" I know for a fact that our friend. My blue -- up from the New York Daily News and ESPN's sports reporters was at. At Yankee Stadium well after midnight I would guess somewhere around 1 o'clock or may be a little bit later still had a right still have to file. My guess is that Mike is pulling into the driveway in Connecticut right about now I look at joins us on the phone lines. -- Mike."
" Actually. I'm I'm down lower Renwick is I wanna have the best spot for the rest."
" first deadline Mike joins -- on the eighteenth the outline AT&T your world delivered solid play and in New York Mike everybody's happy everybody's satisfied everybody got off the managers back everything is sweetness and light right."
" Yet. Alex's the president sitting on. I was saying. I took last night was. Just by friends from out of town papers and that you'd be you'd you'd guys in the via this step will will take care the World Series. In New York City because. The whole -- What that order in New York is that order has now been restored and to the universe is funny because all ready. There was this incredibly to me silly kind of Rio -- the team of the decade and I think I'd turn out as well that is -- yankees it's in the decade as that they want their last World Series in 2000. You know. And and I said it would -- that did win its last eight games in 2004. And it lasts seven. In 2007. That might be in the conversation but. Here's what I -- to people it was simply opt. Not to like the guy who had so much I mean that's -- is great mechanic who I'd like just. As they had separate unit is to create make it nifty designated hitter Tom. Damon it's impossible not like John Damon and and the closer. Is one of the prince's that I have ever gotten copper in in in sports at. It wasn't like the old Yankee teams were -- Torre and yankees really hard to do but that this was. They didn't beat themselves. That they -- The Damon play where he went from first to third the other night meant that. Amplified that other teams beat themselves the twins beat themselves and they let the Yankees the angels made incredibly bone head plays. And there wasn't much not like about the latest team went about its its its business and it all have. That's an area -- the greatest financial advantage in the history --"
" Which takes me it was six means to the important question here is we look at the big picture and setting aside the star players. Food do you think deserves the most credit for getting this thing done last night George Hank Hal. Brian Cashman Joe Girardi or somebody might even think about."
" You know ironic about this. You have to give Cashman as props. Girardi is not always easy making it work with with a group that has this much star power. But if Allan thanks that amber. Don't say yes. Just spending half a brilliant nearly half a billion dollar and I'm baseball player that it doesn't happen because we can talk about. All of the other looks -- and they were a series of smaller moves that worked out for prime it is in no way to be dismissive of Bryant. But it doesn't get to get sabathia Teixeira Burnett. That it doesn't happen."
" Well why don't might Mike can they do that because of Georgia's health because let's face of these with the three best free agents on the market. They overpaid by 150 million for sabathia they've made sure they topped all the bids for. For a -- was that a desperate attempt to win and as it turns and access successful attempt to win -- George."
" Now I I actually don't think it was I think I think that for for all the ideas that the Yankees have when that was -- I think. They have to spend money to make. I don't think that make a lot of money and the baseball operations at that they you know they'd they'd they'd accumulated a lot of debt building this is stadium. That I think they were hurt last year by now. Making that is the plastic gotten spoiled but make in the plant to be I think this was an investment that they felt they could not. Closed Eagles stadium. -- And not be back complain. This year and you know yet so that's what they've -- the batting cage. For the twelve answers to the MVP yet the American -- oddity is he referred to him as a single -- entity. -- And and you can even sake and other way I never thought to share was on the Red Sox they're just showed on. Okay I think it is all the stuff that some now. They've -- on that on the fateful meeting in Texas I I think it would be imply I think you want to be in New York Yankees is in the Arctic is going to be huge New York Yankees. That that is if the Red Sox do get in -- yankees on and that we're have a different compensate."
" What I think so last night that god told -- to go to the Yankees all the time we thought it was his wife. It yet -- of the Yankees."
" And you know -- one time I want. On god giving one of those groups it's. Why did you only care about the ballplayers like -- care about the writers like you know. I've been doing that a lot like the sheriff actually couldn't Camilla had not."
" I was surprised Mike when I read I saw the daily news front page Shipley was front page you. Kind of past the throne -- to Hank and Hal and and and and you declared them the that the reason. One of the big reasons that this team had reached the heights it reached in a wonder and after years of bashing their father. Did Hank or Hal reach out to you today today thank you do you think you changed you personally change the image. Of the Steinbrenner is in New York."
