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New York Yankees and New York Mets fans are fed up after a winless weekend, and Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle break it all down!
New York Yankees and New York Mets fans are fed up after a winless weekend, and Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle break it all down!
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00:00Great to have you here.
00:01It seems like the Mets are in a worse spot than the Yankees,
00:04but neither one of them, frankly, are any good.
00:07No offense whatsoever, no clutch hitting whatsoever.
00:10We got a Yankee that doesn't know basic Little League rules,
00:13and we're going to have to deal with that.
00:15And we've got the New York Mets about to implode
00:18if things in L.A. go the way a lot of people think they might.
00:21And then the question's going to become,
00:23when the New York Mets finally do come back home,
00:26who's their manager going to be?
00:28Some people think Carlos Beltran,
00:31some think Mendy might survive it.
00:33But if they take the collar against the Dodgers and the Cubs,
00:36there will be a new manager at Citi Field.
00:39You can mark my words for that.
00:41Meanwhile, the Yankees sitting there at 8-7,
00:43having lost five in a row,
00:45and another one-run loss yesterday,
00:48kind of a different one where they're down three
00:49before the judge home run.
00:51But let's call it the way it is, not good.
00:54Good afternoon, Big Mac.
00:55How are you today, kid?
00:56I've been better.
00:57Yeah, you have, haven't you?
00:58How are you?
00:59Yeah, I'm doing fantastic myself.
01:01Yeah, no, miserable weekend for baseball fans here in this city.
01:04Both teams, obviously.
01:05Winless weekend.
01:06Winless.
01:06And the Yanks had Freed and Schlittler going.
01:09I know.
01:10Even if you throw the heel game out,
01:12Freed and Schlittler back-to-back against Tampa.
01:15Can't lose both.
01:16Bang.
01:16Can't lose both.
01:17Can't lose a game where Max Freed, again,
01:19he does give up the two runs in the eighth,
01:21but he's pitching into the eighth inning like an eighth.
01:23You got to win, right?
01:24When we were here on Thursday after that Thursday game,
01:26when you get a pitching performance like Weathers gives you
01:28and it's eight innings of one run, you got to win.
01:31The Yankees have been dreadful.
01:33The offense is non-existent.
01:34They're not hitting homers, which to me,
01:36we could talk about a lot of different things, and we will.
01:38That's the point.
01:39The Yankees hit home runs.
01:41The Yankees slugged the baseball.
01:43And no one, I know, Judge,
01:44hopefully that's the beginning of him turning it around.
01:46No one's hitting home runs.
01:48They're not driving the baseball.
01:49The at-bats are futile.
01:50And the manager, as much as he's my guy,
01:53has made some really head-scratching decisions late in the game.
01:57Goldschmidt for Gritchick in the ninth of the Saturday game is a decision.
02:02And again, you know he's my guy, and I don't think he's a bad manager.
02:05I don't buy into all the narratives around Aaron Boone.
02:07I probably never will.
02:08But I can tell you this.
02:09I don't know if I've ever left the game wondering what the hell
02:12he was thinking like that before.
02:13I don't know what Boone's thinking.
02:15And then in the postgame, he admits,
02:17I don't know what I was thinking.
02:20There's also a non-competitive at-bat.
02:22That didn't make it any better.
02:24No, no, Gritchick, yeah.
02:25I think he swings at the first pitch and pops it up.
02:27It's just Paul Goldschmidt is there.
02:30It's the end of the game.
02:31And look, I know we're getting into the weeds already of one player
02:34and one decision to start the show here,
02:36and it's more of a general thing and more issues than that.
02:38But I don't necessarily hate Randall Gritchick.
02:41I know he's 0 for 11.
02:42He's been miserable.
02:43I understood why he's on the roster.
02:45I understand what his role is.
02:46I had no problem with him getting the start the next day.
02:49They want to give a judge a day off his feet,
02:50not play all three games on the turf.
02:53He's the fourth outfielder.
02:54He's got to play.
02:54I have no problem with any of that.
02:56But we've seen right now, he looks like he doesn't know how to hit.
02:59So why would you allow him to have a huge hit in the bottom of the ninth
03:02when you know you're going to extra innings
03:04against a team that specializes in bumps and speed
03:07against that part of the lineup?
03:08Because I think the Yankees are better than Tampa
03:10even after these three games.
