 What's up and welcome to the Talking Yanks pre-game show. We got game two Yankees versus the race down in Tampa. My name's John Boy. Jimmy got Jake here with me. Jake, how you doing? Happy Friday, happy July 5th. Happy 5th of July, one of my favorite days of the year. Yeah, is it? Get so many people by surprise. Cause it's the only holiday that's got the number attached to it. Happy 4th. Yep. People spend all day saying, happy 4th, happy 4th. So I hit them the next day. They're normally hungover and they're a little miserable. And I hit them with that happy 5th. And they're just like, stop. We don't want any part of that. So happy 5th of July. I love have a good 4th. Like it doesn't make any sense at all. Yeah. But the chat is going crazy. A lot of people hanging out. What's up chat? A lot of people come in here and say the same thing, like over and over again, and they just instantly get blocked from the channel forever. Blocked. Nothing. You can say mean things, but if you just type the same thing and then hit enter and then type the same thing and hit enter, you're fucking hand from the channel. We're team mean things over repeating things. Yeah. Don't be a fucking 12 year old. Anyway, Yankees won yesterday, wild game. Game two today. They had a pretty like a less than lineup on paper. I'm looking at the lineup for the first time today. I'm going to read it to you. Here we go. DJ LeMay, he was leading off, playing first base. Aaron Judge back in there, playing right field. Edwin and the connoisseur and his parrot are DHing. He had a homerun yesterday. Didi Gororius, that's short. He's been hot lately. Labor Tours at second base. Geo Urshela at third. Brett Gardner in center field. Okay. So Hicks is out. Austin Romain catching makes sense. And Mike Tokman in left field. So Hicks is out. Gary's out. Those are the two. Bingo. Bingo. All right, not that bad. Fuck it. Let Tokman ride. Got an RBI yesterday. The way he plays the outfield is good and also cracks me up. So who cares? Yeah. You knew Gary was gonna get a day off soon, so. Yeah, and we knew that these Tampa start times were kind of all over the board. So I thought coming into this series, he might get two days off attention. Well, we'll see. He gets the night game off today. Well, we'll see if we get him in. Yeah, man, I just had another chuckle moment where I was like, God, two weeks ago, I saw Jim Carlos standing in there and we had the lineup of death, basically. And now you look at that bottom of the lineup, Gardi, Romain, Tokman, and you do a little, you have to laugh. You have to laugh. But they come off of the win yesterday, Jim. And it was kind of a funny box score at the end of the day yesterday. Every starter had a hit except Glaber. And yeah, I mean the wild ending with Chapman and everything, but hey, we walk away with the win. La Mayhew is still a God, even though he was 0 for 4 going into that bad and then Gary with what people are calling the longest home run ever. It was a bomb. Dude, it was a bomb. They say 461. I've never believed stat cast a day in my life. So I think it's ridiculous that society just accepts stat cast. Yeah. I guess if they just, oh, that homerun, that was 461 feet. You don't know. Right. You don't, you just don't know. So stupid. I can't wait for you and you and the stat cast got to go at it one day. Yeah. All right. That's a fine lineup. Edwin gets moved up, which is a little scary because he's been slumping. Did that have a homerun yesterday? More than his homerun, Jake, Edwin had a good at bats yesterday, which was kind of better to see. Tanaka's on the bump, a little Tuesday action on this Friday night. Friday night game. Usually Friday night games you get up. Thank you to Boomer who has now donated to the cause, Jake. Say thank you to him. David Wells, wow. Yeah, David Wells. Thank you. Tanaka on the bump. What's Tanaka coming up to lately? You excited for Tanaka game? Well, Jim, because you're kind of right. Like we still got this weird fourth of July finishing out the first half slash up until the all-star break. And I was kind of searching. And then I was like, dude, Tanaka versus the Rays this year. He's been incredible against them. He's been incredible. Tanaka versus the Rays. I think it's the last two years now where it's really good. It is, let me find it. His last game versus the Rays, complete game shut out. Before that, six innings pitched zero on runs. Before that, seven innings pitched one earned run. Before that, six and three, nine