" Now and it and you know what I. That the bashing that that that I do -- you're it was a big fair fight right out in the open. It's got older. And and and and really changed over the time once Torre came and they sort of winning until two when he started to fade into the background. It I would actually the first one to say it would when people were mistaken about the parking. You know leave alone there's no disgrace getting old now I would I would better with the old man from long long time I -- trying to rehabilitate. Them. Mandated that the back page seismic Terry what let's hear the report which was -- might have because. Act act now. You know and someone who says that this is. Something that could not. Happen in the sports and I commission has worked mightily to get everybody payrolls in line any debt every table in line except one and the difference in money between. The Yankees and the other team in the World Series -- between depending on which numbers 88 and nine million dollars. 88 and ninety million dollar salary wise is Jeter Iraq Teixeira and Tibet is so. That the lakers don't get to do that the public start to get to do it maybe they changed the rules and in a belt that they'll be able to. So -- they'd make it work this year that they put to you know is Paul O'Neill I was with him on the field last night. He knows where -- he speaks with great Yankee teams. That player -- player this is one of the great Yankee came in and the number I used in my closing column last -- what they were not -- 44. After a they were eleven and four in the playoffs. Guys that's top 101 and 48. From that moment are okay the only Yankee game I ever stock closed like -- without lot of time with the greatest Yankee's game I ever saw. Which was 1998 and they started out they started out one in a war and I think that went up 125. And 46 after that something. Completely it."
" In my -- or are the specifics of our conversation that we had with you back in February. But if I ask you back in February on the heels of A-Rod bearing missile Peter Gammons and then a day and a half -- two days later. In front of the assembled media and in the hip injury and the and the surgery that all of this would pan out just the way it has you would've said no chance may be a chance probably not."
" Are now I thought. I didn't -- out the -- to be able to do it again yeah but. And I thought I thought the Red -- with their. -- with pitching returned about what turned out to be less that we thought it was going to be I thought it was going to be Yankee Red -- number because. Sabathia Burnett and it. And and the greatest single weapon. Certainly the greatest single postseason weapon in the history of the sport Mariano Rivera I thought they're gonna be a plan I questions about the setup guys that they always do but. This idea that Iraq continually tries to. That -- you know -- it is my might to pick one is. Well you'd think hip surgery thank both -- well actually right now I'd I don't I actually think have been some improvement in the procedures as. Both Jackson went down with a catastrophic. Hip injury which he did not. And and the other awards I had no expectations. While I do it -- did. You're Alex Rodriguez and then went -- great number angered and witnesses were so Iraq Teixeira was was was going to be more here's what I didn't. That statement would still be able to perform at this island. And they're gonna have that -- the question -- gonna you know that Bryant can -- for air brackets around next were part of the type about his budget but. Mets -- David going to be top. It's a click away and you're opening. Jeter came back and played extraordinarily. High level and -- himself into the conversation for MVP even know Joe Mauer went."
" Mike does what happened last night. Represented for A-Rod his salvation in New Yorker may be a better word would be his acceptance in New York once and overall. Or will this be a revisited kind of referendum every single year for this guy."
" Now and enough it was such as surpassing policies. -- I've been writing since he got hot again to. It's very Yankee. And you bring them to think any heroes. Nobody asks you for a map about how you got there that's sports it's like it's like biking spans right now -- They don't care that that that that. Part. Engineered this incredible backdoor missed direction and I even went to a team that needed wanna play for. To get back to the vikings so he could stick it to the Packard -- Minnesota they think he's got a chance to take into the suitable. And an and I don't even an -- that this is not any kind of pejorative -- judgment a dead end. Want their guys to win. And you get their positions in rob a bank. And even know it was incredible admission for a player of his stature and when you watch them play at this level. You wonder why everybody had to go to the needle in the first one. They don't even care what a preposterous version he gave things last spring. He kept came up big part in the playoffs and and and that's how you always -- dip and strike and it is they would cheer him badly tomorrow morning -- deductible Bruntlett."
" And and same with -- I was like that last night watching this and you know it is amazing how these things work penitent A-Rod work. I mean the world stops spinning when these guys came clean and admitted they were users. Now there were they gonna go to the canyon of heroes tomorrow Mike and you're right they'll be cheered. And somewhere Clemens is sitting on the couch with his -- about me when his mother in law you know -- at twelve packs and I used to be you know one of them I used to be a baseball hero hell he was. Down the canyon of heroes not so long ago. Why is that why is that meanwhile let some guys skate now the guys we we condemn for well we aren't cents."
" I have written for years here's the biggest problem for bond. McGwire. Clemens with the public panic. Now would make it I'm actually gonna hold a grudge about that but it. They can't hit or pitch that way out of trouble and protect I have always said. The best defense against this stuff is a whole Lotta -- that a -- And so -- still young enough in his prime. When people start happening all the same discussion about and think about. I quite well -- Hall of Fame the Hall of Fame vote on Alex Rodriguez will come in about fourteen years. Which means that. That I like them -- baseball writers cards are gonna you know might be voting on Alex rod. Counting on. The institutional amnesia that comes with which you putting a lot of productivity. Between whatever scandal it is and it's time when they -- career."