03:12They took it to them in every way you could possibly take it to them.
03:15I thought Tampa played a great series.
03:17They played their game.
03:18They dictated the style of play to the New York Yankees all three games.
03:23It's not even so much that the Yankees couldn't handle it,
03:25and that's part of it,
03:25but it's more to the fact they were the aggressor.
03:28They were the ones who took their style of play,
03:30and their style of play scares the hell out of me
03:33with a runner on second base and extra innings.
03:35Like, that's where they live.
03:36And you had an opportunity there to get a better hitter in a big-time spot
03:40to try and end the game there in the ninth,
03:42take the lead, bring in Bednar,
03:44and not go to play that game of chance
03:46that has become extra inning baseball and Major League Baseball
03:49with their speed.
03:50And instead, he lets Gritchick hit who can't hit right now.
03:53Like, a lot of head-scratching things.
03:56Jazz not knowing the rules, although that didn't impact the game.
03:58He bobbled the ball anyway, but he...
04:00Multiple sacrifice bunts.
04:02They're singles, Craig.
04:03Multiple sacrifice bunts that not only score the run,
04:07they're singles that prolong the inning.
04:10Like, there was a lot, and I'm a positive guy,
04:13and I'm still positive about this team.
04:14Best team in the American League.
04:16We'll see you in the World Series, Craig.
04:17I'm still that guy.
04:18Okay.
04:1815 games in.
04:19I have concerns.
04:20I have concerns, but I am still the positive Yankee fan.
04:24But that was an ass-kicking.
04:26Yeah.
04:27And the Yankees did dumb things.
04:28The manager made decisions I can't understand.
04:31By the way, he couldn't explain him.
04:33He couldn't explain him.
04:34Yeah.
04:34Even earlier.
04:35I think he was desperate.
04:36I think he's trying to get a guy out of an 0-4 slump.
04:38Right.
04:38And you figure, let me show some trust and faith in him.
04:41He's up here.
04:41Yeah.
04:42Meanwhile, I know a lot of Yankee fans are like,
04:43hey, by the way, how's Dominguez doing in AAA?
04:45Oh, batting .350.
04:47You know, hitting the snot out of the ball.
04:49Yeah.
04:49Which doesn't make the situation any better here, obviously.
04:52So I think he tried to get a struggling ball player off the schneid.
04:55Yep.
04:55Obviously, it doesn't work.
04:57And to me, a lot of the Tampa series was reminiscent of two years ago.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Because I'll never forget the Dodgers in the World Series said, look.
05:06Oh, that sticks with you?
05:06It sticks with you because the script to beat the Yankees was put the ball in play.
05:12Like, we'll small boy to death.
05:14We're going to put the ball in play and see if you can get us out.
05:18Right.
05:18And like you said, two sacrifice bunts that become singles, obviously the situation with
05:22the bases loaded and Jazz, although I think if he had stopped explaining his answer after
05:27the first sentence, he'd be fine.
05:29He's probably okay.
05:30Where I was thinking about, you know, tagging the runner and throwing a first for the double
05:34play.
05:35The one thing I'll say.
05:35If we had left it at that, it's like, you know what?
05:37At least he knew what to do.
05:39I will say this on some level, and this is where I'll get the Yankee shill a little bit.
05:43And then we'll get to the Mets after that.
05:44Yeah, the Yankees, again, I think that's particularly the Rays game.
05:48I know they got some singles.
05:50Like I said, those runs didn't come around the score anyway.
05:53But like, I don't think it was so much that the Yankees, like, you put the ball in play
05:58against the Yankees.
05:59If the Rays play that game, where Simpson, he is a force of nature, and right now he's
06:05leading the American League in hitting.
06:06Like, that's a scary thought.
06:08That is an incredible baseball player if he's going to hit damn near 400.
06:12Like, it's crazy.
06:13But like, they're good at that.
06:15That's their game.
06:16They play in a ballpark where hitting the ball on the ground benefits you.
06:19A couple of things where they didn't cover first base, no doubt, I'm frustrated by it.
06:23But if you watch it, I didn't get that same feel.
06:26Like, you saw Bellinger play his ass off in left field.
06:29He made a bunch of good plays.
06:31Like, we haven't seen any, like, snafus or anything major with the defense.
06:35The Rays are good at that.
06:36I don't think that was an example of put the ball in play and see what happens.
