He just has a lot more resources
26:45
than most guys and it seems like job job security forever, like
26:49
they're just going to keep him forever.
26:51
He's been in the job since 96. I'm pretty sure it's 96 when he
26:55
took over for stick Michael and how how many guys keep a job
26:59
that long in baseball? He's got to be by far the long
27:02
tenure longest tenured guy. He's in 98.
27:05
So I guess from Michael, but Michael, what he was really
27:09
doing most of the work for Michael, he was his number two
27:11
guy even before that, right. So Cashman has been around for a
27:14
long time. He's got a lot of hits.
27:16
He's got a lot of misses on his resume.
27:18
I would say they're around the same amount.
27:21
But Jabba, I think you could kind of a little bit more
27:23
intimately tell us about, you know, maybe a little bit how
27:26
overrated Cashman might be here. Yeah, see, it's, I mean, we we
27:30
kind of saw kind of what happened today where usually
27:33
it's they kind of go hand in hand with the manager and AGM
27:36
and and in certain because there there ends up being a fall guy
27:40
somehow. And they're always like, well,
27:41
we're not going to make a change unless we're not making money.
27:44
They're always going to make money.
27:45
Even if they lose 100 games, the Yankees would still make money
27:49
that that's neither that's unrealistic for them to even
27:52
like people to say that it's like, well, if they don't make
27:55
any money, they got to get rid of them.
27:56
Well, they're not. They're always going to make
27:57
money. And I found something
27:59
interesting that you were saying Fish is like talking about a
28:01
leader. And and it was it was really
28:04
interesting to hear from, you know, somebody of this caliber.
28:07
So Ken Rosenthal was on fell territory today and literally he
28:11
was like, there's no managers this day and age that will hold
28:15
their players accountable. He's like it just doesn't exist
28:18
anymore and for somebody to come out and say that of of Ken and
28:22
and how affected in the game he is, I think he's 100% right
28:26
because he the one the one that he did name and hopefully and he
28:32
gets better and and healthier is is a dear friend and Ron
28:36
Washington. We wish all him the best and and
28:38
what he's going through, but that was the only one that Ken
28:41
could even like even think of. And for somebody to be around
28:45
the game that long and and to, you know, throw that out there
28:48
that it it has legs, because I was having this conversation
28:53
with a buddy about some other stuff.
28:55
We were just talking about, you know, the game and whatever.
28:58
And it's like, OK, I get like he sticks up for him.
29:03
But I do you think some of that is, I won't say fake, but is
29:08
like forced upon like because I get it, like we're all savages
29:12
in the box and like it's it's entertainment.
29:14
But I think a little bit is I think, you know, yeah, cool.
29:19
Like we're trying get tossed to, you know, create a rally.
29:22
We we've seen that before, but some of the stuff that he has is
29:25
just like, all right, man, we get it, like you hate him, but
29:28
we. All know you hate him and you're
29:30
going to throw him under the no. No, I'm just talking about
29:32
Boone. He's talking about Boone.
29:34
Yeah, I'm talking about Boone. That's fine.
29:35
But I know you hate Brian Cashman and I and by the by the
29:38
way, you, you mentioned Michaels, but the architect of
29:41
those 90s, early 90s Yankees was Bob Watson.
29:45
OK, everybody I've mentioned Watson because I always mention
29:48
Watson. People forget that Bob Watson
29:50
was the architect. Who do you think hired Brian
29:53
Cashman as his sister in GM? It was Bob Watson.
29:56
That was the one that hired Brian Cashman.
29:58
I don't think you guys remember Bob.
30:00
And I always mention Watson. Watson.
30:02
You're probably saying who the hell is Watson?
30:04
Go look. He is the architect of the early
30:07
90s Yankees teams. He was the one that hired Brian
30:12
Cashman as a as a assistant GM and a guy that worked as an
30:16
executive for the Yankees front office.
30:19
So I know everybody's sitting here.
30:21
Says here Watson was the GM for the Yankees in the right after
30:26
the strike so they hired him after the strike 95 and he left
30:32
and he left before 97 so I before 98 season so he was there
30:37
for the 9596. He said he was the architect of
30:39
the of the Yankees when the Yankees won their first World
30:42
Series in 1990. 6 I would say stick.
30:44
Michael drafted all those guys, but I do.
30:47
First of all, Stick Michaels was the one that was the he was like
30:50
the scout. He was the lead scout for the
30:52
Yankees. He was the one that obviously
30:54
wanted Derek Jeter. He was the one that wanted
30:56
Bernie Williams. He was a scout.
30:58
He was really the scout. He wasn't really the GM.
31:01
The GM, the Archie Tech of those 90s Yankees was Bob Watson.
