May 12, 2025 • 34 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Mariners getting swept by the Blue Jays last weekend, then talk to Yankees Manager Aaron Boone about growing up with Bret, leading New York, his squad and facing the M’s, then have Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where you gotta take Aaron Boone when you can get it.
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well I asked for Aaron Judge, but they gave us
Aaron Boone instead. So I actually texted Brett this morning
and I said, look, quitter, you want to do us
a favor. He said, sure, what I said, get me
Aaron today on the show. So he says, no problem,
I'll text him, I'll call him whatever. He writes back.
Aaron does at about eleven o'clock and says that you're
ready now.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I was like, okay, I'm ready now. It's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You had a kid at your house, exactly, a kid
or a kid A kit A kit?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have a kid. Yeah, you have a kid. That
is radio jargon for radio equipment. By the way, is
a kid not a sounder uniform?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
By the way, that's not what Dick is talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So had a chance to catch you up with Aaron
Boone Yankee manager.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll give that to you next segment.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
His thoughts on obviously growing up with Brett, you know,
as brothers playing for George Steinbrenner back in the day.
Remember he had that game winning home run in the
ALCS that put the Yankees in the World Series back
in two thousand and three. That was his only year
as a Yankee, by the way, and he made a
pretty damn big impression enough to get hire as a
skipper a few years later. So he's been there now
for seven years, went to the World Series last year,
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and now he's in town with the Yankees obviously today
taking on the Mariners, who need to get their act
turned around. Man, they got they got smacked in the
face by I got beat a pretty good by the
Blue Jays over the weekend. And the concern, obviously, if
there is a concern, Look, you're the record's great, fine, Okay,
no problem whatever. Nobody's gonna turn down what the Mariners
have done so far. I think we all understand that.
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But when Bryce Miller starts complaining about fatigue in the
fourth or fifth inning, that's concerning. And this is look,
I hate to be the guy that keeps telling you
what we reminded you of a year ago, but this
was the biggest fear that all of us had, is
that how when the hell dick, are we gonna be
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able to get through another season like we did last year?
Right with every starting picture for the most part healthy.
Brian Wu missed a little small period of time. I
think Miller may have been dinged up a little bit,
but for the most part.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Right they was. Wu was pretty much the only one
that missed extents.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They were damn good health wise last year, and then
we go into this season and we're like, are we
really relying on this to happen again?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, guess what, it ain't happening again. It's not even Memorial.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Day and three of the five guys have either a
been on the injured list or be complained about something.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, and I figured it would be one at a time.
I didn't figure it would be all at the same time.
And the fact of the matter that they're still twenty
two and seventeen with all this going on is absolutely amazing,
because it probably would have been better off to have
Bryce Miller not pitch this year thus far, right, I
mean his zras over five, So you'd have been better
off finding anybody to pitch in his stead and getting
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his arm right. Now, maybe he's in that weird window
of yeah, I feel good enough to pitch, but I
don't feel good enough to dominate, And that's kind of
a weird.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know, because you want to be tough.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You want to tough it out, right, and if there's
nothing physically you know wrong that would you know, exacerbate
an injury, then you want to tough it out and
go out there.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But not if it's helping the team.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Man, he was putting balls right smack in the middle
of the dish yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Look, I appreciate the guy fighting through whatever he's doing.
I mean, he's tough as hell. No one's going to
debate that that he's not tough. I mean it would
never call him soft at all. He's a he's a bulldog,
that guy. I mean, good for him. I love the
fact that we have that guy on our team. But
last year, I remember doing the whole exercise. Well, if
you take out the worst three or four starts for
Bryce Miller as he right is two points, love that
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well because it really shows you consistently what a guy
is all about. Right, Like what you called me, cough
up a hairball stats that's exactly four of every five starts.
Last year, Bryce Miller was actually sensational, and to be
honest with you, his year was really about three terrible starts.
I mean he had fifty nine earned runs in one
hundred and eighty innings last year, and eighteen of the
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fifty nine came in three games. Eighteen I mean third, right,
So I mean that is unbelievable, right, Just the guy
was every now and then every week, you know, month
and a half or whatever, he's gonna go out there
and just crap him self and just go home limping.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's gonna be messy, get at that seats, it's all
gonna come out.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But then he's gonna bounce back and he's gonna be
freaking nails for the next five weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So that's where we had a year ago.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
But I mean Dick for example, last year, the guy
had seven starts last season where he allowed four runs
or more. He's already done that four times in the
first five weeks of two thousand and twenty five. He's
got a five point two ERA. He's got four of
eight starts where he's allowed four runs or more already.
So something's going on with him. Hopefully he'll be able
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to figure out anders thinks they're gonna skip his next start,
which they very well might do. I mean, if he
needs to get shut down for a week, then shut
him down. For a week right whatever I mean. This
is why again, despite the fact that Luis Castillo the
og not the knockoff, by the way, the guy that's
still here, despite the fact that he's kind of getting
up there in age a little bit, they still need him, right,
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They still need depth in their starting rotation. So this
is another example of why I'm happy they didn't trade
him the other guy in Look. I mean, Julio a
couple hits over the weekend, but look, guys, I gotta
tell you something. Man, I'm getting so freaking sick and
tired of going online with w or WRC times four
plus exit velocity minus at backs in the rain plus
the ballpark factor.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He's been pretty good. How about his bad?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Here's what I need Julio Rodrigez to do. I need
Julio Rodrigez to be a threat at the plate. I
need Julio Rodriguez to be a threat on the base pass.
I need Julio Rodriguez to be a guy that opposing
manager's game plan around. And I don't think that's happening.
He's hitting two oh seven with a six fifty five
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OPS at home this year. Julio Rodriguez isn't getting paid
to not crack the top thirty five in OPS in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's gotta stop.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So hey, the singles are fine, Okay, great, get on base, fine, whatever,
But my god, dude, I mean, the guy had an
eight ninety nine OPS at home his rookie year and
now he's at six fifty five. He's on pace for
eight home runs in thirty nine RBIs with only twelve
stolen bases so far.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's his pace for eighty one games at home.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So look, you hate to pick on the guy, but
come on, it's year four ready, Like, let's go. I'm
getting kind of tired of going on the air every
week and asking when is Julio's engine gonna get going?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And yet he's significantly better than he was, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Correct, So it's like he's got his highest OPS ever
after thirty nine games.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So it's still not good enough. I mean good enough.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
If he can improve from this day forward to the
middle of the season as much as he normally improves
from May twelfth to August twelfth, then he's gonna be
a monster come summertime.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But he needs to do that what you just said, Yes,
he needs to he can't just stay this way.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Let's hope we haven't seen the bulk of his improvement already.
But you're exactly right. The dude obviously doesn't like to
hit when it's cold out. I mean we have enough
sample size to know that when the temperature rises, Julio rises,
and that's just probably the way it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Who knows, maybe his whole career.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, look, I mean, like I said, his OPS is
as high as it's been after thirty nine games, but
that is still not good enough. I mean, that's not
where you need this guy to be. And you know,
a seven eleven ops is that where he's at right now?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Seven eleven?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Love?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What is that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
God, dude, so good. But if somebody could invent a
Coke zero slurpy, I would love that. I have no
idea why they can't do that. I said, he's not
in the top thirty five in ops in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I apologize I was way off on that number.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's one hundred and eighth in ops in baseball. That's
not good enough. No, not good enough for your star player,
not good enough for guy that's got the biggest contract
guarantee ever.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
In team history.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Not good enough for a guy that after four months
of baseball you saw enough to lock him into a
huge deal. Now, obviously he's not gonna get paid the
big money if he doesn't performed.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But for Julio Rodriguez to be sitting here with the
one hundred and eighth best ops in baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I mean that is just god darn it. Man.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Come on, all right, we've got to break Aaron Boone,
skipper the Yankees, brother of Brett's, son of Bob. We're
gonna hear from him next on ninety three three KJRFM.
