 I'll get by with a little help for my friends. I'll get high with a little help for my friends. I'm not gonna try with a little help for my friends. Do you need anybody? I want somebody to love. It's the Talkin' Yanks pre-game show. John Boy Media, Talkin' Yanks, Noodle the Doodle, The Wheaton, and John Boy the Gray. Coming to you, Talkin' Game 2. Yankees, White Sox, Jimmy, Jimmer, John, James, Jamo Lantern. How are you? I'm doing well, Jake. I'm doing well. Well, I just saw something. Oh my God. But I'm doing good. I'm excited. It's Friday. I had a nice date day with Caitlin. Now I'm sitting here. Sitting here. We're gonna record this. I got intern Luke compiling some footage for future breakdowns to make. First, we got to talk about this Yankees game. Yankees can use a win. They got a win. They got a win in the update column today with Judge and Stanton both going to triple A to take some of my bats. That's an on paper win. We need an on-the-field win in Chicago. And I'm so excited about the lineup today. Is this the best lineup we've seen this year from the Yankees, Jake? Wow. Jimmer for dad. That wasn't my initial reaction. But yeah, I guess when you dive in, it's tough not seeing Aaron judge in there, but we did have all those injuries to start the year. But we still, we still would have had a couple of judge standing right just to start the season. I guess we didn't know what DJ LaMahue was, boy, no Hixey. But yeah, man, this is a strong lineup. I mean, Urshela, the potential all-star in the eight hole. Gardi's ninth with his defense. Annie's been swinging a pretty good stick lately. So yeah, this is a strong lineup, Jim. I mean, I honestly, Wade and Bird and Morales and Tachman, they were kicking around for a while the beginning of this season. I think, I know, I know judge and standard strong. I think this is the most complete one through nine we've had this season. DJ LaMahue leading off and playing first, which puts Luke Ward at DH, which puts Glaiber at second and Dee Dee at short and Geo at third. That's our best offensive infield. Yeah. And best offensive info plus DH, Clinton right field, Hixon center, Guardian left, area behind the plate. This is the best one through nine we've had. So it's probably facing the best pitcher. One of the better pitchers we'll be facing this year in Geolito and maybe the hottest pitcher. So it's going to be a fun one of the hottest pitchers. One of the hottest pitchers. Myself, I changed it. But I'm excited. I looked at and I was like, damn, this is good. It's good. And judging saying on the way, hey, you have any thoughts when you saw this? I didn't have the same thoughts. You're saying that's what I, that's where I was at. I don't know. I guess I'll hit the line up quick because you were doing it and then you got lost in the infield a little bit. It's LeMayhew at first leading off, Voight, second, DH, Hix, third, Gary, Elquattro, Didi, shortstop, Glaber, second, Clint, right field, Urshela third, Guardian left field. So yeah, that's what you like. Yeah, I guess, Jimmy, I've got a mental block on this one. I mean, just not seeing judge and standing there is tough for me because I mean, that would be the guys currently hitting seventh and ninth respectively. I mean, judge and standing would be our two, three, two, four hitters. Yeah, but I'm not comparing it to what can be. I'm comparing it to what has been. Right. Those guys were in there to start the season. So that's the mental hurdle for me that I'm not getting over. All right. So when judge and standing were in the lineup, we had Tula Witzke playing, Bird playing, Wade got a lot of points. I mean, they were in. It wasn't a complete one through nine. They're dead spots. Yep. Yeah. So this is a good lineup. I am excited. That's true. Good. I am excited. And we're close to the other guys back. So there you go. What are the White Sox doing? I haven't even looked at their lineup. Do you have that for us? The White Sox are rolling out a very similar lineup. We're seeing Yonder Alonzo got benched for Wellington Castillo. But otherwise pretty much the same. Laurie Garcia and center. Tim Anderson, the shortstop. Jose Abreu at first. James McCann catching Eloy Alloy-Elly. Jimenez in left field. Wellington Castillo, the DH. Jose Rondon. We saw him make some really sharp plays at third. Yalmer Sanchez, the second baseman, and Ryan Cordell in right field. With Lucas Geolito, who has been one of the top pitchers in the league so far this season. And former top prospect had the most losses. Highest ERA last year, something like that. Light bulb is clicked. I heard them say on the broadcast yesterday that he started listening to