 The managing general partner of the New York Yankees, Hal Steinberger, is nice enough to join us now. Hal, thanks for coming on. Michael, Don and Peter here. Hey, guys, how you doing? We're doing okay. The losing, Hal, that's been happening since Judge went down. How much does it affect you? How much does it annoy you? You didn't even ask me how I was. How are you? I was a little bit... Bad guy. I was a little bit hesitant to come on the show because I remembered that I owe Don 20 bucks. That's right. You know, and with late fees, Hal, we're starting to work up the legions. Wow, late fees. I'm not happy at all about the last week, needless to say. I talked to everybody a week ago when I was in New York, media-wise. I still think we're missing, obviously, a few big pieces that need to come back, but overall, we're hanging in there. The last week was disappointing though, without a doubt. I said last week we needed some guys to step up because we're missing a big, big player and Aaron Judge. So far, it hasn't happened. I think we saw a glimpse of hopefully good things out of one of them last night that got three hits, but we've got to get back to scoring runs. We've got to get back to where we were those two weeks in May when I think we won 12 games out of 15 and we were never out of a game and we were scoring runs and we played a good four-game series against the Rays. We've got to get back to that and we still have to get help here, obviously. Just to dive right in over the overall situation, Hal, because we deal with it every single day on the air. Fans unhappy you have not won a World Series since 2009. You're the New York Yankees and have not had a parade down the Canyon of Heroes going on 14 seasons. But yet, Aaron Boone, Brian Cashman have gotten extensions during that time. So I guess the overall question is, are you happy with where your team has been over the last six years and has the mission statement of championship or bust maybe been adjusted? No, it has not been adjusted. Our goal every year is to win a championship. And I've been through this before with numerous people. Do I feel that the whole season is a failure when we don't? No, I don't, because I'm not going to ignore when we win X amount of games in the Winner Division or Winner Division series. I'm not going to ignore that. We have failed for many years to win a championship, and that is our ultimate goal. But I went through this a lot in the offseason. I talked to a lot of you guys. And for all the reasons that I stated, I believe that Boone is a good manager and I believe that Cashman is a good general manager. And I'm not going to go into all those reasons again. You've got to look it up. There are many. But we have failed. You can include me in that as well. My family puts the resources in we can every year and we strive to feel the championship caliber team. And sooner or later, that's going to result in a championship. But I absolutely understand the frustration with the fans. I guess we're all frustrated. I guess the frustration is it a fair question to ask if you have failed since 2009, there doesn't seem to be any accountability in those failures if the same guys keep coming back to take another kick at the can. Well, I think the accountability is with the fans. I mean, if they have lost confidence in us and the way we do things and what we do to try to win a championship every year, they're going to let us know in a variety of ways. So I always feel accountable, believe me. But if you're asking me, do I think Brian Cashman is not a good general manager? No, I think he's a good general manager. I've been through the reasons numerous times. We don't need to go through it again. But we have failed to achieve our ultimate goal for many, many years and that's to win a championship. And we can go through the contributing factors every single year. We're not going to do that, of course. We can go through some of the contributing factors this year as to why we are where we are. But we don't need to do that either unless you guys want it. You mentioned your family and what you guys put into this. And of course, one of the things that we have to hear ad nauseam is what would George do? What would George think it's, you know, don't get me wrong, it's become almost a bit of a joke at times on the show. But you are a human being who did take this thing over from your legendary dad. Do you ever think about what your dad would think about where this organization is in 2023? Sure. I mean, it's often times I think about what would my dad do. But my dad and I are two different people, of course. And, you know, you guys, you guys have been around long enough to know that my dad was not particularly well liked for a lot of years. And there were a lot of years without a championship. And again, we have the greatest fans in the world. They're passionate and they expect excellence and I get that. But he went through his hard times as well. And, you know, right now we're we're going through difficult times trying to win a championship.