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A New York Yankees June Swoon W/ MADS Destafano · Yankees Pod

• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: All right, we are back on Yankees Pod.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have a guest today.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: We have the newest members of Yankees Pod, Mads.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Madison DiStefano.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Mads, how are you doing today?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: How are you?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, I'd be a lot better if the Yankees were playing better baseball.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: Right now they are during they're going through a seven-game losing streak.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: How frustrated are you with this team?
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm extremely frustrated, and I think a lot of people are talking about the injuries as the reason as to why we're being so horrible right now.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, you don't have Aaron Judge, you don't have John Carlos Stanton, no Max Fried, no Trent Grisham, no Ryan McMahon.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: I think we have the players in AAA who can carry this team.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it stretches far beyond the injuries that we have.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: I it's just something is not clicking right now, and it's very frustrating to watch.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it seems like we always have these June swoons um with Aaron Boone at the helm.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the Yankees will have seven straight.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: During the seven-game losing streak, the Yankees are hitting 421 OPS as a team.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's their worst seven-game stretch since September of 1908 when they were still the New York Highlanders.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a situation wherein I hate losing to the Red Sox.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yesterday was it was a fun game.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they stunk, but going to the stadium for the first time this season was kind of fun.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, had a blast.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, they lose again.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: Seven straight games.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, is this evidence of the team having a lot of flaws?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: You're not blaming the injuries at all, or is this just like more on Cashman, or is it more on Boone right now?
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: I think yesterday, if you're talking about just yesterday, I think it was definitely on Boone.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: I know that a lot of players were sick with whatever food poisoning bug that was going around.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um but he used Cabrera, you know, later in the game when made us kind of think, oh, Goldschmidt is maybe he's throwing up, maybe he's sick right now.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, maybe he can't play, he's not available.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then after the game, he he came out and said, you know, Goldschmidt was available.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: I just I trusted Cabrera.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like I think that alone that's on Boone, which is that is crazy to me that you would choose Oswaldo Cabrera, who I think that was one of was that his first start back at the same time.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: It might have been.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: It might have been.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think it's insane that he chose Cabrera over Goldschmidt in that situation, especially when they could have won that game.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: That was such the end of that game.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: I I really did have hope that they were gonna, you know, come through, but they did not.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's a really good point.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um I meant more as a whole, but like, yeah, yesterday, and we'll get into it.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna do it later, but you know, it's a discussion.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get to it now.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: Paul Goldschmidt has been arguably our second best hitter.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: He's sitting there, he's a contact hitter.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: There's one out, there's a man on third.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: My Uncle Dave.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh shout out, Uncle Dave.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: He got us in and out to the stadium.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: We drove in and out.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uncle Dave's a run into the bathroom with a man on third, one out in the bottom of the 10th inning.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm screaming at him.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm screaming at all these players.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: Just a terrible decision by um Aaron Boone not going to Paul Goldschmidt there.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: No offense to Oswald Cabrera.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_01: He's a fan favorite.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody loves Oswald de Cabrera.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: He is not a good hitter.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just be honest about it.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, yeah, also in the game yesterday, the Yankees had two outs.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: Man on third, haven't hit a got a run in days, what it seems like.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: And they have Anthony Volpe bunting on 12 rows back, screaming.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we bunting?
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we bunting?
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we bunting?
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: And Aaron Judge is straight up just staring at me.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like, literally, like just staring at me.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: So the players know that we're upset at this point.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, it's just been a really frustrating loss.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: The Yankees had in that five-game span, they had 16 hits in five games, fewest in any five-game span in franchise history.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: Five straight games with four hits are fewer, the longest streak in franchise his history.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Now the Yankees have lost seven straight, and the Rays win seventh straight.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, are we worried about the East now?
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like we've gone from an AL East favorite, kind of back down to a wild card team.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: Are you worried about the East?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Are you worried about making the playoffs at all?
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'd say in the American League right now, I'm not worried about making the playoffs.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm worried about what the division is gonna come down to.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think I'm holding out hope.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: I know that I keep telling myself that this is a every year occurrence.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we start to implode and then by August, September we kind of start to work our way back.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: We do have a series against Tampa Bay next week, right?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: I think we have a could be, it could be.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: I think I'm watching right now.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then I know that we play them in September, and one of those games is a makeup game all the way back from April or May.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's really going to come down to that four-game set in September that we have against Tampa Bay because that is you know, we could sweep them, they could sweep us.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think if they sweep us, it's probably over.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: I think if we sweep them or at least win, you know, a game or two, um, I think that would put us in a good position for a wild card.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: At this point, I don't think we're gonna win the division, but like I said, that could totally change depending on how that the rest of the games against the Rays go.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and I will be fair to the team.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yesterday was hot.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like I had tickets three rows back, and I sat 14 rows back because of the shape.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was hot.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: I kind of felt like the Seinfeld episode where George Cassanda wants them to wants them to wear cotton.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was that hot yesterday.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: I brought two t-shirts.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: So it, you know, I don't, and these guys aren't the starters.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: Aaron Judge is injured, Trent Brisham's injured.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a little frustrated actually with Giancarlo Stanton because he's supposed to be this voice, this team leader, and every year he's out with this or that or the other thing.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: And right now, like, I don't really care if Giancarlo Stanton is walking to first base after he hits the ball 380 feet or whatever, or rounds the bases literally walking.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: But I think he really does need to step up.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: I know he he's gonna be in pain no matter what when he's playing through this, but I wouldn't mind seeing him for 10 days.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but then yeah, we have uh Trent Grisham coming back on Friday, which is nice.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, the these uh other players haven't really stepped up and it it was just quiet until the eighth inning yesterday, it was just quiet as a mass.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what's more concerning to you?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: Is it the offense, the pitching, the defense?
