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Speaker 1: All right, let's hip the field Brian Cashman. For more

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Speaker 1: than a quarter century, he has held the title of Yankees'

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Speaker 1: general manager, and in that time he's made some really

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Speaker 1: In this episode, we'll break down the best and worst

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Speaker 1: of the Brian Cashman era. Leave your favorite and most

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Speaker 1: hated moves in the chat. This is Pinstripe Territory.

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Speaker 2: Wanted to pook at al.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, Welcome back, everybody. I am Derek,

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Speaker 1: host of Pinstripe Territory. With me is Terrence. Can we

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Speaker 1: call him TK? How you doing out there in La TK?

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Speaker 2: Doing pretty well. The weather's finally starting to feel a

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Speaker 2: little bit like fall, not even winter. It just took

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Speaker 2: the entire month of October November to get there, but

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Speaker 2: we're getting there wetting well.

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Speaker 1: Speaking speaking of whether this is what we call an

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Speaker 1: evergreen podcast. This will be good, you know, and as

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Speaker 1: many months down the road as you want to watch it.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna go for Brian Cashman's career. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: rank his top ten best and worst moves. I will

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Speaker 1: be handling his best moves, and TK here will be

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Speaker 1: going over his worst moves and we'll debate him along

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Speaker 1: the way. So TK allow me to get things started

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Speaker 1: with number ten on the best Brian Cashman moves. I've

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Speaker 1: got the Curtis Granderson trade. Grandy Man was an all star.

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Speaker 1: He had back to back forty home run seasons with

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Speaker 1: He was a great defender, beautiful smile, just lit up

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Speaker 1: his years with the Yankees. And we really didn't have

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Speaker 1: to trade a lot to get him. We dealt Ian

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Speaker 1: Kennedy as part of that deal. He ended up pitching

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Speaker 1: really well with Arizona, but I don't think he had

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Speaker 2: I love grandy Man. That that was the man right there,

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Speaker 2: literally in the name, right behind Jeter. It was perfect

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Speaker 2: lefty swing. He had a great swing for the short

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Speaker 2: great guy, super like chill, kind of easygoing dude and

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Speaker 2: a nice little run there. Just too bad that he

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Speaker 2: You loved him.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna go to the number ten worst.

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Speaker 1: Brian Cashman, move on tk's list.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yeah, it's got to be passing on Bryce Harper. Right,

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Speaker 2: the guy became a free agent similar to the Juan

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Speaker 2: Soto sweepstakes this offseason. He was twenty six, generational talent,

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Speaker 2: I believe it was a thirteen year, three hundred and

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Speaker 2: value of twenty five million dollars and all these yeah,

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Speaker 2: all he's done, especially now right, the contract's aging really

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Speaker 2: well and all he's done since he's gotten the Phillies,

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Speaker 2: He won the MVP in twenty twenty twenty one, was it? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that we all thought he would be a lefty swing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And since going to the Phillies, he's got one

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a big miss. I like that one.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to number nine in his best moves. I

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Speaker 1: got the d D gregorioas trade. Look. De d was

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Speaker 1: He had some big postseason moments. I loved the emojis

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Speaker 2: we acquired him, like you said, big shoes to fill there,

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Speaker 1: I missed the postgame tweet, let's go to your number

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Speaker 1: worst Brian Cashman deal.

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Speaker 2: It's got to be trading for Joey Gallo, right, I

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Speaker 2: remember trade deadline twenty twenty one. We also got Rizzo

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Speaker 2: Lefty ready. Like I understand the logic there, but I

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Speaker 2: felt like way too many strikeouts to acquire a guy

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Speaker 2: like that, you ended up sending Ezekiel duran in the deal,

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Speaker 2: Josh Smith. Ezekiel Durant has become a nice little player

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Speaker 2: you could have used. And Joey Gallo was just a disaster,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And once New York gets to you, if you're

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Speaker 1: to my number eight here, signing Mase hero Tanaka, one

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Speaker 1: number eight. He had to fight with the Cubs and

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, TK he probably would have

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Speaker 1: He was one of these guys who walked everybody. Another

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Speaker 1: great personality. And when it came time for his career

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Speaker 1: to choose to re sign with a team other than

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of guy I like. Thoughts on Masa.

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Speaker 2: I do. I can't help but feel a little bit

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Speaker 2: like what could have been with him. Sometimes I feel

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Speaker 2: like he should have just elected the Tommy John surgery

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Speaker 2: he ended up getting hurt. But that guy was just

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Speaker 2: unhittable at that time. That splitter was gross. Something about

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Speaker 2: those Japanese aces, and that was the splitter man like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I wish him the best. I miss him.

