Yeah, it's another gut punch.

And we've had a number of those, obviously, here in the first half.

And, you know, we've gotten off the mat each and every time, and we've got to do it again.

And understand we've got a lot of stakes starting on Thursday and it's in our hands.

That's New York Yankees manager, Aaron Boone, describing what all of us Yankee fans have been feeling so far this season.

A punch right in the stomach that has knocked us to the floor.

But the thing about this team is that they aren't even that bad.

They're just not anywhere good enough for a fan base that grades on the harshest curve in the game.

So today, Jeff passed in levels with me, and he explains that maybe, just maybe.

The only way to get all the way back up is to just stay down.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, July 15th.

This is ESPN Daily.

Jeff, I've been watching you on television for several days now, and you've been phenomenal,

just to be honest with you. But the best thing that I think you produced this week was a tweet.

And there were five bullet points. And I just want to read the fourth one and the fifth one.

Number four, I'm five foot nine. Number five, yes, I'm extremely pasty.

These are accurate things, Pablo.

Jeff Passon is an MLB insider for ESPN who embodies the concept of journalistic transparency, both philosophically and physically.

I got into this business to tell the truth, and the truth I do tell.

Jeff, I just, I empathize with this to be clear as somebody who was on television and is

constantly asked, wait a minute, how tall are you?

And I feel like, I feel like you had this experience in front of the national baseball world, basically, this week.

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