 Hi, Mark. You just heard Don. Are you a fan of like several teams in the same market? First of all, I just don't understand why you guys are just crossing people that are just, they just want to enjoy baseball. That's Don. Don't say you guys. Don. All right, Don, lay off these people. I mean, maybe not everybody in this world, their life revolves around sports. Maybe people just want to kick back after a long day of work or after a TV show and just watch a game with the hat on. Is that a big deal? So you would put Billy Crystal as a guy that just likes sports and is not an actual Yankee fan, as he was taking in a bat and a spring training game. Billy Crystal is a Yankee fan. He's a fraud because if you remember City Slickers, he's wearing a mad hat. It's a movie. It's a movie that he made. It's a movie that he wrote. Let me ask you something. If somebody asked you to be in a movie and we're going to pay you millions of dollars to act because I know you've got some acting chops, Don. Thank you. I've seen it. If somebody asked you millions of dollars to wear a Red Sox hat or a Patriots hat, would you do it? Yes, of course. That makes sense. But this is Billy Crystal. That's his movie. City Slickers, he didn't audition for that. It wasn't his first rodeo. Oh, I see what you did with rodeo. You're almost saying? I mean, he's Billy Crystal. I hear you. This is what I live with. I love what I live with. Daniel Stern, listen, he's got no choice in that movie. He's got to wear whatever hat he's told because he had no audition for that part. I caught a very little bit of this conversation. What I want to know is that Larry David and Ray Romano are lovely men and I don't care what hats they wear. I enjoy their service. Well said. They're fun guys to hang around and I've played golf with Ray, decent golfer. So let's move on. Hey, Mark, how are you? Hey. How do you play the heck of our first base? You never broke out of Ray Romano? I didn't know you had it. Oh, wow. Wow, playing golf with Mark Desherre. Wow. I can move on to really important things. Real quick, by the way, City Slickers not directed by Billy Crystal. But I think it was written by him. Not written by Billy Crystal, not directed by Billy Crystal, starring Billy Crystal. Wow. Interesting. Just saying. You think we have Peter around. See? I got all the stats. Don't you worry about it. I got it. Alright, so Mark, what did you think of the Yankee win yesterday? I thought that every move Boone made worked out right. Impressive win. I mean, I think the simple thing that you can say about the Yankees is, this is the team that we expected to see when they're healthy. You know, we expected to see Aaron Judge hit in home runs. We expected to see Luis Severino attacking guys, you know, attacking the corners. We knew he didn't have to throw Severino, didn't expect. So, you know, he really did exactly what the Yankees asked of him. My MVP of the game, though, is Don Botanzas. You know, here's a guy who last year wasn't even a factor in the playoff. He was thrown on Don Gato in the Yankees bullpen, and he came in a situation last night, bailed out steady, and really set the tone for the second house of the game, so the Yankees could port on and win very handily. So what's the... They obviously had don't leave anything to chance in these games analytically. So how much of a leash does a manager have in that situation? Is he given a couple of options depending on the scenario? How much off the reservation can an Aaron Boone go? In that type of a game? You know, that's a good question. I'm not exactly sure. I'm not privy to the conversations. But you know, I saw it in the dugout yesterday. Aaron Boone, when Chevy started struggling in the fifth inning, was talking to Josh Bard pretty much every other pitch, talking to Larry Rothschild, every other pitch, basically saying, hey, what do you guys think? And they have so much information at their fingertips that they use the information. And then between Boone and Larry Rothschild's defense coach, they make a collective decision. Yep, time to go get them. Let's put in the guys from the bullpen. Now, am I... I was talking with Mark to share his weekly spot on the K-Show. I really like the Yankees in this series against the Red Sox. I just do, I think, the things that the Red Sox struggle with, the Yankees could actually capitalize on. What's your thoughts on this series? I do, too. I mean, I think the Yankees win this series. The reason I think that is I'm not sure that Chris Sayles is 100%. Now, Al Scors says he's fine. He says that he's 100%. But if you look at his four starts in September, after he got off the DL the second time, his velocity kicked down every single start. And maybe that's just because the games didn't mean anything. He was, you know, kind of going through the motions and had no adrenaline. That could very well be the case. If you listen to his comments saying, I should be able to win with whatever I have, that doesn't sound to me like the guy who's at 100% has got all of his bullets. And if Chris Sayles is not the guy that we saw for the majority