31:04
And and I think Yankee fans don't know that and they forget
31:07
about what Bob Watson did for the Yankees organization when
31:10
the Yankees brought him in. So, Fish, how old were you when
31:13
Bob Watson was the the GM for the New York Yankees?
31:16
I don't even think you remember him because you were a baby.
31:19
So you were only four years older than me.
31:21
All right, What are you talking about?
31:23
What are you talking about? How old were you when Bob?
31:25
Watson was GI Joes. How old?
31:27
How old? Were you?
31:28
I was 10. You were. 14 All right.
31:30
And I was, and I as a Yankee, I remember Bob Watson and a lot of
31:34
people. Was at the 96 parade.
31:36
A lot of people, a lot of people don't know that they always give
31:41
Michaels all the credit in the world.
31:43
But Bob Watson was the architect of the 96 Yankees.
31:46
He was the back end. He was the backbone of those
31:49
Yankee teams early when the Yankees started win in 9697.
31:53
He just doesn't get the credit. So unfortunately that's been a
31:57
problem for the Yankee fans because the Yankee fans always
31:59
give Michaels all the credit in the world because he's the one
32:01
who drafted Derek Jeter. So I, I'm not saying Michaels
32:04
wasn't a great obviously scout. He was one of the best, you
32:07
know, baseball minds we've seen. And for the Yankees
32:09
organization, he's one of those guys that you'll always
32:12
remember. But I, you got to, you got to
32:14
give Bob Watson a little bit of credit, which Yankee fans don't
32:17
do. So I, I always stick up for
32:19
Watson. That's why I always mention and
32:21
everybody says, who's Watson? Who's Watson?
32:24
And that shows you how much you're a Yankee fan, Yankee
32:26
fans. So if you don't know who Bob
32:28
Watson is, shame on you. So, so like I, it's, I just was
32:32
looking, had the story about Stick Michael.
32:34
So Stick Michael was the GM version of Billy Martin.
32:36
He kept firing him from being GM, but he was basically the GM.
32:41
It was, he was like there for a long time and they kept firing
32:45
him and rehiring the different roles.
32:46
He was the GM for a second time in 1990.
32:50
George George did that to everybody.
32:51
He would literally fire you because he'd be pissed.
32:54
They would come back the next day.
32:55
So he would. It was like that Seinfeld
32:57
episode where like he walks into Steinbrenner's office and like
33:01
quits and then it just shows up the next day.
33:03
Yep. Like I think that was actually
33:05
based on a stick Michael thing. So I I I don't know if that's
33:08
100% true, but I do. Know it is.
33:11
There's something to it. I know Larry being religious,
33:13
that's a Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live.
33:15
He knew George, we do have our golf clap of the day.
33:20
This deserves a golf clap. No doubt.
33:23
Golf clap. Golf clap.
33:26
Our Golf Club of the day, I don't know if anybody's paying
33:28
attention to Wimbledon. Wimbledon's going on.
33:31
It's always a big sport, you know, a big time for tennis in
33:35
the summertime in England and it.
33:37
And one guy that I think everybody should be talking
33:40
about is Djokovic, who's trying to catch the one and only Roger
33:44
Federer. It is not often that Djokovic,
33:47
who has won 43 of of his past 45 matches at Wimbledon, he's made
33:53
to endure such a stern test of mental resistance on the stage
33:59
of dominance over the years. The sixth seed is through to the
34:04
16th Wimbledon quarterfinals, second only to the 18 achieved
34:09
by Federer. But at times it is felt as
34:13
though his progress was under threat and and by the way,
34:18
Djokovic right now was hammered by double fault over in his last
34:23
match, but still moving on to the round of 16.
34:26
Djokovic is the best tennis player of all time.
34:29
I don't think you can argue that anymore.
34:30
Roger Federer was getting all the credit in the world.
34:33
We remember in the 90s when I was watching Pete Sampras and
34:36
and Andre Agassi and Wimbledon, those those were the time where
34:38
you got Boris Becker. But what Djokovic has done over
34:42
the last 10 years of tennis and you got Rafael Nadal, you have
34:47
Roger Federer, some of the best tennis players of all time.
34:50
And people forget that Djokovic has been the best 1 and
34:54
consistent one out of all of them and still playing at the
34:57
top of his game as a six seed and right now moving on in the
35:00
round of 16 could win his. I don't know what what is this
35:04
is. How many titles?
35:05
43 titles of 40 is 40. I, I don't even know how many
35:09
titles he's won at Wimbledon, but he, he's won a lot of them.
35:12
OK, so he has a chance to win a significant amount of Wimbledon
35:17
Championships. And I, I wanted to, I wanted to
35:19
go somewhere else with football, but this is even bigger and
35:22
better. I'm not.
35:23
I'm not watching. 7 Wimbledon. He's got 7 Wimbledon's.
35:26
How many championships does he have?
35:28
How many does how many just choke of the chaff?