I got a text message this morning from Aaron Boone
at about eleven am, who basically told me that his
brother instructed him to call me and wondering if I
could do the interview right now. And I said, sure,
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you're the skipper of the Yankees, why don't you give
me two minutes and I'll go into my home office
and get my big fancy schmancy radio equipment going and
we can diact it up and have a nice conversation.
So Yankees Mariners this week three games starting tonight, Emerson
Hancock is on the mound.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Had a chance to catch up with.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yankee manager Aaron Boone, brother of Brett, before tonight's Game
one against the MS.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Good to be up here in the Northwest, beautiful day.
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, we appreciate you doing this, man. And first of all,
I got to ask you about what was life like
growing up in a baseball family? What was life like
growing up with Brett is your brother. We've gotten to
know him obviously as a Mariner and was doing a
radio show with us up until about a week ago
when he quit to go join the Rangers as they're
hitting coach. But we all know Brett is a real
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outspoken guy, right. You got to give us some some thoughts,
some idea of what it was like in your house
growing up with Brett as a brother.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Man.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, he was. He was actually a great older brother.
He's four years older than me. And when I was
a little kid, and I kind of give some of
the credit to him for my athletic development because when
I was, you know, five, six, seven years old, eight
years old, running around like, he used to take me
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with them a lot and with and so I had
to kind of keep up if I wanted to hang
I had to be able to roll with the bigger kids.
Like so whatever it was, whether we were playing basketball,
football on the street, dunk ball with fulltball, whatever it
was like, you know, I was playing with kids, you know,
four years older than me a lot in just our
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little neighborhood games. And I had to keep up with that,
and he always drug me around. You know, one thing
we used to do when we were when we were
little too is we used to box wow and I
would wear the head gear and he would and he
would he wouldn't wear head gear. So one time I
got him pretty good. I'm probably you know, I'm probably
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seven eight years old, so he's you know, eleven, twelve
year old. I catch him with a good one and
kind of sting him and get him mad, and he
put it on me and I went. I started crying,
and I was about to, you know, go. He's like,
don't let mom hear you cry. We'll get in trouble.
And later on I was thinking, we'll get in trouble.
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You just beat up your little brother.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, that's funny you mentioned that, because I've always wondered
what happened to Brett's face, and now we know you
smashed it in when he was, you.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Know, thirteen fourteen years old.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But Aaron Boone's with us, and Aaron, you know, you
and I are about the same age. You're born a
few months before I was in seventy three, so, you know,
almost fifty two years old. And I could never imagine
being mature enough or composed enough with myself to deal
with the New York Press Corps, Yankee fans, being the
manager of the Yankees. What goes into all of that
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for you? That makes this job unique and sometimes difficult?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, I mean there's you know, that's definitely one of
the challenges navigating that you know of, you know, but
I would have it no other way, you know, I
love it. Like there's one of the great things about
being with the Yankees is that, obviously expectations are always
really high. It's you know, a demanding you know, fan
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base and media. But I would say, no matter what,
like it always matters every single day. You know. Jason Zilla,
our PR director, and I kind of joke every now
and then, you know, we play one hundred sixty two
one game seasons and you feel that weight, But I
think it's mostly in a good way. You know, it
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makes you makes you helps drive you, makes you accountable,
and you know there's obviously moments when it's you know,
can be difficult or it's a pain in certain areas,
but overall like having that level of care from people
is you know how I would want it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, you think about that great home run that you
hit as a Yankee. You know, god, it was twenty
two years ago, now, unbelievable in two thousand and three
to send the Yankees to the World Series, and George
Steinbrenner was around for that, you know, right, did didn't
pass on until twenty ten. So so you're working with
the Steinbrenner family, but you're not working directly for George.
What do you remember about your relationship with George as
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a player, and what is your relationship like with the
family now?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, So I came over in two thousand and three.
That year, I came over at the trading deadline and
our first home series, I was staying staying in the
same hotel as as mister Steinberger stayed in when he
when he was in New York. And first our first
night home game, you know, when we came off the road,
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I was actually downstairs with Reggie Jackson, who I knew
very well since I was a kid. And we're we
got a bike, eating a drink after the game, and
we were going up on the elevator to to my
room to go to bed, and George gets on and
it's my first time, and Reggie said, hey, George, I
want to introduce you to our new player, Aaron Boone.
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We just got him for the reds BA BA and uh,
I can hear it in my head, it's like the
Seinfeld character. It was nice to meet you, Nice to
have you on the club. You know. He's very very
straightforward and very direct and very nice. And then the
only other time I came in contact with him was
that the night after we beat the Red Sox in
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the game seven, and my wife and I had gone
back to the hotel. We're we're getting ready to walk
back out and and go meet the team. We're having
a gathering after the game and we're walking through the
out lobby and mister Steinberger was coming in. He just
saw me and he said, happy for your son.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Those are my two interactions as as for now with
the family. Yeah, great. I mean my relationship with with
Hal is excellent. He is he's a great owner. He's
he's invested, he cares. He he's usually up in New York.
I would say he's in New York for about half
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the home games. They live in Tampa, but comes to
my office and to to just get a lay of
the land and hear about the team, and he's he's
just a really good, good person, and I've developed a
really good relationship with him and really the entire family.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, Aaron Boone is with us again, brother of Brett
Skipper of the Yankees, in town to take on the
Mariners for three starting tonight, and Brett, you know, I mean, obviously,
great players will make your job a lot easier. And
you've got maybe the best in the world right in
your dugout. And Aaron Judge, who was just on a
tear right now, hitting over four hundred, slugging over almost
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eight hundred ops over twelve We don't know, though, I
don't know a lot about the kind of guy he is.
I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. Can you talk
a little bit about what kind of leader, what kind
of clubhouse presidence, what kind of player Aaron Judges to manage.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
For you every day?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
The best, He's such a great person, he's such a
great leader, he's such a great teammate. You know, everything
I think people imagine about him, it's true. He's just
his teammates love him, whether you are another star player
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or you're coming up from the minor leagues for the
first time. He's very accessible, relatable, and he's just he's
really good at the grind, like he's never too high,
never too low, handles it all so well. And and
but he's a killer competitor like most great players are too.
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So he is he's all about team and all about
you know, being the leader of this team, and he
takes that role very serious. But he's also a killer
between the lines obviously, And I've been so fortunate to
have him my entire time. Here is really the face
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of our team.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, well, Aaron Boone's with us for a few more
minutes here on the radio show. And Aaron, I'm just
curious because you mentioned this at the top, that you
would not want to have it any other way, right,
as far as the expectations go, and the expectation is
to get twenty eight right, to be in the World
Series every year and to win it almost every year.
I mean, I would think the expectations for Yankee fans
are as high as they are for any fan base
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in sports.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So finish this sentence for me.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The Yankees will will repeat as American League champions, get
to the World Series and win it this year. If
blank fill in that sentence for me.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I think if first and foremost we put together the start,
which is the one hundred and sixty two game season,
you've got to have a level. You're gonna have ups
and downs, You're gonna have stretches where it's difficult, but
on balance, you've got to put together a really strong
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season to put yourself in the mix in October. So
whether that's winning the division, getting in another way, you
got to get to October and then and then it's
about everything kind of coming together at that point. You know.
