Yankees Fans Want Answers After Another Close Loss

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber dig into Yankees frustration after another tight loss, with callers questioning why the team will not lean more on small ball when runs are hard to come by. The guys debate whether a bunt made sense in a key spot and why the middle of the order has to produce when the lineup behind it is not exactly loaded. The conversation also turns to Aaron Boone’s bullpen management, as fans wonder why relievers who get big outs are not allowed to keep rolling. Evan explains why managing a modern bullpen is rarely that simple, especially when the options are imperfect and every move looks brilliant or foolish depending on the result.

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0:00.0	Let us go to Stephen Boundbrook, New Jersey.
0:03.8	What's up, Steve?
0:05.4	Evan, what's up, hey, Tiki, Sean?
0:07.2	All's good, dude.
0:07.9	What's happening?
0:08.9	What's up?
0:09.4	I'm a little disappointed with Evan, especially being the presidential historian that he is.
0:16.5	Evan, you said that HBO didn't exist in the 80s when you were talking about the movies.
0:22.8	I was in sixth grade in 1979, and we got HBO in 1979.
0:29.0	I was watching boxing with my father on HBO in 1970.
0:32.8	Oh, right.
0:33.3	I do remember that.
0:34.6	You know what?
0:35.1	I do remember that, Steve.
0:36.2	What does that have to do with presidents, how to curious me?
0:39.3	Well, to me, it's special knowledge to be at that level of this presidential historian
0:49.3	that you are, but you don't know that HBO didn't exist in the early 80s?
0:53.3	I didn't think it's that crazy to not know that. Like, I was born in 1983. I didn't have HBO as a kid. Like, is it that nuts to not know the specific year HBO came out? Yeah. Like, is that common knowledge? I wouldn't have guessed that. But when he said the boxing, because I remember boxing after dark when I'd go to my uncle's house. Right. Because he loved to watch boxing. But I don't think we had it. I know I had it because that was the first time I discovered a show called Taxi Cab Confessionals. Oh, yes. So at some point in the early 90s, I knew damn well my dad was paying for each time. No, I knew it existed. And I think we eventually got it. I just remember as a young, young kid, we didn't have it, but then we had it, and then we didn't have it again.
1:31.3	I think it existed, and I think we eventually got it. I just remember as a young, young kid, we didn't have it, but then we had it, and then
1:30.4	we didn't have it again.
1:31.3	I think it was the whole illegal cable box thing.
1:33.2	That was the trend going out in the early 90s.
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