00:00He's a professional hitter.
00:02I agree with you.
00:03Ultimately, I think sometimes we get too caught in the handedness.
00:06And here's the difference.
00:08The difference is Paul Goldschmidt is a borderline Hall of Famer.
00:11Paul Goldschmidt is a winning player.
00:12And I totally acknowledge that he hits lefties better than righties.
00:16But J.C. Ascara is a career 202 hitter.
00:19J.C. Ascara's career batting average against right-handed pitching is like 185.
00:23It's not as if he mashes them.
00:26So I thought it was a mistake by Boone.
00:29I just find it funny that both managers ultimately made the same decision.
00:33Why don't you go and ask Sean Morad?
00:35I am.
00:36Would you think of the Booney decision to go to Ascara over Goldie?
00:40There's two lines of thought here.
00:41I would have went to Goldschmidt.
00:42We all would have went to Goldschmidt.
00:43But I'm not mad at Aaron Boone.
00:45Wasn't last night.
00:46I'm not mad at him this morning.
00:47And I have a kind of different take on this.
00:48I know everybody's going with the lefty-righty matchup thing.
00:50Just two, three weeks ago, Aaron Boone made a point of saying he believes that J.C. Ascara is a
00:56top 15 catcher in baseball.
00:58He did say that.
00:59And I interpreted that as both offensively and defensively.
01:02So all I'm saying is if I am going to spend a winter and an entire season last year complaining
01:07about not managing with your gut, not going with certain things, we're just doing this, that, and the other.
01:13Aaron Boone yesterday, to me, despite the matchup thing, went with his gut that he put his money where his
01:18mouth is.
01:19He told the world how good he thinks he's in scars.
01:21It's a gut decision, not a matchup decision.
01:24Look, I know it's a matchup decision.
01:26I think it's a blend of both.
01:27Right.
01:28But he put his money where his mouth is.
01:30He spoke the words about J.C. Ascara, whether we believe it or not.
01:33He backed up what he was saying by putting him in a position with the game on the line in
01:37his bat yesterday.
01:38It didn't work out.
01:39He was wrong.
01:40But at least from a managerial point of view, if you're going to talk the talk about certain guys, you
01:44went out there and you tried to walk it.
01:45And I can't kill him for that.
01:47I can't.
01:47Wow.
01:48Look at Sean being reasonable.
01:50I didn't see that coming.
01:51Wow.
01:52Easter did you well.
01:53It really did.
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