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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, well we're back here on one leg up
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content here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, Alex, I've good to be with you and any
contribution I can make, but it's your talent. You're the
talented guy here. So but I'm glad that I contributed
any any way I can.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know, I know I was waiting to see what
would happen this series. Look, and Yankee Beans are not
gonna like me for saying this, and I'm not usually pessimistic,
but the way the Jays and Yanks played in the
regular season, I'm very low. As you know, expert tations
burthers round and I would say this could have been avoided. Right,
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you get the bases loaded on the top of the
fifth with nobody out in one run. That was really
the beginning of the end of the series and why
it was only game one, well, because they had to
convert when they had the chance against the Jay's team
that has the offense that could carry them to the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Alex, You're right, that was the the key inning, that
was the turning point of the series, when the Yankees
had it set up to get back into the U
into Game one, and they did score a run to
make it two to one, and then obviously the pitching
collapsed and they got they got overrun. But that was
the key at bat obviously, uh, with when Aaron Judge
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had a chance to do something positive and he had
and he had a very good postseason. He didn't have
an iconic postseason or anything like that. But uh, you know,
the first uh uh, the first two games, the Yankees
got bombed. I mean, there's no other way to say it.
And again, Alex, as we sit here the day after
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the Yankees are eliminated again as a team, they didn't hit.
They didn't hit in the postseason and Alex, they had
five of the seven playoff games that they played at
Yankees Stadium and they were only two and three at home.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Also the judge records. Okay, he did this on the
other first time thisince nineteen twenty eight. But you know
the fact is they only played let me check here,
three there and then for seven games. I mean, it's
not like it's not like they went all the way
and he had this ruthian postseason. It's just very weird
to make that comparison for an Alds exit.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know, as the Yankees. Has the Yankees now faced
the offseason, Alex, there's a lot of questions. I mean, obviously,
the Yankees are always good. The Yankees have made the
playoffs twenty six out last thirty one years. They haven't
had a losing season in for twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
They started thirty three straight years with the non losing season.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But right, it's thirty three straight years since nineteen I
think nineteen ninety two was the last year, so it's
thirty three. I was never I was never good at math.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's just it's annoying because it just feels like another
October down the tubes where they just do not win
a ring. And when my dad was alive, he keep counting,
doubt Well, it's another year since two thousand and nine,
it's ten years, it's eleven years. That was seventeen years
going on without a ring. It's very frustrating. I know
you're a Met fan and you probably like the chaos,
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but I just I think it's very sad because they
have continually made the same mistakes. And lou you might agree,
you might disagree. This is the first postseason I felt like,
wasn't a different animal Every year they say, well, the
post is a different animal. Not for the Yankees. When
you play a couple of days later in the wild card,
when you could have had the division, when you blew
nine games, Devin Williams, I have to riff your Louise.
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It's just it's it's there are so many things that
could have been avoided the season. Why did they keep
going to Williams. That's their first mistake into why they
didn't get the division and and now why they're out.
They didn't get the right positioning because of that mistake alone.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Louis, Well, everything you just said it's pretty accurate. So yeah,
this the regular season and the postseason in the Yankees case,
really wasn't two different things. There were, it was they weren't.
It wasn't two different animals. As he said, Uh, let's
face it, we said it before. The Yankees sometimes have
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it and a lot of Don't get me wrong, a
lot of teams have this problem. But it seems like
the Yankees thrive against bad pitching and have trouble hitting
good pitching. But Alex, I mean, the Yankees have questions.
What are you gonna do with? Uh? With Anthony Volpi?
Is he the shortstop in twenty twenty six after a
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horrific postseason. I'm I'm sure he's gonna need surgery on
the shoulder. But what do they do? I'm gonna say
that they're gonna go heavy after Dante Bichett. Uh Donte
Baschett's son, Bobbashek, Who's gonna be a free agent. He's
a tremendous player and he's gonna want a lot of money.
And that might be somebody the Yankees go after. Do
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you think that that that's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I do, because here's the other thing about this season
is they were, as I might have said to you
off air, they were one bat away from doing something big.
And you know, I think about this as well. La
Caberra made an impact on that team. He gets hurt
mid you know, in mayor around that time. Rest of
the seasons out for him with that injury, but they
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never filled the void. I mean, I guess they tried to,
but they never could fill that bat and that was
pretty much a downfall. And then what's this one? Not
playing just San Domingos at all? In the post that
you I'm on the roster, he sitt there on the bench,
you bring him up to let where was his bats?
Like it just there were things that didn't make sense
to me all postseason and especially this round, like where
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where was his bad they could have used him?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No, that's well, obviously he's a liability in the field,
and you know they had they were playing from left
to right, Bellinger, Gristram and Judge and Bellinger is you know,
and obviously twenty times the feel that the Mingas is
and even he made another great play last night. It's
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gonna be interesting to see what the Yankees look like
come this offseason. Bellinger is a free agent. Obviously he's
gonna opt out. If he doesn't opt out, he's his
agent is giving him bad advice, because yeah, he was
the Yankee second best player after Judge. I wouldn't you know.
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I've been a big Bellinger fan for years and I
would love to see the Mets get a guy like that.
But I think there's a chance the Yankees will re
sign Bellinger. There are other free agents, you know, the big,
the big names. Dent Williams. I thought for sure they
were not going to resign him. Now I would say
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might be fifty to fifty. He wasn't terrible, you know,
the last six weeks, So I would say that's fifty
to fifty. I would be very, very very careful if
not only if it's the anser body who gives Trent
Grisham a lot of years and a lot of money. Uh,
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fier beware. I don't I get more closer to the
nine home run guy he was last year than the
thirty four year old guy, thirty four year old, thirty
four homber guy he was this year. I'd be very
careful for anybody signing Trent Grisham. Is the Jones kids
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going to come up? Spencer Jones is gonna come up
next year? I would I would assume that's a that's
a possibility where you play him. I don't know where
Lombard is at shortstop. I know he had an up
and down minor league season, so I don't know where
the Yankees UH look at him, But I haven't fit
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the Yankees didn't go head after Bobashet I really do.
I mean the guy. The guy's led the American League
hits twice. He would have let again this year, but
he got hurt, missed the last three and a half weeks.
He averages like twenty four to twenty five home runs
a year. The only downside he hurt his knee in
September and he missed a lot of time last year,
and I forget with what injury, So that's the only
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thing you might want to look at. But he's in
a physical prime of his life, his athletic life, twenty
seven years old. So I think that's a possibility for
the Yankees in in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You may vallid pointier about the free agent market because
they didn't They didn't really do much. Yeah, Bellinger was big,
but they didn't do much last year in the free
agent market that had I'm gonna keep saying talker hands.
That was a big not getting him. I thought they
could have used him, uh this season as well. But
they didn't get.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Strengthen their pitching staff by by signing a Max Freed
and with the with the Garrett Cole injury. Can you
Max he didn't have Max Freed this year? Yeah? I know,
he you know, he got blasted on Sunday. But obviously
he's a he's.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
A he was a ninety game winner. I think he's
a cy Young contender.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But there he's got a lot of cy Young votes.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He also overcame a blister injury which did set him
back a little bit. And uh, and we'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The next year is gonna be very good again? That
is gonna got you know in June. I guess uh,
in June he's gonna have Max Freed. You know, I'm
no fan of Carlos Rodin, but he's there again. He
let them down in a big spot, you know, Cam
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Schlitler has. You know, I was really impressed with him
last night, more so than I was against the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
First, when he keeps flat in the park, that was
a big deal to He didn't have his.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Best stuff and he was able to pitch effectively without
his best stuff, so that that impressed me. He'll be
in rotation Uh. So the Yankees starting pitching is going
to be good. It's these holes in the back. What
do you do with jazz? With with jazz Chisholm, he
has one elect on his deal. Do they trade him
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or put them out there for trade?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I don't know. Uh, that's gonna be interesting. This is
gonna be a very interesting off off season for uh,
for the Yankees. But again this is the I mean, look,
the Yankees struck out sixty six times in seven games
and Toronto was only second in the league in fewer
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strikeouts for their for the batters, uh, in this series
against the Yankees, in the four games they got eighteen hits,
Toronto did with two strikes on them. So it's you know,
it was not it was not. It's you know, you
could talk about high Volaia home runs. Strikeouts don't mean nothing.
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Strikeouts uh uh and ground outs are the same. No,
you don't. You want to put the ball in play
because you never know what's gonna happen. Look what happened
last night. That was a tough play for chishm last
night on that that hard hit ground ball. By the way,
that's an error. Yes, I agree, that was scored an error,
but they gave they gave a jazz and eerror on
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that play. But during last week on that pop up,
they gave Judge a hit. But that's the I just
don't get that one. But whatever, But the Yankees will
always be good. Uh, you know was the primary difference maker.
And and uh and Ernie Clement. I mean that's a
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guy who's you know, he's a hell of a player, and.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Uh he is.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Go all the way.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He's the most Eddicadian name of that that's for sure.
But uh, I gotta I gotta say this. How about
Alejandra Kirk What a what a series he had as well?
I mean, that guy has been solid for Toronto. The
only thing I thought about going into this lowligue was, well,
how did the Jays end up slipping to the point
of coming down to that final day against the Yankees.
