 What's up? What's up? What's up? Today is, I heard your ears, it's June 25th, talking Yanks pregame show Yankees versus the Blue Jays second game of the series. No song. No song. We're singing today. You told you told all the fans yesterday you were going to sing a song for them. I do my own songs. The Yankees are singing. They got a lot of righties. In fact, they got all the righties. Clay and Richard might have a mental breakdown. Too early to watch for us. How you doing, Jim? I'm good. How are you? We got a fun lineup today. We got a Chester day, so it'll be interesting to see how that navigates. We got a lot to talk about. We had the win yesterday. Jake, how you doing? I'm good, James. I'm good. We mentioned on our voicemail episode last night, if you check that out, we thank you. Yeah, I mean, a game that you're down and you're mad because this pitcher has been terrible lately. Sanchez on the mound for the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays have the lead for half the game. CC has the beginning. Yankees have the lead and then they blow it open. I mean a seven number on the scoreboard. Only to give up a chunk of it and have to use your big guys out of the bullpen, but end of the day a win is a win. It was kind of a weird game. We used Chad last night. This is going to be his first back to back as an opener. So yeah, I mean, right now it's everything's fine. It'll be interesting to see how the rest of the series plays out to see if we're bummed out that we did use some guys or maybe didn't use some guys. But I mean, this lineup is arguably the most exciting of the year. And I think it's funny you and I were doing our I sent out a mock tweet yesterday that was like, oh, are the Blue Jays this year's Orioles? And a couple of people were like, yeah, man, it happens every year. And it's like, no, no. You know, if we win today, you know, we could still win this we could easily win this series and go on to dominate the Jays the rest of the year. People like to be excited. So I don't know if times are good. It's I will say this Jim, it's kind of funny that like Clayton Richard on the mound tonight, it is going to be antsy if we don't put up big numbers early, which is obnoxious. Yeah, it is. So the lineup that we're talking about is as follows DJ Lamey is leading off and playing second base Aaron judges in right field batting second behind Tim Gary Sanchez. Okay, okay, you get through DJ who currently has the best batting average in the AL and the fourth best in the major league baseball. You get through him. You got to face Aaron judge you get through him. You got to face Gary Sanchez got 23 or 24 home runs on the year. Get through him. You got to face John Carlos Stan hit a moonshot yesterday. You get through him. You got to face Luke Voight 18 homers like a 400 on base percentage recently. You get through him. You got to face Edward and Karnassia on 23 home runs on the year. Okay, you get through him. You get to face righty Hicks. Maybe that's their breather. Righty Hicks and you get Labor Torres who's on a torrid pace. Gio the God or shella batting ninth. It's a fucking fantastic lineup. It's all righties versus Clayton Richard, who I just tweeted this out Jake. Clayton Richard versus righties this year. Yeah, they in 88 played appearances. Righties are posting a 320 batting average 409 on base percentage 613 slugging 1.022 OPS. So we struggle versus righties. Okay, here are five of the best righties in baseball and I'll line up full of hot righties right now. Yeah, it's it's funny. Maybe I'll hop in the Twitter sphere after this because you can you can even just label it like, okay, LeMayhew former batting champ currently leading Aaron Judge, second in MVP, one of the best players in baseball isn't Gary second in the ale in home runs to our team weight at Edwin Carnarcion who's batting six. Yeah. Voight has the most home runs. Since he got like called up with the Yankees, right? Or that second call up. Wasn't it between him and trout or something like that? So it's just insanity. Jean Carl Stan won an MVP. Glaber's really cute when he smiles. So I mean when you start labeling things like that, it's the stars are lined up for it, Jim. The stars are lined up for it. It's pretty good. Clay and Richard's having not only bad vs righties, he's having a tough, tough go of it, Jake. We saw him a couple weeks ago, and he went four and two thirds, two earned runs, four hits, one home run, which, you know, he didn't get out of the fifth, but he's not the reason, you know, they lost or whatever. But since then, since then, Tampa Bay four innings pitched two earned runs, only 47, only 81 pitches. Boston four innings pitched one earned run. Am I going the wrong way? I'm going the wrong way here. Arizona seven earned runs, Houston five earned runs, Angels four earned runs. I went the wrong way. His last three are bad. Yeah. And I mean technically two first names. Clayton Richard. Yeah. Two last names too. Both interchangeable. Scary. Yeah. His last 12.2 