00:00You know, there's no doubt Aaron Judge has been an issue there for the Yankees here.
00:04And I'll ask you flat out here.
00:06Do you believe the Rays can hold off the Yankees?
00:11Now they get some bad news on Stanton, too.
00:13It looks like he had a setback.
00:15They're going to need some more punch in that lineup.
00:17You know, the Yankees have been on fire as of late here.
00:20Can the Rays hold them off?
00:22Or do you think the Yankees end up catching them down the line here?
00:26Well, depends on how you look.
00:27Are we going to go glass half full or glass half empty with the Yankees?
00:30All right.
00:30You already mentioned Stanton probably done for the season.
00:32I don't see him coming back.
00:33He hurt the other calf.
00:35The other calf.
00:36Whatever.
00:37And they lost Ryan Weathers yesterday, too.
00:39Now, I have not heard a report as of about two hours ago about what's wrong with Weathers.
00:42But when you saw him come off, he had the glove in his face, screaming in it.
00:46That's not good.
00:47You know, it's an elbow injury.
00:49So, well, I guess we're all crossing our fingers and holding our breath there.
00:53Max Fried could be back on Saturday.
00:55We don't know.
00:56The Yankees play a doubleheader against the Red Sox on Saturday.
00:58So, they would like him back to cover one of those games here.
01:02The good news is they're getting Bellinger back today.
01:04And Judge is starting to hit off a tee now.
01:06So, what are we, August 23rd?
01:08Maybe first week in September?
01:10Mid-September, he could be back here.
01:12So, how are we looking at it there?
01:14I think at this point, for the Yankees, it's getting healthy.
01:17Winning a division is not important anymore.
01:18Getting healthy for the playoffs.
01:20You're going to make the playoffs, right?
01:21You'd like to be the 4th seed, get home field advantage in the first wild card round here.
01:26You don't want to be the 5th seed.
01:27That's the funny thing.
01:28Because then you're probably going to Fenway Park.
01:29You'd rather be the 6th seed.
01:30If you're going to be on the road, you might as well go to the American League Central, probably the
01:34White Sox, right?
01:35I'd rather go to the White Sox than the Red Sox.
01:36So, it's a funny little thing.
01:37The Yankees probably want to finish 4th or 6th.
01:39So, I don't think they're going to finish 4th.
01:41I think the Rays will hold on to win it.
01:43But the Rays, they're a rollercoaster team, too, Dan.
01:45I mean, they win 10 in a row.
01:47They lose 6 out of 8.
01:48We just don't know what we're going to get from anybody in the American League.
01:51Boy, I'll tell you, George, I don't want to start sounding like Met fans because that's total loser stuff.
01:57So, let me go here with this here when we're talking Yankees here.
02:00When did we get to a point, George, where all of a sudden now, hey, we're hoping just to get
02:05to the playoffs here and hopefully have a good showing here.
02:08I always thought it was about hanging World Series titles, not hanging American League Geese titles.
02:13I mean, when did we get to this point here with Aaron Glenn and with Brian Cashman?
02:17I mean, come on, dude.
02:19We got to win.
02:20Yankees are about winning, not about putting a good TV show on.
02:26Winning championships.
02:27I have not heard that in 10-plus years.
02:31When are we going to hear this again?
02:34I don't know.
02:35Listen, they'll say that.
02:36I'm sounding like a Yankee fan.
02:38I get it.
02:38I'm sounding like a Yankee fan.
02:40Well, when you're talking about it, the first thing I'm thinking about, this is why people hate Yankee fans, right?
02:44Because we all, so it's a World Series of Bucks.
02:47Now, once again, the game is different.
02:49Growing up, making the playoffs is a big thing growing up.
02:51Oh, my God, we made the playoffs.
02:52Only four teams made it.
02:54You know, the Wildcats came around.
02:55If you're a Yankee fan that's, what, 30 years or younger, you don't know what losing is.
03:00You have no freaking clue, right?
03:02Because they've been great forever.
03:03All right, so you don't know what a losing season is.
03:05But I'm the same person.
03:07Wild card, don't care.
03:09Divisional round, talk to me about the ALCS.
03:11Once you get that far, then you've had a good season here.
03:14But to answer your question, I don't think winning is the most important thing for the Yankees anymore.
03:18Not since George passed.
03:20All right?
03:20Hal runs it differently.
03:22All right?
03:22He wants to make money, which is why they don't spend as much as they could spend here.
03:26We've all seen the stats.
03:27The Yankees, yeah, they'll have a top three, top four payroll, but they bank more money than most teams.
03:32All right?
03:32They're not spending all their revenue on the players.
03:35They're not.
03:35You know, the numbers will bear that out here.
03:37They want to make money.
03:38It's different.
03:38So what you said, when do we want to be a good TV show?
03:41I think it's exactly what the Yankees want to be, a good TV show.
03:44Get the eyeballs on the screens.
03:46Get the fans in the seats.
03:47That's what they want here.
03:48And I'm the first person to tell you, watching the Yankees right now sucks.
03:51It's like watching paint dry grass grow and any other axiom you want to use there.
03:55It's boring.
03:56It's not fun.
03:57And I think that probably bothers Hal more than anything else.
04:00You know, the fact that watching the Yankees is not a fun time right now.
04:04Well, I'll tell you, when I was a kid and Chambliss hit the home run in 76,
04:07to put him in the World Series for the first time, you know, I mean, from 1964 to 1976,
04:14we stunk in the Mets across the bay.
04:17We're the team there in New York.
04:19And, yeah, I'm not going through that again.
04:21I just want to win some championships here.
04:24There, I'll put my Yankee fandom down here.