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Speaker 1: That was one of Brian Cashman's best because he didn't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gotta be the Javier Vasquez trade and twice

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Speaker 2: He was actually an All Star that year, so he

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Speaker 2: And then the Yankees decided, let's trade for him when

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Speaker 1: Yeah. See, well, you know, he's one of these guys

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Speaker 1: I always loved his personality. I think it wore down

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Speaker 2: I loved swisch Delicious two thousand and nine. Not to

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Speaker 2: I think what we're on though, is number six of

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Speaker 2: the worst moves which I have as trading for Kevin Brown.

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Speaker 1: Just some of the worst baseball you've ever seen pitched

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Speaker 1: in those last two seasons. All right, we got the

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Speaker 1: buttons squared away. What happens is I clicked the wrong

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Speaker 1: one and now we're down to number five on the

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Speaker 1: best Brian Cashman moves. I've got Juan Soda just this

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Speaker 1: past offseason forty one home runs, obviously won the Pennant

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Speaker 1: with the big three run home run. It will be

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Speaker 1: an even better move and might move up this list

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Speaker 1: a little bit if the Yankees are able to re

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Speaker 1: sign him. I'm still a little bit pessimistic from you

439
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Speaker 1: know what we're hearing across town. The Mets going hard

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Speaker 1: after him. It sounds like he just wants the most money.

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Speaker 1: That seems to be Boris's mo. It's possible he could

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Speaker 1: still set a contract record both average annual value and

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Speaker 1: overall value with the Yankees. They would probably do that,

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Speaker 1: but the Mets are willing to give more. But I

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Speaker 1: just loved watching Soda this year TK.

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Speaker 2: I loved watching him play too. Just a lightly touch

447
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Speaker 2: on this because we're not gonna make a Juan Soda episode.

448
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 2: There'll be plenty of for that. But I think the

449
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Speaker 2: only way he comes back is like the Yankees offer

450
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Speaker 2: in the record setting contract, and he loved it so

451
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Speaker 2: much as the Yankee He's like, I'm good, I got

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Speaker 2: to the number that I wanted to get to, and

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Speaker 2: that the Mets. Even if the Mets will go, we'll

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Speaker 2: give you eight hundred million. It's like at that point

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Speaker 2: the money is becoming so ridiculous that he's already set

456
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Speaker 2: the standard of I got the biggest contract from the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: I don't need to go further. That is the only

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Speaker 2: chance I think the Yankees have. But does it move

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Speaker 2: down your list, Eric if he walks, especially if he

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Speaker 2: goes to like the Mets, or let's say even more, because.

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Speaker 1: They made the World Series, and they made the World

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Speaker 1: Series on his swing. He played really well in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs he had. He did exactly what he's designed to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it might move down a little bit on my

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Speaker 1: list if Mike King wins a couple of cy Youngs

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Speaker 1: with the Padres or something like that. But you know,

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Speaker 1: Kyli Gotchioka had a really good year this year too,

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Speaker 1: it's worth worth mentioning. All right, let's get to number

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Speaker 1: five on your list.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's got to be the signing of K.

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Speaker 2: Is that how you say his first name? K? He

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Speaker 2: got he go, yeah, he can't speak. But they signed

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Speaker 2: him to a five year, twenty million dollar deal. He

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Speaker 2: played two seasons with the eighties. That's pretty brutal out

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Speaker 2: of Japan age twenty seven and twenty eight, two thousand

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Speaker 2: and seven and two thousand and eight. He had a

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Speaker 2: six two five ELRA in the first year and a

479
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Speaker 2: thirteen to five Elray in his second year. He started

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Speaker 2: He started one game the following year. He started twelve

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Speaker 2: in his first in his first year. But that was

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Speaker 2: just the thing where Jerk and I are kind of

483
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Speaker 2: talking about this in the green room where they had

484
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Speaker 2: signed him, because they didn't get basically the big Japanese

485
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Speaker 2: prize that year, and that was a little bit of like, hey,

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Speaker 2: we got this guy and he was only throwing like

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Speaker 2: eighty eight miles an hour at for his heater, which

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Speaker 2: is just frankly, unless you're gonna like dot that thing

489
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Speaker 2: and you can hit like a nickel off of like

490
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Speaker 2: a chair from six feet away, you're not gonna get

491
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Speaker 2: a lot of guys out on the major leagues. You

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Speaker 2: can't miss your spot if you're throwing that slow at

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Speaker 2: the major league level. I know that guys are throwing

494
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Speaker 2: super hard now, but even back then, man, that was

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Speaker 2: not gonna cut it. You gotta have as your first digit.

