Hour 1: Peter to the IL?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Don, Hahn & Rosenberg - Hour 1: Peter to the IL?

Release Date: August 4, 2025

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1. Welcome Back and Introduction

The episode kicks off with Peter Rosenberg returning to the show after a month-long absence. He humorously references his time away and his return alongside guest Ty Butler, as the regular hosts Alan Hahn and Don La Greca are out for the week.

• Peter Rosenberg [00:24]: "Well, for the first time in a little over a month, it's certainly at least Rosenberg. I am back, back in effect, baby."

2. Peter's Injury Incident

Shortly after resuming the show, Peter shares that he may have seriously injured himself while entering the building. He recounts attempting to use a secondary elevator, which required climbing three stairs. Feeling fatigued from attending SummerSlam the previous night, Peter admits to jumping steps—a habit from his younger days.

• Peter Rosenberg [01:08]: "I was gonna jump all of them and I didn't land on the left leg. I injured. I was planting on the left leg and when I planted, which as we know that's often when the injury happens. It's the leg you plant with. I felt a little pop back left of my knee."

Ty Butler engages in a light-hearted yet concerned dialogue with Peter about the nature of the injury, speculating it might be a meniscus tear.

• Ty Butler [02:44]: "So I think that's my opinion. My non expert opinion says that's better. Better than hearing the actual pop."

3. Group Chat Controversy

The conversation shifts to interpersonal dynamics within the team, specifically referencing a group chat that Peter left during his absence. Peter expresses regret over leaving multiple group chats, leading to tension among team members.

• Peter Rosenberg [06:47]: "See, here we go again. There was controversy because I left. We'll get to it later. I left group chats and multiple. I left multiple group chats."

Ty discusses the impact of Peter's departure from the group chat, highlighting Alan Hahn's feelings of being hurt.

• Ty Butler [07:00]: "That feels sassy."

The hosts delve into the reasons behind leaving the group chat, with Peter emphasizing his need to disconnect while on vacation.

• Peter Rosenberg [07:16]: "Alan felt away. He was like. I mean, we were just getting somewhere. I felt like we were just getting tight. Now, like, you leave the group chat."

4. Yankees Performance and Management Criticism

A significant portion of the discussion centers on the New York Yankees' recent performance woes. Peter and Ty critically analyze the team's struggles, attributing them to managerial decisions and a lack of fundamental play.

• Ty Butler [09:10]: "You watch the Yankees this weekend get swept by the Miami Marlins. They're the worst combination that you could possibly have. Bad and boring."

Peter echoes these sentiments, questioning the accountability within the team's leadership.

• Peter Rosenberg [10:30]: "I'm annoyed watching them. And I guarantee you there is a segment of the Yankee fan population that is rooting for them to miss the playoffs because they feel like that happening would lead to some wholesale changes."

The hosts cite opinions from notable figures like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez to underscore the severity of the Yankees' issues.

• Derek Jeter [18:28]: "The thing that's concerning, it's not just the pit. Look. The bullpen struggled yesterday. They're going to struggle."

5. Audience Interactions and Studio Issues

The podcast introduces an interactive segment where listeners call in to discuss events that may have occurred during Peter's absence. A notable incident involves "fingernails found on the studio floor," which disgusts the hosts.

• Griftster [34:07]: "Fingernails in the studio floor."

The discussion humorously speculates about who might be responsible, with playful accusations thrown around.

• Peter Rosenberg [35:05]: "No, no. I appreciate the effort at the end. Although I will say Anthony not reaching out is probably the most painful."

6. Special Segments and Light-Hearted Moments

Amidst serious discussions, the hosts incorporate lighter moments, such as teasing each other about birthdays and celebrating team highlights like Mikel Bridges' potential contract extension.

• Ty Butler [44:11]: "I'm not missing Paris."

• Peter Rosenberg [45:01]: "They hit a game winner buzzer beater in Portland."

These segments provide a balance to the otherwise critical and intense conversations, showcasing the camaraderie among the hosts.

7. Conclusion and Final Remarks

As the episode wraps up, Peter reflects on his injury and its impact on his daily routines, while Ty continues to blend humor with casual banter.

• Peter Rosenberg [43:35]: "This is where ChatGPT does quite well generally. But I do want to ask someone who really knows whether I could have done something."

The hosts sign off with a teaser for upcoming segments and reminders for listeners to engage with the show.

• Don La Greca [39:10]: "Hear more of Don Allen and Peter weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 880, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers."

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Notable Quotes:

• Peter Rosenberg [02:37]: "But like right now I barely can put weight on it and it still friggin hurts even when I'm doing."

• Ty Butler [09:10]: "Yankee fans come through. Pull up 800-919-3776. We want to hear from you guys watching this baseball team."

• Derek Jeter [18:28]: "You have to play better. If you don't play better, you're not going to go very far."

• Peter Rosenberg [37:42]: "You've watched sports your entire life, man. 40 years, dude."

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This episode of Don, Hahn & Rosenberg provides an engaging blend of personal anecdotes, team dynamics, and in-depth sports analysis, offering listeners both entertainment and insightful commentary on current sports issues.

Transcript

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don, you know what? Maybe they can go pee on each other. That'd be great. Han, there's a lot of women out.

[Ty Butler]

There that want you.

[Don La Greca]

Alan and Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Give me the porn. For God's sake, this isn't North Dakota. This is New York.

[Don La Greca]

This is Don Hahn and Rosenberg.

[Peter Rosenberg]

The best threesome I've ever heard on.

[Don La Greca]

880, ESPN and the ESPN New York app.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, for the first time in a little over a month, it's certainly at least Rosenberg. I am back, back in effect, baby. And I'd say better than ever, had I not just potentially seriously injured myself on my way into the building. But either way, I am here. And I'm very happy because my guy Ty Butler is here as well. Allen and Don are out for the week. Ty. What's good, my G?

[Ty Butler]

Yo, my man. Listen, I'm not going to be one of those cats who throw shots at you because you want to take a month off.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you.

[Ty Butler]

Paternity leave.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Thank you.

