Cody Bellinger Struggles, John Harbaugh & a SHOCKING Jets Rumor!

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Yankees, really bad loss at home. Against the Pirates, the first of two today. Obviously, Garrett Cole did pitch well, but the Yankee outfits again was a no-show other than the Ben Wright's homerun.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:10)
And the problem with the losses in this double header, they went through their back end of the bullpen. They threw Hedrick, they threw Bednar, they threw Cruz. Are those guys available for tonight's game, in a game where Max Fried probably will only throw about 50 pitches? That's a tough game. When he ties that game at three with that homerun, and then you know that you're going to your back end, you're better guys in the bullpen, you have to win that game, because now I don't know if Hedrick is available, I don't know if Bednar is available, and this offense can't score enough runs to make you comfortable to throw out whoever. So that's what made it a really tough loss, is it set you up for a tougher night tonight, because you don't have your best relievers that you blew in a game that you lost.

**Craig Carton** (0:48)
Yeah, you think 50 pitches is the pitch count for him tonight? You think he first came back?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:53)
Yeah, he threw, because he wasn't even supposed to come back because of the double header, they decided to do it. He only had the one rehab starting through 50 pitches there, so maybe he could bump it up to 60, but I don't think they'd push him beyond that.

**Craig Carton** (1:04)
Got it. So the bullpen is going to be a major on tonight's game, but the offense, look, scored some runs in the first couple innings and make it a little bit easier on the bullpen, and on Max Fried as well, but this offense right now, it's a June swoon in July offensively. That's pretty much what it is, and you can't put it all on Aaron Judge not being here, because Cody Bellinger makes a lot of money, right? And it's time that a dude that makes that kind of money, who has what 11 home runs on the year, and hasn't hit one in about a month, like you said, it's time for him to start earning his paycheck. You know, Ben Rice hits the three run bomb today, and Cody Bellinger gets up, I think it was the ninth inning. You know, strike one, strike two, strike three, essentially.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:45)
Yeah, and then in the 10th, he's just, he gets the-

**Craig Carton** (1:48)
Maybe it's the 10th, my bad, yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:49)
It was the 10th, the lead off the 10th. He strikes out and he swings outside on his own. He just, he looks like a completely different player. His swing selection is awful. He's expanding outside the zone.
He's just, and he's no power. You know what he needs?

**Craig Carton** (2:02)
No power.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:02)
A couple of walks and a couple of singles here or there. No slug.

**Craig Carton** (2:05)
I think he needs a, I think he needs like one of those Koreatown massages when they waterboard you and then they give you a little full release at the end of it. I think that like in between games, maybe they can bring one of them gals in.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:18)
I think he needs John Harbaugh to come to the-

**Craig Carton** (2:20)
You know, I went to one of those places in Koreatown many years ago.
I went to a place called Juvenex on 35th with the expectation that it was going to be the full service type of thing. And the whole time, I'm sitting like, I can't wait for it to happen.
And then it never happened. It was just like a normal massage place, but it was, they have like igloos in there. They got a little girl that kind of like, there's a pole that runs horizontally. A little girl, like four foot ten, little girl. Not like an underage girl.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:52)
Little woman.

**Craig Carton** (2:53)
Pardon me, yeah, a little woman. I thought that was self-explanatory, but you're right, it wasn't. So they have these poles on the ceiling that run the length of the room you're in, right? Right, yeah. And I was like, that's interesting. You can't dance on that, because it's only on the ceiling. And what happens is, this little woman, who's again about four foot nine, four foot ten, you know, with heels on, she jumps up on the table, holds on to the pole above her head, and dances the Macarena on your back.
And I was like, that's gotta lead to a foot release. And at no point was my Johnson, I didn't even get the brush by. Like, you know, have you ever got a massage before at Big Mac?