2-21-25 Hour 2: Hal Steinbrenner and Pay Roll Concerns
Evan & Tiki
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So sometimes it's called Wag the Dog. |
| 0:03.3 | I think that was the term that was used. |
| 0:05.4 | It was a movie called Wag the Dog. |
| 0:07.8 | I think the president was involved in a sex scandal. |
| 0:11.4 | And to try to take the country's attention away from the scandal, |
| 0:14.9 | he started a war with a pretend country. |
| 0:17.4 | You ever see that movie? |
| 0:18.5 | Yeah, I think it was that. |
| 0:22.2 | Why am I forgetting the actor? It was De Niro and Dustin Hoffman. That's what I was thinking. |
| 0:26.1 | That's a crew right there. Some may say it was based off a true story. You think back to 1998 and |
| 0:32.3 | 1999, but wagging the dog, like you're getting the attention away from something else. |
| 0:36.9 | So one thing Yankee fans have been annoyed about, I've heard Big Mac express this, |
| 0:42.0 | and Big Mac never rips the Yankees. |
| 0:43.7 | So to hear him say it shows you it has impacted the Yankee fan, |
| 0:46.8 | is that they don't feel this roster is complete. |
| 0:50.1 | And that Hal Steinbrenner is not allowing Brian Cashman to add a much-needed bat |
| 0:54.4 | because of where their payroll is and the fact that Marcus Stroman is still on this roster |
| 0:58.5 | making $18 million at that Cohen tax is impacting Yankee decision-making. |
| 1:03.6 | So how, when talking about the beard policy, which we've talked about over the first hour, |
| 1:07.9 | you could rewind on the Odyssey app. Was asked about the payroll, |
| 1:11.5 | specifically, you've talked in the past, Hal, about not going over that last threshold. |
| 1:18.2 | Would you do it now? Should you do it now, considering where the Yankees are? Listen to what |
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