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Speaker 1: And he uh he wore sunglasses when he was pitching,

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Speaker 1: which is not something you typically see. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about like corrective lenses for you know, somebody who

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Speaker 1: had like like Julio Urius had. He wore straight up

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Speaker 1: like Oakley wrap around sunglasses when he was pitching, and

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Speaker 1: you just don't see pitchers do that. I remember when

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Speaker 1: he uh there was a quote from Brian Cashman that

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Speaker 1: he was driving back from Scranton one time and uh

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Speaker 1: Igawa passed him on the highway. And he said that

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Speaker 1: a guy was driving faster than his own fastball. So

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Speaker 1: actual quote from the GM who signed up. Wow, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to number four on my list. Gotta be

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Speaker 1: Garrett Cole. I mean, uh, you know, he was Cashman's

509
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Speaker 1: white whale. He's already won a cy young, he's mostly

510
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Speaker 1: been healthy. He pitched some great games in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can disregard the fact that he

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Speaker 1: didn't cover first base, but I think there's a little

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Speaker 1: something to being absolutely worn out at that point. He had,

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Speaker 1: you know, he had to pitch around a bunch of airs,

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Speaker 1: the bases were loaded, and he just let his guard

516
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Speaker 1: down a little bit and didn't hustle the first base.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna cost his legacy if that ends up being

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Speaker 1: his only World Series appearance with the Yankees. But you know,

519
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Speaker 1: if he wins one, people will forget or at least

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Speaker 1: set that aside, because they weren't gonna win that series anyway.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it might have gotten interesting if they went

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Speaker 1: back to la I don't think they were gonna win,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think it. I don't know, it might

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Speaker 1: have gotten interest. They had a shot. They had a

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Speaker 1: shot if they win that game, but it but a

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Speaker 1: very very small shot. But I mean, you know last

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Speaker 1: year's Cy Young Award. I mean he's been he was

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Speaker 1: the temporary pitching coach when he was on the IL

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Speaker 1: this year. I love Garrett Coole, and I think that

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Speaker 1: if he had opted out like he did opt out,

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Speaker 1: if he had elected to go elsewhere, I would have

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Speaker 1: I heard his Yankees career extremely fondly. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: these last four years or five years? Is it five years?

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Speaker 1: One forty four? Yeah, or no, it was four.

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Speaker 2: I think it's four years. They could have made it five.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's four years.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how those shake out. But so far,

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Speaker 1: so good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really happy with so far. He's been a

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Speaker 2: very reliable ace for us. I think that pictures nowadays,

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Speaker 2: a lot of them are getting hurt, like, for example,

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Speaker 2: Tyler Glass Down to Me is one of the best

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Speaker 2: pictures on the planet, but he gets hurt too much.

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Speaker 2: And he's even said he'd rather throw hard than stay healthy.

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Speaker 2: Garri Cole has been a guy where he's managed to

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Speaker 2: throw hard and also remain healthy. Now he's throwing less

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Speaker 2: hard now because he's older, and that's that's only natural.

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Speaker 2: But he's such a pitching savant, and when he had anyone,

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Speaker 2: he wants to get it to ninety eight ninety nine,

550
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Speaker 2: Like it's still in there, like if he really needs

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Speaker 2: it on a No. Two count or even.

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Speaker 1: We saw it. We saw it in the World Series.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's in there. He just doesn't use it

554
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: every time now like when he was in Uston basically,

555
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Speaker 2: but the guy's just been really really just a rock

556
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Speaker 2: for us and our rotation, an absolute animal assassin out there.

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Speaker 2: I loved watching him play. Yes, the not covering first base,

558
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Speaker 2: that's pretty tough. That inning in itself was just I

559
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Speaker 2: don't even want to talk about it, but that's gonna

560
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Speaker 2: be pretty tough. And I do think I'm hopeful that

561
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Speaker 2: they'll make it back to the World Series with this

562
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Speaker 2: core because it would be tough. But he's want to

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Speaker 2: sign Young with us. That had been a long time

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Speaker 2: since the Yank bitcher had won to sign Young, so

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Speaker 2: that was pretty cool, and I tend to lean I'm

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Speaker 2: really happy we didn't give him the extra year on

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Speaker 2: the contract because that was the right move to make,

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Speaker 2: I think, But I lean towards thinking that he's going

569
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Speaker 2: to age really well as a pitcher kind of like

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Speaker 2: Berlander died, because he's such a pitching savant that I

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Speaker 2: think he'll kind of adjust the way he attacks hitters

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Speaker 2: and and just and I think he'll still be very

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Speaker 2: effective as as an older pitcher.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see, I hope. So let's go to

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Speaker 1: your numb four on the worst lists, all right.

