Speaker 1: To Cook's al ahbody coming play.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. If you're seeing Adam Sandler at the
Speaker 2: top of the show, you know things are not going well.
Speaker 2: I need your help, guys. I don't usually do this,
Speaker 2: but I'm asking for the audience's help. I need suggestions
Speaker 2: for things that I can podcast about other than Yankees baseball,
Speaker 2: because right now, quite frankly, Yankees baseball is too boring
Speaker 2: to warrant a daily podcast. Can we do something about
Speaker 2: parking regulations, maybe something where we recap grass growing or
Speaker 2: paint drying. This might be the most boring season of
Speaker 2: baseball in my entire conscious baseball watching life.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I remember the ninety one to ninety two season, but
Speaker 2: I was excited that it was baseball right I was young.
Speaker 2: I was like, yay baseball. Who gets if they lost?
Speaker 2: It's fun. I am bored to death, and that means
Speaker 2: we rant. I have watched some bad Yankees teams. I
Speaker 2: have watched some horrible Yankees teams, but at least they
Speaker 2: stunk for different reasons. Daily. What's boring about this team,
Speaker 2: About this specific team is that it's like watching the
Speaker 2: same game every single day. Zero runs, one run, two runs.
Speaker 2: There was a time this year where they had like
Speaker 2: three hits for four straight days. Today they got four hits.
Speaker 2: It seems like every day they get three or four hits.
Speaker 2: How are you supposed to win anything like that? And
Speaker 2: it's the same formula. Good pitching keeps us close, keeps
Speaker 2: us in the game. But ultimately we sit around waiting
Speaker 2: for somebody to hit a three run home run that
Speaker 2: never happens. Game over, be bored with life, do a
Speaker 2: boring show, and before anybody goes to the immediate like
Speaker 2: reflex of let's fire the hitting coach, well they've done that.
Speaker 2: They've had five hitting coaches since twenty twenty one, Marcus Tims,
Speaker 2: Dylan Laws, and Sean Casey, Hensley Ewens and now James Rowson.
Speaker 2: Different people, different voices. It's getting progressively worse. And yes
Speaker 2: there's some injuries, but you've you can't tell me. You
Speaker 2: cannot tell me that other teams wouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: score with the players we got. It's the organizational philosophy.
Speaker 2: We've been saying it over and over and over until
Speaker 2: we could puke coat hangers. At some point, you have
Speaker 2: to admit that the problem with the organization and the
Speaker 2: way they hit has less to do with whose name
Speaker 2: is on the office door for the hitting coach, and
Speaker 2: more with the instructions they're getting from the organization. You know,
Speaker 2: you can tell me. Maybe it's launch angle. Maybe it is.
Speaker 2: You can tell me. Maybe they spend too much time
Speaker 2: hitting off the traject machine, which is a little bit
Speaker 2: different than hitting off of actual human pictures. Maybe they do.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the analytics. Maybe it's the philosophy. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: fucking voodoo. I don't know what the problem is, but
Speaker 2: something has got to change. This is absurd. Something is
Speaker 2: wrong with this organization. It is poisoned. And listen, it
Speaker 2: is August. Okay, there's no trade coming. This team has
Speaker 2: got to fix it, and you're not getting Judged back
Speaker 2: for at least a month. You might get Bellinger back soon,
Speaker 2: but he alone is not gonna fix this. The best hope,
Speaker 2: what the Yankees have all of their chips on, three
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars worth of chips on, is that Stanton
Speaker 2: comes back and Judge gets hot for the postseason, and
Speaker 2: that those guys carry it to the World Series and
Speaker 2: you get some decent pitching. That's what the Yankees have
Speaker 2: put all of their chips on, and you know what
Speaker 2: it feels like. I'm watching poker. I'm watching poker on ESPN,
Speaker 2: and you can see everybody's hand, and you know that
Speaker 2: the Yankees have a losing hand and they're just riding
Speaker 2: out for that river card. They're just putting all their
Speaker 2: chips down. Come on, give me that ace. Not gonna happen, guys,
Speaker 2: this organization needs to look internally at their entire operation.
Speaker 2: Not one player, not one coach, not just the manager,
Speaker 2: it's everything. They are poisoned. We got scumbags like Randy
Speaker 2: Levine running things. I mean, we have got to just
Speaker 2: do an overhaul. You know, if Hall cares about this
Speaker 2: legacy of this franchise, you know what, take another two billion,
Speaker 2: take another five billion. Give somebody control, somebody else control.
