 We're back on hot stove with some quotes from Gary Sanchez in a conversation with ESPN's Marley Rivera. On being benched last year, feeling like I couldn't contribute was very hard. I always kept supporting my team. But the reality is they never told me why I was benched. I didn't know why I wasn't playing. On his work ethic, Gary said, I'm always working hard. Yankee fans are great. But at the same time, they're very demanding. The results were not there. That is true. But it was never due to a lack of work. On his new catching techniques that he learned in the off-season, I'd never come with my right knee down. I never threw the second base with my knee down. But I will keep on working with the organization to identify what worked and what didn't so I can figure out how I can be the best version of myself behind the plate. And I'm not catching Garrett Cole. He said, I'm someone who does not like to cause trouble. So I just let it go. I remain calm because if Cole decides to choose someone, he knows what he's doing. I think they could have explained things to him. He's saying, look, this is what's going on. And as a man, I would have understood it. And on bouncing back, he said it was a bad year. And it wasn't a year. It was 60 days. And now I have to listen to all the negative comments. Everything that everyone has to say about me, because the truth is that I play badly at the plate. Let them say what they want. I deserve it. That will make me better and stronger. And with that conversation and those quotes in mind, we bring in Michael Canow. Michael, I know you dug into this a little bit on your radio show and on social media. Of all those comments that he made and there were a variety of them, which one really stood out to you? The one that stood out to me was the one that kind of pointed to a lack of self-awareness by Gary is that he didn't understand, they didn't tell him why they didn't play him. Well, 147, the fact that you struck out about 40% of the time, the fact that you were struggling behind the plate. I mean, it's very obviously the point why they weren't playing him was because he wasn't playing well on top of the fact. And not a lot of people bring this up. Higashiyoko was playing very, very well and they're in a win or go home situation. And the one thing that I got out of social media that I didn't quite agree with, a lot of people said, well, that's Aaron Boone dropping the ball. He should discuss this with him. There was nothing to discuss because it wasn't a blanket decision we're not gonna play him for the entire post-season. Day by day, Boone agonized over what decision to make. And I believe that if they beat the Tampa Bay Rays in game five, Gary Sanchez was gonna start game one of the ALCS. It was not a blanket decision. There was no conversation to be had. Gary has to open his eyes and see Higashiyoko was better defensively and offensively and he struggled all year. That's the reason you weren't playing. I don't know why it had to be articulated for him.