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Speaker 2: So these are gonna be a little bit more recent

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Speaker 2: the last four that I have here, But it's got

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Speaker 2: to be trading for Frankie Montas that was absolutely horrendous.

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Speaker 2: I feel like every time we make a trade with

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Speaker 2: Oakland it sucks. We got him in the trade deadline

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Speaker 2: and that was I believe twenty twenty two. I want

582
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Speaker 2: to say is when we acquired him that trade deadline,

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Speaker 2: he was I guess, like the best pitcher on the

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Speaker 2: market at the time at the deadline, but he had

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Speaker 2: a problem with his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there was Louis Castillo was also on the market.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of like that second shelf down and

588
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: he already had shoulder issues. He already had shoulder issues.

589
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: He already had a shoulder issue. So Brian Cashman was

590
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Speaker 2: already in love with him as soon as he found

591
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Speaker 2: out but yeah, Louis Castillo being on the on the board,

592
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: that's pretty tough. I think the only thing that could

593
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Speaker 2: have gotten Castillo is given up Bulpi. I didn't even

594
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Speaker 2: think they wanted I would have given up Parazza for Castillo,

595
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Speaker 2: but I think they want vote, not procauses. So all right,

596
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna kill cash from there. But yeah, getting

597
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: Frankie Montass, he did nothing for us. All he did

598
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: was be hurt and be bad. We I didn't We

599
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 2: didn't really get We gave up a lot of assets,

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Speaker 2: but no, nobody really turned out to be a stud

601
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 2: player for Oakland. But that was like one of those

602
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: trades where it's like a lose lose. Both both sides

603
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: lost there, and that was brutal because we ended up

604
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Speaker 2: paying him quite a considerable amount of money, like seven

605
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 2: or eight million dollars or something like that, and then

606
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Speaker 2: he ended up going up. Where's he now, like Milwaukee

607
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Speaker 2: or Cincinnati, something like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't even recall. He's been traded a couple of

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Speaker 1: times since.

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Speaker 2: I think now he's in Milwaukee. He was in Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: after he was a Yankee.

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Speaker 1: That's what Let's let's find out how he did this? Season.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull up his numbers real quick.

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Speaker 2: I got it.

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Speaker 1: He was.

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Speaker 2: He threw fifty seven innings with Milwaukee and he had

617
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Speaker 2: a FIP A four thirty five, a one two five

618
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Speaker 2: six whip strikeout per nine eleven. All right, so that's

619
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Speaker 2: pretty good actually, and he had an er see but

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Speaker 2: why can I find it? A four or five five

621
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Speaker 2: r's that's what he had, so a mid four era.

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Speaker 1: So he was like, we whatever, yeah, all right, well

623
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Speaker 1: we're into the top three. Now we're gonna go to

624
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Speaker 1: my top three best. Brian Cashman moves. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with drafting Aaron Judge at number three. Twenty seventeen Rookie

626
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Speaker 1: of the Year should have been Rookie of the Year

627
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Speaker 1: and MVP. He's won two MVPs since he set the

628
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: American League home run record and he became the captain. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: has left a lot on the table in the postseason

630
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna have to correct that. But you can't

631
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Speaker 1: argue with what he's done in the regular season. I mean,

632
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Speaker 1: the guy puts up unbelievably immense numbers. He did again

633
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Speaker 1: this year, he'll probably do it again next year. But

634
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Speaker 1: the only question on people's minds is gonna be will

635
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Speaker 1: he do in the playoffs. I got into it a

636
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: little bit with his hitting coach teacher Man on X

637
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: the other day. It's fine, I hate X. Every interaction

638
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: you have on there is just negative. But I tweeted,

639
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: I tweeted the Yankees lineup for next year. I said,

640
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: how you like this lineup? But I had Jason Domingez

641
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Speaker 1: in the leadoff spot and his his coach teacher Man replied, well,

642
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: the Yankees don't love Domingez. Didn't they show you that

643
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: or whatever? And I retweeted him and I said, well,

644
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Speaker 1: I guess maybe you should work with him and then

645
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: he can hit one fifty in the playoffs like your

646
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: star Pupil. So so I got man, whatever, But yeah,

647
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: so number three on my list Aaron Judge. Let's move

648
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: on to number three on Terrence's list real quick.

