"It's Time for the Yankees To Make Some Tough Decisions"

let's have a day as the kids like to say at 888 808 1019 of course we'll get into the metsis and their win in Arizona and I think they got to be dreaming about a little more this week if they are serious about catching the Atlanta Braves plenty of football to get to no the Giants haven't claimed a corner but the Jets have been seen and not heard more on that in a little bit as well but I I I think it's time to say this and it's been time to say it but it's now time to more than say and and hammer down and I don't know how every Yankee fan won't be in agreement on this at 888 88119 but if you are it's a call to a cry a cry for help to Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees are we serious about taking this year with Aaron judge and Juan stto and Garrett Cole and Jazz Chism are we serious about doing all we can to win a World Series just 24 hours ago when Evan was still here and we were sniffing his armpits and doing whatever we do with Evan Roberts we debated back and forth on what would be a successful Yankee year is losing a World Series acceptable and I still think it is if it is to the Phillies or the Dodgers but that's neither here nor there the Yankees yet again failed to sweep a far far inferior opponent to them just like we saw in game two versus Colorado just like we've seen on and on and on and on I mean insert the series over the last two three months even when the Yankees have slightly turned this around post deadline they just can't figure out a way to sweep these teams and last night was no different but there is a way in the post trade deadline world for the Yankees to rev things up with a month left in the season and get serious about being Allin because on a night filled with not being able to touch Patrick freaking Corbin on a night where the Yankees fell back to you know 500 in in games decided by two runs or less on a night like this all of the Yankee fables both in Washington or the solutions out of Washington were on display the Yankees need to get Cutthroat and Cutthroat now if they are truly in on being a World Series champion and now Sean what do you mean by Cutthroat what do you mean by Cutthroat well let's start right here Eric Bolan 15 minutes ago covers the Yankees Newsday tweets rival Scout assigned the Yankee system who recently saw Jason Dominguez during his coverage of Scranton said and I quote he is ready to go back saw flashes of everything you want to see he ran well hit the ball out of the park he didn't defend as well as I've seen in the past but he's ready end quote that is at triaa in Somerset at Double A Anthony Rizzo ahead of schedule picked up a first base glove and hit a ding dong out of the park last night and I know Anthony Rizzo had his struggles earlier in the year and I'm not acting like he's the Anthony Rizzo of the Cub days the Anthony Rizzo that the Yankees got at the deadline a couple years ago but he is still a major solution and on top of that when the Yankees were list less offensively who was a big part that woke them up too little too late last night it was Austin Wells finally checking into the game you see teams that are serious about winning world series don't play nice to people they don't play nice to good quote unquote soldiers on the team and those soldiers include DJ lahu Jose trino and even I I'm going to give go a pass and assume they won't have the guts to do that they shouldn't Trent Grisham Off the Bench if the Yankees are serious about winning the World Series two of those guys mainly need to be gone and the other trino needs to basically only be seen when there's a day game after a night game or Austin Wells physically can't go out there anymore we know what is about to happen for the New York Yankees when Anthony Rizzo is ready perhaps as early as this weekend they are going to do the simple thing the the comfortable thing they're going to send Ben rice rice baby back down to Triple A and I know that he struggled and he hasn't been the same player guess what he also hasn't been able to get consistent at BS because Aaron Boone has a love affair with DJ lahu and because of that DJ lameu will stick around on this roster while a young enthusiastic kid gets buried goes back down to Triple A hey thanks for all you earlier in the year that is wrong that should not happen and real teams true championship teams do the uncomfortable it is no longer right there in front of us when it comes to DJ lahu in fact the biggest thing you could give him and the biggest thing he started to do when Ben rice was playing mainly every day was come in late defensively at first base I don't know what's happened I don't know if it's in his head but last night it fully cratered DJ Le's defense now is even questionable big whoopity freaking do that he