Speaker 2: We've had it, You've had your chance. Somebody else needs
Speaker 2: to take the reins because this is bullshit. The Yankees
Speaker 2: are supposed to be about entertainment and about fun. We
Speaker 2: got a great comment here. Whatever happened to that audit
Speaker 2: they were gonna do? And what did it reveal? It's like,
Speaker 2: I bet you they audit them, audited them themselves, and
Speaker 2: they were like, you know what, we audited ourselves and
Speaker 2: we found we're doing nothing wrong. That's that's the feeling
Speaker 2: that I get. And people are starting to get pissed
Speaker 2: because this is this is how New Yorker is, at
Speaker 2: least the good ones. This is how we uh, This
Speaker 2: is how we spend our time. This is how we relax.
Speaker 2: This is how we're supposed to have fun and enjoy
Speaker 2: our summers. Ball games, home runs, bass, hits, runs, sirens,
Speaker 2: fun shit. But every single day, every single day, three hits,
Speaker 2: four hits, nineteen ground balls to shortstop. It's exhausting. It's exhausting.
Speaker 2: And I feel bad for Cam Schlitzler today because he
Speaker 2: was solid, one run over five and a third innings. Listen,
Speaker 2: he is the front runner for Cy Young. That doesn't
Speaker 2: mean he's gonna win it. You can be out in
Speaker 2: front of something for a long time thinking you got
Speaker 2: it wrapped up and then watch somebody else celebrate at
Speaker 2: the end. Just ask the San Antonio Spurs. But you know,
Speaker 2: today he was fine. It was a little bit of
Speaker 2: a grind, but he did fine. The Yankees offense didn't
Speaker 2: help him. Guys, this is ubsurd. I'm gonna let you
Speaker 2: guys drive the bus A lot today. We're going to
Speaker 2: take a lot of voicemails. First, Let's get to the good,
Speaker 2: the bad, end, the ugly. Tran Grishamo for three, Ben
Speaker 2: Rice in a horrible slump. OH for four, Elliott Ramos
Speaker 2: loafing down the first base line today. OH for four.
Speaker 2: Luis Garcia Junior had to hit. Spencer Jones had a
Speaker 2: hit and a stolen base. Jazz what else is new?
Speaker 2: OH for three? Lombard at least one for two with
Speaker 2: a RBI and a walk. Ryan McMahon took the collar.
Speaker 2: Wells had a base hit late. Cabe Ara didn't get
Speaker 2: much playing time. Neither did Ali Sanchez, but maybe they should.
Speaker 2: But not a good day for the Yankees offense again,
Speaker 2: just four hits in this game. You gotta do better.
Speaker 2: Brt Bateman had two hits. Nathan Lukes had to hit,
Speaker 2: Alejandro Kirk had a hit, Okamoto with a knock. Jimenez
Speaker 2: did some damage. Ernie Clement continues to torment the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Two hits and Charlie McAdoo great name, two for four,
Speaker 2: two RBIs That is the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 2: Mary Beth says there is no good. I'll marry Bath
Speaker 2: you're a card, all right. So the nitty gritty guys,
Speaker 2: this is usually where I recaped the game, but I
Speaker 2: have like three things written down. I have like three
Speaker 2: notes from this game. Nice piece of hitting by Spencer
Speaker 2: Jones off the lefty down and away went down and
Speaker 2: got it doesn't seem like his helmet's falling off anymore.
Speaker 2: So either he got his helmet resized or he's you know,
Speaker 2: shortened up and being more of a chill bird up there.
Speaker 2: Cam through the ball. Fine, blue Jay's tied it off
Speaker 2: of him and the fourth anybody pitched out a damage
Speaker 2: didn't go deep enough, but hey, it's not his fault.
Speaker 2: Offense has got to do something. Bullpen didn't have a
Speaker 2: good day today, but the story is going to be
Speaker 2: that the Yankee just don't hit, and rightfully, so get
Speaker 2: to the breakdown. Not much to break down, as I said,
Speaker 2: just four hits and two walks, nine strikeouts, and they
Speaker 2: left three men on base. They did go one for
Speaker 2: three with runners in scoring position. Nice hit by Lombard.
Speaker 2: Luis Garcia Junior hit the hardest ball to day, one
Speaker 2: hundred and eight point seven off the bat cam. Schultzler
Speaker 2: topped out at one hundred point five a lot of
Speaker 2: ground balls today, nine ground balls. Half of the Yankees
Speaker 2: batted balls today were hit hard, ten out of the
Speaker 2: twenty and they averaged ninety two point six exit velo.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of emphasis put on exit velo.
Speaker 2: And we got a call about that. And the reason
Speaker 2: is because there is a strong correlation between hitting the
Speaker 2: ball hard and getting hits. But for some reason that
Speaker 2: doesn't work out for the Yankees. Maybe they have predictable
Speaker 2: landing spots, like predictable batted ball profiles. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the answer is. If I did,
Speaker 2: I would fix it, but I can't. Not from here.