649
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 2: Oh but just the thing about Judge, look at the

650
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 2: numbers with in seventeen cheating a side he should have won,

651
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: just straight totally should be three MVPs right now. But

652
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 2: my number three is trading for Josh Donaldson. That was

653
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: a move that kind of came out of nowhere. And

654
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 2: when they made the move. I was like what everybody

655
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: was Everybody was like, what the hell was that.

656
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 1: I remember waking up in the middle of the night

657
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: and seeing and I'm like, Josh Donaldson and IKF what Yeah,

658
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez? What? Yeah?

659
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: It was Gioe or Schela too. Everyone loved go Okay,

660
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 2: everyone loved g O Gary Sanchez. You could have just

661
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: cut him. It wasn't that bad that bad to just

662
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: do that. Also, you probably could have traded Gary Sanchez

663
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: to like the Reds for a backup bag of chips.

664
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 2: You didn't have to take on the fifty million dollars

665
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: for Josh.

666
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: Ikf.

667
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, he sucked as a shortstop, but he was a

668
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: pretty good utility guy. So like cool, I'm trying to

669
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: find a silver lining in the trade, but that that

670
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: trade just made absolutely no sense to me. We gave

671
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: him fifty million dollars over two years, and I remember

672
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: Rynan Cashman's quote was, yeah, g Roshell has been a

673
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: really good third basement for us, but he's not Josh Donaldson. Yeah,

674
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: I guess he's not Josh Donaldson because he was better

675
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 2: than Josh Donelson at that point in his career. Josh

676
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: Donaldson won an MVP with Toronto, like, let's let's not

677
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: get a twisted here. He was once a good player,

678
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 2: but he wasn't good with the Yankees. He was kind

679
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 2: of an asshole with the whole like you know Jackie

680
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 2: thing with who was it Tim Anderson? That was just

681
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: like a optic a bad look. He had that beef

682
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: with Garrett Cole and then they decided to get him.

683
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: It just made no sense to me from the very beginning.

684
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: Michael Kay has even said that that's probably one of

685
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: the worst trays that Brian Cashman has made it his

686
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: Yankee career. I totally agree with that made no sense.

687
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: I hated it from the very beginning and I hated

688
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 2: it all the way until it was over.

689
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate it. I would have had that even

690
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: higher than number three. I think it might be number

691
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: one on my list in terms of his worst moves,

692
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: but we'll get to it, and I number two on

693
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: top moves. This is kind of a cop out for me,

694
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: but I'm given the entire two thousand and eight two

695
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: thousand and nine offseason because he signed all three of

696
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: the best free agents available that you had CC. You

697
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: had Mark Tscher, you had Burnett. He also got Swisher

698
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: that offseason. But really, you're opening up a new stadium,

699
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: you want to do something for the fans. He did

700
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: something for the fans. Now. Yeah, to give hal Steinbrenner

701
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for this. That was his first

702
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: year exclusively as the owner. George Steinbrenner had stepped aside,

703
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: and he wrote the big checks right, but still to

704
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 1: close three deals of that magnitude with other teams fighting

705
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: for these guys, he went after CC Sabathia aggressively. He

706
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: sent him the offer at twelve oh one. You'd become

707
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: a free agent at midnight. He waited one minute and

708
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: he sent him the offer. And the to share a

709
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: thing was kind of a surprise because there was all

710
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: this talk of what he signed with Baltimore, what he

711
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: signed with Boston, and then it was I remember I

712
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: was painting my house. It was in December. I had

713
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: just bought this house that was a foreclosure and it

714
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: was a mess. It was a real bad mess, and

715
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: so I had to paint the whole thing. So before

716
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: I moved in, I bought a whole bunch of paint

717
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: and I was just painting it top to bottom and

718
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: I didn't have This was before I don't even think

719
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: I had a smartphone at that point, Like it was

720
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: just I had like a flip phone or a Nokia

721
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: or something like that around. Yeah, I'm still I still yeah,

722
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: And so I didn't know what was happening, and I

723
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: wasn't keeping up with what was on in the world.

