 is there this feeling though like the fan base is desperate for them to get starting pitching how many more pitchers do they need to pass on they didn't give the extra year to Corbin didn't work didn't give 1.8 million to to get Dallas Keichel that gap they just let Strowman go to the Mets is it possible because they refuse to pay anything extra that we're gonna get past the deadline and they would not improve the starting pitching yes it's very possible I think if the right deal is not there for them they're not gonna press anything because that is you know the beauty of what the Yankees do Don is that they don't deviate from their plan now when you don't deviate from your plan and from your organizational philosophy over the long haul that is absolutely the right thing to do if it let's just think about it if you are making optimal decisions at all times in the end you are going to wind up in the positive now the problem with that philosophy is that sometimes making a quote-unquote bad decision actually will behoove you in the short term it's just a risk management game right and in the longer it's almost like playing blackjack you know the the people who play blackjack at the casino you have a process and if you follow that process you have better odds doing that than anywhere else the casino the Yankees are following the process right now and there there is a really good argument to be made that when you have a chance to win a world series you short circuit your process and and you change things up but you can always give yourself an excuse to short circuit the process you can always give yourself rationale well you know where this close well why don't we just go for it and and I think they're really good arguments on both sides because what if it like hypothetically what if the Yankees do go out and acquire a starting pitcher and he stinks were they wrong or because they went for it does the process itself make them right question I don't know the answer to and and it's a difficult question to answer yeah it's it's tough and listen you're hearing some rumors about mad bum to Houston so I don't know maybe the Giants are reconsidering that the Mets will never trade with the Yankees so I guess Noah Cindergart is off the table but of the Robbie Rays and the Roe arcs and the minors are any of these guys guarantee me better than Domingo Herman in Game 4 that's just what I was gonna say you really think that Tanner Roe is better than the options there right now no and also even if you got mad bum if Tanaka and Hap and Herman and CeCe and Paxton are gonna continue to be awful you're still gonna lose I think you know when Aaron Boone said there are a lot of different ways to skin a cat I think what he was you know reading between the lines here he was saying we can go out and get some relievers and we can both have them sucker and look I know the Cleveland Indians two years ago had Corey Kluber at the front of the rotation that is a pitcher who the Yankees don't have anything close to at this point but it was Corey Kluber and a bunch of relief pitchers and in 2019 guys with a number of off days that there are in the playoffs you have one after game two you have one after game five and then you have however many there are in between the series with all those days off if your bullpen is that deep in that good you can bullpen your way through the playoffs if you have an offense like the Yankees do and I know that's a very weird thing to come to terms with and to hear and it's especially weird when placed in contrast with the Houston Astros who have Garrett Cole and who have Justin Berlander and who are going to ride starting pitching as far as they will take them but Aaron who's not wrong yeah can do that in baseball these days and I think we're just waiting for the first team that we see to bullpen themselves to a world series because it has not happened yet it's going to