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Will the Yankees be ALL IN at the trade deadline? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Even that's are going to give him a significant They're going
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to have a ton of money to spend. Why not put it in one of the top
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three offensive players in the league?
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toilet tonight. Java.
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It has been a crazy, crazy week. Just baseball.
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There really isn't anything to talk about right now.
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The Knicks announced their new head coach, Mike Brown and some
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interesting statements throughout his press conference
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with the New York Knicks. We don't have that on the list
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tonight, but I'm sure I'm going to get into at some point on the
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show. I mean, Mike Brown's a complete
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idiot. He looked really bad at the
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press conference. I got a chance to check out the
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25 minute press conference of just an absolute debacle.
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Leon Rose should have kept him away from the mic because he's
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not very good on the mic, that's for damn sure.
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The Knicks hire these guys that are just absolutely just
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tremendously stupid on a damn mic.
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Let's keep him away from the mic and just stick to basketball.
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So it's been a very warm week. It's been rainy here in Long
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Island, Long Island, New York. How is it in Nebraska right now?
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It's not too bad. There's some storms supposed to
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be rolling in, but it's the humidity like usual.
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But other than that, it hasn't been too terribly bad.
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It is it has been hot, but it's been bearable.
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The the humidity gets you your powder turns to paste but but
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other than that it's it's not too bad.
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I am lost. I am absolutely lost when it
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comes to these press conferences for New York.
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I, I, it doesn't matter who it is.
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It could be Aaron Boone and obviously Boone's been with the
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Yankees for over 5 years. It could be Tom Thibodeau who
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sits there and answers the questions and looks like he's
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going to turn red or half his hair is going to fall out of his
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head. Or at least the rest of his hair
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looks like he's going to fall out of his head.
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We've seen many, many different coaches and managers go up there
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at press conference. Remember Rex Ryan Speedy with
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his mop on his head? It does.
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And then Robert Sala, deer in the headlights as we call him
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Bambi. He he doesn't even know how to
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speak to the press because he's so, you know, I think he's so
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lost when it comes to the game of football.
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He just lost his way on a damn mic.
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And so let's not forget one in between the great out of gates
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with his googly eyes. Yeah, well, I, I, let's stop
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getting into the New York Jets. I just, I brought up Robert Sala
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because he is Bambi. We brought him up so many times
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on this show, so I had to throw him under the bus as you see
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right there on the. Direction of the graphic.
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Well, obviously San Francisco, now San Francisco has to deal
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with his deer in the headlights ass.
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But nevertheless it there's something about New York and the
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press conferences with some of these guys, even the athletes
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are a little lost when they get on their mics and they try to
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speak to the press and they ask, and I'll say this, everybody
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says about the New York press is that they're crazy.
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They're mean. They like to get answers or
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questions out that make no sense or try to pull something from
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the athletes that the athletes don't want to answer.
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But I don't even think it has anything to do with the press.
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I just think the athletes are so damn stupid here.
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They'll answer any question. I would sit there and say, I
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plead the fifth. I plead the fifth.
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I've got no answers for this. I plead the 5th.
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No, these stupid guys, and I'm not naming anybody.
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They go out there and they say, yeah, I'll answer that stupid
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question. Why not?
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I'll be stupid today. You know, it's just, it's dumb.
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It's absolutely dumb. And Mike Brown, I and I know
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everybody, this is not something we we're going to get into.
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But I have to say this, when I watched that press conference,
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not only is he a deer in the headlights, I really don't think
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he had, he had anybody there helping him out.
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He had no PR person there. He had no management.
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They're giving him information as as these questions were
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coming out. And he said, well, Tom Thibodeau
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did a great job and and meanwhile, he got the job from
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Tom Thib and then threw himself under the bus because he was
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stuttering the whole time because he couldn't answer the
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questions. He was lost.
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That press conference just told me one thing.
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Did the Knicks actually make the right choice on the coach that
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they picked? Or maybe he's just absolutely
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not going to speak to the players and he's just going to
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go out there and point fingers through this.
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I know it has nothing to do with Bambi because Robert Sala,
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really, he didn't have to say anything.
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He was just an idiot. I think Mike Brown actually
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knows what he's doing. I just don't know if he he's the
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right guy for the job when it comes to speaking here in New
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York. When you go up and you speak to
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the president, Jobby, you know this more than anybody.
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You played for the Yankees and many, many times you've been up
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there when you were pitching and you had to deal with obviously
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in Cleveland with all the Nats and all the craziness.
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These all the different guys, all the different writers, all
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the different newspaper, you know, publicist, everybody are
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out there asking you questions. You know, they're going to ask
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you questions you don't want to answer.
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And usually if you were smart, and there are not many smart
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guys when it comes to here in New York, the athletes in New
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York, you would answer a question trying to beat a beat
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around the Bush. These guys, including the
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coaches, they don't know how to do that.
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And the PR people are just absolutely stupid.
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They can't help these guys. What speak?
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I mean, you're there, John, but you've been here before.
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You've understood that. I am just embarrassed.
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I would be embarrassed if I was Leon Rose when I had Mike Brown
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go up there and look like a complete idiot.
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Yeah, I think there's we, we had media training for like a week
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before, like we, we did it in spring training and I think it
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really, it really helped some people and other people didn't
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really, really pay attention. I guess after my first year, I
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basically was able to, to lead the, the PR list just because
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of, you know, questions and whatever it's you answer the
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question without answering the question.
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And when you say you plead the fifth, you don't ever do that
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because then that takes away your words.
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And now they have the power of the pen so they can create
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whatever they want. Like when Pavano came over and
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lied about what what happened. And then they find out if you're
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honest and upfront with the media there people are like, I
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hate them. And it's like, no, they're doing
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their job. Like there have been times where
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they've had to ask questions. They're like, I don't want to
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ask this question, but I have to, it's not my question.
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It's coming from above. And so if you just treat them
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with respect, there's some you don't like, but that's with any
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job. I it doesn't matter, But you
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have to have a little bit of feel And if there's questions
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that, you know, partake in something where you don't want
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to throw somebody on the bus, whatever.
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You answer the question without answering the question.
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And they'll try to, they'll try to reword it in a different way
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to get you to answer it. But if you have any wits about
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you, it, it's it. But when I say plead, when I say
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plead the 5th, I'm not saying like, oh, I'm going to go out
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there and plead the 5th. I try to beat around the Bush.
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I try to not answer the question, but answer the
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question in a professional kind of way.
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That's what you would do if somebody came to me right now
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and asked me a question about Jabba the mouth and say, hey,
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what do you think about working with Jabba?
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If I didn't like working with you, I, I wouldn't say I, I
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think that guy's an ass. No, I would beat around the Bush
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and say, you know what? I could shave one side of the
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balls, but you know, the other side might be a little too
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bushy, if you know what I mean. But I, I, that's the way I would
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answer those questions. Nevertheless, I am a
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professional person. I know how to answer questions.
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I'm not going to sit there and say but but but but but but but
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but. When you start, when you start
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stumbling over words too, then then they, their mind starts
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turning too. And they're like, all right,
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well, he's either hiding something or doesn't want to say
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something. And then they try to pry and
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it's just they can tell when you're uncomfortable.
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They can tell when you don't want to answer something.
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I mean, it's pretty easy. Like there was there was a time
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where, you know, Carter, my son was always around it and I
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couldn't throw my fastball for a strike.
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It was bad. I remember like Carter, you said
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that. Yeah, Yeah.
