00:00My New York Yankees are now 3-7 in their last 10 games.
00:04After going up to Boston this weekend and getting swept
00:07in a four-game series in New England's living room,
00:11Aaron Boone does not seem concerned.
00:14How do you make sure, like you said, a tough weekend like this
00:16doesn't snowball into anything?
00:18That's what we do, baby.
00:19You gotta love this stuff.
00:21You gotta eat this stuff up.
00:23It's a sickness, and you gotta just, that's what the grind is.
00:27We got a really good frickin' team.
00:29You know, we played crappy on this trip, kinda.
00:32Feels bad.
00:33Kinda pissed off, right?
00:36But it's what we do.
00:37It's what you sign up for.
00:39We'll dig ourselves out of it and get it going here in short order.
00:43But we just, you know, bottom line is we didn't play well this weekend,
00:46and we gotta do better.
00:49It's what you sign up for?
00:51It's what you sign up for, Aaron Boone?
00:54Losing to this awful, pathetic, embarrassing Boston Red Sox team?
00:59A Red Sox team that has just been a disaster all season long?
01:04Brooms day, absolutely.
01:06I mean, this was an embarrassment last night.
01:10I mean, Sonny Gray, former Yankee.
01:14And I loved when Brian Cashman made that trade,
01:17because I love Sonny Gray.
01:18I'm a huge Sonny Gray fan.
01:20Loved him with the A's.
01:22I loved when the Yankees got him.
01:24Didn't pitch well with the Yankees.
01:25Then I love Sonny Gray when, ultimately, he goes to Cincinnati,
01:30and he goes to Minnesota, and he goes to St. Louis.
01:32He signs with the Red Sox,
01:34and Sonny Gray admits,
01:35I lied.
01:37My agent lied.
01:38Said I'd be happy in New York.
01:39He basically said,
01:41I hate Boone.
01:42I hate Cashman.
01:44I hate New York.
01:45I hate the Bronx.
01:46I hate Stans.
01:47I hate Derek Jeter.
01:48I hate Mickey Mantle.
01:49I hate Babe Ruth.
01:51I'm paraphrasing here.
01:52What he said when he signed with Boston.
01:54That's basically what he said.
01:55And then I'm watching Sonny Gray last night.
01:58Finally, when NBC got around to putting the game on,
02:01as opposed to the fact that it was on Peacock,
02:04because they were airing golf.
02:05Thank goodness my girls like Love Island,
02:07so I knew my Peacock password.
02:09But I digress.
02:11So, here I am,
02:13and I'm sitting there watching,
02:15after finally, you know,
02:16flipping around, finding the game,
02:19and I'm watching Sonny Gray stick it to the Yankees.
02:24He's throwing a no-hitter into the eighth.
02:26But, of course, these are the Red Sox,
02:29and this is the worst version of the Red Sox,
02:31most embarrassing version of the Red Sox,
02:33that Red Sox fans have seen in 50 years.
02:37The expectations were high,
02:38and they brought in, you know,
02:40all these pitchers in the offseason,
02:42and a lot of people, myself included,
02:43thought they'd make the playoffs.
02:44They fire Cora, which was asinine and idiotic.
02:47John Henry, the owner, is clueless.
02:50Sam Kennedy, the team president,
02:52and Craig Breslow, the overmatch general manager,
02:53they're like bobbleheads.
02:54They have no power, no say.
02:56They don't know what the hell they're doing.
02:58Devers, Bregman, all of it.
03:01Hot garbage.
03:02Red Sox have been atrocious and awful and irrelevant.
03:05And this is the team that beats the Yankees?
03:10If the Yankees went into Boston and split,
03:14I would be livid.
03:15I'd be livid.
03:16They got swept.
03:18And last night, you saw Braves throw in the ninth.
03:21I mean, if someone, an outfielder in elementary school,
03:25my son Theo's Little League team missed every single cutoff man,
03:29and then everyone in the infield was just lollygagging,
03:32walking around with no urgency,
03:34I'd be annoyed at the kids on the Little League team.
03:37I mean, the Red Sox, who are terrible,
03:40trying to give the Yankees that game.
03:42They couldn't even take it.
03:43I love Bednar.
03:44Bednar has been phenomenal.
03:46He's been on a heater.
03:47They have to take him out.
03:48Cruz comes in.
03:49Game over.
03:51I mean, go back through the chronological order here, right?
03:55Go back to Thursday,
03:56where you see Schlittler on the bump,
03:58and the Yankees couldn't catch the ball.
04:01His ERA dropped, and they couldn't win.
04:05They couldn't hit.
