Should Cody Bellinger Be The TOP Priority for The Yankees?

Should Cody Bellinger Be The TOP Priority for The Yankees?

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Wait till I get back. Ooh. Ooh. Yeah. Living my life with no regrets. So I pull up on me. We chilling. Where we at? At the spot. What time? Any time. Pull up on me. We the cooling at the chill spot. What time? I just want to have fun. Come and beat me up. Meet me at the spot. Up all night to the sunrise. Pop back. Cool. Get ready for the ride. Going to feel good. Going to feel good. [Music] Feelless. [Music] Blessings on blessings on blessings. [Music] Oh, what is going on everybody and all rise and shine? The first of the well, is this the first of the big holidays or would this be considered like the the second? I mean, because fourth talking about in my lore, this is the second. This is the Yes, that’s that’s fair to say, right? In lore. Yeah. I think, you know, we’re Halloween is the first big one. Bada bing, bada boom. It’s a big event on the channel, you know. Correct. No doubt about it. I mean, when when Count Draulo comes around, I mean, that’s And then the the Yankee Nerd was phenomenal, by the way. Nerd special guest this year. Yeah, we did. That was an amazing time. Chat, what’s up? First and foremost, let me say I hope everybody had an unbelievable turkey day. Um, I did not eat turkey, by the way. Uh, me and Jira was only us this year. So, we went to a steakhouse and it was phenomenal. It was really good. And it’s funny because Jira looked at me while we’re eating and she goes, “Why do we not do this every year?” I said, “I don’t know. I don’t know. I feel like we kind of have found something here.” And like really enjoyed it. It was very, very nice. Francis, I know. Forget it. This man was knocked out on the couch. I was I was too. I was too to be fair. We were having We were having a chat uh I want to say the night before Thanksgiving, right? Yeah. No, it was we so we we we had a talk the night before Thanksgiving um us and the guys and we were talking a little bit just about how you know the stigma around uh the Hispanic families and how we do Thanksgiving. And listen, a lot of that is very very much true. So, I’m going to start by saying it’s not a lie. like Dominican families, you not you not normally getting a plate in your hand until around 8:00 p.m. on the early side, 9:00 p.m. on the normal side, and then it could be as late as 10, 10:30. These things happen, right? But my family has kind of made strides to like improve in that regard. And you know, my parents are a little bit older now. And because me and my siblings, all of us are married, like everybody’s kind of go to they kind of have to go to different places too, right? they have to, you know, check in with both families. So, we do ours early. So, literally yesterday, man, in the afternoon, we got it popping. I would say, you know, 400 p.m. 4:30, we’re we’re we’re eating, you know, like. So, I’m I what what I was sad about though, bro, and I shared this with you. I can’t believe I was a one plate dude yesterday. Just one just one plate, bro. And I was That was it. Like, I I tapped out after one plate. I couldn’t believe it, Pete. I was looking at the food and I was smelling it. I was like, “Oh man, I’m I’m going to mess this up. I’m a mess. I’m Bro, I sat on that couch and I just started texting Pete like, “Yeah, bro. Like, I’m washed.” And he’s like, “Bro, I’m doing the exact same thing.” Right. I was I was knocked out. I was knocked out of the couch, man. I was laid out. I had my last bit of carrot cake and that was it for me. Last bit of carrot cake was like, “All right, KO time. You done. You knocked out. That is it.” Italians on the other hand, now of course this year wasn’t a regular. This is the first year ever me and Jira had Thanksgiving by ourselves because our kids are out, you know, they’re working. Uh my son was working all day and uh obviously Lil Manetti Lil Manetti’s in the belly so he’s he’s getting ready to come out. This dude, she ate so much. Lil Manetti was KO’ed. Like he was like, “Yeah, I I can’t I’m done. I’m knocked out cold.” But typically in the Italian household, some of you would know this, a lot of Italians in the chat, you start eating breakfast and the food doesn’t stop. You eat breakfast, you eat lunch, and then you eat dinner. And there’s a ton of food left over, and you’re probably coming down at like 1 or two in the morning to eat again. It’s just a regular thing in the Italian household is food all day non-stop. Yes, you feel terrible. Yes, you sleep like a puppy who you just overfed. You just lay down in your back, stomach bloated, and you’re just KO’ed. But yesterday, we didn’t do that. Yesterday was nice. Uh we had a great time. So again, everybody in the chat, hope you had a very very uh wonderful um Thanksgiving day with friends and family and a lot of blessings out to each and every one of you and got a lot of Yankee news to talk about, man. Jumping uh right into it, but let me start with some super chats here. Kyle Malay, the one, the only. They say Malay is the way. Can’t wait for my Stanley being delivered today. The Stanley sold out in about six hours, by the way, folks. Stanley’s were gone in about six hours. Francis got his out the gate. Um, and then other than that, those babies were gone. So, I did make a commitment to everybody that I will have more in January. Um, I I’ll do my best to get more this time. Uh, so everybody can get their hands on one. Though, Crackle Nuts was very upset that he didn’t get one, but everybody, you will get them. I promise. My brother Ronald Hanley Jr. says, “Happy holidays, fam. Hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving. Hit that like and smack that subie. NYU to the moon.” #emisthe guy. I like that. We’ll talk about that a little bit. But Francis, some news came out. Yeah. Regarding the Yankees off season. That’s man, I I don’t even want to like I don’t want to start this early show beating up the Yankees at all because that’s not my intention here. But it just feels like more of the same. And I know a lot of people could hear that and go, “Come on, guys.” But maybe let’s see what they do first. Of course. But we got to talk about it as it goes through that process. The rumor out there now is that Cody Bellinger is a top priority and they will look at Kyle Tucker if Bellinger falls out. Now, I don’t know about you, Francis, but this is very backwards. Kyle Tucker obviously is the better player of the two. I don’t think you’d have many fans or anybody that would really argue that. Does Kyle Tucker play to multiple positions that Bellinger plays? No, he doesn’t. But when it comes to the overall bat and the overall player, Kyle Tucker is younger. He is a better offensive talent overall. And I believe honestly he pairs extremely well the greatest hitter of our generation, Aaron Judge. So I ask you, why do the Yankees feel this is the right way to go about their business? Because he costs less, right? In a in a word, because he’s cheaper. I I think when you see, you know, those reports, I I’ll say this, right? Like obviously I saw the John Haymon report and my initial response is it’s John Haymon, right? And right, I’ll say that. So to explain to some of the people in the chat who who may not get what I mean when I say it’s John Haymon is listen if you’re not aware by now then let let NYU be the place to let you know that during the off season when it comes to Scott Boris clients you have to be a little bit weary about about what John Heymon is saying. Why? Because John Heymon has become like a puppet for Scott Boris. Like it feels like every off season when it comes to Scott Boris clients. John Haymon is the one that’s out there putting out all this stuff like oh you know he’s a priority for this team. There’s a bidding war with this many teams. He’s got this many offers on the table. He’s got this. He’s got that. He’s got this. He’s got that. That’s what Haymon has become. So when I saw this I was like okay does it shock me that John Haymon is saying that Cody Bellinger is the priority for the Yankees and that they look at uh Kyle Tucker as a backup option. I was like it doesn’t shock me that John Haymon is saying that. I was like, is it annoying that the Yankees have done nothing to refute that? That is my issue. That’s my issue is that it’s not so much that John Heymon is saying it because I mean that’s what Heymon’s been doing, right? He’s, you know, he’s talking up uh Scott Boris client, which is hilarious to me, right? Because he does all that and then somehow when they sign he’s never the one who breaks it. Like Yeah. I I couldn’t believe that last year he wasn’t the one to like he was like the third team that Juan Sto signed with the Met. It’s like, bro, they gave you all of that. Like you had the inside access. So he even patted you on the belly when he walked by. Literally I’m like come on brother. Like thank you buddy. Like you know what I’m saying? Thank you buddy for that. I appreciate it. We couldn’t even give you the story to scoop bro. I mean and let’s be real right. Like in terms of that that job Heymon definitely could lay claim to adding another 50 50 or so million to deal just with just with tweeting. So when people say that that stuff oh that stuff doesn’t matter. Oh. Oh, it that that it does cuz that stuff plays in that boardroom when they’re sitting there um negotiating those contracts. I just think it’s funny that he’s never the guy to freaking I mean I think Bill Madden had it before anybody. I tell you what, man. Who the hell is that? Matter of fact, you’re right. No, Bill was on that. I remember that cuz a lot of people obviously going back to that. We were live all damn day. Hopefully, we’re going to have that opportunity this year. Let me just say that. Uh hopefully there’s a big watch moment where it’s maybe Emi or maybe it’s Mirakami or maybe it’s uh one of these two gentlemen. I Tucker to me would be more of a watch than Cody Bellinger. And again, let me just let me just throw this out there really quickly before anybody gets aggravated and it’s like, “Oh my god, I like Cody Bellinger.” And I just I just want that to be known. I don’t think me or Francis nobody on this channel, by the way, Christian has been a cheerleader for Cody Ballinger. He likes him a lot. I really like Cody Bellinger. I have no no problem with the Yankees bringing back Cody Bellinger. My only