Avenue Tiki here on this summer Tuesday. We'll play a game of posted and

toasted coming up in a half hour. Plus the Knicks have had a great off season. There is one

more piece that if they could acquire and it's sort of realistic to me they become a

legitimate championship contender we'll get to that coming up at about four o'clock

the Yankee recent struggles we'll get about your met calls in a couple minutes, 888-8-08-1019,

but the Yankee recent struggles has certainly caused many to panic and think this is

2022 all over again.

2022 is the year where they they started 61 and 23.

They were a juggernaut and then they collapsed and they finished 18 and 31 and granted they

won the division and they made the playoffs and they won around and they got to the

a l c. But I think that season is most remembered not only for, you know, Aaron Judge, but is also remembered

for getting swept by the Astros and collapsing down the stretch of the season.

And I've heard this a lot and I understand why this is 2022 all over again.

There are two really important reasons why it's not.

Number one, I think is the obvious,

and that is, this team's better.

Like, look at the rotation the Yankees had. Look at the

at the lineup the Yankees were trotting out there

during their struggles last in 2022

yeah compared to the lineup and the rotation they have now as down as you may be on aspects of this Yankee team

Isaiah Conifalefa is not the everyday shortstop. Josh Donaldson is not the

everyday third baseman and one's Soto exists. Yes, instead of Aaron Higgs. Yes, so that's one huge thing, but there's something

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