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Speaker 1: like long extended weekend too. How about that fourth of July.
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Speaker 1: of sports, including soccer. How about the Copas euro Cup,
Speaker 1: Copa America No USA and some shots fired at Brazil
Speaker 1: coming in this episode, which we'll talk about in a
Speaker 1: little bit. But we're going to talk a lot of
Speaker 1: baseball because that's what goes on here and people might
Speaker 1: know him in New New York Yankees fan. There's a
Speaker 1: Derek Jeter hype poster behind me. Not self conscious at all?
Speaker 1: The New York Yankees. Is it five and fifteen? Now
Speaker 1: five and sixteen? That's the worst one I can get.
Speaker 2: There, I know.
Speaker 3: Jimmy mentioned after the show five and fifteen, and that's
Speaker 3: like three games worse than anybody else in that period.
Speaker 3: But I think the stretch extends longer than that.
Speaker 1: The New York Yankees that were off to an electric
Speaker 1: start forty nine and twenty two, fifty and twenty two.
Speaker 1: How about we go there, the first team in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball to fifty wins. That makes the matth easier
Speaker 1: for us. That would be five and fifteen, because they
Speaker 1: are now fifty five and thirty seven. The Orioles have
Speaker 1: a three game lead in the Al East. The Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox have now beaten them in back to back series.
Speaker 1: The Boston Red Sox as of today are in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And I want to dive.
Speaker 1: Into the reality or the try to find some truths
Speaker 1: and some fandoms in the Yankees swoon because this is
Speaker 1: now three straight years, three straight years the Yankees. Last year,
Speaker 1: it does line up with Judge getting hurt, who he
Speaker 1: has been incredible this year and he has done nothing
Speaker 1: but proof since kind of when he got called up slash,
Speaker 1: especially since twenty twenty two that he is on a
Speaker 1: different mode than any other player. So last year Judge happens,
Speaker 1: it's oddly revealing to how thin the Yankees lineup was.
Speaker 2: You know what was it?
Speaker 1: I guess in twenty two was when we first found
Speaker 1: out how thin the Yankees lineup was.
Speaker 2: That's when they traded Monty for Harrison Bader.
Speaker 3: Right those During the twenty two season.
Speaker 1: The Yankees had a historically bad August, one of the
Speaker 1: worst months in franchise history. And it was kind of
Speaker 1: like damn like DJ got hurt. Matt Carpenter, who had
Speaker 1: been amazing for the Yankees and his if you did
Speaker 1: numbers and his minimum games played, he was one of
Speaker 1: the best hitters in baseball, which was insane that the
Speaker 1: Yankees hitting just entirely collapsed. I think that was sad
Speaker 1: Glabor Torres after he thought he was traded that. I
Speaker 1: think he had a historically bad August. The Yankee shortstop
Speaker 1: conversation was up in the air that whole time they
Speaker 1: traded for Andrew ben Tende. He got hurt that the Yankees.
Speaker 1: It was what it was like, It was a good
Speaker 1: It felt like a good case study on man how
Speaker 1: quickly injuries and just how a season can change on
Speaker 1: a diamond baseball That last year, the Arizona Diamonbacks hit
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They are running. Their lineup feels deep. They're
Speaker 1: getting Brandon fott Is giving incredible pitching performances. That they
Speaker 1: were the example last year of like, hey make the dance,
Speaker 1: play some good ball, let's see what happens. They took
Speaker 1: down the Dodgers that had owned them for that regular
Speaker 1: season slash the past decade. That the twenty two Yankees,
Speaker 1: it very much felt like, Wow, boy, did the injury
Speaker 1: bug roll in? This is tough. The lineup fell apart.
Speaker 1: That's life, Frank Sinatra. What they should play when they lose,
Speaker 1: that's for another time. Twenty twenty three last season, I
Speaker 1: mentioned Judge gets hurt. We have a live party during
Speaker 1: that game, and it felt innocent at the time. Judge's
Speaker 1: toe goes into the wall. The big fellas out. The
Speaker 1: season falls apart. The lineup always felt thin. It was
Speaker 1: the question mark coming into the season. We were laughing.
Speaker 1: I think we have a newspaper in our office that
Speaker 1: was like, who's gonna be in the Yankees lineup? Which
Speaker 1: often is not a questions. It's a little spoiled Yankees fan.
Speaker 1: You usually can go around the diamond pretty good. Usually
Speaker 1: there's one or two positions that's like, yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll see if they figure it out.
Speaker 3: And if they don't, it's like a known we're track
Speaker 3: for somebody big at the.
Speaker 2: Deadline, right who's coming to the Yanks.
Speaker 3: Who's the best one That they got.
Speaker 1: To the deadline, they were so so Kate Middleton that
Speaker 1: they did nothing, which led to one of my favorite
Speaker 1: phrases in the company's history, jose McFly saying doing nothing
Speaker 1: is crazy because it was you either needed to help
Speaker 1: this crew or you need to sell on it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then they like soft Cell, they dfae Baiter, they
Speaker 1: dfaid Josh Donaldson, Josh Donaldson, don't get let me started
Speaker 1: on that. Go check out his wedding content.
Speaker 2: That last year.
Speaker 1: It was just like, damn, this Yankees lineup is thin.