04:06They couldn't have any kind of juice or sizzle or effort or energy
04:11or fundies or just catch the damn baseball.
04:15They got rocked on Friday night.
04:17Saturday, bad weather in New York.
04:19I sat my ass on the couch.
04:21It's like old school 1 o'clock Yankees, Red Sox.
04:24All these games are always in prime time.
04:25It's on ABC.
04:27I mean, I felt like I was, you know, growing up back in the day.
04:311 o'clock, Garrett Cole is giving up homers.
04:33That game was over before I even got comfortable.
04:36And I know that, you know, I use strikeout-to-walk ratio often
04:41in describing how a pitcher pitches.
04:43Cole was terrible.
04:45But it's not his fault necessarily.
04:46It's the offense.
04:47And here you got Aaron Boone talking about,
04:50oh, you know, it's okay.
04:51We're going to be fine.
04:52Look, this is the first time I've been angry as a sports fan
04:56since the next one, right?
04:57This is the first time I've been angry.
04:59There is a perspective,
05:00and that perspective is the American League sticks.
05:02American League sticks.
05:03As of Monday morning, there are only four teams in the entire league
05:06that are above .500.
05:09Think about that for a second.
05:10One of them is a White Sox.
05:11That's all you need to know about how bad the American League is.
05:15We showed you the standings.
05:16Yankees on Thursday entered the series as a first-place team
05:19with the best record in the American League.
05:20They're now a wild-card team.
05:23If the season ended today,
05:25and we had our producer Griff call Rob Manfred of Major League Baseball,
05:28it doesn't.
05:30But if the season ended today,
05:31the Yankees are going on the road in the playoffs.
05:35They're a wild-card team.
05:36They don't have home-field advantage anymore.
05:39A mess.
05:40A complete and utter mess.
05:41And this goes back to the lack of oomph, right?
05:46The lack of urgency.
05:48The lack of focus.
05:50Boone is to blame.
05:51The Yankees need four new relief pitchers.
05:54Let's be crystal clear about that.
05:55And where is the Yankees' ability to steal the Red Sox' soul?
06:02Think about it.
06:03There was not one Red Sox fan who, going into this series,
06:07like, yeah, Yankees-Red Sox really pumped up for the best rivalry in baseball.
06:12We barely made it a deal on shine time last week.
06:15Because the Red Sox are awful.
06:17I mean, the Mets fans were laughing at the Red Sox.
06:21We're on record calling the Red Sox the biggest embarrassment in all of baseball.
06:25And they sweep?
06:27They take the broom and they not only sweep away the Yankees,
06:29they stick it up their derrieres?
06:31What, are you kidding me?
06:33That's a disgrace.
06:34It's a gutless, puke, pathetic performance.
06:38There are basically, right now, three batters in that lineup.
06:43Because this is not about, well, Judge isn't there.
06:45No, no.
06:46Now, you should be able to take a series against the worst Red Sox team
06:50that we've seen in the last 40 years.
06:52And I don't want to hear the judges in there.
06:55Ben Rice, great.
06:57Ballinger, great.
06:5952-year-old Goldschmidt has had a really strong season.
07:02Other than that, if you're a Yankees fan,
07:06who do you want in the batter's box?
07:08There's not one player on this team that you want,
07:11and I like Jazz, he's been terrible.
07:13Austin Wells isn't hitting his weight.
07:15Austin Wells isn't hitting my weight.
07:17That's a problem.
07:19If I have to look at Anthony Volpe's face one more time,
07:21I'm going to absolutely lose it.
07:23Some series are just worse than the others.
07:26And here's the thing, and we're going to be careful, right?
07:30I'm not declaring the season over.
07:32Because the AL sucks.
07:35The Yankees are still alive.
07:37The Yankees in Vegas, if you look today on DraftKings,
07:40they're the overwhelming favorites to win the American League.
07:45But this is bad.
07:47Three runs on Thursday, one run on Friday, one run on Saturday,
07:51and they just got, forget the final score,
07:54because that distracts, and those runs were not earned in the ninth.
07:57I mean, they're getting no hit by Sonny Gray into the eighth inning.
08:02Sonny Gray, who basically told you that he hates Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada,
08:10and he thinks Roger Maris is an overrated clown.
08:13That's what he said when he signed with the Red Sox.
08:16Come on.
08:16He hates Joe DiMaggio.
08:18I mean, it's, he hates New York pizza.
08:22And that's the guy who's sticking it to you last night.
08:25Brutal.
08:26Absolutely brutal.
08:27Despite all their incompetence this weekend,
08:29then the Yankees may still have gained a new fan.
08:33I want to be a Yankees fan.
08:35Why?