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And Carter comes in. I was like, hey, there's,
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there's there you go. Like I can't give it to you more
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bluntly honest than that. And they love that.
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They love like just the honesty, like because we know.
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But it's when you try to sugar coat it or you try to do like, I
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had a great relationship. Obviously we've had one of one
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who's still a friend to this day that writes for MLB and Brian
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Hoke and you know, I love George King and in those guys.
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And it was just because it it was like, Hey, I understand
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you're doing a job. I understand and I'm never going
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to run and I may take an extra 510 minutes where I think a lot
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of people don't use that. They're like, I just want to get
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this out of the way where, you know, when things go sour or
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whatever, or if you don't have APR director that can kind of
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lead you in a direction where take be like, hey, you know
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what, I'm going to go get some ice or make something up.
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But be like, hey, you know, give me like 10 minutes.
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I'll be back instead of, you know, like getting to it and,
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and rushing your questions and not having time to just like
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soak it in. But then also don't stand them
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up and be like, hey, I'll be there in 10 minutes and half
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hour. You're like, oh, maybe they're
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not there. They don't like that part
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either. So I think I'd.
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Be accountable. I think I'd be the craziest
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athlete when it comes to answering questions because I
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would do it in such a funny, ridiculous way where people
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would be like, that guy's out of his damn mind.
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You can't be better than Marshawn Lynch.
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I would throw myself so bad under the buzz.
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You'd be like, OK, is that guy smoking something or he's just
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on drugs or something? There we go.
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Oh my God, Bambi story. There we are.
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That's a good. One now we just have to make
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sure. We just have to make sure he
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doesn't keep receipts. It'll be good.
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He's I think his head fits better on Bambi's body.
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Speaking of a deer in the headlights, before yesterday's
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game, Brian Cashman told the media that he is preparing to go
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to town at the MLB trade deadline for the Yankees.
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He added that there's a lot more needs on this Yankee roster than
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he expected considering how hot the Yankees started the season.
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He emphasized how the Yankees lost 3 starters from their World
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Series rotation, so he expects to make a starting pitch their
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biggest priority despite getting good production from their young
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players like Will Warren. He also emphasized that the
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Yankees yes oh God, do not want to wear out their bullpen.
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Thank God he's opening his eyes even more, but still believes in
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Devin Williams and Luke Weaver. The Yankees also designated DJ
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Lemayu for assignment, meaning he's off the Yankees for for a
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40 man roster and has have seven days to decide if they want to
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trade or release him. The Yankees still owe DJ Lemayu
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20 million over the next two years, regardless of what they
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decide to do with him in the next week.
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Cashman emphasized he wants jazz Chism, or I say say jazz jism,
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to be a full time second baseman with him being better
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defensively there than third base.
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Well, I by the way, jazz Chism or jism as I always say, I am
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not going to beat around a Bush here.
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So if you guys don't know what I'm talking about now, you know
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he is now entering the Home Run Derby.
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I am not excited about that. I'm not ecstatic.
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But all you Yankee fans, you want to see a Yankee in the Home
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Run Derby, Why not pick the chizzy himself and maybe he'll
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eat some cheese after. I don't know why he's going in
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the Home Run Derby, but hey, that's that's the least of my
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problems right here. The fact that Brian Cashman came
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out and we all know the Yankees are going into the trade
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deadline being buyers, they're not going to be sellers.
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They have never been sellers in the last 35 years.
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The Yankees have always been buyers.
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Now, this isn't obviously George Steinbrenner.
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This is how Steinbrenner and how Steinbrenner wants to make sure
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that the money is going to be safe when it comes to the luxury
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tax. And George used to throw money
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out there like he's buying a city, he's buying a building.
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So the Yankees have done that many, many times over the years.
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This is a different Yankee team. Now, obviously there's going to
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be spots to fill, especially in the rotation, especially in the
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starting rotation. The Yankees are always looking
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for a pitcher to fill in certain spots.
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The Yankees have not really been healthy as far as the rotation
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is concerned all season long. Believe it or not, the Yankees
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lineup has been fairly healthy. It's been really their rotation.
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That hasn't been over the years. It's always been their rotation.
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I mean, they're, I'm sorry, not the rotation.
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It's always been their lineup that hasn't been healthy.
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And the rotation has been fairly healthy over the years.
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But it's been over five years and Aaron Boone has the one
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thing I could say Aaron Boone hasn't done very well in his
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coaching, his managing, is the bullpen.
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The bullpen is usually one of the best bullpens in baseball.
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In the first half of the season after the trade deadline, it's
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arguably one of the worst bullpens in baseball.
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And this is something that Brian Cashman has to lock in on
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because not because everybody wants to fire Aaron Boone and
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everybody's come out on social media.
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Every Yankee fan thinks that this is Aaron Boone's fault.
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You can take responsibility and Aaron Boone does take
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responsibility on the way the team is playing.
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But the one thing I can say about the Yankees is they're not
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getting timely hitting. This has been a problem for the
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Yankees for over 15 years. It's been a problem for them in
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the playoffs and they need to find guys that are going to fill
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in certain spots, especially in that lineup that's going to help
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out Aaron, Aaron Judge. It's going to help out guys like
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Goldschmidt, who has kind of fallen back.
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We we said this, he was hot in the beginning of the season.
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He went from batting 385 for the first month and now he's what,
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at 280 at at best 275? We, I didn't think he was going
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to stay at 3:50. I, I thought he, you know, over
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the next couple of weeks, he was going to drop a little bit over
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300. But I, I've been very impressed
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with Paul Gulchman. First of all, he adds
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leadership. He's a great defender and he's
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added the offense that the, that the Yankees needed over the last
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couple of months when losing Juan Soto.
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And we're going to get into the whole Juan Soto situation.
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Trust me, we're going to get that.
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But designating DJ Lemayou is not a surprise.
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Anybody that thinks it was a surprise that DJ Lemayu was
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being designated, well then you don't know what's going on with
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the fact that the Yankees are not getting enough from DJ
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Lemayu. What they're paying for him now,
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they're still going to have to pay DJ Lemayu no matter where he
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goes. If the Yankees decide to trade
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him, if the Yankees decide to release him, he's still going to
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get paid. So it doesn't matter if he's on
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the roster or not. But right now, he's taking away
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a spot where you can bring up or trade for where you can air.
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They had certain offensive options that the Yankees haven't
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had all season. The infield, they really,
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Volpe's been a shell of what he was in his rookie season.
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And I'm not saying he was hitting and he wasn't hitting
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for average last year, but he's been absolutely putrid
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throughout this season. And he's not giving you enough
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offense. He really hasn't been the
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defensive player he was in his rookie year.
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Remember, he won the Gold Glove for the American League last
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year. And now this year he's made some
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errors, he's made mistakes, and the Yankees are losing faith
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that this guy could be the future when it comes to the
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shortstop position. But I will say this, Devin
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Williams, who started off very, very slow for the Yankees, very
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slow. He was horrible.
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I think his ERA was at 9 at one point.
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I think even higher, like 12 something.
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Yeah, I think, I think it got to like 12 1/2.
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All right. It's definitely different.
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He's been much better, I think. He's below below A5 now.
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Yeah, he's starting to get, you know, into, you know, that
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optional pit pitching Rd. you know, method what she was in
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Milwaukee. Now he's not as good as he was
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in Milwaukee. OK, obviously not because in
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Milwaukee he was he's pitching close to 1 and he's not doing
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that. But he's giving the Yankees that
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8th inning help. Luke Weaver has been such a
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great optional pitcher in that bullpen where you've moved him
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from the seventh position, 7th inning to the 8th inning to the
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9th inning and closing for the Yankees over the last two
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seasons. And he went from a guy that was
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a starter, now he's been a bullpen specialist.
