00:00Tiki, you said something important there. Who cares? I care.
00:03This is a big problem. A big, big problem for me.
00:06I was totally good with the beards, obviously.
00:09You want to have a Star Wars night at Yankee Stadium.
00:11You want to blink lights.
00:12You want to play your moon sound effects between every pitch.
00:15There is a million things that have happened since this new Yankee Stadium has opened
00:19that has made the Yankees even less and less like the Yankees.
00:22The one separator the Yankees have had from basically ever the franchise,
00:26and this includes the Boston Red Sox as we've seen,
00:28is that they have a standard home jersey and a standard road jersey.
00:31And sure, they've tweaked the road jerseys here or there,
00:34and I think they look very sharp.
00:36The world of alternate jerseys and what has happened across the NBA
00:40and Major League Baseball at the City Connect jerseys makes me want to throw up.
00:43There should never be a universe where the New York Knicks are wearing those black jerseys
00:47where New York's written three times in a playoff game,
00:49and there really should never be a world where the Yankees—
00:52That's why they lost, by the way.
00:53Right. Where the Yankees are wearing goofy road jerseys.
00:56Now, here's the issue, and I know people push back and go,
00:58but they're the spring training navy blue jerseys.
01:00They're still Yankee jerseys.
01:02They look nice.
01:03I agree.
01:04However, who the hell does anybody think they're kidding that this is where it will end?
01:09Oh, you're worried this is beginning.
01:11Because the moment you open the door ajar for the Yankees
01:15to be wearing alternate jerseys that they wear in spring training,
01:18to wear navy blue on the road,
01:20the Nike Sharks start circling.
01:23And you know what's next?
01:24The Yankees, with a big subway train across their chest in 2032,
01:29as what's the difference?
01:30You guys have already had alternate jerseys.
01:32You start getting the City Connect.
01:34The Yankees are not the Marlins.
01:35The Yankees are not the Padres.
01:36The Yankees are not the Mets, and that's not meant to be a shot.
01:38It is like the one fabric left of Yankee baseball
01:42that makes them different from other franchises in sports.
01:47Why is there a rush to squash tradition?
01:50You know, not for nothing.
01:51We're two weeks away from the Kentucky Derby.
01:53Should we get away from playing my old Kentucky home?
01:56Should we have Miley Cyrus come out there and pop her booty
01:59and sing the climb instead?
02:00Like, there's certain traditions in sports that reign supreme.
02:04Yankees having home and away jerseys and that's it
02:06is like the true last fabric of society.
02:09You want it to go out the window because the cool kids want to be cool?
02:12I'm sorry, man.
02:13Don't be different.
02:14Be the Yankees.
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