 you wake up today I guess sometime around 11 maybe noon you find out that Jean Carlos Stanton is on the IL 10-day IL with a biceps injury in his left arm that's not a great thing he's a heavily muscled guy I have no idea how long he will truly be out but that usually takes a little bit to heal I'd be surprised if he gets back before May but that's just a guess I have no idea it's April 1st so maybe it's just the 10 days and they caught it before it became something serious but right away you look and there's no excuses in baseball sorry that's why it's the truest test of a champion because injuries are part of everything and you have to plan for injuries and have depth so the Yankees are without their starting center fielder they're starting left fielder DH they're starting shortstop their number one pitcher and their number five pitcher in the CC sabati that's a lot lot of talent to lose but no excuses they had they had Stan yesterday they had him on Saturday they had him on Thursday and you lose two out of three to an Oriole team that's about as bad a team as you'll ever want to see but Don you follow baseball your whole life just because you're awful doesn't mean that you'll automatically get and get beaten by the way down a bit chances also on the IL but the 62 match could literally play the 1998 Yankees and win a game in a four game set they could there's a team that won 40 games in the season the 62 match and they could still beat the best team some people think that has ever been assembled so if you're gonna go and you're gonna sleep walk through a series with the Orioles and tonight against the Tigers I'm not saying the Yankees left walk but you can lose these games of course you can because that's the way baseball is I said it back earlier in the week I guarantee you they're not gonna go 19 and 0 against Baltimore you're gonna lose games and they were what six and six against them the first 12 games they played last year and there's a couple of things at play here that you mentioned first of all if you remember Stan was not healthy last year and played pretty much every game because they were so important so maybe the Yankees are learning listen early get him healthy because we're not gonna want to sit in later on it's gonna be I don't care what both Boston's doing in Seattle it's still gonna come down to the Yankees in the Red Sox down the stretch gotta be healthy I'd rather see a miss games in March in April than missing games in September also you mentioned this with Stephen A. Smith because you were on with him earlier Michael you listening the approach is different you fall behind this is a team that works counts this is a team that's that really wears pitchers out and they certainly did that with Bundy I mean he was out of the game early when he throw 88 pitches and three and two-thirds innings whatever but you fall behind and now your approach changes and now that's not what the Yankees are about and then they get to the ninth inning and they did it the last two days where they're able to bring the tying run and the winning run to the plate because they're just that good offensively but a lot of wasted at bats in the sixth the seventh and the eighth inning where maybe if they had a different approach the way they did in the ninth inning they wouldn't have put themselves in that hole