Last year, obviously we get to the World Series and
then how we wanted. But we want to put ourselves
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in a position, hopefully, you know, from a health standpoint,
to be able to make another long run at it
and ultimately hoist that trophy. But I also look at
it as that's so far away. We got so many
things and boxes to check and right a long way
to go. We want to get there of course, and
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then you start talking about it, but that's months away.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, who's this Who's this Ben Rice kid that I
keep reading about from three thousand miles away because every
time I type in Yankees and and google this name,
Ben Rice keeps popping up this young phenom. So tell
us about this kid and how much of him? Will
we see you this week?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, you'll see him this week. He's dhing tonight, the
first game he can really hit. He hits the ball
really hard, he controls the strike zone really well. He's
also a catcher. He's our third catcher right now, but
that's not because he's not a good catcher, Like he
can really really catch. It's just not the role for
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him right now on this team. That could evolve as
we go, because obviously we have Austin Wells, who's one
of our excellent young catcher and then j c Ascara
backing him up. But Rice's Rice can really catch as well.
But he is. He hits the ball incredibly hard and
really controls the strike zone. And that's a pretty good
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tandem to have as a hitter.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, no doubt, Aaron, Any thoughts on this Mariner team,
This upstart Mariner team that a lot of people are
surprised at their twenty two and seventeen start. Their offense
up until the weekend against Toronto was out a tear
for the first month or so of the season. But
what do you see from this Mariner baseball clubs you'll
see starting tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, I mean, I think we've seen a good Mariner
team now for the last few years that's had their
share of expectations and I think even safe to say
going into this year similar expectations that they expect to
be a playoff team and be right in the mix
in the American League West. I think the surprising part
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of it, maybe to some is that they're doing it
in a different way. I think everyone expected it to
be on the strength of their starting pitching, which has
been so great over the last few years. But like
you said, it's been the offense that's really carried unto
this hot start. And you know, so we know we'll
have our hands full, not only with a couple of
great pitchers that we're going to see this weekend, but
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but an offense that's been one of the game's best
to start the year.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
No doubt, and final thought for you Aaron Boone, manager
of the Yankees, before you go. Your brother is now
the hitting coach of the Rangers. As we said, I
was a little bit surprised when he took the gig.
I told him, you're not going to be playing much
golf for the next five months for trying out loud.
So now he's the hitting coach of the Texas Rangers.
But did you have any advice for your big brother
when he took that gig?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Not really. I'm excited for him. It's the time in
his life when I think he's ready to go do that.
And and uh, I think he'll have a great opportunity
to impact a lot of young young men and obviously
a talented group that they have over there in Texas
that you know, offensively got off to a little bit
of a start. But I think it's a great opportunity
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to impact some good, good young players.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Hey, Aaron Boone, great stuff, Thanks for doing this. Uh,
and we will talk down the road. Man, appreciate this
and uh, and best of luck. Best of luck starting
Thursday when you leave Seattle. How's that sound?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I appreciate actually, best of luck. Never how's that sound?
You're the manager of the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They should have said, Aaron, thanks for doing this, but
best of luck.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Never you remember how hate Heble, Joe Tory, and Don
Zimmery Yankees were. I mean they were just hateable. You
look at them, those two sitting together and the dugout.
It was like Darth Vader and and the Emperor. And
it's it's harder for me to hate an Aaron Boone
led Yankee team than it was for me to hate
those teams twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I just don't have the hatred I did growing up
because I went to a lot of Yankee games growing up.
Number one and number two. The Mariners actually, at one
point in time used to have a little bit of
a rival with them because it felt like they saw him.
I mean, you saw him in ninety five, you saw
him in two thousand, you saw him in two thousand
and one, three of eight years or whatever. You saw
him in the postseason, and that's when rivalries are born,
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right in the playoffs. I mean, the Niner Seahawk rivalry
was big, but it was on steroids when they met
for the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I think, and I think you said this out the year.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
If you took Jackson Brett Boone's voice and put it
in a slocomotive, it sounded like him enough, it sounds
just like Aaron Boone. So I mean, I'm curious to
see how Dan Wilson handles Aaron Judge tonight. Aaron Judge
is the runaway MVP in the American League and it's
not even close.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean, it's just like, give the guy the trophy
right now, be done with. He's like Polanco in the dust.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, Polanco's not playing some way. That's another topic for
later on. But Aaron Judge is hitting three oh four
with an eleven ninety five ops, ten home runs and
twenty four RBIs in twenty two games at t Mobile
Park against the Mariners. He actually does better here against
them that he does there against them.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So you can hit it Tea Mobile Park. You can.
If you're Aaron Jellis, You're six ft seven and nineteen.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So that's all we need to hit a Tea Mobile
is to get seven or eight Aaron Judges on our team.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I say this all the time that like I look
at Aaron Judge on TV and I think you really
have to almost watch TV to get a feel for
how big he is. You see him at the plate,
and I don't know if you guys feel the same
way I do. First of all, he's the same size
as Jimmy Graham. He's six seven to eighty. He's Jimmy
Graham in a baseball uniform. And then, second of all,
when you watch him at home plate compared to the
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catcher and the umpire, does it look like he's been
super imposed.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
On TV's It does.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And you know, you know when it's emphasized when they're
playing the Blue Jays and Kirk is catching, that's right,
because it makes it it's Gulliver and the Liliputian. It's unbelievable,
Like Kirk comes up to his waist.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It is amazing how free big this guy is.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He I went to one game a couple of years
ago pregame and he walked right by me behind home plate,
and I could not freaking believe what a mammoth individual
he is. You know, he's already thirty three too, He's
not He's not young anymore. He's always thirty three years old.
He's stilled out what three four more prime years? Probably, yeah,
maybe maybe a few more thirty three feels like the
new thirty.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know. All right, we're gonna break.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Thanks to Aaron Boone, manager of the Yankees, for joining
us a little fun with audio and then a little
Hugh A little more at four with Hugh coming up
on ninety three three kJ RFM.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's now time for Someday in Dick's one with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I boys and girls, here we go from the Apero
Quig and see no sports, but coming down here and
watching wager hopefully win on the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Uh, we've got a little parley going on the night
with Boston Minnesota. I like it, you like that? I
like so good about that? Okay, big thanks to Denver
for coming through in game three for US. Yep, uh, no,
thanks to Denver for not coming through in Game four
for US. By the way, but they did cover. They
lost by five. It was five and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, and then Denver thunder series. I'm not worried about
the cover. I'm worried about the dub.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I'm just worried about Oklahoma City winning a title. That's
what I'm worried about.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
All Right, here we go a little fun with audio
slash hated you hear that on a Monday night from
the emeral Qui Casino Sportsbook.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Hey Nick, did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
We start, by the way, with our old friend Dave Simms.
Welcome to New York City pal boy. This morning on
WFA and Radio in New York. Boomer asiasin reacting to
New Yankee play by play voice Dave Simms taking a
series off last week against the A's.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
He used to work in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He didn't do these games this weekend, but I would
think he would back with Susan.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
He was visiting with.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Family in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's what somebody told me on x so they must
to talk about a broadcast, so that get out.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
There a couple of days early.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
He's from New York.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Oh, he's got some family out there.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
But he was in Seattle for what fifteen years?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right? So I mean Don Stirling didn't miss any games.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Did he?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
He did not miss many games at the end. He
missed a couple. Well, if he did because he was
sick or something.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Sorry, I love Dave Simms, but you know, unless there's
something major going on that I don't know about, then
I'll then I'll gladly retract the criticism.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Otherwise, get your ask in the book.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yip, what are you doing? You just took the hanky
jobs supposed to be the job of your life.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I love Dave, I told you, but you know.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Welcome to New York buddy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Hey, by the way, Well, first of all, I don't
know what he had written into his contract with him.
