Hour 2: Manager's Fault?

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All right. So in order for the Yankees to erase the stain of yesterday, they have to win tomorrow, they have to win Thursday, they have to win Saturday. So I looked up how many times have they had a three game or more winning streak this year? And the answer is 12 times. Now, I'm not saying that to make you feel confident because those three game winning streaks did not come against a race team that's clicking on all cylinders and also has Rasmussen going in the second game of those three. We'll see if the Yankees can pull it together and put together a clean performance tomorrow night. It starts with Max Fried.

Max Fried has to pitch great. Now, you're going to put the ball and play against Max Fried, so the infield is going to be tested. And I know they're probably going to be on high alert.

Will they be able to handle that kind of pressure? There'll be 48,000 people at Yankee Stadium tomorrow.

Now, one thing that I'm always curious about, you know, I was scrolling through, doom-scrolling through antisocial media today. And so many people, they want to put the blame for the Yankees losing these first two games to the Rays somehow on me because of opinions I have. You know, you do a radio show every day, you can have opinions. Some of them people are going to like, some of them they won't. That's okay. That's what makes talk radio go around. But the thing I don't get, so on the Yes post game yesterday, I was very critical of the way they played. Very critical. I don't know how you could retain any kind of legitimacy unless you're critical of the way they performed yesterday. You have to. You have to be honest to your listeners and your viewers. Otherwise they won't come back. But then you get like people that go, yeah, Kay's talking tough until he gets that phone call from Brian Cashman, until the Yankees tell him to change his opinion. And then I look deeper into the people that say this, and you get, follows you. And I would say, what kind of moron are you? If you have so little respect that I'm actually giving you what I think and not what I'm told to say, why would you follow me? That would make you a complete dult.

But you follow me and you listen to this show, so what are you trying to get out of it? If you think I'm a compromised person, as many people out there seem to think, why would you follow me? Does it make you a fool?

Doesn't that make you somebody with very low IQ? I think this guy's full of it. I can't wait to hear what he says. Oh, this guy's not going to tell us the truth. Oh, the Yankees write him a script and he says it. But I can't wait to watch it, listen to his show, or watch it on YouTube. I can't wait to go to the Espn New York YouTube channel sponsored by the Parisman firm, because I want to see what this Yankee asset says. What does that make you? It makes you an idiot. And I don't want you to listen, and I don't want you to follow me on Twitter. I've gone past the point of blocking people. I haven't blocked a person, I think, in like five years. I do something better. I mute you. And the beautiful thing about that is, you don't even know you've been muted. And I don't see a word that you say, but you think that you're getting my attention. You're not. So if you say something that I think is asinine, I don't want to have you in my head. But you seem to want to listen to somebody that you think is getting marching orders from the Yankees. That's a you problem, baby. That's not a me problem.

And let's be honest. You think the Yankees like that their 35-year voice of the team is criticizing them as stringently as I am right now? Of course they don't. But they also realize the value of telling the truth. And if they disagree with something that I say, maybe they'll reach out and they'll give their side of it. But nobody tells me what to say. But for those that think that people tell me what to say and you still can't get enough, you've got some issues, man. You should get some help.