Speaker 1: It felt like they misplayed the corner outfield market that
Speaker 1: we talked about for a while.
Speaker 2: Felt like they got to slice.
Speaker 1: A humble pie just between some stuff in their analytics
Speaker 1: department and the Yankees kind of just always expecting to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. But I don't know, there was this
Speaker 1: looming cloud of the New York Yankees with Aaron Judges'
Speaker 1: new massive contract. Garrett Cole wins the cy Young his
Speaker 1: massive contract that it was like, okay, so we kind
Speaker 1: of have two historic Yankees right now the Yankees franchise.
Speaker 1: Whenever we do their pitching stuff, it gets pretty shocking
Speaker 1: pretty quick. That Garrett Cole, you know, he is going
Speaker 1: to be on the pantheon of all time Yankee pitchers.
Speaker 2: Good for you, Garrett.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, he has entered the chat. Now. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of good time Yankees that played for a
Speaker 1: long time, but Judge breaking the Ale home run record,
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth and what he's continued to do this season.
Speaker 1: You know, Aaron Judges put himself in some pretty rare
Speaker 1: Yankee air that it's like, Okay, if we've got these cats,
Speaker 1: then what are we doing? Cause I if we don't
Speaker 1: capitalize on their prime, there's probably gonna be a day
Speaker 1: when they look old and not in their prime.
Speaker 2: DJ Lemayhew the Yankees go out.
Speaker 1: Juan Soto, one of the best players in the game,
Speaker 1: one of the best players to ever play the game
Speaker 1: in the corner outfield left handed bat. Him and Judge
Speaker 1: one of the best, won two combos all time, Bingo
Speaker 1: Banngo Bongo, Alex Verdugo filling another lefty contact need, another
Speaker 1: corner outfield spot. One of the jokes on talking Yanks
Speaker 1: last year was the Yankees didn't play classically trained outfielders
Speaker 1: Willie Calhoun, Jack Bauers. We were thrown body out there.
Speaker 1: So they address those two needs. Anthony Rizzo was part
Speaker 1: of the collapse last year that I forgot to mention.
Speaker 1: He was balling out, gets a concussion, played two of
Speaker 1: the worst months of baseball that any player played that
Speaker 1: he got put in time out for the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's coming back this year. Maybe we can bank on
Speaker 1: some riz Stanton. Let's find out he got broken? Was
Speaker 1: that last year that he was what was the la
Speaker 1: dot la?
Speaker 2: All started.
Speaker 3: Good first half then whatever.
Speaker 1: So there's hope in Yankee Land. Carlos Rodin can't possibly
Speaker 1: be as bad as he's he was. Don't forget that
Speaker 1: part of the story. That was a massive contract that
Speaker 1: was part of the pairing with him and Judge and
Speaker 1: was part of the Yankees all time no good, very
Speaker 1: bad season. Naster's man, It's like, Okay, they signed Marcus Stroman.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be a few things that are gonna click
Speaker 1: with this team, and boy they did. Would I just
Speaker 1: say fifty and twenty two, first team to fifty wins.
Speaker 1: JOm jam Alama, Ding Dong, Jimmy O'Brien, John Boy on Wiki,
Speaker 1: no poker face, not a card playing cat that.
Speaker 2: He was putting out in episodes.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm I believe in this Yankees team more
Speaker 1: than I have in any team during talking Yank's history.
Speaker 2: So what's that mean?
Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen Upstart Punch Yankees team felt like a hell
Speaker 1: of an amusement park ride. There were championship hopes, but
Speaker 1: it never I don't know. It was everything right. It
Speaker 1: was house money. We're playing roulette. We'd want a bunch
Speaker 1: of bets if something cool happens either way. Like we're
Speaker 1: walking away from the table. We've already we started with
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars, We've got three thousand in our pocket
Speaker 1: and we're playing with a thousand out there that if
Speaker 1: we lose it, we lose it. We don't care. You
Speaker 1: come to find out Houston was cheating. You didn't love
Speaker 1: that in hindsight. But whatever, fun ride twenty eighteen it
Speaker 1: was a socks year. It's tough to admit. I would
Speaker 1: like to see that. Gary Sanchez ball, go out and
Speaker 1: play a game five whatever. Congrats, socks, We'll get to
Speaker 1: you later. Craig Kimberl Twenty nineteen was real hopes and
Speaker 1: dreams and a good team.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, just pocket that.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen, the start of twenty two.
Speaker 1: The lads were off to a great start, and it's
Speaker 1: something about it felt special between Judge and Rizzo.
Speaker 3: Judge Rizzo were good. I mean, DJ until the foot
Speaker 3: in August was having.
Speaker 2: His best year, getting on and getting over that.
Speaker 1: There was real belief in that time, and that's where
Speaker 1: I kept checking myself because I was, hey, I'm a
Speaker 1: sports fan and a baseball guy and a big Yankees
Speaker 1: fan that if the Yankees are good, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: world serious.
Speaker 2: That's that's what.
Speaker 1: We need to do, even though they haven't been in
Speaker 1: fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Won five.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have kids born getting through high school that
Speaker 1: haven't seen the Yankees in the World Series, which that's nuts.