his catcher more. And that's all it took. So interested to see what this Lucas Geolito looks like. Because we saw him earlier in the year, Jim. And we were like, wow, how bad was this guy last year? And now he's good. And that's baseball, Susan. He just had to admit that he was dumb. Is that what happened? Like, hey, don't call your own pitches. Because you're an idiot. Let the catcher call the pitches. Is that what's happening here? I don't think anyone said the word dumb. I think that's the first time it was thrown out. Yes. And you asked if people are saying that. I think it's more so they're going with, it's trusting the catcher and then trusting your own pitches off of that. So I think trust is the bigger word thrown around than dumb. I think it's Nuklilush. This just in Geolito, big dumb idiot. There you go. Catcher. John Murray calls Lucas Geolito big dumb idiot. Write it down. Only when it comes to calling pitches. He's really good at algebra. OK. Tough with English. OK. Well, now you're back on media. This is a scouting report. That's a scouting report. Who's the pitching match up, Jake? CeCe, the Yankees. CeCe's the bad guy. CeCe's the bad guy. Is he coming off good or bad? I can't remember his last start. That probably means it's bad. He's coming off three. Five innings pitch four and runs not good. Before that quality start, six innings pitch three and runs. Before that five, four. So a little sliding of late. We need a good starting pitching performance more than anything in the world right now, the Yankees. If CeCe can go six, three. If he can give us a quality start, I'd be so happy. Which is how bad the pitching's been lately that I'm pining for a quality start. Yeah. It's been funny to see all the stats come out in the last 24 games or whatever it is. The one that's been circling the internet, the Yankees starter ZRA is five, two, eight or something like that. And yeah man, we set it during the streak. It was the dirty little secret that when the Yankees were playing great baseball, they were pitching great. Bullpen and the starters. And now, you know, the starters have taken a step back, which kind of affects our bullpen usage and the fact that we're just straight up missing a starter and tomorrow is supposed to be a full bullpen day. You wonder how that comes into play. You wonder if that came into play at all last night with any of the decisions. So it'll be interesting to see and you're right. You know, we could really use a quality start by the definition of the rules by CC because after that, you can't complain. I mean, if Geolito has it today, he has it. That is what it is. If you get a quality start, you need to get that dug because you blew a 4-0 game yesterday. And I think the part that would scare us, Jim, is that I'm not going to go full orials because the white socks are a tear up from the orials, but the guys that beat you on the white socks are right-handed hitter batters. So when we throw our lefties out there, that's a little bit of the fear factor. Tomorrow is a bullpen day. They've announced that. Why? It's a... It'd be tank on regular rest if I do a bullpen day right after CC. I guess that's a different... Different issue. But that will not really, because that comes into how they're going to use the bullpen today. Yeah. And I just got the wind not straight out of my sails with that info. So this is going to be a CC sabbat. Are we undefeated on bullpen days? I mean, we'll get some positives out of you. Well, I'm worried about today. That means that they're going to throw... It's going to be CC to SESA. Possibly if we're down. Or if we're up, we use the good guys and you save SESA for tomorrow. Yeah. But if we are not up early, they're going to punt this game with SESA in a close or two-run deficit. And that just... took all my joy away from me. That's going to be... We do that most games if we're down two anyway. So... Don't go down two about that. Facing a good pitcher. Like we said, Gilead has been one of the hottest pitchers. His last four games include three shutouts. A complete game shutout. Jesus. His last four games. Complete game shutout. Eight innings pitch, three runs. 7.10. 