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Yankees and Mets both win Opening Day: What will be the expectations this year? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The Nets lose their star play. They lose their star closer.
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The Nets are in a bad spot right now.
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I've never seen a Ranger team quick before the Olympics.
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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I played 82 games. You don't see LeBron doing that,
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but Jack Hughes did after getting his teeth knocked out to
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play every single shift he got back in the game.
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So for all the fans out there was, was probably wondering what
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was going on last week or actually not even last week.
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Monday we had, we, we were using so many different things.
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So I, I want to apologize to the fans, but to get into stuff
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that's happened over the last 24 hours, we've had a lot of
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meetings. Well, I've had a lot of
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meetings, but we had a nice meeting last night.
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We we hired a manager and there's a lot of things going on
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on the back end of the show and, and we want to have fun.
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We want to be different. Is this not one of those show
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shows that we're going to be speaking in mics with producers
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or any executive people in the background telling us what to
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say? We don't do that on the show.
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We know what we're going to get into.
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We know how we're going to attack it.
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And it's it's springtime here in New York.
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It's like, I think it was like 60 to 63° today.
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It is a beautiful day. If it doesn't go any hotter, I
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worry every single day when it comes to the weather because I
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don't know if it's going to snow in the springtime.
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So the springtime is so horrendous and I hate it.
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So for all the fans out there, I'm a spring baby.
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Baby I I was born April 29th, 1982.
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I never liked the spring because I don't know if it's going to be
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hot. I don't know if it's going to
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rain and I've seen it around my birthday time.
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It would snow. The only thing good about my
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birthday is April 29th is around.
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It's right around the corner or it's even before the it's after
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the draft. No, it's before the draft.
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No, it's after the draft, so April, I think what is the draft
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is April 26th this year, Am I not?
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Am I not mistaken? I don't know, but that's
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something that I'm always excited for.
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Usually the draft comes in usually the 27th or 28th.
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One time, I think it was during the. 23rd to the 25th.
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This year, All right, So it's earlier this year because
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usually, and I'll say this usually it's never that early
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and it's been pushed around between 29 and 27, sometimes 26.
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It never goes to April 23rd. But the NFL, you know, they're
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they're they're drawing fans from Pittsburgh and all the
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different states they're going to be doing in a did in Kansas
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City. So they're jumping from state to
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state. It usually gets held in New York
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and I remember quitting when you were drafted.
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It was in New York. Am I not mistaken?
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No, you're not mistaken. You were absolutely correct.
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So it was they moving around, they doing some branded things
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like we are. Now let me ask your question.
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It was at Radio City when you. Were Radio City when I was
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there? Yeah, yeah.
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So Quentin was drafted in what was it 2013, 2014, 2012.
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So, and, and it's interesting because I love the festivities
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for all these events. It's always great.
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The young players, they, they do interviews, the red carpet.
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It's beautiful. But the only thing it's not
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beautiful is I got to look at Rodger Goodell's face for a
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significant amount of time. There's no beauty in that,
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ladies and gentlemen, looking at that man's face.
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But he's a ginger. So all you gingers out there, if
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you want to make 50, $5,000,000 and robbed the league, maybe
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you'll get lucky and be Roger Goodell one day.
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Who knows? Roger Goodell is never stepping
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down. Why?
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Because the all the owners are giving him all the I think it's
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if I'm not mistaken, he has a lifetime insurance.
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Him and his family, he's got his own jet, he's got everything.
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Who's better than Roger Goodell? He's a lucky.
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You know what? I'm not going to say it because
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I don't want to curse anybody out, but he's absolutely like
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that, ladies and gentlemen. Anyways, so let's get into it.
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Opening Day was yesterday and the Yankees had the opportunity
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to show off on Netflix. The Yankees defeated the Giants
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7 to nothing in the first game of the MLB season.
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The Yankees got five runs in just two innings of All Star on
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All Star pitcher Logan Webb with six straight Yankees reaching
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base in that inning. Max free pitch 6.1 scoreless
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innings allowing only one walk, two hits and struck out four.
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Which a lot of people weren't happy when it came to DraftKings
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and FanDuel. Just so everybody knows cuz the
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estimation was he had to break 5 5 strikeouts to win some money.
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So a lot of people didn't win some money.
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The bigger issue was a lot of complaining complaints coming
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from the ML BS first at Netflix broadcast which included a bad
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interview with Rob Manfred, a weird Yankees lineup
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introduction with women dancing through right next to taxi cabs
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and fat Joes lean back and the score bug as we all said,
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randomly disappearing throughout the game.
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The Mets beat the Pirates in their Opening Day game 11 to 7,
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including five runs in the first inning that knocked out Paul
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Schemes out of the game. Freddy Peralta struggled in his
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Mets debut, pitching just five innings and allowing four runs,
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while new Mets hitters like Louise Robert and Marcus Simeon
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had two hits and an RBI in their Mets debuts.
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I watched the Yankee game. I watched pretty much the whole
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game and Max Free pitched a great game.
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I know Yankee fans want him to pitch 67 strikeouts and and
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pitch 7 innings and maybe even pitch a a complete game.
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But Max Freed last year was fighting injury all season long.
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He missed a significant amount of time.
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I think if I'm not mistaken he missed up over a month because
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of injury. Three weeks or a month, but he
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was he was up and down in the second-half of the season.
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He started off really, really strong.
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He was going to be he was up for the Cy Young and it kind of fell
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out of that, that conversation at the tail end of the season.
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He still won a lot of games for the Yankees.
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He is their ace. When Garrett Cole comes back,
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he's probably going to be Garrett Cole's going to be the
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number two. He will not be the number one.
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Max Freed, they're going to ride and die with because Max Freed
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is a lefty. He's got all the talent in the
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world. We've seen what he's done in his
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career with the Braves. He had a great season with the
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Yankees. It just he wasn't as good in the
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second-half as he was in the first half because of the finger
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injury that he had, the blister injury, which he's had that
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problem for the last couple of years with the Braves and with
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the Yankees. Hopefully he doesn't have any
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blisters this year. Maybe he'll be up for a Saiyan,
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but he pitched fantastically against a Giants lineup that is
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really good. Chapman is a good hitter, Gevers
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is a good hitter. They've got guys that can hit in
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that lineup for the fact that the Yankees shut them down and
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shut them out with their bullpen.
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And the Yankees bullpen is always good in the first half of
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the season. And then when the second-half
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comes around, they're not as good.
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They go from one of the top five to falling probably in the
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teens, 1314 by the end of the season.
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Now everybody wants to blame Aaron Boone for that and maybe
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you can point your fingers at him because that's the only
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thing a real manager controls is the bullpen and the pitching.
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But watching the game and I, I'll say this, I respect
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Netflix. I respect it.
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I love everything that they do. I really do.
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I like the movies, I like the documentaries, They're
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sensational, they're fantastic, multibillion dollar industry.
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But when you look at Jake Paul and all that other stuff that
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we've seen over the last couple of years and Jake Paul's going
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black, it black outs. You can't watch all the fights,
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goes in and goes out. The stream's not strong, it's
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back. The same thing happened with
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this Yankee game. There was the Yankees went up 3
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nothing. And nobody knew because it was
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it was still 00 on Netflix. And I, I know the introduction,
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I, me and fish were going back and forth.
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We were talking about the, the Fat Joe song lean back and the
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taxis with the Yankee emblem all over them.