Speaker 1: The New York Yankees this year, the starting pitching was clicking. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that a little bit. The bullpen
Speaker 1: never felt right. Clay Holmes deserves respect as a very
Speaker 1: good major league reliever. Uh, there's some closer conversations that
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get to in a minute behind that, it
Speaker 1: was kind of sketch. Luke Weaver has been great, but
Speaker 1: first year as a bullpen guy, and then after that,
Speaker 1: it was it was a lot of bodies, and I
Speaker 1: think the bodies that Yankee fans expected to contribute were not,
Speaker 1: so that felt weird. Caleb Ferguson, Victor Gonzalez, a couple
Speaker 1: of these guys they brought in. It was it was
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, I kind of thought you were gonna
Speaker 1: be the guys and they weren't.
Speaker 3: Even if you were like pessimistic on the group, we
Speaker 3: all figured and one of these dudes will click, because
Speaker 3: that's what the Yankees have done in the bullpen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Yankees.
Speaker 1: If they have one thing their organization deserves credit for,
Speaker 1: it's what they've done in the bullpen. So well, we
Speaker 1: let it ride. And that's the easiest thing to add
Speaker 1: at the deadline too, so.
Speaker 2: That's always available. Kind of no pressure there. Elizka hurt
Speaker 2: first week, Yeah, Johnny Louisa and wow, what the lineup?
Speaker 2: Go round the horn?
Speaker 1: Rizzo, you feel like it's gotta be some version of better,
Speaker 1: and he gave us a week two weeks, I want
Speaker 1: to say, end of April. That kind of looked promising,
Speaker 1: and it was like, Okay, if we know you have
Speaker 1: this in the bag, we don't have to rely on
Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo. So that's you feel like you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a pro MLB at batt He's not gonna chase pitches.
Speaker 3: You can just be like steady.
Speaker 1: We got a catching platoon. We got a lefty and
Speaker 1: a righty. Trevy all the guy mashes lefties at a
Speaker 1: really high rate, Austin Wells. Let's see what the kids got.
Speaker 1: We like the at bats. Sure, Glibber Torres contract year.
Speaker 1: One of the best players on the team the previous year.
Speaker 1: Most consistent. I would say Volpi. It's only up right.
Speaker 1: Guy had a kind of a tough rookie season. In hindsight,
Speaker 1: he showed the smattering of the talent, and I don't
Speaker 1: like to say smattering. DJ's coming back. Let's find out.
Speaker 1: Right getting a lot of injuries, let's find out if not.
Speaker 1: Maybe as Waldo gets some run, which hey is a
Speaker 1: switch hitting, high energy, solid defense, Maybe there's something there,
Speaker 1: whether that's asset wise or just plug in for a
Speaker 1: month and then in the outfield Aaron Judge and center
Speaker 1: field waiting for Jason Domingez to come back. Let's see
Speaker 1: what that's about, surrounded by Soto and Verdugo like one
Speaker 1: of the best outfield outfields in baseball. Still probably grades
Speaker 1: out that way. With Stanton dhing which was a total
Speaker 1: wild card. You know, a lot of people were, let's
Speaker 1: pay him and cut him this offseason, Yanks.
Speaker 2: Bring him back. He looks like a threat.
Speaker 1: He was mauling homers a nice ops, not getting on
Speaker 1: base really, but whatever, he was doing what stan was
Speaker 1: asked to do, and he him leaving is almost right
Speaker 1: in the timeline with the Yankees falling out. Judge has
Speaker 1: been Judge, Soto's been Soto for Dugo's been lackluster for
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's see what that's about. Anthony Volpi
Speaker 1: has regressed. Uh, he got slit up in the lineup
Speaker 1: and ever since he did, he's been a six hundred
Speaker 1: ops guy hitting in front of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: God does that sting Rizzo gets hurt and he was
Speaker 1: bad that. We've got Ben Rice fun story kid hits
Speaker 1: three homers only game they won in the Red Sox Series.
Speaker 1: Glaber it looks like he's feeling the pressure of a
Speaker 1: contract year and he's been hurt. DJ looks cooked. The
Speaker 1: catchers come and go like they've been okay. Besides the
Speaker 1: running fiasco that Boston did to them two Sundays ago
Speaker 1: or whatever it was.
Speaker 3: They it feels like there's always been one of them
Speaker 3: kind of going and like you look at the numbers
Speaker 3: and it's like they're they're good, but because they split
Speaker 3: time and have never both been going, it hasn't felt
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they like I don't know, they don't have
Speaker 1: carry the offense energy either way.
Speaker 2: Even if they're.
Speaker 1: Going well from like the eighth hole and whatever. They
Speaker 1: they haven't been a problem, I think if everything else
Speaker 1: is happening. But they're the starting pitching regress to the
Speaker 1: worst starting pitching the past three weeks. And this might
Speaker 1: shock you trying to Okay, so let's get back to
Speaker 1: logic and crazy fandom. The Yankees are in the wildcar
Speaker 1: they're the number one wildcard team. Currently, they are equidistant
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota Twins in the Wildcard to the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Orioles ahead of them, So that's new starting pitching I'm
Speaker 1: cool with and I think if you went around the
Speaker 1: American League starting pitching, you know, of the current playoff teams,
Speaker 1: Yankees have an argument for the top spot still, like
Speaker 1: let's see where Cole's at. Luis Heal with a bounce
Speaker 1: back start is huge, and where's he going to be
Speaker 1: at at the end of the year. Rodan had a
Speaker 1: bounce back start. The Yankees' rotation can figure it out.