7.20. He hasn't... He hasn't allowed to run in his last 22 innings, Jim. There's the stat you could take. This says he gave three runs in his three starts to go to Kansas City. Yep. He hasn't allowed to run in 22 innings. Oh. So he gave up those three runs like early in that Kansas City game? You got it. Okay. All right. Cool. He's been really good, man. He hasn't given up more than five hits in a game in his last five games. I don't know about the rest. So it's going to be a challenge. What's he throw? We have that here. Four seamer. Oh, dude. He's got a good mix. He's a four seamer, 42% of the time. A two seamer, 17. Change up 15, slider 14, and then the curve ball still 10. High enough for 10. It's actually it's a good mix of pitches. That's a little bit. I mean, it's still 60% fastball, you know? Yeah, but he... I mean, a two seamer and a four seamer, you can really have fun with that. It's different than just a four seamer. Bartolos Cohn only throws a fastball and he was like lights out. He was fat. Mariano. Cool. So we have faced him before Brett Gardner has a homerun off of him, Jake. So does Hicks. So does Hicks. All right. So that means the whole outfield is homering today. And that's great news. Wow. Lock that in. Lock that in. C.C. versus the White Sox. No one has great numbers off him. Which is pretty cool, huh? How about that? Abreu 0 for 11. That's impressive. James McCann 2 for 11. Tim Anderson 2 for 8. Tim Anderson has a homerun though. Yeah. So watch out for that. As does Wellington Castillo. That's probably why he draws the start today. 3 for 10 with a homer. Yeah. All right. Dick, what are you watching for? Man. Can I say Lucas Geolito? That's normally a cop out for me. No. Let's go top of the lineup today, Jim. I think Lemahue Voight Hicks. We just talked about how good Lucas Geolito has been. The Yankees throughout our years when we've been good. Even when we haven't been not as good. The Yankees have been known as the homer team to take your pitches, put it together, make the pitcher work. And we just mentioned everything Lucas Geolito has done. So I mean, I've got Voight there. I've got Hicks there. Set up Gary who's just the biggest threat on this team. Set up DeeDee who's been swinging the bat well. I need Hicks, Voight and Lemahue on big pitch counts and getting on base against Geolito to give the other guys a chance to, I mean we're going to have to get this guy out of the game. Whether it's wow, he's figured something out and we just need to work him like we do when we play Chris Sale. Like if that mentality needs to come out, work every count when you get something on, make it happen. Or, you know, let's flip the script on this kid. You know, maybe he's not as hot as he is and he just had a couple starts. And so I really want to see our top three. I was going to say in the first inning too, but I'll give him the whole game. Put something together. All right. I mean, if you'd watched my vibe of this whole show early runs, we need to score in the first three innings otherwise this game's going to go down the we need to lead after five. We need to lead and CZ comes out or this game is going to be it's going to be another bummer where we probably see bummer come out of the pan and close it for the socks. What a ridiculous name, Jake. I was having so much fun on Eriscope last night thinking about having the last name bummer. Like when his family goes on like reunion, does the bummer family reunion like they show up like they show up at school like the restaurant like party of three for the bummer. Or if he has a group of others and they all show up, oh the bummer boys. Bummer bros. Yeah. And he, I mean what it got me excited a little bit. Actually, it had the reverse effect, but he'd had two save attempts and he blew both of them. So I mean, if bummer went 0 for 3 on save attempts, that that stuff writes itself, but he did not. I wanted to make this note too. Every time the Yankees go into a game facing like what's supposed to be a hot pitcher or a premier pitcher, I feel like we fared pretty well. Snell pitched well, but we beat him Patek from the Padres got three homeruns right away. Glass now he was, he beat him. I think there's a couple more on this list because we've done this before. So maybe that happens. Maybe Geolito is too pumped up to face this Yankees lineup. Then we can take advantage of that. Just fingers crossed. I hope so. Otherwise, we're going to have a have a task. Have a task. Are we going to the homer draft? Are we there? I mean pitching past the victory. You kind of mentioned it. If we're down, punt city if we're up, we should all the good guys should pretty much be available except for a lot of me know. Yeah. We'll see if they do that. Holder shouldn't be available either, right? Yeah, how many bullets he ended up throwing yesterday? I'm not going to get there quick enough, but sure we'll say that for now and get to the homer draft homer draft Holder through 15 pitches. So he could go today if he wants. Yeah. Homer draft. It's the homer draft. We've got homer on jester check so there's no points on the board. I get to go first today and I will take my man Gary Sanchez The Kraken hell of a pick Jim hell of a pick I am going to go with yeah, you're kind of kind of a human idiot. I'm going to go Aaron Hicks as the homer after off of Geolito, the girl from Geolito. And I'm gonna go with the other guy who also has a home run off Geolito, Brett Garger. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, Jake. Left the outfield or stacked there. Why didn't you take Clint, you don't believe in him, huh? Could only take two players, took the two guys that have hit home runs off of them, great decision-making by me, thank you. Who's your final pick? I'm taking Glaiber towards the hit, two balls hard yesterday. You said everyone in the outfit, you said everyone in the, oh, okay. That's a mistake then, that's bad. That's bad homer draft management is what that is. That's what people are saying, man. They haven't said that, no, I'm taking Glaiber because he rocked two balls yesterday, nice hard hit contact, looked good, I think he's locked in and he's gonna home, so in your fucking face. Over under is gonna be fun today. It was 10 yesterday, under. Geolito's been a monster, zero earned runs for the last few games. So say Vegas gives Geolito, benefited it out and they gave him up to three runs. I think they're gonna have this at eight and a half, Jake. Yeah, I think I'm going eight and a half to it. I wanna say something else to be chic, but no, I'll go eight and a half with you, nine or, wow. I'm gonna take the under. Yeah, I think under's unfortunately the bet today. Did the over hit yesterday or did it stay? Your final score yesterday was five to four. Wow, so you got the under correct barely. Yeah, that's what I told you it was gonna be nine, I thought the final was gonna be seven too, but that's just cobwebs. You excited for a fall? No, I'm gonna enjoy summer first. Okay, you can be excited for fall and still enjoy summer. I can't, it's the life of it. Wow, thank you too much info. All right, that gets you over the hump, you're now 18 and 17 on the over unders. Giving out free money, you're the best. Let's go to the chat. And here's a talking point, what the hell happened to the Marin started off hot and then last place. I don't know if I'm trying to, bad team are not really trying to win right now. You think Sanchez is playing the best baseball in the Yanks, DJ, Gary? I mean, it starts getting tricky with positions. I mean, what's playing the best? I don't know. I think those two are playing the best all around. Yeah. Yeah. There was another question here, I thought. What do you think about Paddock getting sent down to sing double A? I think it's, he said sing double A, but I didn't get some other double A. You think they're doing service time manipulation, correct? Yeah, I think it's a little column A, column B. I think it's a little service time. I think he's had a few bad starts. Maybe again, we're not as locked into the Padres as we'd like to be, but maybe there were some behind the scenes that he was peacocking a little too much. But yeah, I'll take a little from all three columns. Jim, I mean, 65 innings pitch, he's got a 315 ERA still. Yeah, but maybe, yes, but his latest numbers, they like, from when he started that, and then his last five games, I think it was the game before the Yankees, or they pushed him, because they said he had like a slight injury versus Yankees or something like that. And since then, it's his last five games, he has a 5.76 ERA, and maybe he just needed to be humbled a little bit. Dude seemed like the talkies guy in the MLB after doing like nothing. So yeah. That's kind of the little column of the behind the scenes stuff. There was probably a little bit. I think there's some service time and I think a little bit of performance. But I mean, his last start was five innings, three in run, nothing special, raised his ERA to 315. So I think we've got a little bit from all three columns. Yeah. All right. Mariners had a good series against the twins, but I don't think they have much hope. Yeah, I would say zero hope. I think that's all. Who's the mother stuff that we already talked about? Oh, here's a good question from Sanjana P. Who are you? You can give a surface level answer or you can give a deep answer, Jake. It's your, or you can give no answer, but Sanjana P wants to know who are you? I think everyone should look in the mirror and ask themselves that question every day, Jim. Yeah, mm-hmm. Worst part of my day every day, but I do it. What's your answer? Jimmy. All right. This is talking about your game shot. Yeah, give them your final thoughts. The words of wisdom you'd be always on the show with every single time. What is it? Ask who you are. See ya.