innings pitched. He's allowed 16 earned runs. Not great for Clayton Richard. So big like you got balls Clayton game. I would. I'd be like, No, I'm going to I'm hurt. Don't I don't want to do this. Yeah, I don't know if it's a ball. It's got balls game. It's like a survival game. Like if Clayton gets through five and it's like three earned runs, like I think you say like, that's when you drop the like, I don't know facts a bit lower back tightened up a little bit. Why don't we get it to the pen? Yeah. I think I've done enough coach. Blue Jays haven't changed much. They got so guard leading off at D. H. Vladdie Junior at third base. The other junior guerrilla at left field. The other junior bigio at second Hernandez in center field tell us at first Gritchick comes in to play right field Galvis comes in to play short Jansen's catching and like we said, Richard's on the mound. The Yankees are using their bullpen day, which is Chad Green to Nester Cortez. We call it Chester. They're five and they're like, oh, they've been pretty good. They've been like our best starter recently, the combination of the two. But we're seeing this is a test for Chad Green, Jake. He threw 14 pitches yesterday. And I don't think he was positive. He was starting today, so he didn't get to do all the planning and the prep that he usually does because he pitched yesterday. Maybe he thought they weren't going to pitch him. Turns out they are pitching them. I think it's going to be an interesting test like, okay, Chad's back. His stuff's there. You can get guys out. It's not that this is moments notice, but you know what I'm saying? It's like not like, all right, three days out, prepare that your start. Yeah, I'm actually, I don't know if this is the other side of the pillow or what you want to call it. I think they were willing to do this with Chad. You know, they they got him up in the bullpen after Holder and they didn't like they still had like Britain and other guys who we want to throw this series available. They could have went to Audubino earlier and then Britain. I think they came into this game saying, you know, if there's a spot where we can use Chad, let's try it and get our first back to back out of them. Because as you mentioned, with this kind of funky schedule coming up for the London series, like we kind of have to get these guys their work like other otherwise, you know, if someone misses out on this series, they could not be pitching for five days, six days. So I think they went into last night knowing that if we have to use Chad, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Let's let's maybe try him on back to back versus J. So I thought we were going to see him as the opener we are. I think coming into Chad is opener games. There's a hope that he can possibly go three. I think you throw that out the window today. I think you're looking at you're looking at like 25 pitches. If he gets a really clean first, they'll give him a second. Otherwise, it's going to be one and done. Yeah, and then we're just starting pitcher for the Yankees is also the bullpen path to victory today. They used chappy Kaynley and Otto yesterday. Now Otto only through three pitches. He's available. Kaynley only through eight. I think he's available. They did not use Britain yesterday, Jake. And something I said yesterday on the free game show is Britain needs to pitch tomorrow in my mind. He needs to be in that game no matter what the game is tomorrow, unless whoever's pitching goes complete game shutout. That would be the only excuse. So Britain is going to bring in pitch yesterday. So Britain's going to pitch today. So maybe he gets back to back then the back to back off days then London he's ready because Britain needs to be regular. So I think we'll see Britain today. I think we'll see the four horsemen today. And then it actually works out perfect because if you use Chapman today, that's two games in a row for him. And then if you need a closer tomorrow, Britain will be the closer and he gets today's Roku's Chapman will be unavailable. I think everyone's available and I think Britain should pitch today and tomorrow. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, I like it. And I think, uh, yeah, I think ideally if the Yankees get a big lead in this game, I think you're right. I think they will use Britain and then they probably try to throw it to tar play or someone like that. Nester has been good last his last outing. He gave up two solo shots after a weird rain delay to the race. So we'll see, but he's been getting funky throwing that Laredo sidearm slider, mixing up his delivery billion times. He's got some swagger out there for, uh, you know, like a, like a weird do what you gotta do pitcher. Uh, I do think we're like, you know, on Cinderella path, like I think he will turn back into a pumpkin. Hopefully it's not tonight. Yeah, it's it's a weird mental thing. I mean, it's his stuff obviously isn't over overwhelming, but he's pitched really well for us and he's still young. So, um, I