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00:00It has been hard to watch the Yankees recently and see anything,

00:05but that all the problems that helped cost them a World Series last year

00:09have manifested again.

00:12John, you know I've led the chorus that they're not good at baseball.

00:14I did it all last year.

00:16You did.

00:17They added two players who are good at baseball,

00:19Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt, and somehow they still, look,

00:24Aaron Boone can tell me a good defense.

00:26They're buttoned up.

00:28I mean, they suck at this.

00:29They suck.

00:31And it is like, John, I'll make one analogy,

00:35and then I'll let you run with this.

00:36I did it on the Yankee webcast earlier.

00:40We're of a certain age.

00:41When we were young, one of the better heavyweights was Ernie Shavers.

00:44He was a top contender, and Ernie Shavers was a one-trick pony.

00:49It was a hell of a trick.

00:50If he hit you on the jaw, the fight was over.

00:52He had an unbelievable punch.

00:54But if he didn't hit you on the chin,

00:57he had very little else to win the fight.

01:00And it carried him to great lengths.

01:01He was a great heavyweight, but it didn't carry him all the way.

01:04I think the Yankees are Ernie Shavers.

01:06If the ball goes out of the ballpark,

01:08and they get some power pitching that day,

01:11they're fine.

01:13But if the other team decides it's an actual fight

01:15and puts the ball in play and forces them to play

01:17the way the Blue Jays have for a couple of series now,

01:21the Yankees go into the follies.

01:23It's not high-level performance.

01:26Yeah, it's a competition.

01:27Are they going to out-homer their mistakes?

01:29You know they're going to make mistakes,

01:31and they're going to hit home runs.

01:32Which are they going to do more of?

01:33That's basically what it's come down to.

01:36The Blue Jays are not a good matchup for them.

01:38They have the best contact rate.

01:40They strike out the fewest times in the American League.

01:44And, you know, when you put the ball in play against the Yankees,

01:46you know, good things are going to happen for you.

01:48I mean, I'm with you on the signings.

01:50Bellinger and Goldschmidt have been what you'd expect, really.

01:54I mean, they've been good defensively.

01:56You would think that would have helped.

01:58But I think we've seen regression,

02:00and you've covered it on your own show, on the Post,

02:04and infinitum about Volpe

02:07and about all the other guys

02:09who have been making mistakes.

02:11You know, I don't know.

02:13What can they do now?

02:14I mean, they're not going to sell.

02:16I know internally you've got people

02:18who are pretty upset the way things are going,

02:20and that's reflected in Boone's comments.

02:22He knows what everybody thinks internally.

02:24And now, you know, he's willing to say,

02:27you know, we've got to do better,

02:28which for him is really a slam.

02:30But what can they do?

02:32What can they do?

02:33Can you replace Volpe at this moment?

02:37You know, you're going to need a third baseman for sure.

02:40You're going to have to overpay if it's Suarez.

02:44You know, they're not selling, right?

02:46I mean, I know that they don't look like a playoff team right now,

02:49but they're in playoff position, right?

02:51And they got there last year with a similar team,

02:54even without Bellinger and Goldschmidt.

02:56So we know they're not selling.

02:57What can they do?

02:58John, I just want to go back to the idea of the besieged Aaron Boone.

03:04Like, he has portrayed this,

03:06and he's been angry these last few days,

03:09like he's being besieged.

03:11I'd like to not be the guy on the lawn.

03:14I'd like to not be the in-my-day guy.

03:16I think most things are better today than they used to be.

03:19But if the people who are around the team now,

03:22covering the team, take exception to this,

03:24I don't think Boone's asked very tough questions very often,

03:28and certainly not at any volume.

03:29I think that press conferences where you don't really get to follow things up,

03:33like we used to, by being in a manager's office,

03:36we used to have three and a half hours in a clubhouse.

03:38We really got to talk to players.

03:40You know, you got to know everyone.

03:41You got to ask pointed questions, whatever.

03:44I don't even think,

03:45I think that the press conferences and the internet have turned everybody soft

03:49because nobody wants to be criticized on the internet

03:51for being too tough on these guys.

03:52So nobody asked tough questions.

03:54Too few people asked tough questions.

03:57So this besieged act by Boone is a problem, I think,

04:00because I could tell you there were previous managers in that role

04:04who were much more besieged at bad times than he is now.

04:07Number two, look, I can't believe the grandson's son,

04:12brother, and himself a major leaguer,

04:14looks at this and keeps telling me

04:17that it isn't what everyone else is seeing.

04:19And at some point, you're going to lose credibility

04:22if you keep saying up is down and left is right.

04:25And, John, I think both of us, I don't want to speak for you.

04:28I like Aaron a great deal.

04:30I think Aaron is a good baseball man.

04:32But this tone, I do not,

04:35I don't think it's helpful.

04:38And I just think that the players,

04:40do the players not have enough of a fear level

04:42to be able to perform at a high,

04:45you know, like this really matters.

04:46Like, it's one thing to say,

04:47hey, you got to do this.

04:48And another thing to say,

04:49you're going to sit if you don't do this.

04:52I'm going to talk to reporters about it

04:53if you don't do it.

04:54You want to concentrate now on 90 feet?

04:56We got Pat Murphy coming on next, John.

04:59Want to watch the Brewers play a couple of games

05:00and see how much they respect 90 feet?

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