August 5, 2019 • 42 mins
Dr. Mitchell Roslin and Gregg Sussman recap the MLB Dudline and break down what the Yankees and Mets both accomplished. Plus, the guys check in on what they are following on NFL Training Camp (Melvin Gordon's and Zeke's holdouts)!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For its radio network. What is uh? Welcome inside ST four.
This is Doc Jock. Here is Dr Mitchell rosalind. I
am Greg Susman. How's he going? Dock going well? The
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Yankees obviously did not Bryan cash and and it obviously
did not think that our advice was worthwhile. He will
see whether we were right. He did not. There were
some big moves at the MLB trade deadline, and we'll
get into that, uh today for sure, Doc. How is
the weekend? What's going on? Everything's going well? It was
a nice weekend in New York. The thunder showers were overnight. Um,
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and it was fun. How about you? It was good.
I was in Chicago over the weekend and sorry, and
he did go to Rerigul. Yes, it was nice, saw
the Brewers. I'll be back in Chicago in a few
weeks and I will once again be seeing the Brewers.
So what's the You went there to get hot dogs
or I do have a hot dog in Chicago. But
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I have a lot of friends getting married this year,
so it's a bachelor port in Chicago, and I have
another bachelor party in Chicago coming up. Wow, come you guys,
do Chicago not Vegas? We did Vegas many years ago.
We were too old for Vegas. We've got what's in Chicago.
I mean, really, reg and going to baseball, that is
not a good prognostic sign. You're you're, you're, you're. Your
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women have got you henpeck before you're even married. Pretty much.
I think that's fair enough. I mean, you know that
that is like you know, it's like you're using sports
to supplemate everything else. So let's go to sports before
I get into more. Please do I don't want. I
don't want. I don't want to be the one that
gets yelled at here. So let's get into the MLB
trade deadline where the Yankees didn't make a move, and
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that was almost the speak of a story as anybody
that made a move. So we'll get it at a moment.
But what did you think of? Alternately, Brian Cashman standing
pat saying, listen, the prices never came down to a
level that I felt comfortable at. So I decided what
we have. Yea, As I think I said last week,
it depends on what your objective is. If your objective
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is what is best overall for the Yankee organization and
preserving your assets, like it's net wealth, like the way
I would manage a investment portfolio. Then he's absolutely right.
If the objective is we're already passed the first hurdle,
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which the wild Card game is a one game shot,
so they passed the first turtle. Therefore, our objective is
to maximize our chances to win the World Series, and
we'll worry about next year next year, then he's wrong,
And I guess the question is what are the objectives
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and who gets to decide them. It's now been ten
years since the Yankees won the World Series. They are
in the playoffs every year, They play meaningful games in
September every year. They will absolutely do that this year.
That being said, at least theoretically, they don't have a
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number one horse, which is what I think the biggest
need is. The counter to that argument is when we
watched the Astros play the Dodgers in the World Series
and we had pitching matchups like Kershaw and Verlanda, they
were like ten eight games. So sometimes things don't follow form.
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But I think it's going to be hard to win
a short series against the Astros, and then even theoretically
once the Dodges, who have been playing well, but have
their own issues defense and certain things. In a short series.
If each day those teams starting pitcher is better in
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that matchup, the Yankees will be heavily relying on that hitting.
With the problem is that hitting it's not healthy at
the moment. Other than Aaron Judge and Labor Torres is
in there, It's might have been banged up today Digital
and Mayhew as well. Yankees got beat up over the
weekend as they lost a win Incarnacione. They had lost
Aaron Hicks, Gary Sanchez is still not back. Jan Carlos
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stands not doing much of anything. This team has z
Sabathia was lost over the weekend. There's a lot of
pieces that are beat up for this Yankee team and
that have continue to roll this shoup the Red Sox.
But be less. I'd be less concerned about that because
the advantage that the Yankees will have is they should
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be able to rest enough people have a better chance
as a pose too. For example, the Cross Town Mats,
who seemed to be playing playoff baseball right now in August,
so you know, goes down yesterday. They're they're within one
game of five hundred that playing as we speak right
now every game is now an important game for the Mets.
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So that means as September, in the dog days of
August come, you're not going to be able to rest,
and you can't afford the luxury of allowing people to
get healthy. So you would tend to believe that the
Yankees are going to be in less than of a
pennant race than virtually anybody else, which would give them
an advantage to get some of those pieces healthy. The
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real question that I have about the Yankees is they're
clearly capable of scoring twelve runs and then the next
day they score one run because they've been a boom
a bus team, and I think d J Lema who
makes that somewhat better? So, yeah, they average six, But
how much of that comes from beating up bad pictures? So,
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for example, the way the Mets scored twelve runs yesterday
with a lot of backup players against the bottom of
a bad Pittsburgh's pitching staff, how does that translate to
when they faced Madison Bumgardner or Aaron Nola or one
of the better pictures. And that's really the question, And
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I think there's a difference. One of the things that
I've always felt about gian Carlos Stanton is that he
is one of the great August dog Day players when
you really get in the back of teams and he
beats up bad pitching. But I've always felt he could
be overmatched. I felt the same thing about David Wright.
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I always felt on the Mets teams, Daniel Murphy was
the guy who hit good pictures, you know, against in
the playoffs against the Dodgers. If Murphy's ball to and
find the seats against Kersha or Granky, I don't think
the Mets score. I think that Cspice also beats up
bad pitching, and that's where hitters like you hope to
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see Jeff McNeil, who can both turn on a ball
and slap the ball, you hope that they can hit good,
solid pitching. I think glabratorists can hit good pitching. I've
never been a d convinced about Stanton. I think Judge
is getting there because he doesn't swing at balls, but
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not as much of this year as the end of
last year when I really thought he was locked in. Yeah,
he hasn't found that rhythm as of yet, and the
pitching that the Yankees are going to face is only
going to get tougher, as you mentioned, as they get
into the postseason. Because the Astros did make a move
or two at the trade deadline. They acquired Aaron Sanchez
first or let's Toronto Blue Jays to go along with
Jovia Jini. All Aaron Sanchez did in his first start
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was pitched six hitless in anger, which let's make an
I know, hit her by the Houston Astros. And they
didn't stop there because they acquired another starter as well,
and that was Zach Rinky, who has playoff experience, who
has big game experience, and it's one of the best
pictures in baseball. Drinky paired up with Verlander, uh and
Garrett Coleesome. Yeah, I mean I, I and and I
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go back to a lot of people in New York,
said Marcus Stroman. I don't think the Yankees needed. That's
one thing that I agree. I think that Marcus Stroman
plays well for the Mets, whose strategy and not to
repeat last week, is we're gonna throw out a major
league starting pitching every single day, which is why the
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two million dollars salary dump. I would have kept august
A in case somebody goes down, but wouldn't you feel
better with August pitching the second game today than Walter Lockett.
I think that's I think that's a mistake that they
made because I can't imagine that the catcher theyd is
going to even sniff City Field as anything but a spectator.
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Um So I think that the Yankees needed a horse Stroman.
I guess any pitch you can, you don't count on
Stroman to go out against the Astros and give you
seven zeros. And if Garrett Cole goes out against the
Yankees and gives you seven or eight zeros, you're not surprised.
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Orlanda goes out and pitches nine in the Yankee score
one run, you're not surprised. And that's pretty much what happened.