Speaker 2: So take a look at the division. Rays and Orioles
Speaker 2: tied in the first at zero zero. Red Sox will
Speaker 2: play the Pirates later on. Sonny Gray looking for win
Speaker 2: number fifteen on the season. Jared Jones came up last
Speaker 2: year or year before, looked amazing when he first got
Speaker 2: to the major leagues. Ninety eight miles an hour, nasty slider.
Speaker 2: Has not really turned into the dominant pitcher that I
Speaker 2: thought he was. He's two and four five point oh three.
Speaker 2: He's going for the Pirates today, and of course Yanks
Speaker 2: dropped one to the Jays four to one. Yankees now
Speaker 2: seven games back in the American League East. You can
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Speaker 6: I wish the load would take me.
Speaker 2: Okay, a couple of super chats here, real quick. Jim
Speaker 2: Sherlock says, you gotta get to the Yankees because they
Speaker 2: fall without their best players. You're gonna get them credit.
Speaker 2: I'm struggling. I feel like I'm having a stroke trying
Speaker 2: to read that. You got to get to the Yankees
Speaker 2: because they will fall without their best players. You're gonna
Speaker 2: get them credit.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Appreciate super chat. Here's Hank. He says, since the All
Speaker 2: Star Break, the Yankees have recorded a collective team batting
Speaker 2: average of just two oh three, making it the lowest
Speaker 2: team batting average in all of Major League Baseball. Anyway
Speaker 2: to go, guys, All right, here's a call about Jazz.
Speaker 3: They they're great show. I just want to talk about
Speaker 3: Jazz Chisholm right now. It's something that a lot of
Speaker 3: people probably are thinking, but nobody has said it. So
Speaker 3: we talk about his body demeanor. Obviously he's struggling on
Speaker 3: the field and in the box. But something we know
Speaker 3: about Jazz he probably is smoking that as though. If
Speaker 3: we look at his body language, if we look at
Speaker 3: his eyes, we look at his responses after the game,
Speaker 3: he's sluggish, he's slow, he's down as he should be.
Speaker 3: I mean, he might be a little bit sad about
Speaker 3: his performance, but something about his demeanor and knowing that
Speaker 3: he's smoking as well, I feel like a lot of
Speaker 3: his mental errors and lack of mental clarity, lack of sharpness,
Speaker 3: lack of making adjustments in the box in the field
Speaker 3: might come from some of his hobbits.
Speaker 2: All right, well, interesting call. I'm not going to speculate
Speaker 2: on what Jazz does in his free time. All I
Speaker 2: know is that he's not hitting, and you know he
Speaker 2: could be. He could be smoking that Devil's lettue.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to speculate on that. All he knows
Speaker 2: he's got to play better.
Speaker 6: Here's another call.
Speaker 1: Hey there, this is a joke from Connecticut. Watching this
Speaker 1: offense is like having something just repeatedly gabbing you in
Speaker 1: the eye. It is painful to watch this and like,
Speaker 1: and I keep hearing I.
Speaker 2: Know you keep hearing it too.
Speaker 1: Michael casays it all the time. Aaron Judge makes the
Speaker 1: huge difference this offense wouldn't be this bad without Judge.
Speaker 1: I agree, it wouldn't be this bad without Judge, but
Speaker 1: these are professional hitters that have a professional hit poor approach,
Speaker 1: and these debats are horrendous. Now, my question to you is, like,
Speaker 1: if all these guys weren't hurt, we got sixty eight wins,
Speaker 1: how many more wins do you think we would actually
Speaker 1: have right now?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: I think we would have more, but I think that's
Speaker 2: largely in part due to two anomalies. One, Aaron Judge
Speaker 2: is a freak of nature, and he's got his own
Speaker 2: hitting coach, by the way, and he would be putting
Speaker 2: up huge numbers. So that's a few words. I mean,
Speaker 2: you figure if he's worth ten wins the season, he
Speaker 2: was at like two before he went down, so figure
Speaker 2: he'd be at like seven by now. So let's say
Speaker 2: five more wins right there. So now instead of seven
Speaker 2: games out, you're two games out. And then do you
Speaker 2: make up two games difference between Bellinger and Stanton. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, Stanton was about league average last year, so
Speaker 2: he's about like a one something war player, so maybe
Speaker 2: and Bellinger, Yeah, maybe he gets your win here or there.
Speaker 2: I think they would be probably close to first place without,
Speaker 2: you know, if everybody was healthy. That being said, a
Speaker 2: lot of it is the anomaly of Aaron Judge and
Speaker 2: John Carlo Stanton's insane power. He changes games with one swing.