and, or six and two, seven and one. He's been good. Tanaka versus the Rays is good. So I mean, they need to make an adjustment. I remember the post game last time when he threw the complete game shut out. Cash was like, he always dominates us and we need to make some adjustments because it's getting kind of old. So we'll see if they made adjustments. I'm wondering if we're gonna see a drastically like different approach from the entire Rays lineup because Tanaka's had their numbers so bad. When Verland versus the Yanks has their numbers so bad, sometimes we see the lineup come out and everyone's just swinging first pitch as hard as they can. Like what if there's just something drastic that all the Rays decided like, let's just try this. See if this gets us through one time through or are they just gonna try and wait it out and be patient, wait for the pitch. I think what they're gonna do, Jim, is I think they have a lot of their eggs and well, we've got a lot of new bodies because they've got some of their good guys. I'll go through the lineup. Austin Meadows in right field, he clipped Tanaka for that solo shot and what three starts to go that first one of that stretch. Tommy Pham, Keirmeyer is in the three hole. And if I remember correctly, I think he's got decent numbers off a tank but three hole Keirmeyer. I mean, that's kind of a surprise. Yandy Diaz is D-H-ing and then we have some of these new guys, Nate Lau, Low playing first base. However they want to say it for their different Lau's and Low's down there. Willi Adonis at short, Wendell at second, Bruzzo, the third baseman. I don't think Tanaka's seen him before. Same with Nate Low and Zanino catching with Brandon McKay on the bump, Jim. My guy. This is the way McKay. Yeah, this two-way player, right? Yep. Louisville. Pretty hard. So Keirmeyer doesn't have the best numbers first tank but he did get them recently, I think. No one has good numbers first knock on this team. It's tough too with the other stuff we've said about tank. But yeah, I don't think Nate Lau, Bruzzo and maybe Zanino wasn't healthy but yeah, tanks own them. Brandon McKay, huh? Yeah. Pitcher and hitter. Yeah. Does this debut? No. No, so he's had one start pitching which was really good. I think it was six innings, shutout, one hitter, something like that. And then he had one game as a hitter, he went 0 for 4, no strikeouts. I want to do something obnoxious that I should have done pre-game show but I didn't. Okay. Do you have anything to fill some time as I search for something? Okay. Oh yeah. Sure. It might be easy. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of my what to watch for. I guess I can give it earlier but it is McKay for me because Jim, I think the bigger thing for you and I being Yankees fans is, I mean, this kid was the fourth overall pick in the draft, 2017. So he's already in the major leagues. I think he won the Golden Spikes while he was at Louisville. I might have just made that up but he was definitely a finalist. But two-way player and like is this kid special? I don't know. I'm interested to see what he looks like on the bump. I know Ohtani fever kind of swept baseball and then it's been gone a little bit because he got hurt but then you and I recently fell in love with Ohtani because the pop off his bat is just awesome. But I just want to see, I mean, is this dude special? Are we going to be seeing this guy for the next seven years in Tampa, pitching and hitting? Or are we going to walk away saying, I don't know, like he's a kid that's maybe good at everything or he's not good at everything. I don't know. The two-way player thing, it's still kind of mind-bottling. Okay, so I was trying, what I was trying to look up and that's all good stuff, Jake and it is mind-bottling. And I was trying to look up what our, if Tachman has faced McKay before. Okay. In the minors. So I found it. Some McKay this year has faced Scranton twice, 2019. Okay. So he struck out Byro Strada, Clint Fraser lined out, Tachman lined out, he struck out Higgy, McBroom ground out, Morrison line out and then let's see, Clint Fraser ground out, Mike Tachman ground out. He walked Higgy, then McBroom singled. Yeah, he got everyone there. But here's an interesting fact, Judge has faced McKay before. Okay. Wouldn't it guess that, huh? When Judge was rehabbing in Scranton, he faced McKay. He got no hits or anything, but he's seen him before. So Judge and Tachman can kind of give the report to the rest of the team. They saw him