00:00George Lombard is here and I love what Joel Sherman had to say. Lombard, terrific fielder, big league certainly experience
00:11in terms of coming up in clubhouses. His dad has been in the big leagues for a long time. Let
00:18me tell you something before we get into Lombard.
00:20Bear get Anthony Volpe, bear get loser. We have been saying this from the first ever shine time we did.
00:28We said last year, literally last year when the Yankees got swept in a four game series against the Toronto
00:35Blue Jays, Anthony Volpe needed to be sent to the minors because he is not a big league ball player.
00:43How about a couple of years ago when Brian Cashman told Joel Sherman, oh, you got to trust us.
00:49And when Volpe hits, are you going to say, well, great job by player development and the GM and the
00:55manager and the scouting department and the analytics department? What do you have to say now, Cashman? Anthony Volpe is
01:02a losing ball player. We did the interview on our SiriusXM radio show with Derek Jeter, where he talked about
01:10Volpe and he murdered him without using the same words that I'm using, talking about how usually when you look
01:18at the mistakes for Volpe,
01:19you make it in the minor leagues. So on a dark day for the Yankees where they did nothing worth
01:25anything at the trade deadline, this put a smile on my face. This was great. By the way, check the
01:35archives here on Shine Time on YouTube at Shine Time. We've been saying for a month that you would see
01:44Lombard up, Volpe down.
01:48By August 4th. Because finally, the Yankees were kind of hinting and saying the right things. Not to mention the
01:56fact that Lombard's an amazing glove. Not to mention the fact that his last 14 games at AAA since coming
02:02off the injured list, he's hitting close to 400. I mean, this guy is mature. Everything that Joel Sherman said
02:10in the scouting report. And look at these stats, right? I mean, this, this is terrific. Absolutely phenomenal.
02:16What you want. He's, you know, been around the game for his whole life. His dad's been in baseball forever.
02:23Phenomenal glove. Moment's not too big for him. Going to be in the Yankees starting lineup tonight. And most especially,
02:29because I can tell you all the things that we like about Lombard, former top pick, top prospect, as important
02:35as anything here. And you could put this on his email signature. You could put it on his LinkedIn profile.
02:41Not Anthony Volpe. More than anything else. All the great things about Lombard, just the fact that he's not Volpe
02:48gets me going. That's it. I mean, and listen, I would say normally, when you do what I do for
02:54a living, we don't like to kick someone when he's down.
02:56Now, I'm enjoying kicking Anthony Volpe. You don't have to, in the comments, apologize to me. Okay? I've been reading
03:04all the comments. Everything on Instagram, everything on, on X, everything on YouTube, at Shine Time. I, I'm reading it
03:13all. I accept your apology. I was right. You were wrong. Brian Cashman was wrong. I mean, I get it.
03:19There were some people who loved the concept of Volpe. Grew up in Manhattan, moved to New Jersey. First round
03:26pick.
03:26Big Yankee fan. Big Yankee fan. Volpe stinks. His baseball IQ is zero. He would take bad base running to
03:33the field, make errors, take bad fielding to the plate, had no ability to make contact, didn't come through in
03:39the clutch, couldn't drive the baseball. He was a negative. And even more, and I always say this in all
03:47my years in sports media, the players know. People like us can have opinions. The players know if you can
03:55play or not.
03:56There's no way that any professional in that clubhouse looked at Volpe and thought that he was anything other than
04:03a spoiled professional, where he was just Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone's, you know, wonder kid. That, that's, that's it.
04:10I never want to see him again. Look, I think Lombard's going to be rock solid, right? I think his
04:16defense, his IQ, see what his bat does. I think it'll be good as well.
04:20Even if Lombard fails, he won't. I don't want to see Volpe ever again. I don't want to see for
04:25September call-ups, here's Anthony Volpe. I don't want him ever allowed in the Bronx, let alone Yankee Stadium.
04:34Like, he's banned from Stan's sports bar. I never want to see Volpe's face again. So, yes, I was ridiculously
04:41excited. I couldn't get enough. Look, and obviously there's another element to this, too.
04:46Dominguez goes down. Ramos, the Yankees get him at the deadline. And I do think, right, when you look at
04:54the struggle being real, I mean, this is why you trade, quote-unquote, prospects.
05:01Look at Dominguez and Volpe and their numbers. We're talking about a .240 and a .230 hitter, respectively, Volpe and
05:09Dominguez. I mean, look at the power numbers. I mean, Anthony Volpe, one home run. One.
05:17I mean, remember, it's the same Anthony Volpe where years, I mean, think of all the shortstops. I mean, Trey
05:23Turner, we're good. Manny Machado, we're good. You know, can't even mess around with these guys through the years.
05:31Years, years ago, you know, before we signed in Texas, you know, Marcus Simeon, we're good. You know, Corey Sager,
05:38we're good because we have Anthony Volpe. Get the hell out of here. This is why you make trades, okay?
05:44This is why you take guys who are prospects and you ship them to other teams to win. I don't
05:51think we're ever going to see Volpe ever again. We better not. And Dominguez, listen, never lived up to the
05:57hype. My goodness, what a mess. I'm thrilled.
06:01Finally, ding dong, the witch is dead. Lombard's going to stay for a long time. I never want to see
06:07Anthony Volpe's face ever again.