724
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: I was just painting and I didn't I wasn't touching

725
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: any of my stuff. I didn't have my computer there,

726
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: I had no Internet. I don't think I had utilities.

727
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: I think I was I was just painting during the

728
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,919
Speaker 1: day while it was light out with the windows open.

729
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: And so I go to my car and I flip

730
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: on the radio and I had Serious XM. And it

731
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: started scrolling like the first thing I saw was Mark

732
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: to Share and it was going really slowly. It says

733
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: signs with the and I was like who he signed with?

734
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: And it says New York And I'm like, please say Yankees,

735
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: Please say Yankees, and it says Yankees and I was

736
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: like yeah in my car, Yeah, that was great. That

737
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: was great. That was one of the best feelings I've

738
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: ever gotten. Because I was tired and I knew I

739
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: could go home and like to my apartment at the

740
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: time and just flip on MLB Network and watch all

741
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: that and just I was, I was in hog Heaven.

742
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: Man, I totally hear that. And by the way, Laurie

743
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 2: shout out to her, she said, we paid downs in

744
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 2: the same amount as Harper gets paid. Oh oh god,

745
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: that just hurts even more when you put it that way. Good, good, good,

746
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 2: good good shot at me, right there, Laurie, because that

747
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 2: really hurts even more. But yeah, the thing about to

748
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 2: share those that in signing him, didn't we lose Mike

749
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: Trout because we lost a draft pick by doing that?

750
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: Well, they that's that's kind of a that's kind of

751
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 1: a rumor. Like obviously, the Angels took him the pick

752
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: before the Yankees had, but the Angels, if they didn't

753
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: have that compensation pick would have taken him earlier. So

754
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: you know, you can history could have played out differently.

755
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: But yeah, I hear you.

756
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I gotcha.

757
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Terrence's number two.

758
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 2: All right, we gotta go with signing Jacoby Ellsbury. Now,

759
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 2: this was in the the off season. I believe we

760
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 2: lost Robinson Cano, so this was the Carlos Beltron, James McCann,

761
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: Jacoby Elsbury off season.

762
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: Is that correct, Brian McCann, But yes, Brian, excuse.

763
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 2: Me, Brian McCann. Yeah, So that was that off season

764
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 2: which really didn't age all that well, to be honest,

765
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: and I'm really hoping that the Yankees, if they do

766
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: lose Soto this offseason, don't do something similar and and

767
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 2: just kind of spend a bunch of money just to

768
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 2: spend it spend it wisely. But that's besides the point.

769
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: Kobe Alsbury, he was actually pretty okay with us to

770
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: start out his career, but he's always going to be

771
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 2: more of a Red Sox to me. We signed him

772
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 2: to a seven year contract. He played four seasons with us.

773
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 2: Essentially what Aaron Judge basically lit up the world on

774
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 2: fire and we got Aaron Hicks. He became a non player.

775
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 2: The Yankees were basically just trying to like pay him

776
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: to go away and to make matters even worse. I

777
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 2: think this was last season the Red Sox had like

778
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: they had they had like a reunion with their twenty

779
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: thirteen team or twenty eleven teams, something like that, and

780
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 2: he was one of the guys that throughout the first

781
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 2: pitch in a Red Sox Jersey after he just robbed

782
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 2: the Yankees of seven years of.

783
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: Biers were still paying him.

784
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Yankees were still saying. That was just like

785
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 2: an awful, awful optic and I just was never really

786
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: a fan. Funny enough, actually, I did witness in person

787
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 2: his under his career home run when he hit a

788
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: grand slam against the Baltimore Orioles to come back from

789
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 2: nine to two. I was at that game and Aaron

790
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: Judge hit two home runs and that was awesome in

791
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, So that was like the highlight of my

792
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 2: Jacoby Alsbury experience right there. I got to witness that

793
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 2: momentous home run grand slam. But just not a good Yankee.

794
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: He's always going to be a red sock and I

795
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 2: hate that f that guy.

796
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,600
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797
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: coming up, and then we'll do some honorable mentions, but

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819
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: number one best move of the Brian Cashman era trading

820
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: for David Justice. They got him halfway through the season

821
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 1: for Ricky Lede and Jake Westbrook. He hit three zero

822
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: five down the stretch with twenty home runs and sixty

823
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: RBIs in under eighty games. And he had a number

824
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: of humongousongous hits in the playoffs. He was another guy

825
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: that I just loved watching hit. He had a beautiful

826
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: little leg kick in his uh it was literally a kick.