Speaker 1: Like Marcus Stroman has ebbs and flows, but he is
Speaker 1: a quality MLB starting pitcher. We'll see if Clark returns.
Speaker 1: Nestor at home it's been fantastic this year, Nestor on
Speaker 1: the road has not been.
Speaker 3: But cosmically like an overall view of the rotation.
Speaker 2: And they go toe to toe lately.
Speaker 1: Sure, I mean they've got burns at the top and
Speaker 1: they have guys always figuring it out in the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. But sure we can go toe to
Speaker 1: toe with them. I think Seattle, you would give them
Speaker 1: the nod just because it feels like they have four
Speaker 1: guys who are the same option almost that Seattle has that.
Speaker 1: But Yankees can go toe to toe with anyone starting
Speaker 1: pitching in the.
Speaker 2: AL playoff picture.
Speaker 1: Hitting wise, and this is this is where again, let's
Speaker 1: see where we get stacked up Baltimore. I think they're
Speaker 1: probably they're probably the guy right now. Cleveland has kept
Speaker 1: up and if you're looking for star power or quality
Speaker 1: talent like Stephen Kwan has been unbelievable this year. Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez is year in and year out one of the
Speaker 1: best players. Josh Naylor has become a consistent threat, and
Speaker 1: they've just gotten young contributions up and down the lineup.
Speaker 1: That feels like year to year with them that last
Speaker 1: year is a bad thing. You're looking at these young
Speaker 1: guys in the lineup and you're like, oh, what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen there? This year looks like the opposite. David Fry
Speaker 1: is an All Star. They called up some kid who's
Speaker 1: now hitting two hole for them.
Speaker 2: What's his name? I don't even remember.
Speaker 3: Angel Martinez is sure six games in is one dotting.
Speaker 1: Let's find out, fella. Cleveland Guardians lineup wise are currently
Speaker 1: heads and shoulder above the Yankees. The Minnesota Twins are
Speaker 1: currently head and shoulder above the Yankees. Buxton has gone off,
Speaker 1: King Correa has gone nuts. He just got hit in
Speaker 1: the hand. We'll see what the update is there, Jose
Speaker 1: Miranda reading them the Miranda rights, making history, and then
Speaker 1: their lefties have just been like league average, which again
Speaker 1: the Yankees would If the Yankees had league average surrounding
Speaker 1: Juan Soto and Aaron Judge, they'd be an a lineup,
Speaker 1: but they just have not had that that The Twins
Speaker 1: lineup currently puts them under the table. The Red Sox
Speaker 1: lineup is currently putting them under the table. Duran's awesome
Speaker 1: Devers is incredible and probably gonna be all JM third baseman,
Speaker 1: and it just feels like, maybe it's Cora, maybe it's
Speaker 1: roster construction, but they they have a player empowerment thing
Speaker 1: that Rob Refsnyder against lefties is one of the best
Speaker 1: hitters in the league. They can play that card when
Speaker 1: they want. You know, they've got other Rafaela feels like
Speaker 1: he's coming into his own at the bottom of their lineup.
Speaker 2: Connor Wong has been incredible this year.
Speaker 1: That the Red Sox lineup top to bottom takes down
Speaker 1: the Yanks right now. I think for Seattle hitting has
Speaker 1: been a problem with them. That they don't have Judge
Speaker 1: and Soto, so I think he'd still lean Yankees there,
Speaker 1: but as again, playoff picture and don't make me bring
Speaker 1: Houston into the mix as they're hunting things down them
Speaker 1: in the Royals. I think the Royals lineup has outdone
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Houston lineup for sure has okay, so lineup wise,
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees are back amongst ale contenders, bottom tier.
Speaker 2: That's a problem. That's a problem.
Speaker 3: Bullpen.
Speaker 1: Clay Holmes makes the All Star Game whatever. Craig Kimberrell
Speaker 1: has been incredible and is a Hall of Fame closer.
Speaker 1: He should be in over him. They get in over
Speaker 1: ken Ley too.
Speaker 3: Wasn't the I believe both of them are not in.
Speaker 1: And how did Clay get put in? It was the commissioners.
Speaker 3: That's just like the how everybody gets just how they
Speaker 3: do it. It's a combination of player vote and hey,
Speaker 3: I think and I think they all vote. I think
Speaker 3: the votes happened like second week of June or something like.
Speaker 3: These results have been in. Don't want to be e
Speaker 3: ra slut. But ken Lee Janssen, who has an art
Speaker 3: in as a Hall of Fame closer as well UH
Speaker 3: two to oh one er in his thirty one point
Speaker 3: one innings pitch this year he's still electric.
Speaker 1: Kimbrel has been killing it two to one era thirty
Speaker 1: four point one innings pitch if you like strikeouts fifty
Speaker 1: two Uh that yeah, I mean these reliever numbers can
Speaker 1: fluctuate quickly. But these two historic closers having great seasons,
Speaker 1: getting having Clay go in before them feels a little.
