00:00So, Jazz Chisholm of the Yankees got in a whole bunch of trouble.
00:03People were up in arms because a couple games ago against the Detroit Tigers,
00:07not last night, but two nights ago, he was playing second base with a blow pop in his mouth.
00:12Sour apple.
00:13And, yeah, sour apple was the flavor.
00:15Nice call on that.
00:16I'm more of a traditionalist when it comes to the blow pop.
00:19I'm a sour apple.
00:20Yeah, are you?
00:20Yeah, all the way through.
00:21I don't dislike the sour apple, but if you gave me the choice, I'm going old school.
00:26Okay.
00:26Whereas the tootsie pop, I'm a grape guy on the tootsie pop.
00:29I agree with that.
00:30Okay.
00:30But in any event, so he's rocking the, going to town on it.
00:36They're at second base, just working it like, you know, like some important.
00:40Oh, my God.
00:41I'm just saying.
00:41Oh, my God.
00:42Oh, my God.
00:43I don't think he was doing all that.
00:45Oh, yeah, he was working.
00:47Pulse.
00:47Yeah.
00:48Pulse.
00:48Stop.
00:49Stop.
00:50Can't say pulse or that.
00:51Slow down.
00:52He wasn't doing all that.
00:53Yeah.
00:54Oh, he was on it.
00:54He would have been arrested if he was doing all that.
00:57He didn't use both hands.
00:58Did you have a problem with it?
01:04Not really.
01:04Here's the thing.
01:05Because the manager did.
01:07Okay.
01:07He was like, I talked to him.
01:09That's never going to happen again.
01:10If the manager has an issue, I have an issue.
01:12As a fan, it's baseball.
01:14It's not a contact sport.
01:16And if something happens to him, then it happens to him.
01:19If you do that, to me, I don't think that precludes you from playing a good second base.
01:23No, no.
01:23I agree with you 100% on that.
01:24I think the issue that Aaron Boone had with it, and that a lot of fans had with it, is
01:29the appearance of it, the image of it.
01:31Okay.
01:32Because, like, we've been eating seeds and chewing seeds since baseball was invented.
01:35Not a big deal.
01:36Forever, right.
01:36And a lot of guys keep it in their back pocket.
01:38Mm-hmm.
01:39You know, younger guys that start to bigly chew.
01:41You know, it's supposed to be like, instead of dip, you have bigly chew in your back pocket.
01:44And for when I was a kid, a bunch of guys with the dip on the field, spitting on the
01:49turf.
01:49Yeah.
01:49And, I mean, they're out there chewing water at the plate.
01:53I think maybe because we grew up with it, all good.
01:56Then I remember, you know, Kansas City Royal, you know, Washington, he used to have the toothpicks
02:00in his mouth.
02:01Yeah.
02:01And that was, like, his signature thing.
02:04But it's weird how many people found it so objectionable.
02:08Like, I get the image of it.
02:10There's a picture right there.
02:11I totally understand the image of it.
02:14Right.
02:14I agree with that part.
02:15And part of it's maybe because it's the Yankees.
02:17Maybe that's part of it, too.
02:19And some people just don't like him.
02:20And, yes.
02:21And he's batting .240.
02:22Right.
02:23And here's a guy that's claimed he was going to be in the 50-50 club this year.
02:26I think he's got 12 home runs right now.
02:28Right.
02:28And he's batting .240.
02:30Yeah.
02:30And he's got maybe 15 stone bases.
02:32So, he's not having the year that Yankee fans would have wanted him to have.
02:37And I think that's more of it.
02:38I think if that's Aaron Judge, nobody gives a rat's ass if he's got a blow pop out in right
02:43field.
02:44And if Jazz Chisholm, who I like a lot, because I like his energy, I like the way he plays
02:50the game.
02:51And it's a long season, too.
02:52Yeah.
02:52I think he's going to get his numbers by the end as well.
02:54He'll bat .260 and probably have no 20 home runs or whatever.
02:58And he's had big postseason hits with the Yankees.
03:00And here's what's interesting about it.
03:01Again, he's disappointing this year thus far.
03:04Yes.
03:04In his first 162 games as a Yankee, he's in the 40-40 club.
03:09Yeah.
03:09Now, that's over multiple seasons, obviously.
03:11Because he got traded.
03:12Right.
03:13But zip it over there.
03:14He has produced in his two and a half years as a Yankee.
03:18Yeah, he doesn't stick.
03:19But it reminds me.
03:20And he homered last night.
03:21Yeah, I was going to get to that.
03:22I'm sorry.
03:23No, you're good.
03:23You're good.
03:24But it's just funny to me that after 24 hours of being the front and center,
03:29yo, should we trade him?
03:30Should he have a little lollipop in his mouth?
03:32Blah, blah, blah.
03:33The dude hits the game-winning home run last night late in the game.
03:37And what I thought was funny about it, hits a two-run home run.
03:41Yankees beat the Tigers by a run.
03:42So they split the first two games of the series.
03:45Now, you know Aaron Boone came out publicly and said his words, not mine.
03:49It pissed him off.
03:50Right.
03:51And then he talked to Jazz, and you're not going to see any lollipops again.
03:55After they beat Detroit, they're playing Lil Wayne, singing lollipops.
04:01Right.
04:01Right?
04:02Right.
04:02And they said, Aaron Boone, after the game,
04:06you heard Lil Wayne's music in the locker room and the lollipop song.
04:10He goes, yes, I heard it.
04:12It was not lost on me.
04:13I'm not stupid.
04:14And if he's going to hit game-winning home runs,
04:16he can hit all the lollipops he wants.
04:18There it is.
04:18But I think he meant after the game.
04:20Right.
04:21So I just saw it as a full circle moment where it was the biggest story in
04:25New York.
04:27Everyone's throwing down on Jazz Chisholm.
04:30And then, of course, he's the guy that gets the game-winning home run.
04:34And then they all celebrate by eating lollipops and wrapping lollipop.
04:39Right.
04:40So there you go.
04:41And this is, see, this is what bothers me a little bit about baseball,
04:44if I may.
04:45I understand the manager didn't like it.
04:47So if the manager didn't like it, fine.
04:48He is the boss.
04:49But with all the things we have allowed over the years in baseball,
04:54specifically for players to have in their mouths.
04:56Right.
04:57Why is the line a blow pop?
04:59Again, it's the image of it.
05:00And the fact that people don't like Jazz Chisholm.
05:03It just bothers me because.
05:04And it's more the latter than the former.
05:06Yeah, because I don't care.
05:08Because if a guy, I don't know, I don't dip.
05:10But I've heard about what happens if you swaddle that juice.
05:12You throw up.
05:13Right.
05:14Well, there's been players actively playing for decades with that in their mouth.
05:17That's right.
05:18At any time they can get jostled, whatever, the same thing that would happen here.
05:21Yeah.
05:21A blow pops the issue.
05:23This is where sometimes baseball's got to get in the door.
05:25I don't think it makes him any less good at second base.
05:27So now if he falls on it and chokes, that's on him.
05:30But I just thought it was a full circle moment.
05:32The Yankees win last night because of Jazz Chisholm.
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