of the season before the DL stands, and he's throwing 90 to 93 miles an hour, this right-handed Yankees lineup is going to tee off. And I think they win game one, and if they win game one, they win the series. All right, you're a player. Let's hear on this question and answer from Chris Sayles. How about you assist against Yankees this year? Uh, no. So, what do you think's behind that? Just bad guy, or is there some sort of message there? Chris Sayles is not a bad guy. I think Chris Sayles is tired of having everybody talk to him or about him, about the Yankees, about himself, about he just wants to pitch. This is a baseball player, and guys like Chris Sayles, you know, AJ Burnett was very much like this as well, kind of hot and cold with the media. You know, he doesn't want to be in that media session trying to explain the Yankees and how well he's done. You just want to go out there and fill it on the mound and pitch. So, I don't take much of it. I think Chris Sayles is a really good guy. He probably had enough of the questions about the Yankees so far because he was getting asked them, you know, with the last month and a half when everybody knew that the Red Sox were going to win the division and the Yankees, you know, are potentially going to face the Yankees in the wild card, they started asking them about the Yankees. Now, the Red Sox and the Yankees approach the game a little bit differently. They both obviously score a lot of runs, but the Red Sox, they steal bases. The Red Sox also expect length out of their starting pitching because they don't have the underbelly of the bullpen that the Yankees have. And I think that against the Yankee team, that's not a good quality mark. Is Mark still there? No, that's the abduction sound. It was going to be a good question. So, and now, because of the way my mind works down, I'm not going to remember what I was going to ask. He gone. Well, ask it now so that we can remember. All right, Mark. What I was saying is that one of the things the Red Sox do differently than the Yankees, they want their starters to go. They want length out of their starters to get as close to Kimbrill as possible. I don't think that works with the Yankees because the Yankees take pitches, they work the count. And all of a sudden, you're going to have a high pitch count if your price or sale in the fourth or fifth inning. And I think that's where the Yankees go to work in that bridge to Kimbrill. You're exactly right. And you better believe that the Yankees are talking about that amongst themselves. You know, Marcus Tans, the hitting coach, the Yankees are saying, hey, listen, guys, you know, be patient. Make sure you're getting your pitch. But if each pitch counts up, because the only way that we lose this series is we stand the zone and let these starting pitchers go deep. If the Yankees get to the middle of the bullpen against the Red Sox in every single game, they have a great chance to win all those games. And I think that the Yankees are well positioned because of their health, because of the emergence of Luke Voight being a right-hander against guys like Salem Christ in game one and two. They're in great spot right now. By the way, Billy Crystal, executive producer of City Slickers. That makes him more important than everyone else. He could have won anything he wanted. He was certainly the money man. He could have won a skinsuit. Home field, Mark. It's not something that ever really gets talked about in baseball, but certainly cost the Yankees, I thought, against the Astros last year. I think if they had home field, they would have won. Do you see it having any kind of a play here in this best of five? I don't think it is that big of a deal in this series. I think it's a much bigger deal in the next series against Cleveland or Houston. The reason I say that is the Yankees Boston is almost like a second home to the Yankees. They are as big of a deal it is to play in Boston. It's a lot of fun and the fans are in it. It's an electric atmosphere. It's all half of the Yankees. You saw Houston come in there last year and win a couple of games in Boston. Plenty of teams have gone into Boston in the playoffs in one game there. The Yankees, it won't be any different to the Yankees. The reason that the Yankees have such great success at home is that Yankee Stadium is such a better place to hit for their team. All of their righties hit the ball the other way. The lefties that are in their lineup are pool guys. Brian Cashman has put his team together to hit well at Yankee Stadium. When they're at home, they score a lot more off. We've got some text messages for you, Mark. Aldo from Heart Sale. What happens to Birds Crew at the Yankees? Boyd helps lead them to a championship. Oh, man, this is tough. You guys know I've been a great bird fan, but if Luke Boyd continues to play the way that he's played so far, you know, the last month and a half, I don't see any way he goes into next spring training without not being the Yankees starting first base. And you might see, I'm not saying it's going to happen, but you might see a situation where