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only pay for what you need. The Yankees are
blowing up on my Twitter and my threads timeline for
all the wrong reasons after their 73 loss to the
Angels last night, that loss capped a one and
five road trip out west. So let's bring in
New York Post, sports columnist, Mike Vaccaro to
get us caught up on all things. Yanks for
this edition of Baseball and the Boroughs. Mike,
thanks for joining us. Let's jump straight into this
because everyone in the Boroughs is talking about Carlos Rodon's
kiss blow and the Tommy Connolly meltdown in the dugout
. I know winning mask everything, but this team
isn't winning right now. So, what are your
thoughts on Rodon's outing the kiss blow and Conley's dugout
meltdown? Well, I think that the Yankees are
a little more concerned with the fact that Rodan was
terrible last night as opposed to, to the kiss
. I mean, the kiss was a bad luck
. He acknowledged that he owned it. Aaron Boone
acknowledged it. You don't talk to him about it
and kiss you, you can't do that in New
York and especially so you can't do it because you
have a couple of scattered Yankees fans booing you 3000
miles away from New York. So you can't do
that. But I think he already understands that he
was frustrated. Look, I mean, there's one
positive to take away from that action is that I
think Yankees fans have wondered if the Yankees even care
anymore. It's a silly thing but, you know
, just by their body language and I guess,
you know, people were criticizing, seen some guys
that I got yesterday, you know, that's the
, that's the side of the guy who cares,
the guy who's frustrated and the guy who knows,
but he hasn't pitched well, you know, um
, you know, it's, it's equally as meaningless
but, but in reference to the keenly meltdown of
the dugout where you, you know, be a
fan, a fan, a fan of the dugout
, a stationary fan, I should say, uh
to, uh, to a pulk in the dugout
, uh is almost a positive side because it just
shows that there's a, a pulse on, on
somebody on the team. Now again, I mean
, all of this will be completely insignificant if they
start to play better baseball. Uh, you know
, and, and, and, and you would
think they're going to play better baseball if, and
when Aaron Judge returns, but they really need to
start playing better ball even before that because the wild
card race can get out of their hands pretty quickly
. Uh, the A East is already gonna be
a pretty big chore for both the Orioles and the
race so far ahead of them. So they just
got to play better baseball and a lot of other
things are gonna fall into place. I'm glad you
mentioned the better baseball because Aaron Boone said after the
game we are capable, we control the stories.
So, are you, are you buying that?
Does this look like a team that's in control?
Well, he's right. Look, I mean,
we, we, we've seen this plenty in baseball
the last couple of years, especially with the wild
card. All you need is a, is a
good week and you go from looking really hopeless to
all of a sudden being in the thick of the
, of the playoff situation again. So I think
it's silly to write them off until they're, you
know, 10 or 11 games out of the wild
card, which I just don't think will ever happen
. So, I mean, it, it,
it, it's really nothing that a good, you
know, week or 10 days couldn't fix the other
thing. I think that Aaron Boone said yesterday,
you know, and he says that a lot about
how the whole season in front of them and they
have everything in their hands. But he was also
pretty, pretty frank and pretty brutal in assessing his
team. He said you know, he said we
stink, you know, and, uh, that's
just not bad. That's not boone's way. I
mean, it, it's obvious that, that,
that, that, that he's passed the point of
being Pollyanna and, uh, you know, really
is acknowledging that there's a problem here and it's a
problem. It's gotta be fixed, but he's right
, there is still time enough to fix it.
Still only July, you know, the, the
Yankees are and you're gonna fix. The Mets are
, you know, the Yankees are still within,
within sight of the wild card. And as long
as you're there and as long as you can get
into the playoffs, it's all matters. So the
Yankees still have that in front of them and,
and so it's 100% accurate what's being said. So
let's put that road trip to bed, let's put
it away. Let's look for it. Now.
They got the Royals on Friday back in the Bronx
. They get to play baseball in their borough.
There's a plug right there. Uh, is this
a make or break series as we get closer to
the August 1st trade deadline? Look, the Royals
are so bad that if the Yankees even only took
two out of three this weekend, there's gonna be
a lot of talk that they're still playing poorly and
gosh, if they ever were to lose more than
that, uh, it would really be disastrous.
Um, again, I don't think the opponent matters
. I mean, the, the, the,
the, the Yankees just have to start playing better
. I mean, I get it, they're hitting
poorly, but you can overcome that by playing the
other parts of the game. Well, and the
fact is that the Yankees have played the other parts
of the game. Well, uh, David Cohen
, during the game yesterday, talked about the importance
of playing a clean game and, and, and
Wednesday night was anything but a clean game in Anaheim
. Uh the bullpen has been there. Their,
their strength all year has shown cracks the last couple
of days that's gotta to get resolved. And,
uh look, I mean, you know, II
, I think we can put the word down situation
to be in five days if he goes out and
against the Mets. So I think the next team
you're gonna pitch against maybe 12, a four hitter
, which is entirely within his realm of possibility.
So, uh it's, it's, but, but
yes, I do think that it's important for the
Yankees just played better ball this weekend and the world
is so bad that if the world, if the
Yankees just play well, they gonna take care of
themselves. The 50 47 currently going into their next
series against the uh Ro Royals, as we said
, uh Mike Bacara, thanks for joining us.
Thank you, Brandon. Good talking to you.