" Well what's your -- on Damon. They're the Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay is free agent we know Matt hall is a free agent. Will they just stick with the guy they get Johnny Damon did that double steal earned him a place in New York for one more contract."
" Now I think they're gonna go after bear out that that's the conventional wisdom in new York and say this again John Damon is great player and haven't hit seven. That gene Michael said it earned -- the to I mean. So many things he does now I don't know what you guys. -- problem is god but I never had this idea -- him as being like a baseball survive. And when he broke it just in this matter that way why did what he did in what his thought process was and how little time ended as a only -- he would tell me the other night didn't sit there it was. I think it's that there because I remember that on the plate and during the regular season it to me out like to play that's pretty good. I think that that they're gonna make a mistake he's pitched worker. He's he's even though it looks like he's set some sort of allergic reaction when and under fly ball he catches them. He he he. Want to the end of the season there he would hit thirty home runs and ninety RBIs. And an adult have a good stuff he's perfect guy get behind Jeter but I think you're gonna go after out of their back."
" And let Damon walk."
" Yet and I think it's a mistake I really think. They'll tell you that money's an object money's not an object at Bryant is set to in the -- to -- because -- better but. I I think you've got to swallow hard to let a professional hitter like Matsui. The -- 35 to 35 is that what it used to -- in baseball it's just."
" Tell that to do Ortiz. And it hit it. Any in my not to be more -- here but back to something we touched on just a little bit earlier does George Steinbrenner not being in the building last night. The watch this team win the World Series speak to just tell frail he has."
" Again he's been he's been. I think he I I think he has good days physically I think one of the problems that he has not told. Is that he has it and needed deteriorated. And he does not want to have operated and so they've kept it. Move him around in the wheelchair you know the -- There was one -- she has heard about it where he would lockdown which start at downstairs because I'm sure it's because they were getting mr. amber bill. We you know they they -- They don't want people to see them in in kind of this state but. I know that it's. It was very -- especially some the only yankees talked about and I'm sure it was very meaningful to them but. Yeah I think it's 79."
" Our our problems as best as you can tell them from what you hear purely physical I don't Aureus or deceit and not as aware as he was."
" I think I I think that there's there's. As to where is what I have no first and now it I know what I've been old com. I think the last time he was fully in charge of the was when he was thinking about whacked in. Torre after the lost the first sent it to the tiger and -- six that would -- that -- line laughed out."
" before get to it to your later as best seller Mike does it feel from -- from where you're sitting does it feel like 96 -- feel like this could be one of of four or five in the next five or six years."
" No I don't ever believe that anymore Gerri I just I I I I I see. It that thing and and you know an apartment you look at how loaded this to. And they were so good this year that they can be that they can usually get their way past any two parties. You know relentless. Over managing. Occasional. You didn't really ads like mr. Agassi's critic network in -- a lot of scouting stuff was being shut down there. They survive the bad World Series from Mark Teixeira they survived. You know statistically what a great. Russert route pretty yet to -- changing. It. Burnett wrote in a stinker. They had questions with this set -- guys that went -- in the beginning of the season. And and so with. With All-Star. Power that they match you. That played a top six game series against the angels and they played a top six game series. Against the team with only one pitcher in the world what which is a long -- then it's hard to win. Okay it's hard to win and I don't I don't think I. I I I think -- will not be any war in five year run ever again in baseball."
" So making the transition here houses for a nice segue it even Ryan Howard can go to a slump -- Mark Teixeira can don't know slump -- but. Who has turned out New York Times best seller of travel team and -- and the big field and miracle on forty ninth street and summer ball never goes into a slump. Has produced yet another. Soon to be New York Times best seller a million dollar throw tell us who -- Brody is why should we care about him Mike."
" Nick Brody is is the thirteen year old boy from western Massachusetts to I analyzes Tom Brady in the -- Brodie got. Yeah and his nickname is very hot and his buddies in its scope and Abby column. And is is a product is Stanley is of the economy is -- realistic. Is now working on the floor of the sporting goods. Big bills -- to her. Where they used to shop okay and it's. -- he wins the lottery. From the fictional sporting goods company. To get a systematic withdrawal from million dollars at halftime. Of the New England Patriots football game. In front of the crowd in front hero. And there's a parallel story about who's best friend's girl -- McCall who's slowly going blind. When you -- it is that this is Boston -- It even includes Perkins school for -- she's an artist to slowly -- it is dealing with the pressure of that. And all of a sudden what becomes the debt because he thinks he can provide for spam except that the pressure it. And now he can't hit the side of barn witness is is actual. Andy loses his starting job. And that that one of my favorite things that their relatives were stacked and whining about the pressure to spot there. Who has taken it he believes. Is -- them to to support them. And the -- gives them. Quite a lecture about -- What really pressure in the world is. It's in the book is so calm and and by the way -- I -- the full force of the program on this one look at the guys. I brought it back to the patriot I a backed. And now I it looks."
