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Evan & Tiki

Aaron Judge Goes Deep as Yankees Honor John Sterling

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber react to the Yankees’ emotional night in the Bronx as the team honored the late John Sterling during a dominant win over the Orioles. The guys discuss Aaron Judge launching another home run in a moment that felt perfectly scripted, the crowd’s reaction throughout the tribute, and why the ceremony hit so hard for longtime Yankee fans. They also debate the true turning point of the game and whether Judge’s blast or a key bullpen escape changed everything. The conversation also turns into a bigger discussion about the Yankees’ scorching offense, challenge strategy under the new replay system, and whether the bullpen concerns are still real despite the team’s recent winning streak. Plus, Evan explains his controversial plan to leave a Yankees game early with his son depending on how long Jacob deGrom stays in the game against the Bronx Bombers.

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So you are going to try to not commit the dumb fouls and not let Embed get under your skin.

0:06.8

But I really think that clip we played in the opening segment of this show, you can rewind on the Odyssey app of them be talking about how dirty the play was from McKell Bridges.

0:16.9

But that last line, in fact, cut that last line for me, Sean, that last part, when you get a chance, where he says, oh, I guess we're going to have to be physical. It was almost like a threat. You know what I mean? Yeah. I guess we got to go out and be physical to one, do it too. Yeah. That was almost like, okay, that's what you want to do, even though I don't think McKell Bridges did anything wrong, whether it's real or not, in Embedde's mind, he's telling you, he's just called his shot, ladies and gentlemen, if he decides to play basketball Wednesday, because I'm always skeptical that he will, there's always that chance, he's listed as questionable questionable and all of a sudden he doesn't play.

0:54.7

That's a part of his M.O.

0:55.8

So if Joe L. Embed decides to grace us with his presence and actually play basketball Wednesday night, that line makes me think he's going to get dirty.

1:03.5

I guess we got to go out and be physical to one door to.

1:07.0

That's his threat.

1:08.1

That's Joe Alambide's way of saying, I'm going to rip Mitchell Robinson's leg right off the sock.

1:14.3

I tried two years ago. I wasn't able to do it. I'm going to try. That's his way of saying. Remember when me and Carl Anthony Towns were rolling on the floor seven years ago?

1:22.8

Wait till you see what I do Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, but I think they're going to be very attuned to that. Are they? I mean, he just basically said so. All right. Just making sure they're paying attention, too. Let's go to Mark in Middletown. What's up, Mark? Hey, Evan. Tiki, thanks for having me. Thanks for calling. Yeah, you know, Joe Owen Beat is a career-long cry baby. you know, he cried, you know, the one year he didn't win the MVP, saying, you know, and basically cost Yokic a three-peed of winning the MVP and actually missed the game playing one-on-one against Yokich that year. If you look back at it, he was a late scratch at the game. And then what ended up happening is Yokic put up some career best that year and didn't

2:02.6

win and then won the next year, which actually cost Luca Donchik and MVP award.

2:07.7

So this guy constantly with his crying antics, you know, cost Luca Donchik an MVP award, cost,

2:15.7

you know, Yokic a three-peat and going back to the nicks just on a

2:19.6

short point here you know i used to be a huge nick fan patrick ewing is my all-time favorite player i

2:24.8

mean just watching this team now you know and i'm not you know not taking anything away from what

2:30.1

they're doing they're just so much more talented than those teams in the 90s with the players that they have now compared to what Ewing had around them to try and win a title.

2:37.8

That's just my opinion. I think you're a thousand percent right. I think if you say that too

2:42.7

loud, you'll piss some people off and it'll turn into a stupid debate of comparing the 90s

2:48.6

Knicks to this team. Here's the only comparison that matters.

2:52.7

The only one is that those

2:54.5

90s teams didn't win an NBA championship.

2:57.6

This team can.

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