Speaker 2: That's not baseball, that's not a philosophy. And I talked
Speaker 2: about before the season, I did. I do companion videos
Speaker 2: before every season. Reasons to be optimistic and then reasons
Speaker 2: to be pessimistic. And one of my main reasons to
Speaker 2: be pessimistic was that you were putting too many eggs
Speaker 2: in the Aaron Judge basket again and it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: It didn't work out. Here's another call.
Speaker 7: Hey, Derek Mark from Wilmington, North Carolina. Love the show.
Speaker 6: So let's just talk about the pitching for a minute.
Speaker 6: If you're a pitcher on the Yankees, how many do
Speaker 6: you have to be?
Speaker 7: They're just not getting any run support whatsoever.
Speaker 6: And one other note on the pitching, Paul Blackburn, I mean,
Speaker 6: this guy should be like the turnaround picture of the
Speaker 6: year right at one point seven. E l doing tremendous.
Speaker 7: He's been great, a great job, keep it up.
Speaker 2: Got some big outs today. Shout out to Wilmington.
Speaker 5: Here's Frank.
Speaker 6: Yes, Hey Derek Frank here from Clayton, North Carolina. It's
Speaker 6: the bottom of the eighth and as he was down
Speaker 6: four to one, and I'm just sick and tired of
Speaker 6: this team. The lack of hustle. They showed Rama's dog
Speaker 6: and a ground ball today. Just just a lack of
Speaker 6: care urgency. And it's this falls directly on Boone, directly
Speaker 6: on Boone to manager, no matter what happens the rest
Speaker 6: of the year, you know, God, so we get knocked
Speaker 6: out in the first round, we need to change, if
Speaker 6: change a voice, change for next year. Anyway, I'm done
Speaker 6: with this team, you know. It's it's it's the same
Speaker 6: thing every day. It's boring and God the rest. A
Speaker 6: great rest of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Here's Rick from South Carolina.
Speaker 5: A great call.
Speaker 7: By the way, Hey, Derek. Rick and South Carolina were
Speaker 7: through seven innings of this one today. Uh typical pathetic
Speaker 7: Yankee offense. One run, four hits. Uh prediction they score
Speaker 7: one run in each of these three games and get swept.
Speaker 7: If they can't hit any of the bullpen pitches today,
Speaker 7: how do you think they're going to do against Shee's tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: This is really really hard to watch.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: That's a great call, and I agree with you. If
Speaker 2: the Yankees get one run tomorrow, you have to call
Speaker 2: that a success story. Here's Wade Dariy.
Speaker 8: It is Wade from Kentucky. Again. I'm gonna keep this
Speaker 8: gun short just to say that the Aaron Boone era
Speaker 8: has turned the Yankees into a disgrace. Aaron Boone has
Speaker 8: made the New York Yankee name a disgrace compared to
Speaker 8: previous year's teams. Thank you have a good show.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if it falls all the way
Speaker 2: on Boone. I think it's Brian Cashman. Cashman has Let's
Speaker 2: let's look objectively at Cashman's career. Okay, he inherited the
Speaker 2: Gene Michael dynasty. He inherited that right. Michael handed it
Speaker 2: off to Bob Watson. Bob Watson won. Bob Watson couldn't
Speaker 2: take Steinbreder, so he took off, and they handed it
Speaker 2: to the only guy who would willingly and happily put
Speaker 2: up with George's shit, and that is Brian Cashman. Cashman
Speaker 2: got a couple of championships on a roster that was
Speaker 2: already built. The only time that the Yankees have won
Speaker 2: a championship. Outside of that era under Brian Cashman is
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, and what happened in two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine, how bought all the best free agents. He
Speaker 2: got C. C. Sabathia, he got A J. Burnett. Right,
Speaker 2: We had a couple of moves. I there was a
Speaker 2: nice move there to get Swisher that off season. But look,
Speaker 2: you went to the new Yankee Stadium. Nobody knew what
Speaker 2: kind of you know, hitting building that was going to
Speaker 2: be in home runs were up surd that year. Runs
Speaker 2: are upsurd. Matt Suie had an unbelievable postseason. Ay Rod
Speaker 2: had a hot postseason. You can't give Cashman credit for that.
Speaker 2: Matt Sue would have been a Yankee regardless of who
Speaker 2: the GM was, because he wanted to be a Yankee.
Speaker 2: Ay Rod Well, yeah, Cashman did trade for him, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't his idea. Also, it was tampering. So to
Speaker 2: Brian Cashman, you I'll see you guys tomorrow in the story. Hey,
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