 the first time the Gardner did what he did with his bat in the dugout I was a little bit taken aback by I feel the first the one needed the first time was actually even worse than this one lasted longer looked a little bit more crazed he was acting up and I said at the time I felt that we were operating with a little bit of a double standard in terms of being like oh it's just Gardi being Gardi he's an intense player I don't think that it's not the same thing we would apply it feels like in other sports it seemed like a little bit special for baseball this is because baseball you're allowed to freak out and scream a bit it's part of baseball but you are thrown out now when it comes to the balls and strikes thing but that's that's something that is getting closer and closer to Odell and the kicking net like it's getting closer to that I'm not saying it's at that level of course and again let's not forget I'm a Yankees fan since when and I watched not unless you remember the year 1976 okay sure but I saw the first time I thought that's cool he's now he's making noise for his manager thank you for backing us up that looked at very first time weeks ago the second time it's like okay this has become a thing now the third time it felt like now you know now you're making it a thing you're making it and then to act innocent like what am I doing wrong and the umpires are aware of it so now they've got rabbit ears so it's it's become now an us versus them so where do you land on this though like are you do you like that the intensity I love the toughness I love the attitude I love all that stuff but the bat thing at this point it's it should be you should be done with it and and Aaron judge now using it as you know a symbol as now everybody does these symbols that they fire back to the dugout when you get a base hit or something it all become remember the thumbs down the Mets have their thing now this has become where Aaron judge did it one time he did it it was a little awkward looking because he was mimicking the bat slamming into the dugout without a bat in his hand that's you know that could probably borderline at time I could tell it visually yeah I mean the good news is he used two hands so good for him yeah it's better but it's it's the point is is that this now becomes a now it's becoming a thing that you know umpires are aware of and now the fans are aware of and it's probably time to put it to rest yes I'm not going to intentionally troll the Yankee fan base even though I truly enjoy doing that I'm not going to do that and say this is insane I'm disgusted I'm disturbed because it's not true but I will say this I am I don't think it's exactly becoming and the Yankee way I wouldn't say this is for a team that prides itself so much on handling things a certain way I wouldn't say this is really that you can have the more like this feels more like Bronx zoo kind of stuff from the 70s yeah I mean I wasn't alive to know about that but yes up from what I heard again I I love the attitude because last year what I hated about the Yankee's what drove me crazy about that team last year is they felt so vanilla they had no real emotion that's just had no personality no middle ground though this team seemed to be just so flat like he didn't really you know and he was his first year and then he started to have these put on he was he would he would argue a couple of times and it felt like he was forcing it whereas now it doesn't feel like that now it it's very genuine he's coming out he's the they are picking on the young umpires are trying to intimidate a little bit that's why the savages thing came out you know my batters know the strike zone you clearly don't you know like get it right tighten it up you know that was funny that was good but now it's becoming like now they're really picking on the younger umpires and the older guys see it and they're reacting to it and they're defending their guys it's not going to help you but but I love the fact that there's some personality some attitude we'd like that so how do you take that and then just let's well just stop the bat thing yeah let's to me it's almost just if you take the bat part out I'm still I'm okay because I don't mind you arguing I don't mind you putting up a fight and you don't mind boon getting thrown out no I don't mind any of that just the bat thing for the third time felt like it was jumping the shark that's a great way enough with the bat