06:39Those are sacrifice bunts with speed on the bases and speed at the plate that works.
06:44And that's the way they'll beat you.
06:46And that's what pisses me off about it.
06:48The Yankees allowed and put the Rays in a position and allowed the Rays to dictate the series where we
06:53played the style of games in baseball where it's the one way the Rays are better than the Yankees.
06:58And they allowed those to become the key moments of the series.
07:01And that's what's frustrating.
07:02Meanwhile, across town, the New York Mets were just dreadful.
07:05They're now two games under .500.
07:07They're in last place in the East.
07:09You've got to go out to L.A. and play the best team in baseball, the Dodgers, to try to
07:12get off of this five-game losing streak.
07:14And I think, look, the Yankees are bad right now.
07:17Let's just call it the way it is.
07:18The Yankees are frustrating to watch.
07:20Five losses in a row.
07:21The offense has really been dormant through much of it.
07:24I know you get the two-run homerun by Judge Leight, but it's been a bad offense.
07:28And then you have the Mets, and there's a difference between being bad and being boring and listless.
07:33And the New York Mets go out there, and it's just boring baseball, listless baseball.
07:39Lindor, again, has got his head up his ass in this last series in which they get swept and now
07:45have to go out to L.A.
07:46And if there's a team that ever needed to want Soto back immediately, it's the Mets team.
07:51Because I know when you won the first four in a row, a lot of you guys were peacocking.
07:57Look at us, four in a row without Soto.
07:59Maybe we don't need Soto.
08:01Soto's the problem here.
08:02Lindor's the man.
08:03Well, five losses in a row, two games under .500.
08:07And I'm going to say it the way it needs to be said.
08:09It is unwatchable baseball.
08:12There's no juice.
08:13There's no vibe.
08:14There's no, hey, we're down a run.
08:16We'll be okay.
08:17We'll score two in the seventh.
08:19Once they're down a run, it feels like it's over.
08:22There's no energy at all on this team.
08:24And for a team that needs to be rebuilt, because Francisco Andorra's wife didn't like a couple
08:29players and their wives, you made a deal with the devil.
08:32And the devil's not paying off his end of the bargain.
08:35This is a bad baseball team.
08:37This is a listless baseball team.
08:39And I'm telling you now, if they come back, how many games are the two series?
08:44Is it six, three, and three?
08:46Let me just make sure I have that accurate so I can give you a correct math here, my friend.
08:50And so we've got three against the Dodgers, and then Friday, Saturday against the Cubs,
08:58Sunday against the Cubs.
09:00Yeah, two three-game series.
09:01Two three games.
09:02A day off.
09:03And then they have Minnesota back at Citi Field.
09:04Then they head home from Minnesota and Colorado.
09:06So let me say this.
09:07And Washington.
09:070-6 or 1-5, I think there's a chance you have a new manager at Citi Field.
09:13Because this general manager, this crazy owner, with this tweeting back and forth, right,
09:21and nonsensical banter about ticket sales and free tickets and all the things he has to say.
09:26Yeah.
09:28Mendoza was lucky to come back this year, in my opinion, after it happened last year,
09:32not making the playoffs.
09:33If they get embarrassed in L.A. or Chicago, I would not be surprised if there's a quick hook
09:39and you've got a new manager for the home series after the day off at Citi Field.
09:44Yeah, I mean, listen, I think he's on the hot seat.
09:46I don't know if he's 20 games into the season hot seat.
09:49And how do you explain Lindor acting like he doesn't give a rat's ass?
09:53Yeah.
09:54That's a continuing theme this year now.
09:56Well, yeah, he's made a couple of boneheaded plays.
09:58I don't know why he's not at second base on that ground ball.
10:00That's an easy double play.
10:01I have no idea why he's getting picked off a third base.
10:04You know, like there's been a couple of boneheaded plays.
10:06And we're going to just tolerate it?
10:07To go along with the idea he's hitting, what, 170 with zero home runs and zero RBIs.
10:11I mean, and we talked about this.
10:13Part of that could be the handmade bone injury.
10:15We talked about the idea that power could be zapped from you.
10:18But this is also what he is.
10:20Like, he has struggled in April in most seasons.
10:23I think last year he had a good April.
10:24Outside of that, he has struggled to start the year in most of the years of his career,
10:28certainly with the Mets.