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And there's, I don't know what you call them, dancers dancing
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in front of the taxis. Is it embarrassing?
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I wouldn't say it was embarrassing, but you're
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knocking what New York is all about.
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New York is not about taxis. There's a lot of them, but
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that's not how we want to be portrayed.
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Oh, where there's a million taxi drivers, they're going to run
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you over. That's not what you want to
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portray when it comes to New York City and New York.
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And it is a New York State of mind.
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It always is and it always has been.
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But the fact here is when you think about what happened in
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this game, Aaron Judge was over 4.
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He had four strikeouts. Everybody says Aaron Judge
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hasn't looked good throughout the WBC.
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He hasn't looked good in game #1 Aaron Judge is still one of the
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elite hitters in baseball. He will figure it out.
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He in the last couple of years, he's battered over 300.
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This guy is the best, one of the best, if not the best hitter in
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all the baseball. Almost won the Triple Crown last
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year. He was up for the Triple Crown
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all the way into probably the last two months of the season.
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And the fact here is as a Yankee fan, you should be excited.
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Why? Because the Yankees went in to
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San Francisco and shut down a very good San Francisco Giant
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offense. They did.
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And and Logan Webb was not as good as he has been over the
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years. But Logan Webb, usually if you
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get, if you want to get to Logan Webb, the only way you're going
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to get to Logan Webb, guys, is he get to him early because once
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he settles in, he's one of the more unhittable pitchers in all
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of baseball. And the Yankees to me with their
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lineup. And you can go up and down that
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lineup. Trent, Trent Grissom, who batted
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at #1 center fielder, 5 at bats, one hit, two RB is Aaron Judge
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was oh, for four, actually, oh for five.
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Cody Bellinger got a run and a hit.
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Ben Rice, a run, a hit and an RBI.
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So you go up and down. The guy that really a lot of
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people were questioning this year if he's going to stay
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healthy with his elbow problems is Giancarlo Stanton.
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And honest to God, watching Giancarlo Stanton in this game,
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he looks healthy. He has a pretty good timing
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swing. He looked really, really good in
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the game. And if the Yankees can keep him
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healthy all season long, all season long, how about they
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don't even have to keep him healthy all season long.
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Make sure that he's going to be in that line up at least 130
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games this year. And then you decide to sit him
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out at the tail end of the season to get him ready for the
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playoffs because he's one of the more natural hitters in the
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playoffs for the New York Yankees.
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He's been the best hitter for the New York Yankees over the
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last couple of years in the playoffs.
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He's got two years left. The Yankees can buy him out if
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he has an offseason this year, they can buy him out next year.
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He, he's only making $19 million next year.
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I mean, that's a lot of money. But I'm, I'm just saying for a
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baseball player, a superstar and John Colorstan, I wouldn't call
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him a superstar, but he is a star.
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He's one of the strongest hitters in baseball still.
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The hit, the hit set he had yesterday, he didn't even have
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to put full contact on the ball and it was all the way out to
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the center field, to the right field.
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This guy's got tremendous power and if this line up works the
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way it looked and worked with the against the Giants in game
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number one, this line up is not going to have any problem
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scoring runs. Now, they're not going to score
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seven runs a game because a lot of these guys go into slumps.
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Besides Aaron Judge, everybody hit in the game, every one of
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them from top to bottom, Austin Wells.
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Austin Wells looks really good. He looked good in the WBC.
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As a matter of fact, Austin Wells was one of the best
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players in the WBC and he looks good right now.
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Maybe it's the beard and the mustache, maybe growing the
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facial hair, because he didn't have much of that last year.
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And now you can have that being that the Yankees have changed
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their rules, their guidelines, But this team is is good.
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And I believe this team's going to win more than 90 games this
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year as long as they stay healthy.
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The pitching, there's a lot of questions.
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They sent Luis Gil down to the minors.
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They have a lot of pitchers. Schmidt is back.
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They they have a talented team, Schlittler Rodan and eventually
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Garrett Cole. A lot of people were complaining
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to the Yankees. Why?
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Why would you send Luis Gil down when he's one of the more
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talented pitches the Yankees have on this roster?
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And one of the main reasons why Luisio was sent down is his
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location of the ball in in pre season.
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I watched him, I watched him pitch twice in pre season.
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He was not as good in the pre season over the past.
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Now it's pre season. That's why they're going to give
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him some opportunity reps so he can get his pitches back in, you
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know, and get his location back and his speed pick up and, and
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he'll get called up probably in the next couple of weeks.
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But we have to expect that Ben Rice is going to be an everyday
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first baseman. I know they brought Paul
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Goldschmidt back. They're not going to play Ben
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Rice back-to-back days. Ben Rice the way the Yankees
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want to set this up. He's the future 1st baseman for
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this team. He can hit is on base percentage
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last year for a guy that's young or it wasn't a rookie.
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He's two years into the major leagues last year, but he got
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his chance to play a lot more than he has.
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Ben Rice was good. And here's the thing, you you
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step back and you wonder and at speed, I'll fix your camera.
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You can still go in. It's OK, I will fix it.
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You can't do it. You go in and out is not going
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to help it. Austin Wells has to play well
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this year. Cody Bellinger has to give them
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that offense that he did in the second-half of the season.
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Cody Bellinger was one of the best left-handed hitters in
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baseball last year. He hit very well against
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lefties, one of the top three in all the baseball.
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But in the playoffs he disappeared.
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Half of these guys disappeared. Jazz, Chisholm.
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Yesterday they were interviewing on the baseball field and that's
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another thing that's embarrassing that has never
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happened in a professional baseball game where you can talk
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to the players, the analyst can talk to you while you're playing
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on the field. You're trying to concentrate.
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If I'm, I'm a professional baseball player and I'm trying
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or I'm expecting to get an 8 year, $35 million contract every
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single year from the New York Yankees, I want to make sure
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that my head is in the game. And Jazz, we all know about him.
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If his head's not in the game, he's not the same player.
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This is a team that is is going to win a lot of games.
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Yankee fans were not happy with Brian Cashman because they
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didn't do anything. That's the way they looked at
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it. But they did.
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They extended Cody Bellinger. They gave him a contract.
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I think Cody Bellinger took $25 million less to go to to go stay
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with the Yankees. He wanted a longer deal.
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He wanted more than five years. The Yankees gave him no more
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than five years. The Yankees are sitting in a
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position where they've got some good young players in their farm
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system. We're going to see Spencer Jones
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this year. We will.
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I don't care what Brian Cashman says.
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He's not moving the kid Dominguez.
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We'll see if he figures things out.
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He has not been the quote on quote Martian.
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This is a good team. I wonder that when they match up
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against the teams in their division, the Red Sox, the Blue
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Jays, the Rays and the Orioles, how good are they going to be
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able to play against those teams?
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Because you play more games against your division, the
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division that you're playing in that any team in all the
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baseball. And as a as a fan of watching
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the New York Yankees yesterday, everybody wants to point their
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finger what's going on with Aaron Judge?
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What's going on with them? It's game number one, guys.
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He struck out four times. Do you want to see your best
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player strike out four times on a Netflix channel where millions
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and millions and millions of people are watching?
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But guess what? The Yankees won seven to nothing
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in San Francisco. It wasn't like they needed Aaron
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Judge to get a home run or two home runs or five.
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RB is as the season progressively moves forward,
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you're going to see Aaron Judge get 5.