I think. I think two years ago when they played
in the playoffs, for Orlanda, you know, twin start to
finish Tanaka they're counting on in the postseason. Tanaka has
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pitched great in the postseason. However, he always is prone
in the regular season to give up a lot of
home runs, especially days. So the question is does Tanaka
have the ability two ratcheted up? Now? Mind you, Andy
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Pettitt was a much better postseason picture that you're Joe
Torrio has pitched him in Game two, especially the Yankees
were down, but they were totally different types of picture.
Hat It had the great cutter. He kept the ball
in the ballpark. When Tanaka gets hit, the ball flies
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out of the ballpark. I honestly think that if I'm
going into a series, I'm not scared to see Tanaka.
I think he's going to revert to the mean in
the postseason. I don't think it's because he is Madison
Bumgardner concentrates and really has the stuff to move it
up a notch. I just think that those have been
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the days where the split, his split the fastball might
have been. And I don't mean to take anything away
from him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he reverted
to that. Well, you know that that the his entire
grip on the splitter has changed because the baseball change
and he couldn't find it. And you look what how
his grip is now compared to two months ago. It's
entirely different. He has lost the splitter, his best and
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most effective and important pitch. He's lost it, and his
fastball is flat as a board. And when he doesn't
have the split up. The ball flies out of the ballpark.
So again you're seeing Edwin Diaz. He every time the
must put him out there, the ball flies out of
the ball park. And what's happening to him is he
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has no change up. He has a fastball, and his
slide is not breaking and it stays at the same plane.
So his slider comes in at basically a ninety mile
an hour fastball that's on exactly the same plane. So
even if it breaks, it's not going down at all.
And so basically you just have to be teed up
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for every single pitch um And that's why, you know,
we all laughed when when they hired the eighty two
year old pitching coach. But he seems like he's done
a hell of a job. It's worked out for him.
In the New York Mets have won nine of their
last ten games. They are right in the thick of
things in the wild card race as we speak. They
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sit just three games out. There a top of teams
ahead of them, but they sit just three games out
winning nine of their last ten. It's been remarkable turnaround,
it has. But the amazing thing is that the eighty
two year old pitching coach and maybe it's this is
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one for less analytics and more hands on coaching. Seems
to have done simple things to help people performed now
in Fantas, they did get just and Wilson back, they
did get Luis Avalon back, so they had more pieces
in the ball. But he seems to have gotten them
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back to doing what works. It seems like very simple adjustments.
And with Dias, they have nothing else to do but
tell him to try to throw the ball by people
at a hundred miles an hour and hope that it works.
His secondary pitches are just hostile Leavista. The Mets have,
as I said, figured it out in that n L
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they were buyers. Everyone kind of laughed, like what are
you doing? Why you really weren't buyers. Well, but he's
he's got another year on his contract. It's it's not
like they gave up that they looked at that, you know,
in terms of Wheeler, it's not like they gave up.
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But first of all, they don't have anything in the
form system. I think they've brought everything up. They have
to be perfectly honest. They have the shortstop who people
are high high on, but he can't necessarily hit right, um,
and you know they now need if they really don't
even have an extra outfielder of note in the system,
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because if they had that, they would have brought that
up for for and moved McNeil to second base instead,
they they they just brought up a journeyman player that
the I guess people were speculating that they would sign,
uh Cabrera, who was like by Texas's now signed with
the Nationals. Cabrera, he signed with the Nationals. When did
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he sign today? Earlier today? So he sign what he
signed with the Nationals. But you can't take away obviously
what they've done here over the last dingage. And we'll
see and we'll see what happens. Well. First of all,
Rosario is actually playing shortstop and playing and hitting and
has a ton of talent. Okay, McNeil arguably could be
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an m v P character, and today the way they've
moved him around, played good defense and now hitting the
long ball. Alonso has come back to earth since the
All Star break, and it looked like his bat was
a little bit slow this weekend and that's why they
rested him yesterday. But you'd expect him to have another
hot streak, and you know, again, pitching winds baseball games.
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And if they they as you get deeper into the season,
if they can keep their pictures healthy, they have an
advantage in virtually every game at the very very beginning.
They seem to have a disadvantage when you get to
but actually the bullpen has been pitching well. But it's
certainly not easy. I mean probably yesterday was two and
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you were probably nervous watching the game. Let's go around
the rest of the MLB. I mentioned Zach Grinky, I
mentioned Aaron Sanchez. You're talking about teams going for it.
So the Astros are doing well. Aaron Sanchez was a
top notch prospect absolutely and lost his last thirteen starts right,
So again Astro is routine the figure they can get
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it right. There was a reason he was one of
the top prospects. I think three years ago he had
as much fantasy value as anybody out there. People were really, really,
really high on him two as a what the fifth starter.
He certainly has the pedigree he had, just hasn't performed.
I thought those were great moves. I I think that
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um Sanchez Sanchez is Zach Wheeler before the second half
of last year. Sure, well, some more injury issues than Wheeler.
Well will have missed a year with two years with sure, yes,
but yeah, it's not like recurring injuries right like a
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year Aaron Santez is blister at the blister at the blister,
I understand, but two years he was out for But again,
high ceiling never performed as expected, although Sanchez had His
first year was excellent if I remember correctly, Um, but
the last two have been resolutely awful. So and wheel
It was as good a picture as there was in
baseball the second half of last year. The question is
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how many of those were meaningful games and what does
that really mean? Um? But he has a very very
high upside. Wheel Is stuff is as good as you know,
as good as the other two in the met rotation
to Graham and Syndergrad. He may not look as imposed
as imposing. He's certainly not as consistent as to Graham.
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He's certainly not as imposing as Syndergard. But he has
a stuff. He has number one picture stuff, which is
why even coming off the disabled list there was so
much interesting. Um. I think Sanchez at least has the pedigree.
And then you go ahead and get Zack Granky. You
know the Yankees roughed him up, but he knows how
to pitch. I I have zero problems sending Zack Granky
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aut to the mound in the playoffs. Absolutely, And that
that's actually where it hurts the Yankees because they didn't
have the ability to pivot. Because and who on the
Yankee is would you rather start than Zach not a
single player one of the Yankees. Would you rather start
than justin not a single picture? Would you rather start
than Garrett Cole? You know the answer? And that and
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that's what well, and that's why I asked you what
the objective and goes back to now, what pitches in
baseball that we're realistic? Would you take over them? More
equal to them? Just any team, any pictures team. I'll
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take Jacob deGrom okay, I will take maxa h I
will take m mmm mm hmmm struggling here, Doc struggle.
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I think Walker Bueler, Okay, struggling mightily. You can make
arguments for other players. You should make arguments. I mean,
is really really really low, but you know he was
certainly there. You have the guy who, when they saw younger,
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would for for Tampa last year I wouldn't take place
now over them. Now, um you you you know Nola's
looking at it now. That's it, man, Okay, that's it.
So who's the next class that potentially equal them? Sinder God, Yeah,
it's all these some names um Luis Castillo, Stephen Strasburg,
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Jose Barrio, Synder guard, Um, Patrick Corbyn, Aaron Nola, those
are some of the names. Hendon ryu Thlaton Kershaw. They've
the Indians guys, right, Shane bieber Clevinger. I go back
to what I said last week, Ashton should have Cashman
should have made a bad deal for I didn't. I
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disagree with that. I stand by that. Okay. If if
the goal was to win this year, it goes always
to win, and you don't, I don't. We we disagree here, okay,
But again, what are the assets? If Houston doesn't have
an injury. They're not beating Houston. I don't know how
they can. I don't know how they can. They're not
beating Houston in the shorts. Yeah, and and and and
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then you get down to was this great regular season
where Boston is down? Is that a way still? You
just roll it up and you do it again next year.