10:29But, like, here's the thing, and I think it's the two differences.
10:31Because you're kind of tap dancing around it.
10:34Like, the Yankees are bad right now.
10:36But we aren't at the panic mode for them just yet.
10:40No.
10:41And the Mets, it feels like, wow, they're in a worse position than the Yankees are.
10:45Both lost five.
10:46Both just got swept over the weekend.
10:48Both playing bad baseball.
10:49But you feel a little bit more confident in the Yankees rebounding than you do the Mets.
10:54And that's just the nature of a brand new team.
10:56Like, that's what it is.
10:57It's like, we don't know what this team's going to be.
10:59The Yankees are the running back Yankees.
11:01But they did win 94 games last year.
11:02So, like, as pissed off as we all are, there is some level of track record.
11:07Well, let's see.
11:07They'll get it going.
11:08The offense scored the most runs in baseball last year.
11:10They'll figure it out on some level, even if you don't like the makeup.
11:13This is a brand new team with a bunch of guys that you just don't know what they're going to
11:18be,
11:18who they are, and how they fit inside this group.
11:20It's a brand new group.
11:21And they're playing terrible, listless baseball.
11:24And their leader right now seems lost.
11:27It's just not.
11:27Look, losing sucks no matter what.
11:29The Mets look like they're going through the motions.
11:31It's very strange.
11:33And you got some trouble.
11:34Like, Kodai Senga being awful in the way he was.
11:37And that's a, like, he needs to be really good for them.
11:40And he got absolutely pounded.
11:42And then you talk about, you know, Clay Holmes and the hamstring.
11:45And, like, now the rotation is a little bit more in question.
11:49Peterson hasn't been good.
11:50So you're relying really on two starters that you trust at the moment.
11:53Right?
11:54And then Mania was good in relief, but you don't trust to throw him back into the rotation.
11:57Right.
11:57So the rotation's kind of been either banged up in Holmes or lousy in the other
12:01two.
12:02You've got an offense that's not scoring any runs in a new group, like guys that don't
12:05have track records here.
12:06But here's the thing.
12:07What makes you think Simeon's going to be better?
12:09What makes you think Polanco's going to be any better?
12:10What makes you think this group, as it's on its own, is going to gel together and figure
12:15it out when we've never seen it before?
12:18And by the way, this kid's going to go back.
12:20It's going to be a theme all season long.
12:23Remember, of the three guys that are no longer here, the one guy that had to go because directly,
12:30because of Francisco Lindor and their wives, is batting .367 right now.
12:37That's Brandon Nimmo.
12:38All right?
12:39So they rebuilt this team.
12:41Nimmo had to go.
12:43Why?
12:43Because of Francisco Lindor and their wives.
12:46That is a fact.
12:47I don't care what anyone says.
12:48I know it to be a fact.
12:49It's a fact.
12:50So when you make a decision like that, and the guy you get rid of is batting .367, and
12:56the guy that you replaced him with, who's a very good ball player but has not been hitting
13:01the ball well, batting at .190, Marcus Simeon, fans are going to say, what the F is going
13:07on?
13:08And the biggest thing to me, and again, this is not like, hey, the Yankees are any better
13:12because the Yankees stunk all weekend also.
13:15But I will tell you this.
13:17Francisco Lindor is becoming a problem now.
13:20Whether you're getting picked off first, you get picked off third, you don't have any
13:24outs there on the first inning of the game against the Cardinals.
13:27For some reason, you're 10 feet behind second base.
13:29I don't know what that is.
13:30On an easy double play ball, like you don't know where you're supposed to be, and if you
13:34don't think Mets fans, who have been attacked by their owner now, both last year and a little
13:40bit this year, don't want to have their voices heard, keep playing like this.
13:45You're going to cost Mendoza's job, and you think three million fans is going to happen
13:51every year at Citi Field?
13:52No.
13:52You ain't going to get close.
13:54You think, well, I mean, I know what you're going to say to this question, but I've got
13:57to ask because you're talking about it.
13:58Well, I hope I don't disappoint you with my answer.
14:00No, I think you kind of just made your point, but I'm going to ask it anyway.
14:03Go ahead.
14:04Do you think Mendoza is the problem with this team?
14:06I don't know that he is or isn't.
14:08I know that this team is playing uninspired, boring baseball.
14:11Yeah.