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He's been fantastic. The Yankees need to add another
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arm in that bullpen that's going to help these guys take some
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pressure off of guys like Devin Williams and Luke Weaver.
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That's something I think a guy like Brian Cashman has to look
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at because again, the bullpen is so important making this playoff
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front. The Yankees have fallen behind
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the Blue Jays. I do not believe the Blue Jays
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are going to keep up this pace. I don't think they're that good
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as as a matter of fact, they have players like Vladimir
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Guerrero got a lot of money, actually $325 million upfront,
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which is the most I've ever seen a player in professional sports
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ever get. But nevertheless, he he's a guy
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that's having a good season but. Again, I don't trust their
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rotation and their bullpen has been iffy over the last two
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seasons. And they're they have a lot of
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young pitchers in that rotation. So I expect the Blue Jays to
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start to make, you know, to make a dip.
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I do believe that the Yankees should make a run out of a big
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time hitter in this in this lineup.
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They need to add another big bat in this lineup, maybe a
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left-handed bat, maybe a switch hitter.
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I, I just, I, I think that this this lineup is not enough to
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make a run for a World Series like they did last year.
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They got very lucky. Juan Soto got hot in the
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playoffs against Cleveland and he didn't play very well in the
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World Series. We all know what Juan Soto did
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in the in the playoffs, but except in the World Series, I
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think the Yankees need to at least one or two bats.
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But Brian Cashman coming out and saying, hey, you know what we're
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going to do? We're all in at the trade
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dealer. We know he's all in.
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He's always been all in. The question is, is he going to
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make the right moves? That is going to put the Yankees
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in the right position to make that run.
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Yeah. And also we wonder like he's
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saying this now, is he trying to accelerate the market faster in
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order to do that? Is he trying to emphasize, all
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right, we're going to go in on these positions in specific,
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which is a good thing that he didn't say specifically that.
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At the same time, I don't love what him saying about like, all
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right, we're going to label Jazz Chisholm in just a second
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baseman and that's going to take away the second base trade
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market at the trade deadline. Meaning are you only going to go
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for 3rd baseman in the infield? Are you only thinking about
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moving someone else to third base?
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Are you? I think that'll limit the market
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in that regard of what the competition is because like
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we've talked about fish many times, second base has been a
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weak position this year. So maybe that's what he's trying
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to emphasize. At the same time, if you want to
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make some kind of big swing, if I don't know how available he'll
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get to be for somebody like a Patel Marte, I think that could
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be an option for for them to be able to go at.
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As far as the pitching is concerned, I'm not as good with
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the late. I'm not as big on the labels as
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much as you want to have starters, relievers type thing,
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but you want to have some kind of versatility and pitching
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depth. That's what wins.
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Now. It's not as much of those raw
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789 bull pens anymore. It's more of those versatile
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bullpens that could do so many different things, even ones that
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aren't ranked as good statistically and still win.
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So if they can get enough depth in multiple guys from that
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regard, either in their farm system or within their within
22:23
the trade deadline where relievers aren't as priced.
22:25
What big arms are available? I mean, Michael King is not
22:28
going to be available because he's not 100% healthy.
22:30
I thought he was an absolute Sam Dunk for the New York Yankees.
22:33
He's a guy that came up in the Yankees farm system.
22:36
He would have been perfect. He was a guy that Brian Cashman
22:39
didn't want to let go in the Juan Soto trade.
22:41
He was a guy that I definitely didn't want to let go, but now
22:44
he's not going to be available because he's not 100% healthy.
22:47
So where do the Yankees go when it comes to rotation arm help?
22:51
Do they go after another lefty or do they add a right a righty
22:55
in this pitching staff? So I there's a lot and Marcus
22:58
Strowman. Where has Marcus Strowman been?
23:02
He's. Kind of stuck in the middle.
23:03
It's like you can't trust him to be a.
23:05
Star. He was always a good first half
23:07
pitcher. What has happened to him?
23:09
Yeah, it's kind of weird to trust.
23:10
Like I think the Yankees, what's what's interesting with them is
23:13
they could also go after guys that have played in both roles
23:15
as well, veteran guys on teams that maybe are back end guys.
23:20
Like 2 teams that come into mind is Kansas City and Texas who
23:22
have such good pitching Staffs. So maybe they can afford to
23:25
trade a pitcher or so. And then they their offenses are
23:28
just so bad this year. So maybe even a one for one
23:31
swap, something they can consider just to get the Yankees
23:33
a little more depth in their. Rotation.
23:34
Nobody wants Marcus Strowman. That's the problem.
23:37
Nobody wants Marcus Strowman. The salary.
23:42
No, I'm I'm waiting. That's why I said Jabba.
23:44
Nobody wants Marcus Stroman. Oh yeah, I mean his salary in
23:47
that. But I'm going to, I'm going to
23:48
go back to what Speedy said. Speedy, I'm going to firmly and
23:51
hardly disagree with you on the versatility of the back end of
23:55
the bullpen. And I'll tell you why.
23:57
Because if you don't know, if you're the 6th inning guy, 7th
23:59
inning guy, 8th inning guy, 9th inning guy, you don't know when
24:03
to prepare. You can prepare physically, but
24:06
mentally to be locked in, not knowing if you're coming to set
24:08
up or you're coming to close is the hardest thing to do because
24:12
you can't be locked in that long.
24:14
Do I start warming up in the 4th?
24:16
Do I keep my routine as the closer guy when I start getting
24:19
ready in the 6th or how do I do it?
24:21
So now every day is something different.
24:23
So I'm going to disagree with you on that because yes, you're
24:26
going to have guys where they can step in and fill that closer
24:29
role if somebody's gone three days in a row or 4 out of five.
24:33
But if you don't have a set standard in that role, I don't
24:36
think your bullpen can be as good as it is.
24:38
Nobody knows if Luke is closing, Devon's going to close and we
24:42
we've seen it bounce back and forth.
24:44
Look at all the teams that are successful and have one World
24:47
Series. What was the back end of their
24:48
bullpen? Guys could step up when they
24:50
needed it, but each guy, there was a setup guy, there was a get
24:55
him out of a jam guy and there was a closer.
24:56
And nine times out of 10, that's the role that they set up in.
25:01
And so it's. More or less of not as much of A
25:03
like set roll over the time Jabba.
25:05
I think it's more of the label that they have at the trade
25:07
deadline too. Like I look at the Braves of the
25:08
example, look at how many like 3 new relievers they got and none
25:12
of them were true. Oh, well, I think the trade
25:13
deadline doesn't matter as far as a label for what the bullpen
25:17
is. I mean, you know, it's it's what
25:20
they they see fit of, of what's the void that they're going to
25:24
fill is why they're going to and they're going to do what's also
25:27
available. Yeah.
25:28
And who's and who they're going to get rid of.
25:30
Who do they want? And you know, a lot of it too is
25:33
are they going to sell and be like, OK, we need to get
25:37
something back for these big league ready guys.
25:41
How much are you willing to give up?
25:42
How much are you willing to move shake?
25:45
How much salary are you willing to take on what's left of a
25:48
salary left of a years of a contract?
25:50
Like, there's so much that goes into it and he can say whatever
25:54
he wants to say. He says it every year.