[Ty Butler]

Bond with the wife and the kid. I'm not going to be one of those cats. But what I will say is, the first thing you do when you pull back up to the station is hurt yourself.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's crazy. It's so wild what just happened, guys, it's so. I might need to. Do you think we could hear from an orthopedist? Is that who it would be? It'd be an orthopedist, right? Is that the doctor? Yeah. Where's Dr. Jay Shaw? Someone get Jay Shaw on the line. So I. This is brownshear's fault. Brownshire told me about this secondary elevator we have, and he's like, well, because the first elevators in our building are super slow. He goes, oh, but there's a second elevator. You just got to go up the three stairs, and you go to the other elevator. I'm very tired off of SummerSlam last night. Did not get a lot of sleep, so I'm a little off, admittedly. And I went to go hop the stairs and did, like, the little stuff. I always stupidly jump steps, you know, like. Like I'm still a teenager.

[Ty Butler]

You're excited to be back.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Do you jump steps usually?

[Ty Butler]

Not really.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You just take the steps as they come?

[Ty Butler]

I just take the steps.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Even though you're in great shape, you just take the steps as they come.

[Ty Butler]

Listen, you were excited be back to work.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm hyped.

[Ty Butler]

See my guys, first day of school.

[Peter Rosenberg]

First day. It really feels like that. And I did the little stutter step before I take the little leap up the steps. Because it's three short steps. I was gonna jump all of them and I didn't land on the left leg. I injured. I was planting on the left leg and when I planted, which as we know that's often when the injury happens. It's the leg you plant with. I felt a little pop back left of my knee.

[Ty Butler]

See, here's where we got to differentiate. Did you hear a pop or did you feel a pop?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I did not hear it.

[Ty Butler]

Okay. I felt it. So I think that's my opinion. My non expert opinion says that's better. Better than hearing the actual pop.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But like right now I barely can put weight on it and it still friggin hurts even when I'm doing. Not when I'm doing nothing, but when I'm like doing anything with it. Like if I'm having.

[Ty Butler]

So it's just two. Can we. Do we have something where you can just rest your foot for the duration of the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Bro. I'm currently with a. The only plastic bag I could find in this office has holes in it. So the water's pouring down my leg. You're asking a lot now. Now you're like, do we have a little stool? I could. Because I should elevate, right?

[Ty Butler]

You should. Your foot should be elevated. Where are you?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, he got something. Oh, what is that? You have. Oh, Anthony. Dr. J. Shaw, aka Anthony Pusick has something.

[Ty Butler]

Yo, he about to rub your leg down.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yo, you about to rub.

[Ty Butler]

He's about to give you the rub down.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, give me the rub down, doc. Here we go.

[Anthony Pusick]

There's a lot of instructions.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Hold on, hold on. Instant cold.

[Ty Butler]

Oh, and we got a little bandage wrap.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay, so he gave me an instant cold pack and he gave me the bandage. Do you think, Ty, you could be the one to do this?

[Ty Butler]

I'm not doing that. I mean, hold on, hold on. Come on. But not on some like be caught. Nah, it's just a rap. I'm not asking you to rub my leg down, cameras.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're not going to rub me down.

[Ty Butler]

So what are you asking me to do?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm asking you to. Let's see. The cold pack says directions. Shake contents to bottom of the bag. Locate inner pouch and squeeze firmly. This is just the bag, not me, bro. No inner pouch. And squeezing firmly, shake gently to assure complete activation. Hello. Isn't that what we're always looking for? Avoid direct to skin contact. Wrap in soft cloth. Apply no longer than 20 minutes. So this is just like a little cold compression and all I need you to do is Just wrap it around my leg. Help me wrap. I could maybe do it myself. I can, I can do it. You know what? You know I can do it myself.

[Ty Butler]

Come on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't need you.

[Ty Butler]

That's not crazy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's not. That was.

[Ty Butler]

I pull up to the station looking to talk some Yankees and now I'm rubbing this man's leg down, wrapping him up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You just wanted to talk about jazz Chisholm and now here you are rubbing a 46 year old man's leg.

[Ty Butler]

So we gotta be able to get through the show. Like is that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

My only concern right now is that injection is that this is a real injury that like would require surgery. That would be annoying.

[Ty Butler]

So I see John Winthrop's eyes and my conspiracy theory brain is working. He's just like, he's just looking for some more time off.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He thinks I want more.

[Ty Butler]

This is a fake. This is the Paul pierce in the 08 finals. Look, faking an injury.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I wish that was true. Except Jon also knows I have one more week I'm taking at the end of the month in which I'm taking the family to Paris. I don't want to be injured for that.

[Ty Butler]

Weren't you just in Paris?

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I was in the south of France.

[Ty Butler]

Okay. You were.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I, I, I, I didn't know I was going to be French this summer. It just happened organically. But now you know, Clash in Paris is August 31st. I went to Puerto Rico.

[Ty Butler]

Bad Bunny.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Dog Stratus, right? I drive a Dodge Stratus. I checked out Bad Bunny. It was good stuff.

[Ty Butler]

Good looks for the invite.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I was invited so I couldn't, I couldn't invite you but, but I'm very excited to be back with you guys. I, I missed everybody here. Miss the listeners. You. It was an awesome time off with my, with my wife and the baby. It was truly like as well as I knew my baby before the month off. It definitely is different having every single day all the time. Particularly when we were in France and it's just the three of us constantly.

[Ty Butler]

Moving around and she's starting to look like a person. Yes, words are coming out. No, not words. Sounds. Sounds are coming out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

This, a lot of that.

[Ty Butler]

That's going to be the sound. When I'm rubbing your leg, sounds are coming out. You're recognizable to who she is.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, she's, she's one of the most smiley infants you'll ever see in life.

[Ty Butler]

I just love the fact that he was able to completely disconnect. That's. You were able to Disconnect. So we didn't see you on social media. We pulled him out the group chat because I wanted to disconnect.

[Peter Rosenberg]

See, here we go again. There was controversy because I left. We'll get to it later. I left group chats and multiple. I left multiple group chats.

[Ty Butler]

It does look dramatic when, like, the name says left the conversation.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, it looks crazy.

