This is the Michael K Show podcast.

I got to get more K.

Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart speaker.

And our good afternoon, everybody.

This is indeed the Michael K show.

We thank you for joining us on this Wednesday, October 1st, 2025.

So we have October baseball today in four different cities and the one that you care most about.

If you're within the sound of my voice, is the game that we'll be placing, getting played tonight at Yankee Stadium starting at 6 o'clock.

So that's going to be our jumping off point.

Yankees lose to the Red Sox three to one.

They're one game away from their season being over.

And that would be very quick, very disheartening.

And when you want to talk about failures, you know, when you lose the World Series, they say it's a failure.

I laugh at that.

It's a disappointment.

If you lose in a wild card and you have a $320 million payroll, that's a failure. I laugh at that. It's a disappointment. If you lose in a wild card and you

have a $320 million payroll, that's a failure. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's talk

about last night. And we start with the anatomy of an opinion will go that route. And by that I mean, as I walked into the studio at yes last night, before I heard the

interviews and before anybody even came to the podium, my opinion was I understood

what Aaron Boone did.

That's the way he has managed.

He protects his pitchers.

...