What's the objective? I mean that that I think is
really really the answer here is it? Is it World
Series or bust? If you're the Yankees, he doesn't. If
you're the Dodges, same question. So with I think there
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are different answers, right, So I think with the Dodgers,
the answers yes, because you've been in the World Series
twice in a row, you have no championships to speak of,
you have a very long draft for a championship over
twenty years now. The answer is yes for the Dodgers.
I think for the Yankees, they have this is very
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frustrating as a Yankee fan, but they have the built
an excuse ready made. Right. Nobody in the MLB history
was as peat up as we are. We lost our
top picture, our top hitter, or everybody. We lost everybody,
but look at us. We still want a hundred games.
We still buried the Red Sox. We still made it
to the postseason only to fall to a team that
was healthier and that was better. We'll do it again
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next year. That that is already there, Just like when
Cashman decided not to make a move, the built an
excuse of Severino is gonna come back. The Tances is
gonna come back, Stanton's gonna come back. That's better than
a trade anyway, that was there since day one. Also,
all three of those guys been out since April, so
that those excuses have been there from the beginning. So
thetance is coming back means that they can potentially play
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for game right, which is what they all. I can
do seven Verno is really really interesting. At times, Severino
has looked like he could be a horse, But to me,
it was very discouraging that last year in a big
game against the Red Sox and the y before Twins.
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Against the Twins, they basically put him out there and
couldn't wait to get him out of the game. The
biggest conversation was is l bullpen rested enough to go
seven innings? Right? And I don't. I think it's gonna
be really hard to do that. I think you can
do it in one series. I think the earliest they
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get the Astros, they're better off. I know most people
would look at it the other way around, but I
think the sooner they get the Astros, the better off
you are. And I hope your bullpen is really really rested,
and then hope in the second series, that it becomes
like the Dodges in Houston, where everybody's pitches were just
shot and every game just goes into double figures. That's
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the Yankees best methodology. You're getting home in my opinion. Um,
but I I would have I think that Cashman hates
to make the bad trade, which is great, but at
some point in time, you gotta go for it fair
enough and even steady on that. Um. The Dodgers or
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a team that, as we said in the Back to
Back World series, they also didn't do anything of the deadline,
looking for a start, looking for a reliever, looking for something.
If I'm really all that much, they have tons of prospects.
And one of the things that we have seen, and
I think the Yankees will do this too with Glarcia,
is they're going to bring up what do they call him, ginger, Yeah,
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and end up they'll start him and they'll look to
him as that kind of swing player, just like Milwaukee
used um, what's his name last year, Josh Hayder and
and you know the Yankees used Jabba years ago. And
I think the Yankees are gonna do the same thing
with Gassia. Is my guests on that. So I think
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the the fact that um, they needed a intermediary step
between their closer and their starters, I think that will
be easier for them to piece that together. And I
also think that there the only two teams in a
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short series that would give them a hard time. In
the National League. I actually believe in the Nationals in
the Mets pitching and that's what it comes down to you,
because nobody has the pitching like those two teams. So
I can't see, you know, we get into the Milwaukeees
of the world. I can't see. Well, he's not even
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the playoffs right now. Out. Yeah, so the the season
ends today, the teams were the best records in the
In the National League, you have the door. You can
have the Dodgers, Braves, and Cubs win the divisions, okay,
and then the wild card who then facing the first
round US would be the winner between the Cardinals and
the Nationals. So I think we haven't really talked about
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the Braves. And the Braves made some very they made
some moves, very good moves, and you know, I think
getting Shane Green was solid. They don't agree with you
after this past weekend. Again, reversion to the mean of course, okay, um,
but I'm not impressed with their pitching in the shorts. Okay,
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is really good. Mh. I think that that the Nationals,
you know, I think that Strasburg construction, you know, shut
you at any time. Yeah, sure, the Strawsbury and Corbyn.
That's the hell of the three. I wouldn't want to
play that, say the Mets, when you getting the ground Wheeler, Syndergarden, Shruman. Absolutely,
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I think that those be the teams that you wouldn't
really want to agree with that matchup with. I agree
with that. Everyone else you look at you like they're
beatable everything. Dodges have so much power. So you add
the Dodges are really a team that's built in the
the classic Baltimore Areo, Frank Cash and Sandy all this in.
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Our pitches are gonna throw harder than your pitches, and
our hitters are gonna hit farther than your hitters. And
that's really pretty much true. They have power at every
freaking position. You know. There, Bellinger is becoming as good
as there is in baseball. Justin Turner, I believe is
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if there's one person that I wouldn't want to pitch
to with the game on the line, is name comes
to mind. Sure, he is one of the great clutch
hitters that I've seen. He was just and he's done
this for years when the Mets played them in the
playoffs last year in the playoffs. He is a tough out.
That's the type of player that I sometimes feel the
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Yankees don't have. In the post d J Lemo, I think,
is it? Do you think isn't as well? We'll see,
but I think he has a shot to be. But
I think Sanchez is easy to strike out if you
make your pitches. I think Judge has a lot of
weak spots. I think you can call a Stanton you
can pitch too. You know, I think Luke Voit you
can pitch too. Um he Glorious pitch too. He's in
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he's tough, and he's also the only lefty and the
short partners in there too. Yeah, Glorious is a very
and Gregarious is also different than the other guys because
Glorious is a bad ball to swear everything, Okay, he's
a bad ball hitter. He's he's a throwback to you know,
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the Yogi Barris school, and those players are really tough
to pitch. Too, because the ball can be one inch
off the ground and they'll golf it out of the
ball punk and and by the by the same token,
Gregarious will miss a fastball belt high right down the plate.
You have no idea what they would what he's going
to hit. So he he's so much of a harder
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person to pitch too. He's really a wild card because
he's a bad ball hitter. Absolutely, he'll hit a ball
five ft out that's outside and and and and line
it off the left field wall. He's a bad ball hitter.
Let me um continue around the MLB here and just
even Eve Alaska is playing left field. No I oh,
it's fantastic. So over the weekend the Phillies and White
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Sox actually went to extras. It was like the fifteenth inning. Velasquez,
I guess was not his throw day. He had pitched
uh a night or two before, pinch ran for a picture,
winds up getting out, but they and nobody left, so
he played left field throughout. Jose Brave at the plate
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on like a picture of perfect throw inning. Later guy
comes around again, just misses throwing him out to end
that anything because they were home, so they had to
bat again. To end that inning, made a diving catch
in left field the losing picture. Roman Quinn, who had
who was a center fielder starting center field, had a
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home running two steals in the game and ended up
getting the loss. Crazy, yep, that's why those are the
things that make baseball special. And we talked about no
clocks and and and things like that, and it's good.
Then we're finally talking about baseball. Is that because the
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NBA's finally OUTNUE So I was you know what, had
you pull that up? Because I was gonna get into that.
It's like we started off. We did a lot of
our show last week about baseball, and we start time
and that's what I was gonna say, and you know
what's scared follow that up with more baseball for the
first half hour days program when the world But here
may be one of the problems when when you get
to the World Series, we're talking more about football. Yeah,
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it's if the World Series is an all guess that
would work out perfectly. It's it's very interesting that that
now and we can't even say that baseball is a
local medium because the Yankees were involved in the playoffs,
so it's not even just the fact that it was
a down year for New York because the Yankees have
played deep into every single season. So it's just that's
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something that they have to figure out. Sure they are,
and I think they I think they are desperate to
figure that out. And it also may be that with fantasy,
with the way we speak, we're all pseudo general managers,
and have we reached a point where we can more
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about the process than we do what's on the field.