Speaker 3: Off, like like every year with the All Star stuff,
Speaker 3: like ultimately everybody you one in is gonna get in there. Eventually,
Speaker 3: the injury replacements, the guys that are gonna just not
Speaker 3: be available for the game, so pitchers get in, sure,
Speaker 3: but you would think those guys just had the sex
Speaker 3: appeal over Clay just starting point, you would have thought
Speaker 3: it would be an uphill battle for Clay, who statistically
Speaker 3: had a very very good half.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and I Clay is a whole other argument.
Speaker 1: That's it's just mental hurdles for Yankee fans. We got
Speaker 1: lost in his Entry's come out song because it's just
Speaker 1: not closer caliber. I think if you went around the
Speaker 1: league right now or staying in the al again, Let's
Speaker 1: let's go to the World Series Yankees for the first
Speaker 1: time in fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Kim Roll.
Speaker 1: Kegan Iiken as kind of the lefty. Although the eras
Speaker 1: not great right now, but the other stats are three
Speaker 1: eight three, so it's not killing them. YENNI, your Cano
Speaker 1: and Jacob Webb has been great for them. I think
Speaker 1: i'd take the Orioles bullpen over the Yankees bullpen right now. Seattle,
Speaker 1: they got my guy Sendor Smoke back there, and they've
Speaker 1: been a bullpen factory themselves that I think you'd take
Speaker 1: Seattle's bullpen over there. Minnesota Duran on the back end,
Speaker 1: they've had a little bit of bullpen success recently. Go
Speaker 1: check out your boy Griffin Jacks twirling it back there.
Speaker 1: I think you take Minnesota's bullpen, whether you're just leaning
Speaker 1: into the guy on the back end and the other
Speaker 1: bodies back there, I think you take them. The Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox, man, their bullpen is looking sharp. We talked
Speaker 1: about Kenley at the end of the game. Justin Slayton
Speaker 1: has been really good for them this year.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not fully I'm not all in chips on the
Speaker 1: table with him yet. Chris Martin got hurt again. When
Speaker 1: he is out there, you'd like him. Their whole pitching
Speaker 1: staff has surprised us this year. I would be very
Speaker 1: interested to get neutral baseball fans opinion. Whose bullpen would
Speaker 1: you rather have? Yankees are Red Sox. I think recently
Speaker 1: it's been Red Sox, but I'll leave it open to conversation.
Speaker 1: And then who else do I got? So Red Sox? Oh, Guardians,
Speaker 1: they've had the best bullpen in baseball pretty much. You
Speaker 1: want the dude on the back end, they got that.
Speaker 1: And they've got other guys who are just shoving this year.
Speaker 1: So okay, So of playoff teams currently in the AL
Speaker 1: Yankees would have one of, if not the worst bullpen.
Speaker 1: So you've got maybe probably the second worst lineup as
Speaker 1: of right now, like we're starting it up today, you've
Speaker 1: got the second worst bullpen. Let's say you want to
Speaker 1: put one of the teams below them. As of right now,
Speaker 1: starting pitching is still there. But I think trying to
Speaker 1: do the logical Yankee thing right now, if they don't,
Speaker 1: what's April mean right now?
Speaker 2: What does may mean?
Speaker 1: It's July eighth, So those wins in the bank that
Speaker 1: you've been celebrating, what do they mean right now? It
Speaker 1: means there's probably more in the tank. The starting pitching
Speaker 1: went through a funk. I think they're gonna come out
Speaker 1: of it. That's gonna give you a lot better opportunities.
Speaker 1: They were due to regress for whatever reason. All happened
Speaker 1: in two weeks, right, but they seem to be getting
Speaker 1: back on you helf timing, and with where the lineup
Speaker 1: is at, there's a lot of three to zero holes.
Speaker 1: I think what was the Max Manus tweet? They were
Speaker 1: behind in thirteen out of fourteen games well above something
Speaker 1: insane that when the lineup's not going, it's just a
Speaker 1: daunting feeling, especially when it's just no depth in the
Speaker 1: lineup the length. The yankees last five wins have been
Speaker 1: all blowouts, so they've had like the massive inning they've
Speaker 1: gotten to the bad guys in the bullpen, that's game over.
Speaker 2: It's actually bad.
Speaker 1: Like if you're an outside looking inner and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: Yankee fans, you're fifty five and thirty seven, this guy's
Speaker 1: not really falling whatever you're being dramatic.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: And it is gonna be a big, big trade deadline
Speaker 1: for the Yankees. And I don't know what big pieces
Speaker 1: out there. I don't know which Ammo they're willing to
Speaker 1: cash in amongst their their prospects.
Speaker 2: The Yankees.
Speaker 1: When's the last big prospect they traded?
Speaker 2: Hmmm, like big just.
Speaker 1: The big trades they've done in general, Olpi di Minguez.
Speaker 1: I think Spencer Jones is now like the big prospect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think before that. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: like the Baby Bombers, which they they kept all of that, right.
Speaker 3: Justice Sheffield was technically at the time, he was a
Speaker 3: topic three at the time, I forget where. I mean,
Speaker 3: some lists had Thorpez like their best pitching prospect, number
Speaker 3: three in the ord move some pitchers, I'll say that
Speaker 3: they move guys and they tend to just link up
Speaker 3: with teams that want to do quantity over quality.
Speaker 1: But I think those guys were also not like top
Speaker 1: twenty five prospects, which is kind of like the can't miss,
Speaker 1: like these are the guys if you're really trading something,
Speaker 1: or at.