[Ty Butler]

That feels sassy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And by the way, by the way, how not surprising is it? Especially because you know him well. How not surprising is it to you that the person who was decidedly the most hurt was Alan Hahn? Because you know him well.

[Ty Butler]

We talked about it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Alan felt away. He was like. I mean, we were just getting somewhere. I felt like we were just getting tight. Now, like, you leave the group chat. I was like, alan, I'm still here. I just don't want to like the idea of me being on vacation and I'm chilling in France, and for, like, 90 minutes straight, it's Alan sending messages about what the Yankees are doing. Like, that just doesn't sound like vacation.

[Ty Butler]

Oh, my God. You realize you can mute the.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Everyone says that. But the mute does nothing. Because if you. If you're someone like me, who all of your messages are read, then when a new thing pops up, it's still got the dot. It's still at the top of the.

[Ty Butler]

Thing, but it's not showing up on the home screen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're acting as if we're not on our phones doing other things.

[Ty Butler]

You're still seeing it, but you're disconnecting. You're not on your phone.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm still texting my family. I'm still seeing what's going on in the world.

[Ty Butler]

Family is right with you. My guy.

[Anthony Pusick]

I think the words were, I can't do this. I think that was in the. It was. It was me texting something, like, at 10 in the morning. And Peter's just like, guys, I gotta be honest with you, by the way, I don't think I could do this anymore.

[Ty Butler]

Isn't that the perfect sequencing? I can't do this. Peter Rosenberg leaves the conversation.

[Anthony Pusick]

It was my. I should be the most offended was.

[Peter Rosenberg]

My text, but you were the last thing.

[Anthony Pusick]

And he goes, guys, I'll be honest with you. I don't know if I can do this anymore.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What did you say? What was the last word?

[Anthony Pusick]

I just said, hey, guys, happy Monday. NFL binge.

[Peter Rosenberg]

4:30.

[Anthony Pusick]

Guys, I'll be honest with you. I don't know if I could do this anymore.

[Peter Rosenberg]

See ya. Anyways, I want to. Maybe we'll hear from people if they. If they've ever left the group chat because. Because apparently it's a thing I didn't realize it was. Now, let's get to some sports. By the way, SummerSlam was crazy. We'll talk about that some, too. For all the rest, by the way.

[Ty Butler]

I did watch for you and you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Actually watch just so we could have these conversations.

[Ty Butler]

Yes, I can sound fluent.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I appreciate what you've done, but talk to me. You're a Yankee fan. Get it off your chest. My G. How you feeling?

[Ty Butler]

Listen, Yankee fans come through. Pull up 800-919-3776. We want to hear from you guys watching this baseball team. I promise you, not kidding. Not being hyperbolic makes you beg for football to get here sooner, which is crazy because it's not like we got a lot to look forward to when it comes to the jets and the Giants. But you watch the Yankees this weekend get swept by the Miami Marlins. They're the worst combination that you could possibly have. Bad and boring.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, that sounds like the jets.

[Ty Butler]

Bad and boring.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's like New York football.

[Ty Butler]

Bad and boring, but actually like bad and bougie. I was thinking of that, Migos. But actually the most exciting part is watching them make complete fools of themselves, whether it be on the base paths or in the field. Defensive blunders. Peter, when you left, I talked about this with Allen last week. The Yankees were kind of like headed toward that, like June swoon, but were not fully entrenched in that. And what he said to me was, because I didn't remember this, you guys were doing the show. You and Don called him dramatic for being concerned about where this team was headed. And that is just particularly Don. Yes, that is just aged so gracefully for him and to, you know, not as something that he wanted, but I mean, both the baseball teams right now, the Mets losing two or three, the Yankees getting swept. We definitely got to hear from the fans because that was on all levels and embarrassment. And I keep getting told, can't blame the manager. Who the hell am I supposed to blame? When your team looks undisciplined, lacks fundamentals, when I've got one of your younger players coming out, it's August, Ben Rice coming out and saying, yeah, we're lacking a sense of urgency. The hell you talking about, lacking a sense of urgency? So who. I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed watching them. And I guarantee you there is a segment of the Yankee fan population that is rooting for them to miss the playoffs because they feel like that happening would lead to some wholesale changes. I'm not sure that it would, but I think there are some Yankee fans rooting for them because that's how disgusted they are.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I'll say this. If you believe that this thing is just, you know, off the rails, I'm close to having it.

[Ty Butler]

All right, we're getting some.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm working on the brace here now.

[Ty Butler]

How do you think this would have worked if I were helping you? As we're trying to.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You would have just. You would have just like, wrapped it up real quick, nice and tight.

[Ty Butler]

No Diddy, but go ahead.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, no, come on.

[Ty Butler]

It's.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That was so. It's such a month ago.

[Ty Butler]

Go ahead.

[Peter Rosenberg]

If you're someone who doesn't believe this team has anything, I totally understand it just being done and rooting because you're like, this could be the only hope we have to finally break this thing up.

[Ty Butler]

But the problem is, we know that's never going to happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It seems like there's almost nothing that would allow that to happen. You got. You know, I'm a Boone guy. You know that, right? Boone's my dude. Any. Anyone who's nice to. Yeah, we text. All I have to do is some of the finest boonies. But. But my man. No, my man has been speaking boonies, though. He's doing it again. He's doing. He's doing the things that people are always critical of, which is wanting to talk about certain things with certain people, but not seemingly holding players accountable, which is a problem. First base coaches can catch it. Players, though. I'm not going to fault someone for doing the best that they can. Talking about Jazz Chisholm, I totally. I hate that I feel this way, but I understand how every Yankee fan feels at this point. This is a broken record.

[Ty Butler]

Jazz Chisholm, after what we saw Saturday, should not have been in that game yesterday. And I understand he hits the home run, pulled the Yankees to within a couple runs. He should not have been playing in that game. After what we saw Saturday, there has to be some. Some. Some accountability, like, at some point. I understand the environment you want to create in a clubhouse is loosey goosey. Everyone is your best friend. But when you're trying to win a championship, like, there needs to be some accountability because what you've now created is like this culture of acceptance. And what you're accepting is garbage. What you're accepting is that since May 29, you're 25 and 32. That's the new York Yankees.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And by the way, this is all happening in A year in which your best player is doing exactly what he always does. You went out and got a big pitcher acquisition in the off season working out exactly as you would have hoped. Granted, you don't have Garrett Cole, and that is not what you.