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RB is in a game, two home runs in a game.
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I had Jeff call me up and text me all day today.
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Aaron Judge broke a record last night.
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He's he's all about breaking records.
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He's the first player in Major League history to win an MVP and
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strike out four times in game #1 opening day for his with his
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team. He's the only player that's ever
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done that. Who cares?
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Those statistics mean nothing. Because guess what?
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Who is 1 and all the New York Yankees.
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And the Yankees really did all their damage early in the game
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in the first two innings. The Yankees did their damage.
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They had five runs in 2 1/2 innings.
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And if you can get those kind of runs early in the game against
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pitchers like Logan Webb, who I don't know if anybody
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understands how good this kid is.
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This guy was one of the top five National League pitchers in
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baseball last year, one of the top 10 pitchers in baseball last
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year. And he only gets better as the
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innings go by. But the Yankees ran them out.
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And this, again, going back to San Francisco, this is a young
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team. They've got veterans on it, but
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they're a young team. And I'm telling you right now,
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San Francisco could be a borderline playoff team this
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year if everything falls right for them.
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They can, but with, with the Yankees and looking at some of
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the positional players that they have, they didn't use Volpe.
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I, I know they didn't send Volpe down, but he did not start.
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And where do the Yankees go with Volpe when he gets a chance to
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play? Because he had an up and down
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spring training, an up and down spring training.
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And you can't depend on a, you know, on a shortstop that is, is
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really a journeyman in the league.
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So the Yankees are going to have to decide early and, and moving
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forward this season. They need to get offense from
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that position. They got an RBI and they got a
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hit and a run last night. But he's not going to do it
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every single game. They're going to have to depend
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on Volpe if they think Volpe is going to be the future shortstop
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of this organization. You got to test and test the
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water with this kid, see what he has, see what he can do and if
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he can get it back. His swing where he can hit for
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average, he doesn't have to hit 27280.
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If he hits 260 and gives you 20 something home runs and eighty
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RB Rs or 75 RB Rs. That's and I guess you could say
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a borderline Gold Glove shortstop because he was 1A Gold
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Glove before. If he can come where, if he come
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back this season and do anywhere close to what he did his first
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two years. The Yankees still have a a
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competent shortstop. Whenever they decide to bring up
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Lombard back back up from from the what do they call it, the
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AAA or whatever their farm system.
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The Yankees have some players, the Yankees and everybody says,
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where's Spencer Jones? Where's he ranked in baseball
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right now? Well, ladies and gentlemen, when
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me and fish were going back and forth a couple of weeks ago
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about Spencer Jones, he said he wasn't a top 100 guy.
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Now he is. Spencer Jones is a top 100
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player. There's no question after the
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spring training he had and what he had last year as a player in
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AAA, you can match his numbers to Aaron Judge's final year in
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AAA when he got called up at the age of 24.
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They're not going to hold him up anymore and this team is going
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to need that offense because none of these guys are going to
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be able to stay healthy. Trent Grissom, you're going to
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bet that he's going to stay healthy out in the outfield.
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Probably not. Cody Bellinger I I would trust
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in Cody more than any of these guys to stay healthy.
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Chisholm I I could see him doing something stupid and hurting
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himself. Ryan McMahon, all these guys,
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they're a lot of these guys are going to go down for a
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significant amount of time. They need that depth and I think
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they have it. They got Dominguez, they got
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Spencer Jones, they got Lombard, they've got guys that you could
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call up at any given time. And I think Brian Cashman is
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really keeping that in his pocket.
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He's not going to show you his hand, but he's going to give you
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an opportunity to know that that's where he's going to go if
24:00
need be. They need offense and they need
24:02
somebody in that line up that's going to spark this line up up.
24:05
Look what Matthew Shaffer has done for the New York Islanders.
24:09
Young guy, 18 years old, the guy comes up, comes in first round
24:16
draft pick, gets in, gets in and automatically makes a change for
24:21
the New York Islanders. The Islanders become a
24:23
laughingstock of the league. Old team to one of the more
24:26
exciting teams to watch. Now that's what Spencer Jones is
24:31
going to deliver to the New York Yankees.
24:32
When the Yankees call them up. I don't know everybody's going
24:35
to point their fingers on. Why aren't you speaking about
24:37
what baseball was doing and, and, and on Netflix.
24:40
The one thing I would say it the 7th inning stretch, take me off
24:44
to the ball game. Did anybody see that, that the
24:46
video that they had posted of all these people on social
24:49
media, you put your name in and maybe they'll ZAP your your,
24:52
your video on on your your computer.
24:55
How many weirdos look, they all look like escaped convicts on
25:01
those videos. I I'm not kidding.
25:03
There was a couple of cool videos, you know, a couple of
25:05
cool people on their video or pictures and and all that other
25:08
stuff. But most of the guys look like
25:11
they were sitting in front of the computer doing something.
25:13
But it's definitely not watching the baseball game.
25:17
So I think that if you're a Yankee fan should be happy,
25:22
you're not happy about Aaron Judge.
25:24
Hopefully he figures out what this slump is doing to him.
25:27
I think he will. I think he will definitely
25:29
figure it out. This guy is a guy that when he
25:31
gets hot, he is hot and he you can't you can throw water on him
25:37
and it still stay hot. But when he's in a slump, he
25:40
could go for he could go O for 16, O for 17.
25:43
We've seen this before. And I I'll go back to fish my
25:48
argument with him with Spencer Jones.
25:50
Oh, he strikes out too much. So did Aaron Judge.
25:54
So did Aaron Judge and he changed his swing when he came
25:58
up and that's the same thing that Spencer Jones did.
26:04
And I do believe that this offense put up a good amount of
26:08
runs in game #1 if they're not going to do that, and the
26:12
Yankees throughout the season, in certain parts of the season,
26:15
we're not putting up a lot of runs.
26:17
They were depending on their pitching.
26:19
And their pitching has been good every single year.
26:22
You want to go back and look at the Yankees and you can say, oh,
26:25
this is offensive team. The Yankees pitching has been in
26:29
the top 10 for the last seven years, Seven years.
26:35
They're always a good pitching staff.
26:37
Always. And now they are an elite
26:41
pitching staff when Garrett Cole comes back, because then you
26:45
don't need to put Garrett Cole at 1.
26:47
You can put him at two or three because you got Cam Schlittler,
26:52
who could be a number 2 for you this year.
26:54
Rodon, who was pretty good last year, except in the playoffs, of
26:58
course. This is a good team.
27:02
Yankee fans don't believe. There are friends of mine that
27:05
are die hard Yankee fans that does not believe the Yankees are
27:09
going to win more than 90 games. And I say, I say to them, and
27:13
you're probably listening right now, Matt and Mike, all you guys
27:17
listen to the show right now. Here's the twist.
27:21
You cannot predict what's going to happen this year because
27:24
there's injuries. Some of these guys could become
27:27
superstars. Ben Rice could be a superstar
27:29
first baseman this year and hit over 300 and make the All Star
27:33
team. He had glimpses of that last
27:36
year. Wells, this guy is a good
27:42
catcher. He's transition.
27:44
Everybody said in over the last couple of years of spring
27:48
training that this guy is never going to last behind the plate.
27:53
And now he's figured things out in the WBC, was one of the
27:57
hottest hitters in in all of the WBC.