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I mean, they did not have a great second half either,
so I did think while they were overmatched, I thought
about it a little bit more so.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well so again, second half, Alex, I don't mean, I'm sorry,
I don't mean to interrupted you. They had a great
second half. They didn't have a great second half of
the month of September. You know, they they went one
and six and the Yankees won seven in a row,
and that's where the Yankees tied them. But fortunately they
were one in eight against the Jays in Toronto this year,
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and that's what cost the Yankees a chance to have
the buye so again Toronto. I the Bassett injury is
gonna hurt them in the next round if he can't pitch,
and he hasn't pitched since like September twentieth. I don't
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know how they got away pitching eight pitchers last night.
None of them pitched for more than five outs. When
you get eight pitchers all to pitch effectively. And remember
the Yankees had two hits until the eighth inning. That
that's not gonna happen too often for the Jays, so
we'll see. I think they rather played Detroit. I am
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shock Detroit came back from that three nothing deficit because
they can hit, and then they explode for nine runs.
And they got the best pitcher in baseball going for
them tomorrow night, and Tarik's troubol. I don't like the
Tigers team. I thought that Seattle would finish them off
yesterday and now the pressure all of it. Alex is on.
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This is on the Seattle Mariners tomorrow night. They have
my gun.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
They could have put them away into kright, and they
just could not. And you know I I are they
sorry wo tomorrow. I don't even know where they're really
starting tomorrow, but.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Not a George Kirby.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well that's that's just my move. But I'll tell you
the kitchen staff is uh is the main reason why
Seattle got to where they're at as well, So it's'll
be a bit of a duel. I think I think
if you're your Toronto, if you're Seattle, if you move on,
I think you have bigger, bigger things in your horizon.
I really do think they can beat Toronto. I might
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be wrong with that, but I just I think they
can contain, uh, contain the Blue Jays. But then again,
the Blue Jays bats look caught right now. So we'll
have to say, hey, Lou, I gotta ask you this.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
On the other side of this, on the n L side,
I would love and I know you're not a Philly fan,
but because what happened to the Dodgers. With the Dodgers
last year, I would love for them to come back
win tonight and then not come out in Philly on Saturday.
I just don't know if it's gonna happen. But the
the NL lopside in this, I guess more with the Brewers,
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Cubs surprised me a little bit. More like I did
not expect the Cubs to go down O two, maybe
split in Milwaukee, but they just the Brewers are continuing
their hots streak as well.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, there are two evenly matched teams, the Cubs and
the Brewers. As Alex, Now, this is why last week
made we made predictions, and we usually don't make prediction
on the show. So I said the Yankees were gonna
win four, they lost them four. And uh, I thought
the Cubs would would would would beat the Brewers. They
could be over tonight. So that's why we don't make
for addictions on Terminello's take very often. But I think
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the Cubs can bounce back and go to to tonight.
I would be surprised if the Phillies do. And the
Phillies have the second best team after the Dodgers in
my opinion. But uh, and you said, I have no
love for the Phillies yet, but I don't care about
the Dodgers either, I really, really, uh you know, I
don't care if the Dodgers win or not. I was
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surprised that that that the Dodgers got pummeled at home
last night, and uh so it will be interesting. Both
of these games are going to be interesting tonight, that's
for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So I definitely want to do a bigger deep dive
on the series and do a deeper dive for the
free agents for the Yankees, because I'll tell you, last
time I said any advice, which was just on me
is leading off. They listened in the one five games
in a row, So maybe I could channel that energy.
I don't know if you know this story, but one
of the five days of the year many years ago,
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George Simonds sent me home with a list of free
agents to look at and told me to get back
to them on it. So maybe I'm feeling that energy again.
And that's gonna be my twenty fifth full season involved
with the Yankees, which I can't believe how time's flying.
But maybe twenty five seasons we'll get into a ring.
I would love that to mark that anniversary with the ring.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yep. Well, we'll see, we'll see what happens. Obviously, I
hope another New York team wins the ring first, but
we'll worry about that later.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, well, let me let me tell you this
about the series. One more thing is and as you
can tell, I haven't talk about this on my show,
so I need to get all this out there. Two
thousand and seven Alds feels exactly like it did. Now, Okay,
so Yangs go down two, come back, win that one game,
then the next night it's over, and or do they
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lose in five? It was. It was a rough series
against Cleveland and seven and then they fired Tori. Now
I don't think Boone. I don't know what's kind of
with Boone, but I just get that feeling of the
two thousand and seven Alds all over again, like there's
got to be some changes coming after the series.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, I mean I think, yeah, they'll be changes. They're
gonna be changes to the roster. They like I said,
they might bring up some of these guys if they
think they're ready for the major leagues, like Jones, like Lombard.
I don't know, you know, Aaron Boone said postgame, and
I was watching post game that it's been a very
tough year for him personally. Now, I don't know what
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that means. Not professional he said personally, Maybe he meant professionally.
Maybe maybe you know, some guys will just get burned
out and he might just say, hey, you know, I want
time to move on. You know, we see that a lot.
But I assume he'll be back. The Yankees like him.
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He is loved by Cashman. I don't think he did
anything wrong in this series Strategy Eyes, except in the
last series, I would have kept Freed in the game
when he when he pulled them. But I really can't
see what he did wrong in this.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It's more than I think we're all expecting the manager
to rally the troops. I mean, you can't let them
get down eleven. It just they looked lifeless, and that
was the real issue for me, and I think for
a lot of fans that were watching this is how
lifeless on the weekend they looked coming back to New
York after, you know, and then having to come back
to New York down too.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It was just correct. Now apparently there's no dissension in
the club efforts. They all they all like each and
that's always good. I do not think if Aaron Boone's
not the manager in twenty twenty six. I think it's
his call, not that not that the Yankees is going
to fire him.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now. My other theory was they could pull a Mets
and fire everybody else around him. Could that happen or no?
I mean could they.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
They're not going to do with Mets did where the
Mets fired basically five or six coaches. But they can
make a couple of changes. Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I mean, it'll be interesting to watch how this offseason goes.
And as you say, if they go out and get
that bat, now they have the arms secured, you gotta
get that bat. And a friend of my ass well,
what do they do with Suspencer Jones? And I said, look,
they have used rumors, say they use them as trade
bait in the in the in the at the deadline.
I mean, who is saying they're not going to try
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that again in the offseason.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Then I'll then I'll say this buyer, beware, when the
Yankees trade of prospect, that means he's not a prospect.
How many guys have the Yankees trade who they who
over the years that would deemed prospects have not panned
out when they got traded to other teams, so you
gotta be careful about that. So, uh so we'll we'll
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see what happens in well in what should be a
very very hot offseason for both the Mets and the Yankees,
because the Mets are gonna make a lot of a
lot of trades.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But Alonso switch jerseys here, are they gonna just resign them?
And what's your thought on that?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I think it's fifty to fifty, I really do. I
think if he's resigned it's going to be because of
Steve Cohen and not not not Stearns. And uh, of
course I want him back. I mean, he was second
in the major leagues and RBIs he was like sixth
in slugging, you know. I mean, he's an asset to
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the Mets and he's a homegrown Met. The fans love him.
But you know, yes, Steve Boris as his agent, and yes,
I know Borros was Boris.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, Steve.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Boris a former major leaguer in the sixty Scott Borrows.
Thank you of Scott boruh you know, with Soto's agent.
So obviously the Mets have a relationship with Scott Borrows,
who thinks he runs major league baseball and maybe he does.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And uh uh so, so he definitely thinks he has
them by the you know what, most of mostly every
deal he makes.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So yes, he does. He thinks, I mean, he thinks
he's more powerful than uh than the commissioner, and you
know what, maybe in some instances he is. And that's
the scary thing.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't see. Uh, I don't see man for going
out there signing guys for seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, uh, yeah, he controls, he controls uh uh
uh baseball. He has a firm grip on a lot
of things what's going on in in major League baseball.
So so we'll we'll see what happens. It's gonna be
it's going to be a very interesting uh winter season
for the Mets and the Yankees. We'll see. I would
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love to see the Mets try to get schemes. I
would love the Mets to try to get to reach screwball.
I know, uh, he only has one year left on
his deal. The if he goes to free agency, the
Tigers are not gonna sign him. So we know that
that's not good for major League Baseball. But that's a
whole nother story that we've been talking about for years
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about the lop side in this of who can afford whom,
because if you, if you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Let you, if you let these guys go out of
their markets, it sort of deflates the whole local, you know,
glory of baseball in their town. You know what I mean,
it just it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But again, until they do something about it, you might
as well take advantage of back then the the Yankees
or the Dodgers or the Phillies doing it. So again,
do I like it? No? I don't like it. I
wish they would. I wish they would level a playing
field more.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But oh, and they're saying how a bad a cap
would be. Actually a cap would not be a bad
thing considering what we've seen the Dodgers do where they
now have to pay some guys on installment planes. I mean,
come on, this is that's not Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You're you're right, I mean they're what they are finagling, uh,
the system.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And by the way, can I just say this, everybody
around Johan Tony's facing jail time and no one thinks
that I don't understand this.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It just don't understand it either. But you know, he's
the boy, So I'm not saying that that he's done something.