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: What what's what's the most concerning thing to you right now?
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I'm gonna say the offense is the most concerning thing to me right now because you know, you have Paul Goldschmidt, you have Ben Rice, you have uh Ahmed Rosario, you have all of these guys who are supposed to be hitting Cody Bellinger, you know, you have all of these guys who are supposed to be putting the ball in play, who are supposed to be sending it into the bleachers, and they are just nobody is hitting right now.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't even care about home runs.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: Just give me singles, like just put the ball into play.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, it's fair.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: I yeah, uh the only thing I did want to say, the defense has the Yankees have allowed 23 unearned runs in their last 12 games.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's the most unearned runs in any 12 game span since 1989.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna get to Boone.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm waiting on it.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get to Boone.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: But does that does seem to go to and it's it's a little bit on Aaron Judge too.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: I know we talked to the team two days ago, but they're just so they don't want to get too high or too low.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I know it's 2026, and you're not supposed to coach like you coached in the 90s, and we don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but just the quotes seem like way too lacadaisical for me personally.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and yeah, like yesterday, like they give up the uh they walk in the the game uh winning run, and then they get a hit and then they throw the ball away.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like they these errors are starting to compound, and there isn't that they need like one psycho, like absolute psychopath that's gonna hold all them accountable, even if it's not Aaron Boone, and I know it's a little bit hard because Aaron Boone and Aaron Judge are just like these even-keeled vanilla guys, and yeah, I do think at some point you need to like kind of yell.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I I know that it's crazy to say, but like this is a seven-game losing streak.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: I think we had a nine-game losing streak in 2023, but like it's getting really bad now, and thank god we have the day off today.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, honestly, thank god we have um the off day today.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: But uh do do you have any reason why the Yankees seem to fall apart every June?
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, injuries are definitely a big part of it.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think by this time, every year we always have a decent number of people injured.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's less on the players and more on the medical staff.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think they try to make the players, you know, play through it until it's they're basically falling apart and then you know they're out for the rest of the year type of thing.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um I kept saying at the beginning of the season that pitching is usually our problem and that it would be good that you know Carlos Rodan and Garrett Cole um weren't starting the year on time because they would act as a reinforcement, you know, later in the season, hoping to combat the swoon a little bit.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Clearly that didn't, you know, happen.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um I I don't know what it is, it just feels like once the calendar turns to June, they just lose all of their baseball knowledge and it feels like nothing is clicking no matter what they do.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know, is it someone in the clubhouse who's like I don't I don't like using this term, but it's like a clubhouse cancer type of thing?
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, is there someone or multiple people in there who just don't get along with the other guys that are kind of making it hard?
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I have no idea.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I mean I just want to read out 2023, they were 11 and 12, 2024, they were 14 and 13.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: Last year they were 13 and 14.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: This year, everyone's like, oh, no June swoon, no June soon.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: We're 12 and 7 in June.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they ended June at 12 and 14.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, I I I don't know if it's a weird coincidence or something that's fun that's like fundamentally wrong with this team, but it does become a like a joke on Yankees Twitter.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like, here comes the boon, June, swoon.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, they always start out ha hot, and then like this happens, and it just by like July 10th, everybody's sanctifier Boone, then they win a few games, then they're back in the playoff spot.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, it it is a roller coaster of a season, but like these are astronomically bad numbers in this, like, and you know what?
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: I would be I would honestly be more outraged if Aaron Judge was in the lineup or Jan and or Jan Carl Stanton was in the lineup.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: They don't have the best hitters, but like the Yankees lineup is still a better lineup than like 12 to 15 teams in the MLB right now.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I I don't know.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I feel like, you know, at some point you gotta stop making excuses for yourself and stop step up as a team.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: All right, now we are on to the Aaron Boone discussion.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um he he's lost control of this team.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what are your what are your thoughts on him?
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: I know you tweeted, I saw you tweet that you wanted him gone.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: So what are your thoughts on Aaron Boone right now?