We spend more time talking about NBA free agency and
people are going to just into the Major League Baseball
absolutely spend more time talking about the trade deadline. Who
they're gonna get then actually how they play, absolutely no question.
But the camps have opened in the NFL, and I
guess the Ezekiel Elliott is the big holdout. He's the
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Olavian Bell or Mel Gordon is of of this year
right now? Yeah, the um the NFL training camp is
in full swing. You're taking a look at that. What
have even following training capital horrifically peripherally not not not
not tremendously. I think that it's too early. I mean
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I didn't watch the whole All of Fame game and
the Denver Denver play. I've I've read the articles about
Melvin Gordon and Ezekiel Elliott. I've um looked at they
had some rankings of what tire every quarterback is in
and and that type of stuff, But it's really been
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not as much. News from the NFL training camps is
usually no major thankfully, no major injuries. As you said,
the whole douns of Ezekiel Elliott Melvin Gordon are obviously
huge and they stand out here, um, but no major
major news like wet Daniel Jones update from Giants camp.
Every day it seems like we're getting a David Montgomery update.
But I could I could write those before they come out.
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You think so, Oh yeah, Daniel Jones is most cerebral practice.
Eli Manning loves him, loves teaching young young players. I
would say that's what it is that I mean, the
updates that I'm getting are you can throw the deep
ball and stuff like that. They the coaches control the
narrative and it's at this point everybody has a chance
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to win the sure. So I remember when my dad
produced a pregame show for the Mets and there was
a man by the name of Bob Brown, was backstage
with Bob Brown and here I was And this was
after you know, the Mets John Downhill and that was
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ten eleven years old, and I was optimistic. Each year.
They used to always tell me the same thing. By
the end of the year, you're usually going to be
with the back of your baseball card and it's it's
you know, football is different because it's been a straight
salary cap. So we really really don't know. But right
now you're gonna hear the same stories from We all
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love our draft picks. Everybody looks great in camp, everybody's
come back and healthy. The locker room a great place,
and we know that Antonio Brown has bad lists. Yeah,
this is very bad listens on the speed. Are you
gonna watch Hard Knocks tomorrow night? Um? Maybe not tomorrow night,
but I do like, I do like to watch in occasion,
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and I do think that seeing you know, Gruden on
it will will be very very interesting. It's interesting. The
only team that's never been on it, I think, is
the Giants. They're not the only team, but they're one
of several teams that have not been on it. That's correct.
Giants have no interest in it, and for whatever reason,
that doesn't seem that the league is going to force
them to do it, but it comes will be interesting
because of the media experience of Mike Mayock and John Gurney.
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Like they they get in the media, they get it.
They were the media were the crazy thing. Speaking of um,
speaking of Hard Knocks, Don Banks writes this article about
Hard Knocks and the Browns and the show when what
was cut and all this stuff and then passed away
a day later, it was nuts. Life is precious. Life
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is precious, of course, as we found out even further
so on Saturday with everything going on with the El
Paso and Dayton. Yeah, that's uh, it's it's you know,
we shouldn't veer here, but I'm gonna veer. I think
we I think we need to. We have editorial things.
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When is common sense going to come into this country.
New Zealand had a terrible experience and changed their lures
within six days. The Second Amendment says that you have
the right to bear arms. First Amendment says that you
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have the right for free speech. But if you go
into a theater and scream, that's not the I went
to I took my son to see Hambleton's my little
one you know last week. Okay, Hamilton's was one of
the you know, founders of this country. Him and his
son died in duels. So what the framers meant by
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the Constitution should not be a criteria. Do you want
to roll back the laws and say that any weapon
that was invented in seventeen seventy six is legal. It's
absolutely fine. If somebody moved next to you and was
building a nuclear bomb, what does that encounter the right
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to bear arms? The answers, no, it there's really only
two equations. You either have to arm everyone or harm
no one. And I'm much more in favor of getting
the guns off the street. There's nothing that and and
and I can speak as somebody that did trauma surgery
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for the first, you know, ten years of my career.
It is absolutely absurd. And people will do things in uniforms,
you know, in howm bits and when they have weapons,
it emasculates people. And there is no question they'll do things.
And you get rid of the a K, the the
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assault rifles, and you should even make it really really hard.
You want to go hunt, that's fine, have hunting rifles.
Do not need weapons on on on the street, and
Michael Bloomberg is absolutely right about this, and the n
r A really should not be as powerful of a
lobby as it is. And I think that um, more
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and more people should should should understand that that that
we are the only country where this is a repetitive theme. Pittsburgh,
dayton Um, going back to Orlando. I mean, this just
keeps happening on a regular basis, And of course, the
saddest of probably all, Sandy Hook I think as well
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said I think, I think, I know it infuriates me.
Every time we do this, nothing changes. We give our thoughts,
we give our prayers, and I really thought after Parkland
and you had kids challenging adults that it was going
to make a change. And now, honestly, the only change
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that's going to come is not going to come from
the political area. It's going to come from the courts.
And taught law, and I as a high ressurgeon, I
think that's a disaster. We shouldn't be legislating through the
courts because I think it's a dangerous precedent, but it's
the only way this is going to change. And what
I think you're going to see is although there were
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laws that were done to protect the gun companies. I
think that coming around these laws in Connecticut and you're
going to see liability because for the drug, the gun
companies marketing these weapons to susceptible people, and it's taken
all of these years and now heading to the Supreme Court,
and that may be a change, because if you increase
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the liability, you will bankrupt some of these I don't
have the words anymore. I don't I don't even watch
the news stories because it's so yeah, infuriate, because you know,
it's like to me, it's like, okay, and what do
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you have to what do you have to see? This
should be something we all agree upon, and even the
thing in Vegas this is this is something that we
all should agree on. And it's more than just background
checks and stuff like that, because it takes this much
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time for somebody to to to to screw a light bulp.
What people don't realize is that past precedent is not
always predictive. Most of these people die at the scene.
I understand that that that El Paso is an exception,
so they they haven't been mass murderers before or okay,
so yes, they may have a history of mental illness
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that was seen, for example, in the Sandy Hook kid
who was very much challenge and disabled to some extent.
You know, had was certainly on the spectrum, but there
are millions of people that have these issues that fall
from mass murderers. There were no predictive algorithms that you're
going to have. The person in Vegas, I think would
have had a clean background check if I remember correctly,
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that's correct. So it's not a solution. Get these things
off the street. And I, you know, I really have
to apologize to your generation and the younger generations how
the baby boomers and my generation has used the exceeding
wealth in this country or for many things that I
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think are in error. I think with that we say
good night, because I don't know how I don't think
we can follow that, to be honest, To be honest
with you, that's the important stuff. All the Yankees and
the Mets and the nonsense. That's what makes life fun.
It is and you know that's the other lesson is
is and that's and that's the value of sports. And
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that's why we we sit here because it's it's fun
and it it puts us back in the game. And
it allows us to aspire to the good things in life,
the camaraderie and the things that go with it. Because
if you break it down to a concrete level, okay,
why do you care? Correct, But it gives you that
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special camaraderie that you know, special social type thing. And
it's interesting. If we didn't have these mythical things, we'd
never have groups of more than twenty or thirty. What
really matters, That's what we have to remember. He is
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For its radio network. What is uh? Welcome inside ST four.