25:56
What'd they do last year? They got a reliever that nobody
25:58
knew the hell he was. And he's like, Yep, we got
26:00
another reliever. No, you didn't do anything.
26:03
And so he talks all this mess every year.
26:06
Hal's going to come down to numbers.
26:07
Cash is going to say he did something and all in like, Oh
26:11
yeah. What he did with DJDJ had played
26:14
his balls off. He gave everything.
26:16
He's he was so hurt. You guys have no idea.
26:19
I got a lot of information from the inside about like how he,
26:23
like, it wasn't for lack of effort of trying to get back,
26:27
like he just had put himself through the wringer and just he
26:30
couldn't physically do it anymore.
26:32
And he gave everything he got. And yeah, he was upset, but I
26:36
wouldn't be too upset. You're going home still making
26:38
22 million, so he's going to be fine.
26:40
Jabba Jabba The guy that I want to see get called up is Spencer
26:44
Jones. He's been very, very hot right
26:46
now. The last three weeks he's been
26:48
hot. He's been called up from AA to
26:50
triple AI think he's batting 375 in the last 2 1/2 weeks.
26:56
He's been as hot as any Yankee in their farm system when it
26:59
comes to bats. Now a lot of people think that
27:01
they're going to wait at least one more year to call this kid
27:04
up. But if if he's hitting like that
27:06
in AAA, why not see what the kid has in in a week or two and and
27:10
see what he could do in the light up.
27:12
Maybe adding him to a lineup, maybe, you know, a double headed
27:16
game on a weekend. See what this guy could do in
27:18
the outfield, see what he could do as A5 tool player.
27:21
Now they say he's got tremendous speed, he's got tremendous
27:24
power. He's he, I did read that he's
27:27
fixed, fixed the speed of his bat in the offseason.
27:31
I, I think his stance is a little different than it was
27:34
last year. So it it's definitely helped him
27:36
when it comes to the plate. Now, obviously he's still very
27:39
young. He's 2223 years old and the
27:42
Yankees. So if you remember Aaron Judge,
27:45
you didn't see Aaron Judge until what, 2425 years old until they
27:49
called him up in the middle of the season and then his 20.
27:53
Aaron Judge went to college, too.
27:54
Yes, he did. And 25 at 25, Aaron Judge won
27:59
the rookie of the year and had that unbelievable season.
28:01
He was almost up for an MVP if it wasn't for Altuve.
28:04
If you remember that. Cheating Altuve.
28:06
Yeah. So I again, I, I'm not saying
28:09
Spencer Jones is Aaron Judge, but what the Yankees think that
28:12
this kid could be, could be the future of this outfield when
28:17
Aaron Judge has to step it step down or give somebody the reign
28:21
for the future when it comes to power or a superstar that the
28:25
Yankees are going to be calling up in the future.
28:27
I could see, yeah, I could see why they would do it.
28:31
I can see why they wouldn't. It's a very sample size of what
28:35
he's done in AAA and I can see why because everybody's excited
28:40
about it and he's obviously shown and made the adjustment.
28:44
But then it's OK. Now what happens?
28:46
You bring him up and he absolutely shits the bed and
28:49
goes O for 35. Now did you, did you make him
28:52
worse or did you make him better?
28:54
And the development side of it is, is it, is it sexy to bring
28:57
him up because is it going to put butts in seats?
29:00
Yeah. But as much as they love him,
29:02
right now in Tripoli he goes O for 30 and makes 2 airs in the
29:05
outfield. We're going to be having a
29:07
different conversation. Was that the right movement?
29:09
But Jabba, what happens if if he's a piece that the Yankees
29:12
are looking to trade to add another big bat, You call him
29:15
up, he gets a little hot, he goes up to the plate maybe 10
29:18
times and gets what, two home runs out of 10/10 at bats?
29:22
Then you have something to oh, we got a guy that's a future.
29:25
Superstar, everybody. Everybody already knows what
29:27
he's going to do. Doing it in the big leagues and
29:29
say they called him up today in four games isn't going to raise
29:33
his stock or lessen his stock. They're already projecting him
29:37
and that's all it is, is projections until he actually
29:39
goes and proves it. Yeah.
29:40
Volpe was supposed to be the next Derek Jeter.
29:42
We he's going to be a career 220 hitter.
29:44
Yeah. So we we know what you're going
29:46
to get. So I could see why we do it.
29:48
I I would be excited to see him. Like, it's nice that, you know,
29:51
they they cover some of these minor league games and we get to
29:54
watch them for free. Like when Skeens was in the
29:56
minor leagues and some of these other young big prospects.
29:58
I kind of I kind of relate him to CAG Leone from Kansas City
30:02
and and kind of how the rise and the stature left-handed, you
30:08
know, big prospect type of deal and keg learn just hit like a
30:11
490 foot Homer the other day. So his is translated very well.
30:16
So I could see it from both sides.
30:18
It's just I don't know the kid personally.
30:21
So I don't know how he would handle that failure of coming
30:24
up. So I'm.
30:25
Reading, I'm reading numbers right now what he's doing in AAA
30:28
now going going into the season in AA, he had sixteen home runs
30:33
in 49 AA games this season. And but since he's been called
30:38
up to AAA, he's cranked 5 bombs and is in his first 10 contest.
30:44
When you tack on the three double S and eight walks, he's
30:48
got a 1.315 OPS right now in AAA.
30:52
He's the hottest hitter right now in AAA in baseball.
30:56
And and again, it's still such a short sample size, but the
31:00
Yankees need some kind of spark. They need some kind of spark in
31:03
that maybe calling him up a week or two weeks.
31:07
Then you have something. If he gets a little hot up here,
31:09
nobody's seen him. Nobody's real.
31:11
None of these starters have actually seen him at the plate
31:14
and he gets hot. Then the Yankees have something
31:16
if they want to add a big bat and they have somebody out there
31:19
they're interested in, oh, we have Spencer Jones.
31:21
We'll trade you Spencer Jones for that bat or this bat or add
31:25
Spencer Jones in a, in a trade where you can add a pitcher or a
31:29
bullpen bullpen pitcher and a hitter to that, that, that,
31:33
that. I disagree completely.
31:35
Errol, like if they bring him up and he sucks like Jack Hagley
31:38
owns hit him 151. He was brought up.
31:40
He's not helping that team win. He has the power.
31:43
We've seen it every once in a while he's running into them and
31:46
crushing them and so we know the talents there.
31:48
He's not ready. Spencer Jones is striking out
31:51
33% of the time. So was Aaron Judge.
31:54
So was no. He wasn't.
31:55
Aaron Judge was under. 30 Aaron Judge was striking out a lot
31:58
when he got called up. He was at 37 percent, 37%.
32:02
It doesn't matter your goal. It does.
32:04
Yeah, OK, it does. It does.
32:07
There's a certain point you can't be above, and if you're
32:10
over 30 something percent, most of those guys don't make it in
32:13
Major League Baseball. This is the.
32:15
Yankee Judge is like 22. Well, 23.
32:17
Right, I don't care. The Yankees need a spark.
32:19
And they're. Not well they should because
32:21
doesn't get anything that he's doing anything there because
32:23
there's nowhere to play him. What do you bring him up?
32:25
The name is what are you going to play them?
32:26
They do where what is he doing? Where what is Anthony Volpe
32:29
doing he but that's irrelevant has nothing to do with this.
