NY Giants, World Series ReCap with Alex Day

It's the Kicking and Screaming Podcast with your host, the grouchiest sports podcaster on the Upper East Side, Lou Albanese. Listen, the Giants are in first place. The Mets and Yankees are in the offseason. The Jets don't exist. So what is there to be grouchy about, right? And more importantly, I'm a happy man today because I am blessed. And that's the word I'm using, blessed. And I'm not even a religious guy. I'm blessed because I have. One of the best sports personalities in the business, Mr. Alex Day, sportscaster deluxe, sports content deluxe, sports whatever you want. Put any word you want after that. He's the guy. Also the host of the Jameis Winston Show. For a while there, he was hanging out with the starting quarterback of the Giants. You ruined that. I did. That's not me. The Jameis Winston Show with Alex Day. Hey, you got a couple of weeks out of it. And then, of course, Jameis Winston. I always say about Jameis Winston, I'm going to ask you about him. But I think he's the most giving quarterback in all the NFL. He gives one to his team, one to the other team, one to his team, one to the other team. He is, like, made to play every Thanksgiving. You know what? You want a backup quarterback who can come in and is not afraid to sling. And I think for a while, they wanted to handcuff him. You know, Matt Nagy wanted him to protect the ball. We're going to do a little first half dinking and dunking. Let Jameis cook. And you know what? There'll be some mistakes that come along with it. You said the same thing about Ryan Fitzpatrick and a lot of other backup gunslingers. You know what? If he's throwing for over 300 yards and a couple of touchdowns, but maybe a couple of picks too, you live with that. So Giants were playing fine with him. They're playing great with McCarthy right now. I'm feeling pretty good about the G-men, Lou. I am. You're the grouchiest guy on the Upper East Side. And I'm never the optimist here. Well, that's why you're here, because I'm never optimistic. But I am optimistic about the Giants. I love Harbaugh. I know. You watched him from afar, and I always thought he was a great coach. Yep. Well, I mean, you watch how he handled these little things. That's what people don't understand. Little things. Going all the way back to training camp when he called out Tyrone Tracy for missing that block. You know, other coaches would have gave Tyrone a hug and said, that's okay, Tyrone. It's okay that you got a quarterback almost killed. No, he called him out, period. Didn't call him out by name, but everyone knew who he was talking about. Then later on, Cam Scadaboo, fumble here, fumble there. Talk about coming and going. He doesn't sit up. He's a city guy. No, no, no. He has to come out and get embarrassed for six straight plays. He doesn't touch the ball. Right. So it's even worse than sitting. We're going to let you play, but we're not going to let you play. Right. Keep the ball away from Cam. What does he do tonight? What does he do? He comes out, and he kicks butt last week. Same thing with the whole thing with the quarterback situation. A lot of teams wouldn't even have pulled off the J.J. thing. They just sort of went with Jameis and said, Thoughts on Guy. Your feelings. The main word we're going to talk about during this podcast today is accountability. Thank you. Whether you're talking about the Giants with John Harbaugh, whether you're talking about Pat Murphy and the Brewers and how they changed the culture, whether you're talking about New York baseball, athletes need accountability. And that's not punishing them. No, it's keeping them honest. That's keeping them honest and keeping that relationship between coach and player or front office and player true and fair. And... There has to be some of that where it's not necessarily a consequence for your actions, but it's what keeps you focused. It's what keeps you accountable. So John Harbaugh set that tone early in training camp when he first got here. I mean, he cut the longest tenured giant in Darius Slade. That's correct. And whether it's benching John Michael Schmitz, a second round pick of the Joe Shane era, or benching Cam Scadaboo, Boo, boo, boo, or. Starting Deontay Banks over Paulson Adebo, who is a prize-free agent from last year. And also the highest-paid player on the team. Highest-paid player on the team. It's a meritocracy, and that's how sports should be. That's how life should be. So he is bringing accountability to the Giants. And you know what? Sometimes you might lose the game because you started the guy. That changes the outlook of a guy's career. It changes a culture. And when you talk about organizations who are in the same pattern, the same rut, you have to change the culture, and that's done through accountability. They got four wins, right? Am I counting right? Four. Four, two, and one. Okay. They would have lost all four of those games a year ago under the old coach. No question. All four of them. They would be winless right now. The Jets would have a better record than the Giants right now if he wasn't here. I'm convinced of that. Convinced. And you look at the record last year in one-score games, John Harbaugh would