28:02
And these guys are going to have to be those, those type of guys
28:06
to lean on. If guys like Aaron Judge isn't
28:09
hitting, Bellinger isn't hitting, Chisholm is not hitting
28:13
because they're going to go into slumps.
28:16
And by the way, I love Hunter Pence as a player.
28:21
I love them. I really do.
28:23
San Francisco, I remember when he played for the Phillies and
28:26
then he went to San Francisco and he won a championship.
28:29
Think he won two championships over there in San Francisco.
28:32
He was a good playoff hitter too.
28:34
Hunter Pence, He is horrible, horrible as a broadcaster.
28:40
CC this is his first time doing it.
28:42
I I don't expect CC to do this a lot, but he's a nice guy.
28:46
He has a nice smile. Yankee fans love him, everybody
28:50
loves him. So to CCC CC Sabathia on, on
28:56
opening day as an analyst, that's cool.
28:58
I, I, I don't want to see that. And here's another thing that
29:01
really turned me off. If it's a Yankee game, I want to
29:05
see the Yankee broadcasters. I don't want to see any of this
29:08
garbage. I don't want to see somebody
29:10
else that calls games in San Diego or San Francisco or, you
29:16
know, for the Nationals or any of these teams, if, if the
29:19
Yankees are playing or if the San Francisco Giants are playing
29:24
and they're playing at home, I want to at least hear the San
29:27
Francisco Giants guys. I don't want to hear what
29:31
Netflix is putting together. And he thinks that, hey, let's
29:34
make this stick. Maybe we can get CC Sabathi.
29:36
We'll turn them into Tom Brady. You know, that's what I think is
29:41
what what Netflix is trying to do.
29:43
They're trying to put names and, and what is Netflix paying these
29:46
guys for? I mean, I don't know what CC
29:49
made on, made for, for last night's broadcast.
29:52
I'm sure he's making a pretty penny.
29:53
So is Hunter Pence. And who's this actor?
29:57
Who's this guy? This guy does the announcements
30:01
before the game. He's a comedian.
30:04
Bert, whatever. What's his name?
30:06
Bert Kreischner. Bert Kreischner.
30:08
See, I don't even know who that guy is, so why do I give a crap
30:12
if he's standing out there screaming at a mic and trying to
30:15
get everybody hyped up? That was horrible.
30:18
If that's the way you're going to hype your team because you're
30:21
a San Francisco Giants fan, then I don't want to hear you.
30:26
I would have rather heard like a roast of jokes on the mic, make
30:30
fun of the Yankees. That would have been funny.
30:33
I would have loved to hear that. A little roast, 5 minute roast.
30:36
I mean, like, I'm not going to call it the, the what do they
30:40
call it? The Oscars or the Globe?
30:42
What do they call it? The Golden Globe.
30:43
Golden Globe? Yeah, whatever.
30:46
I, I, those guys, they get these comedians to come out there and
30:48
make, you know, crack a couple of jokes.
30:50
So you bring a comedian out and he wasn't funny.
30:53
There was nothing, nothing enjoyable about that game as far
30:58
as I'm concerned of the broadcast and the
31:01
extracurricular activities, which was absolutely horrible.
31:06
And then you countdown on the on, on the trot over there. 1098
31:11
what? Counting down to what, the
31:12
season opener? Who cares?
31:17
There's 161 games left. Nobody cares.
31:22
Nobody. As a Yankee fan, I laughed at
31:26
it. I think it's funny.
31:27
Fish told me go, you got to check out the beginning of the
31:30
game, because I don't watch the And by the way, I love Barry
31:34
Bonds. I love him.
31:37
I really do. I love him.
31:38
I I've, I've always thought that Barry Bonds is one of the
31:41
greatest athletes I've ever seen play in professional sports.
31:45
I don't care if he did steroids, that doesn't make you see the
31:47
ball. It's a tough statement.
31:49
Greatest athlete. One of the greatest athletes
31:51
I've ever seen. Yes, yes, absolutely.
31:55
Barry Bonds, you can argue, is 1 if not the greatest hitter, the
31:58
second greatest hitter. In baseball, for sure, no
32:01
question. So I love seeing him, and I love
32:04
that Netflix hired him to just sit there and make jokes and
32:08
smile. But here's the problem.
32:10
Everything that I've heard about Barry Bonds is he's not a nice
32:14
guy. He's not.
32:16
So when you're watching, you see him smiling and getting along
32:19
with everybody and his peers. This guy couldn't get along with
32:22
anybody. Him and Jeff Kent couldn't stand
32:24
each other. They couldn't stand each other.
32:29
Jeff Kent just got just got inducted into the Baseball Hall
32:32
of Fame. Barry Bonds will never be
32:34
inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame because you have Rob
32:36
Manfred or Manfred running that organization.
32:40
Pete Rose is finally going to get his opportunity to go into
32:43
the Hall of Fame because he's dead.
32:46
It's pathetic. And coming out to fat shows.
32:50
Leap out of all the New York songs to pick.
32:53
Lean back. I'm leaning back every time I
32:57
watch it. What saw you would have chose
33:01
that represents New York, NY? That's a good question.
33:03
New York New. Oh, Jay-Z, Alicia.
33:05
No New York, NY New. York.
33:07
Frank Sinatra, that's what they when they win, that's what they
33:11
play. Why not Frank Sinatra?
33:13
That's the that's the theme song of the New York Yankees.
33:17
That's what I want to hear. I don't want to hear like lean
33:19
back, lean back. I I'm surprised that Fat Joe
33:23
wasn't there dancing right through that that those taxis
33:26
and all those dancers. By the way, no offense to
33:29
Netflix. Some of the ugliest dancers.
33:32
Honestly, if you're going to pick dancers, pick at least sexy
33:36
ones. I mean, at least it's something
33:38
to look at. I.
33:38
Don't know, it seems like they were nothing approved based on
33:40
his reaction backstage. They weren't pretty.
33:43
There was nothing about them that really stuck out to me
33:45
except they were wearing sweatshirts in 80° weather.
33:49
Why are they doing that? Makes no sense.
33:51
I, I guess they're trying to mock New York.
33:54
I I don't know. And why is our emblem taxi
33:58
drivers? That's, that's what you picked.
34:01
We're going to walk through taxis.
34:03
That's what we're going to do. Great.
34:05
Congratulations, all you New New York fans listening to the show
34:08
right now, You know what they portray us as?
34:11
Taxi drivers, taxi drivers, fat people that Dr. taxis.
34:18
That's what they think we're We're overweight.
34:20
We don't take care of ourselves. We're ugly.
34:24
We're mean, disrespectful. You know what was disrespectful
34:28
for that? Watching Aaron Judge walk
34:30
through two taxis. That's disrespectful.
34:35
Honestly, if you're a baseball fan, you can't tell me that's
34:39
something you want to see Aaron Judge, your superstar player,
34:42
the MVP of the American League last year, yes, last year, walk
34:47
through a bunch of taxis and, and you saw Aaron Judge, he
34:50
wasn't paying attention. Bellinger made a you could see
34:52
that Bellinger didn't like it. Aaron Boone don't care, but it's
34:57
embarrassing. That's my argument here.
35:00
And here's another thing I I'd like to hear you guys take.
35:04
What really bothered me about the game is that it wasn't about
35:08
baseball. It was about entertainment.
35:14
And to me, that's what sports has turned into.
35:18
It's entertainment. Nobody cares if you win a
35:21
championship except the Dodgers because they cheat.