It's just you're right. It seems everybody around him but
him is getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So it's very odd. But you know he'll go on
and having Ruthian years as always. So that's that's what
it is, all right. If the Giants could go to
and four in a seventeen game eighteen weeks slate, two
and four is still feasible. You go one in five,
that's a problem, but two and four there's still a
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chance of something. Even the seventh seed at this boy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Louis okay. They the Eagles have had a tough schedule
so far, and but they've been they been inconsistent. I mean,
Barkley well over two thousand yards this last year is
on pace for nine hundred and eight. Something looks wrong
with the Eagles, even though they're four and one. You know,
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they blew a fourteen point ly in the fourth quarter
to the to the Denver Broncos on on Sunday. This
is a very tough spot for the New York Giants.
It really is. They don't have any offensive skilled players
that could I think hurt the Eagles defense. I don't
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see it can they win you. Anything can happen in
the NFL. We know that anything can happen in any
one game. The one thing about Neighbors being injured, not
only because he's a great player, but developing chemistry with
Jackson Dart this year, that's not gonna happen. Slayton's not
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gonna play tonight. They get Tracy back at running back.
They they didn't rush the passer at all three days
ago against New Orleans, which was just the head scratcher.
And they turned the ball on their last five over
on their last five possession.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Was the most disastrous half and actually end of the
first half I've seen in a football game. I mean,
you have a lead that all of a sudden, the
Saints kick a field goal will take the lead, and
they just cannot recover from them. Then you cough it up. Look,
Dart has to know when to slide. I know he's
a rookie, but you can't fumble that ball. You just cannot.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Now, Hey, he's the one thing I like about him.
He's aggressive, and he's confident and that and that will.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
As he can run. The kid can run. I've seen
I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
He's a terrific athlete and the players around him picked
that up. Do I think the Giants have a chance tonight?
Like I said, football, anything can happen, especially in the NFL.
But I wouldn't. I wouldn't depend on I wouldn't count
on it tonight. It's a tough spot for the Giants tonight.
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Let's leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's always a tough spot. I mean, they just yeah,
they also find ways to lose. I'll put it that way.
It's at that point where I feel like they're getting
it's they're just training ways to lose. Also, I also
feel like I'm running out of octobers, like we need
the win some stuff here. I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's just getting it's getting laid out here early.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It certainly is, that's for sure. And you know the
Jets are rowing five and they're going nowhere, and the
Giants might be one in five.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
If let's just say, I'm getting too old for this ship, Louis, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What do you think I am? I'm ancient.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I mean that is when I was eight years old,
and I'm starting to feel older. That's not get along
here so well?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Now? Not good? My friend one thing. I want to
comment on something that to me is a head scratcher.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Mike Sullivan and the Rangers lost their opening night against
the Banquets.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, well we could talk about that. I mean, that's
only game one of a long season. Yeah, the Rangers
will be fine. I mean I think they'll be Okay.
I have no we gotta give We gotta give Mike
Sullivan more on one game. But I want to talk
about something that, like I said, as a head scratcher
to me. Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon was fined
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one hundred thousand dollars by the Arizona Cardinals for basically
disciplining Amari de Mercado. If you saw the play, he
was way out in front of the Tennessee Titan defense,
got behind the Tennessee Titan defense, and when he got
to the goal line, he dropped the ball. Just dropped
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the ball. He wasn't concentrating and cost it single handedly
costs the Cardinals victory. It would put him up twenty
eight to six if they the conversion in the fourth
quarter and the Tennessee Titans weren't coming back.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Titans, by the way, by the way, Titans were winless
going into this if I'm not mistaken, right.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And they got a couple of the Titans got a
couple of crazy bounces go their way. They hit a
field goal on the last play the game, and they
lose twenty two to twenty one. Gannon went after de Mercado,
got into his face, slapped him on his chest, slapped
him on his shoulder pad and everybody, a lot of
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people are upping arms over it. I mean, I don't
get it. The Arizona my opinion, finding him one hundred
thousand dollars and having apologized to the team that undermines
the coach. I don't think that the Arizona Cardinal roster
now can could take their coach seriously. And it's not
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Jonathan Gannon's. It's the Arizona Cardinals management of fault. Have
we gotten so soft? I mean, Alex I went to
a game in nineteen ninety two. Notre Dame was number one,
Michigan was number two. A Notre Dame lineman and happened
right in front of me. Notre Dame lineman did something wrong.
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I forgot what it was. Kind to the sideline. Lou
Holtz all one hundred and sixty pounds of them, grabs
this two hundred and seventy five pound lineman by the
face mask, shaken them aggressively.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I've I've seen that highlights somewhere over the years.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Okay, so and this is the NFL, this is your job.
And he had to apologize to his team and one
hundred thousand dollars comes out of his pocket. And de Mercado,
who had a good career at TCU, was undrafted. Cardinals
gave him a chance. And I feel sorry that the
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kids screwed up, But that's on the kid. I would
be ticked off myself. You know, there's only seventeen chances
to win games in the NFL. You can't give him away.
And the mccardo is the reason, the main reason why
the Arizona Cardinals gave it away a game on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Actually it was, it was it was actually normal to
see a coach react like that. I mean it was, uh,
it was. It was disgusting. It was disgusting to drop
it on the goal, you know, the goal end like that.
But see it's the gentle parenting that all these coaches
are expected to do now. And I mean you look
at it. Who was it a few years ago? Oh
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wasn't it? Joe Judge? Oh, why are you running your
guys so hard? Are you freaking serious? Why are you
running it?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Like?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And look at look at the Yankees. The reason why
they had to get Aaron Boone in there was because
Joe Girardi was appairently too tough on his teeth, like,
I don't know, it's.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Just it was. It really is head scratching. It's mind boggling, Alex.
So that's my two cents on that and the other
news of the week, which obviously didn't get a lot
of play, especially south of the border. Conor McDavid signed
a two year extent at twelve point five million dollars
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a year, which is low through twenty seven to twenty eight.
Obviously a couple things here. He took the extension because
he wants to give the oil Is enough cap room
to add to the team so they can try to
finally win the Stanley Cup. But the two year extension
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through twenty seven to twenty eight indicates to me that
he's going to be the first twenty million dollar player
in the league because the cap is going to go
up significantly over next two three years. So he's either
going to sign a seven year deal with the Edmonton
at the end of the twenty seven to twenty eight
season when he's thirty one years old so he'll still
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be in his prime, or I don't. I don't think
this is gonna happen. He's gonna go elsewhere. But I
think the reason he signed a two year deal too
prong keep cap room so we can improve the team now.
And you know, I'll well, I'll sign you know, we'll
sign that seven year, twenty twenty one million dollar deal
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in you know, when this twenty seven to twenty eight
season contract is over. So that's all I got. That's
all I got for you right now, Alex.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I know it like you should come to me to
America and it would have been turn of GRETX. Yes,
but you know what, he loves Edmonton and I think
he wants to win. And by the way, what if
we happen to say for a third time, Hey, he's
gotten to the Stanley Cup. This could be his thirty
year in a row. I'll have to see if that happens.
But you know, that extension was weighing on people's minds
even before the season ended last year. So it's it is.
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It makes sense for him to resign with the Edmond Teilers.
It just wouldn't feel right if he went else elsewhere.
You know, it would not.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Dry side Leon dry stylis teammate, his great superstar teammate
is making fourteen million dollars a year. So I mean,
so I'm sure they I'm sure this negotiation with the Oilers.
I would be shocked that he doesn't if he doesn't
sign that twenty million dollar, twenty one million dollar deal
when the cap goes up in a couple of years
and his contract runs out at the end of twenty
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seven to twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
So there are no early impressions about the NHL right now.
We're literally fresh start. But everybody's making a big deal
about the first lost of the year for the Rangers,
and I just say, let's calm down. But I do
want to remind people, now you go from a World
Series chase to a Cup chase, not just one. You've
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got two cup chases at the Garden, the NBA Cup
that you know they have mid season, and then you
got I forget what they actually call it, and they
got the Stanley Cup and the Larry O'Brian, So now
you had two cup chase to look after at the Garden.
The Rangers, though with Mike Sullivan, should be in good hands.
I wouldn't freak out over one loss the first night
of the season. I just I would not.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Everybody is overreacting, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Entrepreneur, you know, entrepreneur in and Miller is not a
good way to start the year, that's true.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
And I know that he's he's going to play in Buffalo,
so that's a good thing that he's not uh injured
where he's not gonna you know, he's not going to
uh play. I'm looking forward to seeing how the Island
is going to handle Matthew Matthew Schaeffer. I mean, how
they if they can limit their minutes and see how
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they're going to use them. Obviously he's gonna be on
the third pairing and he's he's going to start with
Scott Mayfield, which it's good. He's a veteran and uh,
I just hope these other teams don't run the kid
and and try to rough them up. So so he
would be interesting look at and the Devil's obviously this
is the Devil's year to take the big leap as
we've talked about, and we'll get more into the hockey
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to three individual teams the league in general, as you know,
as we go go forward. But obviously tonight was we
want to recap the Yankee playoff situation and uh, and
that's all I got for you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I know there's not much to unpack until the World
Series downe then all free agency stuff and all that,
and of course the MVP debate's going to heat up
because everybody's on this coast thinking Aaron Judgers and the
Yankee dumb. I still say cal Rally's gonna get the MVP.