recently. That's the more important thing that I think you've fallen into, Jim, is that Mike Tachman is gonna be walking around the dugout, the whole game, telling everyone what he's seen from Brandon McKay. Hey guys, I faced this guy. He's got fastball, curveball, so watch out for those. And everyone's just like, shut up, Tachman. Judge faced him too. We'll just ask him if we wanna know something. Yeah. So, but he did just face Tachman and Judge. That's kind of interesting. Yeah. McKay, where's he from? Tell me. Darlington, Pennsylvania. Yeah, Pennsylvania guy played ball at Louisville. Loveville. Wow, his full name is Brendan Joel McKay. Yeah. All right, big thanks to Greg Kutsop too. Not Greg Kutsop one and Rick James. Really appreciate you guys. My what to watch for is now Mike Tachman. There you go. I was gonna do it anyway because he's getting run. He had an RBI yesterday, some good at bats, played some balls in right field. Like one like he like is iffy. He cracks me up out there. I don't think he was, you know, expecting to play two games in a row. He was in right yesterday, he's in left today. And now he's got a history versus pitcher, which might give him a little extra confidence. Like, yo, this is a triple A guy too. I'm a triple A guy. I just hit this guy. And Jim, I'll try to dig it up quick myself. I wanna say, well, A, I think Tachman's, and again, small sample size defensive stats aren't anything, but I think he's measured out pretty well defensively in the outfield. To the eye test and the advanced test. I also think he still has pretty good splits against left-handed pitchers in the majors this year. I'm trying to get there. My computer's fighting me pretty good on it. Let's see, Mike Tachman this year against lefties. Baseball reference, I need you to be quicker. He's hitting 300 against lefties, 391 on base percentage, 841 OPS, 20 at bats against left-handed pitching. Not bad. So yeah. Cool, all right. So it'll be fun watching this rookie pitcher. My theory with rookie pitchers and debuts and there's not a big scouting report for the Yanks is he may breeze through the first time through the order. Sometimes that just happens with these pitchers where batters don't exactly know what their strategy is going up. But I do think we'll get to this guy. If we don't get to him first time, we'll pop him for two to four runs the second time. I think we will have two to four runs on the board by the time this guy has faced every batter twice. So is that... Hot take. Is that confident, cocky? I don't know what that is. No, I think you'd expect that against a lot of pitchers, I think. With the Yankees lineup. Like a starting pitcher giving up two to four runs that's kind of... Well, second time through the lineup. So that would be... Through that set, all right. So that's your second time through one through nine you're expecting two to four runs from the Yankees. Yeah, yeah. All right, I like it. That's a little hotter. Yeah, that's what I said originally. Okay, well, I'm trying to clear things up. Me and the chat needed that cleared up because it was a weird statement. That's exactly what I said. Yeah, the words came out a little funky out of your mouth, babe. No, they didn't. By the time he faces everyone twice, we'll have two to four runs. By the time he faces everyone twice, that would mean his full start. No. By the time he faces everyone twice, that would be his full start up until that point. It's a weird phrase. The second time through the order. That's the same exact thing. How about not the same exact thing? Because that's saying that's including the first time you face them. If he's facing them twice, that's including the first time you face them. That's that you're saying, you expect two to four runs by the time we face him the second time through. That's his full start up until that point. It's not what you meant, but. You're saying the same, I have no idea what's going on in your brain right now. We're good. We're good. Me and the chat got it now. Who's the nine hitter? Tokman? By the time Tokman comes up for a second at bat, the Yankees will have two to four runs already. So not just the second time through the order. Yes, by the time he goes through the order twice, we will have two to four runs. Okay, then yeah, it's not a hot take at all. You're saying that this starting pitchers expecting to give two to four runs up. I think that's what a lot of pitchers do on their projected start. Yeah, but he's going to go through