00:00Why do they care about outside perception? That needs to be number one.
00:04There should not be some long diatribe where you're all feeding Chris Kirshner quotes because you want to squash this.
00:09Brian Cashman has been the general manager of this team going back to when I was basically a kid playing
00:14Little League.
00:14It's been that long. You should be above caring what outside perception is.
00:18And I have a major issue now that Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman continue and have proved evident
00:22that they care about what's said on this station, what fans have said.
00:25They shouldn't care. They should be focused on the task.
00:27That's number one. But number two.
00:30Who in their right mind thinks that Brian Cashman takes scotch tape and puts a lineup on the dugout?
00:34Did anybody actually say that? Did anybody say that?
00:37No. That's not the implication.
00:39And if you read the Chris Kirshner piece, that is the implication they're trying to get out
00:43that physically Brian Cashman makes the lineup.
00:45What they said in there, and if you read through the quotes, is exactly what Yankee fans mean.
00:51What? Explain it.
00:52Before every series, Brad Ausmus and Brian Cashman get together and they go through the pitching matchups,
00:57the series as a whole, what pitchers are going to come through, the lefty-righty splits, all of that.
01:02That is what Yankee fans mean.
01:05Gut managing is out the window.
01:07So, no, no. Can I finish? I'm finishing now.
01:09It's evident taking with Sean Morris.
01:11But with the following now.
01:12Why don't you go there, Sean Morris?
01:13Because this is what you do.
01:14You interrupt me and then I never get to the full point and then you go, well, this is what
01:17you mean.
01:17Right. By the way, hell of an open, Sean.
01:19Thank you, bro. I mean, I'm the best.
01:20I mean, if only the computer worked.
01:22Okay.
01:24Dude.
01:24You forgot his point.
01:25No, here's the point.
01:26The point is, what we mean by the general manager and the organization makes the lineup is,
01:31they overfeed them with all this information.
01:34And things like we talked about in the offseason, Jason Dominguez is hot, stick with him on a hot streak,
01:38go out the window.
01:39So when we say Brian Cashman makes the lineup, it doesn't mean Brian Cashman writes out one through nine and
01:43tapes it.
01:44But it means the organization comes together and they feed a bunch of information and they go based on information.
01:50But isn't that good?
01:52No, it's not.
01:53Isn't the more you know, the more data that you have, the more points of reflection that you can use
02:00to make a decision?
02:01In every walk of life, that's a good thing.
02:05So why is it not a good thing for making a Yankees lineup?
02:09Ultimately, Aaron Boone is still writing the names and putting and taping it on the board, correct?
02:15Correct.
02:16But this is where the fork in the road comes.
02:18The fork in the road comes.
02:19That information does help you, Tiki.
02:21Yes.
02:21But it is the sole information they use.
02:23So when Aaron Boone's the one filling out the lineup, Aaron Boone doesn't even realize him, Aaron Boone, isn't even
02:28filling out the lineup anymore.
02:30Like, he's not doing what a classic manager would do, which would be, I'm going to use this information.
02:35It's going to help.
02:35Yes, this series is all.
02:36Like, I get all that.
02:37But there's no riding a hot hand.
02:39There's no, like, hey, this guy's been hitting seventh for a couple weeks.
02:42He's hot.
02:42Let me bump him up.
02:43And that is how you end up with 150 different lineups in 162-game season because it's just a receipt
02:49spitting out information constantly.
02:50So we say, these idiots don't even realize what we mean when we say Brian Cashman makes the lineup.
02:55What we mean is you're so analytically organizationally driven.
02:58By the way, what happened last year to we're the least analytical team in our division.
03:03And yet, there's a whole piece where they're admitting how much analytics goes into making the lineup and it's all
03:08Aaron Boone.
03:09They can't even keep track of their own lies anymore.
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