[Ty Butler]

And Judge is hurt right now, and.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right now, Judge is out. But generally speaking, you should have gotten enough, and they have gotten enough. Bellinger has turned out to be what you would have hoped. There is enough that you could think, we should certainly be in business here and now. Are people really talking about the winning the division still? Well, right now, is that a real conversation?

[Ty Butler]

They're in third place behind the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. So it's gotten to a point where, like, I've tried my best. You know how you talked about cleansing yourself? You don't really check your mentions.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I try to.

[Ty Butler]

You try your best to do that. Sometimes I try my best to not watch or listen to Aaron Boom press conferences for your own mental health, because it just annoys the hell out of me, and I want to just jump through a TV screen. But when you listen to this guy constantly tell you about how, you know, every. The sun is going to shine tomorrow, it just becomes so flagrantly annoying that. Come on, bruh, you guys were in. And the worst part about it, they were in the World Series last year.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Go ahead.

[Ty Butler]

And lost game five in such a pathetic fashion. One of the most embarrassing, pathetic losses I've ever seen. And the way they did it was by being loose with the baseball bad fundamentals. And you would think that watching that, like, you know, in tape in spring training, we're gonna come out with a chip on our shoulder. And they're playing the same brand of baseball, bro. Like, you're doing it over and over again. And we've got to listen to Boone tell us, well, you know, we're not that much worse than everyone else.

[Peter Rosenberg]

By the way, considering I think Boone's a smart, generally smart, good dude, I don't know how he thinks that's an acceptable thing to say.

[Ty Butler]

But, you know, my question is, does he actually believe what he's saying? I refuse to believe that a lifelong baseball guy who's got generation after generation in his blood actually believes what he's saying up there in front of the media. I can't believe that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You mean this is the assignment to be essentially PR press secretary? And, hey, listen, though, my man is. He's Caroline Levitt. He knows the mission. He does not get knocked off the path. It doesn't matter what happened. He is going to say, I am delivering. I know what the mission is.

[Ty Butler]

But the difference is you're the manager as well, so you're not just, you know, press secretary. You're not just absorbing the blows. And I gotta think and I. And I guess it's easier for me to say it not in that clubhouse, but if I was walking around in that clubhouse and we're struggling to this degree, and I'm passionate, I'm angry, and I'm listening to my manager talk like that, I'd be looking at him sideways. I would be looking at him sideways. Could you imagine? I know we're gonna play audio from. From both Jeter and awa. Could you imagine Derek Jeter in that clubhouse right now with what's going on with this team and how they've become disgraceful? So.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, that's why. That's. That's why I know none of us like to have anything negative to say about Judge because frankly, he doesn't give us a lot negative to say. And he seems like a wonderful man. But the one thing that the Aaron Judge led New York Yankees have always struggled with is the fire in the belly. That. That has been a thing with this team. Honestly, if you really go back all the way to 2017, I would say the Achilles heel of the Yankees, I know recently it may be fielding, base running, et cetera, like fundamentals, but wouldn't you say that the two Achilles heels for this team have been literally injuries? That has been a weird problem that they can't seem to fix no matter what changes they make. And then also, yeah, they never seem to have that fire. Like, we can all picture the guardy moment with the bat in the top of the dugout and the savages in the box, but those are like images that don't reflect the reality of who the New York Yankees are.

[Ty Butler]

And they don't resonate. No, not coming from the top. It's not coming from your leader. So I just alluded to Derek Jeter. Now, this is powerful. We're talking about two of the best players in the history of the sport on national television. Here we go criticizing the Yankees and talking about their struggles. So let's start with Derek. Jeter said the Yankees are their own worst enemy.

[Derek Jeter]

The thing that's concerning, it's not just the pit. Look. The bullpen struggled yesterday. They're going to struggle. New team, new surroundings. It takes a while to adjust. They make way too many mistakes. Way too many mistakes. And you can't get away making that number of mistakes against Great team. It just doesn't happen, you know. And you know, they had base running mistake today. We saw the guy getting thrown out at home plate. You can't continue to do it. You have to clean it up. I mean, it's that simple. There's no excuses. You have to play better. If you don't play better, you're not.

[Ty Butler]

Going to go very far. And that's. That's Derek Zeter talking about this man. That's the captain. When, when he speaks, you listen. He's doing that on national television, talking about a team that just last year was in the World Series and has an expectation of getting back there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's okay. Great that you said that. Because listen to what a rod had to say.

[Alex Rodriguez]

Look, you can bring in nine relievers. It's not going to make a difference if your pitchers go three and a third, four and a third, it's not going to work. Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. And if these guys continue to get 14, 15 outs per game by the time early to mid October, they're dead anyways. But here's my biggest concern. You bring in seven guys and you're still miles away from winning a world title. And the one thing you can never outrun. You got to restructure this roster. I like a lot of the players individually, but together it just doesn't work. And I'm not sure where you go from here, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

To be that little remove from a World Series and have people who know the game and frankly pull for this team the way those guys do, saying those things. Suffice it to say, as another Yankee manager once said, not what you want.

[Ty Butler]

It's not what you want at all. And see, I got someone hitting me on Twitter. So we're at Rosenberg RadioHR, on ESPN, at Ty D. Butler. You're overlooking.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no, no, no. Don't undersell your name at Ty D. Butler.

[Ty Butler]

Ty D. Butler.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I said that. Okay.

[Ty Butler]

You're overlooking the fact that The Marlins are 25 and 10 in their last 35. Guys, stop it. The Yankees for the better part of three months have been a bad baseball team. You go back to May 29, they're 25 and 32. Teams like the Pirates and the A's have been better than the Yankees since May 29th. That, that, that's just laughable, man. And there is. It's one thing to lose games. It's another to lose them in the fashion where Austin Wells forgets how many outs there are. Like, that's the catcher. You got vivos Getting thrown at at third base with Judge batting behind him. Jazz Chisholm gets picked off. The error you saw on Friday night with Caballero, like. Like, these are the things that served as an impediment just last year. So to have it happen again and to it go uncorrected is just flabbergasting to me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, you mentioned the Jazz Chisholm play. Let's. Let's hear from Jazz. What happened on the double play when you got caught off base there?