This is Doc Jock. Here is Dr Mitchell rosalind. I
am Greg Susman. How's he going? Dock going well? The
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Yankees obviously did not Bryan cash and and it obviously
did not think that our advice was worthwhile. He will
see whether we were right. He did not. There were
some big moves at the MLB trade deadline, and we'll
get into that, uh today for sure, Doc. How is
the weekend? What's going on? Everything's going well? It was
a nice weekend in New York. The thunder showers were overnight. Um,
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and it was fun. How about you? It was good.
I was in Chicago over the weekend and sorry, and
he did go to Rerigul. Yes, it was nice, saw
the Brewers. I'll be back in Chicago in a few
weeks and I will once again be seeing the Brewers.
So what's the You went there to get hot dogs
or I do have a hot dog in Chicago. But
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I have a lot of friends getting married this year,
so it's a bachelor port in Chicago, and I have
another bachelor party in Chicago coming up. Wow, come you guys,
do Chicago not Vegas? We did Vegas many years ago.
We were too old for Vegas. We've got what's in Chicago.
I mean, really, reg and going to baseball, that is
not a good prognostic sign. You're you're, you're, you're. Your
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women have got you henpeck before you're even married. Pretty much.
I think that's fair enough. I mean, you know that
that is like you know, it's like you're using sports
to supplemate everything else. So let's go to sports before
I get into more. Please do I don't want. I
don't want. I don't want to be the one that
gets yelled at here. So let's get into the MLB
trade deadline where the Yankees didn't make a move, and
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that was almost the speak of a story as anybody
that made a move. So we'll get it at a moment.
But what did you think of? Alternately, Brian Cashman standing
pat saying, listen, the prices never came down to a
level that I felt comfortable at. So I decided what
we have. Yea, As I think I said last week,
it depends on what your objective is. If your objective
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is what is best overall for the Yankee organization and
preserving your assets, like it's net wealth, like the way
I would manage a investment portfolio. Then he's absolutely right.
If the objective is we're already passed the first hurdle,
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which the wild Card game is a one game shot,
so they passed the first turtle. Therefore, our objective is
to maximize our chances to win the World Series, and
we'll worry about next year next year, then he's wrong,
And I guess the question is what are the objectives
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and who gets to decide them. It's now been ten
years since the Yankees won the World Series. They are
in the playoffs every year, They play meaningful games in
September every year. They will absolutely do that this year.
That being said, at least theoretically, they don't have a
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number one horse, which is what I think the biggest
need is. The counter to that argument is when we
watched the Astros play the Dodgers in the World Series
and we had pitching matchups like Kershaw and Verlanda, they
were like ten eight games. So sometimes things don't follow form.
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But I think it's going to be hard to win
a short series against the Astros, and then even theoretically
once the Dodges, who have been playing well, but have
their own issues defense and certain things. In a short series.
If each day those teams starting pitcher is better in
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that matchup, the Yankees will be heavily relying on that hitting.
With the problem is that hitting it's not healthy at
the moment. Other than Aaron Judge and Labor Torres is
in there, It's might have been banged up today Digital
and Mayhew as well. Yankees got beat up over the
weekend as they lost a win Incarnacione. They had lost
Aaron Hicks, Gary Sanchez is still not back. Jan Carlos
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stands not doing much of anything. This team has z
Sabathia was lost over the weekend. There's a lot of
pieces that are beat up for this Yankee team and
that have continue to roll this shoup the Red Sox.
But be less. I'd be less concerned about that because
the advantage that the Yankees will have is they should
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be able to rest enough people have a better chance
as a pose too. For example, the Cross Town Mats,
who seemed to be playing playoff baseball right now in August,
so you know, goes down yesterday. They're they're within one
game of five hundred that playing as we speak right
now every game is now an important game for the Mets.
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So that means as September, in the dog days of
August come, you're not going to be able to rest,
and you can't afford the luxury of allowing people to
get healthy. So you would tend to believe that the
Yankees are going to be in less than of a
pennant race than virtually anybody else, which would give them
an advantage to get some of those pieces healthy. The
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real question that I have about the Yankees is they're
clearly capable of scoring twelve runs and then the next
day they score one run because they've been a boom
a bus team, and I think d J Lema who
makes that somewhat better? So, yeah, they average six, But
how much of that comes from beating up bad pictures? So,
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for example, the way the Mets scored twelve runs yesterday
with a lot of backup players against the bottom of
a bad Pittsburgh's pitching staff, how does that translate to
when they faced Madison Bumgardner or Aaron Nola or one
of the better pictures. And that's really the question, And
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I think there's a difference. One of the things that
I've always felt about gian Carlos Stanton is that he
is one of the great August dog Day players when
you really get in the back of teams and he
beats up bad pitching. But I've always felt he could
be overmatched. I felt the same thing about David Wright.
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I always felt on the Mets teams, Daniel Murphy was
the guy who hit good pictures, you know, against in
the playoffs against the Dodgers. If Murphy's ball to and
find the seats against Kersha or Granky, I don't think
the Mets score. I think that Cspice also beats up
bad pitching, and that's where hitters like you hope to
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see Jeff McNeil, who can both turn on a ball
and slap the ball, you hope that they can hit good,
solid pitching. I think glabratorists can hit good pitching. I've
never been a d convinced about Stanton. I think Judge
is getting there because he doesn't swing at balls, but
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not as much of this year as the end of
last year when I really thought he was locked in. Yeah,
he hasn't found that rhythm as of yet, and the
pitching that the Yankees are going to face is only
going to get tougher, as you mentioned, as they get
into the postseason. Because the Astros did make a move
or two at the trade deadline. They acquired Aaron Sanchez
first or let's Toronto Blue Jays to go along with
Jovia Jini. All Aaron Sanchez did in his first start
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was pitched six hitless in anger, which let's make an
I know, hit her by the Houston Astros. And they
didn't stop there because they acquired another starter as well,
and that was Zach Rinky, who has playoff experience, who
has big game experience, and it's one of the best
pictures in baseball. Drinky paired up with Verlander, uh and
Garrett Coleesome. Yeah, I mean I, I and and I
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go back to a lot of people in New York,
said Marcus Stroman. I don't think the Yankees needed. That's
one thing that I agree. I think that Marcus Stroman
plays well for the Mets, whose strategy and not to
repeat last week, is we're gonna throw out a major
league starting pitching every single day, which is why the
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two million dollars salary dump. I would have kept august
A in case somebody goes down, but wouldn't you feel
better with August pitching the second game today than Walter Lockett.
I think that's I think that's a mistake that they
made because I can't imagine that the catcher theyd is
going to even sniff City Field as anything but a spectator.
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Um So I think that the Yankees needed a horse Stroman.
I guess any pitch you can, you don't count on
Stroman to go out against the Astros and give you
seven zeros. And if Garrett Cole goes out against the
Yankees and gives you seven or eight zeros, you're not surprised.
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Orlanda goes out and pitches nine in the Yankee score
one run, you're not surprised. And that's pretty much what happened.
I think. I think two years ago when they played
in the playoffs, for Orlanda, you know, twin start to
finish Tanaka they're counting on in the postseason. Tanaka has
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pitched great in the postseason. However, he always is prone
in the regular season to give up a lot of
home runs, especially days. So the question is does Tanaka
have the ability two ratcheted up? Now? Mind you, Andy
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Pettitt was a much better postseason picture that you're Joe
Torrio has pitched him in Game two, especially the Yankees
were down, but they were totally different types of picture.
Hat It had the great cutter. He kept the ball
in the ballpark. When Tanaka gets hit, the ball flies
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out of the ballpark. I honestly think that if I'm
going into a series, I'm not scared to see Tanaka.