827
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: He would kick his foot out before his swing. He

828
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: had very patient bats. He was a good outfielder. He

829
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: played hard, he hustled, he wanted to win. He would

830
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: have productive outs. You know, he made contact. He was

831
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: just a really good baseball player, perfectly built for Yankee Stadium,

832
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: and we got him like the last I guess sprint

833
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: of awesomeness of his career. He had forty home runs

834
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: that season. He fell off after that, but number of

835
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: big hits in the playoffs. It was a little bit

836
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 1: before your time. But if you ever get a chance,

837
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: go watch some David Justice Yankees highlights. They're out there.

838
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: You can watch all his home runs with the Yankees.

839
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: But he was a great, great hitter.

840
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember him from Moneyball? Is how I how

841
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 2: I really think of David Justice?

842
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: Maybe I am special?

843
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm making seven million bucks a year.

844
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: Man steiber is paying three and a half Yankees.

845
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 2: Paying you that I'm not paying you that but to

846
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 2: play against you. But uh yeah, David Justice. Kay talks

847
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 2: about that a lot where he's like he was great,

848
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: and he was. He was a pretty big part of

849
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 2: them winning in the late nineties Dynasty. He was kind

850
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 2: of like that bench piece. Same thing with like Darryl

851
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 2: Strawberry picking him up at the end of his career

852
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 2: as like a similar kind of move. But yeah, totally

853
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: David Justice, definitely, and just like a good name I

854
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 2: think to acquire too. It's like one of those like

855
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: Brian Cashman really likes to acquire those like veteran guys

856
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 2: who've been around for a long time, like each Hero,

857
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 2: like you know, guys like that where they've you know,

858
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: just to kind of forgot about. Yeah, get those veteran

859
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 2: presents in there. Yeah, each Row is a Yankee. He was.

860
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: I saw him play at Yankee Stadium when he was

861
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: with the Mariners. All right, let's get your number one here.

862
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 1: Worst Brian Cashman.

863
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: Move, I'm going with Aaron Hicks. Now, Aaron Hicks, when

864
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 2: we first acquired him, he looked, he looked pretty solid,

865
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 2: He looked pretty good. And then and then we we

866
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 2: left around and we gave him a seven year, seven

867
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 2: million dollar extension, and by the way, we are still

868
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 2: paying that contract after we ate it. We owe him

869
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: just under ten million dollars this coming season, and I

870
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 2: think the following season there's a club option for twelve

871
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: point five so we can buy out the contract. But

872
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 2: that was just absolutely horrendous the guy. After we got

873
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 2: rid of him, he went to Baltimore and then he

874
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 2: was with the Angels. He didn't do anything with them.

875
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: With the Angels, I think he hit like okay, so

876
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 2: he hit one home run.

877
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: Plus was twenty. It's not a typo, unbelievable.

878
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: He just he's a guy that really fell off the

879
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 2: cliff really quickly. And I remember very very specifically at

880
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: the end of his Yankees career that ball that was

881
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: like fair, but he thought it was foul in left

882
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 2: field and he just like stood there with his head

883
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: down and his brim, the brim of his cap was

884
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 2: like covering his head, and I was like, that's a meme,

885
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 2: that's a meme. He just needed himself there.

886
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that you know I was on the

887
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,280
Speaker 1: air during that season. You know that was after NYY

888
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: recaps had begun. Now Pinstripe territory. And I remember the

889
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: post game when I got to that point in the recap,

890
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: I was like Aaron Hicks and then I just stayed

891
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: silent for like a minute. I'm like yeah, and I

892
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: was like, well, exactly what I just did is exactly

893
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: what Aaron Hicks did on that farewell. Absolutely nothing. But yeah,

894
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: that's that's our list here. But we do have some

895
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: honorable mentions that we want to get to here, so

896
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: I'll just go through mine real quick. Obviously, trading for

897
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: a Rod was a move. We didn't have to give

898
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: up a ton to get him. Obviously Soriano was a

899
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: very good player, but a Rod he won two MVPs

900
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: with the Yankees. When he opted out and they resigned him.