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, all right.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I think, like you said, he's completely lost control of that clubhouse.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just little things.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like he's you know, he puts Volpe out there when obviously Calvallera is the better option.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: Even with the injuries, we have the guys who can go out.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can construct the people in the field to make sure that Volpe is on the bench and is only needed if you know something happens if you need him off the bench.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um he's letting Jazz go out with a lollipop in his mouth.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like he he just it seems like he doesn't care.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, I whatever the lollipop thing.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: I it's jazz.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he was the guy who was yawning in the playoffs last year.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just it's jazz.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like I have no other words for that.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a more of a safety issue than anything.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um But Aaron Boone, I think I don't know what it is.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's just so frustrating.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like we said, this this time of year, every single year he seems to lose control.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: And he always tells us it's right in front of us, or we are a good team, or these guys are gonna figure it out, or you know, all those things that he says kind of to ease your mind, which we know it's not true.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I did post that I wanted him gone, and I think I do I do still want him gone, even though all of the comments are saying, well, if they let go of Boone, they're gonna hire someone who's just like him, they're gonna hire a front office puppet.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think a change of scenery would be nice.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: If they hire someone who is just like Boone, whatever.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because they're not gonna hire Posada or Rivera or all these people, these former players that all of the people on Twitter want them to hire.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna happen.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think you're making a uh a good point here.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, alright, even if they do hire someone like Boone, at least there's a new face that we can yell at.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I know that people, oh, nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: Well, how do you know if you don't change it?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I I do agree with you there.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've been on the Fire Boone campaign since 2021.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: I was trying to ease up this year because I do know the first base coach, and he was probably hired by him.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I I didn't scream, I the old man, like the 27-year-old James Randazzo, would have screamed at Aaron Boone.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: And even a few years ago, when the Yankees were losing, I was screaming at him from 10 feet away.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: But it's just like at some point you have to realize that you know you screaming at this guy isn't going to change anything, and it's I like so, but there is a point where like there's a point where there is just truth of it.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: The the truth of the matter of the fact is Aaron Boone has been here for what is this, his ninth season, I believe.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's his ninth season.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, ninth season as manager.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: They have one pennant, no championships.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: I was always saying, if you're the Yankees manager, you should get five or six seasons.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't win the World Series, you're gone.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: This is the most storied franchise in sports.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: And honestly, with Aaron Boone at the helm, they haven't been acting like it.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just it's really tough to muster up the same cycle of the fire boon tweets and the and and you know, I want to get there, but I'm just like, at this point, me tweeting and getting a thousand retweets.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: What what good is that gonna what good is gonna come from it?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Probably not.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely not.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm just gonna pretend like I was a good luck charm yesterday, which I clearly wasn't.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't think anybody's saving this team right now.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, just a really frustrating loss.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Trent Christian's coming back.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: We can expect him back on Friday, and then we could talk about Max Freed.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like Max Freed, even though the offense has been struggling, Max Fried will be coming back soon.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: He face-wide batters yesterday.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, any thoughts on Freed coming back?
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Or honestly, we could just use a little bit of a resurgence, right?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think Freed is going to be a good reinforcement for the rotation because I mean everyone had their turn in the rotation over the past week.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of them got the loss.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's gonna be refreshing to have someone in there.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even if, you know, even if he loses, it's gonna be nice to have a new face in the lineup, you know, instead of saying, oh, Will Warren's coming off, he's obviously we're gonna blow this game, or Carlos Ronan is coming in, we're gonna blow this game.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even Garrett Cole wasn't pitching well.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Cam Schlittler pitched it was awful on Tuesday.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I was at the game, it was I think one of his shortest starts, and he gave up like a season high runs and home runs or career high.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: It was insane.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: And you're right, and you know, I you were texting the group chat like how frustrated you were, and I was just kind of like laughing because I just like I had not like I'm nowhere near I was watching the game like like with the sound off, and like I was just like kind of laughing because I was like, yeah, it really stinks to be at the game, and then I go to the game yesterday, and then I'm furious, and then like once I got back to Westchester, I was like, oh, you know what?
