 Now we are joined by the manager of the New York Yankees Aaron Boone Aaron. How you doing? I'm doing well. How are you guys doing great? Does this rain out hurt your team at all? I don't know. I mean I think it's you know we're both teams have to deal with it. You got to deal with different things that come up all the time in the regular season and certainly in the post season and how you handle those things so you know we'll be ready to go tomorrow tomorrow for an early one. Now the only thing that I can figure in looking at it is that your game two starter if the game was played today could be your game five starter on three days rest. Now it would be on two days rest so do you have to manage your bullpen differently over the next couple of games just to keep Tyone available to start that possible game five? Yeah so we'll still have game available tomorrow and then we'll kind of adjust as the series unfolds. You know if you got into a game five scenario you know I'd like to think that Nestor would be available on some level you know especially for you know some of their lefties in their lineup to give you another lefty you know even if it's if it's for an important inning or something. So you know we'll adjust as we have to but you know we got a chance to go out and hopefully get another W and another step forward tomorrow. You do probably appreciate the rest after a really long and grueling season but six days off before the playoff start you play a game and then it's going to be another two days off because of the off day and then the rain so does it take you out of your rhythm to have a go from a season where you're playing pretty much every day to having one game and basically ten? Yeah just just not allowed to you know like we're trying to look at it as the benefits of it you know and we had an opportunity because we were able to win our division and secure a top seed that we had those days off so hopefully we use that to our advantage you know as far as getting guys rested and a couple guys back and more fully healthy we're looking at it like that we worked hard to try and stay sharp over that break to strike that balance between you know resting and also making sure we're getting everyone some live reps and hopefully it serves as well as this month unfolds. Now you started Gary Cole in the first game and he pitched really well one out into the seventh inning and you had taken a while to officially name Garrett as your number one starter in the playoffs so I'm just wondering Aaron were you close at any point to saying you know what I'm going to go with Cortez in that game one? No I wouldn't say I was necessarily close I would just say you know I've said going into this postseason that you know I feel like obviously we're dealing with some injuries we've lost some guys we don't have some guys fully back but one of the areas I feel really good about is our starting pitchers and I feel like our three starters and I think even when you expand it to J-mo and even Hermon I feel like from a starting pitching standpoint we match up really well with all the teams in the playoffs and and so I looked at it as a as kind of a good decision because of the year Nestor's put forth because of how Seve looks really all year but but then especially since he's come back off the IL like I just feel like we're working from a position of strength so I just wanted to make sure that I didn't race to a decision I wanted to talk to some people about it let it breathe a little bit and before before I made what I thought was the best decision. Aaron do you think fans have been fair with with Garrett Cole because it seems like people are always ready to jump him and if he didn't have a good performance a couple of days ago it seems that they would have and of course he staved that off but do you think the fans have been fair in general with him. Yeah I think so look I think they want them to to to be an ace of this team you know you know I think when you come here and and you sign a big contract and you're the big fish out there and you come here and you know there's no no place that has higher expectations than than playing for the New York Yankees so I think he understands that and but I think they absolutely want them to do great and get behind them and I was really excited to you know I think I think what he's done since he's been here has been underrated you know I think he's been incredibly durable he takes the ball he's strung together you know three really strong seasons in a row where he's going to be top five probably in the Sayon every single year you know he's pitched well in the postseason contrary to I think sometimes that narrative and he got us off to a great start last night and and what I liked is you know he went out there and had to deal with some adversity early on and and came up and made some really big pitches excuse me in some big spots and I thought he was I thought he was excellent in a pressure packed game I'm so glad you said that because I think sometimes I'm speaking in a vacuum to some of our listeners because they don't think Gary Cole has been that good as a Yankee he's finished in the top five in Sayon the first two years he's probably going to do it again and I look at him now did he give up too many home runs this year of course he did but I think he's one of the top five pitchers in baseball am I off no question no question and you know he he's he's you know a handful of long balls this year from from probably being the Sayon award winner you know when you figure that anything he logged the strikeouts the command you know you know and I think a lot of the home runs were you know of course mistakes that people take advantage of but I also do think it was a little bit of a weird year and that there we go back and look at some of these home runs that were hit off from that and it's like how do you get to that pitch or you know that wasn't such a mistake or whatever so I think you know what we try to look at is I think he's thrown the ball incredibly well this year I think he's been really consistent with with how he's thrown the ball and I think on balance it's been an outstanding year for him