 And we're live with the Talking Yanks pregame show. It's the Yankees versus the New York Metropolitans. Met's took game one. Yankees are looking to take game two, which is the last game. Jake, how you doing? I'm good, Jim, I'm good. Rockin' in the USA, third of July. That's the song you have stuck in your head? Rockin' in the, no, not at all, but now it probably will be. What song do you have stuck in your head currently? R-O-C-K in the USA, but now I do, I didn't have one. So now we're there. Nice. I got M&M stuck in my head. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, not that one. Nice, Purple Pills. No, not Purple Pills. You love that song. No, I got Who Knew stuck in my head. Who Knew they're playin' a game? Metz vs Yankees, Don't Do Cocaine. Big game today, Jim. That is the M&M song. It's the M&M song, if you're not familiar. No, that M&M song is so angry, it's so angry, and it's stuck in my head, so it's puttin' me in like this weird place. It's like, I'm walkin' around my kitchen alone with my dog, I got a little edged to me because I got M&M stuck in my head. Nice. It's that one that goes like, I don't make black music, I don't make white music, I make fight music for high school kids. I put lives at risk with a knife like this. It's like, whoa, how'd this get stuck in my head? I'm angry now. And I mean, that's kind of the theme of the game today, real knife fight, biggest rival in the MLB. Yeah, Jake has agreed to the terms that if the Yankees lose, well, they'll wear this as an earring for the foreseeable future. Noodle the Doodle's pretty close to the pre-game show. That might be a big surprise at the end. That's a little tease in the biz. That's what they call it. All right, all right, let's get into this game. Yankees versus Mets, they lost yesterday. And I think the goal of the team today is to win today, I think. And the lineup that they have out there is DJ LaMahue playing third base, leading off Aaron Judgen, right? Field batting second. I think that's basically gonna be there for a while now. Gary Sanchez slides up to catcher at third. Aaron Hicks is in center field batting cleanup. Glaver Torres behind him, fifth. DeeDee at short, Geo Urchella at third base. Brett Gardner in left field, Domingo Hermann pitching batting ninth, which means no Romine, no Tachman, no... Mike Ford. Mike Ford, who got sent down for Domingo? And Lupoy's gone. Tarpley got sent down, no Mike Ford and no Edwin. Yeah, man, it's a... And I know we'll actually, this will probably be a bigger conversation on the show tonight, but you said, Edwin can play defensive first base and there's not much difference between him and Lupoy, but Edwin hasn't played first base every day this decade. So I think they're gonna be in the NL league and they're gonna move him out today as we're seeing. And then we'll see him juggle with the DH spot obviously coming up in Tampa. But yeah, man, I just had one of these weird moments where it's like, damn man, I mean, we looked at this lineup week, week and a half ago and it was Edwin, Giancarlo, Luke Voigt, no. I mean, three guys that would be the main power hitters on 29 teams in the league and they're out of the lineup now. So that's kind of a bummer. And it's almost making me prepare for bad news tonight, but I guess on the bright side of things, returning from the IL is Domingo Herman. And we'll see, it was just that bad hit that made him pitch so poorly for four starts and then he decided to tell us. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, all right. So the lineup's still good, even with those three guys you sent out. But it is like, come on, we were so excited for this. And now they're gone right away. It's a bummer. I think this stretch until the All-Star game is gonna be tough on the Yankees. And like you said, we go to the Trap for four games after this. So it's, they're playing July 4th in the Trap, which is so fucked up. Yeah. It did not be allowed, yeah. Opening days and July 4th should not be allowed to play in the Trap. Fucking bullshit. Domingo comes back. He was good, good, good. And then he was bad, bad, bad. He said it was on his hips, he's giving up home runs. I believe he faced the Mets, right this season. No, he has not faced the Mets this season. He faced them twice last year. I'm pretty nervous about Mingo. Yeah, I think, and that's why this game, Jim. And I think one of your catchphrases, if you will, has been that baseball moves so fast. And I think people would think that's ironic almost if you're outside the baseball world. But I just mentioned the three sluggers that are out of the Yankees lineup today. And also, this is a huge game for Domingo Hermon, Jim. If he looks good today, we kind of