There's no doubt about it. You gotta give it to
cal I mean it, just he's the no brainer here
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with that. And I'm rooting for him because actually I
got to talk talk to him last year the Mob Store,
and I'm ever since I met him. He just had
this record year, so I'm hoping he uh he might
bring a ring in the Seattle. That would be kind
of interesting if that happened. So if you're asking me
who I'm rooting for now, I'm definitely rooting for the Mariners,
just because it seems like it could be their time.
So we'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It could be their time. You got you got that right, ther.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
One last piece of history this year this week was
October eighth, nineteen fifty six.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Remember it well, I was only three years old, but
I know what happened that day. Unless you're gonna tell
me something else happened that day.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Nope, nope, the perfect game, and I of course, and
of course I've talked to Bob Wolf about it, because
he called the perfect game. He did Beryl leaping in
the arms of Larsen, and the rest is history. I mean,
I think that's why Yankee fans today are so sad,
because they have this rich history and yet look at
what they're doing. It just it doesn't make sense. How
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then years later that, my dear.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Friend, you're sounding like a jaded Yankee fan. The Yankees
had a great season. The Yankees are always in the playoffs.
I mean, you can ask the other twenty nine major
league teams and they would all say, yeah, we'll switch
with you. I mean, no Yankee fan. Yeah, you're to
be disappointed. I get it. I understand you want to
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winever the post.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
He's expected to go this way, although beating Boston was
a very big bonus to me.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But Boston, and they should have beaten Boston. This was
not a big Boston team. I mean, that lineup was
full of holes. They should if they didn't be Boston,
who knows, maybe Boone would have gone fired. But yeah, yeah, no,
you should be happy they won ninety four games. They
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beat all the crummy teams. I wish the Mets had
beaten some of those crummy teams that they didn't. The
Mets swept the Phillies. The Mets beat the Dodgers far
out of seven, but they lose those two home games
to the Nationals. They had won those two games, they
would have been in the playoffs, not that they were
going to do anything. So you should be a Ante fan. Yes,
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you should be disappointed that they've had another playoff bump
in the road, but overall you should be You should
be happy they have the best players.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
More, I'm more still bummed out that the regular season
was not what it should have been. That's kind of
where my my thing is because I could see the
postseason against the Jays coming from a mile away. Because
the Jays just they have the bats, they have the
they have the offense. I don't know if they have
the arms per se, right, but they have they have
the offense that can make up for everything. So and
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you got to get.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
The chase a lot of the credit. They last year
they finished fifth, they were last.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
And one more thing because people, not people, but some
might have reacted. I wish in that first game with
the bases loaded for Vlad or that second game, I
guess you walcomem you know what he did the night before.
You intentionally walk them every time up after that because
that Grand Slam was evident and if they don't, it's
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eight to six or eight five or whatever. And and
the Aks have a chance, but they they pitched them,
and they decided to pitch them, and I think that
was a mistake all series long.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, look what Schneider did last night. He walked Judge
with nobody on base.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
That was that was why, I mean nobody on base.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
The greatness of Aaron Judge and Aaron. And he changes
the opponent's game plan. That's the ultimate sign of greatness.
Changes how you how you plan uh to play against
the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
So I can't pin it on him that they lost. Serious,
I can't even pin it on Remember I was saying
Jazz is double play botch was No, this series was
was long.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
They had two hits the after seventy and things last night.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Was long behind that before that double play botch up.
I actually think Jazz is a good player for the Yankees.
I really think he he has his energy. He yet
same to it with BOLTI when he's good, when he
is healthy, he's a good energy for this team. It's
just he's not been healthy. And again we've talked about it.
Rizzio last year with a concussion. They didn't tell us
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our twenty twenty three. They didn't tell us. Then it
tells about Volpi till September. It's very odd to me,
but I knew he was bothering because were at that
game where he made the awkward dive. Would you probably
saw lou and that changed the whole season for him.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
And the guy still drove him on seventy five runs.
What the nineteen twenty home runs and the kid's only
twenty three years old. But again, if the Yankees have
a chance to sign Bolbaschett and this I haven't heard
this anyway, This is just me. That's an upgrade Bulbachett's
an upgrade from Volpi.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
One last thing on this whole thing. He keep Ben Rice.
I really like the kid. I don't think you should
trade him. I think you gotta keep him as your
everyday player. I like his I like the way he
hits the homers. I like the way he's just in
that lineup and can mesh well his little hiccups was that?
I think it was. He was a little nervous this postseason.
I have to say, I think it was a little
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maybe a little nervous or something. I don't know, but
I mean he's.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
The left hand hitting, power hitter playing the antie stadium.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I keep them people.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
You can't. You can't trade everybody, and I don't see
why they would have to trade a trade rise on
that again, unless somebody throws them a deal they can't refuse.
All right.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
I want to do a little news here because we've
seen the hostage crisis back in seventy two and the
way you talked about it before. I want you to
just give us this historical context since we saw a
different circument. We saw it in Munich and you you
were really impacted by that. So take us down history
that this is not the first time we've had a
hostage crisis here, and of course the deal is very interesting.
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But give us some historical perspective, because this has been
a problem for many, many decades. And you told it
perfectly the last time I asked you about it.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Well, the Summer Olympics in nineteen seventy were later than
Summer Olympics. It wasn't in July like I think the
twenty eighth Summer Olympics is going to be. I think
I to mean July. This was in September. And obviously
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the terrorist group Black September, I believe they were called
Rush the Israeli compound on at the Olympic Village. It's
almost hard to believe now that security was that lax.
Now of course that that was, you know, fifty five
(43:28):
years ago, fifty six years ago, and they were able
to get in to the Israeli complex at the Olympic Village,
held them for twenty four hours and some died. Of
the one of them died immediately, was shot immediately, if
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I remember correctly. And they wanted obviously a prisoner exchange,
and they wanted a plane out of out of Munich.
And long story short. At about three o'clock in the
warning New York time, they the German authorities, rushed the plane.
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There was they were shooting. The entire Israeli Olympic team was.
And it wasn't a large number of of players on
their team. They were. They were all there were as
as a great. Jim McKay, who took over that night
becoming a newsman not a sportscaster, famously said they were
all gone. And they did get the terrorists. But it
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was a sad day for sports, sad day for the world.
The I think the Olympics were only postponed for one day.
There was some calls to postpone the Olympics for good,
to cantal the rest the Olympics, but Avery Brundage, the
president of the Olympic Committee, who wasn't the best guy
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in the world, decided to keep the games going. Uh
he was. He had been involved with the Olympics for
many many years. He wasn't uh he was. He was
probably anti Semitic, and he continued with the games. Two
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days later, Mark Spitz, the the American Jewish great swimmer,
had finished winning his his competition. They quickly got him
out of Germany and got him back to the United States.
I do remember that, but it was said, I mean
it's it, you know, politics missing mixing with sports, and
you know with this this hostage crisis hopefully ending this
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week and they're going to release the remaining hostages out alive.
Just Alex again, just think, just think these poor people
they have been they have been in captivity for two
years in those tunnels. They were eating their breadth as
to when they were uh well, when they were captured
that two years ago on October seventh. It's mind boggling. It.
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I just don't know how, well, how people could be
so evil. It's that's that's my two cents on it.
It's just and it seems like it seems like you
can go back fifty years, evil is around. They'll always
be evil around, but it seems more evil.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Than ever it's and and that's why sports escapes us
from that evil. I remember twenty four years ago how
much that World Series meant to New York, even if
the Anks loss it. My god, it helped us escape
from the horrors and the and sort of built us
back up a little bit from a month earlier. And
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we need that momentarycoverment. We haven't had that bounce back
feeling of like unity as in October seventh. We need that,
we really, we really do correct. So that's why we
talk about sports. You get people's mind off of it
because we we could talk about what's on our television
screens all day long er, we could just delve into,
you know, the lighter side. And yeah, the angs losing
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is tough as ever, but then again, uh, it is
a lighter side compared to the everything else going on
in the world. In fact, it's a minor inconvenience compared
to what everything else going on in the world.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
And think about it, it's a minory convenience. You yeah,
hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
But we we care about it. That's why we talked
sports on this show as well.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Absolutely, that's why we we talked sports. And I love
talking about it. And you know, as I told you many,
I knew early in my early teens that I wasn't
going to be an athlete, so I had to get
in the business somehow, So I'm glad. I have no regrets.
So that's why I love talking about it, and I
love that I was in it for all those years.
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So uh, you know, like you said, it gives us
our escape from from reality and from the stress of
the world. That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Yes it does, all right, Well, we can only hope
that tonight the Giants are going to distress us a
bit by winning, and the Rangers are on right now
as we speak, So let's go focus on that and
we'll talk to you next week. Blue on Terminillo's take.
Thank you, Alex,
Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, well we're back here on one leg up
Alex Network. I gotta tell you we have some interesting
news to tell you. And lou Terminola love this. Since
we got to fifty thousand downloads in the last thirty days,
another thousand of you have downloaded, so I don't think
I've ever peaked at one thousand downloads for a month.
