They face a one game to zero hole.

They also face a bullpen that right now, if you are a Yankee fan or you're Aaron Boone, you have a tough time trusting. Last night in that loss, you not only look at Luke Weaver and say, bro, I can't pitch you, I don't trust you. You face three batters, eight, nine, and one, and you got nobody out. But don't you also have some nervousness around David Bednar, the closer, who came in with a chance to keep it a one-run lead, got the first two outs, and then proceeded to give a back-to-back hits, including a back-breaking RBI double to pain in the rear end, Alex Bregman. Yeah, but I think we've seen enough from him to trust him in whatever moment you're going to get him in.

Look, it's not ideal. We know that the Yankees' bullpen is flawed. They're going to have to score runs. It's what it comes down to. It's just easier said than done to do that in the postseason, as we're seeing from all, except for the Dodgers, postseason games, that runs are at a premium. They're going to have to score runs as one thing. You're 100% right.

Brian Bayo has given them trouble over the years, though they did get to him in the last start.

But the other key that is so important is Carlos Rodon to a lot of Yankee fans is still a wild card.

He had a wonderful year this year.

He was a mixed bag in the postseason last year.

People still remember the beginning

and they still remember him being overly

emotional early in the postseason

last year at Yankee Stadium.

This is about Carlos Rodano.

We getting the Carlos Rodon

from the regular season? Or are we

getting a guy who's way too emotional

for his own going and Boone's

forced to go to the pen much earlier than you and I would like? Well, let me ask Sean, because you're the

biggest Yankee fan of this group. Yeah. Do you trust him now? Because we know what your

mindset was. When this show first started, Evan and Tiki, we went to a game. We sat right over there

behind the visiting dugout. and you were ready to boo him. Yeah. All you wanted to do was boo him. He actually pissed pretty well that game. He faced the Mets. He did, right? Whatever. It was best part of the year. The next year or so, it still felt like, I don't know, not really there yet. This year, he was pretty fantastic.

It's convoluted, Tiki.

I trust him more than I did two years ago.

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