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00:00They can't overlook the Rays, but I think those four games coming up against the Red Sox
00:04are, considering what the Red Sox have done to them last year and that they're both competing
00:09against each other, and by the way, if you end up in a playoff, a wild card three-game playoff
00:14series, go look at the Red Sox record at home over the last two months. The last thing you're
00:18going to want to do is play those three games in Fenway if it's Yankees and Boston, and so the
00:23Yankees have a lot to do this week. Finish off this period. You know, they got an off day on
00:31Monday. Take care of business in your home, away from home at Steinbrenner Field, and then
00:36the Yankees and Red Sox haven't had a lot of juice the last few years, considering what
00:41it's been. I feel like those four games should have some juice. They have a lot of meaning for
00:46the Yankees. The Red Sox have, the Red Sox kind of built their way back into this race
00:51by beating the hell out of the Yankees in a couple of series already this year, and
00:56you know, are the Yankees ready to make a stand against an AL East team in general and
01:01the Red Sox in specific? Yeah, I mean, and they embarrassed the Yankees, you know, and
01:06they've had a history of embarrassing the Yankees recently. Even though, like you said, the
01:10rivalry hasn't been what it used to be, it feels like every time, Joel, the Yankees
01:15face the Red Sox recent, it's just become a, the Red Sox are playing baseball smarter than
01:20us. They're attacking the stolen bases. You know, they're, they're catching guys who
01:25are sleeping. It's just, it's not been pretty for the Yankees. It feels like against the
01:29Red Sox and the history that they've had recently. So I'm looking forward to that series. But
01:32like you said, you got to take care of business against the Rays first. The Rays are no slouch.
01:36I know they're, they're not having a season that they would like. And they do the whole buy
01:40sell at the deadline. And now that's just a matter of where they, where they finish the
01:44rest of the year. But it's another home. It's like another home game for them again in
01:49Tampa. And they're not facing two slouch pitchers either. Rasmussen and, and Baz coming up here
01:54in the next two. But Joel, for you, you know, the Yankees took care of business, but I'm
02:01wondering, are you buying into what they, what their performance was this past week? Like
02:08the offense seemed to perform a lot better this past, this past week. And specifically putting
02:14the ball in play, I think was a big thing for them these last couple of days. It wasn't
02:18just the homers like it was in the Minnesota series. I think the Cardinals series, they
02:22were willing to put the ball and play more. Um, are you buying into this, this team maybe
02:29turning it around here, or it was them playing two really bad opponents and they took advantage
02:35of playing those bad opponents? Well, not only bad opponents, but like, uh, I feel like
02:39the Yankees could bring up Scranton Wilkes-Barre and beat the twins. Uh, that's just the history
02:45of that rivalry. If the Red Sox get under the Yankee skin, the Yankees certainly get
02:50under the twin skin, uh, and, and usually take care of business against them and did
02:54again, uh, by taking two or three. Uh, look, Ryan, uh, it's almost like the way the Yankees
03:01ran the bases, uh, and, and took advantage of 90 feet against, uh, you know, over the weekend
03:07against the Cardinals, but even, you know, in this period of time, it almost harkens back.
03:11And I know Caballero helps change a dynamic a little bit, but why did they forget to steal
03:17bases for like two months? It's like, it's, it's like, does anybody stand up in the meeting
03:22ever and say, you know, jazz Chisholm hasn't tried a stolen base in two months, or we're not
03:28running the, I just feels like, how can you show what they showed over the weekend? And I know the
03:34Yankee thing is they don't like, they, they are a play the odds stolen base team, which
03:40is if you're slow to the plate or slow catcher release to second base, the end, you know,
03:47they're playing the, and you get this kind of lead and this kind of jump, your chances
03:51of success become this. And I get it. I get it. I get it. You want to, when you have home
03:57run hitters in your lineup, you don't want to create outs on the bases, but I, I know
04:04there's something we've talked about and I want to try to put it in words because I've
04:09thought about it a lot. I think I kind of maybe got on it last week. I think when you're
04:14a team that sits around and wakes for walks and homers, which are incredibly valuable, let's
04:21not run away from it. The getting on base with a free pass and certainly hitting it over
04:27the fence are incredibly valuable things that you do not want to give up as a team, but
04:33they are in a way a walk for sure. And a home run to some degree are kind of like passive
04:38wait for it acts. Yeah. And so therefore, if you're not getting them, you, there's a lot
04:44of innings that are one, two, three, move it along. One, two, three, move it along. And
04:47you're putting it's passivity. And like, I would not play the game of Aaron judges up. I'm
04:54never trying a stolen base. John Carlos Stanton's up. I'm never trying a stolen base to me. Stay