08:35Why can't you be a Mets fan?
08:37Because I don't want to be the worst.
08:40We're Mets fans in this house.
08:41Well, I don't want to be the worst team.
08:47So which team do you want to root for?
08:50Yankees.
08:52Yeah, I mean, that kid gets it.
08:58Seriously.
08:59And you know what?
09:01David Stearns needs to walk to that kid's house,
09:05not get in the back seat of a car.
09:07Walk to his house and apologize
09:10for making kids all over the metropolitan area cry.
09:16Kids, adults, the elderly.
09:19That's one thing that all different Mets fans,
09:23doesn't matter your age, your race, your religion,
09:26what you believe in.
09:27You're crying because of David Stearns.
09:30You broke the kid.
09:32The kid wants to root for the Yankees.
09:34What the hell is wrong with you?
09:36We went through this on Friday.
09:38You know, Carlos Mendoza fired.
09:40Sure, great.
09:41But it's David Stearns' fault.
09:42Who lets Pete Alonso go?
09:44Who brings in Devin Williams?
09:46Who decides, well, we're going to take a non-first baseman
09:49and have him replace Alonso at first base.
09:52The back end of the rotation's terrible.
09:55I mean, Bo Bichette, they've replaced third base.
09:57Come on down.
09:58Overreaction to Kyle Tucker.
10:00And then at his press conference,
10:02that was an embarrassment.
10:04And I loved, loved the way John Heyman and Joel Sherman,
10:09Mike Puma, everyone from the Post just absolutely hammered Stearns.
10:14By the way, I don't get the sense he's worried about his job at all.
10:18Like, that's why that kid is crying.
10:21Because he watched the press conference.
10:23And that's why he's moved to tears.
10:26And he's thinking of rooting for the Yankees.
10:28Because Stearns has no answers.
10:31My goodness.
10:33I mean, that press conference was a mess.
10:36And then there's this.
10:40Yeah.
10:41Mr. Met, understanding the moment.
10:44Understanding how tough this is.
10:46I don't even know how my guy Steve Gelbs
10:49was able to concentrate through this.
10:51Did you see our guy, Clem, from Barstool?
10:55He put together the bracket of Mets disasters.
11:00I mean, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the Internet.
11:06Seriously.
11:07I mean, just one category as a four seed was Jason Bay.
11:11He didn't even have to explain it.
11:12I mean, you know, Kevin Mitchell cutting off a cat's head
11:17was like a seven seed.
11:18You know, the collapse in 2007.
11:21My personal favorite, which always, you know,
11:23over the last 20 years showed the Mets ineptitude.
11:26You know, they put Ryan Church when he was concussed on an airplane
11:30and flew him coast to coast and he never played again.
11:33You got Mr. Met dancing behind our guy Steve Gelbs.
11:37Kyle Schwarber, by the way, 30 home runs.
11:39Phillies, to me, are the biggest challenger
11:41when it comes to the Dodgers in the National League.
11:43Congrats to the Dodgers, by the way.
11:45Winning the NL West.
11:46Stealing the soul from the Padres.
11:49They actually lost against their old friend Walker Buehler on Friday
11:52and then won Saturday, won Sunday.
11:54That is over.
11:55And the Dodgers have the best record in all of baseball.
11:57Phillies, Dodgers, that's my prediction.
11:59That was my prediction before the season.
12:01My prediction now when it comes to the NLCS,
12:04Braves have come back down to earth.
12:06Mets are a waste.
12:07A total waste.
12:08Kids are crying.
12:10I walked the streets today.
12:12I mean, people are just grown men and women just in tears.
12:16I said, what's wrong?
12:17I root for the Mets.
12:19I put my arm around you.
12:20I mean, it's like a comedy of errors.
12:23It's an embarrassment.
12:25And Schwarber, who, you know, let's be honest.
12:27I mean, he is just so much fun to watch.
12:30And the Mets, they're just gutless.
12:33They're lifeless.
12:34They were put together in such a pathetic way.
12:36And it's year two of the Juan Soto contract.
12:41Hey, Juan Soto, how you doing?
12:44And people thought, because I'm a Yankee fan, this was me throwing shade.
12:48I'm not throwing shade.
12:49I said before, Juan Soto signed, it's not going to win a World Series here.
12:52As long as David Sertz is building the team.
12:54And I, last year, said the Mets will not make the playoffs.
12:57And they didn't.
12:58And this year, I thought they'd get in as the last wild card team.
13:01I had them third in the division before the season.
13:03Just comparatively to the rest of the teams in the National League.
13:08This is a mess.
13:09Year two of the Juan Soto contract.
13:13How's that go?
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