I think he's going to revert to the mean in
the postseason. I don't think it's because he is Madison
Bumgardner concentrates and really has the stuff to move it
up a notch. I just think that those have been
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the days where the split, his split the fastball might
have been. And I don't mean to take anything away
from him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he reverted
to that. Well, you know that that the his entire
grip on the splitter has changed because the baseball change
and he couldn't find it. And you look what how
his grip is now compared to two months ago. It's
entirely different. He has lost the splitter, his best and
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most effective and important pitch. He's lost it, and his
fastball is flat as a board. And when he doesn't
have the split up. The ball flies out of the ballpark.
So again you're seeing Edwin Diaz. He every time the
must put him out there, the ball flies out of
the ball park. And what's happening to him is he
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has no change up. He has a fastball, and his
slide is not breaking and it stays at the same plane.
So his slider comes in at basically a ninety mile
an hour fastball that's on exactly the same plane. So
even if it breaks, it's not going down at all.
And so basically you just have to be teed up
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for every single pitch um And that's why, you know,
we all laughed when when they hired the eighty two
year old pitching coach. But he seems like he's done
a hell of a job. It's worked out for him.
In the New York Mets have won nine of their
last ten games. They are right in the thick of
things in the wild card race as we speak. They
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sit just three games out. There a top of teams
ahead of them, but they sit just three games out
winning nine of their last ten. It's been remarkable turnaround,
it has. But the amazing thing is that the eighty
two year old pitching coach and maybe it's this is
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one for less analytics and more hands on coaching. Seems
to have done simple things to help people performed now
in Fantas, they did get just and Wilson back, they
did get Luis Avalon back, so they had more pieces
in the ball. But he seems to have gotten them
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back to doing what works. It seems like very simple adjustments.
And with Dias, they have nothing else to do but
tell him to try to throw the ball by people
at a hundred miles an hour and hope that it works.
His secondary pitches are just hostile Leavista. The Mets have,
as I said, figured it out in that n L
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they were buyers. Everyone kind of laughed, like what are
you doing? Why you really weren't buyers. Well, but he's
he's got another year on his contract. It's it's not
like they gave up that they looked at that, you know,
in terms of Wheeler, it's not like they gave up.
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But first of all, they don't have anything in the
form system. I think they've brought everything up. They have
to be perfectly honest. They have the shortstop who people
are high high on, but he can't necessarily hit right, um,
and you know they now need if they really don't
even have an extra outfielder of note in the system,
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because if they had that, they would have brought that
up for for and moved McNeil to second base instead,
they they they just brought up a journeyman player that
the I guess people were speculating that they would sign,
uh Cabrera, who was like by Texas's now signed with
the Nationals. Cabrera, he signed with the Nationals. When did
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he sign today? Earlier today? So he sign what he
signed with the Nationals. But you can't take away obviously
what they've done here over the last dingage. And we'll
see and we'll see what happens. Well. First of all,
Rosario is actually playing shortstop and playing and hitting and
has a ton of talent. Okay, McNeil arguably could be
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an m v P character, and today the way they've
moved him around, played good defense and now hitting the
long ball. Alonso has come back to earth since the
All Star break, and it looked like his bat was
a little bit slow this weekend and that's why they
rested him yesterday. But you'd expect him to have another
hot streak, and you know, again, pitching winds baseball games.
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And if they they as you get deeper into the season,
if they can keep their pictures healthy, they have an
advantage in virtually every game at the very very beginning.
They seem to have a disadvantage when you get to
but actually the bullpen has been pitching well. But it's
certainly not easy. I mean probably yesterday was two and
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you were probably nervous watching the game. Let's go around
the rest of the MLB. I mentioned Zach Grinky, I
mentioned Aaron Sanchez. You're talking about teams going for it.
So the Astros are doing well. Aaron Sanchez was a
top notch prospect absolutely and lost his last thirteen starts right,
So again Astro is routine the figure they can get
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it right. There was a reason he was one of
the top prospects. I think three years ago he had
as much fantasy value as anybody out there. People were really, really,
really high on him two as a what the fifth starter.
He certainly has the pedigree he had, just hasn't performed.
I thought those were great moves. I I think that
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um Sanchez Sanchez is Zach Wheeler before the second half
of last year. Sure, well, some more injury issues than Wheeler.
Well will have missed a year with two years with sure, yes,
but yeah, it's not like recurring injuries right like a
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year Aaron Santez is blister at the blister at the blister,
I understand, but two years he was out for But again,
high ceiling never performed as expected, although Sanchez had His
first year was excellent if I remember correctly, Um, but
the last two have been resolutely awful. So and wheel
It was as good a picture as there was in
baseball the second half of last year. The question is
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how many of those were meaningful games and what does
that really mean? Um? But he has a very very
high upside. Wheel Is stuff is as good as you know,
as good as the other two in the met rotation
to Graham and Syndergrad. He may not look as imposed
as imposing. He's certainly not as consistent as to Graham.
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He's certainly not as imposing as Syndergard. But he has
a stuff. He has number one picture stuff, which is
why even coming off the disabled list there was so
much interesting. Um. I think Sanchez at least has the pedigree.
And then you go ahead and get Zack Granky. You
know the Yankees roughed him up, but he knows how
to pitch. I I have zero problems sending Zack Granky
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aut to the mound in the playoffs. Absolutely, And that
that's actually where it hurts the Yankees because they didn't
have the ability to pivot. Because and who on the
Yankee is would you rather start than Zach not a
single player one of the Yankees. Would you rather start
than justin not a single picture? Would you rather start
than Garrett Cole? You know the answer? And that and
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that's what well, and that's why I asked you what
the objective and goes back to now, what pitches in
baseball that we're realistic? Would you take over them? More
equal to them? Just any team, any pictures team. I'll
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take Jacob deGrom okay, I will take maxa h I
will take m mmm mm hmmm struggling here, Doc struggle.
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I think Walker Bueler, Okay, struggling mightily. You can make
arguments for other players. You should make arguments. I mean,
is really really really low, but you know he was
certainly there. You have the guy who, when they saw younger,
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would for for Tampa last year I wouldn't take place
now over them. Now, um you you you know Nola's
looking at it now. That's it, man, Okay, that's it.
So who's the next class that potentially equal them? Sinder God, Yeah,
it's all these some names um Luis Castillo, Stephen Strasburg,
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Jose Barrio, Synder guard, Um, Patrick Corbyn, Aaron Nola, those
are some of the names. Hendon ryu Thlaton Kershaw. They've
the Indians guys, right, Shane bieber Clevinger. I go back
to what I said last week, Ashton should have Cashman
should have made a bad deal for I didn't. I
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disagree with that. I stand by that. Okay. If if
the goal was to win this year, it goes always
to win, and you don't, I don't. We we disagree here, okay,
But again, what are the assets? If Houston doesn't have
an injury. They're not beating Houston. I don't know how
they can. I don't know how they can. They're not
beating Houston in the shorts. Yeah, and and and and
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then you get down to was this great regular season
where Boston is down? Is that a way still? You
just roll it up and you do it again next year.
What's the objective? I mean that that I think is
really really the answer here is it? Is it World
Series or bust? If you're the Yankees, he doesn't. If
you're the Dodges, same question. So with I think there
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are different answers, right, So I think with the Dodgers,
the answers yes, because you've been in the World Series
twice in a row, you have no championships to speak of,
you have a very long draft for a championship over
twenty years now. The answer is yes for the Dodgers.