I think terminal Hostak's playing a big role in that. Louis,
so thank you as always for helping me continue this
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content here.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, Alex, I've good to be with you and any
contribution I can make, but it's your talent. You're the
talented guy here. So but I'm glad that I contributed
any any way I can.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know, I know I was waiting to see what
would happen this series. Look, and Yankee Beans are not
gonna like me for saying this, and I'm not usually pessimistic,
but the way the Jays and Yanks played in the
regular season, I'm very low. As you know, expert tations
burthers round and I would say this could have been avoided. Right,
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you get the bases loaded on the top of the
fifth with nobody out in one run. That was really
the beginning of the end of the series and why
it was only game one, well, because they had to
convert when they had the chance against the Jay's team
that has the offense that could carry them to the
World Series.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Alex, You're right, that was the the key inning, that
was the turning point of the series, when the Yankees
had it set up to get back into the U
into Game one, and they did score a run to
make it two to one, and then obviously the pitching
collapsed and they got they got overrun. But that was
the key at bat obviously, uh, with when Aaron Judge
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had a chance to do something positive and he had
and he had a very good postseason. He didn't have
an iconic postseason or anything like that. But uh, you know,
the first uh uh, the first two games, the Yankees
got bombed. I mean, there's no other way to say it.
And again, Alex, as we sit here the day after
(02:10):
the Yankees are eliminated again as a team, they didn't hit.
They didn't hit in the postseason and Alex, they had
five of the seven playoff games that they played at
Yankees Stadium and they were only two and three at home.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Also the judge records. Okay, he did this on the
other first time thisince nineteen twenty eight. But you know
the fact is they only played let me check here,
three there and then for seven games. I mean, it's
not like it's not like they went all the way
and he had this ruthian postseason. It's just very weird
to make that comparison for an Alds exit.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know, as the Yankees. Has the Yankees now faced
the offseason, Alex, there's a lot of questions. I mean, obviously,
the Yankees are always good. The Yankees have made the
playoffs twenty six out last thirty one years. They haven't
had a losing season in for twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
They started thirty three straight years with the non losing season.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But right, it's thirty three straight years since nineteen I
think nineteen ninety two was the last year, so it's
thirty three. I was never I was never good at math.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's just it's annoying because it just feels like another
October down the tubes where they just do not win
a ring. And when my dad was alive, he keep counting,
doubt Well, it's another year since two thousand and nine,
it's ten years, it's eleven years. That was seventeen years
going on without a ring. It's very frustrating. I know
you're a Met fan and you probably like the chaos,
(03:39):
but I just I think it's very sad because they
have continually made the same mistakes. And lou you might agree,
you might disagree. This is the first postseason I felt like,
wasn't a different animal Every year they say, well, the
post is a different animal. Not for the Yankees. When
you play a couple of days later in the wild card,
when you could have had the division, when you blew
nine games, Devin Williams, I have to riff your Louise.
(04:02):
It's just it's it's there are so many things that
could have been avoided the season. Why did they keep
going to Williams. That's their first mistake into why they
didn't get the division and and now why they're out.
They didn't get the right positioning because of that mistake alone.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Louis, Well, everything you just said it's pretty accurate. So yeah,
this the regular season and the postseason in the Yankees case,
really wasn't two different things. There were, it was they weren't.
It wasn't two different animals. As he said, Uh, let's
face it, we said it before. The Yankees sometimes have
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it and a lot of Don't get me wrong, a
lot of teams have this problem. But it seems like
the Yankees thrive against bad pitching and have trouble hitting
good pitching. But Alex, I mean, the Yankees have questions.
What are you gonna do with? Uh? With Anthony Volpi?
Is he the shortstop in twenty twenty six after a
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horrific postseason. I'm I'm sure he's gonna need surgery on
the shoulder. But what do they do? I'm gonna say
that they're gonna go heavy after Dante Bichett. Uh Donte
Baschett's son, Bobbashek, Who's gonna be a free agent. He's
a tremendous player and he's gonna want a lot of money.
And that might be somebody the Yankees go after. Do
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you think that that that's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I do, because here's the other thing about this season
is they were, as I might have said to you
off air, they were one bat away from doing something big.
And you know, I think about this as well. La
Caberra made an impact on that team. He gets hurt
mid you know, in mayor around that time. Rest of
the seasons out for him with that injury, but they
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never filled the void. I mean, I guess they tried to,
but they never could fill that bat and that was
pretty much a downfall. And then what's this one? Not
playing just San Domingos at all? In the post that
you I'm on the roster, he sitt there on the bench,
you bring him up to let where was his bats?
Like it just there were things that didn't make sense
to me all postseason and especially this round, like where
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where was his bad they could have used him?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No, that's well, obviously he's a liability in the field,
and you know they had they were playing from left
to right, Bellinger, Gristram and Judge and Bellinger is you know,
and obviously twenty times the feel that the Mingas is
and even he made another great play last night. It's
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gonna be interesting to see what the Yankees look like
come this offseason. Bellinger is a free agent. Obviously he's
gonna opt out. If he doesn't opt out, he's his
agent is giving him bad advice, because yeah, he was
the Yankee second best player after Judge. I wouldn't you know.
(06:50):
I've been a big Bellinger fan for years and I
would love to see the Mets get a guy like that.
But I think there's a chance the Yankees will re
sign Bellinger. There are other free agents, you know, the big,
the big names. Dent Williams. I thought for sure they
were not going to resign him. Now I would say
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might be fifty to fifty. He wasn't terrible, you know,
the last six weeks, So I would say that's fifty
to fifty. I would be very, very very careful if
not only if it's the anser body who gives Trent
Grisham a lot of years and a lot of money. Uh,
(07:32):
fier beware. I don't I get more closer to the
nine home run guy he was last year than the
thirty four year old guy, thirty four year old, thirty
four homber guy he was this year. I'd be very
careful for anybody signing Trent Grisham. Is the Jones kids
(07:53):
going to come up? Spencer Jones is gonna come up
next year? I would I would assume that's a that's
a possibility where you play him. I don't know where
Lombard is at shortstop. I know he had an up
and down minor league season, so I don't know where
the Yankees UH look at him, But I haven't fit
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the Yankees didn't go head after Bobashet I really do.
I mean the guy. The guy's led the American League
hits twice. He would have let again this year, but
he got hurt, missed the last three and a half weeks.
He averages like twenty four to twenty five home runs
a year. The only downside he hurt his knee in
September and he missed a lot of time last year,
and I forget with what injury, So that's the only
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thing you might want to look at. But he's in
a physical prime of his life, his athletic life, twenty
seven years old. So I think that's a possibility for
the Yankees in in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You may vallid pointier about the free agent market because
they didn't They didn't really do much. Yeah, Bellinger was big,
but they didn't do much last year in the free
agent market that had I'm gonna keep saying talker hands.
That was a big not getting him. I thought they
could have used him, uh this season as well. But
they didn't get.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Strengthen their pitching staff by by signing a Max Freed
and with the with the Garrett Cole injury. Can you
Max he didn't have Max Freed this year? Yeah? I know,
he you know, he got blasted on Sunday. But obviously
he's a he's.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
A he was a ninety game winner. I think he's
a cy Young contender.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
But there he's got a lot of cy Young votes.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He also overcame a blister injury which did set him
back a little bit. And uh, and we'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The next year is gonna be very good again? That
is gonna got you know in June. I guess uh,
in June he's gonna have Max Freed. You know, I'm
no fan of Carlos Rodin, but he's there again. He
let them down in a big spot, you know, Cam
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Schlitler has. You know, I was really impressed with him
last night, more so than I was against the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
First, when he keeps flat in the park, that was
a big deal to He didn't have his.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Best stuff and he was able to pitch effectively without
his best stuff, so that that impressed me. He'll be
in rotation Uh. So the Yankees starting pitching is going
to be good. It's these holes in the back. What
do you do with jazz? With with jazz Chisholm, he
has one elect on his deal. Do they trade him
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or put them out there for trade?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I don't know. Uh, that's gonna be interesting. This is
gonna be a very interesting off off season for uh,
for the Yankees. But again this is the I mean, look,
the Yankees struck out sixty six times in seven games
and Toronto was only second in the league in fewer
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strikeouts for their for the batters, uh, in this series
against the Yankees, in the four games they got eighteen hits,
Toronto did with two strikes on them. So it's you know,
it was not it was not. It's you know, you
could talk about high Volaia home runs. Strikeouts don't mean nothing.
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Strikeouts uh uh and ground outs are the same. No,
you don't. You want to put the ball in play
because you never know what's gonna happen. Look what happened
last night. That was a tough play for chishm last
night on that that hard hit ground ball. By the way,
that's an error. Yes, I agree, that was scored an error,
but they gave they gave a jazz and eerror on
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that play. But during last week on that pop up,
they gave Judge a hit. But that's the I just
don't get that one. But whatever, But the Yankees will
always be good. Uh, you know was the primary difference maker.
And and uh and Ernie Clement. I mean that's a
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guy who's you know, he's a hell of a player, and.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Uh he is.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Go all the way.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He's the most Eddicadian name of that that's for sure.
But uh, I gotta I gotta say this. How about
Alejandra Kirk What a what a series he had as well?
I mean, that guy has been solid for Toronto. The
only thing I thought about going into this lowligue was, well,
how did the Jays end up slipping to the point
of coming down to that final day against the Yankees.