14:11Now, is it more David Stearns than Mendoza?
14:14I don't know.
14:15Mendoza, I got to be honest about Mendoza, because he's a very nice guy, a likable guy, and we've
14:19had him on the show.
14:21My thought process on Mendoza is that he feels like he's so lucky to have the job, because
14:28I don't think anybody was going to make him manager when the Mets did, right?
14:30And he feels so fortunate to have the job and wants to be a player-friendly manager that
14:38I'm not sure if he holds everybody accountable.
14:41Like, I'd love to know, has he brought Francisco Lindor to his office and said, Francisco, what
14:46the F are you doing?
14:48Probably not.
14:49That's my gut.
14:51Probably not.
14:53Like, does he have to?
14:54Yeah, he does.
14:55Like, the leader of the team, the $300 million man, the guy who wanted to be captain.
15:00Good thing he's not captain, by the way.
15:02Lindor needs someone to hold him by the hand and say, hey, don't get picked off a third.
15:07Yeah.
15:07Hey, you know, go to the bag when a ground ball to second base for a double play.
15:11He didn't do it, so I guess he does.
15:13I think this is, like, and one, we don't know if he didn't do it.
15:17You're assuming he didn't do it.
15:18I think it's a pretty fair assumption.
15:20Why?
15:20Because it hasn't changed.
15:22He doesn't seem to be the type of guy that holds players accountable, especially stars.
15:26Hold what accountable?
15:27These are professional athletes.
15:28Yeah, but they're not acting like it.
15:29Lindor's not losing on purpose.
15:30He's not making these decisions because he's not being held accountable.
15:33It's not that he wants.
15:34Analytics and accountability don't fall into the trap, Craig.
15:38No, no.
15:38Let me be very clear about this.
15:40I don't think Lindor wants to lose.
15:42I don't think he gets any joy out of losing.
15:44That would make him a psycho.
15:46But the guy's been a pro for how long?
15:49Many.
15:49Yeah, a long time.
15:50A decade, right?
15:51Yeah, easy, yes.
15:51Okay?
15:53And he gets picked off third, gets picked off first, and the first inning doesn't know
15:57how many outs there are and doesn't know where to be on a routine double play ball.
16:01Yeah.
16:02Nobody's holding him accountable.
16:03He's got to answer to the media, but he's got to answer to his teammates.
16:07Yeah, that's right.
16:08But if the manager calls him in and says, what's going on?
16:10He's going to fix it?
16:11I can't answer that, but I don't think the manager's ever done it.
16:13You don't know that.
16:14You're just assuming it because there hasn't been a change in the results.
16:17That's a fair assumption.
16:17Why?
16:18Because if the manager pulled him aside, we would know about it because the guys that
16:21cover the Mets are pretty good at their jobs.
16:24We don't know that.
16:24Hold on.
16:24Let me ask you a question.
16:26If you had a guess, just a guess.
16:28Yeah.
16:28Do you think Mendoza has brought him into a room alone and said, what's going on?
16:33I would guess you know.
16:34Yeah.
16:35Because he's Francisco Lindor.
16:36He doesn't need to have someone pull him aside and say, what's going on?
16:39How about this?
16:40Maybe like a what's going on, not a stern talking to you.
16:42Why not?
16:43Why are you afraid of that?
16:44I'm not afraid of it, but you make it sound like that's a cure-all to a guy who knows
16:47exactly what he needs to do.
16:49No, he doesn't.
16:50If he knew what he needed to do, he would effing do it.
16:53Well, then how come he led the team to the NLCS two years ago?
16:55How about last year?
16:56You always forget the last year.
16:57He did that frequently.
16:59He didn't play well.
16:59What did he do last year?
17:00He led them to new playoff appearances.
17:02I understand.
17:02So did Juan Soto.
17:03Pull him aside.
17:03And by the way, he's been a great player.
17:06Yeah.
17:06But this year, he seemingly has no interest in playing ball at the level he's capable of.
17:12I know, but I don't tolerate that crap.
17:14No one's tolerating it.
17:15You are.
17:16You're an apologist for a great player.
17:19I'm not an apologist for great players.
17:21I'm saying you think the manager has some sort of magic potion for a veteran player.
17:24He doesn't.
17:25There's no magical conversation.
17:27How do you know he hasn't done it?
17:29Because he hasn't.