had a big Grand Slam versus the Phillies what feels like a month ago maybe it is a month ago and it was the day the rest of us lugie me Evan Tiki were out City Field watching the Mets and twins that day but that is forever ago and that was the one glimmer of hope you want to win a World Series you have 25 guys 26 guys I've lost count with baseball stupid rules whoever's on the roster DJ lameu cannot be here anymore he is no longer a Major League player DJ lameu is a was a former hitting machine that the wheels have fallen off you know what DJ lameu is now a Long Island duck and he's occupying a Yankee Roster spot and not only occupying a Yankee Roster spot he's playing every day and being hidden behind the cover of well he's got to play vers lefties because Ben rice doesn't hit verse lefties Oswaldo Cabrera I can't pin Oswaldo Cabrera do you see his numbers versus finnean do you see his numbers versus lefties what are DJ lamu's numbers versus lefties I'll give you a hint you don't need saper metrics it's not even a number you know what DJ lamu's numbers are it's a word their cheeks we're leaning into kicking ass he stinks versus anybody left side right side it doesn't matter World Series teams don't carry corpses of DJ lameu on there he's not even valuable Off the Bench defensively because Oswaldo Cabrera plays all those positions better and then there's Jose and I don't like calling people Liars but people are liars and for the first time I've been a Defender and I like him I like Aaron Buddha IM gets too much heat he lied to us because when Jose trino was coming off of the ilil Jose travin we were told oh no this is a Austin Wells bad he was hit clean up Austin Wells when he's good and he's right and I know John Carlo was just coming back was the finally the solution in the cleanup hole for this team behind stto and judge and now we're Force feeding Jose trino spoiler alert his throwing Problems by the way defensively I don't want to hear about his defense still are a problem can't throw anybody out and he is a guy that when he's in the lineup has to hit at best seventh and that's being generous why would you take a formidable bat out of the middle of your order one of the better offensive catchers in baseball to do a lefty righty platoon enough and I'm not saying the Yankees have a better backup catcher solution so that's why I'm not suggesting they wave Jose trino but get serious be Cutthroat look at the former fake Allstar from two years ago the guy who can't throw anybody out and tell him sorry you're the Day game after a night game catcher on a Saturday afternoon and that's all you are Austin Wells has to play every day DJ lameu needs to be DFA the moment Anthony Rizzo gets back not just do the comfortable thing in sending Ben rice down and then let's go to the Outfield situation today is a very important day in Yankee land do you know why that is today officially marks in games where Jason Dominguez can come up to this organization and no longer will this qualify as his rookie season when factoring in you know games he played last year this year so that clock if you're worried about when you're going to pay Jason Dominguez won't really get started again until next year you teased us Yankee fans on a night in Williamsport where you got to carry a 27th man and you played Dominguez and yes he went hitless that night versus the Tigers guess what the team stunk that night big blown save Jason Dominguez is a better baseball player don't tell us he's not because when you needed to sell tickets and make sure fans came in August and September last year before he got hurt what did we get shown as Yankee fans a heaping pile of Jason Dominguez now suddenly the team's rolling and you don't want to call up Jason Dominguez why because Trent grisham's a a very good vested veteran you don't want to hurt his feelings it's a long ass season because Doogie is the guy that Boon begged Cashman to get here and he's the guy you know he has all that great locker room feel with with judge and Moto and he came up with the dogs thing you don't want to hurt his feelings and not play him every day Bush we're done being nice guys as Yankee fans Brian Cashman and the Yankees we want results and you will not find in the Aaron judge era of Yankee baseball a more I'll use the word easy path to a World Series in terms of your opponents than what you have in 2024 and instead by keeping DJ lahu around here and you know that BR that because he's such a good veteran Aaron Boon's not g be able to help himself he'll still find that bats when Anthony Rizo comes back you watch and bury Oswaldo Cabrera further and you watch they won't switch up the Jose trino thing and you watch they'll wait till September then the minguez will come here as that extra guy and they'll still play Grisham a couple times