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Evan & Tiki

2-26-25 Hour 3: Baseball fans in New York are breaking TV rating records

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mets and Yankees fans watched way more Spring Training debuts than they have in years passed

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0:00.0

How are we feeling today on this gorgeous, absolutely beautiful?

0:06.0

Wednesday afternoon in New York City.

0:09.0

A lot of rumblings in NFL world with the NFL Combine taking place this weekend.

0:14.0

It's funny, the NFL Combine is an event, and yet the biggest stories that come out of the combine don't usually involve

0:21.9

college prospects. They're trade rumors involving other guys. So true. Like the case of Matthew Stafford

0:27.8

wherever you're just tuning in. Obviously, we've heard the rumors about Stafford for a while. There was a

0:32.0

report earlier today that Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford met at a ski resort in Montana or met at Tom Brady's house in Montana.

0:39.0

But then, well, maybe they just ran into each other at a ski resort. Or maybe no. It was a full-fledged meeting.

0:46.3

Either way, the Raiders are interested in Matthew Stafford, as are the New York Giants.

0:50.3

And coming up in a few minutes, we break down what the better option is if you're Matthew Stafford, plus more of your phone calls. But earlier today, we saw that the Yes Network was bragging about

1:00.0

the Yankees TV rating for their very first spring training game. They drew 93,000 viewers to a

1:06.2

Friday afternoon game against the Tampa Bay raise their highest spring training rating in seven years.

1:13.6

So I saw that number before the show, and I said to Tiki, what does it mean?

1:16.8

Does it mean like we're just more excited for the baseball season?

1:19.0

Like people are pumped up on the Yankees because they did go to the World Series last year.

1:22.5

Long winter.

1:23.4

Long winter.

1:24.3

Yeah.

1:24.9

What is it?

1:25.4

Fall was dead for local sports.

1:27.9

True.

1:28.4

Because of both NFL teams being out of it by mid-November, really early November.

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