35:24
They found a they found something in that the rules and
35:28
the rule book kind of Bill Belichick.
35:30
But Bill Belichick knew that there was no rules telling him
35:33
that he couldn't do it. Oh.
35:36
Boy. But that's the embarrassing
35:38
thing here because instead of bringing out the past time of
35:44
America and building it up, and remember, the Giants were the
35:50
New York Giants at one point. They were here in New York
35:54
before they went to San Francisco, just like the
35:57
Dodgers, that was the Brooklyn Dodgers.
36:01
And the Yankees are New York. Besides the Mets, they're New
36:05
York. And to see the New York Yankees
36:08
get disrespected like that is despicable.
36:12
And I'm sorry, I I'm doing something else.
36:14
I'm finding this guy. They're coming through.
36:16
What? What is that?
36:17
A truffle? A truffle.
36:18
Whatever the hell it is, those buses in San Francisco,
36:20
whatever, it was a trolley. That's what it is.
36:23
It was a trolley. But it's it's embarrassing
36:28
they're going. Through a nice trolley and the
36:30
Yankees are walking through taxi drivers.
36:32
Wonderful, wonderful. Great.
36:34
Thank you. Thank you to Netflix for making
36:36
us look even worse than we really are.
36:38
Yeah, it's a Car Wars type thing.
36:40
Seems like more structure for a racing event, not really a
36:43
baseball game. It's kind of weird.
36:44
Racing event, Yeah, you see. Taxis at racing events.
36:48
I guess you were to go culturally, but.
36:50
Still, it's kind of weird nevertheless.
36:51
Yeah, I was. I was disappointed. 100 pence,
36:54
too. I actually thought he might be
36:55
good at broadcasting. Yeah, he was definitely all over
36:57
the place. He was horrible.
36:58
Yeah, I didn't like him. At all he was.
36:59
Absolutely horrible CC. Was OK because he was speaking
37:03
in a pitch state of mind, right? But I wouldn't even tell you.
37:07
I wouldn't even throw CC under the bus.
37:09
But CC wasn't really that good either.
37:11
I To me, he's a Yankee and Hunter Pence is a is a giant.
37:15
Is he a giant? Because he really wasn't a
37:17
giant. He was a Philadelphia Astros and
37:19
Phillies. Yeah, he's known.
37:20
Mostly he had. Most of his career was with the
37:23
Phillies, I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think it was like a
37:25
kind of a mixed bag. I.
37:26
Think he started with the Astros pretty young.
37:28
If it was it was maybe by a few years but like he'd be bouncing
37:31
around all over the place. He won his championships with
37:33
the. The Giants, and I know him and
37:35
Buster Posey Posey are very close friends.
37:38
They're very cool because what happened was the 20. 12 Phillies
37:40
really fell off, so they treated him at that deadline to the
37:43
Giants, and then he's won 2012 from the 2014 championships with
37:46
them. Yeah, I remember.
37:47
Yeah. And he was a big.
37:48
Part of that offense, he was a huge part of that offense
37:50
because. He was one of the few guys that
37:52
actually had power in that line if it was much more of a contact
37:54
hitting lineup and him Posey and a few others were the only ones
37:57
that had a little and Pablo Sandoval were probably the only
37:59
ones that had a little raw power on that team.
38:00
But you want to hear something funny all.
38:02
I've been hearing on social media is not what Max Free did.
38:05
It's what Aaron Judge didn't do in the game.
38:08
That's all I keep hearing on social media.
38:10
Yeah, that's the part I wanted to get to because.
38:12
Aaron Judge, it seems like throughout his career, his
38:14
biggest slumps I think are right after the All Star break.
38:17
I think in general there, a lot of his other times are right at
38:19
the beginning of the season. And especially when you look at
38:22
when you look at the World Baseball Classic going on as
38:24
well. And apparently that affected
38:25
Logan Webb of apparently that affected Paul Skeens, who the
38:28
Mets lit up in the first inning as well.
38:29
We'll talk about that. Yeah.
38:30
And the. Same kind of thing with the.
38:32
Yankees, they lit him. They survived the first inning,
38:34
but the Yankees lit him up in the second inning.
38:35
Five runs. And it wasn't even like a lot of
38:37
home runs either that the Yankees had.
38:39
It was a lot of these jazzism got hit by a pitch and it was a
38:42
lot. I believe it was the WBC.
38:44
That caused this problem. I think it's too early to tell,
38:46
but it's only. It wasn't right now, it wasn't
38:48
they they pitched as. Much as they would have pitched
38:50
in spring training, Yeah, that's why I'm saying it's too early to
38:53
tell. Like maybe it's higher leverage
38:55
pitching, maybe it's just not a warm up type thing.
38:57
Wouldn't you think that would they would be better?
38:59
Being that they had to play against better talent, maybe.
39:01
Again, it's tough to tell because it's.
39:03
Only been it's been three years, it's been a lot of these guys
39:05
first time, especially skiings who's came into the league in
39:07
2024. So again, it's too early to tell
39:10
with that sample. But going back to the Yankees
39:12
itself, like Yankees strung together hits very well against,
39:14
like you said, a top 15 French top ten pitcher in Logan Webb.
39:17
That's so a lot to say. Amit's Aaron Judge struggling at
39:20
the play. You had Stanton hitting singles
39:22
and scoring from second on a on a single and all these guys
39:25
stringing together hits. It's definitely good to see if
39:27
you're the Yankees standpoint. And you're right, the giants do
39:28
have a a tough offense, not power wise, but depth wise in
39:32
that lineup. You mentioned jungle Leo before
39:33
the show. Korean kid Helio Ramos is a good
39:36
outfielder too. They've had some decent options.
39:38
Adamus and Chapman are obviously the big free agent signings they
39:41
got. But this is a team that
39:42
definitely is going to be, if they can get enough power, a
39:45
team that will compete for that wild card spot.
39:47
So the Yankees and Max Free definitely should be impressed
39:50
with that was very impressive. What the Yankees?
39:52
Did I Don't know what anybody was watching, but Max Free shut
39:56
them down. He shut their offense down in
40:00
that game. They could not touch him.
40:02
And I know he didn't have 6 or 7 strikeouts.
40:04
This guy's a strikeout pitcher. This guy's one of the best
40:07
strikeout pitchers in baseball and one of the best lefties in
40:10
baseball. You can argue.
40:12
You can argue he is the best lefty in baseball.
40:14
You can argue that. But again I.
40:18
Just it wasn't about baseball. This game was not about
40:22
baseball. It was about entertainment.
40:24
It was about, hey, you know what we're going to, we bought into
40:28
this. We're paying baseball $150
40:30
million for the next three years.
40:31
They have a couple of games. They have all these different,
40:34
they have, they're doing the Home Run Derby this year on
40:36
Netflix, which I if you don't have Netflix, good luck.
40:40
If you like the Home Run Derby, I'd love to hear.
40:42
How's your pants do that? But here's the thing, I want to
40:44
say something I. Want to give a shout out to
40:46
Leaf? He runs Miller's Ale House.
40:48
He's one of the managers there. He's a friend of mine that grew
40:50
up with him. He called me a couple of days
40:53
ago and he told me, did you hear?
40:55
And I said what he says. Well, their Netflix reached out
41:00
to us and they asked us if we wanted to buy into the Yankee
41:04
game that was coming opening day.