Don't you think it was discussed ahead of time. I'm
sure it was in his contract. And he gets to
take a certain couple series off here and there. I mean,
let's be honest, Dave. He's also one hundred and ten
years old, right, he can't go like he did fifteen
twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The old man needs a.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Couple of you know, a couple of the cat naps
every now and then. But this is the kind of
stuff they talk about in New York City. Can you
ever imagine Dave Simms or Aaron Goldsmith or Rick riz
or Angie or Ryan Roland Smith and you.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Were like, where the hell's menting? This is ridiculous? She
just got the job and she's off already. What the
hell is she doing? This is supposed to be her
dream gig. Get to work, lady. Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
This is the era of load management, so load management
for broadcasters as well.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's right, And you gotta develop your depth, dude.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Right, maybe Boomer needs a new agent so he can
get some time off too, for God's sakes. But I
think that was kind of Dave Simms's first Welcome to
New York moment with Boomer Issias and ripping his ass
for this is the A series. He's in town now
with the Yankees. And by the way, Jeff Nelson's here too.
No'll join us tomorrow from Jimmy's at to three thirty.
All right, hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
What's that? Ditch?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
On Saturday, the Astros and starting pitcher Lance mccullors allowed
ten runs in the first hitting of what ended up
being a thirteen nine loss to the Ruts. After the game,
Houston manager Joe Espata responded to death threats towards mccullors
and his family.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I'm gonna start you saying something is very unfortunate that
Lance mccullors that they are people who are threatening his
life and the life.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Of his kids.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
It's because of he's performance. Is it's very unfortunate that
we have to deal with this, after all he's done
for the city, for the team. The fact that we
have to talk about that in my office, I got
kiss too, and I'm it really drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That we have to deal with this.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Very sad, very very sad.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Did Mitch Garver come out last year and say he
was getting death threats?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yes, when he was here.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So do you guys think that this is happening more
or less than it used to?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And if it is happening more, is because of the
legalization and widespread use of sports gambling that people are
getting pissed.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Oh the second part I think definitely absolutely. Is it
happening more?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I don't know because it's it's illegal, though, Like where
are they doing this? Like if you post a death
threat on social media, it's like you can you can
be found.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Anybody can get an email address. You don't need to
put down anything for an email, right Jackson?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You can build no, well, I mean here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You can build out social media accounts via random emails
in terms of not getting found.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So you are, yeah, exactly, So go to a library
and use an IP address. It's not at your house
or whatever. You can't find out who these people are.
It's just it's terrible. It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, I just wonder how much of it is being
kind of fueled by people getting mad that they're losing money.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Honestly, I mean, it's not gonna help it, right for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I mean, more people gambling and the more people betting
on stuff, the more people are pissed off when they lose.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
This is a guy that's been a part of this
organization for a decade. He's won two titles.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
It sounds like somebody got mad that he lost money
or she got mad that she lost money. All right, hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
What's that? Dick? Let's make sure let's go. We're fine
on time right.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Last night's NBA on TNT postgame show, Charles Barkley went
along with his analysis at the end of the show
and was played off stage as if he was at
the Oscar.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Aaron Gordon has made thisself a really good shoot, but
he probably get another six points a game. I love
from the Joker, but Jayden has a great point. The
one guy has gotta.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Be it's.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Congratulations on your reward.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now get off the stage.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Tuesday, so good, start doing that on this radio stage.
Somebody goes along, we'll start playing the Oscar music. Why
not the hell I think you'll get the music?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Do you guess?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Every time every type of Jacks, every type Jackson and
I talk more than fifteen seconds in a row, you
start getting twitchy over there.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So it's not gonna be us. Give me the music.
I don't give a damn if I start having a
stroke on the air. You know why shock give me
the music? Have it ready?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I mean, it's like it's a great ideas idea somebody.
I mean, people need to follow the clock in this business,
and more often than not, I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
We don't do it.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
We're terrible at it. Whatever, shut the hell up and
play the music. Better to have that to just cutting
somebody off mid sentence. Right, all right, let's get one more.
Uh Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
What's that? Dick news coming out this morning?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That Michael Jordan will be a guest contributor on the
NBA on NBC show starting this fall. After the news broke,
stephen A, reacting to the news on First Take, Michael
Jordan will serve as a special contributor to NBC's upcoming
NBA coverage, The network announced stephen.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
A and what capacity, That's what I want to know, contributor,
A contributor in what regard?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I mean analysis, all right, I just want to know
because you know that's my brother. Yes, I love my brother, Michael,
Michael Jordan's. I just want to know, is it gonna
be the Michael Jordan's you know that that that that
you see on television, or is it gonna be the
Michael Jordan we speak too? Because Michael Jordan we speak too.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh, it's gonna be epic, It's gonna be at pic
love have mercy, Molly.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
But if it's NBC and the little kids out there
are watching, and you know he wants to mind his
manners about every little syllable he utters, eh, He'll be I.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So you remember the uh remember the bull What was
the Bulls documentary that came out during COVID The Last Dance,
Last Dance, right, and there's a scene where Michael Jordan
walks up to Larry Bird underneath the stands after a
game and says.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You bitch, remember that, Yes, I would. I freaking love that,
Like I've watched that one hundred times. I just love that.
And I think that's the kind of guy that stephen
A is talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Is Michael in his sixties. He's in his sixties, right,
Michael Jordan. I was Michael about sixties. Okay, so he's
about ten years older.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now. You would think that Michael.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Jordan, who's sixty two years old by the way, good
good Call, would be at the age of his life where.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm sixty two, I'm Michael Jordan. I'll say whatever the
hell I want to say. Or he really needs to
be us on like Amazon or Peacock.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So I kinda. So he's off cable TV. I'm gonna
disagree with you. And here's why, Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Part of what makes Michael Jordan more popular in more
people's eyes than Lebron James. Yeah, yeah, is because Michael
Jordan keeps to himself and does not offend anybody, and
Lebron James is not afraid to offend anybody, and he
is out there and just tells you what he feels.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Whenever he is in front of a microphone.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well, and I think Michael Jordan might damage his perfect
reputation if he's out there saying what he really feels,
because he's going to offend a percentage of people that
might then swing over to.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
The Lebron camp.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Well, Charles Barkley has made a living off saying whatever
the helly damn Well wants.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And people love him for it. Right, But he's always
been I gotta be honest with you, Dick.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I kind of get the feeling that Michael Jordan's bulletproof
when it comes to his opinions and his take.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think Michael.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Jordan's supporters and the legion of Michael Jordan fans out
there would go on the air and they would tell,
you know, Michael's better off because he keeps his opinions
to himself. And then Michael goes on TV and he
doesn't keep his opinion to himself and people say, well,
he's got to write to his opinion, right.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I think He's got a legion of followers, like some
people doing politics, that will back him no matter what
he wants to do, so I'm hopeful that at the
age of sixty two years old, he's salty enough now,
or he can kind of come out of that shell,
go for it, criticize players, rip their asses.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I mean, I'd love to have him like the NBA,
they deserve it. Go get him, man.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I'm looking forward to it, but I'm kind of with
Steven am curious to see what version we get. All Right,
we got to break here, Mellen a little more at
four with you next on ninety three three kJ arfm
Where you gotta take Aaron Boone when you can get it.