not have let that loss to Denver last year happen. No way. No way. All those games. I mean, come on. How many times the Cowboys, when they blew that game, those things aren't going to happen with John Harbaugh. He wouldn't allow it. And if it happened once, it would never have happened again. And by the way, it's still happening in Baltimore. I know it is. It's still happening. Excuse me. Okay, anyhow, having said all that, got a little gas there, guys. Yeah, of course. I've done that before. Now, having said that, let me say something. All right? You've got a new, ah, who knows, whatever it was. I'm old. I eat something all the time. All right, anyhow. Anyhow. You got J.J. McCarthy. We talked about him. And now you have him playing well. Yeah. Now, I'm saying this. I'm just going to say it. I'm throwing it out there because that's what I like to do. I'm throwing it out there. Jaxson Dart, J.J. McCarthy. You got to figure, I don't see both coming back a year from now. I know it's only one win. But if McCarthy runs the table and they go into playoffs, and he looks like he is the guy, what do you do? What do you do with two quarterbacks? Well, I will say, in the words of Aaron Boone, These things will work themselves out and McCarthy. Has played great. I need to see a lot more before he, so far he's played five great quarters for the giants. I almost said the Yankees. I need to see a lot more. You probably could play five straight good quarters for the Yankees. Yeah, exactly. There's so many other guys on that team, that's for sure. Yeah, exactly. I need to see a lot more, but McCarthy's had a lot of injuries. Darts had a lot of injuries. If McCarthy plays great and both guys are healthy, you know, they're, you know, darts coming off of a serious injury. McCarthy missed his whole rookie year with a serious injury. Got banged up last year as well. Then there will be an issue. But I always go back to the idea of the best ability is availability. And both guys haven't really proven that they can stay healthy so far. Do you think there'll be an open... Let's say they both come back. I mean, it's pretty hard to... I don't think they trade one of them yet. Do you think it'll be an open competition? Yeah. Or do you think it's automatically... If J.J. McCarthy leads the Giants to the playoffs, there has to be an open competition. How would you feel if you're McCarthy and you lead the team to the playoffs? It's a big if. And then next year in training camp, you're going to be the backup to start. I don't think that's exactly the meritocracy that John Harbaugh has been running so far. So, you know, may the best man win. Listen, I'm just going to say this. I was already told, no, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But I get told I'm wrong all the time, but I keep saying it. I just don't see. Knowing John Harbaugh, he's such an NFL football guy. He's a football guy. And I look at Scatterbill and I look at Dodd, and, you know, Dodd's all over the place. Kentucky Derby, his girlfriend, social media, commercials. I mean, here we are, we're doing a giant game. J.J. McCarthy's the quarterback in four Jake Jackson Dodd commercials run. I don't see that as a... Harbaugh loving that because he's, like, so football. And if you get a guy like McCarthy who looks more like he's football, this is answers and everything. I wonder if that plays a role. Yeah, I wonder. Because, you know, look, you talk about New York captains. You talk about Brunson or Lundqvist or Jeter, and there's a certain level of be quiet, professionalism, that a lot of athletes have said, hey, when you're playing in New York. I would kind of recommend doing it this way. Does it bother me? No, but I could see it maybe bothering an old school football guy like John Harbaugh. And the fact of the matter is, in this world where it's so easy to amplify your brand by all the stuff you do off the field, I understand it from a cash perspective. He's probably made millions and millions of dollars in this off season. So, you know, it's hard to be upset about that. But on the other hand, You'll see other athletes who are faced with the same decision and don't. So I see both sides to it, but I, to me, I, I think it ultimately comes down to, you have to be on the field. You just have to be on the field. And. It wasn't a concussion. There was a lot of blue tent talk. But, you know, I saw some NFL front office guy said, but he also didn't set the protection and did a jump throw and put himself in a vulnerable position. He did. Yeah, he protected him in his head. People don't talk about that. He put himself when he jumped and he left his knee out there. Scary. There comes a time when you just have to flop. You know who's great at it? Eli. Thank you. He was the best at it. Just turtle. Just turtle up and play for the next down. No one thinks of you as less of a man because you took a sack. And I think that plays into it. I think a guy like Harbaugh says, no football. What's your football IQ? Don't run around like a madman and get yourself crushed. We need you. What are you doing? Running is great, but running under control is better. And I don't sometimes think Doc doesn't run under control. Yeah, I think Josh Allen