in Center you watch they won't do the uncomfortable because they're afraid of hurting feelings say what you want to say about Joe gerardi he didn't care how bad Jorge Pat's feelings got hurt the Yankees didn't care at one point how bad Bernie Williams feelings were hurt when he was at the end of the road and yet we're so worried about DJ lamu's feelings and Trent grisham's feelings joj travine feelings field the best roster the best starting nine and you won't have absentee nights like you had versus the Nationals or Crap afternoons like you had Saturday versus Colorado go on and on and on you won't have non sweeps versus a historically bad team like the Chicago White Socks where you lose by double digits we didn't forget that and the reason those days exist is not because this is baseball oh that's baseball Susan we love that s great t-shirt it's because the Yankees are too afraid to be Cutthroat do you know who was Cutthroat lugie and Evan yesterday tried to make sure to tell me lugie corck me who do you call the Yankees daddy well to be fair the final boss of the Yankees is the Houston Astros and what did the Houston Astros do this year that helped turn their season around they looked at Jose Abu who couldn't hit for crap and they DFA him despite his contract why is DJ lahu any different than Jose Abra why because the Yankees run a country club yeah and DJ is a long-standing member and they're very loyal to their members yeah and that's exactly it I boted it again stop being so loyal and be Cutthroat because championships aren't guaranteed and as we've come to know in this town not just the Yankees even getting to these bad boys is hard to do I we've talked about the Knicks in this town and you know lugie likes to call the uncrowned champions last year was a pretty wide open Eastern Conference which is why the pain of the Knicks injury stung so bad for those fans okay the Rangers in this town making two Conference Finals in the last three years and getting there and losing those moments sting but you know why they stung worse because it felt like real opportunity and I fear for different reasons the Knicks with the injuries the Rangers just didn't have enough to get through I fear that the same end result is awaiting this Yankee team this year whether it be to the Royals the Astros the Orioles whoever they might run into and we're going to be asking how and why we got to this spot and ultimately it will likely be because the Yankees weren't Cutthroat enough and if the Yankees aren't playing a game seven or a game six and they're building in the ALCS because they haven't won the division you're going to look back on nights like last night and wonder why DJ l he was playing why Oswaldo Cabrera was not you're going to look back on afternoons like Colorado you're going to look back at that game versus the white socks all of these games versus bad opponents Wonder Man this yankee team couldn't sweep any of those teams all of those games have added up and there's a reason the Yankees never ran and hid from the Orioles and there's a reason that today we wake up after loss to the Nationals only one game up on the Baltimore Orioles and it's because the Yankees aren't serious enough about winning a World Series and they won't be serious enough until DJ lahu is not on this roster until Jason Dominguez is on this roster for probably Tren Grisham and until Austin Wells we stop acting like Austin Wells is uh you know he's gonna play Every Day's he doesn't play every day you're playing a ton of lefties and he keep playing travina we were lied to and frankly I've had enough you would think the Yankees would show a little more urgency here this could be the one and only season for Juan sto Aaron judge is not getting any younger this could be the best of Aaron judge this is probably the best team that Aaron judge has been on because when you play with Juan stto how could it not be y be and show that urgency especially for your fans because the drought for Yankee standards is very long so there's no urgency here we are at the end of August and you got basically DJ lameu fumbling over himself in first place yeah yeah it's ridiculous and that's the thing if DJ Leu is here for his defense which he's not they keep thinking he's going to get going offensively it's too late now it's about to be Labor Day weekend we've had college football games DJ L is not going to get it going this year okay Florida State's already lost the game it's enough already and Ben rice is going to go down and thanks for all you did for us because we got to be nice to all these veterans screw that I want to win and I want to do the uncomfortable real championship teams get Cutthroat Brian Cashman it's time to get Cutthroat DJ lahu should not start another game for the 2024 New York Yankees 888 808 8 1019 [Music]