 So you heard what Brian said. You know what they've done. They've taken Gray out of the rotation. Was that the right move? Definitely the right move. I mean, I think the writing's been on the wall. He got a stay of execution here. Sonny did because he had a couple good starts in a row. And I think everybody in Yankees universe was hoping for the best. Hoping this was going to be a turnaround for Sonny Gray's season. And after what happened yesterday, it's just obviously not going to happen. Can you actually give me a little bit of insight as to why you think Cash was so so open about, you could tell not believing there's a future for Sonny Gray here. It just seemed so forward to me. Well, I think Brian Cashman has earned a lot of respect in that clubhouse and around baseball for being honest, for being open, for being a guy who, whether you like what he says or not is going to shoot you straight. And if he went out there and said, oh, we believe in Sonny Gray. He still has a future. We're going to work with him and he'll be back in the rotation within a few weeks. He'd be lying to you. You know, at best he would be misleading you because the fact of the matter is no one in the Yankees, you know, clubhouse or in the front office has confidence that Sonny Gray can go out there and turn his seats around. Would they like him to? Of course. They're not going to completely give up on. They're not going to release the guy. And Cashman said, I'm not going to sell low on the guy, but we don't trust him to be in the starting rotation right now. Is there a way, most likely for a player or management, to look at a guy, Mark, and say he's not succeeding because of and then say because he can't play in New York City? Is there a way, indeed, to think that that's the deal with Gray because his stuff is good enough to be very effective in the majors? Yes, I think certain players just don't like playing here, don't flourish here. Sonny Gray would never say that. I mean, he's a good guy, he's a nice guy, he's a good teammate, well respected in the clubhouse from a personal standpoint, but I'm not sure if he's built for New York. He might be too nice. He might be a guy where the crowd boon him gets on him. You saw him smile off the mound the other day. That's kind of his way of doing what Jack McDowell did 20 years ago now, however long ago that was, to the Yankee fans. Checking out and last very long in New York. It's tough. I don't want to beat a man when he's down, but I just don't think Sonny Gray in New York is a good fit. Now, Sonny Gray speaking to the media, Meredith Maragovitz just tweeted this out. I don't think my days as a starting pitcher in this league are over, but right now it's all about winning and doing my part, and my role right now is in the bullpen. And I look at it, Mark, and I say, lens, lens stuff to me translated out of the bullpen. I'm not sure Sonny does, so if you're going to keep Sonny Gray in the bullpen and you can't send him down because he's been a big leaker for five years, I think you're playing with a 24 man roster. What's your deal? Yeah, I agree with you, Michael. I mean, if he's going to be just a guy who you're only going to use as a mop up roll, because that's really what he is right now. Are you going to put him into a one run game in Senway this weekend? No, no chance. So it's going to be a five plus run game on one side or the other for the Yankees. And for the type of money you're paying him and for the type of backlash that he's going to get every time he steps on the mound at Yankee Stadium, I just don't see any way he turns this around. And it's unfortunate, but the fact of the matter is you win something with some cash has done an amazing job of compiling this roster, adding talent to the system. He's made some great trades. He's made some great signings. This one hasn't worked out. I just don't don't know if there's a chance for it to work out. Well, you watch yesterday's game, I'm sure. And right before the tarp was put on, Phil Nevin came into the dugout and just lit them up. Now we didn't show the front portion of that on Yes, because he was clearly cursing. Does that stuff help? Is is it what David Kohn says I wash? Does it get players attention? No, I love it. Personally, I love it. And I love a guy like Phil Nevin doing it because this isn't Aaron Boone doing it. Aaron Boone doing it would be a little bit out of character would would maybe put some guys off wood. You know, just just wouldn't look right. Phil Nevin is a baseball guy. I played with Nev in Texas in 2005 2006. He is an old school baseball guy and old school baseball guys look at what happened on the field yesterday and they hate it. And you know what? There's a lot of great guys in that clubhouse and nice guys in that clubhouse. There's not a lot of old school baseball guys that are going to rip into the team. And and Nev served a role yesterday. Maybe if I was still in that dugout, I would have said I would have done the same thing. Who knows? But you know, you cannot accept that type of play when you're five and a half games out and you're losing to the worst team in baseball. It's unacceptable and never let the guys know that. Does it concern you the way Glaborator has played on defense yesterday? No, it does not. And this why would he do that, though? We are human. He said it in his post game interview. He's human. He made a mistake. He, you know, listen, day game after night game. Sometimes these things happen. He's worried about, you know, you know, his health. He's worried about getting hits. Sometimes you have brain parts out there and it doesn't look good. Now, unfortunately, he had two. Right. But I haven't I haven't seen Glaborator as be a habitual, you know, lazy guy or habitual guy that doesn't cover the base at the right time. I just think this was a unfortunate day for him. And let's also remember he's been a second baseman for less than a year. This guy is a shortstop every now and then. Yeah, he didn't run as hard as he could. But this is not this is not something that we've seen all year long. And it's becoming a problem. It's just it happens. And I think Glabor is going to learn from it. He's a great player. He'll continue to learn from these types of experiences. And sometimes you have to take your knocks. If this series goes badly for the Yankees, they lose three or four or get swept. How much do you mentally move on from winning the division and start thinking about playing one game playoff? Well, fans mentally move on. The team never will. The team will not mentally move on until they are mathematically eliminated. And that's just you might think I'm just, you know, giving you a load, Peter, but that's the fact of the matter. Every player in that clubhouse is trying to win the division until someone tells them, Hey guys, by the way, you're mathematically eliminated. Let's go get him in the wild card. But fans, I mean, if you're seven and a half games out after this weekend in Boston, you got to