problem with the Yankees bringing back Belly is that they’re going to have to probably bring him back on six or seven years. And I think that’s a situation where if you’re the Yankees, you got to look at this in all honesty. You got to sit there and say, “Hey, this guy performed as a Yankee. That’s important to us. We got to understand that. We got to acknowledge that he did everything we could ask this guy to do. He had a better year than he’s had in the previous three seasons almost.” Or I mean you could kind of say 2023 was his best overall year which by to be fair it was definitely a better year but he had a very very good season as a New York Yankee but if I’m going six or seven I got to go six or seven for this guy. It just doesn’t add up to me. And I don’t want it to be like a well Pete you’re you’re picking and choosing you like Kyle Tucker more than you like Cody Bellinger. It’s not necessarily about a like. It’s about the fit. It’s about what the Yankees need. It’s about what we here at NYU have been talking about for a long time. You’re the Yankees. Stop settling for the lesser of the two. Go for the best player. If obviously, we know this already. Tucker’s going to cost more money. He’s going to cost more per AAV every year. He’s going to be more expensive than Cody Bellinger is. And it’s sad that we could sit here and as Francis said, I could sum it up for you in one word, cheaper. It’s sad that we can talk about that because once again, folks, it is the Yankees not doing the best move possible to make your club better. And I know what the Yankees would say because I listen to Brian Kman talk. I listen to House Steinber talk. Unfortunately, talk unfortunately. Yeah. They they talk about the versatility of Cody Bellinger. They talk about the idea that this guy could play center. He could play first base and all that. Well, here’s a little message to the Yankees on that. Maybe build a better roster. I’m so I’m sorry to be the guy to come here and tell you the truth because I know the Yankees don’t always like to hear us tell them the truth. They don’t like that. A lot of times they like for you just to cuddle up and say, “Hey, everything’s all right. Hey Brian, you got any room in that knapsack there? Can I get in there with you? I’m a little cold out here. They they like that a lot more than somebody saying, “Hell, maybe get a good defender at first base. Hell, there’s one available. Maybe get somebody that could play center field. Oh my god.” Folks, listen, there’s a couple available. Maybe do that instead of saying, “Well, I need guys that play six positions.” And I’m not saying there that’s a negative. It is a positive. But when it comes down to a balancing act here, I’m sorry. I’m with you, Francis. Tucker’s the guy. And I was always number one with uh Bobette, but we always knew Bobette wasn’t a reality. So to me, I’m with you on this. Yeah, Kyle Tucker has to be the guy that the Yankees go after. It just makes it makes way more sense. And maybe I I I don’t want to say maybe because they they probably will go after Bellinger more. And then if Tucker’s available, it’s probably a he was too costly. Honestly, I think that and again this this goes back to to a horse that I mean I I’ve pretty much beaten into the casket at this point. But the truth of the matter is I’m not going to stop talking about it. I don’t care how it makes the nerds feel. But again, this go this goes back into why I felt the way I felt about the Trent Gisham deal. This has a lot to do with that because right now everything that’s being negotiated even though the these are deals that are obviously going to be longer than than one year. Right now though, how Steinburn has said that very clearly and that might be something that people brush over, but House Steiner very much looks at this as a year-to-year situation. Right? even though they’re signing multi-year contracts, I think the most important question for him, I would say at least 80% of the time when it comes to these bigger contracts, is okay, what’s it look like for us next year? Like what what like what’s the real money value of that next year? Um what’s that going to do for our total payroll? What’s that what’s that going to do for our luxury tax? What’s that like like what are we looking at here? Right? Because it’s very difficult to to forecast and to project six, seven years down the line. you you can’t I mean you could forecast what the Yankees are going to make six seven years down the line but there’s a very real possibility they make a lot more than that um or if you listen to how there’s a very real possibility that they’re in the red I don’t believe that I think it’s [ __ ] but that is you know whatever he can he can say that because of course they can submit you know he can submit whatever claims about that and no one can really really really refute it because the Yankees refused to open the books but here’s my thing if you really wanted to shut people up how there’s one thing that you could do that would just be that smoking gun for you open the books, but you won’t do that. And I think we know why. Um, going back to Gisham, that’s my issue, bro. It’s that, okay, if you really, really, really, really, really believe that Cody Bellinger is just such a fit for this roster, and he’s just so he’s he’s such a part of what makes this a winning, you know, franch uh, franchise going forward and and that he’s a part of the solution, not the problem. Then why’d you pay Trent Gisham $22 million for 2026? All right. You could have got rid You could have just given him his walking papers, right? And you could have pursued Tucker and Bellinger because the last time I checked, this was the New York Yankees. That’s no talk talking like that nowadays, it’s like, “Oh, you’re crazy. That can’t happen.” That’s the sad thing. They they’ve brainwashed so many people that they’re a franchise that just can’t afford that no, and they can’t do that. No, no. The fan base is is completely neutered. I could tell you right now just in some of the discourse that we’ve had on Twitter and different places over the years, Pete, these the fan base, I mean, they literally just regurgitate everything that Hal says, everything Cashman said. Oh, you know, it’s just not realistic, whatever. And it’s like they think that because Hal says it’s not realistic or because Cash says it’s not realistic. Well, you know, they’re the ones that know, so it has to be true. No, they can lie. Do you guys realize that? Like they they can they cannot say what it is. Okay, because you could tell me, oh, oh, you know, it’s just not realistic or whatever. Okay, so let me ask you guys this. Add the deal that you think Bellinger’s gonna sign and then add the deal that you think Cody I’m sorry that you think Bellinger’s gonna sign and that you think Tucker’s gonna sign. I want you to add those two deals in terms of total value. And then I want you to come back to me and tell me if it was more than they offered Sodto last year. Guess what? It won’t be. So, so the same people telling you that it’s not realistic, that it’s a lie, it’s like, bro, no, you’re listening to a lie because the same team offered more than that to one guy. Yeah. Last year, you understand? One guy. You want to talk about replacing Sodto? There is no other player on the market who can replace Sodto’s back, right? That it it just doesn’t exist. No. But agreed. But I was thinking about this during this week, but if you if you did bring back Bellinger and his versatility defensively and the prowess offensively and add Kyle Tucker’s crazy offensive prowess, the two of them together, they do they probably more than replace Sodto’s bat in the lineup. No. Oh, easy. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. Because And guess what? It’s cheaper. Well, put it like this. Both of those guys together guarantee you I mean, let’s say they’re healthy. They’re definitely hitting over 50 homers combined. Easy. Not even close. You could you could argue very likely 60 plus on both of those guys if not a little even more than that. I mean that’s very possible. The on base percentage well Kyle Tucker gives it to you already. Exactly. So whatever Cody Bellinger adds to that is even more. It’s cake is bonus and it’s going back it’s going back to what you said and there was a lot of Yankee fans um who were not happy about the $22 million qualifying offer for Tren Gisham. The other thing regarding that is think about this. How much more for next year alone would Bellinger have cost besides the 22? What is it? Four more maybe. That’s what I’m saying. Maybe four more million maybe. Tucker even. Tucker you might say, okay, maybe he’s maybe he’s 10 more million. Maybe he’s 11 million. Who knows? Maybe he’s a little less than that. Who knows? Maybe Tucker gets 33 million, 32 million a year, 30 million a year. Who knows what it is? Maybe he gets 29. We don’t know. But the fact of the matter is you still had better outfielders on the market. We’re not I’m not And again, I think me and Francis have both said if you wanted to bring Trent Gisham back, I don’t think Gisham would have flew off the board so quickly that if you really wanted to be a Yankee, you could have said, “Hey, look, we’ll give you a two-year deal at 22 million, 11 a year. We’ll give you a one-year deal at at 12 million.” I don’t think the Yankees Look, again, based off every projection, his value was about $13 million. Based off every projection I saw across the board, Trent Gisham’s value on a one-year deal was about 13 to 14 million dollars. There was nothing that said 20 plus million for Tren Gisham. No, nowhere. Nowhere anything said that. And that is basing all his numbers and all that on what his value would be. So that’s where we are. My my hope is that the New York Yankees again will go out there and look at the the better player and put the money towards that guy. But again, has not been the Yankee way under Hal Steinber. But we will see. Uh Karen says, “From what I know of the old days, Yankees and too expensive were never in the same sentence.” I would say you are correct. That is right. Um Hush says, “What’s up everyone? What you guys got for Black Friday? I bought a glance scroll LED for my room. You guys should buy that for the studio. It would be fire, brother. I got it right here. I’ I’ve had it behind me for a very very long time, brother. Uh but I know you’re talking about the scroll one, the long one that goes through. Yeah, that one is pretty damn cool. I got the I got the smaller version, but maybe maybe in the studio we’ll have that. Um Mike Thompson, my brother, what’s up? [Music] Happy Friday, Peten Francis. In my opinion, Fernando Tatis Jr. is the best player to not only pair with Judge, but fill the superstar void left by Sodto. Get it done, Cashman. Yes, indeed. Look, here’s the deal on on Fernando Tatis. I don’t know many Yankee fans that are against that deal. Michael K is out there and God bless him. Salute to you, Michael K. Honestly, Michael K is out there beating this thing down like figuring it out. Oh, he’s banging the drum. He’s banging that drum. Like, I gotta be honest. He’s banging the drum. Michael Kay is like, “Put the put the whole drum drama on me. Let me be the marching band.” I’m leading by the front. I’m leading by the front. Like, everybody get We got to get this to happen. And I’m proud of him to be honest. I’m really happy that Michael K is at least, you know, kind of going against the grain a little bit. Be like, “Look, man, this is the type of offseason you really got to go a bit crazy. You got to figure something out here.” And if there is any any any um possibility that Tatis is going to be moved, you got to be front and center on that and try to make sure you get a deal like that done. The guy signed longterm or whatever. But uh let’s get in the voicemails. Then I want to talk about a big move that our rivals, the Toronto Blue Jays, did talk about that a little bit. And then there’s some rumors about the New York Mets getting a specific lefty that we uh all know about uh for the starting rotation. But let’s get right into voicemails first and then we will go on from there. Here we go. Hey Pete Josh from Sheep said Bay. Francis if you’re there. Morning. What’s up? Yes sir. NYU community all rise. Happy Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a nice holiday. Thank you brother. Um I guess I just want to uh you know uh respond to the the thumbnail about Bellinger. Okay. Um, I was very disappointed when I heard the House Stein Brener uh Q&A session. I think it would have just been better if he didn’t speak at all and let Cashman and Boone continue to be his mouthpiece. He’s clearly uncomfortable in this role of uh dealing with um this section of the clientele of his business that involves regular everyday people on the fan base. And I’ll just leave it at that. I think Bellinger is an okay signing. um wouldn’t give him more than 5 years and I think that’s too much. I think it would be an A+ signing if he is paired with another hitter. I would like to see the Yankees trade for Brendan Donovan and or rather Catel Marte. I think Bellinger paired with one of those guys gives the Yankees what they need. And I don’t know, I’m so traumatized about uh Sodto leaving. I’ll never get over that. Um but I think if Bellinger and one of those two guys are, uh brought here, it would ease the, you know, uh void that was left and make our lineup a lot more dangerous. Let me know what you think. Once again, I hope everyone had a nice holiday and let’s go [ __ ] Yankees. Love it, man. Great voice, man. My good friend J Josh from Sheep’s Head Bay. Uh, phenomenal voice, man, man. Really was um very good. Right on point. I’m with you. I’ve always said the whole time. I don’t mind Bellinger coming back. I just don’t like the idea of a very long-term deal, six, seven years, which I do believe is what it’s going to come down to for Cody Bellinger. He’s had multiple good years in a row now. Whether you still feel it’s a bit up and down, he still had him. and Boris being his agent. They’re going to lock something in long term. And I hope the Yankees aren’t the ones that are sitting there getting ready for him to sign that deal. That’s a six or sevenyear deal. That’s the only thing I say about Cody Bellinger. Has nothing to do with liking the player or not. He’s a good fit. If they did bring Bellinger back and like you said, they brought in another good player. A Marte would be nuts. Uh, don’t get me wrong, we would all love that type of move, but you know, we’ll see exactly what the Yankees do uh over the next uh couple of weeks. Let’s get to another voicemail, then let’s talk about some things. And we got a lot more voicemails, so we’re going to play a lot of them today. Here we go. Princess in the house. Wow. Yeah. Oh, it’s colder than the witch’s pit outside. And even though we’re cold, even though we’re hungry, and even though we’re tired, we’re still talking baseball. And we’re still rooting for our beloved New York. Even though our own is a little baby. Yeah, cuz it looks like a king compared to the Dodgers and Blue Jays. will heal if you can’t stand the heat. The kitchen and the munch can cook. Yeah, with a wreck [Music] your son and do a dentist visit. Got separations in the tree at Christmas when my claus is in the heels. I just grab them in the biscuit. I don’t care about filling your kind of tucker. We might be [ __ ] with the ones to get and for us to suck it like a $10 ring ring on Monday night when you’re in the al you better want to fight. Got move on for silver spoons or trash can fish face and bubbles to be boom. Yeah. Macho will run you right over like those little lady scorns too cuz then you free to the moon with all my macho maniac and maso with the w Yeah macho. Oh, there’s nobody like him. Damn it. There’s nobody like him. Somebody asked me today, Pete, are we still doing year end awards? Yes. I mean, come on. Why even ask? You’re getting your year-end rewards uh awards. Don’t worry about that. You guys will be voting on it. But we’ll keep it going, baby. I tell you what, we got uh sexy Koolo in the chat. Sexy Koolo in the chat. I am praying this is a female, by the way. I am very much praying it is a female saying they got a sexy Koolo because I’m okay with that. But if it’s a dude, I don’t know, man. We got a little I can’t refer to you that way. I can’t refer to you as sexy Koolo even though I have about four times already. Sup Yu big fan guys. You guys keep it real and I appreciate that big time. So will little Manetti eat Gabboo first or Mongoo. Hashtatis for Christmas. I don’t know. It’s interesting. I don’t know. I don’t see why you can’t have both. You could definitely pair this. I don’t see why you can’t have a little breakfast action of manguagul. I don’t say what the problem is. It sounds I mean look it could let’s be honest if you’re Italian you could replace it with a salami. That’s what I’m even though salami salami is also you know that’s all I’m saying that’s you could definitely replace it and have a little gaba. Now I wouldn’t recommend frying gaba ghoul because your kitchen might explode. I mean you put something as powerful as gaba ghoul in in oil hot. You might blow the whole house up. I’m just saying be very careful while doing that. Leo welcome to the you my brother. We appreciate you. Thank you, DJ Steelio. Oh, he’s a dog that steals. He says, “Vote steals for 2025 MVP.” What up, Sim and Chico Bean? What’s up, brother? How you doing, fam? Fam, thank you for being here. Um, yeah, let’s talk about this. Our rivals got better. Francis, there’s no way of denying this. Our rivals have gotten better. The team that went to the World Series, the Toronto Blue Jays have added Dylan CE to their rotation. Now, I’m not here to argue about the amount of money he got. He got $200 million. Do I personally feel that’s an overpay? I do. I think that’s a lot of money for Dylan CE. But Pete Simonetti has been a big advocate for Dylan CE over the years. Pete Smanetti has been a guy that’s told a lot of people, you can talk about Dylan CE all you want. You can say whatever you want about Dylan CE, but here’s the one thing about Dylan CE that you know you’re going to get. Dylan CE is going to give you innings. He’s going to give you starts and he’s going to give you 200 plus strikeouts. It’s kind of who the guy is. Innings, game started. He’s gonna be on the mound and he’s gonna strike batters out. That is who Dylan CE is as a pitcher overall. And the good news for Dylan CE is right here, folks. He is not just going to be the ace. He doesn’t have to be the big bad dog of this ball club. He is going to join this rotation. Gosman, Cece, Yavage, Jose Bereos, and Shane Bieber. I can tell you guys right now, if this rotation stays healthy, these five gentlemen give the Blue Jays a chance to win every single game. That’s what they do. And I can’t sit here and say the Blue Jays got worse. The Blue Jays got better. There’s no doubt about that. The Blue Jays got better. So again, overpay. I agree. Yes, I think it is an overpay. No doubt. But you are adding one of the most consistent starting pitchers in Major League Baseball by far to your rotation. I mean, when when people bring up the overpay thing, I’m like, if you if you really want to talk number, I love when it comes to like contract numbers, finances, or what? That’s my thing. That’s like that’s my wheelhouse there. I’ll be honest with you, true value of most of the contracts is way less than what these guys actually get. By that definition, we overpaid for Carlos Rodon. We overpaid for Max Freed. We overpaid for um we’re probably we’re probably right about to overpay for Cody Bellinger. Uh we we 10,00% just overpaid Trent Gisham. Like everybody gets overpaid. That’s that’s the name of the game. I think that’s one of the biggest kind of issues in the game and kind of why we are literally dead set on that lockout that’s coming after this next season because the contract situation has gotten like a little bit out of hand. Now to me it’s gotten out of hand on both sides. They like to put the onus just on the players, but at the end of the day, I mean the teams are the ones offering these contracts. Like let’s let’s be real here. And if they’re offering the contract, it’s because they can afford the contract, which means that they’re making a [ __ ] ton of money. You know what I’m saying? Toronto is one of those teams. Toronto has made a lot of money. And I love the fact that literally, you just went to the World Series. And what do they do right after they reinvest right back into that same club that did that for them, man? Extra revenue. Francis, how do you think the clubhouse feels? The players that are assigned to that team already, they make this move out the gate. How do you think those guys are feeling? That’s that’s a that’s that’s a great point because honestly that’s that’s an immediate vote of confidence in freaking November. Like this is these are guys who you know some guys haven’t even gotten back in the gym yet. Theories just finished. Like some of these guys, you know, they’re a lot of a lot of people kind of wait until right after this time. You know, let’s get through Thanksgiving, early December, and we’ll start a little quick program, take a break for Christmas, and then really get after it. You’re talking about before you even get into your offseason program, your team is telling you, “Yeah, we believe we believe you in you guys. We think that we we think that this is the club that can do it. We’re not letting anybody go. We’re going to add to it.” Now, as for the not letting anybody go part, that may or may not be the truth and and we’ll see in a couple weeks or a month or so, but they got better with that deal. And I think arguing about the overpay is kind of senseless at this point because everybody gets Kyle Tucker’s about to get overpaid, right? to me there’s there’s very few contracts right now for stars even that I look at and say they’re not overpaid. I’d say Aaron Judge one say he’s the biggest one that sticks out to me as like no he didn’t get overpaid whether people believe it or not um show Otani to me was not an overpay because of the dual aspect of the player when if I look at him as a pitcher and a hitter which he has now shown that he he does do both. He did both with the Dodgers now just now in the World Series, right? I think as a hitter he’s about a $400 million hitter, maybe 450, which is where I I think Aaron Judge, that’s why I say Aaron Judge is slight underpaid. To me, is a Aaron Judge is about a $500 million hitter. Like when you do you do the number he’s about a $500 million hitter. Let’s let’s be fair about this. Based off value, he’s a way better player than Sodto overall. Oh, it’s not even close. So, and that’s valuewise. baseball pure value. Forget age, forget all that. Value will kill valuewise. He’s the guy that as a hitter, he gets more money than anybody. He got like the thing about Soda at the end of the day, what what would kill him in that argument is that he got 800 million and his numbers are while phenomenal and great. He’s not touching Judge’s like Judge Judge’s true value wouldn’t necess wouldn’t be 800 million. That’s what I’m saying to me. Judge is the best bat in baseball and his bat would really translate to about a $500 million bat. He signed a deal for 360, right? Like that’s so he’s an underpay. Otani as a bat to me is about $450. So if you say he’s about $450, then that leaves 250 for the pitcher. I think that’s accurate for him as a pitcher, believe it or not. Like I think he’s about a $250 million pitcher. He’s not a $300 million pitcher to me. He like to me like that’s that’s more like your T schools like you got to start up there 300 million. He’s about 250. So when you look at might be a $500 million honestly for me. Honestly, for me, Skins is about as close to a $500 million pitcher. Like, cuz to me, here’s how I look at SK. He’s an Aaron Judge as as a right now, he’s a judge as a as a pitcher. I mean, took the words right out of my mouth. To me, the the way I look at skins is very simple. You see what you see what Aaron Judge is offensively. Well, that’s what Paul Sches is with with a pitch as a pitcher. Like, he’s the Aaron Judge of pitchers. That’s what he is. So, that to me is his value. Now, Paul SK probably gets, you know, a lot more or a lot less depending how these next couple years go because but but yeah, bro, that’s what I’m saying. So, when people make these arguments about the the contracts and stuff like that, I’m like, I mean, how where what leg can you really stand on? Nobody gets true value anymore. No, not at all. And Michael Kay brought this up when the Sodto deal the negotiations were happening. He said, you know, you really can’t say that it’s an overpay if four or five teams are in that ballpark. I mean, if you and again, I don’t know. I don’t know if there was any team going after Dylan CE for $200 million. I don’t know that for sure. It almost feels like one of those things that hit his table and he’s like, “Shit, where do I sign?” Like, it’s almost one of those too good to be true type contracts. I I agree with you 100%. I think that’s why it happened as early as it did. Me, too. I think it just it was one of those wow like we weren’t projecting this were we no I think you take this I mean this is a team that went to the World Series go and sign this deal and he said let’s go Toronto I’m all in um immediately sodto on the other hand there was multiple offers in that range so yes you can sit back all day and go definitely overpay we all know that but Michael K said it back then I can’t believe I’m shouting out Michael K so Michael K I love you brother there’s there’s he’s having a good offseason he’s having a great He’s having a great off season and um you know for him to for him to to to put that into perspective it is it is kind of true when you look at value of a player a Becker our friend says I think regardless if the Yankees resign Bellinger EI has to happen to get back into the Japanese market. I’m going to talk about that briefly but I do want to stick on uh something else here. Hector Gomez broke some news last night. Hector Gomez came out and said the Mets are the favorites to sign Framber Valdez. It is expected that they will sign him for six years, $200 million. Six years, $200 million for Framber Valdez. Now, again, there has been no official announcement. This is not a done deal, so to say. Um, I could see it happening. It wouldn’t shock me if it’s announced at all. The New York Mets need starting pitching. We know that Fran Valdez did not have a great year last season, but he’s been a very good pitcher throughout his major league career. How are you feeling about that? Let me ask you because you’ve kind of been you’ve actually been very spot-on when it comes to Sterns and how he kind of runs his business. Do you feel like this is a Sterns type move? Because typically he searches for pitching. He’s not going to go overpay somebody like Yeah. Framber. I don’t Hector Gomez is our guy. I’ll start with that. Um, shouts out to him. Shouts out to his brother, the manager of, you know, my own lease. Um, who’s also also going to be a first base coach for the Mets in 2026. So, I’m very happy for for Jill Gomez. Um, and Hector’s our guy. Hector, you know, he’s he’s he’s real real cool with us here at the U. So, love him. Um, I I was really shocked when I read that tweet last night. I was like, and here’s my thing, right? For the similar arguments with CE, right? People couldn’t believe that the Blue Jays threw that kind of money at CE. Well, do the math on that Framber deal that Hector’s talking about. It’s even more. He’s getting paid 3 million more a year. If that deal does come to fruition, he’d be making even more money than Dylan Sees to pitch for the Mets. So, my initial reaction to that is I don’t believe that that’s a David Sterns move, right? I’m not saying that he’s wrong. And here’s why I won’t say that he’s wrong. A lot of people love to jump out the window cuz I saw it immediately when he posted it. People saying, “Ah, you can’t trust this guy. He’s always wrong.” Whatever. Well, one, he’s not always wrong. That’s he’s not always wrong. You can’t do that because that’s wrong to say that he’s always wrong. He’s not cuz he’s gotten he’s gotten a lot right, too. And I I hate when they do that to these guys or whatever. Cuz I mean, there’s guys like even Deportes who we know has come out there and said some outlandish things or whatever. Like it may be clickbay things, but he’s also gotten some things right. Why? because they do have their they do have their sources. They do have their circle of people that they get information from and sometimes it’s very bad info, but sometimes it’s good. Framber’s a guy where I’ll say this and you guys can take it with a grain of salt. Framber’s a guy that if I was betting Hector Gomez knows somebody close enough to the camp to have an idea. That’s just that’s just a guess. I’m not saying he’s right or wrong. I’m just saying it wouldn’t shock me if it turns out that he he knew a little something when it came to Framber. Now, back to what Pete said, I I do feel like this is not a David Sterns deal. If this does happen, though, I could see this being a situation where Uncle Stevie is literally like, “Listen, um, David, I I know how you like to do things, and I’m I’m I’m committed to you. I agree with you. Um, you know, you know, you know, you have my full support, but I How about we do this? How about you get one of yours, right? one of those trades, one of those reclamation thing, one of those, whatever. A young guy, controllable, whatever. How about you get one like that, but then can we also do one of mine? Somebody who I’m just like, “This guy’s a dog. I’m gonna pay him.” Like, let’s do one in one. Yeah, I can see. I think that this could be something like that. Like, even if they go and get Framber, I still think the Mets trade for another starter because if you look at their rotation depth as of right now, it’s it’s non-existent. It’s not definitely. No, they don’t have it. You’re leaning on kids. Shout out to our guy, Master Flip. Master flip on on X. Great Mets fan. You know, love this guy. Love him completely. Goes to our supports the U. Also goes to our charity events. Um and you know, he was sitting there saying last night like, “Yo, Mets fans are acting like we didn’t need pitching.” Like this this is a club that needs pitching. Like, yeah, all right. You may sit there and go, “It’s an overpay, but you’re adding you’re adding an arm to your rotation, an arm that has been proven in the past to your rotation. So, does he get better with this club? Potentially. You don’t you don’t know. I mean, but you My question is his upside though, Pete. Like, that’s it. That agree. They did the same thing with Cease. And you put Ce’s fan graphs up. I’m sorry. You put his Savon up there. Yeah. Like, why do people do that? Like, why do people forget like who the guy that we’re talking about is who the best version of that guy could be. Like, like it like we never saw it like at CE’s best. Do Yankee fans forget that that we wanted this guy that we were we were killing cats in trade for him? I mean, look, I mean, again, I I and he’s been somebody I’ve defended a lot. I’ve defended Dylan CE a ton. Probably more than anybody out there that’s got a guy that’s never been a Yankee. I’ve probably defended this dude just about more than anybody. As if he was a Yankee. That’s true. Because people got to People got to remember one thing. Consistency pays. Yes. What starting pitcher out there can say, what has it been now? Five years in a row. I think it’s five years in a row. He’s made over 30 starts and had 200ks plus. I don’t care. Oh, is he RA’s bad and this and that. But he’s a guy that any year can give you an extremely good season. So again, it just depends on what the, you know, I understand I still believe is an overpay. I’m still there no matter what no matter what that is. But maybe the average also also because they love to bring up his RA and stuff like that. Again, something that we’ve talked about here for years and I think people just ignore it. The average ERA in baseball is bloated now. Like before you used to say that, you know, a good a good pitcher had to have an RA in the threes or whatever because like the average was in the threes and stuff like that. You know, you’re you’re an above average pitcher if your RA is 396. Correct. If your RA is 405, correct? If your ERA is 4.1, you’re above average. The average ERA in baseball in 2025 was 4.15. Yeah. So, you’re talking about a guy that be around the fours and give you 200 strikeouts. Like, what are we talking? Can I can I throw something else out there? As JX uh V says, Max Freed for 26 million is a steal for us. All right. Well, you know, hold on. I’ll leave it I’ll leave that there. I I look, I think Max Freed signed a good contract with the Yankees. I think a lot of people were very concerned about the many years he had. You got to factor in the age there. That’s the age, the years and all that. So that’s and the injury also the injury history. Injury history which we saw a little bit of this season. I think maybe could have affected him a bit in the postseason. I don’t know. But one more thing about Dylan Sees really quickly. When everybody brings up the ERA, remember Dylan CE is a guy that throws a lot of fast balls, gets him by a lot of people, misses a lot, and he gives him home runs. That affects his overall RA. Analytics loves Dylan CE. And it’s amazing because he’s one of the pitchers that I look at analytics for and go, “Yeah, I would have this guy in my rotation.” No doubt about it. Wouldn’t think twice about it. His FIP fielding independent pitching. FIPU. FIPU over the last five years. Listen to this. You ready for this? 341 RA, 310 ERA, 372 RA, 310 RA, and even last year 356 RA. So again, that’s not elite. Apparently that’s not an elite level pitcher because you’re right. And again, if somebody would have said, “Yeah, Pete, but I see him as a number three.” I’d said, “All right, cool. Number three on number three on a world a team that just went to a World Series.” That’s a great deal for them. Pete, he’s a number three on maybe five rotations in baseball. And that’s being Let’s say let’s cut this [ __ ] Like people talk, oh, there cuz that’s the thing. And and and I love that you brought up what Flip said because Flip is he understands game like he understands the game. He knows his team. He’s like where in what position are we as Met fans to sit here and criticize a guy like Framber Valdez? Exactly right. And say this guy’s this guy’s Yeah, but in your rotation in your rotation what is he? You’re going to tell me that Klay Holmes has more upside than Framber Valdez? Hell no. Like what are we doing? Like okay yeah Jonah listen Jonah Tong Sprro all these guys. Listen out of Look, I love Jonah Tong. We we Pete has been been with me. We sat there and watched a Jonah Tong start and I’m like locked in or whatever. As if he was a I love that kid. I love him. I can’t sit here today and say that his upside is Fram Valdez. I don’t know. They’re so young. So many things can change. He can he can be better. He can be even better or he can be a hell of a lot worse. You don’t know. Kids are wild cards. I do like I do like Dylan C’s better for the Mets to be honest. Like if I had to pick I would like I actually think Dylan CE would have been better for City Field than uh the Roger Center or whatever the hell it’s called now for if the contracts if the contracts are what like all right sees his 210 if Framber was to get the 600 the six for 200. Yeah would that’s where I am on that but and also the strike the strikeout numbers strikeout numbers are phenomenal every year and you’re paying for consistency. That’s what people also got to remember when it comes to cease. you you kind of know what he’s going to give you as long as he stays healthy. Let’s keep the voicemails going, guys. Then I want to talk about somebody said earlier, maybe maybe just maybe maybe talk about overpays. Maybe the Yankees have to overpay for a couple of people. We’ll talk about it. Good morning, Pete. Happy Thanksgiving to you and to yours. From me and my mom, my girlfriend to you. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. I did. I know. I wanted to answer your question about the top priority about getting Cody Bellinger. I think we should try to still get him or maybe Kyle Tucker. Maybe even try for Pete Alonzo. I would offer Alonzo a four-year deal with a a vesting option for a fifth year. I mean, nothing against Ben Rice, but you know, I I like to have somebody who’s able to, you know, scoop a ball up at first like Jason Giani did. And another priority is I think we got to fire Boone already. We got to fire him, Pete. I mean, cuz I’ll tell you right now, if we if we start out like garbage in 2026, if we get off to a bad start, uh-uh. No ifs, no ands or buts. Hal, if you’re listening, if if Boon doesn’t make it this year, he is out. Do you understand me? He is out. If I have to get so many botchi balls and fire him at the stadium, I’ll do it. All right, enough with this losing. You want to know why we’re upset with upset is because we can’t take this losing anymore. We’re not paying this money to see all you guys lose. If we want to see a team lose, we watch the choking Mets every year. Enough’s enough. But anyway, I think we should still get, you know, Bellinger or maybe Kyle Tucker, maybe Alonzo. Well, you you have a good day, Pete. Rock on. NY y forever. Smacking the lucky hit the sub. And remember, Aaron George is a gift from gun. I said Aaron Judge is a gift from God. Bye, Pete. Have a good day. I do love that he got to take a shot at the Mets any chance he gets. I got to be honest with you. I can’t be upset with that. I enjoy a classic. He’s a classic Yankee. He’s one of those classic Yankee fans that whenever it’s the Mets, the Reds, he’s going to throw a shot. He’s just He has to a little backhanded. Even if it’s a compliment, it’s backhanded. Yep. And we got a voicemail from the biggest freak that NYU has ever seen, William Henry. Hey, Kira Francis. if you’re there today. Chat, William Henry here. Hope you and everyone had a great Thanksgiving. A quick shout out to Christian. I thought he did a really nice job on NYST a couple of days ago with his open letter to House Steinbrer. Um, and regarding House’s press conference, I’m not sure which I would rather listen to less, how complaining about his expenses or listening to Yoko Ono sing. Um, if Hal and Cashman really want to win a championship like they say they do, then their conversation should go like this. Howal asked Cman what players the team needs to get to win a World Series and how much would the payroll be to get to that? Cashman then gives the answer which in my opinion should be well we need either Bette and Tucker and Emi and payroll would be about 330 million for that. Then it should be up to Hal to say yes or no to that. But I don’t think Howen and and Cashman’s conversation goes like that at all. I think they just go they want to do just enough to get in and then they’re going to go with their it’s a crapshoot theory which the Dodgers have proven to be completely wrong. Hope it’s not like that, but I’m concerned that it would be. Okay, take care everybody. Bye. Yeah, man. I mean great always great. William Henry’s always great. His voicemails are always phenomenal. Top-notch, top of the line. That’s what he does. And I’m there with you, man. You know, me and Francis have talked about this for for a long time, whether it’s All Rise, DS, or just a a regular live video for you guys. You’re you’re so right because we sit back and we look and we go, “All right, common sense. Let’s go with common sense, man. Oh, man. William, you’re spot on.” Tucker, Bashed, and Emi would make us all sit back and go, we’re going to the World Series, gentlemen. Like ladies and gentlemen, we are heading back to the World Series in a major way with a chance to win it with a chance to with a real chance to win it. Of course, depending on what the season unfolds, you never know what happens, but you’d have to be in such a great feeling uh in that spot that man oh man, we really can go do this. And I know as much as Hal wants to cry poverty and he wants to talk about, well, when you look at revenue, you got to look at expenses because it’s not fair. It’s not fair for you guys to do that. And I get a little aggravated when you guys want to do that. George, I need a cow zone. George, get me a cow zone. I mean, that’s the thing that drives me nuts is that, bro, nobody wants to hear it. You can go make the change. You can go do this. You can do exactly what William Henry just said. If the payroll is 330, ladies and gentlemen, I promise you the Yankees aren’t going under. They’re not going under. That is our beef. Me and Francis have never been Yankee fans that have sat here and said they need to have a $380 million payroll. We’ve never sat here and said they got to go above 400. We’ve never said that. Getting those players wouldn’t put them at $400 million. It wouldn’t put them at 380. It wouldn’t put them at those numbers. But again, if you want to talk about we are the same club that we were years ago, our ultimate goal is to win a World Series. Well, when the players present themselves, and by the way, in positions that you can say our weakness is because I think Kyle Tucker could play left field. I don’t think that’s going to be a major problem. I love Jason Dominguez. I’ve always loved Jason Dominguez, but if you get Kyle Tucker, I’m okay with them moving Dominguez because you got Tucker there. And I hate saying that because I fought tooth to nail to keep this guy a New York Yankee for them to actually give him a chance. But if you add Bashette at a position, by the way, the Yankees are one of the worst in baseball. One of the worst. This is not a oh my god type move. It’s a common sense move. It’s a common sense move. It’s a I’m a basic baseball fan. Let me look at the roster. Oh, this guy didn’t perform well. Yeah, I guess you want to upgrade shortstop, right? Duh. Yeah, that’s something you’d want to do. Yeah, come on. It’s that it’s that simple. And then a guy like Emi is where I want to talk about. I want to stop there for a second because if there’s anybody that maybe you take that risk to overpay for, I think is that guy. Yeah. Emma is the guy that maybe you look at it and go, “Wow, I mean, we kind of maybe we overpaid a little for that guy.” Well, it gets you back in Japanese market one, which is major. They they’ve all asked House Steinburn about that. Okamoto is still also there. And then also on top of that, like I said, Miraami could still be a possibility for the Yankees if everybody kind of fails. And he’s still out there. You know what the upside could be. So that’s where I am on that. Ei to me, I I’ve said this a lot. He’s one of my 1A’s because then it allows you to even deal from the starting pitching area, but think about this, Francis. You get Tucker and Emi, you can upgrade any other position you want via trade. It’s a fact. Easy. You got you got more almost more talent than anybody. And to be honest, when you’re talking about, you know, upgrading other positions and and you come off of speaking about shortstop, let’s be real here. Like you want to talk about realistic? I’ll give you realistic. I love Bo Bashette. I love the idea of Bob Bashette being a New York Yankee. I know that that is a long shot. Not because he doesn’t make sense for the team, but just because of how the team is run. He makes all the sense in the world. He would upgrade you ridiculously offensively. It’s not even close. Okay? Not even close. Not even a little bit. Now, to Pete’s point though, you go and grab a guy like Emi, you go and grab a guy like Kyle Tucker, Yankees fans aren’t going to be upset with a marginal upgrade at shortstop at that point. You understand what I’m saying? So, if you got if you grab guys like that and then you go and made a trade for a guy who was who was who wasn’t as good as a Bob Bashette, who’s not a Bobby Wit Jr., who’s not a Zack Neto. Okay. But he still profiles out to be way better than Anthony Vuli Vulpi was offensively. We’re not going to be angry about that. Why? Because you improved. You got Kyle Tucker already in the lineup. You got Aaron Judge coming back. You got another year of Ben Rice. All right. If Jazz is still there, you got Jazz there. So, if you upgraded, if you got better at that position, we’re not going to argue with that. The issue is this run it back mentality. That’s been the pro. Listen, from the moment the season ended and the indication started coming out that the Yankees uh mantra seemed like it was leaning more towards run it back in 26. Run it back, run it back. This team was a very good team. This team that’s been my problem from the outset. Yep. It sounds insane. It literally sounds insane. You people sound crazy. When I say you people, I’m talking about you, Brian. I’m talking about you, Hal. I’m talking about you, Aaron. You sound the craziest of the three. What do you mean run it back? Run what back? You got Molly walked in the ALDS. You never throw something out there. I want to throw this out there because running it back isn’t a problem if you have a core. You mentioned this the other day. They have no core because you want to build upon that. And again, exactly. If anybody sits there and goes, “What are you guys?” I’ll show you what I’m talking about. Here you go. Since 2017 under Judge, these are opening day lineups. Look at all the different players. Nobody stayed the same. There is nobody in here that you sign longterm and go, I’m putting you with the best player in baseball. Nobody. It changes. You go back to the dynasty years of the Yankees. Even before that, look at all the similar names. It doesn’t change that. They they had a core you build upon. And guess what? In ’09, they won the World Series. They had a core you can build upon. But that’s what I’m saying too because well they’re in judge they haven’t had that. People will say well that would be an argu some people would hear that and be like oh but isn’t that an argument for them to run it back to kind of have some continuity? No. Who’s who are the guys locked in? Because these players are not the players that you want to make your core. Trent Gisham is not a core player. I’m sorry. Full stop. Trent Gisham is not a core player. You don’t go and say, “No, we have to have this guy.” Who had to have Trent Gisham outside of the New York Yankees? If you would have left him out there, he’d be in the wind. His competition on the market was was Harrison Bader. No disrespect to Bader. But like, what are we talking about? That’s the level. Correct. What are we talking about here? We talk about a core. We’re talking about Juan Sodto who was here a year ago. That was a guy that you that you could have said, “Okay, with him, with Judge, locked in. Now we, you know what I’m saying? Now you go and you get another guy in the rotation.” Now you’re talking about a core. They don’t have a core. So you don’t run it back. You’re talking about running it back. Run back what? Run back what? Run back the asskicking that you took from the Toronto Blue Jays. Run back the barely getting past the Boston Red Sox. Because listen, I enjoyed that wild card victory as much as any Yankee fan. Okay? As much as anybody, okay? Pete enjoyed, we enjoyed it. We’re not stupid. A couple hits bounce one way or the other. It’s a whole different story and we’d be the first to tell you, but the winners get to celebrate. To the victor go the spoils. We won and we celebrate and that’s good. Fine. But we’re also not going to be ignorant to the fact that a couple things bounce the other way and we’re out on our ass in the freaking wildard series. But this team wants to sit there and talk about, well, we won 94 games, tied for the most wins in the AL. Like Alex Rodriguez says, that might be the most misleading stat in the history of misleading stats. Who gives a [ __ ] that you won 94 games? Yeah, you were tied for the best record in the American League. You were tied with who? The team that bes slapped you all year long. They dogwalked you all year long. Very close to sweeping too in the postseason, bro. They embarrassed you. They demoralized you. They beat you in every facet of the game. And you want to run that back. You want to run that back. You got outmanaged. Aaron, your boys got outplayed. They got out hit. They got outfielded. They got out pitched. They got out everything. And most importantly, they got out one. And you want to run it back. and tell us that we’re wrong because we don’t see. What don’t we see? What don’t we see? So, you’re thinking, “Oh, we’ll run it back and then this year it’ll be different.” Ladies and gentlemen, that’s the definition of insanity. Same thing. Toron Toronto went to the World Series. Toronto just went to the World Series. They were in game seven. They had two chances just on paper in games to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers. Are they running it back, Pete? I don’t know. They just picked up Dylan CE and they’re probably going to bring back Bo. Let’s be honest. And guess what? And guess what? Here here, you want to know something else? The Dodgers probably ain’t going to run it back either. No, definitely not. The Dodgers probably ain’t going to run it back. They going to add something, too. Definitely not. But the Yankees The Yankees sitting there saying, “Hey, hey, no, we good. We Hey, you know who else ain’t going to run it back? Boston. Boston ain’t going to run it back.” By the way, Francis, and and just to show everybody something here, how we know what we’re talking about here, Jira posted your clip, right, about um getting both of those guys combined. We know they can do it because of Sodto because they offer that big contract to Sodto. What do we say the first response would would be immediately, but the concern is AAV, but the concern is AAV. It’s the Yank guys. This is the This is not a poverty franchise. This is not a team that could sit there and say, “We can add 60 million AAV this season. We can add 55 million AAV.” This is this is where the fan base has really gone. They really believe the Yankees can’t afford this. They listen to Hound and they sit there with a with a with a a tissue damp in their eyes going, “Oh my god, how can’t do it? How Oh, hal. Oh my god. Hell can’t do. We got to buy more chicken buckets. Oh god. Hell, I can’t. He’s not going to afford a $330 million payroll. Oh god. This is what fans are doing and it drives me bananas. That’s we got to buy more chicken buckets. People out there, somebody listening. NYU, hit the like button, subscribe, keep doing what you’re doing because you’re growing and we’re we’re growing. Thanks to you all. Keep hitting that like button. They’re getting away with this. They’re getting away with this madness. And the fan base has listened. They believe how when he sits there and goes, “Well, you got to talk about what we pay out. It’s not fair.” You’re going to listen to this dude say it’s not fair. You’re going to listen to this dude sit there and tell you, “I can’t go higher if I Come on, man. Please, Yankee fans, please. You’re better than this. You’re so much better than this. Please. They know. That’s the thing. thing. That’s why I get that’s why I get so emotional about it because I’m like, “Bro, y’all know better than the the nerds that argue with me on Twitter. It’s like, bro, y I I understand what y’all doing.” I mean, they one of them damn near he he not even he admitted it. It’s a stickick or whatever. And they wanted to argue because they’re like, “Oh, well, your guys’ a stick is.” No, no, we don’t have a stick. That’s the thing that this is not a stick. This is who we are. We watch the games, we see what we see with our eyes, and we come and we talk about it. And guess what? because it’s not a stick. Because we’re being real, because we’re being honest, more people come and listen. You want to talk numbers, talk those numbers. You want to compare numbers. I mean, compare those numbers. I’m respected on on Twitter. You are, by the way, as as you should be, apparently. Listen, but this is my thing. People make these arguments and they don’t know what they’re talking about. So, you talk about it’s the AAV that matters. Well, okay. You know, Juan Sto’s luxury tax payroll, for all intents and purposes, is a $51 million a year AAV. Yep. Yeah, it’s it’s 11 million more than Aaron Judges, by the way. Right. We were talking about that before. Right. You want to talk about the difference in AAV between Bellinger and Kyle Tucker? Let’s wait until those two deals are signed. All right. Let’s wait until those two deals are signed because I would hazard I would hazard that when you add those two AAVs together, it probably isn’t going to be a difference of more than 10 million between Wanoto’s 51 million a year AAV. That is what I’m talking about. afford that and the difference is it’s two players versus the one. So that’s why I make the argument. But these people would sit there and say, “No, it’s impossible. They can’t do it. They can’t do it. You people wouldn’t have you people would have lost your minds into and to be fair.” To be fair, the person did respond to me and they said, “As long as hell has a self-imposed cap, it’s hard to believe that.” Well, that’s the case. And that’s fair. And again, that is fair. That’s right. But believe me, folks, believe me when I tell you this. There are a lot of people that really believe that the Yankees can’t afford that. And that’s the issue is that they have given a lot of Yankee fans have bought into this concept that I mean guys, it’s not fair when you got the Dodgers out there. The Dodgers can afford so much more than we can. It’s just not fair no more. It’s not a fair game. And for Yankee fans to say that, it honestly there’s not many things that hurt Pete Timetti. That hurts me. That hurts me that we have gotten to that area as some Yankee fans out that I really believe it’s just not fair because we just can’t compete no more with these guys. It’s it’s it’s sad, man. It’s just not right. It’s not fair. And that is pathetic that Yankee fans would ever lie. It’s sad. And it is 150% a lie. It’s a bold face lie. It’s the biggest to me that’s the biggest problem in baseball today. That’s why we’re headed for a lockout because you have owners that would much rather come out and get on camera and do pressers and tell you that the truth of the matter is, you know, that in as many words, they won’t say this directly, but what they’re saying to you is this. We just can’t compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers. All right? The Guggenheim Group, they have too much money. They’re like titans. They’re I mean, those are the real bad guys. Those are the real 1enters. They’re the ones with all the money and it’s unfair and whatever while they’re sitting there counting their billions every single year. Okay? Now, if Tampa Bay wanted to say that, you know what I’m saying? If the Athletics wanted to say that, okay, you know what I’m saying? If the Chicago White Socks wanted to say that, okay, maybe. But Ricketts with the Cubs. Are you out of your mind? How Steinbrer? Really? Whatever happened there? Boston, the Red Sox, whatever happened there? You know who you don’t see? You know who you don’t see saying that [ __ ] Unfortunately, you know who you don’t see saying that [ __ ] Uncle Stevie hasn’t happened there with Uncle Stevie. I haven’t seen And that’s my thing. So yeah, the rest of the owners want to make it look like, oh no, you know, the truth of the matter, like Pete said, oh, we just can’t compete. We just can’t compete. I mean, to be a man and to say these things. I I mean, that’s another thing. But they want to kind of set a goss on me that don’t allow it. I’m saying you coming out, we just can’t we just can’t compete. You know what I’m saying? We just can’t. They’re bigger than us. Okay, I’m sorry. It’s like, what are you talking about? But then Uncle Steve, he’s right there in Queens talking about, “Listen, man. I ain’t paying attention to none of that shit.” All right. You know what I’m saying? Guggenheim this. Guggenheim. Smoogenheim. I got it. Okay. You know what I’m saying? Tell you what, that’s a red there, man. That’s a t-shirt. I got a set of goots. Yo, you talk. Yo, Cohen has been in the red how many years? Since he bought the team and he’s still spending. Why? Because he’s a bad businessman. You think he got to a net worth of over $20 billion by being a bad businessman? Come on. People People would want you to believe that, by the way. Yes, that he’s just a stealer. He robs everybody and that’s how he got that. Oh, he’s a Oh, he’s a horrible Oh, terrible human and this blah blah blah. Guys, really quickly, it’s almost Chris. It’s the most wonderful time of the year and you know, you want to get NYU gear. Just saying. We do got Black Friday sale still going on.com, folks. Buy two hats, get a hat chain or a pin for free. And also too, guys, I am trying to get the last two NYU shirts. They’re two. There’s two mediums. If you have a medium, a size medium, I got two of them left. I marked them down again to 25 bucks. Again, if you place your order today, I am shipping out today. So, if you place your order today, I am doing a full shipment today in a couple of hours, going to UPS, dropping everything off. I got about six boxes to package up and send out. You will get your stuff very quickly. We’re not like a lot of other companies out there that take forever. I get orders and I ship. Kai Malay ordered just a couple of days ago. Even with Thanksgiving, he is getting his uh Stanley in today. So, we move immediately. Again, Black Friday deals. If you wear a size medium shirt, I got two left. 25 bucks a pop. They’re typically $40. are down $15 to get these last two out of here and a new order coming in very very soon. We got multiple Yankee hats still available. A custom New York or Nowhere hat. They’ve never had a uh snapback. We got a snapback for you as they were customized and redone as the fitteds in the snapbacks. We got a few of those for you guys. Absolute fire. You don’t get that nowhere. Go check them out. Get it. They’ll be shipped to you very, very quickly. Let’s wrap the show up with a couple of voicemails and then we’ll say adios. Diaz, you know me as big uno and y, you know. Yeah. What’s up? Good morning everybody. What’s up chat? Happy Friday, baby. Let’s [ __ ] go Yankees. Give me some good news. Pete, we need it, brother. We got Sodto back and we’re getting Tatis. Hell yeah. Damn. Hey, Pete. That that thermal cup, bro. That is fire, man. I got one. I went to go order another one and you were already sold out. Well, are you getting a new batch? I hope you do, man. I’m going to double dip, man. I have somebody wants to talk to you real quick. Here you go. Hi, Pig. This is Linda. Just uh hoping you guys had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday and everybody’s fine. Just letting you know I sent you a package. Appreciate it if you let me know if you get it. Fine. We’ll do. Hope to hear from you guys soon. Have a wonderful week. Love you, Mama Linda. Love you. Old pro baby. We out. Love you, Pete. She’s a sweet lady. Baby Sonetti, Macho King. Prayers to everybody. Happy Friday. Let’s go. Thank you, brother. I love you, Mama Linda. Oh, I love you, M. I’m make a song called Mama Linda. Mama Linda. I think honestly honestly that might be that might be an Uncle Dom song. An Uncle Dom original. Mama Linda. It sounds great for Uncle Dom. Right up. I think I I think he he he’d sing the He’d sing the hell out of that. Very sweet. No, Jira’s right. They’re They’re both very sweet people. Oh, they’re unbelievable. That’s a pro family. Love meeting them this year, man. And And again, can I just say this really quickly for everybody? This is what separates NYU from everybody else. And it’s just fact because nobody could sit there and go, “Well, that’s wrong.” No, it’s not wrong. NYU puts on these events every year. Two events at Yankee Stadium. Now we’re doing even more charity events, softball game, things of that nature. We do these events because we preach community. Who would we be if we preach community? And I mean, I don’t see you guys out there with the community. You guys don’t do nothing with the community. What we do, we do a lot with the community, specifically in the Bronx. And it’s allowed a lot of you to become friendly with one another. It’s allowed a lot of you to become to know each other and to be able to even outside of the U say hey you know that’s my friend I talk to him I’m you know whatever whatever it might be but the sense of community that we have built nobody can ever deny what we have built here and that is why we do the events and I I bring that up because you know when we got to meet Steve and his mom we sat there and everybody said man these they’re great like what an addition to the youth like what an addition to our community having both of them involved cuz they’re really wonderful people. So, you know, we we love meeting you guys. Uh we love having a great time and like I said, next year won’t be no different. NYU events still going on. Ronnie, appreciate you, my brother. Thank you so much. Um let’s drop one more voicemail from DJ Control. I got a few left, guys. I’m sorry if I missed you, but let’s drop one more here from DJ Control, then we’re going to wrap up. Pete, what’s going on, man? What’s up, brother? I know I haven’t called in a while, you know, but good, fam. It’s DJ Control in full effect. Uh, happy Thanksgiving to you and the family. Thank you. All that good stuff. Happy holidays. I want to validate you guys point and you was talking about the core. Okay. And through the dynasty years that the Yankees had, they had a core group of players that would always get them to the next level as far as winning the World Series. I’m going to validate you guys point in another way. I’m going to use it in a basketball term that we used to use back in the 80s. Okay. Whenever you draft a player, the first thing you want to do is draft a player that you can build a team around. You know, centers. You started off with with, you know, with a center. You know, that’s the way it was. You know, once you had the top center coming out of the draft, you was able to build a good team around that. Then Michael Jordan came. He was once once in a generational type player. He was the only player other than Magic Johnson that wasn’t a center that you can build a team around. Okay. Now, I’m going to validate your point what you were saying with the core and you know, use my analogy to back that up. What you guys were saying, World Series caliber team. We have the one player, Aaron Judge, but that’s not enough. you need another player that you can build a team around. We had that in Juan Sto. That’s why we went to the World Series championship, right? You know, so the Yankees are just getting other players that you really can’t build a team around. They’re good players, you know, like a Cody Bellager, you know, he’s a fine player, but Kyle Tucker, in my opinion, is the type of player that you can build a team around. You know, I go way back with the Yankees. You know, when I was a kid, I tell you how far back I I go with the Yankees. I remember the World Series game when Reggie Jackson hit three home runs. I saw that game live. So, that’s how far back I go with the Yankees. That’s my thought, Pete. God blessing you and the family. Have a wonderful weekend. Take care. A+ voicemail, DJ Control, my guy, man. A+ voicemail and a great way to finish up this show and and and wrap it up today because that was that was spot on, brother. Really great points. Um, and it it’s all that we said here. Again, we don’t dislike Cody Bellinger. We like Cody Bellinger a lot. I like Cody Bellinger a lot. Um, the re the reason why I’m bringing up Kyle Tucker more now is because we know what Cody Bellinger is going to get paid. We know Cody there’s no there’s no there’s nobody out there right now saying somebody’s going to get a steal with Cody Ballinger. Somebody’s going to walk away in a four-year deal and a 20 million a year. That’s not going to happen with Cody. We know that. Not this year. Not this year. There’s not a ton of other talent out there. The top dogs, we know who it is. It’s Bellinger and it’s Kyle Tucker. We understand that. All I’m sitting here saying is we got to be a little smarter in regards uh to to the Yankees. The Yankees got to be a little smarter and just utilize common sense. Kyle Tucker is a very good comp or Wanoto. They’re very similar. They’re very, very, very similar in many ways. I think the overall profile of a hitter, I still have Sodto above. I had photo above years ago. Still have him above. But Kyle Tucker is right there, man. He’s right there. He’s not a big downgrade at all. No. And all we’re saying is you’ve seen it already, Yankees. You don’t You guys really don’t have to work hard here. You’ve seen it already. You’ve seen Sodto and Judge back to back. You can simply say, “Ah, [ __ ] Look, man. We missed out on that one. That’s not going to cost us $800 million. Let’s go ahead and get the other one that fits right in.” And you have that back to back again. And no, it’s not a Sodto situation where you got to say I’m really scared of how if we put if we had to put this guy in left field. Sodo you don’t want to see in left field. So’s best position would have been right and had to stay right field. Judge would have probably had to move the left in my opinion to to make up for Sodto’s defense in right field. Kyle Tucker is a guy that I believe most Yankee fans would say I think he’d be pretty good at left field. I don’t think he’s going to be some disaster out I think Kyle Tucker will manage left field and he’ll be fine out there. And you get the offensive profile of a team that as Francis said, I believe it was August of was it last? No, it wasn’t even the year before that. August of the interview with Jordan. Yeah, the interview with Jordan when Francis said, “You put these two guys together every year it gives you a real chance to win.” Tucker and Judge backtoback is an elite duo that not many teams out there can pair together. You’re able to do that, you’re looking at a very different team because now Judge’s RBI’s are going to if he’s healthy and they’re both healthy, his RBI’s go back to that 140 range where it was with Sodto. It’s a much much different club and it’s harder to pitch around. Harder for pitchers to navigate. Yeah, you got to figure some other things out on that, of course. But Francis, I I’ll leave the final words up to you, man. Um, I think it’s pretty obvious here. No, I agree with you. I think, listen, we’re still in the early going of this off season. There’s a lot a lot that can happen, a lot that can turn the entire off seasonason on its head. um you know the a lot of these players that we’ve been you know looking at for years and kind of excited about in the Japanese market were just posted uh within you know the cut the last few weeks. So I think like we’ve seen in the past it’s going to be a little bit of a slog until those guys get closer to signing deals. Um and that’s unfortunately just the name of the game. It’s going to be tough. I don’t see very much happening here in the next few weeks before Christmas. I feel like you might see a deal like a Framber Valdez. Maybe you might see uh maybe Pete Alonzo finds a home somehow some way, but I feel like he’s got to wait for Murami to kind of fall off the board first, too. But what I’m saying, I say all that to say, look, trademark it. This is a real thing. You have heard a couple rumors here and there, but we don’t we haven’t heard much, you know, really concrete in the way of the New York Yankees. Could that be where Cashman goes to pull the rabbit out of his hat and, you know, change the face of this team or whatever? At the end of the day, my argument from the outset of this offseason hasn’t changed until today. The mentality of running it back has to just be a press joke, right? That has to at the end of the day, we have to go into the next season think saying, “Thank God that that whole running back thing was just something that they were putting out there to the press and it wasn’t actually what they were doing.” Right? If that comes to fruition, that that is a that is a mantra, that is a belief, that is an ideology that the Yankees actually have, then we are screwed. I don’t care what you think about it, the nerds think about it. I don’t care. It’s a fact. Okay, people. If the Yankees truly have this ideology that running back the 2025 team is going to provide them different results in 2025, the only part of that that might be right is the far is the part about the different results because you might finish worse than you did in 2025. That’s the only way I see it changing. I’m sorry. That just is what it is. But I qualify all that by saying there’s a very real world where they’re not even going to do that themselves and they don’t truly believe that themselves. There’s a very real world where there’s some trade that nobody’s thinking or talking about that happens that changes the offense. There’s a very a lot by the way where they go and sign freaking EI and catch everybody to sleep like oh actually went and did it or whatever. We’re not Pete and I have never said the problem is that they never do these things or whatever. No, I think the reason that we speak the way we do is the problem is that they have done these things that 2009 happened even though it happened almost 18 years ago at this point. 20 2024 happened but it did happen. 2024 happened. These sodto deal the sodto deal happened. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? That’s right. So, it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Nothing that we’re saying is out of the realm of possibility. I mean, out of the realm of possibility would be me saying, “Yeah, you could go grab Tucker. You can grab Bellinger. You can sign. You can sign uh Bishette.” Or That’s obviously That’s not realistic, right? That’s not realistic, right? That Exactly. That’s fair. Saying they could grab two of those bats and then sign one pitcher. That’s not unrealistic. And if you don’t understand that, then maybe you just haven’t been a fan long enough and maybe your memor is not serving you properly. But this was once a franchise that could do that and reap the benefits of that. Unfortunately, I got We don’t do it anymore, bro. I got one even better. I mean, you could go out there, like we said, sign two of those guys and make trades. I mean, your your pool is wide open. If it’s Tucker and Emi, your pool is wide open. Yeah, your pool is wide open. You got two guys you could dangle out there. and Spencer Jones and and Jason Dominguez on the bat side. Lumbard is still there. You could still make up make a decision on that. You got pitching galore that you can now trade if Em is added to that rotation. I mean this is not again this is not something that really needs much thought. This is something along the lines of all right we got a couple of options that are obvious. How about we shoot for those first? Let’s shoot for those obvious moves first and we will go from there and pivot however we have to pivot. But let’s get those obvious plans out the way first. Guys, really quickly again, one more medium tea available. We just had an order on that. Sell it out, folks. Let’s get that damn thing out of here. I don’t got to look at it no more. TE’s are phenomenal. You know that come with custom made tags. Some of you might want to buy it and just keep it and never wear it and just I got the first one. Damn it. It makes a great gift for the It makes a great great gift for the lady in your life. Medium’s a size that’s normally common in that regard. Maybe you maybe maybe you can’t get it for yourself at the medium, but maybe you get it for your lady. Hey, it used to be common. It used to be common for Jerro, but now she put on a little bit of weight. She’s pregnant, man. Oh my. She’s going to kill this guy. Yes. Yes, I did it. Damn it. Yes. Oh, I’m gonna I’m gonna end this stream and we’re going to go up there and we’re going to go at it. Damn it. I tell you what, that’s what I like. That’s why I’m with her. Damn it. Anyway, folks, much love to all of you guys. Everybody that’s just like, “Whoa, she’s pregnant, folk. It’s a pregnancy joke.” It’s a pregnancy joke, guys. Peace out, ladies and gentlemen. Much love to each and every one of you guys. We out of here. Catch you next time. Peace. Can’t make a promise, but I do my best. 25 on 25x. Just got started. No, we ain’t done yet. Bought a new crib. That’s a goddamn flex. Godamn flex. Sign that check. Told them last year that I been up next. Can’t take calls with a send that text from way

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