exhale and we're like, all right, I think, you know, we can look forward to as long as Domingo's healthy, we can get some good innings out of him, whether it's starting or kind of this super roll out of the bullpen that you and I have started dreaming of. If Domingo is bad today, I mean, he still is gonna have to earn back trust after the All-Star break. But I mean, we're very much on a teeter. Can we trust this guy or not trust this guy? And this start is gonna be a big factor to it. Yeah, I didn't realize this was happening. I think I've been out of touch or something, but I was like, oh, Domingo's starting. Oh, he's back. Okay, this is real. Yeah. He gave us a good start yesterday. The bats were dead. So even if Domingo does give us a good start, we're gonna need the bats to wake up. I gave him the excuse of jet lag yesterday. I'm not doing it again. So they are facing Jason Vargas, our favorite dude. Our guy. Yeah. He's been great. Yeah, good. He has been good. We saw Vargas earlier this season, six innings pitched, three earned runs. So that's good. And then looking at what Yankee has hits versus him, who do you think? Which Yankee has the most hits versus Vargas? Vargas. Lifetime or this year? Lifetime. Lifetime. God, I was gonna guess LaMahew, although they haven't been in the same league a lot. I'll go LaMahew. LaMahew has two hits and six at bats. Brett Gardner has five hits in 16 at bats, which is pretty good. Guardie party. And Edwin has the most hits, but he's not playing today. He's got eight hits, it's pretty good. Yeah, the numbers aren't bad versus Vargas, but he's been good lately. 82 year old pitching coach has aged him nicely. He's not the oldest guy in the Mets anymore. That's fine. But let's just, can we just hit Vargas? We just hit Vargas and have Domingo be good. Like that's not an easy game. It'd be nice, right? Just walk away with a split because it's, Jim, not only would it be lining up two losses, it's against the Mets, which is people are gonna be loud and annoying about. And it leads into these four games at the TROP and it would most likely mean Domingo didn't look good. I mean, we would go from 13 and one in our last 14 before yesterday's game against the best teams in the AL and having a lot of guys back and ripping it to now injuries are a problem. We don't believe in Domingo and we're, are we gonna have a bad stretch before the all-star break? So, yeah, easy game would be welcome. A W would save us a lot of headaches. Do you have a specific one to watch for? A specific, you're saying that wrong. Bestic. Specific. God, it's just kind of the thing. I mean, we said what are the huge things? I mean, Domingo Hermon, what are you doing? We had the four horsemen go yesterday and they got touched up. Well, not touched up, but they lost the lead. I don't know, man, it's kind of what, it's just what are the Yankees kind of resting their laurels on right now? Is it, are they, was that the one game, the hangover game they're gonna shrug and then paddle back to the ground? Or are we gonna look back and say, damn, there's six games after London were a bummer? So I'm just the whole environment. Yeah, it's really the home run ball with Domingo is what you gotta watch out for. And he's nice that he's playing in a bigger ballpark. Yesterday, the Yankees put some into spots where you'd kind of think, ah, shit, is that a home run in another ballpark but not at City Field. Domingo Herman in his last, before he got hurt, or I should say, while he says he was injured, he had given up in his last four starts, he had given up eight home runs. Yeah. Not good. In his last three, he'd given up seven. Yeah. So you need to watch that closely. And also before he got hurt, do you remember the whole curve ball thing? Gary would try to get him to throw anything but the curve ball, but he just wants to throw his curve ball. Just wants to throw the curve ball nonstop to the point where he gets too predictable. And if the curve's not perfect, they hit it. So I always like watching him and Gary and how many times he's shaking off Gary and how many times he's throwing the curve. And all eyes on Domingo right now. I don't think it's standing if he has a bad outing, like for the rest of the season, but it'd be nice to put it to bed kind of and say, all right, he's back. Yeah, it's not like, oh my God, what happens next if Domingo has a bad start? But I think it's one of those big pendulum games where it's like, all right, and he kind of put them on himself when he blamed the hip. So if he says that hip's good, we're expecting some good innings. And I think, do you think we're gonna see Chad out of the bullpen today? No, I don't know. I don't think so. Okay. Do you