[Jazz Chisholm]

Just trying to be aggressive. Already playing with both the middle infielders out there, you know, I saw something that I thought they were gonna do. He deked it like he was gonna do it. He didn't do it, but, you know, still trying to be aggressive because I played here before. I know how to field plays. And sometimes you get aggressive and you get. You get caught up. You make it out. So. Yeah.

[Ty Butler]

Would you do it differently next time, not knowing? We know.

[Jazz Chisholm]

No.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Come on, Don legreca. I do it again.

[Ty Butler]

Come on, Famous.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's like. When Don makes a pick during the football season, the team loses 35 to 7. He says he'd do it again. I got it right. They did it wrong.

[Ty Butler]

But see, the difference is there is someone that should hold Jazz Chisholm accountable. No one's holding Don accountable for his picks. Don made a pick that he felt good about. The fact that this man, after an encounter with his manager, underneath the dugout. So we couldn't really see what was going on. We just saw that they went underneath the dugout, had a conversation, and he came out after the game and said he'd do it again. Like that. Just like if your parents scolded you about doing something wrong and you came out after that, you're like, I'd do it again.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. Trust me. I've seen it before. And I knew it was a good decision. It's like. It's like there's a certain light in your town, and you think you can generally read the lights. You know how long they last. And this. It's a yellow. It's usually a long yellow. You know that You. You pushed it, and this time you ended up clipping another car and you had a fender bender. Messed their whole car up.

[Ty Butler]

I'd do it again.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I do it again. I listen. I know how things go out here. I always hit these lights. I just didn't happen this time. It didn't work out for me. It's. This is the fundamental problem with this team. They never fully take accountability. No One can ever outright say it's completely wrong, I botched it, big mistake, shouldn't happen. And Boone can never say it.

[Ty Butler]

But doesn't that start up top?

[Peter Rosenberg]

To me it does.

[Ty Butler]

It's a leadership problem. You've now created, as I mentioned, a culture of acceptance. And right now, what you're accepting is garbage.

[Peter Rosenberg]

1-800-919-3776 we want to talk to you about all of it. It's all on the table, plus whatever you want to discuss. Maybe you have questions about me being gone the last month or SummerSlam or you want to talk to Ty D. Butler about his workout routine. Maybe an orthopedist wants to tell me if I tore a meniscus. All things are on the table.

[Ty Butler]

We also are. Maybe we can discuss the lead up to how we're going to facilitate it. But we're going to play a game of did this actually happen while you were gone?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yes, because I was rather checked out sports wise during the old break. Anthony, by the way, he sent us what was said. The thing that I said before leaving the chat was I love you guys, but. But I may leave this chat for a while. A normal person could just ignore it, but I can't. And I was out.

[Anthony Pusick]

I leave that on the bulletin board. I leave that as my message. Like a sports. I'm like, this is my message.

[Ty Butler]

That's incredible.

[Anthony Pusick]

I can't do this. All right, I'll be back.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm out.

[Ty Butler]

So maybe it's a bad idea to ask this, Anthony, what was the message or messages?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, what did you say right before that?

[Ty Butler]

No, no, no, not right before that. I'm more interested to see right after he leaves.

[Anthony Pusick]

You know, the little emoji with the little one tear. Yeah, that was me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I said, you did that? You did that?

[Anthony Pusick]

I was hurt. I was.

[Ty Butler]

I felt bad.

[Anthony Pusick]

I felt bad. But Peter did reach out to me and we were just.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I hit up everybody. I ended up hitting up everyone because I didn't want them to feel bad. Well, yeah, when I heard old butt hurt Allen. I mean, I love the man, but he. We've learned it. He's a very sensitive man. I didn't know that. I didn't know how sensitive he was. I assumed a man who's that well put together, so successful, those are the most sensitive people. Yeah, he's very. And he's open.

[Ty Butler]

I love valid.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He's open. He's very open about it. I just didn't know it. And so once he told me he was hurt, I said, you Know what? I should hit the rest of the guys. And then Anthony said, you know, I was going to make a new group chat so he wouldn't bother you. And I was like, you know what? That's.

[Ty Butler]

But now you're back in the group chat.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Or we haven't reopened the group chat because now Alan and Don are going.

[Ty Butler]

Does he have to get jumped back in? How does it go?

[Anthony Pusick]

Yeah, we're going to need to have a conversation about that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think how we restart the group chat.

[Anthony Pusick]

I think we might have to have a conversation.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I'm going have to ask for permission.

[Anthony Pusick]

I think you were voted off the aisle.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's it. By the way, you know what I got to say? Should I fight it?

[Ty Butler]

I think you want to know what's going on.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, but Anthony could just fill me in every day.

[Ty Butler]

Now you're giving him extra work.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Just copy and paste what he said. He always.

[Anthony Pusick]

Ty was like, last week, he was shocked. He goes, ant you don't. Your descriptive text, they know that they're not descriptive anymore. I'm like, they don't read them anyway. So I just like, that's exactly right.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So why be in the group chat?

[Don La Greca]

Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't listen to anything you just said.

[Don La Greca]

Catch the show on demand whenever you want. Just subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Things are turning around.

[Ty Butler]

I like what you did there.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, I know what he did. He played Guess who's back, which, by the way, it's combination, because it's for me. Guess who's back. I'm back. But also, if we're playing the game, guess what happened while Peter was away? The music kind of works.

[Ty Butler]

Oh, it does for multiple reasoning.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Here, let's set it off. We got things to do.

[Ty Butler]

All right, so let's go get it popping. So what we're going to do is throw some stories at our guy Peter and ask him whether this actually happened or am I making it up.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, I'm into.

[Ty Butler]

So let's start with. As I try to pull up my list, Justin Fields carted off the field in practice. Did that actually happen?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Justin Fields carted off the field in practice. Huh? I'm gonna go with, yes, that happened.

[Ty Butler]

Ding, ding. Do we have, like, a sounder thing?

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's a good one.

