Going through this morning, the Yankees signed Randy Grechuk to come off the bench,

and I had some thoughts on that with Jason Dominguez.

How do we lead there?

And then about an hour before the show, we get this article from NJ.com, from Randy Miller,

who spoke with John Carlo Stanton.

And I'm going to read a couple quotes, Tiki, give a couple of thoughts,

and let's just talk this thing through.

Just two weeks ago, when spring training started, we got word, the Yankees are healthy. Yeah. They're full go. Jean-Carlo Stanton, no problem, no biggie. And yet this morning, Stanton has not been re-injured. No, no, no, no. Stanton is ramping up to try to play by probably the end of next week or March for you. I guess March 4th, the end of next week in spring training games. But what Stanton gave, quote-wise, to Randy Miller today makes it feel like he's trying to be heroic and I see it, but I don't know how alarm bells aren't sounding all over Tampa and the Bronx.

So Jean-Carlo Stanton's elbow, he says, and I quote, I can't open a bottle, I can't open a bag of chips, a bag of anything.

That's the way it is.

Aaron Boone added for me, he's the poster child of Mentally Tough.

I don't know how else to say it's true poster child

and Stanton also added that the public outlook would be that I wouldn't be mentally

tough if I miss games due to the elbow injury

now I'm going to read more on the surgery and everything else

mentally tough when you hear all those quotes Tiki as a former athlete

what the heck is going through you on. So me, what I hear when I hear this is, is one, he's battling this tennis elbow, and he's been battling it for, I think, a few years now. We heard about it mostly last year, but as an athlete, like, you don't admit to those things.

I don't think I would tell anybody that, oh, I can't open a bag of chips.

I'm weak.

But then I also start thinking, what the heck?

How do you swing a bat?

That's exactly it.

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