Same Old Song & Dance: The Yankees' October Flop | BT & Sal

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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BT and Sal tear into the New York Yankees' all-too-familiar playoff exit, this time at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays. They argue that the team's reliance on "mash or whiff" power hitters and a flawed organizational philosophy is consistently exposed in the postseason. Speaker 1 (BT) finds the annual failure "exhausting" and "predictable," noting that the Yankees look like the "grossly inferior team" because they lack the ability to grind out at-bats and put the ball in play, unlike better-constructed teams like Toronto. Speaker 2 (Sal) agrees that the core issue is the roster construction and the front office's failure to adapt, emphasizing that the $300 million-plus payroll and star players like Judge (who, they agree, can no longer be blamed) are masking a deeper organizational flaw. They dissect specific failures, including poor starting pitching, an anemic offense against the Blue Jays' bullpen, and critical defensive errors, concluding that the team is "built for stats, not the Series," leading to the longest championship drought in Yankees history since before they became the Yankees.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Boomer and Gio, and if you're into New York sports or you want straight talk about what's really going on in the sports world, Boomer and Geo is your show.
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0:30.5	Toronto better.
0:31.5	Congrats to them.
0:32.4	So, I mean, listen, guys, we do this dance every single October.
0:37.4	And it's exhausting.
0:38.7	It's the same music.
0:40.2	It's the same steps.
0:41.8	It's the same complaints.
0:43.9	See, it's one thing to lose and not win championships.
0:47.1	And that's unacceptable based on their standards, right?
0:50.2	But every time the Yankees get knocked out in the playoffs recently, they look like the grossly inferior team.
0:58.9	It's never close.
1:00.8	It's never like you watch three games or five games or seven games and say, man, the better team.
1:06.5	Boy, it was tight. Flip a coin.
1:07.9	They got a little blue base hit. Yankees went home.
1:10.5	22 Astros, miles better. 24 Dodgers, miles better. Now, I didn't think that Toronto was miles better. I thought that Toronto may have been better. But the way the Yankees play, it's the same stuff. The K's, the on-timely errors. there's not enough home runs because the pitching gets better.
1:29.7	And here's what I'm going to do today.
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