05:00aggressive because it's part of a sharp stay in the game thing, which, you know, we talk
05:06about the Yankees playing poorly, baseball poorly. And I think part of it is if you have
05:11this kind of passive attitude, it carries over, it carries over in everything you do instead
05:16of like being alert. And I would point out that they broke the game open in the top of
05:22the ninth yesterday with four runs. And it begins with Jose Caballero simply running
05:26hard. The Cardinals second baseman showed all weekend. That guy is a terrible second
05:31baseman. And that's a, Hey, if the ball gets hit to that guy, like if, if you should be
05:37running hard all the time, but certainly run hard, put pressure on that guy. That guy does
05:43not want, that's like the little leaguer playing right field. That guy doesn't want the ball hit
05:47to him. And he showed it all weekend. And to me, the Caballero thing should encourage
05:55the team. Look at what can happen. It happens to you guys. It happens to like the Yankees
06:00should say it happens to us. Let's do it to somebody else. And they did it to the Cardinals
06:05over the weekend where their aggression, they're adding 90 feet really was beneficial to winning,
06:12sweeping a series. And, uh, you know, I went and looked, I think the Yankees pretty much could have
06:20a goal and there's only September left. They should have 25, 25 months every month, at least 25 homers,
06:29at least 25 steals. They're well on their way to doing that this month, uh, in August. And that should
06:35like be a goal is just have a 25. Sometimes we'll be 32, 26, whatever it is like, like that's something
06:42that should be part of their mindset. Because if you just sit around and wait for walks and homers,
06:49a passivity comes into your whole spirit as a team that plays on both sides of the ball poorly.
06:57It's a, it's a good remark. And I think thought from you about the passivity and how it carries
07:03over into the rest of the team, because you feel that as a fan, when you're watching it as well,
07:07like at least for me, I know you're watching it up in the booth or the press box, but can I, Ryan,
07:12can I jump in and say, this is I recognized that watching the Brewers and Mets play a series in the
07:18Brewers sweep the Mets where I'm watching the Brewers and I'm like the way they play there's their
07:26aggressiveness shows up on both sides of the ball that they're so heightened alert, 90 feet,
07:3390 feet, 90 feet, 90 feet, 90 feet, that it matters. And now that covers up. They don't hit
07:38a ton of homers, though. They hit a bunch of timely homers against the Mets in that series,
07:42but it covered up a lot of other things. And I just think it's the spirit and culture of that team
07:48to be alert to every 90 feet. And therefore by doing it on offense, it translates to defense.
07:55Like we're trying to stop their 90 feet. We understand how important it is, but if you're
08:00just standing around going, well, I guess maybe Grisham or Rice will walk in front of Judge and
08:06then there'll be a home run and that will be a run or two. And what time is it? Is it the third
08:11inning yet? I think it kind of fills your spirit of who you are as a team. And I don't think the
08:16Yankees, the Yankees are a home run hitting team and need home runs to win. But because there's a
08:23home run hitter at almost all nine of their lineup spots and some of the greatest in the history of the
08:29game in Judge and Stanton, in particular, I would not even be Judge and Stanton are up.
08:35Don't don't run. I'd be if you think you could get 90 feet, take 90 feet. Hey, open first base.
08:42They want to walk Stanton or walk Judge and get to Bellinger or Goldschmidt. Like we'll take a shot
08:48with more base runners. Yeah. And Bellinger will put the ball in play. He'll make sure to do that.
08:52You know, like stay sharp. Yeah. Stay sharp. Force the other team to the other team is always
08:58forcing you to play baseball. Force the other team. You see, this is the Yankees are not the
09:05only team that plays baseball poorly around the sport. There this is epidemic. I watch a lot of
09:11baseball that is not New York and you will see a lot of it played poorly. We end up talking about
09:17the Yankees and Mets a lot in our newspaper and on our website and the Yankees specifically here.
09:23And I hold the Yankees to a high grade because there are the Yankees, you know, like they have
09:29the best history in the history of the sport. They have a very high payroll. They at least tell us
09:35it's kind of championship or bust every year. And so therefore we're not scoring on a great on a curve
09:41like, wow, the White Sox played a little better. Now the Yankees need to play great. They're trying to
09:46get a parade. They haven't had a parade since 2009 and their standard and is their internal standard
09:55really good where they're holding each other accountable to a parade because like, yeah,
10:01they could like, it's what Aaron Boone says a lot where he'll say like, well, actually our base
10:06running compared to the league, screw the league. Is your base running acceptable to you and what your
10:13standard should be. Don't tell me about like, hey, league average, the league sucks. Everybody's
10:19doing it. Everybody's over concentrating on things. I kind of think if you go, I encourage people go
10:25back and read Moneyball. Moneyball at its core, people will say Moneyball is about on-base percentage.