32:32
What did they call this Harold? It makes no sense what trade
32:35
Spencer Jones torpedo. Well, as you know the Yankees
32:38
hype their prospects. Spencer Jones isn't even a top
32:41
100 prospect in baseball hyping that he can trade him while he's
32:45
got the name recognition and getting some bombs.
32:47
His his bad BIP right now in AAA is 476.
32:51
That's called not unsustainable. He's not going to be that good
32:54
regular bad that's 300. So he's not going to hit this
32:57
one. There's no possible way with you
32:59
take advantage. Now with you is all you do is
33:02
look. I'm sorry, I make too much
33:03
sense. No, you don't.
33:05
You look at I make well. Because you don't know any of
33:07
these terms, you refuse to listen to us, and we teach them
33:09
to you. I.
33:09
Don't have to. I don't have to know.
33:11
These well, you would know that he's not ready if you did.
33:13
Well, good. And and if Spencer Jones comes
33:15
back, comes up and he. Actually they would have more
33:17
value trading him as a AAA player than as a major.
33:20
I disagree, That's a fact. Well, I disagree because the
33:23
Yankees have done this many, many times.
33:25
They've called people up, They've called players up, and
33:27
some of them have worked and some of that haven't.
33:30
I still think Luis Savarino. Bellinger, Judge, Dominguez, you
33:34
have Stanton, you have Ben Rice. Where's he going to go in the
33:37
lineup? Where do you play him?
33:39
He's not going to get regular at bats.
33:41
It makes no sense really to bring him up.
33:44
Either trading him or Dominguez. That's the only way it works.
33:48
And Dominguez is playing great right now.
33:50
Got to move so trade him for. This we got to get.
33:54
Out of this segment because we're running out of time, but
33:56
real quick and job, you can comment on it too.
33:58
The position that we keep hearing is third base and the
34:00
guy we keep hearing is Eugenio Suarez, he's third base.
34:04
He's got 29 home runs for the Diamondbacks.
34:06
They're not going anywhere this year.
34:08
He's an expiring contract, which means you wouldn't need to give
34:11
up the whole farm for him. You give him like a second rate
34:14
prospect to the Diamondbacks and now you have a real power hitter
34:19
in that lineup. He's got a lot of swing and miss
34:21
as well, but he's having a great last couple of seasons.
34:24
I would go for him right now. It would make a ton of sense and
34:28
then they stabilize that lineup. It makes a ton.
34:30
Doesn't work out for. Fishes.
34:31
It makes a ton of sense, that's why.
34:33
Well, who would? You rather have the guy who's
34:35
having an. Old first season, ladies and
34:37
gentlemen. It's it's because what fish
34:38
wants. If fish wants it, it makes a lot
34:40
of sense. Who do you want?
34:41
It's a lot of sense. Who do you want?
34:43
Thanks a lot. You want to put Spencer Jones
34:45
1/3, Fish? No, that's not what I'm saying.
34:47
If Spencer Jones is hitting right now and we could get a
34:50
spark and he can give a spark to the Yankees lineup right now and
34:54
I think that he is capable of doing that, the Yankees should
34:57
call him up and see what he could do.
34:59
For a week or play 3 out it doesn't.
35:01
It doesn't matter if they, if he's not, if he's not doing
35:03
well, send them back down. It's not going to just OK.
35:06
So, so so who do you? Who do you put him in for?
35:09
I don't right now I'm not even looking at that.
35:11
I'm looking at. Trade, trade him to the
35:13
Diamondbacks for Suarez and Merrill Kelly.
35:16
Merrill Kelly is a pitcher available as well.
35:18
He's like 36 or 37. He's he's got only got a year or
35:22
so left on his deal. He would make a lot of sense as
35:25
well. He's a very good pitcher.
35:26
He's about a strikeout in the inning, doesn't throw really
35:29
hard. But he's another one of those
35:31
guys I know speedy. You were saying the Mets are
35:32
looking at him. I would want them to, yes.
35:35
I don't know who's available right now when we know.
35:38
Those are the guys. Andy Alcantara.
35:40
After the All Star, All Star game, they're going to be teams
35:43
that probably don't think they have any chance of making the
35:46
playoffs where they're going to open up their rosters and say,
35:49
OK, we got this guy, we got that guy.
35:51
This is who we're offering. I don't think yet you're going
35:54
to see teams, you know, on the bottom of those lists to saying,
35:57
OK, we're this guy's available. That's guy.
36:00
That guy's available I think after the All Star game and and
36:04
the trade deadline is what 2 weeks after the All Star game,
36:06
which is about what 3 weeks the. End of the month, last day of
36:09
the month. So, so I expect in a week's
36:11
time, we're going to hear that there are teams that are going
36:13
to be willing to trade this guy, that guy, or maybe even
36:16
prospects that they like in their farm system that they
36:18
believe are going to be really good players in the future.
36:21
And if I were the Yankees right now, I'd start looking at their
36:24
future. And and again, the Yankees are,
36:27
even though they have young players, they're more older than
36:30
they were, are younger. They have a lot of veterans,
36:33
guys that have been in a league for a significant amount of
36:35
time. Who is their future?
36:37
What do they have to lean on in the future after Aaron Judge is
36:41
gone? That's the question.
36:43
Is Spencer Jones the guy? I don't know if the Yankees
36:45
believe that he is. And if the Yankees believe that
36:47
he is, they got a they got to hide him and they got to say,
36:51
you know what? This guy is untouchable.
36:53
I remember last year Brian Cashman had two guys.
36:55
He said we're not, we're not trading him.
36:57
There's no way we're trading him no matter what you give us.
37:00
And he's one of those guys. Is he a tradable piece or is he
37:04
non touchable? That's the question I want to
37:07
know for Brian Cashman and if he's going to go out there and
37:09
speak about how open he is to make trades at the trade down
37:12
line. Well, be open and stop beating
37:15
around the Bush, which I like. I say over the last couple of
37:18
years, Brian Cashman has been he beats around the Bush and he
37:21
doesn't get to the answers that we're asking him.
37:24
And that's who's available and who's not.
37:27
Quickly before we move on, I like this one from CT Cars, Seth
37:30
Lugo and Michael Garcia from the Royals.
37:32
Lugo's having a very Goodyear 2.67 ERA and Garcia is a 25 year
37:36
old who played both 2nd and 3rd. 300 hitter that could steal
37:39
bases. After Tuesday's game, Juan Soto
37:42
responded in an arrogant way to a reporter asking if he would
37:47
have liked to make the All Star team.
37:49
When the reporter asked if he wanted to be on the team or Soto
37:53
responded what do you think team?
37:56
The reporter responded by saying how other players would like a
38:02
vacation and Soto made a face at him.
38:04
Soto was also emphasizing how he wouldn't get to get the All Star
38:11
game bonus since he didn't make the team, calling it a lot of
38:15
money left on the table. Players who make an All Star
38:18
team get 20,000 each, but a clause in Soto's contract gives
38:23
him an extra 100,000 1000. Soto is making 61 million this
38:28
season, which is 289,000 per game and is in in his first year
38:36
of a record setting 15 year, $765 million contract.
38:40
Soto has made an All Star team just four times in his
38:45
eight-year stint in the MLB. Juan Soda's a bitch, OK?
38:51
He's a crybaby, and that's what he is.
38:54
And This is why, after you hear all these injuries, that Juan
38:58
Soto is not going to be a part of that roster.
39:02
The problem right now with guys like Juan Soto is he thinks he's
39:06
better than he is. He really does.
39:09
He thinks he's a bigger and better player than Aaron Judges.
