 Let's talk about a decision made Sunday. Two players voted in to the Hall of Fame By a committee George Steinbrenner was not we had a chance to talk to Joe Torrey about it wanted to get your thoughts Well, my thoughts aren't good ones. I really you know, I I'm I'm actually stunned that something like that could happen I was privileged to know him, you know as a when I was a player representative so I negotiated from across the table with him and then I had the pleasure of working for him and Certainly, you know, absolutely what we call a Hall of Fame owner I mean, there could be people who you know love him hate him whatever you you can't deny that he was you know a force for change And that he did a lot for the game of baseball and certainly has an historic figure So I'm not sure what the criteria are, but it seems to me no check check check and check So I'm glad you mentioned working for him because Jack at the pleasure of covering him I had the pleasure of playing for him and you knew as an owner He was gonna give you everything you needed to do to win. Yes. Tell us what it was like to work for the men Well, um, it's it's interesting because when I when I sat across the table from him I was able to call him George and then when I came to work for him. It was mr. Steinbrenner So, um, you know, he once again, he would give you everything that you needed and more if you worked for him he did he was the best training for any person in baseball because He hadn't he had an uncanny sense of asking you the one thing that you didn't know So he had just an uncanny sense. You know, you'd come in prepared There would be people that would run down the hallway, you know with files flying everywhere and they'd get to his office and You know draw himself up and he'd ask the one thing they weren't prepared for So I learned very easily not easily. I learned very early that the the standard stock line was I Don't know the answer to that but I will go find out and and let you know Gene you've had such a versatile and varied career. You were a dancer. You were an actor You decided then to go to law school and you're an attorney But you're also a couple years shy now of two decades as an assistant GM with the Yankees Which is the longest tenure of any assistant GM. What career traits have allowed you to have that sustainability? Well, I feel like you know, Miss America I You know, I also I enjoy being an assistant GM I mean who wouldn't enjoy being an assistant GM for the New York Yankees were Brian Cashman Brian and I worked across the table from each other. I said and now together for almost 18 years And probably my my long tenure is because I mean, I've also been very clear. I don't want to be a general manager And so a lot of my my brethren as I call a lot of my brethren do want to be general managers So they they move up and out but When you're given an opportunity to do what what we are given an opportunity to do at the New York Yankees first with George slash mr. Steinbrenner and now under house tenure You know that it really you do feel that you were being you sort of reached the pinnacle of where you would like to be in Baseball and you're able to achieve great things working with great people. So what more, you know, can you ask? Jean you speak so passionately about your role with the Yankees. What is it about it? That's so fulfilling for you I think when I first came to the Yankees, Brian said that that I'd like you and this reminds me of a Woody Allen line Which is you know, you can't repeat on air, but but he said what what you're doing for players I want you to do for the Yankees. So I have been able to The Yankees have been like a player for me and I've been able to represent them in a variety of ways And and been able to still explore the business and legal side of baseball as I did before I always say that if I were if I were still a Paramount Pictures corporation We're still in the movie business. I would be sort of the head of business and legal affairs for the for the team So it's only I just do baseball. I don't do the stadium or licensing or financing or anything like that But you're also Steve heavily in the international market. We know that From a different aspect the Yankees are playing the Red Sox in London this year Yes as an organization as a person who I'm sure is going to that how excited are you about that? Oh, I'm thrilled I'm thrilled. I mean, I've been an anglophile all my life And to be able to go over to London to be the first two teams to do so I also think there's something wonderfully historic about it. You know, you've got the Red Sox I hope they dump some tea into the harbor And you know the Yankees and and so I think it'll be tremendous I hope that the people in in the UK are become as excited about it as we are There are certainly, you know cricket has I'm not really understand it, but it has some connection to baseball I know our our players are really really excited about it And I would like to say, you know far be it from me to you know Throw a laurel at our friends up north, but I will from a women in baseball perspective Raquel Ferrera, who is the senior VP of baseball at the Red Sox is the only other You know high-ranking woman in in the baseball operations department And I think it's also a wonderful unique opportunity for Raquel and I my brother as I call her for You know to go and and and promote women in baseball We have so many women who work in baseball and a lot of times they're not really seen So I'm looking forward to that You're essentially in on every deal that the Yankees make Brian Cashman has called you a pit bull tenacious when it comes to Negotiate it And you look at that are there is there a deal over the years that stands out to you that you're particularly proud of? I think I'm actually I mean obviously I'm very I'm proud of the fact that Matsui chose to come to the Yankees and How that transition worked? I think I'm probably I feel like knock on for Micah. I mean I think I'm I think I'm proud of the fact that during my tenure. I don't think that we have We haven't lost a player And that's not in terms of negotiating because plenty of players have you know gone elsewhere But we haven't done anything so that we would lose a draft pick lose a player Been disciplined in any way, so it's really you have to kind of constantly. It's like the you know the Stick your finger in the in the dam so that the water doesn't come crashing through so Hey by the way with your theatrical and acting background is Vegas in your wheelhouse The boards on Broadway darling, this is not really Gene thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thank you very much