17:30You don't know that.
17:31You assume because you think if he did, this thing would stop.
17:34There's no proof that it would stop.
17:35I want to be clear about this.
17:36If he had pulled him aside into his office, we would have heard about it.
17:39No.
17:40There's no secrets anymore.
17:41Or they'd probably talk every day on some level.
17:44Not like that.
17:45Matter of fact, AP.
17:46What do you mean to be like the chief of police who's all pissed off at the buddy cops?
17:50Bring him in there and start yelling at him?
17:51That's right.
17:52That's right.
17:53That's not how it works.
17:53Sometimes you have to be tough on your best players.
17:56And the best players get a free ride with Mendoza.
17:59Trust me on this.
18:00If it were the Yankees, you'd feel this way.
18:01I'd feel this way about the Yankees with Jazz.
18:03Yeah.
18:03Yeah.
18:04You think Boone took Jazz aside and said, what the F?
18:06No, I don't think he did.
18:07Well, maybe he should.
18:08But if I think he did, I think we'd have the same results.
18:10Well, we're going to find out, aren't we?
18:12You know the phone numbers to join?
18:13888-808-109.
18:15I never saw Big Mac as a superstar apologist.
18:18It's not a superstar apologist.
18:20It's that we talk about holding players accountable.
18:23If he holds, there's no accountability.
18:25That's why he's going to get replaced.
18:26You want to bench Lindner?
18:27Let me ask you a question.
18:28Would Jim Leland have held him accountable?
18:30What should they do?
18:31I want to bench his ass.
18:33What do you want to do?
18:34I want to do two things.
18:35A, I bring him in for the one-on-one.
18:37You're my best player until Soto gets back, but you're not playing like it.
18:41When do I get the Francisco Lindner that makes all-star games, that wants to be captain?
18:46Because thus far, you've been a real disappointment, Francisco.
18:50Get your head out of your ass and start playing baseball.
18:53You got it, Skip.
18:54Here I go.
18:55Bang.
18:56I bet you he goes three for four that night.
18:58You want to bet?
18:59And I'll tell you what the problem is with Francisco Lindner.
19:01He's got soft.
19:02He bought that $25 million Upper East Side apartment.
19:05He probably answers to his cuckolded wife, wants to be on the Mayor Mom Donnie transition
19:11team, and baseball's not as important anymore.
19:14You got to start acting like baseball means something to you, kid.
19:18That's what I would say to him.
19:19And I'll tell you what.
19:21If I get another crap performance like I got from you yesterday, you're not playing tomorrow.
19:26Okay.
19:26Because I'm the manager of this team.
19:29I sit your ass right down.
19:31Watch from the dugout.
19:33But you're going to tolerate this crap.
19:35Not on my watch, you're not, son.
19:38888-808-1019.
19:40When they fire him, they should bring you in.
19:42I can't be a baseball manager.
19:44Why not?
19:45It's that simple.
19:46I'll tell you why.
19:46Are you struggling?
19:47Come see me in the office.
19:49I'm going to set you straight.
19:50By the way.
19:50And you're going to go 5-5 tomorrow.
19:51I think we need more accountability in all walks of life.
19:54Of course.
19:54That's right.
19:55Accountability, accountability, accountability.
19:55Matter of fact, if I'm the program director here, the operations manager here, if I hear
19:59something I don't like, I don't care who you are, I'm sitting your ass down to.
20:03That's it.
20:03You start doing the right thing.
20:05Well, guess what?
20:05You want to hear Pete in the morning or afternoons?
20:08Or middays?
20:09Probably not.
20:10Probably not.
20:10That's the threat, though.
20:12That's the threat.
20:13We let people get away with murder around here.
20:15Oh, my God.
20:16It's crazy to me.
20:17Francisco Endures should be benched.
20:19He's an excellent baseball player who's struggling right now.
20:21He's not excellent this year.
20:22I bench his ass.
20:23Teach him a lesson.
20:24You want to lollygag around my field?
20:26Sit your ass down.
20:27We don't need that tonight.
20:29Yeah.
20:29See how quick he starts going three for four and knows the rules of baseball.
20:33And jazz is another one.
20:34Yeah.
20:35The jazz situation.
20:35You've been playing baseball for 30 years.
20:36You don't know the rules?
20:37I don't know how that's possible.
20:38Stop it.
