Here he is the manager of the first place New York Yankees.

Arim Boonie.

Boonie, good to see you guys.

How proud of you of your guy?

Yeah, Mandy's a stud man.

Like that's, yeah yeah I was very you know the last few years kind of like

going into the off season kind of preparing because he started interviewing for

these spots and knowing what I know like eventually

somebody's gonna see it and the right opportunity is gonna be there so kind of

of like dreading that day of losing him. But this whole off season it felt like it felt like I

didn't know where he was going to end up I knew and it just felt like he was

going to get one of these this year. And, you know, so, I was, I ended up just being really excited for him.

And even though it was, even though it was the Mets?

Yeah, of course. Yeah I mean he's he's so equipped to do it and he's just a great person, a great friend and and you know what we've we've moved on like Brad's Brad Osmus come in as my bench coach

he's done a great job and I'm just excited for Mendy and his family.

What does this series mean to you?

You've been a part of a few since you took over in 2018, so you're a veteran of the subway series.

Like, do you get extra pumped up when you know, all right, I'm managing against the Mets at City Fielder

Yankee Stadium yes yeah I think there's things look the 162 is right the ultimate

grind and you have you just kind of blinders on and day by day and you just have that routine but

there's always things in the course of the season that I think are just

give you a little extra juice in the monotony of it all you know whether you know whether we

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