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I mean, they did not have a great second half either,
so I did think while they were overmatched, I thought
about it a little bit more so.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well so again, second half, Alex, I don't mean, I'm sorry,
I don't mean to interrupted you. They had a great
second half. They didn't have a great second half of
the month of September. You know, they they went one
and six and the Yankees won seven in a row,
and that's where the Yankees tied them. But fortunately they
were one in eight against the Jays in Toronto this year,
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and that's what cost the Yankees a chance to have
the buye so again Toronto. I the Bassett injury is
gonna hurt them in the next round if he can't pitch,
and he hasn't pitched since like September twentieth. I don't
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know how they got away pitching eight pitchers last night.
None of them pitched for more than five outs. When
you get eight pitchers all to pitch effectively. And remember
the Yankees had two hits until the eighth inning. That
that's not gonna happen too often for the Jays, so
we'll see. I think they rather played Detroit. I am
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shock Detroit came back from that three nothing deficit because
they can hit, and then they explode for nine runs.
And they got the best pitcher in baseball going for
them tomorrow night, and Tarik's troubol. I don't like the
Tigers team. I thought that Seattle would finish them off
yesterday and now the pressure all of it. Alex is on.
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This is on the Seattle Mariners tomorrow night. They have
my gun.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
They could have put them away into kright, and they
just could not. And you know I I are they
sorry wo tomorrow. I don't even know where they're really
starting tomorrow, but.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Not a George Kirby.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well that's that's just my move. But I'll tell you
the kitchen staff is uh is the main reason why
Seattle got to where they're at as well, So it's'll
be a bit of a duel. I think I think
if you're your Toronto, if you're Seattle, if you move on,
I think you have bigger, bigger things in your horizon.
I really do think they can beat Toronto. I might
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be wrong with that, but I just I think they
can contain, uh, contain the Blue Jays. But then again,
the Blue Jays bats look caught right now. So we'll
have to say, hey, Lou, I gotta ask you this.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
On the other side of this, on the n L side,
I would love and I know you're not a Philly fan,
but because what happened to the Dodgers. With the Dodgers
last year, I would love for them to come back
win tonight and then not come out in Philly on Saturday.
I just don't know if it's gonna happen. But the
the NL lopside in this, I guess more with the Brewers,
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Cubs surprised me a little bit. More like I did
not expect the Cubs to go down O two, maybe
split in Milwaukee, but they just the Brewers are continuing
their hots streak as well.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, there are two evenly matched teams, the Cubs and
the Brewers. As Alex, Now, this is why last week
made we made predictions, and we usually don't make prediction
on the show. So I said the Yankees were gonna
win four, they lost them four. And uh, I thought
the Cubs would would would would beat the Brewers. They
could be over tonight. So that's why we don't make
for addictions on Terminello's take very often. But I think
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the Cubs can bounce back and go to to tonight.
I would be surprised if the Phillies do. And the
Phillies have the second best team after the Dodgers in
my opinion. But uh, and you said, I have no
love for the Phillies yet, but I don't care about
the Dodgers either, I really, really, uh you know, I
don't care if the Dodgers win or not. I was
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surprised that that that the Dodgers got pummeled at home
last night, and uh so it will be interesting. Both
of these games are going to be interesting tonight, that's
for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So I definitely want to do a bigger deep dive
on the series and do a deeper dive for the
free agents for the Yankees, because I'll tell you, last
time I said any advice, which was just on me
is leading off. They listened in the one five games
in a row, So maybe I could channel that energy.
I don't know if you know this story, but one
of the five days of the year many years ago,
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George Simonds sent me home with a list of free
agents to look at and told me to get back
to them on it. So maybe I'm feeling that energy again.
And that's gonna be my twenty fifth full season involved
with the Yankees, which I can't believe how time's flying.
But maybe twenty five seasons we'll get into a ring.
I would love that to mark that anniversary with the ring.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yep. Well, we'll see, we'll see what happens. Obviously, I
hope another New York team wins the ring first, but
we'll worry about that later.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, well, let me let me tell you this
about the series. One more thing is and as you
can tell, I haven't talk about this on my show,
so I need to get all this out there. Two
thousand and seven Alds feels exactly like it did. Now, Okay,
so Yangs go down two, come back, win that one game,
then the next night it's over, and or do they
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lose in five? It was. It was a rough series
against Cleveland and seven and then they fired Tori. Now
I don't think Boone. I don't know what's kind of
with Boone, but I just get that feeling of the
two thousand and seven Alds all over again, like there's
got to be some changes coming after the series.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, I mean I think, yeah, they'll be changes. They're
gonna be changes to the roster. They like I said,
they might bring up some of these guys if they
think they're ready for the major leagues, like Jones, like Lombard.
I don't know, you know, Aaron Boone said postgame, and
I was watching post game that it's been a very
tough year for him personally. Now, I don't know what
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that means. Not professional he said personally, Maybe he meant professionally.
Maybe maybe you know, some guys will just get burned
out and he might just say, hey, you know, I want
time to move on. You know, we see that a lot.
But I assume he'll be back. The Yankees like him.
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He is loved by Cashman. I don't think he did
anything wrong in this series Strategy Eyes, except in the
last series, I would have kept Freed in the game
when he when he pulled them. But I really can't
see what he did wrong in this.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
It's more than I think we're all expecting the manager
to rally the troops. I mean, you can't let them
get down eleven. It just they looked lifeless, and that
was the real issue for me, and I think for
a lot of fans that were watching this is how
lifeless on the weekend they looked coming back to New
York after, you know, and then having to come back
to New York down too.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It was just correct. Now apparently there's no dissension in
the club efforts. They all they all like each and
that's always good. I do not think if Aaron Boone's
not the manager in twenty twenty six. I think it's
his call, not that not that the Yankees is going
to fire him.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now. My other theory was they could pull a Mets
and fire everybody else around him. Could that happen or no?
I mean could they.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
They're not going to do with Mets did where the
Mets fired basically five or six coaches. But they can
make a couple of changes. Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I mean, it'll be interesting to watch how this offseason goes.
And as you say, if they go out and get
that bat, now they have the arms secured, you gotta
get that bat. And a friend of my ass well,
what do they do with Suspencer Jones? And I said, look,
they have used rumors, say they use them as trade
bait in the in the in the at the deadline.
I mean, who is saying they're not going to try
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that again in the offseason.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Then I'll then I'll say this buyer, beware, when the
Yankees trade of prospect, that means he's not a prospect.
How many guys have the Yankees trade who they who
over the years that would deemed prospects have not panned
out when they got traded to other teams, so you
gotta be careful about that. So, uh so we'll we'll
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see what happens in well in what should be a
very very hot offseason for both the Mets and the Yankees,
because the Mets are gonna make a lot of a
lot of trades.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But Alonso switch jerseys here, are they gonna just resign them?
And what's your thought on that?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I think it's fifty to fifty, I really do. I
think if he's resigned it's going to be because of
Steve Cohen and not not not Stearns. And uh, of
course I want him back. I mean, he was second
in the major leagues and RBIs he was like sixth
in slugging, you know. I mean, he's an asset to
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the Mets and he's a homegrown Met. The fans love him.
But you know, yes, Steve Boris as his agent, and yes,
I know Borros was Boris.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, Steve.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Boris a former major leaguer in the sixty Scott Borrows.
Thank you of Scott boruh you know, with Soto's agent.
So obviously the Mets have a relationship with Scott Borrows,
who thinks he runs major league baseball and maybe he does.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And uh uh so, so he definitely thinks he has
them by the you know what, most of mostly every
deal he makes.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So yes, he does. He thinks, I mean, he thinks
he's more powerful than uh than the commissioner, and you
know what, maybe in some instances he is. And that's
the scary thing.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I don't see. Uh, I don't see man for going
out there signing guys for seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, uh, yeah, he controls, he controls uh uh
uh baseball. He has a firm grip on a lot
of things what's going on in in major League baseball.
So so we'll we'll see what happens. It's gonna be
it's going to be a very interesting uh winter season
for the Mets and the Yankees. We'll see. I would
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love to see the Mets try to get schemes. I
would love the Mets to try to get to reach screwball.
I know, uh, he only has one year left on
his deal. The if he goes to free agency, the
Tigers are not gonna sign him. So we know that
that's not good for major League Baseball. But that's a
whole nother story that we've been talking about for years
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about the lop side in this of who can afford whom,
because if you, if you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Let you, if you let these guys go out of
their markets, it sort of deflates the whole local, you know,
glory of baseball in their town. You know what I mean,
it just it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But again, until they do something about it, you might
as well take advantage of back then the the Yankees
or the Dodgers or the Phillies doing it. So again,
do I like it? No? I don't like it. I
wish they would. I wish they would level a playing
field more.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But oh, and they're saying how a bad a cap
would be. Actually a cap would not be a bad
thing considering what we've seen the Dodgers do where they
now have to pay some guys on installment planes. I mean,
come on, this is that's not Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You're you're right, I mean they're what they are finagling, uh,
the system.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And by the way, can I just say this, everybody
around Johan Tony's facing jail time and no one thinks
that I don't understand this.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It just don't understand it either. But you know, he's
the boy, So I'm not saying that that he's done something.