20:39I don't know how that's possible.
20:40Now, again, as far as disciplining jazz or whatever, the funny thing about the situation is I don't ever remember
20:47a player creating ire from the fan base about not knowing something or having an issue when it didn't actually
20:55happen on the field.
20:56Like, his answer had nothing to do with what happened on the field.
21:01He was not confused in the moment.
21:03He did not make the wrong play.
21:05He didn't think, oh, it's not like he grabbed it through to first base.
21:08They got in the rundown.
21:09He's like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have thrown to first base.
21:11Right.
21:11He tried to field it.
21:13He booted it.
21:15But he was trying to tag and throw.
21:17Like, he wasn't confused.
21:18He attempted to make the right play.
21:20But because of an answer in the postgame, we all now assume he's an idiot who doesn't know baseball.
21:25I love jazz shit, but it's a tough answer.
21:27It's a tough answer.
21:28It's a tough answer.
21:29And not only that.
21:29He's like, does the RBI count?
21:32Yeah, I know.
21:32And the cavalier nature of it, he's like putting in the earrings.
21:34He's like, oh, I guess it wouldn't have worked no matter what I did.
21:37That kind of sucks.
21:39It's like, he did himself no favors there.
21:42A lot of baseball I hear today.
21:45Why?
21:45Because that's what New Yorkers care about.
21:47All right, that's why.
21:48That's why you get baseball out of the gate.
21:50That's why you get baseball most of the day today.
21:52We got some other things we'll float in and out throughout the afternoon.
21:55You know the phone numbers.
21:56A little late for a break.
21:58I promise we'll get all your calls starting in the next segment.
22:01Do you think Mendoza makes it as manager back home?
22:03I think it's 50-50.
22:05You think, really, if they win one game in this six-game road,
22:08they go one in five, Mendoza's no longer your manager.
22:11On April, on 4-20?
22:13Yeah.
22:14On 4-20, I'm going to send them home.
22:15You've got to kill the cancer before it spreads to the rest of the body.
22:18One in five, Francisco Lindor will have gotten his manager fired.
22:22I will be stunned.
22:23Stunned if he doesn't make it to the all-star break.
22:26By the way, I wouldn't be shocked if the owner can't even watch these games.
22:29That wouldn't shock me in the least.
22:30Well, I don't think he has Amazon or Peacock or Apple.
22:33Fair point.
22:34Fair point.
22:34He might not.
22:35He might not.
22:36I think they're all on it.
22:37If you want to watch NBA playoffs, you're better off Amazon.
22:39I can tell you that.
22:40But I would be stunned.
22:42They're going to give them until, like, July.
22:44If you're seven, six, seven games under 500?
22:46I guess if it becomes really this bad.
22:48Yeah, I guess.
22:48And it's listless baseball, and no one has held Francisco Lindor accountable?
22:53Right?
22:54You don't think Beltran's already trying on his uniform?
22:57I think Beltran is the answer, though.
22:58I'll give you that.
22:59Yeah?
22:59I guarantee he's like, how's the 15 look tonight?
23:02Pretty good.
23:03Pretty good.
23:03He's got the thing off his face now.
23:05It's all good.
23:06Yeah.
23:07He's all ready.
23:09By the way, if they retire your number, can you wear it as manager?
23:12Yes, absolutely.
23:13Are you allowed to?
23:13I would think so.
23:14It's a fair question.
23:15It is.
23:16Now, they're not retiring until September.
23:18I think it's no other bet will ever wear the jersey.
23:22It's like if Beltran becomes manager on April 23rd, he gets to rock his own number, I guess.
23:28I would think so.
23:29But then it's not retired, right?
23:32Like, do you still have the retirement ceremony if he's wearing it?
23:34Yes.
23:35I'll get the bottom of that.
23:36That's an interesting one for me to investigate.
23:37Well, if not, then they won't hire him as a manager.
23:40Right, right.
23:41The day is probably more important.
23:42You have a choice.
23:43You could be manager, or we retire the jersey or whatever.
23:47And he would have to miss a weekend because he's going into the Hall of Fame.
23:49Yeah.
23:50Well, good point.
23:52He'd have to miss at least that Sunday, right?
23:54Better call Cooperstow and tell him he might not be making it that weekend.
23:57And he got a big series against the Phillies.
23:58Live hit from the dugout.
24:00Yeah.
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