Speaker 3: Least it's like these guys are going to get an
Speaker 3: MLB opportunity, like you'll give you I think season.
Speaker 1: I think when Noelvie got traded Noeldie Marte for Luis Castillo,
Speaker 1: that was like, whoa, that's like a real prospect getting traded.
Speaker 1: I don't know, they need lineup depth. They need bullpen dept.
Speaker 1: Bullpen depth can happen. They have some veterans rehabbing, Scott
Speaker 1: f Ross. You might see lu Trevino at some point
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Nick Birdie. Am I supposed to Where am I supposed
Speaker 2: to be?
Speaker 3: On?
Speaker 1: That bullpen? Can be figured out? The Yankees need to
Speaker 1: trade for some lineup and it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: who's on the table. Obviously, Ryan McMahon has been thrown
Speaker 1: out a lot. He's an All Star this year and
Speaker 1: supposedly the Rockies just love him. And I've done this
Speaker 1: on here before, but his contract can either look like
Speaker 1: great value or scary, depending where your team is at
Speaker 1: financially and where you think Ryan McMahon is at. There's
Speaker 1: not much you can do in the outfield. You can
Speaker 1: wait for Dimingez to come back, but you're gonna ride
Speaker 1: out Judge Soto doogie with Dominga is like that. That's cool.
Speaker 1: But right now we were a week ago saying the
Speaker 1: whole that the infield, the whole infield is now a
Speaker 1: question mark. Lolpi has been bad for a minute. He's
Speaker 1: twenty two. He's shown potential if he had just been
Speaker 1: in the nine hole. This whole time, we wouldn't be
Speaker 1: talking about it. So that's a little on the Yankees,
Speaker 1: who the whole thing about Volpi is them trying to
Speaker 1: not make it a thing. You made it a thing.
Speaker 1: Like his numbers have not been good at the major
Speaker 1: league level, especially at the top of the lineup. Especially
Speaker 1: at the top of the lineup. The catchers, we're not
Speaker 1: sure if they're gonna hit, and we don't know if
Speaker 1: they can play defense. It's kind of a tough combo.
Speaker 1: They haven't been a problem. One stolen base week was tough.
Speaker 1: But if that kills you in a playoff series, my god.
Speaker 2: The egg that's gonna be on everyone's face. And boy,
Speaker 2: can that kill.
Speaker 3: You in a playoff series?
Speaker 2: By the way, but check out my snakes first base.
Speaker 1: We've got a kid from Dartmouth who's got all the
Speaker 1: joy and hope in the world, and maybe that's gonna
Speaker 1: be part of the story of this season. That would
Speaker 1: be sick. And he's looked the part. So no shots
Speaker 1: fired there, so far, so good.
Speaker 3: If there's enough holes to fill though, like if that's
Speaker 3: their answer.
Speaker 1: There, Anthony Rizzo has not looked the part, and he's
Speaker 1: one of the most respected veterans in baseball, So how
Speaker 1: do you handle that? DJ Lemayhew, Lol, same cross the
Speaker 1: way at third or at first, and Glabor Torres, if
Speaker 1: he's not hitting at a high level, he's not a
Speaker 1: good player. If Glaber Torres is hitting at league average,
Speaker 1: he's a negative player. He plays bad defense, and he
Speaker 1: can't run at second base. So you got a second
Speaker 1: year shortstop who hasn't been able to put it together
Speaker 1: at the major league level. You got a contract year
Speaker 1: now injured second baseman that if he's not hitting at
Speaker 1: a high level a year where hitting is down across baseball,
Speaker 1: he's kind of not a contributing player. And you got
Speaker 1: two olds on the bookends and a rookie that we've
Speaker 1: seen a week of. You got to retool the You
Speaker 1: gotta retool a chunk of it. I know this is
Speaker 1: where sometimes Yankee fans get greedy and we want everything.
Speaker 1: I understand, you can't do everything like the shortstop. Shortstop
Speaker 1: is gonna be what it is like Anthony Volpi. You
Speaker 1: just need to play better. Dog, go have a Bobby
Speaker 1: wit second half. He can't like he has talent.
Speaker 3: Bottom half of the lineup. He doesn't have to hit
Speaker 3: that much better for us. To be like fine, yeah,
Speaker 3: he gets not far off.
Speaker 1: Sevens and he can be helpful, but he hasn't been
Speaker 1: that for two months. He's playing fine defense. The catchers,
Speaker 1: I think they're in too deep and I don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to get the asset that really
Speaker 1: makes you feel different on it. I know Jimmy dreams
Speaker 1: of Logan o' hoppy local boy. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the Halos. It's like the only thing they have to
Speaker 1: trade a massive prospect package. The Yankees aren't gonna do that.
Speaker 1: They don't do that.
Speaker 2: Either way.
Speaker 3: It's just it's an off season question.
Speaker 1: So then second base, third base, and first base, we
Speaker 1: got struggling veterans. Are you willing to move off them
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, And who can you
Speaker 1: bring in? And how many can you bring in? It's
Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting final stretch for the Yankees as
Speaker 1: they play Tampa in the trop although it looks like
Speaker 1: Tampa just got the business this weekend, they're back under
Speaker 1: five hundred please, And then you finish with the Orioles.