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well I asked for Aaron Judge, but they gave us
Aaron Boone instead. So I actually texted Brett this morning
and I said, look, quitter, you want to do us
a favor. He said, sure, what I said, get me
Aaron today on the show. So he says, no problem,
I'll text him, I'll call him whatever. He writes back.
Aaron does at about eleven o'clock and says that you're
ready now.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I was like, okay, I'm ready now. It's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You had a kid at your house, exactly, a kid
or a kid A kit A kit?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have a kid. Yeah, you have a kid. That
is radio jargon for radio equipment. By the way, is
a kid not a sounder uniform?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
By the way, that's not what Dick is talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So had a chance to catch you up with Aaron
Boone Yankee manager.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll give that to you next segment.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
His thoughts on obviously growing up with Brett, you know,
as brothers playing for George Steinbrenner back in the day.
Remember he had that game winning home run in the
ALCS that put the Yankees in the World Series back
in two thousand and three. That was his only year
as a Yankee, by the way, and he made a
pretty damn big impression enough to get hire as a
skipper a few years later. So he's been there now
for seven years, went to the World Series last year,
(01:03):
and now he's in town with the Yankees obviously today
taking on the Mariners, who need to get their act
turned around. Man, they got they got smacked in the
face by I got beat a pretty good by the
Blue Jays over the weekend. And the concern, obviously, if
there is a concern, Look, you're the record's great, fine, Okay,
no problem whatever. Nobody's gonna turn down what the Mariners
have done so far. I think we all understand that.
(01:25):
But when Bryce Miller starts complaining about fatigue in the
fourth or fifth inning, that's concerning. And this is look,
I hate to be the guy that keeps telling you
what we reminded you of a year ago, but this
was the biggest fear that all of us had, is
that how when the hell dick, are we gonna be
(01:45):
able to get through another season like we did last year?
Right with every starting picture for the most part healthy.
Brian Wu missed a little small period of time. I
think Miller may have been dinged up a little bit,
but for the most part.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Right they was. Wu was pretty much the only one
that missed extents.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They were damn good health wise last year, and then
we go into this season and we're like, are we
really relying on this to happen again?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, guess what, it ain't happening again. It's not even Memorial.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Day and three of the five guys have either a
been on the injured list or be complained about something.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, and I figured it would be one at a time.
I didn't figure it would be all at the same time.
And the fact of the matter that they're still twenty
two and seventeen with all this going on is absolutely amazing,
because it probably would have been better off to have
Bryce Miller not pitch this year thus far, right, I
mean his zras over five, So you'd have been better
off finding anybody to pitch in his stead and getting
(02:37):
his arm right. Now, maybe he's in that weird window
of yeah, I feel good enough to pitch, but I
don't feel good enough to dominate, And that's kind of
a weird.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You know, because you want to be tough.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You want to tough it out, right, and if there's
nothing physically you know wrong that would you know, exacerbate
an injury, then you want to tough it out and
go out there.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But not if it's helping the team.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Man, he was putting balls right smack in the middle
of the dish yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Look, I appreciate the guy fighting through whatever he's doing.
I mean, he's tough as hell. No one's going to
debate that that he's not tough. I mean it would
never call him soft at all. He's a he's a bulldog,
that guy. I mean, good for him. I love the
fact that we have that guy on our team. But
last year, I remember doing the whole exercise. Well, if
you take out the worst three or four starts for
Bryce Miller as he right is two points, love that
(03:25):
well because it really shows you consistently what a guy
is all about. Right, Like what you called me, cough
up a hairball stats that's exactly four of every five starts.
Last year, Bryce Miller was actually sensational, and to be
honest with you, his year was really about three terrible starts.
I mean he had fifty nine earned runs in one
hundred and eighty innings last year, and eighteen of the
(03:47):
fifty nine came in three games. Eighteen I mean third, right,
So I mean that is unbelievable, right, Just the guy
was every now and then every week, you know, month
and a half or whatever, he's gonna go out there
and just crap him self and just go home limping.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's gonna be messy, get at that seats, it's all
gonna come out.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But then he's gonna bounce back and he's gonna be
freaking nails for the next five weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So that's where we had a year ago.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
But I mean Dick for example, last year, the guy
had seven starts last season where he allowed four runs
or more. He's already done that four times in the
first five weeks of two thousand and twenty five. He's
got a five point two ERA. He's got four of
eight starts where he's allowed four runs or more already.
So something's going on with him. Hopefully he'll be able
(04:32):
to figure out anders thinks they're gonna skip his next start,
which they very well might do. I mean, if he
needs to get shut down for a week, then shut
him down. For a week right whatever I mean. This
is why again, despite the fact that Luis Castillo the
og not the knockoff, by the way, the guy that's
still here, despite the fact that he's kind of getting
up there in age a little bit, they still need him, right,
(04:52):
They still need depth in their starting rotation. So this
is another example of why I'm happy they didn't trade
him the other guy in Look. I mean, Julio a
couple hits over the weekend, but look, guys, I gotta
tell you something. Man, I'm getting so freaking sick and
tired of going online with w or WRC times four
plus exit velocity minus at backs in the rain plus
the ballpark factor.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He's been pretty good. How about his bad?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Here's what I need Julio Rodrigez to do. I need
Julio Rodrigez to be a threat at the plate. I
need Julio Rodriguez to be a threat on the base pass.
I need Julio Rodriguez to be a guy that opposing
manager's game plan around. And I don't think that's happening.
He's hitting two oh seven with a six fifty five
(05:36):
OPS at home this year. Julio Rodriguez isn't getting paid
to not crack the top thirty five in OPS in
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's gotta stop.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So hey, the singles are fine, Okay, great, get on base, fine, whatever,
But my god, dude, I mean, the guy had an
eight ninety nine OPS at home his rookie year and
now he's at six fifty five. He's on pace for
eight home runs in thirty nine RBIs with only twelve
stolen bases so far.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's his pace for eighty one games at home.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So look, you hate to pick on the guy, but
come on, it's year four ready, Like, let's go. I'm
getting kind of tired of going on the air every
week and asking when is Julio's engine gonna get going?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And yet he's significantly better than he was, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Correct, So it's like he's got his highest OPS ever
after thirty nine games.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So it's still not good enough. I mean good enough.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
If he can improve from this day forward to the
middle of the season as much as he normally improves
from May twelfth to August twelfth, then he's gonna be
a monster come summertime.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But he needs to do that what you just said, Yes,
he needs to he can't just stay this way.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Let's hope we haven't seen the bulk of his improvement already.
But you're exactly right. The dude obviously doesn't like to
hit when it's cold out. I mean we have enough
sample size to know that when the temperature rises, Julio rises,
and that's just probably the way it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Who knows, maybe his whole career.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, look, I mean, like I said, his OPS is
as high as it's been after thirty nine games, but
that is still not good enough. I mean, that's not
where you need this guy to be. And you know,
a seven eleven ops is that where he's at right now?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Seven eleven?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Love?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What is that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
God, dude, so good. But if somebody could invent a
Coke zero slurpy, I would love that. I have no
idea why they can't do that. I said, he's not
in the top thirty five in ops in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I apologize I was way off on that number.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's one hundred and eighth in ops in baseball. That's
not good enough. No, not good enough for your star player,
not good enough for guy that's got the biggest contract
guarantee ever.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
In team history.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Not good enough for a guy that after four months
of baseball you saw enough to lock him into a
huge deal. Now, obviously he's not gonna get paid the
big money if he doesn't performed.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But for Julio Rodriguez to be sitting here with the
one hundred and eighth best ops in baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I mean that is just god darn it. Man.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Come on, all right, we've got to break Aaron Boone,
skipper the Yankees, brother of Brett's, son of Bob. We're
gonna hear from him next on ninety three three KJRFM.
