Just a couple more since you were doing the Vrable conversation before the break.

A couple more from his statement yesterday.

One, kind of apologizing to the media for, you know, waiting to talk, if you will.

I understand I could have addressed you guys sooner, but it was important to me to have a conversation with the players, which I did yesterday, very candidly, as we began our off-season program,

which everyone is excited to be a part of.

The only thing he really said about the issue or the incident at hand is that he's had

productive conversations and tough conversations with his family and the team.

He also, at the end, said, cannot have outside issues.

We believe in order to be successful on and off the field, you have to make good decisions.

That includes me. That starts with me.

We never want our actions to negatively affect the team.

We never want to be the cause of the distraction.

And that's kind of it, at least yesterday.

And now you've got the draft, of course, Thursday and this weekend,

and then you'll get into all the mini-camps.

And at some point, he is going to have to be up the press conference podium

with more than just the local media, not allowed to ask questions, I would think, right?

This ain't going away anytime soon.

Well, they handled it yesterday very, very well to make sure there wasn't a big distraction, but at some point he's going to get more questions about it. I guess he just shuts him down like he did yesterday. Hey, we're just talking about football. He's talking about football. I mean, you know, Belichick did it for years and years and years about things he didn't want to talk about. True. So, yeah, I don't know. Someone somewhere will try to get in there that's not a Patriots beat reporter and try to get the dirt, but it's just not going to work. Exactly. All right. Let's get to the baseball. We've started negatively both hours this morning because the Mets are a mess. Let's give you some positive to start. And the Yankees had a big night from John Carlos Stanton, and they tacked on in the later innings as they beat the Red Sox. One out, one on, here's pitch. Swung on, line driving in the gap, left center field. That's going to get down. Beliger can really run.

He's the second. Coming to third. Raphaelah gets back to the relay man. Story, here's the throat of the plate. It is not in time. Randall Gritchick with an RBI double four-nothing Yankee. And that was Dave Sims with the call here on the fan. 4-0 was the final as they got good pitching, timely hitting.

Knock off the Red Sox in Boston. Here was Gritchick has not been off to the best of starts, but also hasn't played a whole ton, just happy to contribute last night. Got off to a long stretch, not seeing lefties early. You know, it's good to see some now and doing some stuff to help the team. Luis Heel, I mentioned the pitching through six years.

Yeah, he was great yesterday.

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