Speaker 1: We're playing a great brand of baseball and they have
Speaker 1: zero fear of the Yankees. The entire al East that
Speaker 1: the Yankees are under five hundred against nobody fears them.
Speaker 1: Boston gets excited to play the Yankees. You can see
Speaker 1: it on the players' faces. They're like, We're about to
Speaker 1: take you to hell because we can run, because we
Speaker 1: have like a team we believe in. I don't know, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting if this Yankee skid continues. Let's okay,
Speaker 1: let's daydream in a bad way. Let's say this continues
Speaker 1: to the break. Jimmy, Jimmy last night talking Yanks, I
Speaker 1: said Rais and Orioles. He says, we're gonna be lucky
Speaker 1: if we win two games. Kind of agree. Let's say
Speaker 1: that happens or worse man All Star weekend, a lot
Speaker 1: of media things are gonna get pretty loud and rowdy. Again,
Speaker 1: the Yankees do have a lot of wins in the
Speaker 1: bank that even if that continues, there's still gonna be,
Speaker 1: you know, firmly in the wildcard picture with a decent
Speaker 1: All Star break record. Kind of although we're starting to
Speaker 1: get to no, I mean, they would still be Let's
Speaker 1: say they go one and five into the break, they're
Speaker 1: fifty six and forty two.
Speaker 3: That's what you're well.
Speaker 2: Like it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Think about how many teams we talked about there are
Speaker 3: more or less just five hundred.
Speaker 2: It's a good record. Man.
Speaker 1: They come out of the break and it's bad again.
Speaker 1: The trade pieces and you just wonder if our guy,
Speaker 1: our interview buddy, Aaron Boone, you wonder what conversations actually happen.
Speaker 1: Look what the Philadelphia Phillies did. Former Yankee manager Joe Girardi.
Speaker 2: Was let go.
Speaker 1: Rob Thompson took over, and Philly's been great, nothing but
Speaker 1: great since.
Speaker 2: Rob Thompson took over.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say. This is for the waken Jake
Speaker 1: people social team. Do not clip this because I just
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with the comments and our partnership
Speaker 1: with Boone this year, I had to send a weird
Speaker 1: email to his agent where I was like, Hey, don't
Speaker 1: think this is gonna happen, but this is kind of
Speaker 1: just smart business. I was like, we kind of have
Speaker 1: to put a clause in here that like, if Boone
Speaker 1: gets let go.
Speaker 3: What happens, what happens?
Speaker 2: We are not there.
Speaker 1: The Yankees have the ability between their starting pitching and
Speaker 1: if just one or two random guys in the lineup
Speaker 1: pop Look at Ben Rice, they can get out of
Speaker 1: this and be a solid, fine team and hopefully get
Speaker 1: some reinforcements. If not, things are gonna get louder than ever.
Speaker 1: Three straight years that just a disaster has happened, and
Speaker 1: that's something organizationally, that's something in the clubhouse. That's that's
Speaker 1: not baseball, Susan. That doesn't just happen. I feel like
Speaker 1: Rachel yelling at Ross it doesn't happen. Every guy, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Watched Friends in a while might have to fire that up.
Speaker 3: Largely holds up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I enjoy Friends. I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of gen zers that kind of like, what is this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good, It's just good.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: Nobody's saying it's the best.
Speaker 2: Like people can show ever learn the characters. It's fun.
Speaker 3: I was having some thoughts last night about the manager situation.
Speaker 3: I've been going back and forth, like, all right, if
Speaker 3: if I wasn't like in it as a Yankee, like
Speaker 3: a team in an identical situation that I don't care about,
Speaker 3: was in this spot, and if I like woke up
Speaker 3: tomorrow and it was like they decided to let this,
Speaker 3: let them go, would I be surprised.
Speaker 2: I think I still would it was a great start, but.
Speaker 3: That's at the end of the season. No, I think
Speaker 3: that's at the end of the season. No, I think
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: But I still think you're getting polluted too much by
Speaker 1: knowing the Yankees that they take pride in not firing
Speaker 1: a manager. What's their stat We haven't fired a manager
Speaker 1: since ninety three or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: They just let contracts expire, so and they think that's
Speaker 1: the bigger route. So I I don't know what else
Speaker 1: was I gonna say. I forget if it was Yankee
Speaker 1: relater or baseball Oh another social Please don't clip maybe
Speaker 1: new segment. Socials don't clip this segment. And I don't
Speaker 1: live in fear of our social clips. I want everyone
Speaker 1: to know that. But sometimes there's just stuff you don't want.
Speaker 2: To deal with.
Speaker 1: If you took a pull, know how the GM poll
Speaker 1: comes out, or if we did a fan pull on
Speaker 1: Talking Baseball and we said, Hey, Sunday Baseball, Yankees, Red Sox,
Speaker 1: which manager would you rather have? How's that poll comeback?
Speaker 1: I think if you're a sports fan or a baseball fan,
Speaker 1: you've got the numbers in your own head, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's World Series bs Cora has one.
Speaker 2: I don't know it.