10:31It's not about on-base percentage. It's finding the inefficiencies in the game. That was on-base
10:37percentage in the early 2000s. Like Billy Bean and that group appreciated, oh, people are still
10:42paying for batting average. We can't afford batting average. We could afford the guy who walks a lot and
10:49gets on-base and we could show that if you're on-base a lot, it increases your scoring. The Brewers have
10:54found the inefficiency in the game. The inefficiency in the game is playing baseball well and honoring every
11:0190 feet. And understanding for 90 feet is 360 is a run. And if you could stop other people from getting
11:0990 for free and you get 90 for free, what does that mean on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis?
11:15And like the Yankees should hold themselves to that standard because we saw over the weekend
11:21that when they push the game a little bit, there's a kind of thing, right?
11:31There's something there. If you're like, wow, they're being aggressive on the base pass. Wow,
11:36they're actually jumping on the team. And whether it's a lesser opponent doesn't matter. It's just
11:42like you said, Joel, you're in tune. You're being aggressive. You're being there and finding the
11:48weaknesses and saying, we can take advantage of this because that was the other thing that you
11:51started off this whole conversation about. Why haven't they been stealing bases for a while now?
11:55They have the athletes now with Caballero, with Jazz Chisholm, with Jason Dominguez.
12:00Guys can steal bases in this lineup. They have enough athleticism now because that was something that
12:05as a fan, Joel, and something I think you've spoken about a lot in recent years, the Yankees lineup
12:10lacked athleticism. It lacked speed. It lacked that it was too much to a point where they were so home run
12:16walk or bust. There was no athleticism. There was no, hey, we're going to be aggressive on the
12:22base pass. Hey, we're going to be smart and putting the ball in play. That was lacking.
12:25And now it seems like if you can do it more, and like you said, stop being so passive about
12:31we're above average. It's like, no, no, no. Just be aggressive and be smart and be good.
12:38Feel the game. Watch the game here. When's the last time the Yankees, I'll do this quick.
12:42When's the last time the Yankees scored four runs like this? Caballero reaches on a throwing
12:48error. Trent Grisham grounds out to first. Giancarlo Stanton walks. Jojo Romero intentionally
12:54walks judge. Cody Bellinger reaches on a fielder's choice. Jazz Chisholm grounds into a force out.
13:00Jazz Chisholm steals second base. Paul Goldschmidt doubles the one ball out of the infield
13:05in the whole inning. Jason Dominguez grounds out softly. That was four runs. No home runs.
13:10That was force a mistake. Use the stolen base. Couple of force outs creating runs. The dynamic
13:18hitters in the middle of their lineup. Stanton was kind of an unintentional, intentional walk.
13:24Judge was unintentional. They want to put a guy on base, then put the ball in play. Force a team
13:29that's a losing team to play the ball. Like, I didn't understand the playing the defense back
13:35against, uh, was it, was it jazz where it was clearly like, if he was going to hit a ground
13:39ball, you're not turning the double play on anything, but a one hop bullet against jazz
13:43Chisholm. So like, you need to bring your infield in, uh, if the other team's going to make mistakes,
13:49capitalize on it. Yeah. And it's put, it puts pressure on the opposing team. That was there.
13:52That was a four run inning. Usually Yankee four run inning involves a homer. Yeah.
13:56Yep. And, uh, you know, this involved the other team playing baseball poorly and you pushing the
14:03issue. And I would be like, like the Red Sox. So it's, so to me, there's a Houston corollary.
14:11The Astros really get underneath their skin. And Alex Cora, who kind of was the best Astros bench
14:16coach gets under the Yankees skin. Absolutely. The Yankees should try to get underneath the Red Sox skin.
14:21Now that's tougher. Carlos Narvaez, who the Yankees traded like is probably the best guy in the league
14:28throwing out runners. So it's a, it's a dangerous, it's a more dangerous game, but I would make sure
14:35that I'm heightened for short pass balls for where can I go first to third, et cetera.
14:41Don't let the Red Sox become the aggressor, especially in your own building, because you know
14:47that Cora is going to push it again, especially against Rice and Wells.
14:51Who can't throw. So anybody who can run is going to run against the Yankees because Cora
14:57could feel the game. He's going to feel the game, which is, I know I get under the Yankees
15:02skin. He knows it. And he's going to do that as quickly as he can. What are you going to
15:06do to counter it?
15:07And he knows that the Yankees are going to be focused on it too. And he's still going to
15:10test it, right? Like that's just, that's just who he is. Like, and to your point, I hope
15:16the Yankees are just as aggressive. Like I understand Narvaez is one of the strongest
15:20arms, but take, take risks, be aggressive. Like you, you're at the point of the season
15:25and where you've put yourself. You have to like, there, there's nothing else there. There's
15:29no waiting for the Walker home run in terms of this season. If that makes sense, Joel,
15:33like you are now have to be play small ball when you can take advantage of the other team
15:37making mistakes and capitalize on them.
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