It's just you're right. It seems everybody around him but
him is getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So it's very odd. But you know he'll go on
and having Ruthian years as always. So that's that's what
it is, all right. If the Giants could go to
and four in a seventeen game eighteen weeks slate, two
and four is still feasible. You go one in five,
that's a problem, but two and four there's still a
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chance of something. Even the seventh seed at this boy.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Louis okay. They the Eagles have had a tough schedule
so far, and but they've been they been inconsistent. I mean,
Barkley well over two thousand yards this last year is
on pace for nine hundred and eight. Something looks wrong
with the Eagles, even though they're four and one. You know,
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they blew a fourteen point ly in the fourth quarter
to the to the Denver Broncos on on Sunday. This
is a very tough spot for the New York Giants.
It really is. They don't have any offensive skilled players
that could I think hurt the Eagles defense. I don't
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see it can they win you. Anything can happen in
the NFL. We know that anything can happen in any
one game. The one thing about Neighbors being injured, not
only because he's a great player, but developing chemistry with
Jackson Dart this year, that's not gonna happen. Slayton's not
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gonna play tonight. They get Tracy back at running back.
They they didn't rush the passer at all three days
ago against New Orleans, which was just the head scratcher.
And they turned the ball on their last five over
on their last five possession.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Was the most disastrous half and actually end of the
first half I've seen in a football game. I mean,
you have a lead that all of a sudden, the
Saints kick a field goal will take the lead, and
they just cannot recover from them. Then you cough it up. Look,
Dart has to know when to slide. I know he's
a rookie, but you can't fumble that ball. You just cannot.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Now, Hey, he's the one thing I like about him.
He's aggressive, and he's confident and that and that will.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
As he can run. The kid can run. I've seen
I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
He's a terrific athlete and the players around him picked
that up. Do I think the Giants have a chance tonight?
Like I said, football, anything can happen, especially in the NFL.
But I wouldn't. I wouldn't depend on I wouldn't count
on it tonight. It's a tough spot for the Giants tonight.
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Let's leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's always a tough spot. I mean, they just yeah,
they also find ways to lose. I'll put it that way.
It's at that point where I feel like they're getting
it's they're just training ways to lose. Also, I also
feel like I'm running out of octobers, like we need
the win some stuff here. I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's just getting it's getting laid out here early.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
It certainly is, that's for sure. And you know the
Jets are rowing five and they're going nowhere, and the
Giants might be one in five.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
If let's just say, I'm getting too old for this ship, Louis, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What do you think I am? I'm ancient.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I mean that is when I was eight years old,
and I'm starting to feel older. That's not get along
here so well?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Now? Not good? My friend one thing. I want to
comment on something that to me is a head scratcher.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Mike Sullivan and the Rangers lost their opening night against
the Banquets.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, well we could talk about that. I mean, that's
only game one of a long season. Yeah, the Rangers
will be fine. I mean I think they'll be Okay.
I have no we gotta give We gotta give Mike
Sullivan more on one game. But I want to talk
about something that, like I said, as a head scratcher
to me. Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon was fined
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one hundred thousand dollars by the Arizona Cardinals for basically
disciplining Amari de Mercado. If you saw the play, he
was way out in front of the Tennessee Titan defense,
got behind the Tennessee Titan defense, and when he got
to the goal line, he dropped the ball. Just dropped
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the ball. He wasn't concentrating and cost it single handedly
costs the Cardinals victory. It would put him up twenty
eight to six if they the conversion in the fourth
quarter and the Tennessee Titans weren't coming back.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Titans, by the way, by the way, Titans were winless
going into this if I'm not mistaken, right.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And they got a couple of the Titans got a
couple of crazy bounces go their way. They hit a
field goal on the last play the game, and they
lose twenty two to twenty one. Gannon went after de Mercado,
got into his face, slapped him on his chest, slapped
him on his shoulder pad and everybody, a lot of
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people are upping arms over it. I mean, I don't
get it. The Arizona my opinion, finding him one hundred
thousand dollars and having apologized to the team that undermines
the coach. I don't think that the Arizona Cardinal roster
now can could take their coach seriously. And it's not
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Jonathan Gannon's. It's the Arizona Cardinals management of fault. Have
we gotten so soft? I mean, Alex I went to
a game in nineteen ninety two. Notre Dame was number one,
Michigan was number two. A Notre Dame lineman and happened
right in front of me. Notre Dame lineman did something wrong.
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I forgot what it was. Kind to the sideline. Lou
Holtz all one hundred and sixty pounds of them, grabs
this two hundred and seventy five pound lineman by the
face mask, shaken them aggressively.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I've I've seen that highlights somewhere over the years.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Okay, so and this is the NFL, this is your job.
And he had to apologize to his team and one
hundred thousand dollars comes out of his pocket. And de Mercado,
who had a good career at TCU, was undrafted. Cardinals
gave him a chance. And I feel sorry that the
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kids screwed up, But that's on the kid. I would
be ticked off myself. You know, there's only seventeen chances
to win games in the NFL. You can't give him away.
And the mccardo is the reason, the main reason why
the Arizona Cardinals gave it away a game on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Actually it was, it was it was actually normal to
see a coach react like that. I mean it was, uh,
it was. It was disgusting. It was disgusting to drop
it on the goal, you know, the goal end like that.
But see it's the gentle parenting that all these coaches
are expected to do now. And I mean you look
at it. Who was it a few years ago? Oh
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wasn't it? Joe Judge? Oh, why are you running your
guys so hard? Are you freaking serious? Why are you
running it?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Like?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And look at look at the Yankees. The reason why
they had to get Aaron Boone in there was because
Joe Girardi was appairently too tough on his teeth, like,
I don't know, it's.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Just it was. It really is head scratching. It's mind boggling, Alex.
So that's my two cents on that and the other
news of the week, which obviously didn't get a lot
of play, especially south of the border. Conor McDavid signed
a two year extent at twelve point five million dollars
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a year, which is low through twenty seven to twenty eight.
Obviously a couple things here. He took the extension because
he wants to give the oil Is enough cap room
to add to the team so they can try to
finally win the Stanley Cup. But the two year extension
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through twenty seven to twenty eight indicates to me that
he's going to be the first twenty million dollar player
in the league because the cap is going to go
up significantly over next two three years. So he's either
going to sign a seven year deal with the Edmonton
at the end of the twenty seven to twenty eight
season when he's thirty one years old so he'll still
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be in his prime, or I don't. I don't think
this is gonna happen. He's gonna go elsewhere. But I
think the reason he signed a two year deal too
prong keep cap room so we can improve the team now.
And you know, I'll well, I'll sign you know, we'll
sign that seven year, twenty twenty one million dollar deal
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in you know, when this twenty seven to twenty eight
season contract is over. So that's all I got. That's
all I got for you right now, Alex.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I know it like you should come to me to
America and it would have been turn of GRETX. Yes,
but you know what, he loves Edmonton and I think
he wants to win. And by the way, what if
we happen to say for a third time, Hey, he's
gotten to the Stanley Cup. This could be his thirty
year in a row. I'll have to see if that happens.
But you know, that extension was weighing on people's minds
even before the season ended last year. So it's it is.
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It makes sense for him to resign with the Edmond Teilers.
It just wouldn't feel right if he went else elsewhere.
You know, it would not.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Dry side Leon dry stylis teammate, his great superstar teammate
is making fourteen million dollars a year. So I mean,
so I'm sure they I'm sure this negotiation with the Oilers.
I would be shocked that he doesn't if he doesn't
sign that twenty million dollar, twenty one million dollar deal
when the cap goes up in a couple of years
and his contract runs out at the end of twenty
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seven to twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
So there are no early impressions about the NHL right now.
We're literally fresh start. But everybody's making a big deal
about the first lost of the year for the Rangers,
and I just say, let's calm down. But I do
want to remind people, now you go from a World
Series chase to a Cup chase, not just one. You've
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got two cup chases at the Garden, the NBA Cup
that you know they have mid season, and then you
got I forget what they actually call it, and they
got the Stanley Cup and the Larry O'Brian, So now
you had two cup chase to look after at the Garden.
The Rangers, though with Mike Sullivan, should be in good hands.
I wouldn't freak out over one loss the first night
of the season. I just I would not.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Everybody is overreacting, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Entrepreneur, you know, entrepreneur in and Miller is not a
good way to start the year, that's true.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
And I know that he's he's going to play in Buffalo,
so that's a good thing that he's not uh injured
where he's not gonna you know, he's not going to
uh play. I'm looking forward to seeing how the Island
is going to handle Matthew Matthew Schaeffer. I mean, how
they if they can limit their minutes and see how
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they're going to use them. Obviously he's gonna be on
the third pairing and he's he's going to start with
Scott Mayfield, which it's good. He's a veteran and uh,
I just hope these other teams don't run the kid
and and try to rough them up. So so he
would be interesting look at and the Devil's obviously this
is the Devil's year to take the big leap as
we've talked about, and we'll get more into the hockey
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to three individual teams the league in general, as you know,
as we go go forward. But obviously tonight was we
want to recap the Yankee playoff situation and uh, and
that's all I got for you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I know there's not much to unpack until the World
Series downe then all free agency stuff and all that,
and of course the MVP debate's going to heat up
because everybody's on this coast thinking Aaron Judgers and the
Yankee dumb. I still say cal Rally's gonna get the MVP.