[Ty Butler]

Yeah.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Never heard that before.

[Ty Butler]

He actually did get caught. Now, it was later revealed he had a toe issue. Someone stepped on his toe. So it wasn't as serious as it sounded. But us Jet fans, man, were Panicking, you hear? Justin? I never thought I would be on my knees praying for Justin Fields to be healthy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I was going to say, oh no, how will we ever go 5 and 12?

[Ty Butler]

But think about it, man. It's a starting quarterback, so you can. It's the difference.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's the difference between 7 and 10 and 5 and 12.

[Ty Butler]

Peter, I understand that you now have your franchise guy. We do. So you can be an elitist. Yeah, I bet. But when your team is in the midst of losing its starting quarterback before the season even starts, it's true.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It ruins the season.

[Ty Butler]

It's gut ruins. It ruins.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But it didn't happen. Look.

[Ty Butler]

Didn't happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Maybe the same will be true of my knee injury right now.

[Ty Butler]

Before we get to the phone calls, I find it disrespectful that I'm scrolling through social media on your birthday. They didn't bother to give you a nice little shout out. Everyone's getting shout outs. You didn't get a shout out.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, you're talking about the radio station.

[Ty Butler]

The radio station.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, it's unbelievable. No, no. That day, let me tell you something. The only people in at, at the radio station that I heard from at all were Ty Butler, who sent a text. You sent a text, right?

[Ty Butler]

Yeah, yeah. Hit you. I said, happy birthday, bro.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, Ty sent a text. He's always very good about that. Michael K. There we go.

[Ty Butler]

Mike.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Early in the day. Early in the day.

[Ty Butler]

There we go.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I call him early in the day K because of that. Early in the day K. And my guy, Young Jefferson in the promotions department.

[Ty Butler]

So not even the guys who work on the show, Jacob and Anthony, Jake, Nothing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Don only sent the message after I said something to Jake. Like, damn, no one. Then five minutes later, here comes Don. Hey, happy birthday, buddy.

[Ty Butler]

It almost doesn't count at that point.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Almost doesn't count. It 100% doesn't count. It was disgraceful what happened.

[Ty Butler]

Damn. Supposed to be your man's right here.

[John Winthrop]

It's crazy, the fact that I got no credit. When I was the one that set off everything. I reached out to Peter. I was like, oh. Cause I saw, you know, we have a mutual friend. That's why it was his birthday. I was like, oh. Nobody mentioned it. Nobody said anything. I knew Jake was off, Anthony was.

[Ty Butler]

Off, and no one posted it on the ESPNY account.

[John Winthrop]

So I reached out to Peter and I said, oh, happy birthday, Peter. I hope you enjoyed it, man. He texted back to me, he's like, I appreciate it. You're the only one that reached out to this thing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, what time did you send that?

[John Winthrop]

It was after the show.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So after the show.

[John Winthrop]

6:30.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now John Winthrop is trying to get credit. For what? For him participating. He said at 8.14pm Happy birthday bud. Hope you're enjoying your first one as a dad. I wrote thanks buddy. Jake told you. He said no. I saw the Hot 97 post.

[Ty Butler]

Yeah. And see what he's trying to do there with the little sentiment at the end. First one as a dad.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yep.

[Ty Butler]

Is trying to make you forget that he went all day without saying Happy Birthday.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Cuz guys, I got to tell you, we're living in an era now where if you have an iPhone, it stores people's birthdays.

[Ty Butler]

It does. And that's how I know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Because a couple years ago you probably said Happy Birthday. It's seasonal.

[Ty Butler]

That in your texts and it'll ask.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You like, hey, is this so and so's birthday?

[Ty Butler]

Correct.

[Peter Rosenberg]

So guys, I'm getting messages at 7am for people I barely know saying Happy Birthday and my own team. And not only that, when I asked Jake, I said, did anyone say anything on the show today on the air?

[Ty Butler]

Nothing. Nothing.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Not a thing.

[Ty Butler]

Now here's, here's the counterpoint that I know Anthony's going to go with. Well, had you not left the group.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Text, well, what would I have done? Announced my birthday.

[Ty Butler]

We would have been. In heavy words.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. I would have jumped on and said, hey guys, it's my birthday. No, it would have been even sadder.

[Ty Butler]

No, it would have triggered something for someone and then the onslaught of Happy Birthday.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Now I will say this though, and I'm not trying to beat up the guy because he's already caught it a little bit today. At some point or another, everybody on the show reached out and said Happy Birthday.

[Ty Butler]

Except for Alan Hun. He's got no use for you at this point.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's what it's starting to. He's got no use. Right?

[Ty Butler]

None whatsoever.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Or he's really upset about the group chat. Like I said, like that was such a thing for him.

[Ty Butler]

So you think pre group chat that would have. He would have said Happy Birthday but now he's offended so he's taking it that seriously.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's on the table.

[Ty Butler]

Which one is worse?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I would rather him be offended than he just didn't think about it.

[Ty Butler]

No use for me.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah, there's no use for me.

[Ty Butler]

By the way, Winthrop, I never got a happy birthday text from you.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Really?

[Ty Butler]

Yeah. Never.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And was it your birthday just recently too?

[Ty Butler]

February 27th. We want to go with Recent for that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Sure, sure. Yeah, it was this year. You know, it was this year.

[Anthony Pusick]

What's worse? Because of course, after Jake did it, I think Don probably was first. I was second of the onslaught of. Oh, everyone totally remembered Peter's birthday within a five minutes.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yeah. So who told you?

[Anthony Pusick]

Jacob.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Text also. Yeah.

[Anthony Pusick]

So is it is. I'm trying to figure out what was worse. Completely forgetting Peter knowing I forgot and sending it at, like, whatever I was, 7:30 at night, or just knowing it and then just punting, saying, I'm good, I'm just not even.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, no. I appreciate the effort at the end. Although I will say Anthony not reaching out is probably the most painful. That does hurt because he knows everything. Like, he's. He's sort of the. He has an idea of everything that's going on all the time. He was the one. If I'm. I mean, completely honest, he was the one I most expected. See, kind of early in the day, I expected an Anthony like, hey, buddy, happy birthday.