I got a text message this morning from Aaron Boone
at about eleven am, who basically told me that his
brother instructed him to call me and wondering if I
could do the interview right now. And I said, sure,
(08:17):
you're the skipper of the Yankees, why don't you give
me two minutes and I'll go into my home office
and get my big fancy schmancy radio equipment going and
we can diact it up and have a nice conversation.
So Yankees Mariners this week three games starting tonight, Emerson
Hancock is on the mound.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Had a chance to catch up with.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yankee manager Aaron Boone, brother of Brett, before tonight's Game
one against the MS.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Good to be up here in the Northwest, beautiful day.
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, we appreciate you doing this, man. And first of all,
I got to ask you about what was life like
growing up in a baseball family? What was life like
growing up with Brett is your brother. We've gotten to
know him obviously as a Mariner and was doing a
radio show with us up until about a week ago
when he quit to go join the Rangers as they're
hitting coach. But we all know Brett is a real
(09:06):
outspoken guy, right. You got to give us some some thoughts,
some idea of what it was like in your house
growing up with Brett as a brother.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Man.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, he was. He was actually a great older brother.
He's four years older than me. And when I was
a little kid, and I kind of give some of
the credit to him for my athletic development because when
I was, you know, five, six, seven years old, eight
years old, running around like, he used to take me
(09:35):
with them a lot and with and so I had
to kind of keep up if I wanted to hang
I had to be able to roll with the bigger kids.
Like so whatever it was, whether we were playing basketball,
football on the street, dunk ball with fulltball, whatever it
was like, you know, I was playing with kids, you know,
four years older than me a lot in just our
(09:57):
little neighborhood games. And I had to keep up with that,
and he always drug me around. You know, one thing
we used to do when we were when we were
little too is we used to box wow and I
would wear the head gear and he would and he
would he wouldn't wear head gear. So one time I
got him pretty good. I'm probably you know, I'm probably
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seven eight years old, so he's you know, eleven, twelve
year old. I catch him with a good one and
kind of sting him and get him mad, and he
put it on me and I went. I started crying,
and I was about to, you know, go. He's like,
don't let mom hear you cry. We'll get in trouble.
And later on I was thinking, we'll get in trouble.
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You just beat up your little brother.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, that's funny you mentioned that, because I've always wondered
what happened to Brett's face, and now we know you
smashed it in when he was, you.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Know, thirteen fourteen years old.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But Aaron Boone's with us, and Aaron, you know, you
and I are about the same age. You're born a
few months before I was in seventy three, so, you know,
almost fifty two years old. And I could never imagine
being mature enough or composed enough with myself to deal
with the New York Press Corps, Yankee fans, being the
manager of the Yankees. What goes into all of that
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for you? That makes this job unique and sometimes difficult?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, I mean there's you know, that's definitely one of
the challenges navigating that you know of, you know, but
I would have it no other way, you know, I
love it. Like there's one of the great things about
being with the Yankees is that, obviously expectations are always
really high. It's you know, a demanding you know, fan
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base and media. But I would say, no matter what,
like it always matters every single day. You know. Jason Zilla,
our PR director, and I kind of joke every now
and then, you know, we play one hundred sixty two
one game seasons and you feel that weight, But I
think it's mostly in a good way. You know, it
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makes you makes you helps drive you, makes you accountable,
and you know there's obviously moments when it's you know,
can be difficult or it's a pain in certain areas,
but overall like having that level of care from people
is you know how I would want it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, you think about that great home run that you
hit as a Yankee. You know, god, it was twenty
two years ago, now, unbelievable in two thousand and three
to send the Yankees to the World Series, and George
Steinbrenner was around for that, you know, right, did didn't
pass on until twenty ten. So so you're working with
the Steinbrenner family, but you're not working directly for George.
What do you remember about your relationship with George as
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a player, and what is your relationship like with the
family now?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, So I came over in two thousand and three.
That year, I came over at the trading deadline and
our first home series, I was staying staying in the
same hotel as as mister Steinberger stayed in when he
when he was in New York. And first our first
night home game, you know, when we came off the road,
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I was actually downstairs with Reggie Jackson, who I knew
very well since I was a kid. And we're we
got a bike, eating a drink after the game, and
we were going up on the elevator to to my
room to go to bed, and George gets on and
it's my first time, and Reggie said, hey, George, I
want to introduce you to our new player, Aaron Boone.
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We just got him for the reds BA BA and uh,
I can hear it in my head, it's like the
Seinfeld character. It was nice to meet you, Nice to
have you on the club. You know. He's very very
straightforward and very direct and very nice. And then the
only other time I came in contact with him was
that the night after we beat the Red Sox in
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the game seven, and my wife and I had gone
back to the hotel. We're we're getting ready to walk
back out and and go meet the team. We're having
a gathering after the game and we're walking through the
out lobby and mister Steinberger was coming in. He just
saw me and he said, happy for your son.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Those are my two interactions as as for now with
the family. Yeah, great. I mean my relationship with with
Hal is excellent. He is he's a great owner. He's
he's invested, he cares. He he's usually up in New York.
I would say he's in New York for about half
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the home games. They live in Tampa, but comes to
my office and to to just get a lay of
the land and hear about the team, and he's he's
just a really good, good person, and I've developed a
really good relationship with him and really the entire family.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Well, Aaron Boone is with us again, brother of Brett
Skipper of the Yankees, in town to take on the
Mariners for three starting tonight, and Brett, you know, I mean, obviously,
great players will make your job a lot easier. And
you've got maybe the best in the world right in
your dugout. And Aaron Judge, who was just on a
tear right now, hitting over four hundred, slugging over almost
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eight hundred ops over twelve We don't know, though, I
don't know a lot about the kind of guy he is.
I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. Can you talk
a little bit about what kind of leader, what kind
of clubhouse presidence, what kind of player Aaron Judges to manage.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
For you every day?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
The best, He's such a great person, he's such a
great leader, he's such a great teammate. You know, everything
I think people imagine about him, it's true. He's just
his teammates love him, whether you are another star player
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or you're coming up from the minor leagues for the
first time. He's very accessible, relatable, and he's just he's
really good at the grind, like he's never too high,
never too low, handles it all so well. And and
but he's a killer competitor like most great players are too.
(16:25):
So he is he's all about team and all about
you know, being the leader of this team, and he
takes that role very serious. But he's also a killer
between the lines obviously, And I've been so fortunate to
have him my entire time. Here is really the face
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of our team.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, well, Aaron Boone's with us for a few more
minutes here on the radio show. And Aaron, I'm just
curious because you mentioned this at the top, that you
would not want to have it any other way, right,
as far as the expectations go, and the expectation is
to get twenty eight right, to be in the World
Series every year and to win it almost every year.
I mean, I would think the expectations for Yankee fans
are as high as they are for any fan base
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in sports.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So finish this sentence for me.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The Yankees will will repeat as American League champions, get
to the World Series and win it this year. If
blank fill in that sentence for me.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I think if first and foremost we put together the start,
which is the one hundred and sixty two game season,
you've got to have a level. You're gonna have ups
and downs, You're gonna have stretches where it's difficult, but
on balance, you've got to put together a really strong
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season to put yourself in the mix in October. So
whether that's winning the division, getting in another way, you
got to get to October and then and then it's
about everything kind of coming together at that point. You know.