901
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: That was that You could call that one of his

902
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: worst moves, but really that was Hank Steinbrenner, Hal's brother

903
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: who engineered that one. And if you have read your Yankees' history,

904
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: you know that Cashman advised against signing a Rod to

905
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: that contract. But the move to get him ended up,

906
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, being a pretty solid move, although he did

907
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: win a World Series with the Yankees and pretty much

908
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 1: led them there in nine after signing that deal, signing Kadeki,

909
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 1: Matt Suey. You might ask why is the World Series

910
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: MVP not in your top ten? Because it was a

911
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: foregone conclusion that he was gonna come to play for

912
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: the Yankees. It was the only team that he wanted

913
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: to play for, and so it required zero savvy on

914
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: Brian Cashman's part to sign him. It was just kind

915
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: of one of those things like, all right, let's just

916
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: go ahead and get this deal done. They hammered it out.

917
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: Matt Carpenter, a guy the Yankees picked up for nothing,

918
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: and he had two of the best months that you'll

919
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: ever see with the Yankees, just absolutely raked. And Johnny Damon.

920
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: I remember when the Yankees signed Johnny Damon thinking, you know,

921
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: this could be a bad situation. I'm not sure he's

922
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: gonna translate well to the Yankees. But Damon was extremely

923
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: solid two thousand and six, seven, eight and nine. I

924
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: was at his game in two thousand and eight where

925
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,479
Speaker 1: he went six for six and walked it off. Best

926
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: game I've ever been to in person. But yeah, those

927
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: are my honorable mentions. Who else you got for your

928
00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 1: honorable mentions that didn't quite make your top ten?

929
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: And by the way, Johnny Damon was what Jacoby Ellsbury

930
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 2: was supposed to be. Yees, yeah, so, but the honorable

931
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: mentions I have trading for Sonny Gray. Now, I'm a

932
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 2: big fan of Sunny Gray. I love Sonny Gray. I

933
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 2: always have. I've always been a fan of his, and

934
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 2: I'm one of those people that thinks that Larry Rothschild

935
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 2: really ruined his Yankee career. I think he would have

936
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 2: benefited for having Matt Blake as his pitching coach. But

937
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 2: he did prove in the end I think to be

938
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 2: one of those guys that maybe couldn't have handled New York.

939
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 2: I don't think he had the chops for it, and

940
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: it just didn't end up, and it kind of just imploded,

941
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 2: and then they traded him to Cincinnati. He pitched really

942
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 2: well there. Now he's with Saint Louis and he's kind

943
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: of rebounded in his career, but he's probably just kind

944
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: of like a more small market guy. The other one

945
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 2: I have is pissing off Derek Jeter. One. Peter talked

946
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 2: about this in a in like a podcast where he

947
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 2: was saying, like this isn't really a great negotiating tactic,

948
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 2: but just treat me fair treat me fairly. I don't

949
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 2: want to go anywhere. And Brian Cashman was like, I'll

950
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 2: get Troy to Lewitski, and it's like, you can't, like, dude,

951
00:45:58,840 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 2: that's Derek Jeter.

952
00:45:59,640 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: Okay.

953
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 2: I understand that you got to be a little bit

954
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: like emotionless as a GM and you gotta just do

955
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: what's best for the team. But sometimes Derek Jeter's Derek Teter.

956
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is Aaron Judge, you know what I mean? Like,

957
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 2: there are just certain guys that means so much to

958
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 2: your organization that you can't just treat them like any

959
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 2: other player, claiming jose Canseko off Waivers, he did absolutely

960
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 2: nothing for the Yankees. He sold his World Series ring

961
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 2: as well, basically spat in the franchise's face. And the

962
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: last one I have is the Montgomery Harrison Bader trade.

963
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 2: That was a very interesting move that I was not expecting.

964
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 2: I liked Harrison Bader as a player. He was a

965
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: very very good defender. I knew that solid bat, but

966
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 2: I was kind of confused by it because Jordan Montgomery

967
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: is a good pitch for us. And then when he

968
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: was with Texas, he was like and that quote at

969
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 2: the end was yeah, I don't think he would have

970
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 2: made our playoff rotation, which is hilarious because he ended

971
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: up shoving for Texas and winning a World Series, so

972
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 2: that just that quote made it worse, you know.

973
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: Yep. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for watching. Thanks

974
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: for joining me on this Sunday night. I hope you

975
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: have a very pleasant Thanksgiving. We'll be back when any

976
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: news happens. If you guys are watching this far in

977
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: the future, because I mentioned it is ever green. This

978
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 1: was filmed in November of twenty twenty four, and we

979
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: are waiting for news about Juan Soto, so when it

980
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 1: breaks and it sounds like there could be some offers

981
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: coming this week, we will let you know. Until then,

982
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: we'll see you next time.

983
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 2: Okay.

984
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,120
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985
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,080
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986
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988
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