We are breaking down all aspects of Yankee baseball.

This is the Bronx Pinstripe Show with your host, Andrew Rotandi and Scott Riding.

Let's go.

What's up everybody?

Welcome to the Bronx Pinstripe Show nearly in February, which is the month.

They start baseball activities. Scott, what's up?

Grown-ass men, throw them the baseball back and forth in PJs.

Now it's PJs? I thought it was shorts.

PJ's shorts depends on the week, I think.

You know, it can get cool. But yeah, we're getting up on it. But we do have Hall of Fame.

We have our favorite topic, our favorite topic to get angry about and to get upset about because

the writers, you know, change their tunes every year and change their criteria every year. So, but our guy, man, our guy got in. I think that, I think that, you and I were both looking at CC and saying, yeah, he's a Hall of Famer. I think C.C. is a, is a Hall of Famer. One of the best left hand pictures, um, of our era, I believe. And, and he absolutely deserved it. So I'm, I. So I'm super happy for him. And there's

there and there are some some interesting things that came out of that, out of the voting.

So yeah, excited to talk about that. It's the most frustrating time of the year. This is what,

five, six, seven, maybe even all ten years going on 11 years of this show

complaining about the injustices of the Hall of Fame and the inconsistencies of the Hall of

Fame. I was, I forget where I heard this, but someone pointed out that a reason the

Hall of Fame is seemingly inconsistent is obviously because new writers, new people who cover the

sport start to get votes and voters who are of the more old school are starting to get weeded

out of the vote. And maybe that's why, but like you see things where we're going to talk about

this, but someone like Billy Wagner, who on his first year on the

ballot got like 11 and a half percent of vote. And now 12 years later, 10 years later, he's a

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