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Evan & Tiki

Hour 3: CC Sabathia’s 52 Retirement, Jets QB Chaos and Tampa’s Pajama Crackdown

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

CC Sabathia’s No. 52 officially getting retired by the Yankees, with the ceremony slated for Saturday, September 26 vs. the Orioles. The guys lay out why CC is an automatic “yes,” why the championship-count argument is lazy, and why being a first-ballot Hall of Famer going in as a Yankee ends the discussion. Calls roll in with pushback, Bernie vs. CC comparisons, and even a detour into whether A-Rod’s number should be in the rafters too. From there, the show pivots to the Jets and the nonstop quarterback carousel, including the “bridge QB” debate around Kirk Cousins, what Frank Reich’s presence means, and the bigger question Jets fans keep asking: is there finally a real plan, or is it just another year of vibes and wishcasting. More calls hit on roster direction, organizational competence, and who actually has the brighter future right now. And then, out of nowhere, Tampa International Airport becomes the main character, with a viral push to ban pajamas (and allegedly Crocs) from the airport. The guys argue comfort vs. common decency, draw a line between sweatpants and pajama pants, and spiral into the classic department-store holiday photo tradition that somehow involves showing up in matching pajamas. It’s a full hour of Yankees pride, Jets anxiety, and one very heated etiquette debate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The other big news from the Yankees yesterday that fired me up and I don't understand that,

0:07.4

and I'll get to this in a moment, anybody kind of criticizing this, C.C. Sabathia's number 52 is getting

0:13.0

retired. That's amazing. Amazing. And as it should. Congratulations, Big C. He's the man.

0:19.3

Congrats to CiciC. Right.

0:27.7

It will be a ceremony which is going to take place the last Saturday of the regular season.

0:28.3

Yeah.

0:30.8

I think it's probably a couple of reasons that's so late.

0:31.1

Yeah.

0:33.5

One, he's recovering from an ACL surgery.

0:36.1

So he had surgery on his knee.

0:37.9

You follow his Instagram.

0:39.8

You can see him doing his rehab stuff all around.

0:42.9

But also he has a role with the commissioner.

0:44.9

He's a special assistant to the commissioner.

0:49.4

So I'm assuming a lot of the regular season, he's just busy.

0:49.9

Busy. He's not just hanging.

0:50.7

I mean, he does play a ton of golf, but it's not like he's just hanging out playing golf every day. Right. And he's available any other, any time. I think he has, you know, responsibility as a job to do. And so it probably is the date that makes the most sense for his schedule. So I got to look, is he the September 26th or whatever? They're playing the Baltimore Orioles, then of course that Sunday everybody plays at 3 o'clock, so it's the last Saturday the regular season, so if you have

1:14.2

season 3rd. either September 26th or whatever. They're playing the Baltimore Orioles. Then, of course, that Sunday is everybody plays at 3 o'clock.

1:11.9

So it's the last Saturday of the regular season.

1:13.5

So if you have season tickets, obviously those are ones you probably want to hold on to. CCC Sabath, you get his number 52 retired. I think this is awesome. And for me personally, Tiki, growing up here, being a Yankee fan and being young in the 90s run that just made me fall in love with Yankee baseball as it did for a lot of arrogant people that are in their late 30s and early 40s.

1:33.8

The Yankees went through and Med fans will basically throw up in their mouths a long nine-year stretch between 2000 and 2009 where there were several failures and he had the 2001 World Series loss, the 2003, then the infamous Red Sock collapsed in 2004. And then going into that 09 season or in that offseason, the Yankees, as we oftentimes reference when you wanted to act like the Yankees, they signed C.C. Sabathia, along with Mark DeShara, along with A.J. Burnett. And Sabathia, for a long time, it was rumored he was going to go out to the West Coast, the Dodgers,

2:17.6

which is so funny in another universe this year. He probably would have been a Dodger. But he comes to the Yankees, and that was like a big deal. We watched him Will the Milwaukee Brewers to the playoffs. We watched him kill the Yankees when he was a great Cleveland Indian before then. and C.C. Sabathia was the epitome of everything

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