 here mid-January something we I don't think we've ever had three managerial openings a month little less than a month for pitchers and catchers report right if you're one of those teams where do you turn I'm going to focus in on the Houston Astros we know they've already interviewed Buck Shaw altar I reached out to Buck today to ask him about that there's bucks resume in typical buck fashion he did not want to get into a ton of specifics he said that his meeting with owner Jim Crane did go well he expects that they will talk again but as I was thinking about this if you're the Astros and you're dealing with this crisis right now you need a crisis manager you need a guy with experience who has dealt with minefields before that person is buck showalter he was a coach with the Yankees when George Steinbrenner was five suspended many years ago he was a manager when George Steinbrenner came back he navigated all that he was in Baltimore with the Orioles when the riots occurred so much so that they couldn't even allow fans to come to a game they played they played beside an empty stadium he clashed with Alex Rodriguez while he was at Texas his first manager he had a manager it wasn't his first the Yankees is first he had a job with the Arizona Diamondbacks where they started from ground zero they had nothing they had to start that franchise out and he dealt with all of that smoothly and swimmingly if I'm Jim Crane I'm taking a very long look at a guy like showalter to come in and try and clean up this mess yeah not only take care of the crisis and get ahead of it Jack but he's a qualified major league manager who was won a ton of games who if he got that job would have a very talented team that is ready to win again so I mean he checks all the boxes to be the leader of that team but I think about it from the Yankee perspective last spring training the Yankees are trying to figure out how can we match up with the Houston Astros and their big boys in the rotation to try to get to a world series obviously they didn't get that far but you think now coming in the spring training the Houston Astros have taken a step back Garrett Cole is a New York Yankee they've gone through all this controversy this winter they don't know who their manager is going to be so I'm not saying that the Yankees are sitting there kind of enjoying this but when you're sizing up the competition Houston's taken a step back the Boston Red Sox are a mess right now so when the Yankees get to Tampa they know clearly that they're the favorite to win a world series. Some of the other teams that we're talking about that have taken a step up I think of the Angels people say the White Sox are better I'm not sure that they're necessarily battle-tested in the way that we would have thought the Red Sox and Astros always seem to be in competition for the postseason. Right and I think Flash is exactly right when you look at what the Yankees have been able to do adding Cole made their offseason a success before anything else happened and now they should just have blinders on they shouldn't even be worried about the Red Sox or the Astros and what they're going through right now just be focused on what you think you can do which for them is winning a world series. I mean Vegas has the odds out and the Yankees are the favorite to win it all. You know Jack I wonder when the players get to spring training though are you going to be asking questions about this whole Houston Astro thing because obviously I think they're going to have to speak to it. Yes. Yes myself and several others but if you're one of the teams that feels as if you were victimized by that I think it's easier to answer the question than you're one of the protagonists. I think it'll be a lot tougher for Jose Al Tuve when spring training rolls around. Great baseball conversation we'll do it again on Tuesday night 6 30. See you then.