35:30
So this 7 Federer is 8 at Wimbledon.
35:33
Yeah, he's going to tie him because I think he's going to
35:34
win this year. But he's got 24 grand.
35:37
Slams 24 grand Slams which he passed Roger Federer recently?
35:40
Yes, he did. So if Djokovic wins this year,
35:43
that will be tied 8th. Which Wimbledon was Roger
35:47
Federer's best tournament but best championship.
35:50
If he ties Roger Federer, not only is he the greatest, he is
35:53
the greatest tennis player of all time.
35:55
You could argue there is nobody, not even Roger Federer that kind
35:58
of is going to come close to this guy.
35:59
This guy is still at the top of this game.
36:01
This guy is still one of the best tennis players in the world
36:04
and he's doing it, by the way, staying healthy year in and year
36:07
out. How many times have you seen
36:09
Djokovic hurt? Have you?
36:11
How many times have you seen Djokovic not play in a
36:13
tournament, not play in a championship?
36:15
It's been incredible. It's been an incredible feat for
36:17
one of the greatest athletes. Yes, you heard it from me, one
36:20
of the greatest athletes of this generation of professional
36:24
sports. It's an amazing feat and
36:26
congratulations to Djokovic. Moving on the round of 16, I has
36:29
a chance. To he has 27 because he has
36:32
three double S titles. There you go.
36:34
So I mean, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty incredible what
36:38
Djokovic is doing right now. And he just stands for not only
36:42
for something in his country, but when tennis is really not
36:46
only a growing sport worldwide, but a growing sport in his
36:50
country. And the biggest, and I, if I'm
36:52
not mistaken, he's from Belarus, if I'm not mistaken.
36:55
I believe he's also from Serbia. Yeah, Serbia, but he has a, his
36:59
mother, I think is a Belarus who's descended, but he is from
37:02
Serbia. He does play for Serbia.
37:04
But it's congratulations to Djokovic for having such a great
37:09
run of just dominant tennis play.
37:12
And he's been unbelievable. So my golf clap of the day, I
37:15
took it away from the Pittsburgh Steelers, who had something to
37:18
say about Aaron Rodgers and what he said.
37:20
I'm not even, I'm going to push that away.
37:22
I wanted to go somewhere outside of the box because nobody would
37:25
expect it. My golf clip of the day goes to
37:28
Djokovic being so dominant over the years and being one of the
37:32
most dominant athletes of this generation.
37:34
So Golf Club hopefully wins Wimbledon.
37:37
I would love to see him win Wimbledon.
37:39
I don't. I used to watch Wimbledon all
37:42
the way through. I haven't really watched the
37:44
full Wimbledon in about 5 to 6 years and in the 90s I watched
37:48
every single Wimbledon because I grew up in Andre Agassi fan and
37:52
my mom was a Pete Sampras fan. So I always rooted on Andre
37:56
Agassi. By the way, Andre Agassi and and
37:58
Steffi Groff's son is playing for Team Germany in the World
38:03
Championships of baseball coming right up.
38:05
So that'll be interesting. I'm interested to see.
38:08
He is a pitcher and obviously is not he's not good enough to play
38:12
for Team USA. That's that's for sure, but has
38:15
a chance to play for Team Germany.
38:16
So it's it's be interesting. His both both his parents are
38:20
two of the best tennis players 1 Steffi Graf is probably one of
38:23
the top three best women tennis players of all time.
38:26
And his father is probably you can argue one of the top three
38:29
American born tennis players of all time.
38:31
So my Golf Club goes to Djokovic.
38:34
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38:56
play by play broadcaster Kevin or Ray.
38:58
Oh, Kevin will join us. And by the way, Kevin, I'm sure
39:01
he has his own thoughts about George Pickens, as we heard CD
39:04
Lamb and George Pickens on a broadcast recently and CD came
39:08
out and I wouldn't have ever thought this to to be true.
39:11
CD Lamb said there's no one or two.
39:13
It's all once and he says now you got to contend with two
39:17
number ones on one roster. Well, we'll see how that works
39:21
for the whole season with George Pickens doesn't see enough
39:22
balls, especially up his ass, and if he does, maybe somebody's
39:26
going to bend over and give him a nice little poo Tang pie as
39:29
Speedy with. Fish.
39:30
Maybe that's why Kevante Turpin had to do what he did, because
39:33
he knew he wasn't a #1. Oh, absolutely.
39:35
By the way, Speedy, I haven't used this drop in a long time,
39:38
no. Share a poo Tang pie with the
39:39
rock. Anyways, that's it for our show,
39:41
ladies and gentlemen. We'll be back with Nick Goody on
39:44
Thursday. Hopefully Tommy feels better.
39:47
He's pooping, he's scooping and let it's dish out speedy as we
39:51
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40:12
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