41:07
And he told me, he said there's no way we're going to be paying
41:09
for what they want. And you have to pay for $10 on
41:12
each TV. Think about it.
41:14
So think about that. And you have to subscribe to
41:16
that. So there was no way that was
41:18
going to happen. So he told all the people the
41:21
day before that was coming in and getting really excited about
41:24
the baseball season that the Yankee game will not be played
41:28
in Miller's Ale House. And then find out the next day,
41:33
five hours before the game, that DIRECTV and Netflix drew up a
41:39
deal. And DIRECTV, don't you know,
41:42
people that have DIRECTV, including the bars, can buy into
41:46
it for the game. So they had to subscribe and buy
41:48
in to DIRECTV for the game. I don't know how much it was,
41:52
but then they eventually got the game in Miller's Alehouse.
41:55
But guess what? Nobody was there.
41:57
Nobody went. You know why?
41:59
Because they were told by Netflix, if you don't buy into
42:03
Netflix, you're not going to get the Yankee game and opening day.
42:07
So that's pathetic, and I'm sorry, as a Yankee fan.
42:12
And the Yes Network, the Yes Network is one of the biggest
42:16
networks in the world. It was the first.
42:19
Network. Ever.
42:20
Drawn up for professional sports.
42:22
It was George Steinbrenner that created that and opened the
42:25
floodgates. Then there was the Cowboy
42:26
Channel over there. Then it was Jerry Jones that did
42:29
it. Copycat.
42:30
Why? Because him and George were
42:31
very, very close. And then you you.
42:35
Got a chance to watch the Yankee games, 162 games, no matter
42:38
where it is, you can watch the Yankee game.
42:40
Yankee games. Not anymore.
42:42
Not anymore because they're streaming.
42:45
You have to. And then it's not just Netflix
42:48
that are streaming baseball games now.
42:50
Hulu's going to do. It Disney.
42:52
'S going to do it. They're all going to freaking do
42:54
it. Why?
42:56
Because it's all about money. It's always about money.
43:01
It's not about the, the love of the game and, and, and, and if I
43:05
was a player right now, OK, you're, you're, you're
43:07
negotiating the deal I'm going to take on.
43:09
They're going to they're making $150 million.
43:11
What are the players getting out of it?
43:14
Nothing. Nothing.
43:16
Not that I've heard. They didn't never get anything
43:18
out of it. A handshake or something?
43:21
Why would you want to shake Rob Manford's hand?
43:23
Though, well, they loved him when he was.
43:25
Giving out their silver, their silver medals at the WBC.
43:29
They were hugging him and saying we love you.
43:31
I I read some of their lips. Thank you.
43:34
Thank you, Mr. Commissioner. Yeah.
43:36
Thank you. Thank you for ruining the game.
43:38
Thank you for making the game a mockery.
43:40
Thank you for making these deals with stream companies and
43:44
ruining what baseball is all about.
43:47
The baseball to me is our pastime.
43:50
And baseball was the only sport I'm, I'm, I'm telling you this,
43:54
that hasn't made a mockery of it.
43:57
Now I'm going to. Say Gary Bettman.
43:59
Again, is driving in the driver's seat.
44:01
He's the best commissioner. You know why?
44:03
Because he's not doing this. He's not doing this.
44:07
But baseball, I never would have thought that baseball was going
44:09
to sell out like this, sell out like this.
44:12
And that's if it was even Bud Selig.
44:15
If Bud Selig was running baseball, this would never
44:17
happen, ever happened. And this guy was a used car
44:20
salesman. It's pathetic.
44:24
Baseball should be ashamed of themselves.
44:26
Netflix should be ashamed of themselves.
44:29
But that's what. Every sport.
44:30
Every sport. Is going into the streaming
44:32
work. So it's like adopting AI and all
44:35
this new advanced technology that we have done.
44:37
So traditional TV is our degree. It's over with, but I think
44:41
there's a difference. Quentin, though.
44:42
With the way that the NHL did it when they expanded from NHL to
44:46
TNT on an ESPN, they didn't really make it about themselves.
44:50
They didn't make it about the game as much.
44:51
Yes, there's some personality, guys like PK Subban and stuff
44:54
like that, but there's there's not just deterring from the game
44:57
the way you've seen the MLB and the NBA do it now.
45:00
NBA went to prime this year and they've obviously gone to some
45:03
other spots before that. And MLB has gone to Peacock in
45:06
the past and they're trying to make it away from the game
45:08
because according to these these deals, oh, the MLB, the younger
45:12
fans don't want to watch this traditional baseball.
45:14
So we have to try to make it more fabricated to be more fun
45:17
and the track of these fans. And that's what they're doing.
45:19
And this went way too far to do it to doing all these to these
45:23
cat intros and these these random things that Hunter Pence
45:26
was doing and all that crap. Like it was too much.
45:28
Yeah, maybe some organization with it.
45:30
Especially with the athletes, like athletes should do pre and
45:33
post show and then let the broadcasters do broadcasting.
45:36
I didn't let them do the in the game material and give the.
45:43
There are plenty of plenty of those.
45:44
Claiming to be throughout that that ceremony, which I'm sure
45:47
Nathan loved. With all the the.
45:48
Hot ladies on the cab. Joba was not an athlete.
45:51
And Joba was not there, luckily. Well, the athlete.
45:55
As as Nathan would say, that's what you're going to watch the
45:58
games, That's why you're going to watch the games is because of
46:01
the athlete, not the extravaganza of Netflix.
46:05
Having a bunch of so-called dancers dance in front of taxi
46:09
drivers or taxi cabs. Was there any taxi cab driver in
46:13
there? I'd be very surprised if there
46:15
wasn't. There wasn't.
46:16
And how did they drive that off the field?
46:18
It was a taxi cab facade. And it was just stupid.
46:22
It was so dumb. I couldn't believe how dumb it
46:25
was. I was sitting there with my
46:26
wife. She they're like, she's like,
46:27
they're ruining baseball. How are they ruining baseball?
46:31
And by the way, if you're trying to be hip with the kids, the
46:33
song leaned back when I was in college and we danced to it in
46:37
the club. That's 20 years ago.
46:39
I'm pretty sure it was 2006. The other song they were playing
46:44
Brain Stew by Green Day, which I love that song as a rock song,
46:48
but I don't think I've ever seen a person dance to that song in
46:50
my entire life. And they were like dancing like
46:53
it was some hip hop song as they were walking out the trolley,
46:56
which I don't know which one was worse to be honest with you.
46:59
They the trolley goes up and down San Francisco.
47:02
I guess it's a more well. I mean, there might be some of
47:05
that going. On over there too, in that part
47:06
of the town. Listen, I will say this also.
47:09
And for all the Yankee fans that watch the game and experienced
47:12
their first Netflix extravaganza for baseball, do you want to
47:16
ever see the Yankees on Netflix again?
47:19
And the answer would be no. And there's a lot of reasons why
47:22
because it first of all, there was so much backtracking in the
47:25
game. The game.
47:27
The game was 3 nothing. And on on your phone, it was
47:31
still 00 You, you had to. Wait to see.
47:35
How they got those runs? I had people at work.
47:39
Telling me earlier today saying, guess what, I couldn't see the
47:44
game and on my phone they were telling me it was a head and we
47:47
were it was 00 and it was an embarrassment.
47:50
And then you have to remember, like there's a whole bunch of
47:52
people that aren't tech savvy out there that are sports fans.
47:56
I would say, you know, 50 and up generation.