the take. If your take was that second time through the lineup, the Yankees are going to push two to four across in those nine hitters. That'd be a hot, that'd be a nice take. Well, that's what I think is going to happen if they don't pop them the first time, but by the time. So the chat wants to know if you're high. Not high. Okay, because it was the most simple thing I've ever said in my life. It was weirdly phrased. I cleared it up. You're welcome chat. Okay, what is, let's go to the Homer Draft. It's been forever. We didn't do a pregame show yesterday because it was July 4th. But this is a four game set anyway. Yeah. I believe you have the first pick. Wow. Wow. Man, I guess rules are rules. Give me Aaron Judge. He's good. He's good. Wow. Lefty McKay, yeah. I am taking Edwin and Dee Dee. Edwin's a homerun hitter and homeruns usually come in bunches. He hit one yesterday. Then you might hit one again today. Dee Dee's just been swinging a nice bat. I'd like to take Hicks. If that was you, I'd take Hicks now. Because Hicks, he's not playing. But that's why if I was choosing for you, I'd take Hicks. You would have me take Hicks, yeah. That'd be a really good play by you. Mm-hmm. Did you? So you're Dee Dee and Edwin. Okay. Dee Dee and Edwin. Jim, I think I'm gonna reach deep into my bag of tricks. I think I'm going to Urchella. Geo. The most happy fella. Yep. Not a bad thing. Yeah, just, I don't know. I think McKay, he's worried about these big Yankee games. Names? Your judge, LeMayhew Edwin, he gets to Urchella. He kind of takes a breath. He's like, all right, let me get a get me over fastball. Boom. Let's feel bleachers. All right. Dee Dee and Edwin versus judge and Urchella. Game two, homer draft. The score is. You got to be over under, Jim. 11 to 8 me and 27 to 28 total. Over under today, tank versus McShay. Is that his name? McKay. McShay until he does good. That's a tough break for him, but I'm gonna get his name wrong on purpose until he does good. Yeah. Two to four runs. You got to figure two to four runs by the time he gets through the lineup twice. Yes, see, imagine if I didn't understand that simple phrase. What are you talking about? I'm talking about the over under. Leave that behind, man. So there's your two to four. And you figure we're getting one off the bullpen. Tanaka's not going to give up any runs. Tanaka. So the over unders probably set at five. I think they have an over under eight and a half or nine. I think it's going to be a lower. Yeah, they've probably got it set up normal. McKay, the rookie, you feel they're not bought into him. I might go eight flat. Maybe they do buy into the rookie rules. Let's see. I'll go eight and a half. Eight and a half. That's what it is? Yeah. All right. So. I'm going under. Tanks got the raise this year. I want to believe in tank. I just really want to believe in tank. I'm going under as well. Jake, what happened? The last game versus the Mets, the over the under hit. It was set at 10 and the under hit. And you and I, you took the over, I took the under. Bummer for you. Yeah. Still got you on the air. Yeah, but you're five, five. No, we're tied now. You're five wrong in a row. Yeah, I kept a, I got, I started peacocking a little on the over under. Yeah. Cause now we're both 24 and 24 in the over under. How about that? How about that? That's crazy. Wow. And we're both going in the under today. So we're team. We will be tied by the pre game show tomorrow. We'll be tied again. Still be tied. Continue to be tied. We will continue to be tied. All right, let's go to the chat. Let's see what they say. John Boy wearing a judge hat. Correct. Facts. Big facts. Big facts, yeah. Is that shirt? Belief? I don't know what the, I don't know what the brand is. Belief? Belif? Kind of, it sounds like belief, I think. Like belief. Yeah, belief. I don't know. How about that? I had to buy a black shirt for the golf outing today. So I ordered a black sun shirt. I forgot that July 4th is like a no deliveries by any one day. Right. So it arrived as soon as I got home from golf. I had it waiting for me. But now I just have a, I don't like wearing black, so. Was your team's color black? Yeah, my dad, my dad. That's awful. That's such a bad mistake. Yeah, it was black or red. And I said, I don't think any of the O'Brien's, like I don't think me, Luke own any red shirts. Right. So then my dad said, all right, we're black. And I was like, oh, we don't own any of those either. So this kind of blows. Yeah. I think those are the Ryder color, Ryder cup colors. So that's why he wanted to do that. Kinda, I think Europe does like the blue. Oh yeah, it was black and blue. Black and blue with the colors. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's like Santa's legs. Okay. Okay. Well, do you guys think the Yankees can win the World Series from Simple Man Radio? I mean, stay tuned after this. Beezer. Let's see. But anyone else going to the games tonight? I'm not. Could you make a video on the downfall of the National League Central? Sounds like the most work ever. It's like a documentary. It's a lot of work. Going back how far. It's a little task. Do either of you guys score games when you watch? Do you ever do that? I used to do that when I went to games. I don't do it anymore. I was never into it. I know that I feel like literally tried it for a little bit and people were like, keeping the book is cool. And I was like, ah, I'm good. Yeah, I like keeping. I used to like doing it a lot. Jake, who do you got winning the home on Derby? Ooh. I'll go with Lattie Jr. for some fun. Young guy swing the bat all day. Yeah, I don't think, I don't think he's going to have the stamina. I chose Yelich over him. I think he's going to have the stamina because he's the young guy. He's fat though. Young fat though. Yeah. Someone asked, why is Tachman in the lineup two days in a row, but Frazier is in triple A? Because Tachman's an outfielder and Frazier's a DH. Boom roasted. I was not even boom roast. The person in the chat, I was boom roasting. Not Clint? Oh, not Clint, yeah. Let's see. Let me scroll down. Dodger versus Yanks, a World Series preview in August. I don't know. Who does the worst in the Derby? I think, I think Braggman. I like Braggman a lot. I just don't see him. Yeah, I don't know. He's a nasty competitor though. Yeah, he does have like intensity. He's a hardcore competitor. He might get off the most swings. Like he probably has the best first round and then he's exhausted. He's a guy who's not going to have the homerun stamina. What's the Indians part called progressive field? Yes. What are the dimensions there? I think it favors lefties. They kind of have the big wall in left field. That's what I thought, because Braggman and Vlad are the righties. Yeah. It's kind of the same, man. It's 325 down the lines, 370 and 375 left and right. Big wall, though. Big walls and left. Yeah. Yeah, that wall is so stupid. Sorry. You should see the one in Boston. Remember when the Astros put a hail in the field? I love that shit. Hey, this was fun, but it's the most dangerous thing we've done in baseball in the past 100 years. Who got sent to the hill on back to back plays? It was like up there or something. And there was like, oh, fuck this. Never again. The stadium is awesome. One question, though. You put that hail in the field of play. Yeah, hear me out on this. Did you mean to put the hill there? What if I'm picturing like someone someone devoted their life to baseball and like engineering and design and they've worked these 40 years to get to the point where they get to design a baseball stadium, they design the Houston stadium. It's beautiful. They slam it down in front of the owner and it goes, I love it. Except one thing, putting a hill in the flag in center field. Excuse me. I'm taking a hard stance on this one, boys. A hill in my center field. OK, man, like, well, cool. I guess we'll try it. Brown's crew guys like, they're fans going to close this off like, no, no, no, this was his one hard stance. This was the only thing he demanded. All right. If you were a girl, what player would you date, Jake? Oh, any player of the Yankees. Any, I don't any player, I don't know. I'll keep it. I'll keep a Yankee centric for now. I'll probably roam mine, right? Cool guy, not too flashy. I did, DD. You wish. Number one, I saw him in person. He was the most like dapper dude I've ever seen. Yeah. And we share a birthday. So that would be so unique. Yeah, that's fun. We just wake up in the morning and like hand each other gifts and be like, OK, that was done one day over. Hand each other more than that. Maybe like breakfast in bed. You'd make a full day out of it. Yeah, just hand in each other's ship. It's hand in the all day. And I got you this. OK, what do you get me? You're worse than the hill. I got you. I also got you this. Not stop. Pass and plate. Sliding them underneath the bed and then just handing them to each other again. Oh, I think we hate our birthday. See you guys.