39:14
Now we all know that's not true. And in his heart of hearts
39:18
before, as the season was prolonging and they were asking
39:21
questions about Pete Alonso and they were comparing contrasting
39:25
Pete Alonso to Aaron Judge. He said, I was playing behind
39:28
the best player or playing in front of the best player in
39:30
baseball. And now I'm playing against this
39:32
guy. Now all of a sudden, Pete Alonso
39:34
is having a great season and he signed his three-year extension
39:37
and it could be up for free agency if he opts out of the
39:40
contract in the offseason. And he's one of the hottest
39:42
hitters in baseball and actually made the All Star team as a
39:45
reserve. He thinks, hey, you know what,
39:48
if Pete Alonso made the team, why shouldn't I?
39:51
I'm the hottest hitter in baseball right now in the last 2
39:54
1/2 weeks. Guess what, Juan?
39:56
In the first month and a half, you were one of the worst
39:59
hitters in baseball, and you were batting at one point. 2/20
40:04
at one point you are absolutely putrid now all of a sudden you
40:07
got hot, you're bad, got hot you're hitting home runs and
40:10
you're hitting RB is and you should make the team over this
40:12
guy, that guy and this guy come on.
40:15
The fact is right now he should be worried about the Mets making
40:19
the playoffs, making a run in the second-half of the season,
40:21
not worrying about $100,000. If you remember before the
40:25
season started with Beatty, he opened up his pockets because he
40:28
wanted Beatty's number to buy him a nice beautiful truck.
40:32
Do you remember that he spent like $55,000 for Beatty because
40:37
he wanted to make sure he got his number.
40:39
Now all of a sudden, $100,000 is a lot of money.
40:42
This guy makes $289,000 per game and he's crying about 100K.
40:46
Seriously, there are a lot more desperate people right now in
40:49
the majors, especially some of these young guys.
40:52
They're not even making anywhere close to that.
40:54
Ronald Lacuna assigned, what was it, a 10 year, $100 million
40:58
contract. What was it five years ago?
41:01
He's making 10 million a year. And you want to know something?
41:05
If you would ask me right now, who would I rather, Ronald Ocuna
41:08
or Juan Soto? I'm taking Ronald Lacuna in a
41:11
heartbeat. It's not even an argument.
41:13
I think anybody, when you watch Ronald Ocuna at the that at the
41:17
plate and what he could do when he is healthy in the outfield, I
41:21
don't think Juan Soto even understands what a star is.
41:24
Now, I'm not saying that Juan Soto isn't special.
41:27
I'm not saying that he can't hit in the clutch.
41:29
I'm not saying Juan Soto hasn't won a World Series with the
41:32
Nationals at 19 years old. What I'm saying is he thinks
41:35
he's better than he is. He thinks that he's a top three
41:39
player. Let's be honest, he's not.
41:41
Now you can argue he's a top six, top seven player, but there
41:45
are other players right now in great seasons and a lot of young
41:47
players coming up that we're watching right in front of our
41:50
eyes become stars. And one of them, Wood over there
41:54
with the Nationals, has 23 home runs and 69 RB.
41:58
Is these guys are young, 22 years old.
42:01
One, you're 27 now. I'm not saying you're old, but
42:04
you're getting there at that age where you're going to be a bona
42:07
fide DH. And he's coming out there and
42:09
saying he should be a starter, he should be a reserve player.
42:12
Dude, you are not. You were not good enough in the
42:16
beginning of the season. I'm not saying you're not good
42:18
enough in the second-half and you might not be good enough in
42:21
the second-half. It's just the facts are
42:23
statistics. And as Fish says, I don't
42:26
understand statistics. I understand what the line says
42:30
and the line tells me what is he batting right now, 26265 And I,
42:36
I don't know, give me the number right now.
42:37
What is Juan Soto hitting as far as average?
42:40
Speedy. Let's go type it up.
42:41
Type it up, Speedy. Mr. Producer, What is he
42:44
batting? 266. 266 So he's batting 266.
42:49
Let me ask you guys a question. A bona fide star who's making
42:53
$765 million. Sixty, 1,000,000 a year.
42:58
Do you think at 266 he should be making the All Star team?
43:03
Speedy answer that question, not on someone.
43:05
I'm asking if you're seeing the batting average right now at
43:08
266, do you think you should make the make the All Star team
43:12
over the players in front of him?
43:14
Tatis, he's having a better. That's not what I'm asking you.
43:16
That's the only one to finish. That's not what I'm asking you
43:19
and Tatis is the again, they got to pick one player from each
43:23
team to make the All Star team. And by the way, Machado is just
43:26
a star. Machado should make it every
43:28
year because he's codified the best third baseman in old
43:31
baseball. Yeah, Machado definitely
43:33
deserved it, and the five other outfielders above him definitely
43:35
deserved it too. Obviously Acuna got the starter
43:37
vote over James Wood, which maybe he doesn't get, but but
43:40
that's the game's in Atlanta, so that's fine.
43:42
Like it's the same thing I mentioned with Freeman over
43:44
Alonzo. You're going to tell me that
43:45
Ronald Acuna is not after coming back, he's not playing better.
43:48
He's been great. He's playing better than Watson.
43:51
No, no, no. I'm saying James Wood.
43:52
James Woods, I think. James Wood is a young player.
43:54
Everybody wants to see this young kid in an All Star game.
43:57
That's what you want to see. You want to see what this guy
43:59
could do. It's center stage with millions
44:02
of people watching when it's the number one thing when it comes
44:05
to sports on television. That's what everybody wants to
44:07
see. You want to see the Next up and
44:09
coming Aaron Judge at the plate who's 6 foot 7, who's 280 lbs,
44:15
who's batting, smacking the ball, you know, 450 feet.
44:18
That's what you want to see. You don't want to see Juan Soto
44:22
at the at the plate because he's not getting a hit, crying or
44:25
making his little wave or pointing his finger because he's
44:28
not hitting home runs. I think it's just, it's very
44:30
bitch like. And I say this because Juan Soto
44:34
has always been this crybaby type of player.
44:37
Remember when the Mets got Juan Soto, he went up there and he
44:40
answered questions and he said, well, I, I went to the team that
44:44
I think has a better chance of winning.
44:45
And he he said it. So emphasis, you know, emphasis
44:48
what, what's the word emphatically there it is
44:51
emphatically saying that this is the team.
44:54
This is this team has the better chance of winning a
44:56
championship. When Aaron Judge made a face
44:58
when the press came to him at spring training and said that,
45:01
he says, well, I don't know what Juan say.
45:03
I mean, Juan's a great player, but he's out of his mind pretty
45:06
much. That's what Aaron Judd said.
45:08
You're not going to go out there and throw a team under the bus
45:11
that's made the playoffs convincingly.
45:13
Convincingly for how many years? Who's had a winning, winning
45:18
roster for what, 33 years, 34 years?
45:22
And a Mets team that's won a World Series since 1986?
45:25
I'm not going to brag about that.
45:27
Who's made one, One World Series?
45:29
Yes, One World Series since 1986.
45:32
You're going to brag about that? I mean, seriously, Juan Soto
45:35
cannot sell anything. And what he has had to say over
45:39
the last couple of weeks, and as a matter of fact, I would, if I
45:42
was Juan Soto, I'd take my nice $61 million and go out and buy
45:47
myself an island, Go out there to an island somewhere in Tahiti
45:52
or of that magnitude and go buy himself a yacht and hang out
45:56
over there with the Sharks with his family.