47:58
It like a lot of them can't really like get with this.
48:01
It's just so different. They didn't grow up with it and
48:03
they weren't adults with either. Now it's like the second-half of
48:06
their adulthood and all this stuff is changing on them.
48:09
That's really difficult, but I want to get away from that
48:12
because we could talk about that all day.
48:14
Let's just get into baseball and then talk about that.
48:15
Mets Errol. But see, I want to just
48:18
compliment CCI, think CC is good.
48:20
I didn't think anyone else was good.
48:22
I love CCI, love that podcast he used to do with Ryan Ruko that
48:26
they did for a couple of years, like R2C2 or something like
48:29
that. As good as he as he is, you're
48:32
right. Hunter Pence, who was great when
48:34
we interviewed him at the Super Bowl a couple years ago with his
48:37
horses and everything. That was Hunter Pence, by the
48:40
way. Oh, Jason Werth and he.
48:42
Was talking. About Hunter Pence in the
48:44
interview, that's what it was because they were working it
48:46
together. I got you All right, so.
48:48
So let's get into. The Mets let's.
48:51
I know a lot of Met fans were excited.
48:53
They won 11 to 7. They completely knocked out one
48:56
of the best pitchers in baseball.
48:57
And you can't pull schemes is as good as any pitcher in baseball.
49:01
This guy won the Cy Young last year in the National League.
49:04
He's special, absolutely special, but.
49:08
What? Really.
49:09
Stuck out to me is their kid, and their kid actually got a
49:13
chance and he got his head. Carson Bench got a chance to
49:18
start Opening Day with the New York Mets at right field.
49:21
And some people thought he was going to go to the minors.
49:24
They're going to wait a couple of weeks because they want to.
49:26
They want to make sure that they have him for his arbitration,
49:29
that they can hold on to him for the next 6 years instead of five
49:32
years. They had to bring this kid up.
49:35
They had to bring the kid up. This guy was hitting in spring
49:39
training. He's an all world defensive
49:41
player. He's got a great arm in the
49:43
outfield. And what did he do today?
49:44
He hit a home run. And if you're a Mets fan, you
49:48
should be excited about that. They're bringing up some young
49:50
guys. They look like they're going to
49:52
be studs. Nolan McClain is a stud pitcher,
49:55
made Team USA for the WBC. Beau Burchett was horrible.
50:00
He was really bad. I don't expect a lot from Beau
50:03
Burchett. I, I'm, I'm sorry, No, he, he'll
50:06
be a good hitter. He'll hit close to 300, but is
50:09
he going to stay healthy? That's the question.
50:11
Beau Bichette never stays healthy.
50:13
So they just signed him to a three-year deal, right?
50:16
It was three years that he can opt out after his second year.
50:19
Yeah, it's essentially 3 one year deals.
50:21
So and if Freddie? Peralta who They made a trade
50:25
and they traded Sproat and and one of their better hitters in
50:28
their farm system, Freddie. Peralta did not pitch a good
50:32
game. Now it's early, it's the first
50:34
game of the season. You're playing for the Mets, a
50:36
new franchise. And, and I told this to Josh and
50:39
I'll say this to all the Mets fans, playing in New York is
50:44
completely different than playing in Milwaukee.
50:48
I don't. Care who you are.
50:50
When you play for The Jets, you pay for the Giants.
50:53
You play for the Yankees, the Knicks, the Islanders, the
50:57
Rangers. The media is on you like white
51:01
on rice. They're always on you.
51:06
And to me, I remember. When Francisco Lindor.
51:10
Came He was traded to the New York Mets and his first full
51:14
season, his first year as a full time Met was horrible.
51:19
He could not hit a lick. I remember speed.
51:21
I was going back and forth to Speedy and Speedy told me I
51:24
don't know if he was worth the money the Mets gave him.
51:27
It took. Him a little while to figure
51:29
things out. Juan Soto Juan Soto is just an
51:33
all world hitter. We know what Juan Soto could do
51:35
because as a Yankee fan, we saw it.
51:38
He helped lead the. Yankees all the way to the
51:40
world. Series and then they he choked
51:42
well, they choked not him, but they choked so and what I I
51:48
don't understand, I still don't understand Jorge Polanco is the.
51:53
First baseman. He started the.
51:55
Game as the first baseman and Beatty's the designated hitter.
51:58
But everybody has said that Beatty is a better first
52:02
baseman. Why wasn't Jorge Polanco as the
52:04
DH and Beatty playing at first? Because if anybody watch the
52:09
game, Jorge Polanco did not look good defensively.
52:12
He did not Pete Alonzo looked better than him, but the Mets
52:16
didn't decide to extend him and he goes to the Orioles.
52:19
So, I mean, if you're a Mets fan, if you're standing for what
52:23
you saw today and saying that they won, that's all that
52:26
matters. They were blowing out Paul
52:28
Skeens and this team early in the game.
52:32
There was no way that the Pittsburgh Steelers was going to
52:35
put up the Pittsburgh sailors. The Pittsburgh Pirates were
52:37
going to put up the kind of numbers that the that the Mets
52:41
were going to put up throughout the day.
52:43
Because if you cannot pull Skeens out, their bullpen is up
52:46
and down every single year. Tobias Myers is is a decent
52:49
pitcher. He's not a great pitcher.
52:51
But the one guy that I you you you want to hope and you want to
52:55
believe is going to have a good season is Francisco Alvarez.
53:00
The Mets need this kid to break out, be the the leader of this
53:04
team, catch every single pitcher.
53:07
This year he caught Peralta. Peralta at the end of the game
53:11
liked the way he was calling the game.
53:14
So and and, and I know if you're a Freddy Peralta fan, well, he
53:16
got A7 strikeouts, but he gave up four runs and this guy is
53:20
going to ask for a significant amount of money in the
53:23
offseason. Even if the even if the game
53:26
goes on, strike Freddy Peralta. Is going to be asking for.
53:30
Over $200 million. This guy is one of the elite
53:33
pitchers. I like Juan Soto.
53:35
I know a lot of people think I hate him because he left the
53:37
Yankees and went to the Mets. Juan Soto is a great player,
53:41
Alonso to even as good as he was last year and he put his team,
53:44
put the team on his back. They choked at the end of the
53:47
season. Lindor wasn't hitting
53:50
consistently, that's why they brought Beau Bichette, Jorge
53:52
Blanco and they added some defense, Marcus Simeon.
53:55
But guess what? They lost Brandon.
53:58
IMO they. Lost Pete Alonso.
54:01
It didn't show in game number one.
54:02
They played the Pittsburgh Pirates.
54:05
They're one of. The worst organizations in.
54:07
Baseball. That's why Paul Skins wants out.
54:10
That's why he wants to go to the Yankees.
54:13
That's the truth. Apparently he's already starting
54:15
his tank job. That's the truth.
54:17
I don't think he tried to tank him.
54:19
I'm kidding. I don't think he.
54:20
Tried to I. Think that he just had a bad
54:23
game, couldn't find his location, couldn't find his
54:26
pitches. That happens to every pitcher,
54:29
even the. IT also helps.
54:31
When the center fielder is dog like complete dog shit in center
54:34
field. O'Neil Cruz, what an athlete.
54:36
O'Neill Cruz's nobody's not saying great athlete, but he is
54:40
proof that you cannot just put a great athlete in center field
54:44
and tell him to go get the ball. He misread 2 balls in the and
54:48
just screwed over schemes in the first inning.