don't know. It is funny that we expect the, uh, the pumpkin to come out at some point. Um, and if it does, I mean, he's almost earned that at this point. He's been so good lately that if he does pumpkin us, it's like, well, all right, we we've kind of already gotten a decent return on the investment. Um, but at the same time, like we don't have a reason to believe he'll be bad today, you know, like everything he's shown has been really solid for a little while now. So we'll, we'll see what Chester's got today. Yep. Uh, so what's your what to watch for? We kind of been talking all about it, but I'm, I'm, I'm leaning fully into it, Jim, because it was one of my biggest things coming into the season and it actually kind of flamed out a little bit, but it's, it's the righty stack, man. This, I believe, and I could be wrong, but I believe this is our full, our first full lineup with all right-handed hitters. Um, I think Guardi or Tokman or D just slipped into kind of every lineup up till now. Um, and some of the other lefties have come through this season. But I believe this is the first true righty stack. Um, and I mean, it's every batter you met and you mentioned Richard's numbers against righties this year. Um, and Jim, it's not, it's not just righties. It's not like we're, it's not like, hey, Roman, you're getting a start today or you're throwing in a bench guy just because he's a righty. These are real righties. We did it to start the show. So I don't know, man. It just seems like A plus B equals C. The Yankees have been putting big numbers on the scoreboard lately. Richard struggles against righties. Um, I mean, we, we prepared ourselves for a baseball Susan yesterday with Sanchez struggling coming into the game. Today feels even more like it like this would be total baseball gods if Clayton Richard survives a good start today because everything else in the world would tell you he won't. It would really suck if he does a good out, has a good outing. You'd have to laugh about it. You genuinely would. Yeah, I was trying to see if, if we've had a lineup without any lefties. And I think the easiest way to do it is find lineups without Gardner because he's the common denominator, right? But this one, the first one at Talkman and Bird, no Gardner. The next one has Talkman, uh, Talkman, Talkman. Yeah, I think this is going to be the first, I mean, Talkman and Gardie were, were regulars in the line. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Lamehu, Voight, Hicks, Gary, Glaber, Kendris is a lefty, right? Or she switched. Switch. So Kendris, Frazier, Urshela, Maven. So on, on May 26 versus the Kansas City Royals, we faced a lefty and we threw all righties. Who is lefty? Um, I don't know. But that included Morales. Other than that, that's a lot of good names still in there. There's not Judge Stanton and Edwin. Right. And, and if that was a righty, Duffy, Duffy. Okay. So yeah. So this is the second time we've had all righties about that. Kendris Morales doesn't count for anything. Third time another time versus Toronto. Oh, I wonder if this is the game versus Clayton Richard. No, Edwin Jackson. So that's a righty. Yeah. Why do we throw all righties then? Well, I guess a switch hitters and lefty. So yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Cool. My what to watch for is one time through the order. Like I'll peacock. I'll be a cocky asshole. I'll be an obnoxious Yankee fan. If we don't have runs on the board, if Clayton Richard gets nine batters out before we score one run, then like that's such a bad sign. Okay. Like that's, it's almost deflating. We can win later on in the game, but Clayton Richard goes through like the order without a run. That's a little deflating. We need, we need this lineup needs to come out and be like the hype was real. The hype was worth it and put some runs up in the first or second. Tom Davis in the chat said it would be embarrassing. I kind of think it would go first nine. Last time I did that, Gary saved us, but it was versus snail last time. I said we need to be like, it's just like Richard's been the opposite is been bad. He's bad versus righties. He's been bad in his last three games. We have not only an all righty lineup, but a really good all right. Like fucking dudes looking at DJ Judge Gary Stanton Voight Edwin. Yeah. That's insane. It's insane. All right, let's move on to Homer draft. It's the Homer draft Homer draft. It's the Homer draft. Jake Jakey, Jakey crushed the Homer draft yesterday. You correctly predicted that Stan would hit his first home run before going to London. Then you correctly predicted that Hicks would hit a home run short porch. It actually was a bomb shot. You got two points on the board in the first which puts the series score the season score 26 to 24 in favor of you. I got a I got a I got a come to today, Jake. Yeah, so that had that a little reverse. I said I said Hicks would pimp one. I got that. I said Stan was going to short porch one to instead he hit a freaking bomb. One of