has found a great balance of doing that. And, of course, there's sometimes in the playoffs. Because he's building a linebacker. Yeah, right. He's even bigger. Nobody wants to tackle him anyhow. Right. He's bigger than the linebackers that are trying to tackle him. But, yeah, there does have to be that balance because. He's playing the most important position in sports. You can't lose him. And by the way, he's great. We need him out there, you know? Yes. We need him out there. He doesn't do any good by being this cowboy out there and get yourself crushed. No. And I think little things like that, when Harbaugh sees it, and then you have the question. Who has sustainability? Is McCarthy guy going to give you 10 years or his dot? Right now, I got to say McCarthy. You have a better chance. Well, that's what was so interesting was the main conversation about playing McCarthy over Jameis was his mobility. And that was on display against Houston and how he moved around the pocket and even the threat of the run. But he barely ran against Houston. Didn't have to. Yeah, he ran for, I believe, less than 10 yards, 15 yards. But you know what that was, though? The threat. The threat. And that opened up the whole running game. The threat was there, and the running game opened up because they had to play McCarthy as one of the extra running backs. Yep. You know what hurt, Winston? I joke with the interceptions and everything. The interceptions were bad, and the touchdowns were great. Got sacked 15 times in three games. They had no threat of a running game. And he just sat there. And I thought he held the ball too long. But I also thought that... The offensive line has played much in the same way that when McCarthy came in, the running game opened up. I really feel like the offensive line took a big step forward in both pass protection and run protection with McCarthy because the threat of McCarthy's legs kept the defense a little bit more on their heels, which. Allow the offensive line to get some better push. But yeah, having a mobile quarterback and being able to escape some of those sacks. I mean, there were a couple that you just can't take there. Yeah, there was a couple. I felt he held the ball too often, and he's stationary. And he's stationary. I like Winston. He's a guy, I'm not going to have you say a bad word about him because you've got to see him, and he's a big guy, he'll beat you up. But the truth of the matter is, he's a really good guy, but at this stage of his career, he is where he's supposed to be, and McCarthy and Dodd are where they're supposed to be. I think there will be a good fight for that, but I just believe, it's my opinion, I can see McCarthy being more of a hardball guy than a Dodd. If McCarthy plays like how he did against Houston, not just in the win column, not just the stat sheet, but... He didn't really take that many hits, and he was making the throws. We'll definitely have a conversation. The other side of town. Let's push the Jets real quick. What do you make of this whole Geno Smith-Garrett Wilson garbage? All I can say is if I was Garrett Wilson, I would have been frustrated a long time ago. Yeah, you could talk about their sideline frustration, and Garrett Wilson is probably right, and there's probably part of Geno Smith that's right. If I was playing for the Jets, for as long as Garrett Wilson has been playing for the Jets, I would be done. D-U-N, done. Look, there's no coaching. No culture. There's no culture, there's no coaching. Whatever C you want to put there, I could put a few other words out there. He's been patient. But when you look at Aaron Glenn, which has been horrible, And they lose all these one-possession games. They're not getting blown out in these games. They're all one-possession losses. The roster isn't that bad. The roster's really good. Yeah. There's talent on this roster. But Glenn, it's his job. And you know what makes Glenn look even worse is what we just talked about. John Harbaugh. You got two teams in town, and you're seeing Harbaugh with accountability and how he's coaching. You're seeing Glenn with no accountability. You can't allow this. It's obvious. The other day, they're interviewing Smith. And Smith said, I think on Wednesday, well, you know, we have so much talent out there, and I have to distribute the ball around. You know, we have a lot of weapons. It was almost a way to say, Garrett, shut up. You're not the only guy. Garrett is the guy. He is the guy. And I love Omar Cooper. Imagine saying that to Malik Neighbors. Omar Cooper is going to be a great receiver. But Garrett Wilson is the guy. You watch Matthew Stafford. He does this too much. Puka, puka, puka, puka. And then they go down the field, and then he hits Davante Adams with a touchdown. Because he realized by the time they get down the field, Puka's been like 10 times, nobody's even looking at Adams. You've got to feed the beast. And the beast in this case is Garrett Wilson. That's what the great quarterbacks do. The great quarterbacks feed their star receivers. Like Joe Burrow had a great game last week. Look at the kid in Seattle. Find number one. JSN? He can make Sam Darnold a Super Bowl winning quarterback. He has 200 more yards than any