54:50
It was really bad. It was the worst, really bad.
54:53
It was the worst experiment I I saw at center.
54:55
Field probably since your boy Jazz Chism when he was in Miami,
54:58
they tried the same thing and it was equally as bad.
55:00
Why do you guys think that he's my boy again?
55:02
It was a joke. Thank you Quentin for getting
55:05
the sarcasm. But.
55:06
He's not my boy and. I, anybody that calls him my
55:09
boy, even if it's a joke, I'm going to attack it.
55:11
He is not my boy. I never liked him.
55:14
And that's why I call him jazz jism, OK?
55:16
That's what he is. And I, I, I just make fun of all
55:21
the different people that we've seen over the years come to
55:23
these New York teams and absolutely are debacles here.
55:27
Debacles. And you definitely hope it
55:28
doesn't get to that. There's one.
55:29
That's playing as a pitcher for the.
55:30
Boston Red Sox. Now there's there's another one,
55:33
I think when? You look at the Mets history,
55:35
history of the bringing these free agent pitchers in recently,
55:37
it just doesn't help their system of what they're doing.
55:40
And hopefully it doesn't get that way with Peralta because it
55:42
definitely wasn't an ideal thing.
55:43
Allowing early base runner, allowing home runs, two home
55:46
runs to Brandon Lau and that kind of thing with 7 strikeouts,
55:50
yes, but you can't have that kind of consistency all year and
55:53
be able to face these better teams to make it work.
55:55
Now as far as the Mets offense goes, they had nine runs without
55:58
a home run in the game, which was an impressive thing in
56:01
itself. Like Fish they were even saying
56:02
it was like the first time in five years that kind of thing
56:04
happened where you especially in a home run driven era.
56:07
So you wonder if the approach so far with this Mets lineup is a
56:10
little different against small sample size are not going to
56:12
overreact right away. But it's definitely a good thing
56:16
when all these all these secondary hitters, it wasn't
56:18
Juan Soda that was lighting it up.
56:19
It wasn't those guys that were lighting it up.
56:21
And Bench getting his first Major League home run to get to
56:23
that 11th spot. That was the icing on the cake.
56:26
And I will say this, Louise. Robert Junior, everybody says,
56:29
wow, he had a great game. This is not the same Louise.
56:32
Robert Junior, you think he is All right, He had one good game.
56:36
Game number one, This guy couldn't hit a lick last year.
56:39
A lick now maybe going to another franchise, being
56:42
protected in the lineup and, and being behind guys like Polanco
56:46
and Beatty or and being, you know, behind Bichette and and
56:50
Soto and Lindor, maybe that gives him a better chance of
56:53
getting getting more pitches. But this guy is not a good
56:56
hitter. He's one of the worst center
56:58
fielders as far as offensively sound in all the baseball.
57:01
The fact that he had two hits, one RBI, the two RBI's and and
57:05
one run, that's great. You're not going to see
57:08
consistency. I would have kept Brandon IMO.
57:11
I I still think you would have gotten Marcus Simeon for
57:14
something else. You could have gotten Marcus
57:15
Simeon for a relief pitcher, a good relief pitcher in your farm
57:19
system, or one of those farmhand guys in your AA that might be
57:23
good in the future. You did not have to trade
57:25
Brandon Nimmo. And the reason why they traded
57:27
Brandon Nimmo was one reason, money, there was actually 2
57:30
money and he didn't get along with Lindor.
57:33
And that was that was the story. He did not get along with
57:36
Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, while he is a quote UN quote
57:40
somebody supporter in in the politic world.
57:44
They didn't like that. So they never got along.
57:47
A lot of people said that Pete Alonso was not too fond of the
57:51
way they treated Brandon MO either.
57:52
So, and a lot of those guys, a lot of people thought that Pete
57:56
Alonzo wasn't really respected in that, in that locker room as
57:59
well. So I, I, I don't know, I don't
58:02
know. There's a lot of things that we
58:03
don't know. And I'm sure they'll be a bit a
58:05
book written 20 years from now from Pete Alonzo and Brandon.
58:09
Maybe they'll, they'll write a book together.
58:11
They'll they'll reprive the. The The book of the 92 Mets, The
58:14
worst team money could buy. They'll make a 2025 like locker
58:17
room drama version of that Lonzi Nim.
58:19
That's what we'll call it. The documentary Lonzi Nim Alonzi
58:24
Limp they yeah, they limped to the yen and then.
58:27
Completely broke. Somebody's got a limp, right?
58:30
All the way. They all, they all did last.
58:31
Season, believe me, what we're. I'd like to see Quinton run now,
58:35
you know, I don't know if he can run as fast as he did when he
58:38
was on a football field. Very much so, really.
58:41
What do you think you can run? In a 40 right now, right now,
58:44
right now, what do? You think no training?
58:46
Yeah. No training.
58:48
Probably about like 4. 65 really, you could still run.
58:52
In a 465, I'd like to see that. I'd like to see that, yeah.
58:56
I mean, just come down to. Georgia, I'll show you.
58:59
Oh, so I got to come down to Georgia.
59:00
You don't. Want to come up here to New
59:01
York? I got to go down.
59:03
Too cold, too cold, too cold. It's 63.
59:07
Degrees today tomorrow be 30. No, it's not.
59:11
Thank you. To all the fans on Spotify and
59:12
Apple video and audio, thank you to all the TikTok fans, the
59:16
Instagram fans, the X fans, the YouTube fans for joining us and
59:19
and and enjoying our content throughout the country.
59:23
Really appreciate it. I want to give a shout out to
59:24
our new manager, Mike V. He's he's been in and out of the
59:29
show all show long. So thank you Nathan, Mr. Mr.
59:34
Leishman himself, as he always says, suck my Indo we we love.
59:39
You thank you for. Doing what you do and and doing
59:43
all the back end stuff and hopefully you're not bending
59:45
over as we speak. Anyways, Yeah, that's it Speedy.
59:48
Who do we have lined up next week?
59:49
Nathan got two draft prospects for.
59:51
Next week, both 8:20 Eastern Time starts Monday will be
59:55
Jelani Davis. His name is the defensive
59:57
defensive lineman draft prospect at a Kent State 6 foot two, 285
1:00:01
lbs Lulu. He'll be joining us at 8:20.
1:00:03
And then on Thursday. Safety and outside linebacker
1:00:06
from Navy 6 foot 202 LB Jackson Campbell will be joining us.
1:00:11
Make her squirt. Make me jerk.
1:00:13
Very interesting guy as. Always Nathan, as he always
1:00:17
says. I love Lisa Anne as he always.
1:00:20
Says and he never will get. Lisa Anne, just so everybody
1:00:22
knows, no way. I think Lisa Lisa Anne has slept
1:00:26
with every single cowboy player in the 90s.
1:00:29
Nathan's probably like, like, like a little teddy bear to her.
1:00:32
I mean, I mean 5 foot 6. I mean, come on.
1:00:37
She would torture that guy. Him and his blue blazer.
1:00:45
There he is. Nathan the Care Bear.
1:00:47
That's it is, that's all it is. I love his hand.
1:00:51
Athletes, Athletes. Athletes.
1:00:55
Athletes. I love when he says that.
1:00:57
And I'm like, athletes? You mean athletes?
1:01:02
I love you, Nath. We love you.
1:01:04
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