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, who cares?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's just this billion-dollar organization that doesn't know how to act.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: But um, what's your confidence level in this Yankees team?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like, once they do get the reinforcements back, do you think they can actually make a run?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I know it's really tough to say right now during this seven-game losing streak, and we'll have you on back again when there's something fun to talk about.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because, like, you know, like not the best time to have you on, but like also at the same time, like it is good because it's good to get the realness of fans out there and our real emotions because sometimes when they are going like seven and three in their last 10, or you know, you know, there's a lot of people out there actually, too, before I ask the question, that like a lot of boon defenders are out there, and there are a lot of publications that are close to boon, and people that are close to boon, and we have like literally podcasts uprooting that are just boon defenders and they're nowhere to be seen right now, and they're still kind of making uh defenses for it, and it's all it really is a little bit frustrating, but the grander scheme of the Yankees, Twitter, audience, podcasts, everything, people kind of try to find their niches.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I like I guess I'm typecast as the fire boon guy, but like there are guys that are just defending Aaron Boone, and like at some point you have to be like, oh no, things are bad right now.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I really want those people to more wake up.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but on a scale of one to ten, where's your confidence level with this team going through the summer into October?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: I do think that they're going to make a run.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I even through this seven-game losing streak, I think we're programmed to live through the summer swoon every year, and then we pick it up at the end of the summer into the fall.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think I am I do have I maybe a seven or an eight.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: I am confident that they will make a run, especially once everyone comes back from injuries.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: You don't know what they're gonna do with the trade deadline.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: They could make some really good moves.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: You you honestly you don't know until it happens.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: So at this point, even after the seven-game losing streak, I am confident that they are going to make a run for the postseason.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I I think that they will go far this year.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, what like we I talked about it with a bunch of guests.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: The AL is just bad, it's really bad.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, for me to say that I have any confidence in this team right now just wouldn't be the truth, especially after seeing them yesterday.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: But the AL is just so weak that I I I really do have confidence that they're going to at least make the ALCS, maybe something like that, something along those lines.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: But I really don't I like honestly, until management's change, leaderships change, maybe.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Possibly the GM has changed.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: I really don't see the Yankees winning a World Series, and I I hate that I have to be somewhat negative towards it, but like just the eye test, the leadership test.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they sent Giovanni Cruz down yesterday.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: What are they doing there?
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: They I mean Giovanni Cruz or Jake Bird.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: Giovanni Cruz or Jake Bird, like I think everybody's saying Giovanni Cruz, and like I even saw um, you know, I saw John Boyd get mad at it.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: I seen like all these podcasts getting mad about it, and like I'm honestly at the point where I'm just watching the baseball games looking for a hit, but just the behind the scenes stuff that they're doing, like it doesn't seem like there is that urgency that we saw in April and May, and that's what's becoming frustrated.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, but yeah, what I what are your thoughts on the Giovanni Cruz?
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, uh are you seeing it the same way?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, someone said that John Boy's reaction was performative.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's a total lie.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think he genuinely was frustrated about that, and I was too.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think, why are you leaving Jake Bird up?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Because Cruz was the move for Bednar to come back tomorrow.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: What do you why do you still have Jake Bird?
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the bird is not the word, it just doesn't make sense.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I only saw a little bit of your reaction to it, but like I I just I really don't know where we go from here with this baseball team.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and yeah, like Grishom will be back.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: But uh what I really do want to say, and like I want to say this, Giancarlo Statement.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care how hurt you are.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: We're all dealing with stuff.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: Get in the lineup, swing the baseball bat, walk to first base.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe that'll be a clip for the the the episode.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, um, but yeah, other than that, I mean you're doing a really good job on social media.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: You're ripping cards with your brother.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: You want to talk about that at all?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you did who was it?
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: The first one you were ripping cards with, Carlos Rodon, uh trying to get Carlos Rodon.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: So talk a little bit about that.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I bought a ton of baseball cards because I had like a gift card for MLB.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, why not?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, some people find really good cards in there.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Let me try.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: I had never ripped cards before.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: I opened one pack and I was like, oh, this is fun.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: And then my baseball obsessed brother um found the cards.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, well, I mean, you can open them with me.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: I was a little, you know, weary of having him in the videos just with like people online.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but he was really into it.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, you know what?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the names are hard to pronounce.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's a good thing for him to learn how to pronounce the names, and he loves anything baseball.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like he walks around the house and he's just doing pitching motions.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like he's obsessed with Jack Lighter right now.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so I just thought it was a really fun thing to do with him, and we do have quite a bit of an age gap, so it was something that we could kind of do together.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, having that age gap, and he loves it.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: He loves being on camera.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think he's I think he's a natural.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, he does a great job.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's great content.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: No, honestly, it's great content.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Doing like the like the day by day by day kind of content, and then when you finally get the card, it is it's rewarding.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's rewarding.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: So you do a really good job with that.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, shout out to your other podcast that you have, the generational run podcast.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: You're doing a really good job, like just stick with it.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, um, really appreciate having you on.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, yeah, you guys will see Mads uh on the Yankees recaps, on Yankees Pods as well.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: But check out her podcast, follow her on Twitter, follow her on Instagram.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: What's your handle on um my handle on everything is MDSTEFano14?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: MDistefano14.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: So go follow her.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: She's been doing a really good job.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh give her a follow.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Mads, better times will come.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get you on a couple months.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get you on a couple months when the Yankees are doing well and Carlos Rodon has a good game or something.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, in the meantime, uh stay positive and let's go, Yanks.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.