00:00I gotta be honest I know the rhetoric for a lot of people today especially diehard Yankee fans is
00:05that game didn't mean a damn thing to us you know the season starts next Thursday Wednesday whatever
00:10it is uh let's get uh cranking uh yeah blah blah blah blah blah it's a pointless meaningless you
00:16know preseason tournament I gotta be honest I watched every picture of the game last night
00:22and I didn't know if I would or I wouldn't but it's such a close game
00:26I feel like I got my heart ripped out I do that game to me felt like a game seven
00:33I was emotional I was on the edge of my seat when Bryce Harper hits the two-run home run
00:39in the
00:40eighth inning I jumped up spilled popcorn everywhere called my kids hey did you see the Bryce Harper
00:47home run 2-2 and then our judge came up nobody on base tie game eighth inning a reeling
00:55pitcher who just gave up the two-run bomb to Bryce Harper I know my players better than their
01:01pitcher he's got an area of five you know in his major league baseball career and once again Captain
01:07America came up small now that's not exactly why you lost the game you have your relief pitchers do
01:13their job and you hold them scoreless in the ninth maybe we go to extra innings and we have one
01:19of the
01:19great you know international games of all time but for people to say that it didn't mean anything to
01:25them that they weren't emotionally invested in the game man I don't know what planet you're living on
01:32I again I'm upset that we lost that felt like a playoff game last night and I enjoyed watching it
01:39yeah it was a playoff game and and this is how fans are carving it because I can say this
01:43because
01:43Harper came through yeah if Harper didn't come through and they use uh to say 2-0 right I'm
01:49telling you Phillies fans like myself would have said Harper didn't come through in a big spot are
01:55they saying that about Schwarber because he had the same kind of game judge had absolutely the only
01:58difference was Schwarber did draw a walk and were you and also we knew going in that Schwarber had was
02:03like 0 for 12 against that pitcher with 8ks against that starter but we but the truth is still the
02:09truth
02:09it can't be when he fails it's no big deal had judge came up and if judge comes up and
02:15goes back
02:15to back it's the biggest deal of all time exactly that's right it's like Aaron judges captain america
02:20right he finally gets a clutch hit right we win we beat venezuela we're the kings of the baseball world
02:28but let's be honest folks and I hate to say this we are to baseball what Canada is to hockey
02:34we it's not ours anymore we have to own that we embarrassed ourselves yesterday three hits three
02:42hits and two of them came from one guy yeah and you're talking about I don't want to say journeyman
02:47because that's an unfair criticism of the venezuelan pitching staff but it's not like we were like
02:53johan santana is a pitching coach for team venezuela right he wasn't pitching in his prime right we were
03:00going up against guys with eras north of four and it was like every yankee playoff loss I've ever seen
03:09we got all the bats in the world and some no-name pitcher comes in and shuts us down and
03:16I gotta tell
03:16you I'm having a tough day today I'm frustrated by it I'm upset about it it's gonna sit with me
03:23for a
03:24while I didn't enjoy the nick win last night because of it against the lowly pastures are trying to lose
03:29obviously and I'm sitting there going hey I went online like we all do and I hear all these people
03:35minimizing it and poo-pooing it I I couldn't disagree more that was a game seven atmosphere
03:41for me emotionally sitting on my couch in New Jersey and I want more of that I don't care about
03:47may baseball may baseball is boring for a lot of people but elimination championship game and then
03:55here's the real thing about it that did get me angry because we embarrassed ourselves not just
04:01during the game offensively to our own but after the game we had a stand in line as the commissioner
04:09my dear friend Rob Manfred put a silver medal around our necks and on top of our hearts and
04:17I know a bunch of the guys ripped the medals off after they accepted them but if you want to
04:22talk about
04:23embarrassing is there anything more embarrassing than Team USA having to stand in line for 20 minutes
04:31and accept the silver medal
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