[John Winthrop]

See, but the only reason I give Anthony some leeway is it was the only week that Anthony had off and he was in Maine at an open.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you saying, Anthony, are you saying that when someone's on vacation, they like to be disconnected from work?

[Anthony Pusick]

Oh, I texted. I texted the Justin Fields carted off thing while I was, like, you know, walking through Acadia National Park. So no service. There's really not a lot of service.

[Ty Butler]

That didn't land the way you thought it would.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Nope, nope. I thought he, like, wanted to be disconnected.

[Anthony Pusick]

Also, I did start a text when Alan texted on the Monday. I was there going, guys, I'm gonna be honest. I think I'm gonna.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Couldn't do it. He didn't want to hurt him. Didn't want. You knew it. Because he knew it hurt. He knew it hurt bad. All right, should we talk to some people?

[Ty Butler]

Let's do it. My guy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right. You know who? I haven't talked to him in a long time. I'm sure he'll have a lot to bring to the table. Is good old Griftster. What up, Grif?

[Griftster]

Hey, I wanna. Did it happen while you were gone, Peter?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, thank you.

[Griftster]

Fingernails in the studio floor.

[Ty Butler]

Fingernail gate.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I. That happened. I believe it happened.

[Ty Butler]

Who.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Who was it Dave Rothenberg?

[Ty Butler]

No, we never found out who was. Who was guilty.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We never found out. Someone just found nails.

[Ty Butler]

We, Dan Grass had discovered either finger or toenails just, like, right there on the floor. Like a bunch of them.

[Griftster]

Yep.

[Ty Butler]

And we never got to the bottom of who actually did it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, that is repulsive.

[Ty Butler]

Yeah, but it's hard to figure out. I mean, we got cameras in the studio.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You think, I am, at times, guys, a fingernail biter. I admit it. But when I do that, I am very diligent about then taking them someplace and disposing, because that is a disgusting.

[Ty Butler]

Someone just left them right there on the floor.

[Peter Rosenberg]

They were all over the floor. It's a disgusting thing to find. It's actually almost shocking how disgusting.

[Ty Butler]

So let me ask you, Griffin, hold on for a moment. If I had to ask you, who would you think it would be most responsive? Like, in your.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I instantly went, dave Rothenberg. That's a problem, right?

[Ty Butler]

I was gonna say, like, who immediately comes to mind that person's guilty. Cause Don went, bart. And I don't think he meant it from a disrespectful. It was just like, he's an athlete. He's just not, you know, Don went, bart, he's an athlete. Everything's the locker room. So you kind of just dispose of things wherever.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I hate to say this, uh. Oh, but I am want to say things like this. It was definitely a white person that did this.

[Ty Butler]

So you're going, Dave.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not saying necessarily Dave, but I'm saying it was a Bart.

[Ty Butler]

That was the first name you went with.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, Dave did just pop out, but. But I'm saying I. I'm confident it wasn't Bart. Like, Bart looks clean and put together.

[Ty Butler]

Every day, and I was doing the show with Bart, so had that happened, I'm immediately.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't see him, like, just putting fingers in mouth. Like. I don't see it. I don't see it.

[Ty Butler]

I'm sorry, Griffin. Go ahead.

[Peter Rosenberg]

All right, Griffin, what do you got?

[Griftster]

I'm thinking. I'm thinking it was somebody that. That wasn't. This ain't worm saying, but I think it was somebody that. That wasn't. That was all by themselves.

[Ty Butler]

I thought it was Patty and Keegan.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, you know what? That's an interesting take by the Griftster. So. So that is why that's interesting. Jake thinks Jake Asmond. He's going Jake on Jake Crime.

[Ty Butler]

I thought it was Pat o', Keefe because Pat is the one who walks around in sandals, so that's like the easy access.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You think it was toe? Oh, no. Hold on. By the way, it should be obvious whether it was toe or finger.

[Ty Butler]

It was tough.

[Griftster]

Whatever.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, I guess not every time. Go ahead. This is a disgusting conversation.

[Griftster]

This Is a disgusting conversation. Let's get to the conversation where these players. I'm wondering if. I'm sorry, I, I, it's time to rip players. Everybody wants to rip the manager, Austin Wallace. You have to know how many outs there is. Jazz Shisham. You have to know. You have to go back to first. I'm sorry. I'm gonna watch the Little League World Series. And the Little Leaguers know what to do. And they know those things. How? How you forget how many hours. How do you forget that you have to go to first on a pop up? How.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It'S I'm with you, Griffin.

[Griftster]

Driving me crazy.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You have every right to be driven crazy by this. It's inexcusable. And I understand you can make the argument, is it really Aaron Boone's fault? It should be that fundamentals aren't getting done, but the thing. Well, it should be or shouldn't be?

[Ty Butler]

No, it should be.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think it shouldn't be, but it is.

[Ty Butler]

No, it should.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Where else do you put it if not him?

[Ty Butler]

Because you've watched sports your entire life, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

40 years, dude.

[Ty Butler]

In any sport, if a football team's running rampant with penalties, turning the ball over the very next day, you're criticizing the coach. If a basketball team appears undisciplined, doesn't have urgency, we're killing the coach. But for some reason in baseball, that's different. Like it's inconsistent with everything we know about sports. That's my problem.

[Peter Rosenberg]

What I'm trying to say is grown baseball players should just know these things. But if collectively 10 of them, don't you blame the manager? That is just how it goes. And you're right, every football coach. Should it really be the football's coach, the football coach's issue that they had an alignment move four times during a game? No, but they will get out there and say, we have to clean that up.

[Ty Butler]

It's not them, it's emphasized, it's enforced and we see those things corrected. And if they're not, it becomes a coaching problem.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And by the way, don't tell me, it's the first base coaches. The same way a head football coach, a good head football coach would not get out there and blame his offensive coordinator or his offensive line coach for offensive lineman jumping off sides. You shouldn't be blowing up on the first base coach. You should be owning mistakes like that.

[Don La Greca]

Thanks for listening to the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I didn't listen to anything you just said.