45:59
Because he was crying that the Yankees didn't treat his family
46:02
very right over there with the organization, especially in the
46:05
playoffs. Because the Yankees wouldn't let
46:06
him on the field when they were winning, when they won when.
46:08
I think it gets Cleveland. They wouldn't let him on the on
46:11
the field when and they were celebrating.
46:12
I I just think all Juan Soto cares about is himself.
46:15
He's a me player. He's not a tight team player and
46:18
that's what it's showing right now.
46:20
He's not showing you that. Oh, it's all about the Mets.
46:22
It's all about the organization. It's all about me.
46:25
Why am I not making $100,000? Why am I not playing the All
46:29
Star game? Why am not I not respected for
46:32
the season that I'm having, especially over the last couple
46:34
of weeks? That is what I see.
46:36
What? Juan Soto?
46:37
It's me, me, me and nobody else. Yeah, it makes no sense to bitch
46:41
about 100 $20,000 just because you didn't get the clause in
46:43
your contract. Your contract is 14 more years.
46:45
You make some All Star game appearances, you'll get
46:47
accumulate all that. That's like point OO 2% of like
46:51
what you're making per game or per season nevertheless per game
46:54
where you're making 289,000 and then you're lashing out at a
46:57
reporter for just asking that question where yeah, if you're a
47:00
snub, if you're a if you're a guy that's a borderline All
47:02
Star, Yeah, you're going to be asked that questions, you're
47:04
going to lash out at the reporter.
47:05
So it seemed a little bit, you know, like you said, arrogant.
47:08
It seems like an ego trip that you probably have to expect a
47:12
little bit with somebody that good, but you were.
47:14
That good? He's batted 266.
47:17
Let get his batting average to 300.
47:20
Do what Aaron Judge is doing, then you could say that.
47:22
Good. All right, I'm so tired of
47:24
hearing Juan Soto try to compare himself to Otani and Aaron
47:28
Judge. He is nowhere close to any one
47:30
of those guys and he needs to stop.
47:32
He's making more money than those guys.
47:34
He's making more money an average every single year than
47:37
Otani. Otani is a better player than
47:39
him. That's just a fact.
47:40
Why is he jumping out there and trying to compare him, to
47:44
compare himself to the two best players in all the baseball?
47:47
The face is a baseball. He's not.
47:49
Stop crying about it. It's also a very loaded position
47:52
too when you look at the National League outfield
47:54
starters. We talked about Acuna and James
47:55
Wood already. The two Cubs guys obviously are
47:57
going to get in over Soto as well too.
47:59
So just the circumstances in general, you're not really
48:01
judging the the top 25 total baseball players because like we
48:05
were saying, would all these second baseman, all these other
48:07
relievers or stuff make it all the time too is another
48:09
question. But it definitely looks bad and
48:11
immature the way. He did it, yeah.
48:13
It's he just keeps digging himself a bigger hole for people
48:17
like to not like him. And it just, it doesn't make
48:21
sense. And for me, I'm just like, OK,
48:25
you made the decision that you made, OK.
48:27
You came out and said it's different hitting, not having
48:30
Aaron Judge behind you. So you basically, you just took
48:33
a good old Tommy on Pete Alonso. Did he have A and and then, you
48:37
know, you come and say this like nobody's feeling sorry for you,
48:40
dude. Like 100 grand.
48:42
Yeah, OK, Nobody, nobody's feeling sorry.
48:46
And I I just, there's so many other ways.
48:49
And as you, as we talked about handling the media early on the
48:53
show, it's just understand like what position you're in.
48:59
Yes, you got off to a slow start.
49:01
You're doing what you normally do and that's what type of
49:05
player you are like and just embrace it.
49:07
You're you got, you got what you wanted, you got your money.
49:10
So nobody really is going to care or feel bad for you.
49:14
Like, oh, I'm leaving money on the table.
49:17
Yeah, but some people it takes them 3-4 years to make 100 grand
49:22
and you do that in like 4 innings.
49:23
So nobody's going to feel bad for you.
49:26
And he just, he keeps digging himself bigger holes.
49:30
And I, I get like, you know, people's comments.
49:32
Well, he's, you know, one of the best in yeah, he's the second
49:35
highest OPS or in the 9 hundreds or whatever.
49:39
And I get that's a part of it too.
49:41
But there's so many guys literally that deserve it that
49:47
aren't the name. And I think he's like trying to
49:49
rely on his name so much and the fact that he signed this.
49:52
Crazy deal. But I mean, PCA just literally
49:56
was the fastest of 25 and 25 over like Hall of Farmers.
50:00
And he did it in 93 games. The fastest to do it before was
50:03
in 95 games. And so it's just those guys that
50:06
are putting together full season, then doing things that
50:11
he's not doing. And yeah, everybody's going to
50:13
be like, well, Cunya doesn't have the amount of the bats, but
50:15
in the time that he's done it, he's done more than Soto's done.
50:20
And that's the fan vote too. And I think that's part of too
50:24
why, you know, when it comes to the like, there's a lot of fans
50:27
that don't feel sorry for you, so they're not going to vote for
50:30
you. And that's just, that's the
50:31
nature of the beast. So if he was smarter, anybody in
50:34
his damn camp or whatever he wants to call it, they just need
50:38
to tell him to shut up. Well, I don't think anybody's
50:40
going to tell him to shut up because nobody controls Juan
50:43
Soto but Juan Soto. And I think Juan Soto for years.
50:47
And I'm not even speaking about when he was with the Yankees.
50:50
How about with the Padres? How many times did?
50:52
We was really bad. I mean, that was embarrassing,
50:54
what he did in the dugout with Machado and Tatis.
50:57
Remember that he. Threw their team culture under
51:00
the bus. I mean, seriously, that outburst
51:02
that he had over there, the guy just has outburst.
51:05
How could you go out there and do the things that you have done
51:08
such an early part of your career and be a star and, and
51:12
then go out there from team to team and say, well, you know
51:15
what? I'm I'm Juan Soto.
51:16
You're I don't care if you're Manny Machado.
51:18
I don't care if you're Fernando duties.
51:19
I'm Juan Soto. I'm I'm the best player in
51:23
baseball. I'm the best Dominican in
51:25
baseball. Meanwhile, at that time he was
51:27
playing with two very talented Spanish players.
51:31
I mean Tatis, you could say he cheated.
51:33
Whatever you want to say after that, after the fact, he's still
51:37
playing very good baseball and Manny Machado, come on man, that
51:41
guy snapped his leg. Remember that snapped his leg
51:44
and came back and he's still one of the best players in the
51:47
league. You can argue he's a top ten
51:49
player in the league with his bat and and the defensive style
51:53
of gaming out. Who's better at third base than
51:56
Manny Machado? Really, How many times?
51:58
In the outfield than Tatis, he was a shortstop and then he gets
52:01
hurt and all of a sudden he's playing a Platinum glove
52:03
outfield. I mean, what is Juan Soto in the
52:05
outfield? Is he?
52:06
Give me a break. He's butrid.
52:08
I've seen over and over again this year with the Mets.
52:11
Make blunters. His numbers got to be below like
52:14
he's got to be below average. I don't I don't know the
52:17
advanced metric on how they based upon I get, you know, run
52:21
saved or whatever, but I think he's.
52:23
The high 30s percentile outfielder.
52:26
Yeah, makes sense. You can't sit here today and
52:30
actually believe that Juan Soto actually believes he's he's
52:33
better than Aaron Judge or believes he's better than Shay
52:37
Otani. He's not.