Speaker 1: It seems like Cora's done more with less parts. And
Speaker 1: it feels like, by the way, speaking of contracts expiring,
Speaker 1: if the Red Sox don't do something at the deadline
Speaker 1: or don't flex that, they're not gonna be these new
Speaker 1: boss and Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Cora's out. He's like telling us, Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you guys aren't gonna act like how you should
Speaker 1: as the boss in Red Sox, I don't have to
Speaker 1: be here for this. I can go get that Craig
Speaker 1: Council back not working for the Cubbies. God, he goes
Speaker 1: to Houston. So that was a Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: a thirty eight minute Yankee rant of sort. I hope
Speaker 1: you guys like that. I can do some some quick
Speaker 1: MLB around the horn. All Star teams got announced. Oh
Speaker 1: your guy made it, your guy got snubbed, And like
Speaker 1: BBD said, I mean for the pitchers, we're still we're
Speaker 1: still about to get a second layer of All Stars
Speaker 1: that your guy will probably get in, especially.
Speaker 2: If they're in arm they'll get in. You.
Speaker 3: Most of the hitters that are supposed to be there getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hitting hitting stays with an injury or two.
Speaker 1: Oh a lot of burps into the mic right there.
Speaker 1: That's for the YouTube and the mics. Let's see my
Speaker 1: snakes are back to five hundred. Just need a little
Speaker 1: more out of them, although they're gonna believe all year
Speaker 1: and could have been an eight game win streak if
Speaker 1: Paul Seawald didn't plow both series openers to LA and
Speaker 1: San Diego.
Speaker 2: That's fun. Let's see brew crew lose. They don't care.
Speaker 1: Will smith Man, I don't know, throwback bro the Night.
Speaker 1: It's become a joke on all JM that this cat
Speaker 1: just can't He's been the second best NL catcher for
Speaker 1: forty months now. That's a lot of months, thirty months,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is a Jerry Harrison
Speaker 1: senior thing.
Speaker 2: Is he senior now?
Speaker 1: Someone let me know, but they call him America's catcher,
Speaker 1: and I kind of like that a lot. As you
Speaker 1: guys know about America's GM. He had a three homer day.
Speaker 1: His numbers are crazy eight forty five ops, a one
Speaker 1: thirty eight ops plus and a fantastic defensive catcher. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's a Yankee exercise I'll do at some point, just
Speaker 1: position by position along amongst the playoff teams.
Speaker 2: Where did the Yankees rank? Again?
Speaker 1: Those dark thoughts are creeping in. Ranger Suarez has been
Speaker 1: getting knocked around lately. Interested to see what that's about.
Speaker 1: Is it over? Is he tired? It's kind of the
Speaker 1: pitching question for every pitcher nowadays. I mentioned Jose Morana
Speaker 1: on the way through. Was it eleven straight hit? Twelve
Speaker 1: straight hits? That's that's looney tunes. That's that's actually Looney tunes.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy for him. I'm happy for him. We're
Speaker 1: doing We did things kind of reverse today. We normally
Speaker 1: do talking baseball, then Wagan Jake, We're gonna do talking
Speaker 1: baseball after this excited yuckball with my guy Trev coming
Speaker 1: back from vacation. Rangers swept the Rays. Can they get
Speaker 1: it going? I don't think so. Hey, I left my
Speaker 1: Yankee heart out there today. That's probably gonna be it
Speaker 1: because I don't really want to dive into anything else.
Speaker 2: You know what I will dive into.
Speaker 1: I told the people I've been watching soccer. I enjoy soccer.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: The kopas have been fun. My guy Ronaldinho had a
Speaker 1: quote on June fifteenth that he was embarrassed about Brazilian soccer.
Speaker 1: There's actually there's actually some honestly great quotes in there,
Speaker 1: so I'll dig this up.
Speaker 2: Let's see. He said he wasn't gonna watch.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: He's sad. It's a sad moment for Brazilian football. It's
Speaker 1: the worst team in recent years. No respectable players or
Speaker 1: no no respectable leaders, only average players. They have a
Speaker 1: lack of love for Brazil and a lack of football.
Speaker 1: Shots fired from Ronaldinho on June fifteenth. My chips are
Speaker 1: all in with him. I couldn't believe I turned on
Speaker 1: a Brazil soccer game and you're expect to see brilliance.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: They were missing Vinnie Junior, nay Mars Hurt whatever, that's
Speaker 1: two guys. Not a single player stood out. It was insane.
Speaker 1: It was insane and kind of sad. So team Ronaldinho
Speaker 1: for those keeping track at home, I'm pretty mad at
Speaker 1: US Soccer with the Greg Berhalter stuff. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was going up and down their lineup and lining
Speaker 1: them up with like the twenty ten US soccer team.
Speaker 1: Twenty ten would roll them. Everyone's talking about Golden generation,
Speaker 1: not soccer guy chiming in shots fired at US. He's
Speaker 1: running hot today, but I would go check it out.
Speaker 1: Soccer it can be a weird watch. You know, there's
Speaker 1: beautiful zero zero games, there's hideous zero zero games. You
Speaker 1: kind of don't know what you're gonna walk into. The
Speaker 1: EuroCup games have been a lot of fun, fun watching
Speaker 1: the Swiss play. All right, I think you guys are
Speaker 1: done hearing me talk about it. Go enjoy the rest
Speaker 1: of this week. We'll be back Wednesday. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: some foolish at some point. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: Wednesday or pre record. Either way, Beebes, can you tell
Speaker 1: him about our good friend?
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