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So when we looked at the calendar and we looked at the schedule when it came out, June 13th

and June 14th, that's pretty exciting. For both Yankee and Met fans, the Met's has

spent $370 million on their payroll. They were going to be even better than they were

last year when they won 101 games. The Yankees, they were going to get back a healthy DJ

LaMeyu. They resigned out in judge. They had Carlos Rodón. The youngster, Anthony Volpe,

was going to play shortstop and that was going to bring excitement. And these two teams were on

a collision path to play important games in October, not just in June. And the games in June,

City Field were going to be maybe a poor tent of things to come. Well now we have two teams

that are absolutely limping, limping into this series. The Met's have lost eight of nine.

They just lost two or three to the pirates. The Yankees have lost both series in their home stand

to the socks. First to the white socks, now to the red socks. Two out of three to Chicago,

two out of three to the red socks. Both of those teams had not been playing well. Red socks were

in last place. The white socks were certainly underachieving. But these two teams were not the

teams that we expected. The Met's, now they don't have Peter Lonzo. But we can't blame the Met's

problems on no Peter Lonzo. Because even when Peter Lonzo was doing what he does so very well,

hitting home runs and doing it at a really record setting pace, the Met still had no offense. None.

The Yankees, different story. When Aaron Judges playing, it's a different team. They average over

a run and a half more per game when Aaron Judges in there. So Aaron Judges has been on the IL

since that Saturday, when he banged his foot against a concrete slab on the bottom of the wall,

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