the prettiest home runs I've ever seen. And you've seen a lot of pretty home runs not a pretty home run. You have a USB file underneath your mattress. There's been a lot of lies set around this dinner table tonight. I got to watch Django soon. I want maybe that's what I'll do to get out of my Sunday funk after the game tonight. Watch Django. It's Tuesday. Exactly. Wow. Wow. You get first pick. It's it's a it's obvious. Come on. Don't do it. I am going. Aaron judge. Okay. Because I think there's a chance they sit him tomorrow and then you miss out on judge to the series. Well, you're missing out on Gary's home run today. No, I get him with my second pick because you took him yesterday. Learn how to play the Homer draft breath. You got Gary and fucking who don't double charge me for that. Fuck. Because I might just ask with the ice cubes worth with the ice cubes worth. What are you taking? Well, I've taken Edwin. Okay. Like it. And I'm taking Stan back to back. I like I think you might get a couple out of Stan Jim. You know, he gets hot quick. Clayton Richard he hit a homerun yesterday. I think you're going to like that a lot. If you guys want if you're not Yankee fans, if you want to tweet at the at talking Yankees account with the hashtag. Even if you're not a Yankee fan. Yeah. Tweet at at talking Yankees hashtag Homer draft for bragging rights. If you get it correct, you get to choose one guy. If you get it correct, you get we get you get to brag about it. Congrats. That's basically the same thing we get. Jake, what's the over under for this game? What's the over? Went over by a lot, Jim. 18. I think they bump into 12 today. I said it yesterday. I told you Vegas was coming in soft. So yesterday was Aaron Sanchez versus CC today, you got Richard worse than Sanchez versus bullpen day, which is a mixed bag. I think they're just going to let it be at 11 again and tempt fate of everyone 11 is high. Let's see. What is it? It's not even giving me one. It might be off the board. ESPN is not giving me one. It might be off the board today. I mean, I'm sure some of the gambling websites have to have a number. But Jim, they've been well, we didn't do the they've been over was the Saturday game over the Jean Carlo to RBI is no, that was under, right? I'm going to try and search it somewhere. I think the Yankees have been over five one, two, three, four, five. I think five of the last six I don't know. We might have to put a phone number on it, Jim. What the fuck? You're in the line. I'm, I'm still going over. I'm going to look at an odd shark access tonight, fucking fantastic. It's not yourself. Well, it's time we have a response or one of your we're kids. Well, unless you really want to show, if you give us money, you can come in. It looks like they just fucking don't have a line for this game. I think they took it off Jim because they don't know what to call it. This guy says in the chat that it's 12. I mean, I think we make it 12 anyways because I think that's probably around where it is and I'm still taking the over over 12. Yeah. What do you think's happening? You think there's 18 runs yesterday. Yeah, but Holder gave up five like that and he got DFA'd. Yes, which brings us down to 13. You think the Yankees are putting up another 11 spot? I think they're putting up a huge number, man. What would tell you that they're not? Fine, I'll go over. Hammer the under. You're taking the under now? No, no, no. I'm taking the over. Going over. Yeah, so I don't know where these people found it, whatever betting site they use, I guess, but they're saying it's 12. I mean, it's not necessarily a great bet. I agree with you on that. But if you're not Yankees fan, I don't think you do it. If the Yankees give up four today, which is super feasible, I mean, Vlad, they still have hitters in that lineup. I mean, now you're talking about an eight spot like the Yankees over under as a team just for them. This game is probably like 10. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, let's go to the chat. There's a lot going on here. Got good stuff for Poppy. Do people still collect baseball cards? I don't. People do. But he will do, but I don't. What are you guys probable lineups today? Top of the shell, we do lineups. Yeah. Yeah. I know. What are you? What the fuck? Are they even looking at the comments? Do people expect, like, I guess that's the new age streamers where you just literally, they just talk to the comments nonstop. Like, that sounds free. We do them at the end. I mean, I read them as they come in the whole show, but no, we do them at the end. John Boy and Jake, tell me what you think Larry. Tell me what you think. This guy left out a lot of periods and punctuation, so I'm just going to have to read it as written. John Boy and Jake, tell me what you think Larry is not a good pitching coach. Notice most pitchers when they get sent down, fix and come back like Chad Green, and this is all because Tommy Phelps. So that's the whirlwind of a sentence, Diego. Larry's a good