I think for the Yankees, they have this is very
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frustrating as a Yankee fan, but they have the built
an excuse ready made. Right. Nobody in the MLB history
was as peat up as we are. We lost our
top picture, our top hitter, or everybody. We lost everybody,
but look at us. We still want a hundred games.
We still buried the Red Sox. We still made it
to the postseason only to fall to a team that
was healthier and that was better. We'll do it again
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next year. That that is already there, Just like when
Cashman decided not to make a move, the built an
excuse of Severino is gonna come back. The Tances is
gonna come back, Stanton's gonna come back. That's better than
a trade anyway, that was there since day one. Also,
all three of those guys been out since April, so
that those excuses have been there from the beginning. So
thetance is coming back means that they can potentially play
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for game right, which is what they all. I can
do seven Verno is really really interesting. At times, Severino
has looked like he could be a horse, But to me,
it was very discouraging that last year in a big
game against the Red Sox and the y before Twins.
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Against the Twins, they basically put him out there and
couldn't wait to get him out of the game. The
biggest conversation was is l bullpen rested enough to go
seven innings? Right? And I don't. I think it's gonna
be really hard to do that. I think you can
do it in one series. I think the earliest they
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get the Astros, they're better off. I know most people
would look at it the other way around, but I
think the sooner they get the Astros, the better off
you are. And I hope your bullpen is really really rested,
and then hope in the second series, that it becomes
like the Dodges in Houston, where everybody's pitches were just
shot and every game just goes into double figures. That's
(23:01):
the Yankees best methodology. You're getting home in my opinion. Um,
but I I would have I think that Cashman hates
to make the bad trade, which is great, but at
some point in time, you gotta go for it fair
enough and even steady on that. Um. The Dodgers or
(23:22):
a team that, as we said in the Back to
Back World series, they also didn't do anything of the deadline,
looking for a start, looking for a reliever, looking for something.
If I'm really all that much, they have tons of prospects.
And one of the things that we have seen, and
I think the Yankees will do this too with Glarcia,
is they're going to bring up what do they call him, ginger, Yeah,
(23:45):
and end up they'll start him and they'll look to
him as that kind of swing player, just like Milwaukee
used um, what's his name last year, Josh Hayder and
and you know the Yankees used Jabba years ago. And
I think the Yankees are gonna do the same thing
with Gassia. Is my guests on that. So I think
(24:11):
the the fact that um, they needed a intermediary step
between their closer and their starters, I think that will
be easier for them to piece that together. And I
also think that there the only two teams in a
(24:37):
short series that would give them a hard time. In
the National League. I actually believe in the Nationals in
the Mets pitching and that's what it comes down to you,
because nobody has the pitching like those two teams. So
I can't see, you know, we get into the Milwaukeees
of the world. I can't see. Well, he's not even
(24:59):
the playoffs right now. Out. Yeah, so the the season
ends today, the teams were the best records in the
In the National League, you have the door. You can
have the Dodgers, Braves, and Cubs win the divisions, okay,
and then the wild card who then facing the first
round US would be the winner between the Cardinals and
the Nationals. So I think we haven't really talked about
(25:21):
the Braves. And the Braves made some very they made
some moves, very good moves, and you know, I think
getting Shane Green was solid. They don't agree with you
after this past weekend. Again, reversion to the mean of course, okay, um,
but I'm not impressed with their pitching in the shorts. Okay,
(25:45):
is really good. Mh. I think that that the Nationals,
you know, I think that Strasburg construction, you know, shut
you at any time. Yeah, sure, the Strawsbury and Corbyn.
That's the hell of the three. I wouldn't want to
play that, say the Mets, when you getting the ground Wheeler, Syndergarden, Shruman. Absolutely,
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I think that those be the teams that you wouldn't
really want to agree with that matchup with. I agree
with that. Everyone else you look at you like they're
beatable everything. Dodges have so much power. So you add
the Dodges are really a team that's built in the
the classic Baltimore Areo, Frank Cash and Sandy all this in.
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Our pitches are gonna throw harder than your pitches, and
our hitters are gonna hit farther than your hitters. And
that's really pretty much true. They have power at every
freaking position. You know. There, Bellinger is becoming as good
as there is in baseball. Justin Turner, I believe is
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if there's one person that I wouldn't want to pitch
to with the game on the line, is name comes
to mind. Sure, he is one of the great clutch
hitters that I've seen. He was just and he's done
this for years when the Mets played them in the
playoffs last year in the playoffs. He is a tough out.
That's the type of player that I sometimes feel the
(27:19):
Yankees don't have. In the post d J Lemo, I think,
is it? Do you think isn't as well? We'll see,
but I think he has a shot to be. But
I think Sanchez is easy to strike out if you
make your pitches. I think Judge has a lot of
weak spots. I think you can call a Stanton you
can pitch too. You know, I think Luke Voit you
can pitch too. Um he Glorious pitch too. He's in
(27:44):
he's tough, and he's also the only lefty and the
short partners in there too. Yeah, Glorious is a very
and Gregarious is also different than the other guys because
Glorious is a bad ball to swear everything, Okay, he's
a bad ball hitter. He's he's a throwback to you know,
(28:06):
the Yogi Barris school, and those players are really tough
to pitch. Too, because the ball can be one inch
off the ground and they'll golf it out of the
ball punk and and by the by the same token,
Gregarious will miss a fastball belt high right down the plate.
You have no idea what they would what he's going
to hit. So he he's so much of a harder
(28:30):
person to pitch too. He's really a wild card because
he's a bad ball hitter. Absolutely, he'll hit a ball
five ft out that's outside and and and and line
it off the left field wall. He's a bad ball hitter.
Let me um continue around the MLB here and just
even Eve Alaska is playing left field. No I oh,
it's fantastic. So over the weekend the Phillies and White
(28:55):
Sox actually went to extras. It was like the fifteenth inning. Velasquez,
I guess was not his throw day. He had pitched
uh a night or two before, pinch ran for a picture,
winds up getting out, but they and nobody left, so
he played left field throughout. Jose Brave at the plate
(29:15):
on like a picture of perfect throw inning. Later guy
comes around again, just misses throwing him out to end
that anything because they were home, so they had to
bat again. To end that inning, made a diving catch
in left field the losing picture. Roman Quinn, who had
who was a center fielder starting center field, had a
(29:36):
home running two steals in the game and ended up
getting the loss. Crazy, yep, that's why those are the
things that make baseball special. And we talked about no
clocks and and and things like that, and it's good.
Then we're finally talking about baseball. Is that because the
(29:57):
NBA's finally OUTNUE So I was you know what, had
you pull that up? Because I was gonna get into that.
It's like we started off. We did a lot of
our show last week about baseball, and we start time
and that's what I was gonna say, and you know
what's scared follow that up with more baseball for the
first half hour days program when the world But here
may be one of the problems when when you get
to the World Series, we're talking more about football. Yeah,
(30:22):
it's if the World Series is an all guess that
would work out perfectly. It's it's very interesting that that
now and we can't even say that baseball is a
local medium because the Yankees were involved in the playoffs,
so it's not even just the fact that it was
a down year for New York because the Yankees have
played deep into every single season. So it's just that's
(30:47):
something that they have to figure out. Sure they are,
and I think they I think they are desperate to
figure that out. And it also may be that with fantasy,
with the way we speak, we're all pseudo general managers,
and have we reached a point where we can more
(31:10):
about the process than we do what's on the field.
We spend more time talking about NBA free agency and
people are going to just into the Major League Baseball
absolutely spend more time talking about the trade deadline. Who
they're gonna get then actually how they play, absolutely no question.