other receiver in the league. He's an MVP candidate. Of course he is because he feeds the beast. And that's what's... Look, Geno's not a great quarterback and he's not going to be the quarterback next year. But as an offensive coordinator, Frank Reich, I guess they've got to wake him up. He's got to go. He's got to go. It's a joke. All right. Speaking of got to go, we got to go because we have to go to a commercial break. I heard you the first time. All right. We're going to go to break when we come back. We'll talk his favorite part, baseball. Hey, we are back. I was told not to belch, so I won't belch in this section, but I thought that was the highlight of the show. Anyhow, having said all that, okay, we're going to go to our favorite sport. Both of us agree, baseball. Is baseball your favorite sport? Yeah, I would say so. That's mine, too. I grew up in baseball. It's close between baseball and football. I like football. I was a baseball player. I played football, which is kind of CTE and the reason why I have some of the problems. That goes hand in hand with the belching. That's why I can't spell CTE. All right. Having said that, we just saw, not a great World Series. It was in five, but it was a nice way, the style of play that Milwaukee showed in this postseason. Guys. Tampa Bay, too. Tampa Bay, too. They were very good. They were outmatched. They really were. So anybody who watched this World Series and they've been following baseball, say, the last 10 or 15 years and don't know, that's how baseball is supposed to be played. Not home run, strikeout, home run, strikeout. That was baseball. I said that, yes, ratings weren't going to be good for this World Series. Horrible. This World Series was a win for EBF, ethical baseball fans. But you know what? It wasn't horrible. I saw, like, they got $13 million in Game 1, and Game 2 went down to $10. Game 3 was a blowout. Game 3 was NFL football. But the last two were, like, $14, $15 million. You're not going to get—look, if this went to $7, you would have got $20-something million. Okay, fair. It would have been—it wasn't as bad. By the way. What'd you think of the fact that all of Tampa, the whole stadium was Brewer fans? I mean, in the ALCS, they pretty much had no fans there. So the Brewers who are looking for their first World Series ever, yeah, they're going to make that trip down. It reminded me of San Antonio when the Knicks and Mayweather. And it was in Cleveland. It was all Knicks fans. It was so loud. I was one of them in Cleveland. I know, and it was so loud. I was like, oh my God, who didn't know it was home field that they were going? Totally. Totally. Look, Milwaukee. Winning their first one, so well-deserved. But it's what you said. The style of baseball that they played, competitive at-bats, working counts, hitting the other way, not making errors, hitting the cutoff, man. Wow. These are crazy concepts, by the way. Crazy concepts. We've so lost the plot in baseball that Milwaukee found a weakness in the system, which is just play baseball. You think Brian Cashman was thinking this? I don't know. I don't know. And look, on the one hand, I have a lot of respect for the people who are making decisions. But on the other hand, the players that I grew up loving who are in Monument Park, the things that they're saying. A lot. They're saying some really nasty stuff. That has to catch your attention. So whether it's Posada or whether it's Jeter and A-Rod or the Posada situation, The Posada situation where he's like saying that he's not wanting, he don't feel comfortable at Yankee Stadium, which is insane. Yeah, insane. And by the way, you talk about the former players who come back for the Yankees. It's Pettitte, and it's Guidry, and it's CeCe. And you look up, and you're like, wait, no hitters are really around the team. It's a lot of the pitchers. Derek doesn't need to show up the whole time this day, which is a joke. I understand he doesn't want to play, but still, come on, just show up. No, it's weird. Yeah. Well, okay, the reason I bring that up about the Yankees, I mean, I don't know if people saw it, Pat Murphy, the manager, Grab Jake Bowers, who used to be a Yankee, and he made a great name for himself. He says, I make a lot of money when you sign with, you know, and I forgot exactly, but he used a few curse words in there and say, you know, you go to the Yankees, and I just hope you remember how to play the right game because, you know, those guys don't play the game right. Basically, he said that. I'm paraphrasing. I've heard different versions of this. So my point is, he slammed the Yankees. Yeah, he did. And rightfully so. And Toronto slammed the Yankees last year, and the Dodgers slammed the Yankees before that. And Tampa slammed the Yankees. It sucks. It hurts seeing the team that I love, the team that we love, just get slammed like that. It hurts even more because there's some truth in it. And the owner doesn't seem to hear it. He loves Brian. You heard last week's press conference when basically he hugged Brian and threw the hitters under the bus. Yeah, it was a disappointing press conference because the last five years he's blamed the players. And the players have changed. Some of the core