pitching coach. The Yankees are always in the top of your array. Chad Green says Larry and him talked every second or talked once a day while he was sent down to AAA and worked on things every single day. You have, people have no idea what hitting coaches and pitching coaches do, so people cannot judge hitting coaches and pitching coaches. If you do, you just, it's just, there's not a sound reason or logic. No one knows what they do. It's all behind closed doors. Yang's team total is set at six and a half, Jake, says Russell Smith. I mean, that's like the freest money. If the website or Vegas or wherever is giving you that, like enjoy the money, but I don't believe you, Russell Smith. This guy asked if you guys play fantasy. Jake, you're still playing fantasy. How are you doing? Not good. It's tough to keep up. That's why I bowed out last year. Yeah. I'm kind of a glut for punishment though. Did all right. Dude, someone, I drafted Gary. So Gary's been awesome. Voight, someone dropped Voight because he was just like taking walks early in the season and he wasn't doing much. So Voight's been good. I like to always get a couple injured guys because when they come back, I think that's like, that's like a free trade acquisition. So like Dee Dee, Lindore got hurt, Altuve got hurt. So I got guys, but it's fancy baseball is exhausting. Yeah. I mean, you're like a decade. We did it for like 10. You've done it for like 20 years straight. I did it for like 10 years and I was like, I'm out. Yeah. BJ Dickman is watching from Portland, Oregon. Thanks, BJ. Where'd you get the Algaria hat? I made them. I sell them. Can you talk about shifts and if they should be banned? Jake, one word answer. Should they ban shifts? Maybe. I'm like, I'm interested in that, that guinea pig league they have. Does it make the baseball better? I think there's ways to do it. Like I heard somebody say like, like some of this stuff sounds really interesting, like the stay on the infield. Like I'd love to see what that looks like. Yeah. That carpenter Bunt double, they had six guys start in the outfield. Yeah. I'd be interested to see what it looks like. Yeah. And I think the bigger argument, like it goes, the old Babe Ruth quote, like they said teams used to shift shift on Babe Ruth and he was like, people come to the games to watch me swing hard and try to hit homers. So and that's like kind of why people come to the games. Well, also like remember they were shifted on Greg Bird and he was just bunting down the left field line for a single. And then we were like collectively realized like, dude, don't do that anymore. That that doesn't help us because then they just get the next guys out and you're slow on the base pass. And the other team is would rather him Bunt for a single than try to hit a home run. Like, are you telling me you're not going to try to hit a home run? Great. Take the single. Yeah. So it's interesting. Um, this guy says that Yanks is seven and a half, not six and a half. Louis Castillo rumors. They're kind of interesting. You hear about those? Yeah. I mean, it was it was that one guy and he's, you know, not not to do the Dick Twitter move, but I think he's got like 5000 follows. Well, I don't care about where it stems from the idea that I think the math adds up for me. Yeah. I mean, you'd have, you'd have to give a serious package for a young, really good picture. Frasier. I mean, that's, that's a package where the math adds up with Clint. I mean, for us as Yankee fans, yeah, because he doesn't really fit on our team. But I mean, you know, if you're Cincinnati, you're saying, yeah, the stick looks good. It's not, it's not amazing. And we still don't know if he could play defense like Clint doesn't close a Louis Castillo trade. I think it's still so much more valuable than hitting. I think he, I think he highlights a package with another decent piece. And again, you're there. I also think that Clint would thrive in Cincinnati with this whole culture. They're cultivating there with details and like, that's where Clint wants to be, where you can just go be his own dumb self. I think he'd be looking at another piece almost equal to Clint and then another one close to it. It would have to be. What about David Garcia and Clint? I think you'd still need more. Okay. Hermann should be coming back soon, like within a week, I think. Is Strowman going to the Yankees? Who knows? The Met's incident, we talked all about that yesterday's JJR episode, which is on this channel, if you want to go. Max, Scherzer, Mock trades, I don't even entertain. I think that's all. I think that's what we got. Got any final thoughts? Go Yankees, I'd say. Decent. All right. We got to go. We got to record an episode of Talking Yankees. We will see you tomorrow morning, JJR, and then afternoon for this very show. What is, oh no, dude, we're doing this show tomorrow at like 10 o'clock a.m. Early, early. Many times. What does L. Gary translate to in English? I think it translates to the George. That's catcher in baseball.