Boone Under Fire, Yankees Lineup Debate Heats Up

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The focus shifts to the Yankees after a strong weekend, but not everyone is satisfied. Despite the team’s success, comments from Aaron Boone raise questions about lineup decisions and whether the hottest bats are being used the right way. It sparks a larger conversation about trust, consistency, and how managers handle rising players. Evan and Shaun debate whether Ben Rice has earned an everyday role and if there is any justification for taking him out of the lineup. They also take calls on everything from Mets frustrations to fan experiences, including a viral style debate about player interactions and what athletes owe fans in public moments, bringing humor and perspective to a wide ranging final stretch.

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0:00.0	A lot going on in the sports world.
0:01.3	The Yankees and the Mets both have a respite.
0:03.8	The New York Knicks take center stage tonight as they play game two against the Atlanta Hawks. We'll dive into what it's going to cost you to go to tonight's next game. Coming up a little bit later on and also in a few minutes, Aaron Boone off of a perfect weekend said something that may tick off a lot of Yankee fans. We'll get to that in a few. But right now, Sean, feed us, big boy.
0:22.6	Let's go.
0:24.0	With the Cinco del luncho. Let's go. On the fan. Let's go. Sean Moresh in the booth, somebody hide the castle. That was the morning show around. He would have hit it on. Hotics flying phones ringing Evans yelling. No!
0:38.3	Tiki's laughing chaos, and nobody's in control.
0:41.3	It's Cinco de Roncho.
0:47.3	Bam!
0:48.3	Crunch!
0:49.3	Let's go!
0:50.3	Time out before you read anything.
0:51.3	Because I got a problem with you.
0:53.3	Why? Number one, don't mumble under that beautiful music, which you did. And number two, don't take a shot at Rami, because when you fail to hit something on time, I don't go out of my way to make you look bad. I try to build in, all right, here we got. I try to do something. You couldn't wait to take a crap on them. Yeah, because... That's a bad job out of you for a job that in two days you're going to be back to doing. Because I need to remind or to make people forget, I'm also bad at doing that. Oh, okay. So I'd rather make it look worse. It's called covering my own ass. Okay. He's very selfish, Robbie. I apologize. I always have been. Always have been. He's done a very good job filling in.
1:28.3	There's one little like, ooh, it's a Delago and a Cinco, and you can't wait to take turns bombing him? 100%. I'm a terrible teammate. I should have been on time, though. I look at you. I know. Don't you go ahead Sean Morash. You could ask me for the sponsor,
1:42.4	which is Cinco Day Luncho is brought to
1:43.9	by Helix Wireless,
1:44.9	connecting everything everywhere.
1:46.7	All right, here we go.
1:47.8	It's game. you could ask me for the sponsor which is Cinco de luncher was brought to by Helix Wireless connecting everything everywhere.
1:46.7	All right, here we go.
1:47.9	You bald fraud.
1:49.6	Heck you.
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