[Don La Greca]

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[Peter Rosenberg]

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[Ty Butler]

You keep hearing like a click.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I keep feeling a hearing. I feel a click like regularly. What does that, what would that mean, the click that you're feeling over and over? Why am I asking you guys?

[Ty Butler]

Like, you know, you look at us like that. Serious?

[Peter Rosenberg]

Well, like cuz Ty's at the gym a lot. I'm like, he know. He must know what happened.

[Ty Butler]

Disappointed when I don't have an answer.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You really don't, by the way.

[Ty Butler]

Just don't by the way.

[Peter Rosenberg]

ChatGPT probably could, if I could describe it. Well, it could, probably. This is where ChatGPT does quite well generally. But I do want to ask someone who really knows whether I could have done something. But the most annoying feeling is, and I think about this from time to time, I don't take it for granted. Injuries are so annoying. Like if you're just someone who's living life and you mess around and some sort of injury happens, all of a sudden everything that was just got so much more complicated for no reason.

[Ty Butler]

Especially you. You're doing 17 million podcasts and well, the podcast I can handle, but you're just moving around.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's the movie. It's just the movie. You got a new girl and lifting the baby and making sure you feel like stable and safe now and coming.

[Ty Butler]

Into here four times a week.

[Peter Rosenberg]

That's right. Four days a week.

[Ty Butler]

Four days a week. They upped it.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Come on, man.

[Ty Butler]

Last summer wasn't like that. We did shows together last summer remotely.

[Peter Rosenberg]

We did, yeah.

[Ty Butler]

We weren't physically During a couple of them were in person.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Oh, yeah, yeah. We did something together in the old.

[Ty Butler]

But during this time desolate studio.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Right around this time, yeah. But yeah, so I was going to jump up the stairs. I kind of like stutter stepped. And when I planted the left leg, I felt like a pop.

[Ty Butler]

I just don't get the jumping up part.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I jump upstairs. I don't know why I can't do it anymore. Obviously, you shouldn't be doing this in your 40s. You shouldn't be jumping. Let's be honest. Like, when I go to stairs, I should walk each stair.

[Ty Butler]

And you should be holding the rail.

[Peter Rosenberg]

And you should be holding the rail.

[Ty Butler]

You're north of 40.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yesterday, I did a segment on the Countdown show on SummerSlam, and it was me in a section like, showing the vantage with the fans. And they wanted to have the camera woman walk backwards and shoot up at me as I was walking down the stairs. And I'm like, you know, her camera is so big. I was like, do you want me to walk backwards? And they were like, well, we don't want you to fall down on camera. I was like, all right, but I can hold the rail and I'll probably be all right. And so I ended up doing it and I walked backwards down steps at MetLife Stadium. Nothing happened.

[Ty Butler]

Maybe that. Maybe something happened yesterday. You just didn't realize.

[Peter Rosenberg]

No, I felt it happen right now. And now I'm worried. I really don't want to. Like, if I have. Unfortunately, I asked these guys and they all said meniscus. Now they don't know what it is.

[Ty Butler]

No, because you keep describing where it is. In a different spot now, it's like upper calf, like in that vertex area.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's, it's. It's behind the knee, but on the left. On my left, but down a bit behind the knee, like the top of the calf into the knee, where that bone is right there. What is that?

[Ty Butler]

I don't know, man.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Should I take. You know what I should do? I should take a picture of it, the area, circle it and ask chatgpt what this could be.

[Ty Butler]

You able to do that?

[Peter Rosenberg]

I think so. Should we try during the break? I think during the break we can try it. But, like, if it's a meniscus, am I going to have to get surgery?

[Ty Butler]

If it's mcl four to six weeks, and that is like.

[Peter Rosenberg]

But I can't.

[Ty Butler]

I'm going bedridden.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm going to Paris at the end of the month. I'd have to wait till after that, I'd have to live through Paris. Why are you laughing?

[Ty Butler]

Because it's just funny. Like, the way we prioritize things. It's like, yeah, I can worry about my health, but, no, I'm going to Paris at the end of the month.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm not missing that.

[Ty Butler]

I'm not missing Paris.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I'm definitely not missing Paris.

[Ty Butler]

Not, of course.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Come on, bro. For what? Walking.

[Ty Butler]

Mikel Bridges, four year extension, 150. Did that happen.

[Peter Rosenberg]

To McKel? Bridges get a four year 150? No.

[Ty Butler]

It did happen. Mikel Bridges, baby. Four year extension, 6 million shy of the max. One hundred and fifty.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Good. For Mikhail Bridges. Good. No, listen, listen. Mikhail Bridges on the Knicks, he had, let me be clear, three games in which he definitively earned that contract. Now, I'm not saying he was trash in the other games. He was not. But in terms of. When you think of, like, what did Bridges do as a Knick? There were three games where you were like, he was really good there.

[Ty Butler]

I'll give them to you. He hit a game winner buzzer beater in Portland.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Yep.

[Ty Butler]

And then the two Celtic games that.

[Peter Rosenberg]

He closed out defensively. Yes. And those are the three moments you got. And that is worth 140. Yo, I've been doing pretty damn good radio every day for 20 years, at least. Most days. Mikhail Bridges had three moments. $150 million. It's crazy. It is crazy. It's Peter Rosenberg. It's Todd Butler. Everything's on the table. Seth Rollins cashed in. When I tell you the story. If you are a wrestling fan and you want to hear the story, the story of how crazy that was, particularly for me, is pretty amazing. I want to. Did you watch Saturday or just Sunday?

[Ty Butler]

No, I watched both days.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You watched both days?

[Ty Butler]

I wanted to make sure I could put.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Do you have questions?

[Ty Butler]

I have questions. I have qualms. I also have a question about something you text earlier.

[Peter Rosenberg]

Okay.

[Ty Butler]

So there are some wrestling. I come prepared.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You really do. You're a professional. You're a professional.

[Ty Butler]

What I do.

[Peter Rosenberg]

You're not a doctor, but you're a professional.

[Don La Greca]

Thanks for listening to my Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.

[Peter Rosenberg]

I don't want to know how the.

[Don La Greca]

Sausage is made, but I just want to know.

[Peter Rosenberg]

It's good.

[Don La Greca]

Hear more of Don Allen and Peter weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers.