Ep 11: Yankees & Stro Sell Fans the Brooklyn Bridge

[00:00:11] All right, all right, all right. We are the Diamond Geezers, your home away from home, where the game never gets old. With us are Carlos, Vinnie, Peter and yours truly Rey. That was weird, wasn't it? Well, everyone, if we look exhausted, it's because we just made about 45 minutes arguing with each other. We hope to make you a fly on a wall one day for those pre-production sessions.

[00:00:47] The FCC would block us. What was that? The FCC would block us. The FCC would block us. Okay, so how's everybody? Yay. All good. Let's give some insight as to what took place beforehand. We're still together. We still love each other. Our current events. There's a lot of hugs. But Carlos, you have a story to share with us. I would call it

[00:01:16] the cult, the Philly cult or the Eagles cult part two. Okay, you can call it that. As everyone's aware, there was a parade in Philadelphia on Friday. A whole, you know, Super Bowl champ victory parade. And some school districts actually closed. They just figured attendance would be so bad. In my local district, we're in Jersey, we're not even in Pennsylvania.

[00:01:41] They opted to stay open. It was a regular school day. And parents, you know, had decided they were going to go as a family and take their kids miss school and go to the parade. But we have a rule here. If you call out, then you can't participate in activities or sports or sporting activities. So if Johnny is going to go to the parade that day, then Johnny can't play the basketball game that night.

[00:02:05] And many parents were really upset with the athletic director, even calling for maybe his firing or something because they should be allowed to go to a parade because it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. And what was that? You mean like it was so long ago in 2018 when they had the basketball game? You know, that's what was my thought exactly. So with Jet fans, I could see that. Yes, exactly. Exactly.

[00:02:36] So I don't know. I mean, you guys, you know, get kids and, you know, Pete, you were very involved with athletics. I mean, what do you think about that rule about parents who think that they should make an exception, you know, for their kids? No exception. No exception. No, there should be no exception. Yeah, I know. If that's the rule, it's the rule whether you go to a parade or you go to, you know, whatever. Yeah, I disagree. That's a surprise. Shocking. Shocking.

[00:03:02] I think there's a difference between being sick and going and your parents treating you to something. I mean, if you could, let's say your parents want to take you to a museum, that's educational. The whole point of going to school is to be educated. And if your parents take you to a museum that day or something, whatever the reason is, your grandfather's sick in a hospital or whatever the reason is, you should be prevented from playing a sport. You know, first of all, you're a minor. You can't, you can't control your decisions, right? Your parents control your decisions.

[00:03:30] So somehow hold the minor responsible for the parent's decision and prevent that minor from participating in a sport is absurd. But in this case, right, it's the parent who's complaining, not the minor. The parents are complaining. They rightfully should complain. But if it's a rule, that's the problem, I think, nowadays. But the rule is- There should be exceptions to the rule. The rule is you miss school that day, you don't play at night. And nobody's saying you can't do this. I'm sure the rule is you miss school for something along the lines of a parade. If you miss school because grandpa's dying.

[00:04:00] Yeah. I think the rule is, the rule should be, look, I understand you. The rule should be that if your parent says you're not going to be in school that day, you should be able to as minor participate in the sport because you have no control over that decision. Is this the guy who gives out participation awards? I don't understand. No, actually, I'm not. I just, you know, just the reality. It's a reality. Or you teach the kid to lie. Don't say you went to the parade until after. That's correct. Right, so let's encourage lying. That's good.

[00:04:30] It teaches them how to be adults in this country. All right. So. Yeah, Carlos. No, no, no. That's it. They just, and by the way, it's worded if you're absent. So it's not, there's no difference if it's whatever. Because if you're not at school, you can't play for whatever reason. Right. That's the problem. That's the rule. That I would find hard to believe if, because I remember there were times when I took the kids out to go to, to like a college visit or something like that.

[00:05:00] And then they came back and played. You know what I mean? And that's, in fact, we would get yelled at if the visit and we were possibly going to miss the game for the match. Then I'd get, you know, then he'd get a joke. But, you know. I mean, at least visiting a college, this is to attend a parade and parents are up and up. Which is what I'm saying. Any absentee, I don't, I don't agree with. Right.

[00:05:21] I mean, grandpa's sick, you know, dad, you know, is only in, you know, for, for, you know, once a month and they come out, whatever. But for the parade, no, you show up to school and you miss the parade. So parents in a college school district that will go on named, I fully support you. Except when you want to burn books. There you go. So, with that, anything happen this week?

[00:05:50] I guess the Bregman signing. Anybody want to talk about the Bregman signing for $10 million more than Pete Alonso when Alonso actually has better numbers than Bregman? Anybody want to talk to that? I don't know why we have to tie it to a Met signing, but I'll go to Pete Alonso. Well, they're represented by the same agent. That's why. Well, this is true of 40 million a year. That's. But he has to say, it's 40 million a year. Oh, and by the way, go play second base. I mean, it's not even said he'd be a third baseman. Right.

[00:06:19] He's only played a handful of times. Maybe when he was younger, he might have played second baseman. What? When he was younger, he might have played second base. Whatever. That's obviously with very few times, but that would probably make him the highest paid second baseman of all time. I would imagine. Might be. I mean, it's like. It would have to be. I know who is it? Canova for that? I don't even know who that would have been. No, I mean, who else? There's no. There's been no, you know, Alomar. It's before his time and stuff like that.

[00:06:46] But, but, um, I just want to find that 40 million. He gets two opt outs. Is that what he also. And he's going to play second base. So a position he's, I get for all intents and purposes, hasn't played very much of it. It's. I don't. I don't. I don't. I really don't get it. I mean, I don't. I mean. I don't know. But you.

[00:07:16] It's great. The one thing I could see from Boston and we, we talked about this earlier when we were comparing why the Yankees wouldn't sign him because of his career numbers at Yankee Stadium were pretty horrible. His career numbers at in Boston are phenomenal. Like, you know, MVP level numbers. Look, I don't know what a lot of those numbers. Here's the thing. You could have signed Alonzo. But the same amount of money, because I don't think Alonzo, no matter how much he wanted to

[00:07:42] be a Met would have taken would have left obviously $10 million on a year on the table. Okay. And because he's obviously wanted the money. So you could have taken him. Yes. You have a first base prospect. I can't think of his name. So to the sea, whatever. Cassis. Right. Who is it? I think Peter Alonzo would have done quite well at Fenway Park. Okay. But that's, you know, left field, you know, the green heat.

[00:08:09] He, his home runs are not like my home runs used to go wide drives and you know that he is them high. I mean, he could have hit easily 50 home runs there if you could have 50 at shade, you know what I mean? Or city. Correct. Um, and it was the better fit though for them. Why? Because they don't have to move and they leave Devers at third. It would have been less disruptive. You know what I mean? To the team. Listen, I think Boston is going to be the Yankees biggest rival. I agree.

[00:08:38] I think I saw their lineup and your pitching, their pitching is really strong. Yeah. I mean, I think they just posted the lineups. They posted the projected lineups and rotations. They did it for the AL East. And when you were looking, you were like, it's ball. You can see clearly Boston. I actually saw Toronto third. Baltimore's pitching staff is really, really questionable at this point. The Trotter. Oh yeah. Or in Rodriguez. It's like, hmm. So that pitching staff is questionable.

[00:09:07] Taking it from the borrower single. I raised before. Mm-hmm. I wouldn't be surprised if Bregman was asked or held off because they're both Bregman and Alonzo represent by Boris to hold off signing with the Red Sox.

[00:09:28] So Alonzo signed his deal to avoid, to avoid a situation where if Alonzo really wanted to come back to the Mets, creating a difficult situation in terms of him coming back to the Mets for even more money. Right? So let him sort of let him sign for the 30 million and then Bregman, you can sign for the 40 and we'll deal with the. Why would Bregman agree to that? Well, represented by the same agent.

[00:09:56] And the deal could have been on a table. It's not like the Red Sox did anything. They sat around and did nothing either. Right? So what's the logic? I'm just saying. I'm not saying exactly. No, no, no. I kind of understand this. Bregman signs the week before Alonzo for 40 million. How would that impact? Oh, because then, well, no. How would it impact the Mets? How would it impact signing Alonzo? Well, a market is set to some extent, even though it's a different position. But now you're setting a market in terms of stats. Right? Alonzo has better stats.

[00:10:26] Right? So now it makes it that much more difficult for Alonzo to agree to 30 million dollar. Oh, I see. I can see that. I don't think it's a coincidence. I agree with you, Ray. It's not a coincidence that it's that. I don't know how exactly it played out. I'm just saying, generally speaking, I could see. Because here's the problem with Forrest representing all these guys. He actually controls a lot of this stuff, too. That's all. That's all I'm suggesting. But, you know. I can see it. You guys could disagree. I'm probably wrong. No, no. I can see it. That's a narrative that's been out there before.

[00:10:56] He does control the market in that way. Right. Here's the thing. Whether Ray is right or wrong in terms of, you know, this, this, this. There is something weird about one sign. And I know. Usually it's one sign sets the market. Everything follows. But that never happened this entire winter. No. Right. All of a sudden you got a lot of signing. And again, to Ray's point, it's not really the market because they're different positions. And then all of a sudden you've got the last two guys standing. Right.

[00:11:25] Oh my God. No, I'm doing it. The last two guys left to be signed. One signs and the other one goes right. The timing is. And I don't know exactly why. As they said in the Inglourious Bats, it's suspicious. It's suspicious. I don't know if you know that scene where he sticks his finger in the bullet hole. So before we continue with our topic. Pitchers and Catchers. Okay. That's it. Pitchers and Catchers.

[00:11:54] It was nice to see highlights. Yes. You go to YouTube. Absolutely. YouTube is a great place to go to get these little snippets at the end of the day after the line. You know why they get tired when pitches and catchers with being a Yankee fan? Like, oh, he's gonna have to shave. Oh, such and such. Shut up with a full beard. I'm like, oh God, get rid of that freaking hole already. I can't. I can't stand it anymore. Someone said, didn't someone write that they actually, they actually should get rid of it because they're losing out on free agents. I don't know if that's true. I don't know if they've lost out, but it's an antiquated. It's ridiculous.

[00:12:24] It's annoying. I was actually going to bring it up. I read this thing about how Devin Williams was actually. Right. Right. Like depressed. You actually felt, you know, it actually. And I forgot who went from the mess to the Yankees last year. Something like that. We're like, they get to grow their, they get to grow their, their facial hair out again. It is. It is. Vader. Maybe it was Vader. Maybe it was Vader. Maybe it was Vader. But, but. Does it help him? Yeah. It's an interesting thing.

[00:12:51] I guess there's sometimes, you know, it's traditions and, you know, are good. And I guess sometimes, you know, whatever, but. I mean, look, I, I like, I appreciate the tradition, but if they are actually losing on the players, that's a, they should change it. I haven't seen that they've lost out. I mean, I find it hard to believe, but yeah, I don't mind the facial hair. I mean, I don't know if they want guys like Marsh on, you know, the guys that the Phillies got with their hair is, you know, down to numbers. That guy makes me so hot. I don't know how he plays like them. It's so hot.

[00:13:21] Facial hair should be. Well, he has. Kevin Williams wants to be really depressed. If he gives up a three run home run in the playoffs, then he has, he has grounds to be depressed. Not because he had to cut his beard off when he's getting paid $10 million a year. Yeah. I'll cut off. I already cut my hair off and I'm not getting anything for it. The thing with Marsh is he has that greasy looking. Yeah. It's weird. And he has that full beard, but here's what I'll say on the, the met facial hair thing.

[00:13:49] If you're going to allow a mustache and allow a beard, this compromise, like, cause it wasn't always, you couldn't be having a mustache. I think. I agree. Well, they look creepy. They look like 70 porn stars. It's creepy. So if you're going to give it to the mustache, well, that look, that look is coming back though. Is it horrible? It's horrible. No, no. It's not a good look. It's not a good look. Brandon's broke. They were like, they made common. Oh, he grew up. It's like a porn, it's on a porn stage. Yeah. Ron Burgundy over here. They're just weird. I got out of it. I got out of a, a ticket.

[00:14:19] Cause of my mustache. My single, my solo mustache. Cause I, you could, you could see that. I had one of those. Is that for, is that for children? It wasn't a milk mustache. No, no. I was, I was entering the 30, the Midtown tunnel and I got pulled over because they were doing, they were doing a, sorry, they were doing a DUI trip. So, you know, roll down the window and I only have my mustache. It was pretty thick.

[00:14:48] And the guy looks and he, he, he, he walks away at my license. He comes back and you can see he's leaning into the car, trying to see if I'm drinking. I don't know. Right. So he says, you know, that's, that's a sick mustache. You got on. I said, thank you. He goes, no, it's really sick. And he walked away. And so I don't know what that meant. And he's got your license. He's got your address. Right, right, right. Exactly. So I didn't get out of a ticket, but you know, it sounds better when you say it that way anyway.

[00:15:17] So anyway, before, well, before we go into the main topic of topic vendor, we want to thank our fans that listen to us. We appreciate it. The subscriptions to our podcasts are going through the roof. So hopefully we're doing something right.

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[00:16:07] Yeah, that's that I said, gee, I said, geezer Ray at d geezers.com. It's not that it's geezer Ray at Gmail.com. So somewhere out there, there's a guy getting a bunch of emails saying what the hell's going on. And he's probably old and cranky about it too. So with that, let's get it. My wife landed. What was that? My wife landed. I just got that text now. There you go. Yes.

[00:16:37] Yes. Good. I'm glad because it's so you know, give me what's happening with planes these days. Um, putting that in there. Well, she landed. So I could say that. All right. So back. True. That's true. All right. Topic thunder. Which New York baseball team gave their best effort to win in 2020. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Well, I thought I thought someone wanted to make some comments about Marcus. Yeah, I'm going to.

[00:17:07] Well, it's in this. Oh, sorry. Yeah. So so I'll start off by saying is a cup here. I do. You'll see me in some of the pockets. It's something my wife gave me for Christmas. Um, and as you can see here, a QR code and you, you know, every day you get your camera, click on the QR code. And it's sort of this date in baseball history. So for instance, uh, we had this date in baseball history a few weeks ago where I talked

[00:17:35] about how the Yankees aren't really the original New York team. The Mets are because the Yankees started off in Baltimore and they didn't have pinstripes. The Mets always had pinstripes, you know, good stuff, uh, to learn about baseball history. Another one was how, uh, I think it was Mr. Evitt started the 162 game season. I'm not sure if I'm right about who it was, but it was the day we do on a podcast on the day 162 games started.

[00:18:00] And today amazingly enough, this is able to predict the future because I got it in Christmas. You have to say, but it's today. And when I read it, it said today is the day that the Yankees of old died. All right. The Yankees of old are dead. Okay. They're officially dead. Why are they dead? Why are they dead? You asked me because why are they dead? Why they did because we have to be subjected to, and I say this as a caring, loving, uh, I

[00:18:29] love my Mets, but you know, I see the Yankees as sort of like a little step brother now, you know, the, um, the little engine that could because he can't anymore because we have the most money. And, uh, I, I, I come across this, this, this video from a Stroman who is clearly agitated. You could tell the guys that he's trying to act cool and calm, but he's agitated because he's getting asked, where were you the first two days? Where were you the first two days? Where were you the first two days?

[00:18:57] You know, what's your role going to be? And his response is I'm a starter. I'm a starter. I'm a starter. Almost looking to pick a fight. The reporters weren't baited into it, but he kept insisting to start and the Yankees to that credit, or maybe not covered up for him by saying, well, he's a starter. He's a starter. And, and I heard on the fan overnight, they're giving praise for being genius about how to handle it because they agreed with him because they don't want to piss him off because it's Marcus Stroman. We know how he can get when he gets pissed off. So they agree.

[00:19:26] He's a starter, but here's the problem with that. The Yankees kumbaya. He's a starter position is BS. And why is it BS? Because if he really was a starter, then why are you going out signing Mr. Freed? You already had five. You had five already with Stroman. If he really was your starter going into the season, why are you going out and signing Freed? I don't think, I don't know if any team has ever gone where they had five.

[00:19:55] Are you saying he's not in a rotation? Are you saying he's not in a rotation? We had this debate. You just agreed. I'm good. He is in a rotation. I just wanted to get that clear. Thank you. No, that's my point. He is in the rotation going into the season. Right? And if he is, if you're, if you're at the positions, he's in a rotation going into the season. Right? And I've never seen this. I don't know if I've ever seen where a team has five starters, established starters,

[00:20:22] not guys trying to make it five guys in that rotation. They go out and sign a star to add to the rotation. Never seen it before. I challenge any one of you to come up where a team has had five established stars and went out and signed a star to come onto the rotation. So that tells me that they're full of it when they say, oh, he's a starter. He's a starter. He's a, no, he, the thing is he's, he's a starter as a six man rotation, but the Yankees haven't announced a six man rotation. So they're full of it.

[00:20:52] They dropped the ball and now they're going to have a problem because they can't trade him. Nobody wants him. Nobody wants him. Nobody wants to pay this guy, another $18 million when he hits 140 innings. He's a malcontent in the clubhouse where he's told at the end of the spring training, you know, we couldn't trade, we couldn't trade this. And now you're going to be in the book. This idea, he's going to go to the bullpen. Nice. And part of the team. That's not happening. As he made a point yesterday saying I'm a starter period. End of story. They're going to have to cut him.

[00:21:20] So if they know, if we know here, they're going to have to cut him. They know they have to cut him. Why haven't they cut him? And why haven't they gone and traded for Aranato? Because they are no longer the Yankees of old. They are the will pond Yankees. They are the Yankees who will only do X. But before they do X, they got to do Y. And that's sad. That is sad. And that is why my cup is a fortune teller cup.

[00:21:49] And it's predicted this. Do you guys, before you comment, do you guys now understand what my life has been like? Don't you feel bad for me now? I understand. Does it give you a perspective of what life has been like? I'm just saying. I think it has a pay, Pete. I'm just saying. Absolutely. Thank you. I'm just saying. Go ahead. The floor is open. All right, Carlos. No, Vin, you're going to take over this. I'm just feeling bad for Pete right now.

[00:22:20] First thing is last. I don't understand why you're hung up on Arenado as if he's this stud. It's not Arenado from Colorado. He's got a huge contract that nobody wants. The only team that wanted to take him on was Houston. And he vetoed that deal because he has a no trade clause. So nobody's asking for him because St. Louis doesn't want to. Allow me to answer that question.

[00:22:48] No, you had the floor for 10 minutes. I didn't ask you anything. What a sock. I'm going to answer the question. Go look at your magic cup and then tell you sip it for the next 10 minutes. Did you ask me a question? You probably can't. I want to answer that. I want to answer that question. I'll let you finish. I'll let you finish. I'll let you finish. What is wrong with you? Go ahead. Speak. I'm really irritated now. All right, thank you. Go ahead. Be irritated. Here's the fact.

[00:23:15] Jazz Chisholm by himself after they acquired him have better numbers at third base and any of the crap that Yankees are going to put there at third base this year. And the idea that they went ahead. This was this goes to the top of thunder. Did the Yankees give it their all? No, they didn't. It's it's absurd. They're being cheap. They want their cake. You need it too. They want to get all these players and they haven't even finished the job. Let me let me let me tee the question up for you a little different and then you can respond.

[00:23:44] So here's the issue. Thank you. If you think about it this way. Question. If if you look at what the. Okay, so they lose soda. Okay. And the Yankees have to fill all, you know, they may not go this different route. And I will freely admit. Okay. That while I do not agree with eight years for Max Fried, that they filled the void, the boys that they had very well. Okay. Getting the closer getting free.

[00:24:13] I don't think the drop on Bellinger to from Soto to belt is going to be as dramatic as as other things. And you're putting a gold glove defender out there and you're putting judge all that. But here's but here's a clear. So now you get down to what's the what's I like Goldschmidt at first base. I think he's going to be fine. Certainly better than what you had. Okay. So and it sets you up to now go after Vladimir Guerrero next year if you want whatever.

[00:24:40] So so now you look at this team and you say, what else what else can I do? And there's clearly a hole at third base. Okay. And it's it's it's you don't have to go. I don't get Bregman. I get it. You don't want to go down that road and lock yourself up for someone like that. Especially if you could go out and get Aaron noto you could forget that. I mean, that's another joke altogether.

[00:25:07] But but here's Aaron noto heart back big contract. I agree of which Colorado is picking up a decent chunk of it. St. Louis is announced they'll pick up some of it. So you're not going to take on. It's not like taking on Rendon by the way. Okay, and you're not taking on all of this. So you will you take it you trade Stroman. If you can whatever or cut whatever you have to do that. That was the point of the question. You had a clear spot that you have a need.

[00:25:37] You clearly have nothing in house that's suitable. Okay, or you really as well. You don't have to you could go out there and you can do it. And what the Yankees of 10 years ago got out there and done it. And are they doing everything they can to put the best team on the field? Or are they just more worried about the dollars than they are about the best team?

[00:26:01] Oh, I had this conversation with Ray during the week and thank you for couching it very professionally and not like, you know, a Capitan over there. But and I disagree with their what they're doing is if you don't sit here and tell the fans you're doing everything you can to fill that void. And then the next thing you do with LeMay you Paraza Cabrera and what was it Vivas? I think it was a fourth guy. I think it was not that's not it. That's not going to do it.

[00:26:29] And I personally think they're just saying that at this point because there's trying to do something else. They are. That's the same thing with Stroman. Yes, he's a starter. They're placating because they're trying to still move him with the Yankees of 20 years ago eating that contract. Yeah, 100% they we saw them do it. Why they're not doing it now? It's a house thing. And it's I don't I don't equate them to be the will ponds because they're still spending. They're still one of the top spenders. They're still spending a lot of money.

[00:26:59] And I think how rightfully so is telling Cashman you gave him this contract. You gave this to Stroman you I you asked me to give it to him. I signed up on this. If he's not the guy then you deal with moving him. I'm not going to continuously eat this money for your mistakes. Maybe that's why Cashman doesn't have his extension. I don't know. Maybe how sitting there saying look man, there's only so I'm only going to go to that.

[00:27:24] Well, so often because I think if they bring in I think the problem is I think we talked about this if they bring in our honor. They they'll then trigger it's kind of what you guys did with Alonzo Ray. You brought it up Alonzo signing hit you to a different bracket, which it was like a 50 million dollar signing instead of 30 because of the tax implication. If how doesn't want to go there. I can't fault him for not wanting to go there, but it's not like he's not spending the money. He as Carlos has brought up in the past. He went all in on Soto to try to get Soto signed.

[00:27:54] We don't have to agree with the money he paid freed all the years. It's not my money. He but he was a top left handed pitcher on the market. So you upgraded your rotation. You upgraded your bullpen by getting Williams, Fernando Cruz. You re signed Tim Hill. So now you're your bullpen strong. You got Bellinger. You got Goldschmidt. You have a full year of Chisholm. You have a full year of Wells.

[00:28:18] You put Judge back in his right position, upgrading your defense as well in right field over what you had there last year. And you have Dominguez. Yes, because that one glaring. There's that one glaring spot. And I agree with Ray on this. I did agree with him. It is pissing me off. But to say they haven't given the best effort. That's as if I said, well, the Mets give their best effort by not signing any of the top starters on the market at all. That's they didn't sign us.

[00:28:48] Is it different? Senga. No. Holmes. How come not freed? How come not Barnes? Here's clarity. Here's the difference. Not a move. Right? What's the difference? Here's the difference. That's strictly you got the money to spend. No, no, no. Ray has got a valid point. Hang on really quickly, Pete. Ray has a valid point. The Yankees of old would have flexed and they didn't in the past. He just dumped people. They are not that. And I've said this and I've agreed. They're not that Yankee team anymore.

[00:29:18] But the Mets who have the money to spend you. Ray just said it. They got the most money. They got the they're the they're the lead dog in the wild bunch. But why didn't they spend anything on one of the top arms? I'll put that guy. I'll tell you what. And I don't agree with Ray with this. They've got the money. They got the money suspended because because Cohen's been very clear about the fact that he's not going to keep doing this over and over and over again. I mean, he's willing to go over and come back, whatever. All right. But that's not. Here's the difference. You would have.

[00:29:48] I would absolutely agree with you if the Mets hadn't signed Alonzo. OK, because there was a glaring need. OK, and if you are and if you are going to replace Alonzo either with Alonzo or with some equal. OK, then it would have been equivalent to the Yankees leaving third base vacant. OK, signing one of those starters was clearly.

[00:30:15] Against Stern's philosophically, meaning he does not believe in giving these eight year contracts to pitchers, he does not believe in giving these contracts to pitchers, you know, for five. And that's that's what the top guy signed for. What did Flaherty get? I don't I think Flaherty got a two. He got the same contract Montaz got. Flaherty. No, no, no. Flaherty a similar contract, I think, for more money. But I think at that point the Mets were like, you know, they had their they had their team or whatever.

[00:30:45] Or they don't like Flaherty. OK, I'm not saying though it's at that point. See, the Mets are going with the six man rotation now. Now, and they have eight guys in that road because once you get past the six, you still got Blackburn. You still got canning outside that six. So I'm not a one in the bunch. Not just not a definitive one out of the eight. Personally, I would have rather had sign a birds. But obviously, Serves has made it clear that philosophically he doesn't agree with this.

[00:31:12] So I if the Yankees said if the Yankees said there is nobody to sign, you know, unless I got to do the 50 million a year for 20 years and we're not going to do that. Then that's fine. Philosophically, I'm going to hold you around. But but here's the thing. That's why I think it's different. But to your point. And this is my pet peeve about the Wilpons, which was so frustrating. Then just say. How whatever just say.

[00:31:42] Baseball decisions will be made within the confines of a budget. I'm willing to take that budget to 300 million dollars. I'm willing to take that budget every once in a while over. But I will not. You know, there are. And baseball decisions will have to fit in the context of a budget. I think he has said that. Well, he's right. He's gone around it. But well, right. I mean, it's sort of. He said, well, it's not sustainable. Well, because because then the answer is you're not doing everything you can to win.

[00:32:11] And that was the frustrating thing with the Wilpons. They say, well, no, no, no, we're going to be in on all the free. You're not going to be in offering them a dollar seventy five is not getting in on the free agents. And instead of just telling us, hey, we're broke. We got screwed with made up. Everyone understood that. OK, and we're trying our best to get out from under. We're doing whatever the case may be. Or not broke. But you know, I'm saying say it. Yeah, because really quickly, Pete, the thing that this is what also frustrate Ray and I talked about this.

[00:32:39] The Yankees, by far their revenue, like I think the Dodgers was second and it's a distant second for the revenue they generate. So they. I think the time is first. No, no, it's not. It's the other way around. The Yankees. And it's and it's not close. So to sit there and say, yeah, you don't have the same ownership money that that Guggenheim or that that Cohen has. But you if you're putting the revenue you're making back into your team, there should be no reason. He I'm not saying Arenado's the answer.

[00:33:08] I wasn't saying Bregman's the answer. It could be that actually they just think neither one of them were the right fit for the money in the system. But to sit here at the same time. And this is where I do agree with Ray and tell us, oh, well, we think LeMay you can is going to bounce back. Now, if it happens, it's it's just you stepped in it. It's all luck. If any of the if Peraza hits, if any Cabrera hit, if any of these guys proved to be an answer, you got lucky. In my opinion, it's you.

[00:33:36] You couldn't that you cannot bank on these guys. And the only thing is, if you're banking on them, you're saying the rest of my lineup is going to be so much better than last year's. And you got to the World Series last year with that weakness in your infield that we think that we can as long as they're not killing us defensively or even offensively, the rest of this team can carry the lineup could carry that. Well, do you have anything to add before the revenue question? Because I had no idea.

[00:34:06] The Yankees revenue is six hundred seventy five six hundred seventy nine million versus the Dodgers five hundred forty nine. No, I look. I said revenue by teams in twenty twenty four. The Yankees seven seven point five five billion and the Dodgers five point four five billion. I'm like, you get the distance, which I'm surprised about. What is is that is that revenue? Like, well, you're reading different numbers to me. Does some of it go back to MLB and some of it goes in the no words, the Yankees don't pocket all this money.

[00:34:35] And the Dodgers don't pocket all this. Right. No, I'm sorry. I don't know what you read. Pete, Pete, what you're reading is Forbes ranking of their work. No. It says MLB revenue teams by revenue in twenty twenty four Yankees seven point five five billion. Maybe maybe I'm reading I'm reading Forbes. Forbes says Forbes values the Yankees at seven point five five billion.

[00:34:59] And this might be right. But the revenue, but the revenue, the Yankees still upbeat the Dodgers. The revenue is seven six hundred and seventy nine million for the Yankees and five forty nine for the Dodgers. Right. So my question is the six hundred. OK, well, that's a better number. I was like, holy crap, that's a lot of money. Wait. So that money is like I know T-shirt sales, uniform sales goes into the pool for MLB and gets divvied up amongst the other things.

[00:35:28] Is this part of that or is this literally in there? I don't know what they use. Whatever it is. It's not going to be. I don't know how that works. Yeah, but it doesn't matter because it's the same for every team. Right. It's not like they go. I know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But cost, do you want to start? No, it's it's you know, it's sort of interesting. Both teams have their limit. And that seems to be like a per contract basis and Yankees overall, it's a budget. So it's OK to work within those confines.

[00:35:57] But like Peter said, of course, you're not. You want to sort of sort of claim, you know, poverty. You know, that's the annoying part. It does make it a little easier to digest the fact that there is no perfect candidate. It's not like we're letting this great third baseman slip away that we could obtain otherwise. Currently, that great third baseman is not out there. And after everything they did, I'm sort of OK with that. You know, you say the Mets fans, you've got to be OK. You got Soto. And and yeah, maybe you could have gotten XYZ also to improve it.

[00:36:26] I don't know if Alonzo completes it, although it is a nice piece. You know, they're going to have their limits. That's self-imposed limits. I mean, you can't you're not just going to outspend everybody no matter no matter what. So I think they did a fine job. Well, Carlos, it's not necessarily true because the Cardinals made it known that Aronado is there for the taking. So there is a guy out there that's better than anybody. No, no, no. I said the perfect guy. I could live. All right. Just because Aronado is better, why do they get a lot?

[00:36:55] Hold on. Let me address a couple of things here. First of all, you're ignoring. Let's stick to the topic. OK. And so far, I haven't heard anybody. Anybody. No, no, no. I'm just saying this. This thing for purposes of my intro. I didn't. It sounds to me from all or everything I heard, I didn't say anything that was inaccurate. So I don't know why you're upset, Vinny. OK, my all my point is, look, it's like it's like the the girl you want to ask to the prom before.

[00:37:23] When you ask her to the prom, she just makes me says, no, I'm not going to the prom. OK, I know where I stand as opposed to the different girl that says, well, yeah, I'd love to go to the prom. And you go and get yourself a tux and you do this and that. And at the last second, she goes, no, I'm not going to go to the prom. The second thing is what the Yankees are doing. If the Yankees had said, hey, you know what? We look. Let me finish. We lost. We lost. We lost. We lost. So, you know what?

[00:37:52] We're going to temper everybody's expectations and we're going to we're going to do what we can to rebuild whatever. Maybe not rebuild, but we we can be restructure ourselves. So the way Stearns is going into last year. OK, then I think you guys as Yankee fans, you're reasonable Yankee fans. You say, OK, fine. We lost. So that's a big hit. It's not. And by the way, the drop from soda to Bellinger, as Pete said, that it's not all it's built up to be. It's a tremendous drop off.

[00:38:19] It's a guy that's ranked number four in Major League Baseball to a guy that's ranked 80th in Major League Baseball. So it's not even close. All I'm saying is that the Yankees were more honest and said, this is a we're going to temper expectations. We're going to try. We're going to shoot for the play. But it's not. Instead, they go, oh, you got how come that's talking about that? No, no, no. We got his own. What about what temper expectations? They never tempered expectations. Free. They said they're going for the World Series again. What are you talking about temper expectations?

[00:38:49] That's my point. Because they're not tempering expectations. That's right. They're saying we are the best team in the American League. We're even better than we were last. Exactly. You're making my point for me. That's the problem. That's a tempering expectation. I'm going to tell you how you make my point for me. Expecting to win at all is tempering expectations. I'm going to tell you how you're making my point for me. By saying that they're going to go for it, they have gone 90% of the way. The 10%, maybe even more, they didn't get the third baseman. Absolutely.

[00:39:18] I don't think the third baseman, I don't think not getting Arenado is tempering expectations. Oh really? Why haven't they got Arenado? Yeah, 100%. Why haven't they got Arenado? You upgraded your pitching all around. This is just because of the piece point. I wrote this down just so I knew you were going to wrap me up. No, no, no, no. You know, you're wearing Bellinger and Frodo. They're selling the Yankees fans. Sorry, sorry, sorry. No, no, no, no. They're selling the Yankees fans a big crap. We'll put them in Bellinger and Frodo together. We'll put them in Bellinger together. No, that wasn't for me. No, that wasn't for me.

[00:39:47] Goldie, Cruz, and Hilton. And crap at third. Crap at third. Crap at third. That's it. You know what I can say? Oh yeah, that's it. You got Soto. You re-signed Alonzo. Guess what? Crap in your rotation. We've got no. I can say, if you can say crap at third, I can say crap in your rotation. Oh yeah, I can. That's a judgment call. No, it's not a judgment. It's a fact. Klay Holmes is not a star. Griffin Canning has been crap in the rotation. That's crap, Ray. That's what he said a few weeks ago on his podcast. It's crap. I said he couldn't. He had good stuff, but he still been crap.

[00:40:17] Hang on. Actual numbers have been bad. Because as you got it, Pete's point. Actual numbers bad. Pete's point, Pete's point, you agreed is the correct one, which is that the Mets, philosophically, it's one thing to say, we're happy with our staff because we believe in these guys. Whatever. The Yankee philosophy is not a philosophy. It's like they have this budget and they want to work within the budget. And then, forget about the Yankee 20 years ago. I like the tools of budget. It's $300 million. It's not the type of big budget.

[00:40:46] It's $300 million. Instead of eating Stroman's contract and showing their fans, we really care. When I say we care, we care. So we're eating Stroman's contract. That's ridiculous, Ray. The Yankee fans don't think they don't care. You're a Mets fan. You don't know what success is, Ray. Good luck making a playoffs. You don't know what success feels like. Good luck making a playoffs. I understand where you come from. Good luck making a playoffs. You have no frame of reference to say you're successful. I predict my 15th. Hang on. Really quickly, Ray. By May 15th, you'll be sitting there saying, who's this guy?

[00:41:16] We have a third base. We suck. We suck. We suck. Hang on. Ray, do you agree with Pete's stand? Because you, Ray, said, oh, we got all the money. We'll get who we want. Pete, oh, I think correctly says the reason you're not spending it. Who we want. That's the key. But I mean, you're saying the Mets didn't want Burns. They didn't want Freed. They didn't want Flaherty. That's right. But they paid the same amount of money for Frankie Montaz that Flaherty got. Yeah, it is. Same contract. Two years, $34 million. They didn't want Flaherty.

[00:41:43] So if you tell me Montaz's money for Flaherty, I now question the whatever baseball acumen of whoever signed these contracts. You can question the best GM in baseball. That's fine. He's not the best GM in baseball. Win a World Series before you can be at least the best GM in baseball. Win more. We do know that the A's aren't in it because of a budget. Okay? Because they don't want to cut the guy's hours. All right, we'll see who their base is by opening day. Yeah, let's see.

[00:42:14] Let's see. One quick question. Ray, what's the difference between having a budget and not wanting to sign a player at what you perceive to be an unreasonable price? No, it's not an unreasonable price. It's a philosophy that the players he wants, he wants his guys, his pitching staff, and that's that philosophy is these are the guys I want. Period. It has nothing to do with whether they can afford Flaherty. He didn't want Flaherty. No. I want to help you too. He didn't.

[00:42:42] I don't know why he's so mind boggling because the Yankees got Flaherty. They don't want Flaherty. He don't want Flaherty. He didn't want Flaherty. No, he didn't. He didn't. But the Yankees, his Yankees have Stroman in a rotation. He's not in a rotation. He is in a rotation. He's not in a rotation. Yesterday he said I'm a starter. No. He's not in a rotation. He's in a rotation, buddy. You actually said it early. He's a six man in a five man rotation. No, I'm saying that the Yankees are lying. The Yankees are selling BS to the fans.

[00:43:11] That's what I'm saying. They're saying he's a starter because if someone gets hurt, he will be in a rotation. Because remember Cole got hurt last year. If, if, if, if. Cole got hurt last spring. If, if. And if the if doesn't happen, what are they going to do? He'll be moved. Yeah, he'll be moved. The difference in what, it's not about whether they want. Somewhere along the line, I imagine Stern said, okay, philosophically, that while Freed might be a good player,

[00:43:38] I'm not sure that the value that I'm going to get on a five, six, seven year contract, locking them up, blah, blah, blah, versus the net benefit. I'm not sure if I'm taking the Montas's, the Manias, the Severino's, I believe in my pitching clinic, whatever, that the net, that the net increase is not worth the risk. It's a monetary decision. It's not a monetary decision. That's not a monetary decision. That's a philosophy.

[00:44:07] You're not getting the value for, you can get the value for less with him. I don't think they would have signed Max Freed to an eight year contract if their payroll was $100 million right now. Okay. In other words, they don't philosophically believe in long term contracts for a free Asian pitcher like that doesn't mean they won't sign their own that way. But they do not believe in it right now. That philosophy, they might get burned on it enough times and go, well, maybe not. I don't necessarily agree.

[00:44:37] I would, I would prefer to have one ace, but I'm not the GM of it. So it's not about a money thing. It's a philosophical thing. But it's value. It's value. I don't think they're getting the value. So where's the Yankees decision about value? Where's the Yankees decision about value? I never hear that. They talk about a budget. Ray, I'm so glad you're remote right now because I think I would physically strangle you. Where is it? Where's the conversation about value? I do want to say one more thing about the Bellinger.

[00:45:06] You want to answer that question though. These guys want to answer the question. I don't think that Soto is a better player than Bellinger. Okay. That's a bullshit way of looking at it. He knows it's a bullshit way of looking at it. Not even close. It's not. It's bullshit. I just want to say that roughly the same amount of at-bats. Soto's had 201 home runs, Bellinger 190. Oh, Pete, not you too. Pete, don't see Peltz with his level, Pete. Don't see Peltz with his level. Don't see Peltz with his level. Bellinger would not go to the place.

[00:45:35] I think Bellinger is actually going to make up a good shot. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, no, I think he was the perfect player to get to make up. He's not going to make it up 100%, but I think he's going to be. He has 30 home runs, which is not unreasonable in Yankee Stadium versus Soto's 41. What he won't do is be on base percentage. That's true. I mean, it's not. You're right. The Yankees are just as good this year. You guys are in great shape.

[00:46:04] That was the idea to replace Soto. You guys are in great shape. We are in great shape. You guys are, like, nobody at third base, you guys should. I mean, wait, nobody in the back end of your rotation. Shooing. Fantastic. I'm sorry, I'm going to put someone as a break. Pete, how do you like your chances right now against the Dodgers? Let's just assume all worlds go to the Dodgers. How are your chances against the Dodgers? No, no, no, no. I don't want to hear from you, Ray. How are your chances against the Dodgers? You just got your asses kicked. You got your asses kicked in the World Series.

[00:46:34] Yeah, Pete. And for a team that dropped, how many errors did you make? 80 that fifth inning? You now are adding just more to your plate by having shit at third baseman. You know, we really got to, I'm going to put Ray's address up on the screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think you have a good third baseman? I'm sorry. I must have missed that. Go ahead, Pete. I think if the Dodgers are fully healthy and the Mets are fully healthy, yeah, we're screwed.

[00:47:00] However, what I will say is that the Dodgers, I just was looking at this, every single starter, every single position player is over 31, I think. And every starter has not pitched more than a hundred and something innings. Oh, wait, wait, wait. How many starters they have? 74. Yeah, yeah. With Ray's address, a team signing star starters, having a stable of starters. Never raised a part of it before. Go ahead.

[00:47:29] No, a set rotation? No. The Dodgers didn't have a set rotation. So good try. Good. Anyway, so yes, the Dodgers are still clearly the studs of the National League. Clearly. I don't know what that has to do with this. We're talking with both of you. You just asked me. I'm asking his question. Okay, fine. Well, the best effort is the best effort. Oh, oh, oh. I don't understand how it is that you guys are angry when I'm saying the same thing you're saying, which is that you have crap at third baseman. You're not saying the same thing. It is.

[00:48:00] You have crap at third baseman. All you do, Ray, say third baseman. They had the same third baseman last year. You have crap at third baseman. And they made the World Series. No, they didn't. They had Chisholm. They got Chisholm at the end of the season. Who by himself. And they played Glaber at second base. By himself. Who is not great either. By himself. He did better than any Yankee third baseman they had. He's not playing there this year. Why can't you guys don't see the obvious? He's not playing third baseman. I did not. How come you don't see the obvious that the Yankee team is better? What is that? This Yankee team, top to bottom, is better than when they went to the World Series. You lost Soto.

[00:48:29] You lost Soto and you have no third baseman and it's better. Top to bottom. Top to bottom is better. Okay. I agree. I'm sorry. The people on every professional network I see it. But you know what? Still, still. That's not the question. Oh, and Pete agrees. You're the only outlier. You're the only outlier. You're the only outlier. You're the only outlier. That's not true. I don't think that's the question. Pete disagrees with me in almost everything anyway. So the question is that the New York baseball team gave their best effort.

[00:48:57] The Yankees have not given their best effort because they won't get rid of Stroman and they won't get Arenado. Period. That's the point of this. Oh my God. Who the fuck does Arenado all of a sudden? Well, well, well. Better than you have. Better than you have. I can argue you didn't give your best effort because you have the money to get better rotation, but philosophically you didn't do it. You're wrong. They got a second. Wait a second. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. If you sign. Hang on. They got who they wanted. What did you give Clay Holmes?

[00:49:26] They got who they wanted. So you wanted Clay Holmes over Flaherty. Yeah. Yeah. Bullshit. That is not true. Damn it, Brian. Wait a second. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Yeah. First of all. First of all. We knew better. We'll see.

[00:49:56] First of all, all raised whining aside that he doesn't agree with is not true. I think the Yankees are better top to bottom than they were last year. But that's not the point of this question. The point of this question is, is there was there something out there that the Yankees could do to make themselves better and they've chosen not to do it for monetary reasons. As opposed to best effort. That is all this was. Okay. With Aronato. Now hold on a second. Is that the question? I don't see monetary reasons.

[00:50:26] I don't see that. Well, the idea we said best effort. Best effort. Did they put the, did they put, did they put winning, going to the World Series and winning the World Series above money? That's, I think you spent, you spent the most for any lefty. They did. They made free the highest pay. Whether we agree or not. I'm just saying. They put the money forward and hang on. They were in on Soto. So they were there. They were there the whole time. I'm not saying. Because they didn't get Aronato that does everything else. No one said to keep out. I don't get that.

[00:50:57] You get to keep out. You're so defensive. It's incredible. The team is better. That's not what we're saying though. The point of the matter is, look, I'll equate it this way. Okay. I'm not going to, I can't make you understand the pitching thing. I can't make you understand it. But I mean, it's a different thing. But I understand. I just don't agree. But a lot. Well, here's the thing. No, you don't understand it. Because you've been making apples and oranges. I understand it. I don't agree with your position. Vinny, we can't keep saying, well, Flaherty versus Holmstead.

[00:51:26] I don't know if Flaherty might have said, I don't want to come to New York. And I don't, I don't want to, I don't know what the, I don't even know if Aronato said, I'm not going to wave my no trade to the Yankees. Well, no, the, the Mexican Yankees were on his no trade. He, he, he would accept the trade to them. No, the Mets weren't as he would accept the Yankees were not. I think. Possibly. Possibly. And if that's the case, then, then, then, then we're done. Right. Then the Yankees did everything. The point is, is that if you're sitting there and you have, and it comes down to,

[00:51:55] and maybe it would have been $10 million more. I don't have to equate it to Stroman. Like, you know, Ray's equating it to Stroman because, because Hal's doing this, you know. See, H. Strowman. That's okay. But the point is. I don't hate Stroman. I'm just saying that that's an absurd position to take. You're not going to trade him. You're not trading him. The thing is, is you have a player sitting out there that will make you better. Because even if he doesn't hit as well as he did, he's a gold glove third baseman,

[00:52:24] and that's undeniable. So he will be better than what you currently have. It might cost you $10 million or $12 million after everybody eats their pieces of the contract. Yeah, you might go over that threshold or whatever the case may be. But, but you're trying to win the world. And it could still happen. It could still happen. I mean, we're a month away. I just say that as of today. This is a question as of today. Yeah. Well, the answer to that. And I still think the Yankees effort, you can't knock their effort.

[00:52:51] If they didn't get it, if they weren't even in on Soto, then I would say yes. They didn't even put, their effort was weak this offseason because they had the best free agent. I didn't say that. They were in on him at the end. They signed the top lefty. All right. They got the top closer. They upgraded their hitting. And by default, their defense, because, oh, I'm sorry, Ray, Goldie's better than Rizzo. You said you wanted to sign Rizzo. You said they're hitting. You said they're hitting. He was horrible. You said they're hitting. Yeah, they upgraded. They're hitting overall.

[00:53:19] You got to remember, Ray, it's Chisholm full year. Okay. Well, full year. But they didn't acquire Chisholm. They had him. No, but you had him for maybe not even a quarter of the season. Now you have him the whole year, Ray. I'm not disputing. You have Wells for the whole year. I'm not disputing. You have Goldie over Rizzo. I mean, come on, Ray. This goes back to asking the girl to the prom coming. Enough with the girl to the prom coming. Nobody follows you. You tease the Yankee fans at the thinking you're going to go all out to win. I'm sorry.

[00:53:48] I'm not used to someone telling me yes and then no. I don't know what your life is like. People tell me yes and yes. You fell short at third base. That's all. Anyways. Well, I will. We're coming to an end. Let's wrap this up. I will say I'll make this last. I'll make. It's got me sweating over here. I'm so, I'm so, I'm so angry. Whew. Well, I mean, it's funny. I'll tell you. It's hard to accept reality. Good. Knowing all this. As I met Ben, you know.

[00:54:15] Knowing all this, it is clearly good that you guys didn't sign Soto because you would not have had Freed. Oh, you would not have had Devin Williams. You would not have had Bellinger. You might have had Aranata as the only other thing. Well, we might have gotten Devin Williams, but we'd have Strowman. You would have made him the closer. He would have been a fifth starter. Austin Wells. I mean, you know, I don't know. He's a nice guy. But he's better than Trevino. That's all I'm saying. Okay.

[00:54:45] Fair. Fine. Whatever. Listen, sometimes the Yankee love goes a little too deep. Sometimes it's a diss or my subtraction. Yeah. Well, all right. So, listen. I'm exhausted. I'm actually treating the pre-fights. Right now, Paul has booked an Uber to come to my house. I'm actually considering like just hating the Mets. Like, you know, just hating them. Ray makes me hate them that much. Right. But you're the one that said, oh, you got all the money now.

[00:55:14] So we're just playing with it, man. Go on with it. Go on with it. We're going with it. Now we go with it. Now you want to criticize us. Philosophically, you're playing with it. You're not going to stand a better pitcher than Jay Holmes. For weeks, you say, oh, where's Alonzo? Where's Alonzo? We have all the money. And now we fight. We go on with it. And now you criticize us for calling us the top dog in the year. Money game winner, Clay Holmes. Ray, you were pushing Henry Winkler to play first base like a month ago. So give me that. No, not true. No, true.

[00:55:42] It was Jesse Winker, not Henry Winkler. You argued against Pete that Winkler was an upgrade over Alonzo. Jesse Winker. Yeah, I just said that. You said Henry Winkler. No, I said it first. Jesse Winkler. I get the joke. I get the joke. I understand. All right. You know what? But frankly, you're better off for Henry Winkler as Yankee first baseman than what Goldsmith would do this year. No, third baseman. He'd be a better third baseman. Yeah. Well, you know what?

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[00:58:03] I'm dead serious. That's what I heard from an older guy. Anyway, with that, we thank you so much. What's our IG handle, Ray? D-Geezers. D-Geezers. D-Geezers. At D-Geezers. Thank you for raising that, Vinny. All right, everybody. Everybody say goodbye. Take a deep breath. Meditate. Because we are the Diamond Geezers. And you are not.