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22 years, 3MBP is 14-time All-Star, and you're always been good to our show.

Whenever you're around and you're probably doing some business, you told me 10 years ago you loved business and it's all worked out for you.

So you've always been very sharp.

You've got your own analytic mind and business.

And you and I are Aaron Boone apologists.

So my take is, first of all, I do believe because of the length of a season, you have to be a players manager. This is not football where you can be dogmatic and cut guys and you got to get along with players. So Dave Roberts, Aaron Boone are players guys. But he doesn't set the lineup. He gets all the heat. And the truth is in this series,

they're just not getting out. I mean, your take on Aaron Boone and the relentless nonstop criticism

he gets. Well, I mean, you know, you and I met years ago at the kingdom back in Seattle,

and even a guy like Lou Penella, who's more cut out of, you know, Bill Belichick or Nick Saban, you know, very hard. I love them like a dad and he was a great teacher. I don't know if that works in today's game. The reason why I like Aaron Boone so much is it's a no win situation for him. Upstairs, they make the lineup. If it works, they get the credit. And if you lose,

Boone's in the hot seat. So I rather see after the games, you know, Mike Fish, Cashman,

the analytics, explaining why they're making the moves, why they have three left-handed catchers.

So I think Boone is, you know, I mean, they got just destroyed up there in Toronto,

the first two games, and I don't think anyone could have won those games as a manager. Well, yeah, when you go to a deciding game in the playoffs, game one, you can't win. I mean, the Cubs found this in Milwaukee. When you go to these deciding games and you, you know, sometimes you empty the bullpen so a

ryan judge is in a world that you lived in it's errands hitting in the series it's

not about that new york he's got to have a three-run bomb in the eighth um and i do think

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