Last year, obviously we get to the World Series and
then how we wanted. But we want to put ourselves
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in a position, hopefully, you know, from a health standpoint,
to be able to make another long run at it
and ultimately hoist that trophy. But I also look at
it as that's so far away. We got so many
things and boxes to check and right a long way
to go. We want to get there of course, and
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then you start talking about it, but that's months away.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, who's this Who's this Ben Rice kid that I
keep reading about from three thousand miles away because every
time I type in Yankees and and google this name,
Ben Rice keeps popping up this young phenom. So tell
us about this kid and how much of him? Will
we see you this week?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, you'll see him this week. He's dhing tonight, the
first game he can really hit. He hits the ball
really hard, he controls the strike zone really well. He's
also a catcher. He's our third catcher right now, but
that's not because he's not a good catcher, Like he
can really really catch. It's just not the role for
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him right now on this team. That could evolve as
we go, because obviously we have Austin Wells, who's one
of our excellent young catcher and then j c Ascara
backing him up. But Rice's Rice can really catch as well.
But he is. He hits the ball incredibly hard and
really controls the strike zone. And that's a pretty good
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tandem to have as a hitter.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, no doubt, Aaron, Any thoughts on this Mariner team,
This upstart Mariner team that a lot of people are
surprised at their twenty two and seventeen start. Their offense
up until the weekend against Toronto was out a tear
for the first month or so of the season. But
what do you see from this Mariner baseball clubs you'll
see starting tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, I mean, I think we've seen a good Mariner
team now for the last few years that's had their
share of expectations and I think even safe to say
going into this year similar expectations that they expect to
be a playoff team and be right in the mix
in the American League West. I think the surprising part
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of it, maybe to some is that they're doing it
in a different way. I think everyone expected it to
be on the strength of their starting pitching, which has
been so great over the last few years. But like
you said, it's been the offense that's really carried unto
this hot start. And you know, so we know we'll
have our hands full, not only with a couple of
great pitchers that we're going to see this weekend, but
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but an offense that's been one of the game's best
to start the year.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
No doubt, and final thought for you Aaron Boone, manager
of the Yankees, before you go. Your brother is now
the hitting coach of the Rangers. As we said, I
was a little bit surprised when he took the gig.
I told him, you're not going to be playing much
golf for the next five months for trying out loud.
So now he's the hitting coach of the Texas Rangers.
But did you have any advice for your big brother
when he took that gig?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Not really. I'm excited for him. It's the time in
his life when I think he's ready to go do that.
And and uh, I think he'll have a great opportunity
to impact a lot of young young men and obviously
a talented group that they have over there in Texas
that you know, offensively got off to a little bit
of a start. But I think it's a great opportunity
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to impact some good, good young players.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Hey, Aaron Boone, great stuff, Thanks for doing this. Uh,
and we will talk down the road. Man, appreciate this
and uh, and best of luck. Best of luck starting
Thursday when you leave Seattle. How's that sound?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I appreciate actually, best of luck. Never how's that sound?
You're the manager of the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
They should have said, Aaron, thanks for doing this, but
best of luck.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Never you remember how hate Heble, Joe Tory, and Don
Zimmery Yankees were. I mean they were just hateable. You
look at them, those two sitting together and the dugout.
It was like Darth Vader and and the Emperor. And
it's it's harder for me to hate an Aaron Boone
led Yankee team than it was for me to hate
those teams twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I just don't have the hatred I did growing up
because I went to a lot of Yankee games growing up.
Number one and number two. The Mariners actually, at one
point in time used to have a little bit of
a rival with them because it felt like they saw him.
I mean, you saw him in ninety five, you saw
him in two thousand, you saw him in two thousand
and one, three of eight years or whatever. You saw
him in the postseason, and that's when rivalries are born,
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right in the playoffs. I mean, the Niner Seahawk rivalry
was big, but it was on steroids when they met
for the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I think, and I think you said this out the year.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
If you took Jackson Brett Boone's voice and put it
in a slocomotive, it sounded like him enough, it sounds
just like Aaron Boone. So I mean, I'm curious to
see how Dan Wilson handles Aaron Judge tonight. Aaron Judge
is the runaway MVP in the American League and it's
not even close.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean, it's just like, give the guy the trophy
right now, be done with. He's like Polanco in the dust.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, Polanco's not playing some way. That's another topic for
later on. But Aaron Judge is hitting three oh four
with an eleven ninety five ops, ten home runs and
twenty four RBIs in twenty two games at t Mobile
Park against the Mariners. He actually does better here against
them that he does there against them.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So you can hit it Tea Mobile Park. You can.
If you're Aaron Jellis, You're six ft seven and nineteen.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So that's all we need to hit a Tea Mobile
is to get seven or eight Aaron Judges on our team.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I say this all the time that like I look
at Aaron Judge on TV and I think you really
have to almost watch TV to get a feel for
how big he is. You see him at the plate,
and I don't know if you guys feel the same
way I do. First of all, he's the same size
as Jimmy Graham. He's six seven to eighty. He's Jimmy
Graham in a baseball uniform. And then, second of all,
when you watch him at home plate compared to the
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catcher and the umpire, does it look like he's been
super imposed.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
On TV's It does.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And you know, you know when it's emphasized when they're
playing the Blue Jays and Kirk is catching, that's right,
because it makes it it's Gulliver and the Liliputian. It's unbelievable,
Like Kirk comes up to his waist.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It is amazing how free big this guy is.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He I went to one game a couple of years
ago pregame and he walked right by me behind home plate,
and I could not freaking believe what a mammoth individual
he is. You know, he's already thirty three too, He's
not He's not young anymore. He's always thirty three years old.
He's stilled out what three four more prime years? Probably, yeah,
maybe maybe a few more thirty three feels like the
new thirty.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know. All right, we're gonna break.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Thanks to Aaron Boone, manager of the Yankees, for joining
us a little fun with audio and then a little
Hugh A little more at four with Hugh coming up
on ninety three three kJ RFM.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's now time for Someday in Dick's one with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I boys and girls, here we go from the Apero
Quig and see no sports, but coming down here and
watching wager hopefully win on the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Uh, we've got a little parley going on the night
with Boston Minnesota. I like it, you like that? I
like so good about that? Okay, big thanks to Denver
for coming through in game three for US. Yep, uh, no,
thanks to Denver for not coming through in Game four
for US. By the way, but they did cover. They
lost by five. It was five and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, and then Denver thunder series. I'm not worried about
the cover. I'm worried about the dub.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I'm just worried about Oklahoma City winning a title. That's
what I'm worried about.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
All Right, here we go a little fun with audio
slash hated you hear that on a Monday night from
the emeral Qui Casino Sportsbook.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Hey Nick, did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
We start, by the way, with our old friend Dave Simms.
Welcome to New York City pal boy. This morning on
WFA and Radio in New York. Boomer asiasin reacting to
New Yankee play by play voice Dave Simms taking a
series off last week against the A's.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
He used to work in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He didn't do these games this weekend, but I would
think he would back with Susan.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
He was visiting with.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Family in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's what somebody told me on x so they must
to talk about a broadcast, so that get out.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
There a couple of days early.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
He's from New York.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Oh, he's got some family out there.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
But he was in Seattle for what fifteen years?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right? So I mean Don Stirling didn't miss any games.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Did he?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
He did not miss many games at the end. He
missed a couple. Well, if he did because he was
sick or something.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Sorry, I love Dave Simms, but you know, unless there's
something major going on that I don't know about, then
I'll then I'll gladly retract the criticism.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Otherwise, get your ask in the book.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yip, what are you doing? You just took the hanky
jobs supposed to be the job of your life.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I love Dave, I told you, but you know.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Welcome to New York buddy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Hey, by the way, Well, first of all, I don't
know what he had written into his contract with him.
