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Evan & Tiki

Wednesday Full Show: Yankees Showing Shades of 1998, Embiid Ducks the Knicks in Game 2

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

The Yankees feel different, but are many going too far in what the represent? Plus Joel Embiid proves Tiki Barber right ahead of Game 2

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0:00.0

Tiki Barber is now more hated in the city of Philadelphia than his brother Ronde.

0:07.2

Finally.

0:07.9

It finally happened.

0:09.6

Thank you, Joelle.

0:10.9

Thank you.

0:12.2

We'll get into all that as the show rolls on.

0:15.2

Last night, the New York Yankees did what they do every single day.

0:19.6

They won a baseball game.

0:21.9

It's how they roll. It's how they've gotten to They won a baseball game. It's how they roll.

0:25.7

It's how they've gotten to a 25 and 11 record. It's how they've won five in a row.

0:32.3

But sitting there last night at Beautiful Yankee Stadium, I came away even more impressed because you play 162 games. You're going to lose games. Like, even the best of best will lose

0:39.6

50 times, 60

0:41.4

times, 70 times.

0:43.4

And last night, when young

0:45.1

Elmer Rodriguez towed the rubber, and he

0:47.4

walked the first two batterers of the game,

0:49.1

and he gave up a base hit, and he

0:51.3

hit a batter, and he was facing

0:53.4

bases loaded, already down 3-0, he'd thrown a wild pitch, he he hit a batter and he was facing bases loaded already down three nothing

0:55.9

he'd thrown a wild pitch he'd hit a batter i mean it was just a cavalcade of badness from a young pitcher

1:03.3

somehow he escaped and even escaping at three nothing against jacob de grom it just felt like

1:09.4

yankees are going to lose right and instantly the offense scores are run in the first, two in the second. They scrape back and eventually win a baseball game, with their bullpen stranding every single person they inherited. The Yankees on a nightly basis. Including a basis loaded. Yeah. Oh, no doubt. David Bettner coming in for a five-out save. Like, the Yankees are now routinely just impressing you every single night. And last night was one of those wins that you look at and say, wow. Okay. Right. Especially because it's Jacob de Grum on the mound. It's not some slub who happens to be making his, I know, third start in start in Major League Baseball. So, look, the Yankees are great this year. They are now, did the Braves won last night? They did, unfortunately. The Braves are a game ahead or half a game, whatever you want to say it is. But they have the best record in American League, and they're one of the best teams by win-loss record in all of baseball, and it doesn't feel like it's stopping, right?

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