There's no doubt about it. You gotta give it to
cal I mean it, just he's the no brainer here
(36:31):
with that. And I'm rooting for him because actually I
got to talk talk to him last year the Mob Store,
and I'm ever since I met him. He just had
this record year, so I'm hoping he uh he might
bring a ring in the Seattle. That would be kind
of interesting if that happened. So if you're asking me
who I'm rooting for now, I'm definitely rooting for the Mariners,
just because it seems like it could be their time.
So we'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It could be their time. You got you got that right, ther.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
One last piece of history this year this week was
October eighth, nineteen fifty six.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Remember it well, I was only three years old, but
I know what happened that day. Unless you're gonna tell
me something else happened that day.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Nope, nope, the perfect game, and I of course, and
of course I've talked to Bob Wolf about it, because
he called the perfect game. He did Beryl leaping in
the arms of Larsen, and the rest is history. I mean,
I think that's why Yankee fans today are so sad,
because they have this rich history and yet look at
what they're doing. It just it doesn't make sense. How
(37:33):
then years later that, my dear.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Friend, you're sounding like a jaded Yankee fan. The Yankees
had a great season. The Yankees are always in the playoffs.
I mean, you can ask the other twenty nine major
league teams and they would all say, yeah, we'll switch
with you. I mean, no Yankee fan. Yeah, you're to
be disappointed. I get it. I understand you want to
(37:58):
winever the post.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
He's expected to go this way, although beating Boston was
a very big bonus to me.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But Boston, and they should have beaten Boston. This was
not a big Boston team. I mean, that lineup was
full of holes. They should if they didn't be Boston,
who knows, maybe Boone would have gone fired. But yeah, yeah, no,
you should be happy they won ninety four games. They
(38:26):
beat all the crummy teams. I wish the Mets had
beaten some of those crummy teams that they didn't. The
Mets swept the Phillies. The Mets beat the Dodgers far
out of seven, but they lose those two home games
to the Nationals. They had won those two games, they
would have been in the playoffs, not that they were
going to do anything. So you should be a Ante fan. Yes,
(38:47):
you should be disappointed that they've had another playoff bump
in the road, but overall you should be You should
be happy they have the best players.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
More, I'm more still bummed out that the regular season
was not what it should have been. That's kind of
where my my thing is because I could see the
postseason against the Jays coming from a mile away. Because
the Jays just they have the bats, they have the
they have the offense. I don't know if they have
the arms per se, right, but they have they have
the offense that can make up for everything. So and
(39:17):
you got to get.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
The chase a lot of the credit. They last year
they finished fifth, they were last.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
And one more thing because people, not people, but some
might have reacted. I wish in that first game with
the bases loaded for Vlad or that second game, I
guess you walcomem you know what he did the night before.
You intentionally walk them every time up after that because
that Grand Slam was evident and if they don't, it's
(39:44):
eight to six or eight five or whatever. And and
the Aks have a chance, but they they pitched them,
and they decided to pitch them, and I think that
was a mistake all series long.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, look what Schneider did last night. He walked Judge
with nobody on base.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
That was that was why, I mean nobody on base.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
The greatness of Aaron Judge and Aaron. And he changes
the opponent's game plan. That's the ultimate sign of greatness.
Changes how you how you plan uh to play against
the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
So I can't pin it on him that they lost. Serious,
I can't even pin it on Remember I was saying
Jazz is double play botch was No, this series was
was long.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
They had two hits the after seventy and things last night.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Was long behind that before that double play botch up.
I actually think Jazz is a good player for the Yankees.
I really think he he has his energy. He yet
same to it with BOLTI when he's good, when he
is healthy, he's a good energy for this team. It's
just he's not been healthy. And again we've talked about it.
Rizzio last year with a concussion. They didn't tell us
(40:57):
our twenty twenty three. They didn't tell us. Then it
tells about Volpi till September. It's very odd to me,
but I knew he was bothering because were at that
game where he made the awkward dive. Would you probably
saw lou and that changed the whole season for him.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
And the guy still drove him on seventy five runs.
What the nineteen twenty home runs and the kid's only
twenty three years old. But again, if the Yankees have
a chance to sign Bolbaschett and this I haven't heard
this anyway, This is just me. That's an upgrade Bulbachett's
an upgrade from Volpi.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
One last thing on this whole thing. He keep Ben Rice.
I really like the kid. I don't think you should
trade him. I think you gotta keep him as your
everyday player. I like his I like the way he
hits the homers. I like the way he's just in
that lineup and can mesh well his little hiccups was that?
I think it was. He was a little nervous this postseason.
I have to say, I think it was a little
(41:51):
maybe a little nervous or something. I don't know, but
I mean he's.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
The left hand hitting, power hitter playing the antie stadium.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I keep them people.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
You can't. You can't trade everybody, and I don't see
why they would have to trade a trade rise on
that again, unless somebody throws them a deal they can't refuse.
All right.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
I want to do a little news here because we've
seen the hostage crisis back in seventy two and the
way you talked about it before. I want you to
just give us this historical context since we saw a
different circument. We saw it in Munich and you you
were really impacted by that. So take us down history
that this is not the first time we've had a
hostage crisis here, and of course the deal is very interesting.
(42:38):
But give us some historical perspective, because this has been
a problem for many, many decades. And you told it
perfectly the last time I asked you about it.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Well, the Summer Olympics in nineteen seventy were later than
Summer Olympics. It wasn't in July like I think the
twenty eighth Summer Olympics is going to be. I think
I to mean July. This was in September. And obviously
(43:07):
the terrorist group Black September, I believe they were called
Rush the Israeli compound on at the Olympic Village. It's
almost hard to believe now that security was that lax.
Now of course that that was, you know, fifty five
(43:28):
years ago, fifty six years ago, and they were able
to get in to the Israeli complex at the Olympic Village,
held them for twenty four hours and some died. Of
the one of them died immediately, was shot immediately, if
(43:48):
I remember correctly. And they wanted obviously a prisoner exchange,
and they wanted a plane out of out of Munich.
And long story short. At about three o'clock in the
warning New York time, they the German authorities, rushed the plane.
(44:12):
There was they were shooting. The entire Israeli Olympic team was.
And it wasn't a large number of of players on
their team. They were. They were all there were as
as a great. Jim McKay, who took over that night
becoming a newsman not a sportscaster, famously said they were
all gone. And they did get the terrorists. But it
(44:37):
was a sad day for sports, sad day for the world.
The I think the Olympics were only postponed for one day.
There was some calls to postpone the Olympics for good,
to cantal the rest the Olympics, but Avery Brundage, the
president of the Olympic Committee, who wasn't the best guy
(45:00):
in the world, decided to keep the games going. Uh
he was. He had been involved with the Olympics for
many many years. He wasn't uh he was. He was
probably anti Semitic, and he continued with the games. Two
(45:20):
days later, Mark Spitz, the the American Jewish great swimmer,
had finished winning his his competition. They quickly got him
out of Germany and got him back to the United States.
I do remember that, but it was said, I mean
it's it, you know, politics missing mixing with sports, and
you know with this this hostage crisis hopefully ending this
(45:44):
week and they're going to release the remaining hostages out alive.
Just Alex again, just think, just think these poor people
they have been they have been in captivity for two
years in those tunnels. They were eating their breadth as
to when they were uh well, when they were captured
that two years ago on October seventh. It's mind boggling. It.
(46:10):
I just don't know how, well, how people could be
so evil. It's that's that's my two cents on it.
It's just and it seems like it seems like you
can go back fifty years, evil is around. They'll always
be evil around, but it seems more evil.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Than ever it's and and that's why sports escapes us
from that evil. I remember twenty four years ago how
much that World Series meant to New York, even if
the Anks loss it. My god, it helped us escape
from the horrors and the and sort of built us
back up a little bit from a month earlier. And
(46:54):
we need that momentarycoverment. We haven't had that bounce back
feeling of like unity as in October seventh. We need that,
we really, we really do correct. So that's why we
talk about sports. You get people's mind off of it
because we we could talk about what's on our television
screens all day long er, we could just delve into,
you know, the lighter side. And yeah, the angs losing
(47:16):
is tough as ever, but then again, uh, it is
a lighter side compared to the everything else going on
in the world. In fact, it's a minor inconvenience compared
to what everything else going on in the world.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
And think about it, it's a minory convenience. You yeah,
hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
But we we care about it. That's why we talked
sports on this show as well.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Absolutely, that's why we we talked sports. And I love
talking about it. And you know, as I told you many,
I knew early in my early teens that I wasn't
going to be an athlete, so I had to get
in the business somehow, So I'm glad. I have no regrets.
So that's why I love talking about it, and I
love that I was in it for all those years.
(47:55):
So uh, you know, like you said, it gives us
our escape from from reality and from the stress of
the world. That's for sure.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Yes it does, all right, Well, we can only hope
that tonight the Giants are going to distress us a
bit by winning, and the Rangers are on right now
as we speak, So let's go focus on that and
we'll talk to you next week. Blue on Terminillo's take.
Thank you, Alex,
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