has changed, but the players have changed. Who brought in the players? So, you know, if you're going to keep blaming the players, then you have to look at the constants. But back to Jake Bowers for a second, because that part hurt about what Pat Murphy said. Some of the signature moments, two signature moments by Jake Bowers, these playoffs, were 11 and 13 pitch at-bats. Oh, they were fantastic. That Jake Bowers finished off with a home run. We have not seen that from any Yankee, not named Aaron Judge, since Soto. You have not. Well, Soto's a different animal. That was one year. But you haven't really seen that type of Yankee style since the call for him. But that's what was exciting about Soto. Right. Soto was great. Soto does that. Right. So. Yeah, to that point, like, just look at the marquee moments. Those aren't the types of at-bats that Yankees have had, those competitive at-bats where you go up to the plate with a plan and you're not swinging at, and you battle. Just battle, you know? You know, even the plan, they over-plan. These guys were all, they overload these guys. He just said, I am not going to lose this at-bat. And he battled with those, and then you saw Yamamoto was close, was close when he finally was done. And it was, what's his face? Snell, right? Toast. Toast. Absolutely toast. They were done. So even if he didn't hit the home run, he basically knocked those guys out of the game. And the home run was just perfect. Yeah, absolutely. Think about some of the things you would hear in Little League. Let's say the first two guys to start off an inning walked. You know what your coach would tell you? Wait till there's a strike. Right, take a strike. Take a strike. You know, guys on the Yankees go up there and swing first pitch and, you know, try to make it, turn it into a three-run homer. And it's like, you know, you might connect, but that's just not smart baseball. No, it's not smart baseball. Now, if he connected the three-run homer, if you want it right down the middle of the plate, I fully understand that part. Right. But let him work and work the count. It's obviously he's not going to throw it straight down the middle of the plate because he doesn't have the control to do it. And if he could, he would have done it for the last two batters. Yeah, take a strike. And it's frustrating because you look at the payrolls, You look at the talent. If the Yankees played a different brand of baseball with the talent that they've assembled, it would be a very different story. But, you know, if you're turning that talent into a pretty, I don't know, they all have the same approach, one through nine, and you don't, you know, your eight hitter shouldn't have the same approach as your cleanup hitter. You know, your cleanup hitter is there. Two-hit home runs, if it's Stanton or Judge or whoever it is, you know, you're bottom of your order. They better scrap. They better be in a dogfight every single at-bat. We didn't see much of that. And that's the other thing. Chirios is their best player. I'm not contrarious. Chirios, whatever you call it. Yeah, yeah. Chip Chip Chirios. He's their best player. He's a lead-off guy. It's not the first time we've seen we have guys be one of the top players. We've seen Ricky Henderson for decades. But Contreras and Bowers, they were in the right spot. I mean, the tap is playing Simpson. There's good speed and everything and batting fourth or third. And he had big fat Yandy. By the way, if anybody was, you know, you know, Yandy Diaz is, you know, wanting and I'll leave it at that. My point though is, is that. You need to have the right construction, the right ability, the right way to play the game. These things aren't there. And it's just frustrating as a baseball fan to know that you can sign all the superstars you want, but it means nothing if you don't play the game right. Yeah, and I think a lot of fans are saying it, but a lot of teams see that and think that's fan fiction or the media saying it. Well, that's the media. When former players are saying it, that has to get your attention. When the guys who are in Monument Park are saying it, that gets your attention. The way Milwaukee played the game is the way the Yankees played the game. You saw it. You heard it in Derek Jeter's voice. He was envious of them. Absolutely. He talked about Tampa. He talked about that. He talked about, basically, he was very open about this is what baseball is supposed to be. Take someone like Jazz Chisholm. Jazz Chisholm played the way that the Brewers played baseball. I would absolutely want him back on the Yankees. But this version of him. I don't know. We don't need another swing for the fence, this guy. And it's partially blaming Jazz, but it's partially blaming a lot of guys who all have the same approach. Now, as for the other team in town, there's a little bit of glimmer of hope for Mets fans out there, because let's be honest, there's a little bit. There is? There's very little. Where is this? Let's be fair. Is this hope in the room with us? No, a little bit right here. No, to be fair, we ripped David Stearns. I ripped David Stearns. But he did build that team. There's like 16 of the players there. What team? The last place