think we will? I don't know. I think people were starting to get excited for Chad Mingo. I could see this being the reverse. You wonder how many pitches Domingo's limited to? And with the four horsemen, or three of the horsemen pitching out of the bullpen yesterday, it'll be interesting to see. Yeah, I don't know what the plan is. Everyone's available. Like, oh, everyone that pitched yesterday can pitch again if they need it. So, that's what we'll see. All right, Jake. That brings us to the homer draft. It's the homer draft. The Yankees didn't hit any homeruns yesterday. They broke the streak. It was a lot of games in a row. Neither Jake or I got a homer on the board. I went first, or no, Jake, you went first. Now I get to go first. And I am going to take judge. No, that would be dumb. I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take Hicksey. Okay. He thought he got one yesterday. He's still swinging good. I am gonna take Hicks. And you can, you can take judge too, because I took him yesterday. So I'm assuming that would be your final pick. Yes, Hicks and Joe. I will take Gary Sanchez. Smart. He's really good. Because he's really good. And give me a baby Glabie. Wow. All right, Jake's got the two Gs. I got the two errands. Aaron and Aaron versus G and G in the homer draft. How about that, Jake? And this is the last game. So right now it's tied 0-0. One homer, one homer can win the series. Could be huge. One homer could win the series. And speaking of huge, brings us to the over-under. I had it and then you talked me out of it like a big old red face buffoon you are. I didn't talk to you out of shit. You talked to me, you talked shit out of me. You've done that. So don't even go there. What do you think the over-under's at today, Jim? Mingo Vargas. Yesterday was nine with Paxton and Wheeler. I'm going to say it's nine and a half. I'm going to say nine and a half. Nine and a half? I think they went up from there, huh? I don't have it on Espen. Let's see. What the hell? Anyone in the chat want to find it? There's usually people that know it right away. What's the over-under today? Hide, nothing to worry. Never trust that. It's a good spot for you. Oh, big old Liars. It looks like, oh, that's the Detroit in the White Sox game. It looks like you've got a workout in today. I'm happy for you. A little bit. I guess some people call it a workout. It looks like Westgate has it as 10. Wynn Casino has it as 10. Unibet has it as eight and a half. You want to bet? You want to go 10? Unibet, eight and a half. I'm going to go 10, and I'm going to go over. I'm going under. I think I have a bad feeling about this game tonight. I think the bats are going to be dead again. And I just see that storyline playing out and vogue-ish. I think we're getting a film, Evan, angry pregame speech. You sissy girls are calling it. Are you one in London? Don't be sexist, Jake. Come on. I'm not. He's talking to a group of sissy girls. So then he goes in, and he talks to the team in the locker room. Yeah, I was just talking. We won in London. Now you guys are just calling it. All saw breaks started. You guys are already on break. Lemayhu, you fishing right now? Now he's from the South, or? Are you fishing right now, Lemayhu? It's from Louisiana. And I think it's what's going to make this team different outside of that weird film, Evan, speech. I think they're looking at each other today like, yo, we can't lose two to the Mets. We're looking to do big things this year. Don't let London be an excuse. Let's put up a crooked number today. Vargas throws 80 miles per hour. Vargas! Vargas, slow the heater! What? Yo, did you see the 82-year-old Mets pitching coach? I made a breakdown. When he was in it, jogging? No. Jogging from the mound to the dugout, Jake. Oh, yeah. Like five steps, then he called it quits, but still. If you're 82 and you're still involved in professional sports, you're pretty much going double middle fingers to everyone around you. Crazy, dude's nuts. Yeah. All right, let's go to the chat and see if there's any questions. Hey, did you hear that, Michael K? He's got to take a month off. He's having vocal cord surgery. I did it. I heard he wasn't doing, or his voice wasn't doing so well. I didn't know it was a month. Yeah. So we're losing Sterling and Kay in the same time span. Well, when's K getting the surgery? He's started today. He's out. Today was his first day off. Oh, wow. That's scary. I mean, his whole fucking life is his voice. Yeah, I mean, I think they've done one or two before. I know, but it's still got to be a little scary for him. Just put the mic a little closer. Comes back from surgery. Michael K! It'd be awesome. That's the dream, man. Restart your career. One