But the camps have opened in the NFL, and I
guess the Ezekiel Elliott is the big holdout. He's the
(31:34):
Olavian Bell or Mel Gordon is of of this year
right now? Yeah, the um the NFL training camp is
in full swing. You're taking a look at that. What
have even following training capital horrifically peripherally not not not
not tremendously. I think that it's too early. I mean
(31:59):
I didn't watch the whole All of Fame game and
the Denver Denver play. I've I've read the articles about
Melvin Gordon and Ezekiel Elliott. I've um looked at they
had some rankings of what tire every quarterback is in
and and that type of stuff, But it's really been
(32:21):
not as much. News from the NFL training camps is
usually no major thankfully, no major injuries. As you said,
the whole douns of Ezekiel Elliott Melvin Gordon are obviously
huge and they stand out here, um, but no major
major news like wet Daniel Jones update from Giants camp.
Every day it seems like we're getting a David Montgomery update.
But I could I could write those before they come out.
(32:45):
You think so, Oh yeah, Daniel Jones is most cerebral practice.
Eli Manning loves him, loves teaching young young players. I
would say that's what it is that I mean, the
updates that I'm getting are you can throw the deep
ball and stuff like that. They the coaches control the
narrative and it's at this point everybody has a chance
(33:11):
to win the sure. So I remember when my dad
produced a pregame show for the Mets and there was
a man by the name of Bob Brown, was backstage
with Bob Brown and here I was And this was
after you know, the Mets John Downhill and that was
(33:32):
ten eleven years old, and I was optimistic. Each year.
They used to always tell me the same thing. By
the end of the year, you're usually going to be
with the back of your baseball card and it's it's
you know, football is different because it's been a straight
salary cap. So we really really don't know. But right
now you're gonna hear the same stories from We all
(33:54):
love our draft picks. Everybody looks great in camp, everybody's
come back and healthy. The locker room a great place,
and we know that Antonio Brown has bad lists. Yeah,
this is very bad listens on the speed. Are you
gonna watch Hard Knocks tomorrow night? Um? Maybe not tomorrow night,
but I do like, I do like to watch in occasion,
(34:16):
and I do think that seeing you know, Gruden on
it will will be very very interesting. It's interesting. The
only team that's never been on it, I think, is
the Giants. They're not the only team, but they're one
of several teams that have not been on it. That's correct.
Giants have no interest in it, and for whatever reason,
that doesn't seem that the league is going to force
them to do it, but it comes will be interesting
because of the media experience of Mike Mayock and John Gurney.
(34:38):
Like they they get in the media, they get it.
They were the media were the crazy thing. Speaking of um,
speaking of Hard Knocks, Don Banks writes this article about
Hard Knocks and the Browns and the show when what
was cut and all this stuff and then passed away
a day later, it was nuts. Life is precious. Life
(35:04):
is precious, of course, as we found out even further
so on Saturday with everything going on with the El
Paso and Dayton. Yeah, that's uh, it's it's you know,
we shouldn't veer here, but I'm gonna veer. I think
we I think we need to. We have editorial things.
(35:26):
When is common sense going to come into this country.
New Zealand had a terrible experience and changed their lures
within six days. The Second Amendment says that you have
the right to bear arms. First Amendment says that you
(35:47):
have the right for free speech. But if you go
into a theater and scream, that's not the I went
to I took my son to see Hambleton's my little
one you know last week. Okay, Hamilton's was one of
the you know, founders of this country. Him and his
son died in duels. So what the framers meant by
(36:08):
the Constitution should not be a criteria. Do you want
to roll back the laws and say that any weapon
that was invented in seventeen seventy six is legal. It's
absolutely fine. If somebody moved next to you and was
building a nuclear bomb, what does that encounter the right
(36:28):
to bear arms? The answers, no, it there's really only
two equations. You either have to arm everyone or harm
no one. And I'm much more in favor of getting
the guns off the street. There's nothing that and and
and I can speak as somebody that did trauma surgery
(36:48):
for the first, you know, ten years of my career.
It is absolutely absurd. And people will do things in uniforms,
you know, in howm bits and when they have weapons,
it emasculates people. And there is no question they'll do things.
And you get rid of the a K, the the
(37:11):
assault rifles, and you should even make it really really hard.
You want to go hunt, that's fine, have hunting rifles.
Do not need weapons on on on the street, and
Michael Bloomberg is absolutely right about this, and the n
r A really should not be as powerful of a
lobby as it is. And I think that um, more
(37:33):
and more people should should should understand that that that
we are the only country where this is a repetitive theme. Pittsburgh,
dayton Um, going back to Orlando. I mean, this just
keeps happening on a regular basis, And of course, the
saddest of probably all, Sandy Hook I think as well
(37:54):
said I think, I think, I know it infuriates me.
Every time we do this, nothing changes. We give our thoughts,
we give our prayers, and I really thought after Parkland
and you had kids challenging adults that it was going
to make a change. And now, honestly, the only change
(38:16):
that's going to come is not going to come from
the political area. It's going to come from the courts.
And taught law, and I as a high ressurgeon, I
think that's a disaster. We shouldn't be legislating through the
courts because I think it's a dangerous precedent, but it's
the only way this is going to change. And what
I think you're going to see is although there were
(38:38):
laws that were done to protect the gun companies. I
think that coming around these laws in Connecticut and you're
going to see liability because for the drug, the gun
companies marketing these weapons to susceptible people, and it's taken
all of these years and now heading to the Supreme Court,
and that may be a change, because if you increase
(39:00):
the liability, you will bankrupt some of these I don't
have the words anymore. I don't I don't even watch
the news stories because it's so yeah, infuriate, because you know,
it's like to me, it's like, okay, and what do
(39:20):
you have to what do you have to see? This
should be something we all agree upon, and even the
thing in Vegas this is this is something that we
all should agree on. And it's more than just background
checks and stuff like that, because it takes this much
(39:41):
time for somebody to to to to screw a light bulp.
What people don't realize is that past precedent is not
always predictive. Most of these people die at the scene.
I understand that that that El Paso is an exception,
so they they haven't been mass murderers before or okay,
so yes, they may have a history of mental illness
(40:04):
that was seen, for example, in the Sandy Hook kid
who was very much challenge and disabled to some extent.
You know, had was certainly on the spectrum, but there
are millions of people that have these issues that fall
from mass murderers. There were no predictive algorithms that you're
going to have. The person in Vegas, I think would
have had a clean background check if I remember correctly,
(40:27):
that's correct. So it's not a solution. Get these things
off the street. And I, you know, I really have
to apologize to your generation and the younger generations how
the baby boomers and my generation has used the exceeding
wealth in this country or for many things that I
(40:52):
think are in error. I think with that we say
good night, because I don't know how I don't think
we can follow that, to be honest, To be honest
with you, that's the important stuff. All the Yankees and
the Mets and the nonsense. That's what makes life fun.
It is and you know that's the other lesson is
is and that's and that's the value of sports. And
(41:15):
that's why we we sit here because it's it's fun
and it it puts us back in the game. And
it allows us to aspire to the good things in life,
the camaraderie and the things that go with it. Because
if you break it down to a concrete level, okay,
why do you care? Correct, But it gives you that
(41:38):
special camaraderie that you know, special social type thing. And
it's interesting. If we didn't have these mythical things, we'd
never have groups of more than twenty or thirty. What
really matters, That's what we have to remember. He is
Dr Mitchell rosalind. I am Greg Salzman. Thank you so
much for joining us here on tonight's edition job dot Jock.
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