52:38
And if he does believe that whatever he's sipping or he's
52:41
hanging out with little Wayne and smoking a Dutch, well, he
52:44
could, he should buy him a couple, a couple of Oz and smoke
52:48
a couple of more times because he must be on something.
52:52
I may be drinking some dessert with him.
52:54
I I have no idea what Juan Soto actually believes, but if he
52:58
believes that, then he's really that crazy.
53:00
But nevertheless, I'm sitting here today and wondering why
53:04
Juan Soto would go up and talk to the New York press, as we
53:08
mentioned, Mike Brown, and not have APR person right next to
53:12
him trying to control his temper.
53:15
He has a bad temper. And when somebody asks him a
53:18
silly question, he answers it with a silly statement and the
53:22
fact that nobody knows how to control him.
53:24
Why isn't a billionaire? You know what I'm talking about?
53:27
Mr. Uncle Stevie actually reaching out to Juan Soto.
53:31
Now, you all know what happened at that press conference when
53:33
the the Mets signed him and he said what he said about the
53:36
Yankees. If I was Steve Cohen, I'm
53:38
reaching out to Juan and saying don't do that.
53:40
Don't bring up the Yankees. You're a Met.
53:42
I don't want to hear any more Yankees out of your mouth.
53:45
But that's the problem with Juan Soto.
53:47
He doesn't hold back on what he believes and watch.
53:50
I know he's close with Francisco Lindor.
53:52
If anything happens in the second-half, anything happens in
53:56
the second-half, what do you think Juan Soto's going to do?
53:58
You think he's going to take responsibility or is he going to
54:01
throw somebody onto the bus? And who's the leader right now
54:03
for the New York Mets, Francisco Lindor?
54:06
So what are you guys going to actually be surprised if you're
54:11
hearing something go on in a dugout?
54:13
Because he did it against Manny Machado, which him and Manny
54:15
Machado will quote, UN quote, brothers.
54:18
They threw Manny Machado under the bus.
54:20
He threw Fernando Titis on the bus with their stupid handshakes
54:24
that day. They have.
54:25
It's ridiculous. And I'm going to be blunt with
54:28
Juan Soto, if he doesn't know how to control his mouth, don't
54:31
say anything. You're going to make yourself
54:34
look like a spectator, not a leader, a spectator.
54:38
And if you look at his as a spectator, players on your team
54:41
are not going to want to be around you.
54:43
They're not even going to want to hang out with you after the
54:45
games. Quickly before we move on, to
54:47
put it in perspective how bad the Padres thing got, Errol and
54:50
I both picked him to go to the world.
54:51
Series here. In 2023 and then in August, we
54:54
had a story coming out throwing the entire brass of the Padres
54:57
team culture, from the players to the ownership.
54:59
On the embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing and Manny Machado,
55:02
I got to give Manny Machado a lot of credit because Manny
55:05
Machado could have came out and threw Juan Soto under the bus.
55:08
But he said pretty much said stop being a bitch.
55:11
He he said it in layman's terms. You're you're, you're a grown
55:15
up. Act like a grown up, act like a
55:16
leader, don't act like a bitch. And I, and I love that about and
55:19
that's why I would love Manny Machado on the Yankees.
55:22
I would like that's never going to happen, but I would love to
55:25
see Manny play for the Yankees because he is he's fit to be a
55:28
Yankee. He always wanted he grew up a
55:30
Yankee fan and the Yankees were interested in when he when he
55:33
was when he was available, but it just didn't happen for the
55:36
New York Yankees. They decided to go elsewhere as
55:39
Bryce Harper wanted to be a Yankee and they decided to go
55:42
elsewhere as well. All right, let's go to the deuce
55:45
of the day. The deuce of the day, you log,
55:49
not a log. I don't have a log but.
55:58
Oh, right, Our deuce of the day is very simple and this is going
56:01
to be the fight of the century. As Jake Paul has come out and
56:06
said, it's going to put women's box in all the way to the top.
56:11
As on Friday on Netflix, the first women's main event in
56:17
Netflix history will be Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano.
56:23
And this is going to be a fight that's going to end all
56:26
arguments as all both of them have been back and forth one
56:31
after the other. This is their third fight.
56:33
This is going to be exciting. This is something at Madison
56:36
Square Garden. Madison Square Garden is
56:38
promoting Jake Paul. The only thing I don't like
56:41
about this fight is Jake Paul is behind me.
56:43
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Jake Paul is behind
56:47
this whole conversation. He has signed practically every
56:50
single woman boxer. He's now signing mixed martial
56:54
artist under his MVP brand and I do respect him for that.
56:58
What I don't respect is he's taking shots out of all these
57:02
professional organizations from boxing, from the WBA, from the
57:05
WBO to the UFC. And I don't think Dana White is
57:09
a great president and well was at one point an owner.
57:14
The problem right now lies that boxing has fallen apart when it
57:19
comes to promotion because guys like Oscar De la Hoyer or and
57:23
some of these big name promoters have making money from these
57:26
fighters. Jake Paul is putting money in
57:29
these fighters pockets. The only thing that Jake Paul is
57:31
doing that's affecting what this fight is going to be is he's
57:34
center stage. Nobody cares about what Katie
57:37
Taylor has said about this fight or Amanda Serrano.
57:40
No, they care about what Jake Paul has to say every single
57:44
press conference they've had coming up to Friday's fight.
57:48
That's the problem right now. Now I think these two fighters
57:51
are sensational. The two fights that we saw,
57:53
especially on the Tyson card, they're two fantastic, fantastic
57:58
fighters. This is going to be a brawl all
58:01
the way to the end. I expect blood.
58:03
I expect championship boxing all the way through.
58:06
Congratulations to Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano.
58:08
I hope it brings in a tremendous amount of money.
58:11
But who's it going into the pockets?
58:13
Is it going into Jake Bald pockets or is it going into
58:16
Katie Taylor's or Amanda Serrano?
58:18
Only time will tell, ladies and gentlemen.
58:20
So that, ladies and gentlemen, is my deuce of the day.
58:23
All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to all the fans tuning
58:25
in and listening to our show throughout the week.
58:28
By the way, I want to give a shout out to all the Apple and
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The I'm going to the I'm going to the private Reuben party
58:38
micro Reuben party snatch. I got I got invited to the
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Fanatic pound. Somebody's going to pound them
58:44
out tonight anyways. Thank you to all the fans on
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Thank you for supporting what we're doing.
59:01
Thank you to Blue Wire. I we didn't get a chance to do
59:04
that. Thank you to Blue Wire for
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giving us the opportunity to be on their platform and do what we
59:09
do. We'll be back next week.
59:11
Speedy, we have any guests. Yes, we do.
59:12
We got on Monday at 9:00. Returning to the show, former
59:15
readers and Lion safety Stuart Schweiger will be back.
59:17
At the Doo Doo Doo. And then I believe Nathan has
59:19
our guests for the 16th. Don't.
59:21
Yeah, I can I say it, please. Of course.
59:24
All right, So I booked you guys. Current Miami Dolphin safety
59:28
Jordan Poirier, Doo Doo. He's coming at 8:45.
59:33
Doo Doo Droba also. Play with the Browns, see the
59:37
Bills in his career and. Now just Scoop sits on the
59:40
sitter. Boy, did he ever last.
59:43
Last show Monday. It was a nice big dump.
59:46
Anyways, we'll be back. Yeah.
59:48
Next week. Goodnight.
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