of those holes, he's got to touch up. Okay. Hey, now, see, that's offensive. That's more offensive than Sissy Girls. Touch, touch, touch, touch. Why? Not allowed to make fun of people that had holes in their throats anymore? Pretty much. Yeah, on the floor. If I can't have Phil Nevin calling the team Sissy Girls, then totally. Jake, enough with it. All right, well, then we'll stop talking about the hole in the neck thing. Everyone agrees that Sissy Girls is fine. What do we got from the chat? Tanaka's ready. McNeil's ready. I don't know. First pitch in the Bronx. This is Michael K. The chat, can you talk about how bad Edwin has been? Yeah, I probably do that on the podcast tonight. Yeah. Seems like a talk and yanks podcast. He's been pretty bad. We thought, I thought he might fall in love with that short porch and then mess up his swing. I don't think that's what happened because it's been a lot of way games, but it's been bad. Is Bellinger the best player right now, Jake? I probably still trout. If trout was on a good team, we'd be talking about him more than we talk about Bellinger. It's true. What do you think of Gardner hitting 123 with runners in scoring position? It's bad. It's bad. Gardner's been good for like a month, though. Yeah, what do you think about him playing all-star level baseball for a month and a half? I would say that question back to that person. Do you like that or do you not like that? Because if you don't like that, then you're just a Gardner hater. If you like that, but you're not good with the runners in scoring position, then that's fair. That's how a brain should work. Bad runners in scoring position, but Gardner's been pretty good for a while now. Trying to find the... So with the runners in scoring position, yeah, all the numbers are bad. Bummer. Got to do better. Do better, Gardner, whatever. He's there for his defense and to be a role player, but people keep getting hurt. Yeah. Like he was supposed to be on the team. Supposed to be on the bench, and now Stan gets hurt again. Yeah. Does Clint get the call up when we're back to DH play? I don't think so, but it would make sense for him to. I thought it would make sense for him to get it over to Ford, but Jake has some good points about it the other way, but I don't know. I have no idea what's going on with Clint. Yeah, I think it's a good podcast topic. We'll talk about it a little. It's kind of a coin flip. Ford was raking. Clint played really well in the majors. It's what they wanted on the team for these six games. And I think that was important too, because I think Ford's mostly gonna sit on the bench. Like I think Clint would also sit on the bench. Yeah, that's a good point. And Voight's gonna be back, I think the first game he can be back after the All-Star break too. So I think there's a lot of factors there, but... What's going on? You leaking? Yeah, it leaked a little bit on me. I think I'm gonna go jump in the ocean as soon as we're done with this. Were you drinking melted charcoal? Yeah. Why? Why did you drink it? It was 421 in the afternoon, and that's when I drank the melted charcoal. 421, brish! You got it. You're killing it. You are killing it. Put the camera back on me. I can go all day. Lafty? I can't do Lafty. That's bad. You can't, so don't make that problem. I could not do Lafty. Don't make that problem. Why is Hicks always batting so high? Cause he gets on baseline, he's a switch hitter. And I think he's been hitting the ball since his court of zone shot. I think Hicks has been pretty good. They have good at bats. Yeah. Yeah, all right. I think that's all. I'm gonna go jump in the ocean, say hi to my sister, brother-in-law and their baby. It doesn't even know how to swim yet. No. Did you know how to swim at six months? No, man, this won't shock anyone who's a regular, but it was pretty late to the swimming game. 30? Still can't? I have one of my buddies from Dallas who's as normal as can be, can't swim a lick. My mom probably can't swim if she's deep and she's a Bronx city girl. I want you to ask your mom if she could swim and let me know how hard she slaps you. Let's do it right now. This sounds good. Okay, let's do it on the air. Let's do it on the air. Bronx girl. Yeah. It's gonna be tough. What do you want? Let's see. What do you want, Jimmy? I did this. Hello. Hey, Ma. Yeah. If you were thrown into the deep end of a swimming pool, can you swim? Okay. Just wondering, are you at the beach still? Oh, cool. I'll be right over. Can't swim. Survive. She can survive. She's a survivor. Can't thrive. Can't thrive. All right. All right. There you go. That ends the pregame show special guest appearance by my mom, Susie Pops. Yeah, finally. We will see you later.