the Yankees look at moving bird in the off-season. That's crazy that sound. Luke Boyd has proved himself to be a, you know, a really established hitter here in the middle of this lineup and getting some big hits. And, you know, maybe he's at D-H, but probably at D-H, they have other D-H. So one of those guys has to play first every day. Well, I don't see them for training them next year. Ed McCormack from Valley Stream, New York says, Big Mets fan, but I enjoy your perspective on baseball. What is your take on the A starting a reliever? Do you think this can become a trend that picks up or where pitchers will pitch as a committee? Yeah, let's be very clear. These teams are using the quote-unquote quote, you know, starter or your bullpen game because they have to. If they have the Houston Astros starting staff, they can start those guys every single day. And I think every team understands that when I have a quality starter and then dominant guys in the back end of the team, 7, 8, 9, that is my recipe for success. The Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland A's and some of these other teams are pitching relievers early in games out of necessity not because they think there's a competitive advantage. Um, let's see. Ellen from Mercerville, do you have any interest in managing? And if for some reason... I'm interested in managing. I really enjoy the game of baseball for a far. I wouldn't want to, you know, to be on the field every day. I wouldn't want to travel. I did that for a long time and I really just don't have any interest at all in managing. And also she goes on. If for some reason Madden leaves the Cubs and they say he's not going to, do you think Joe Girardi would go for his dream managing job? I think Joe would definitely be, you know, an option for the Cubs. I think one of the questions is, what's Joe Madden's, you know, future in Chicago? You got the voter confidence yesterday, but you know, if the Cubs have another kind of discipline season next year, I can easily see them moving on and there's going to be a lot of great candidates out there. I think the emergence of the front office and the analytics department basically running the team, makes the manager less important on the field. I think it makes them way more important in the clubhouse. And I think the players, the front office in Chicago and all these different places, LA and some of the other jobs that are open, are really going to find a manager that has a good rapport with young players and can speak to the team and really get them to buy into whatever the culture is on that team. You know what I find amazing too, there was a report today, Mark, that Joe Girardi has interviewed for the Cincinnati Reds job. I find that stunning. I mean, he must want to manage so badly. The Cincinnati Reds job is not a great job. They're going to be bad for a long time and they're not going to pay what he made with the... I mean, I guess there must be something in the blood for people that want to manage that. He's interviewing for that job to me is stunning. Yeah, you know, I think the same thing, it's not surprising to me, Michael. The reason is there are certain guys that love the coach that love to manage. There are certain players that love to play. I mean, the amount of great all-star caliber players that at the end of their career went back to the minor league just to try to hang on for a little bit and get back to the bench. I mean, see Matt Holiday, which they're called a lot of rock, he did it this year. These guys just love baseball and whether it's Cincinnati or New York, if Joe Girardi wants to manage, he enjoys managing, he's a good manager and he's had six steps within his blood and it doesn't surprise me that much that he would take that interview. Excuse me, you're talking about Greg Byrd not really having a place on this team right now. It wasn't even on the roster last night, but what's going on right now in a veteran Brett Gardner's mind? He knows that his Yankee days are probably numbered. He's an off-the-bench guy. As somebody who played in this game, a veteran in this game, what's going through his mind right now? So, Brett Gardner, I don't worry about Brett Gardner find or his mindset or how he's dealing with this, because Brett Gardner has never been the man. He's never been the guy whose hopes and dreams of a team were put on his shoulders and said, you know, Brett, you've got to go out there and carry this team, whether it's for a week or a month of the season. And so, he's always been a role-player. Now, sometimes he's been a really great role-player. I mean, he had a really nice first half in 2015, then an all-star team and he's a guy that ties them. This can be a huge spark for a team. But Brett Gardner's always been comfortable just being one of the guys. He's not comfortable doing whatever it takes to help his team win. And that's what's basically happening here this past season. And he's going to start a few games. I think he'll get a few four-centers built. He will come in and defense a replacement as we saw yesterday. And I think he's fine with that.