kind of look at yourself and say, we have to really play some great baseball to catch these guys because it does not look like the Red Sox are slowing up. I would got some text messages for you, Mark. Keith from Brick, New Jersey. Mark, you were tremendous on get up. Who from the Red Sox arrival are your closest to and how did that come about? Well, first of all, thank you, Keith, for for saying that about get up. I really enjoyed that a lot of fun. Who I was closest with on the Red Sox rivalry. I can't really say I was close to anybody I played against with the Red Sox. I mean, I was with with the Yankees for eight years. I didn't play with any Reds, you know, X Red Sox. I probably say the guy I respect the most is Justin Pedroia because I played against him for his entire career, you know, up until when I retired and just love the way he plays the game. And even though I didn't like seeing him hit doubles off the monster against us, we talk at first base and just respect the way that he goes about his business. One thing I'm going to warn you, Mark, not that you're asking for my advice. If you continue to excel on get up, you'll be getting up at three in the morning for the rest of your life. You know, I'd have a 430 wake up call. I'm in a car at five o'clock to be in New York City at pier 17 by six o'clock. It's wearing me out a little bit, Michael, not going to lie. What time do you usually get up on a normal day when you're not doing get up? It's six thirty to seven is a normal wake up for me. Yeah, six thirty seven, you know, I got kids in school. So so I wake up around six thirty every day, maybe sleeping every now and then during the summertime and on weekends. But yeah, it's cut cut in two hours out of my sleep. Pete from Long Island asks, it appears the number of switch hitters have been reducing over the years. Why do you think this is and do you think it will ever increase? Yeah, there's two main reasons. I get this question a lot. Two main reasons. One, it's just not as big of an advantage to be a switch hitter. Pictures are better. They've got cutters and change ups that can neutralize a switch hitter. Also, the shifts are neutralizing a switch switch hitters. You know, if I'm a great right handed hitter, why would I ever want to hit left handed when you know, I know the statistics show that left handers hit twenty twenty points lower than righties. I think those two things have really made your switch hitters become obsolete. Now, the one thing I will say is youth baseball has also made an impact in switch hitting in that when I was ten, eleven, twelve, I tried to switch it. I was working on switch hitting and my coaches didn't like it because I wasn't as good of a player because I was learning how to hit left handed. By the time I was thirteen, I just said, forget it if you want me on your team, I'm hitting left handed. But I guarantee you there's a ton of young players where their coaches are saying, I'm not letting you stink for a couple years or at least the season on my team so you can learn how to switch it. You're going to hit right hand and you're going to stay that way. That's an interesting take on that. And it seems, I'm sorry, with the shifts mark, left handed hitters, they're the losers in this. I mean, that's why Cashman's always been ahead of the curve. That's why this team is heavily tilted to the right side. Lefty hitters lose fifty points off their average with shifts. If I ever had a child, you know, my twelve year old and seven year old, they dabble in baseball. If one of them all of a sudden became a stud, I would not let them hit left hand. They're right handed hitters. I would just tell them, you guys are not allowed to hit left hand because it's not an advantage. You have to work on two swings. You're a right handed hitter. Don't switch it like your dad. It's not all it's cracked up to be. The Mets blow out the other day. There seem to be some smiles and I didn't have as big a problem with it because when you have games like that, I just think, well, what are you going to do, your take on that? Well, the season has been over for months, first of all. So let's remember that. It's not like they were on the cusp and decided to sell a few pieces of the deadline and everyone in there is just in shock that they didn't go all into the trade deadline. Mets have been bad for a long time. I don't have a problem with guys blowing off some steam, laughing a little bit because you play every day. Sometimes you have to laugh. Sometimes, even when you're getting your butt kicked, the game was over for a long time. It doesn't bother me now. If they lose 25 to four, three times a week and the guys are still laughing, then yeah, I think I would have an issue with that. What about the fact, for me, Tex, what I found problematic and I know we don't understand the mentality of the players involved in the game necessarily, but for me what was difficult about it was not only were they laughing, but they were getting laughed at by their divisional rivals. I mean, Zimmerman was laughing in their face the entire game practically. It just seemed like a team at this point as no pride in the jersey they're wearing, at least at this moment. Yeah, I can't disagree with you there, Peter. I really can. There are some good players on that roster. There's not enough of them. You can still build around in the garden to grow. I think those guys continue to battle. Those guys know that I have a chance to be on a winning team again. Half the players on that roster, Peter, aren't going to be there next year. That's just the fact of the matter. You have half the guys in there that have kind of phoned in the rest of the season and these are the type of things you get. You get laughed at by the division rivals. Our final thing before we let you go. This is the epicenter of the baseball world tonight, Fenway Park. I could tell people what it's like to announce games here. Fans could talk about what it's like to sit in the stands. You have stood on that field in front of sellout crowds. What's it like and is it different than other games? It absolutely is different than other games. It's electric, especially close games late when you can't even hear yourself think. You never think the game is over in Boston because they always seem to come back at the end. They always seem to put up some runs at the end. I just think every major league baseball player should get to play in a Yankees Red Sox game one time. Experience Yankee Stadium on a Saturday afternoon or Fenway on a Saturday afternoon when everyone's happy and it's beautiful weather outside. Two good teams are going after them. Maybe your aces are on the mound. That's like baseball heaven. You're going to get two great teams. Yeah, there's a few guys that are out of the lineup and not pitching this weekend, but you have two great teams facing each other this weekend and I can't wait to watch. You doing get up tomorrow? I am. They got me all week. Get to bed, Mark. Thanks.