" Like Gillette Stadium on the cover for crying out loud -- not all that -- edit -- and everywhere we."
" Sort of karma at work because that would connect us China economic you guys early in the -- that noise like China you know but booked up -- in tonight's show and -- And and -- that the Brady was aren't you know -- bit about trying to get odd -- weird sort of karma at work here. This is a book about that this stuff that matters the most -- it's it's about friendship and loyalty. And and get knocked down and get back up and it is you'd be. The throw it real important but how he gets there and and and the way he conducts himself on the way to deny. Because just as important in in in in this -- in typical and -- noticed. I'm I'm respect touring. Monday night in act in yes and and everywhere I go. From from act in Los Angeles we're gonna we're gonna happen hit gonna get a chance to make the same throughout that may -- tries to make. And the million dollars. We're gonna give a thousand dollars. It's. Yeah. If the -- it more than one kid can make -- and albeit at a drawing afterward the kids are gonna get a chance to see. What it's like to try to throw it twenty or thirty yards to the twentieth all. Like Nate -- try to do in front of a Brazilian people at a national television audience."
" And you're gonna do this at every stop starting in Acton Monday night that's November ninth at the willow books and cafe. A great road and --"
" Yes sir and then we're gonna do it in Philadelphia and -- at Washington and Dallas Denver and Los Angeles it's. It's a pretty cool way to. To trying to put. My readers in 21 of these books."
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" You know that that Erica I know I the Specter market structure of this -- the Olympic -- remembers Jerry -- when he was a freshman at LSU. And he played his first. Big Saturday at night game idea and I'm watching that game with my -- in about halfway through I turned on and I said. Are we absolutely sure this young -- a right handed. -- Baidoa is the question raised up about Chuck Knoblauch in the opening up doubted that we had a."
" My guess I was gonna call you about a month ago I was about a month ago now. It is if you could hook me up for some. Jets giants Super Bowl tickets but -- to make a phone call anymore."
" We've got the text of a Saturday night and now tonight about this coming -- yeah mills look him up to jamaat I decided I. Make it easier to make the needed upgrade at a giant -- jets was that I think it jets are on the right at. I think it's it's going to be a player quarterback the giants. Are so wounded in the you know it's one of those things where you don't -- the really key guys our team. Until they're gone Kenny Phillips going down just set up this chain reaction and now. It's it's like we start driving bad involved and then. Also I -- plight ought not to too much presses. In all the sudden continued DNA. The giants. Democratic game mechanic got to win. Against the chargers at home on on Sunday or all of a sudden it's war losses in a row and it's five and four. And the cowboys were the it would make -- part of early in the year -- and everybody talking about the cowboys Eagles game has been in the game the tendencies."
" He is our friends at the New York Daily News ESPN's sports reporters and his new book Michael because new book is called million dollar throw. It's all doing the theme Brady themed."
" Patriotism -- on how big hits -- is going to be -- big huge used to AME I'll give it credit for priests known too it's a really big and important. You -- kids 1213 they'll -- arrived a lot of oil that would. They'll have a loop with a book and are -- yeah and this one will be bigger than any of them around the I think you know that might."
" Well guys -- it is that no one no widen. Has been meant more behind these books from the very beginning they did you guys and and and believe me this is about if you want serious moment I always appreciate the opportunity to add it to talk -- because that started work at -- advocate. Fitness studio package Cameron Moore in person but thank you so much for everything done."
" And if you like to say hello Mike in person he will be an Acton Monday evening at 6 o'clock that's November ninth at the willow books and cafe to seven and nine great road in Acton and you'll have a chip -- up in Jerry and I -- try to with a thousand bucks -- just for kids."
" You know like you and so helpful. And that off slightly out of the race -- the yet to try turning it down but it is if you want. Up here pretty Eric. -- that the problem I've got to work. --"
" Or should ask what that -- that if they sign I think meter is going to be way ahead of the curve on this one because if it. Matt Holliday smart he -- nationally. If the Yankees want to day they overpay yeah and I think he does they do and Damon's on the street. I think it be fun I mean I I know you get him and -- so long term in the cheap two years cheap what. 1089. Million a year -- year it's a woman -- we'll talk about -- the personality that's more with all these."
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