Mets? No, you know what I'm talking about. The Milwaukee Brewers. Those were his guys. There's, you're, there's. Don't you think that team has more to do with Pat Murphy than David Stearns? It does, but he still found the right players, the right type of players, the bullpen. These are things, that's his vision. So I'm going to give him a little bit. I am not giving David Stearns any credit, any credit for this Milwaukee. So you're saying that once he left, they got better. Absolutely not. And I'm going to take it a step further. Further, as a Knicks fan, Now, I'm not a Mets fan, but if I was a Mets fan and I was a Knicks fan and I turned on the TV three times a week to watch the Knicks and I saw Steve Cohen sitting courtside with his... No, but that's good. Hey, your team finished in last place. No, it's good. I'm not saying you should say hold on. Be a little embarrassed. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on. You can't be embarrassed when you have that money. And he looks like Steve Bartman, too, with the hat and the turtleneck and the glasses. Hold on, hold on. It's very good. I want my owner being part of the New York fabric, and I want him to watch the Knicks championship team and saying, this is what I want, which gives him more incentive to build a championship. If Brian Cashman was sitting courtside three times a week. After the postseason the Yankees just had, he'd be getting clowneda And I know Steve Cohen has billions and billions. He has so many billions. I'm not ripping Stevie for that. Real quick, real quick. So Brian Racine, I just want to say a couple of quick things. Will the Giants make the playoffs? Will the Giants make the playoffs? NFC East winners. You heard it here. Okay. And then, happy for the, you know, this is true. Stevie House of Collectibles is very interesting. I felt this way too. And I think you do, too. Happy for the Brewers, but sad Bob Uecker didn't live to see it. And I felt bad for the fact that Bob Uecker, I mean, he's Mr. Brewer. I mean, he's a funny man, you know, TV, everything. And I thought that last night. You know, they honored him, which was really nice. But it would have been nice. There's something about baseball that is just kind of poetic like that. And, you know. You can't really explain it. They've made a lot of movies about it, but there is just a certain magic about baseball that, of course, the season was going to end this way. So you can't explain it, but you love it. Well, at least you saw Major League. They won a championship. Yeah, exactly. But I did feel bad about that. Okay, I disagree with the whole Mets thing, but what else to expect? I'm a Mets fan. You're a Yankee fan. I always forget you're a Mets fan. Well, not all of us can be perfect like you are. Go on. Listen, so... One other thing about this, when we talked about the whole, we know it's pending, the lockout. We're going to end on a sour note, but we're going to end on the lockout. Your owner is leading the charge. I hate to say it, but it sounds like he's the kill. He said it in this press conference. He did, and it's kind of disgusting. And I know that the World Series is not going to change what's going to happen. How do you think this lockout is going to work out? It's going to be ugly. No, that goes without saying. And I think the owners see this as their opportunity to get the salary cap that they've been looking for for years. So they are willing to sacrifice. weeks and months, if it has to be, to get what they want. Now, yes, there would probably be a floor. It's hard to say who this World Series helped because when the Dodgers were winning, this is the problem with teams spending so much, there's no parity. And now they can also say, but look, these two teams were just in the World Series and they had the smallest payrolls in baseball. So the owners are going to find a way. I have the over-under at Memorial Day. Do you think there'll be games before? I'm going to say July 4th. I hate to say it. And I hope July 4th. But I will say this. A couple quick things. We've got to go and get a minute real quick on that. I think it hurts the players. Their teams saw that they can win without paying the spending, which means more teams will say, why do I have to spend for it? Why am I spending all this money? You know Hal's saying that. Secondly, I do believe the problem coming up is, dang, they both win the World Series. Drew Rasmussen. Probably going to be traded because they can't sign him. There was talk that they can't sign William Contreras. So that's the problem is that, yeah, you make that run. The Pirates made a few runs when they had Barry Bonds, but it's not sustainable. You have a short window. You have a very short window. Look at the Royals. Look, last time the Rays made the World Series, they turned around and traded Randy Rosarito. Exactly what I'm saying. All right, we're going off. I don't know what this means, but 10 seconds. 10 seconds. Thanks for watching, Alex. Thank you so much. You're the man. I appreciate it, Lou. Thank you. I think you're the best. No, you're the best. This guy right here knows the sports. Tune in to James Winston. James Winston Show. With Alex Day. Yeah, appreciate it. Thanks for watching.