Hour 1: Yankees Look Dominant While Mets Fans Already Boil Over

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Baseball is back and with just one weekend in the books, the overreactions are already flying. The Yankees look unstoppable after a dominant opening series, sparking big questions about whether their rotation and bullpen could be the best in baseball. At the same time, Mets fans are already feeling the tension as early struggles and high expectations collide in a cold and emotional start to the season. Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber break down the biggest takeaways from Opening Weekend, including standout performances, surprising concerns, and the reality behind the hot takes. They dive into early Yankees dominance, Mets frustrations, Bo Bichette’s honesty about pressing under pressure, and the fine line between fan passion and impatience in New York.

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0:00.0	Here's the beauty of the first weekend of the season being over.
0:03.0	Because it's still new, it's still exciting, baseball's back.
0:06.0	Yes, we've got six more months of it, but it's new. It's fresh.
0:10.0	This is our chance to over-exaggerate everything we saw over a sample size of three games.
0:17.0	So, Tique, what's your first over-exaggeration?
0:20.0	The New York Yankees might have the best rotation in all of baseball. They've given up one run, one run, in three games. And that's with Will Warren pitching a third game of the season. So the Yankees will look dominant against the Giants. Now this might just be that the Giants aren't good right now. Don't do that. I've got to defend the Giants here. Last year when the Yankees just blitzkrieg the Milwaukee Brewers, people said that about
0:43.3	Milwaukee, oh, well, maybe they're just not good.
0:45.3	Well, you don't know about the Giants because they have basically a college manager
0:48.3	manning their squad right now.
0:50.3	They've kind of overwhelmed getting his sea legs, so to speak. And so the Yankees took advantage of it. But this is what a bully team like the Yankees should do. You get an inferior management situation or manager situation, take advantage of it. And that's what they did. So give them credit, but their rotation looked amazing. It was awesome. Oh, no doubt about it. I think that the Yankees having
1:11.7	the best rotation in the American League is on the table. It's something I thought coming into the
1:16.2	season. So I would qualify that is not an over-exaggeration. I mean, look, things are going to be
1:22.2	different when you get. Can you exaggerate with the Yankees? You already said they're going to be the best team in the American League.
1:30.2	One of the best teams in baseball.
1:31.9	So what else could you say?
1:33.0	There was a lot of confirming with the Yankees this weekend.
1:35.2	You know, Cam Schlittler looked incredibly dominant, and the only thing that stopped him
1:39.7	was a restrictive pitch count.
1:41.8	Aaron Judge hit two more home runs.
1:44.3	The Yankees were efficient with ABS.
1:47.3	Bednar looked amazing.
1:49.0	The biggest over-exaggeration I got,
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