Don't you think it was discussed ahead of time. I'm
sure it was in his contract. And he gets to
take a certain couple series off here and there. I mean,
let's be honest, Dave. He's also one hundred and ten
years old, right, he can't go like he did fifteen
twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The old man needs a.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Couple of you know, a couple of the cat naps
every now and then. But this is the kind of
stuff they talk about in New York City. Can you
ever imagine Dave Simms or Aaron Goldsmith or Rick riz
or Angie or Ryan Roland Smith and you.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Were like, where the hell's menting? This is ridiculous? She
just got the job and she's off already. What the
hell is she doing? This is supposed to be her
dream gig. Get to work, lady. Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
This is the era of load management, so load management
for broadcasters as well.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's right, And you gotta develop your depth, dude.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Right, maybe Boomer needs a new agent so he can
get some time off too, for God's sakes. But I
think that was kind of Dave Simms's first Welcome to
New York moment with Boomer Issias and ripping his ass
for this is the A series. He's in town now
with the Yankees. And by the way, Jeff Nelson's here too.
No'll join us tomorrow from Jimmy's at to three thirty.
All right, hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
What's that? Ditch?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
On Saturday, the Astros and starting pitcher Lance mccullors allowed
ten runs in the first hitting of what ended up
being a thirteen nine loss to the Ruts. After the game,
Houston manager Joe Espata responded to death threats towards mccullors
and his family.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I'm gonna start you saying something is very unfortunate that
Lance mccullors that they are people who are threatening his
life and the life.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Of his kids.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
It's because of he's performance. Is it's very unfortunate that
we have to deal with this, after all he's done
for the city, for the team. The fact that we
have to talk about that in my office, I got
kiss too, and I'm it really drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That we have to deal with this.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Very sad, very very sad.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Did Mitch Garver come out last year and say he
was getting death threats?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yes, when he was here.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So do you guys think that this is happening more
or less than it used to?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And if it is happening more, is because of the
legalization and widespread use of sports gambling that people are
getting pissed.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Oh the second part I think definitely absolutely. Is it
happening more?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I don't know because it's it's illegal, though, Like where
are they doing this? Like if you post a death
threat on social media, it's like you can you can
be found.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Anybody can get an email address. You don't need to
put down anything for an email, right Jackson?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You can build no, well, I mean here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You can build out social media accounts via random emails
in terms of not getting found.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So you are, yeah, exactly, So go to a library
and use an IP address. It's not at your house
or whatever. You can't find out who these people are.
It's just it's terrible. It's impossible.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, I just wonder how much of it is being
kind of fueled by people getting mad that they're losing money.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Honestly, I mean, it's not gonna help it, right for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I mean, more people gambling and the more people betting
on stuff, the more people are pissed off when they lose.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
This is a guy that's been a part of this
organization for a decade. He's won two titles.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
It sounds like somebody got mad that he lost money
or she got mad that she lost money. All right, hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
What's that? Dick? Let's make sure let's go. We're fine
on time right.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Last night's NBA on TNT postgame show, Charles Barkley went
along with his analysis at the end of the show
and was played off stage as if he was at
the Oscar.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Aaron Gordon has made thisself a really good shoot, but
he probably get another six points a game. I love
from the Joker, but Jayden has a great point. The
one guy has gotta.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Be it's.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Congratulations on your reward.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now get off the stage.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Tuesday, so good, start doing that on this radio stage.
Somebody goes along, we'll start playing the Oscar music. Why
not the hell I think you'll get the music?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Do you guess?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Every time every type of Jacks, every type Jackson and
I talk more than fifteen seconds in a row, you
start getting twitchy over there.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So it's not gonna be us. Give me the music.
I don't give a damn if I start having a
stroke on the air. You know why shock give me
the music? Have it ready?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I mean, it's like it's a great ideas idea somebody.
I mean, people need to follow the clock in this business,
and more often than not, I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
We don't do it.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
We're terrible at it. Whatever, shut the hell up and
play the music. Better to have that to just cutting
somebody off mid sentence. Right, all right, let's get one more.
Uh Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
What's that? Dick news coming out this morning?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That Michael Jordan will be a guest contributor on the
NBA on NBC show starting this fall. After the news broke,
stephen A, reacting to the news on First Take, Michael
Jordan will serve as a special contributor to NBC's upcoming
NBA coverage, The network announced stephen.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
A and what capacity, That's what I want to know, contributor,
A contributor in what regard?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I mean analysis, all right, I just want to know
because you know that's my brother. Yes, I love my brother, Michael,
Michael Jordan's. I just want to know, is it gonna
be the Michael Jordan's you know that that that that
you see on television, or is it gonna be the
Michael Jordan we speak too? Because Michael Jordan we speak too.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh, it's gonna be epic, It's gonna be at pic
love have mercy, Molly.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
But if it's NBC and the little kids out there
are watching, and you know he wants to mind his
manners about every little syllable he utters, eh, He'll be I.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So you remember the uh remember the bull What was
the Bulls documentary that came out during COVID The Last Dance,
Last Dance, right, and there's a scene where Michael Jordan
walks up to Larry Bird underneath the stands after a
game and says.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You bitch, remember that, Yes, I would. I freaking love that,
Like I've watched that one hundred times. I just love that.
And I think that's the kind of guy that stephen
A is talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Is Michael in his sixties. He's in his sixties, right,
Michael Jordan. I was Michael about sixties. Okay, so he's
about ten years older.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now. You would think that Michael.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Jordan, who's sixty two years old by the way, good
good Call, would be at the age of his life where.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I'm sixty two, I'm Michael Jordan. I'll say whatever the
hell I want to say. Or he really needs to
be us on like Amazon or Peacock.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So I kinda. So he's off cable TV. I'm gonna
disagree with you. And here's why, Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Part of what makes Michael Jordan more popular in more
people's eyes than Lebron James. Yeah, yeah, is because Michael
Jordan keeps to himself and does not offend anybody, and
Lebron James is not afraid to offend anybody, and he
is out there and just tells you what he feels.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Whenever he is in front of a microphone.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well, and I think Michael Jordan might damage his perfect
reputation if he's out there saying what he really feels,
because he's going to offend a percentage of people that
might then swing over to.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
The Lebron camp.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Well, Charles Barkley has made a living off saying whatever
the helly damn Well wants.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And people love him for it. Right, But he's always
been I gotta be honest with you, Dick.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I kind of get the feeling that Michael Jordan's bulletproof
when it comes to his opinions and his take.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think Michael.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Jordan's supporters and the legion of Michael Jordan fans out
there would go on the air and they would tell,
you know, Michael's better off because he keeps his opinions
to himself. And then Michael goes on TV and he
doesn't keep his opinion to himself and people say, well,
he's got to write to his opinion, right.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I think He's got a legion of followers, like some
people doing politics, that will back him no matter what
he wants to do, so I'm hopeful that at the
age of sixty two years old, he's salty enough now,
or he can kind of come out of that shell,
go for it, criticize players, rip their asses.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I mean, I'd love to have him like the NBA,
they deserve it. Go get him, man.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I'm looking forward to it, but I'm kind of with
Steven am curious to see what version we get. All Right,
we got to break here, Mellen a little more at
four with you next on ninety three three kJ arfm
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