Alan Hahn (8:30)
Alcs. If they can win the division by taking advantage of a weak schedule, but they got a lot of work to do. That's, that's, you know, what, what am I, what I'm saying is, is, is right now outrageous, but Toronto is, you know, starting to come back a little bit. So it's still there, but it's a lot of work. I just love the fact that Cashman spoke last week, said a lot of obvious things and one of the things that he did say was to make sure to take the pressure off Aaron Boone and admit that for Boone this has been tough because Boone has had to face the music after every single game, which is true. It's not easy and it's not fair that he's got to do it. So the fact that Cashin went on the road trip and spoke, that's good, that's important. But he had to make sure that he took some of the pressure off Boone and put it on himself. But have you noticed, Peter, that more and more former Yankees are saying are getting louder about their criticism of the Yankee approach when it comes to using analytics as the be all, end all? It started like, you know, Jeter has suggested it enough and started with some, like, peripheral guys that you kind of heard of but didn't really know who they were. And then all of a sudden, David Cohn, little by little, has mentioned it a couple of times on the broadcast, especially the national ones, about how like, you know, because by the way, no one believes in analytics more than David Cohen. He recites chapter and verse, all the different numbers because he's so into it, he loves baseball. But then Cohen also brings up the fact that, you know, some things can't be quantified by numbers. Some things are about fact, feel and emotion and. And all that stuff. And I think him saying that lends credibility to it. But then Joe Girardi starts saying it. Joe Girardi had to follow the book, too, when he was managing. But Girardi, on a recent broadcast, was also talking about the same thing, that, hey, I get it, that the numbers tell you that if you just do this every time, majority of the time you'll win, so you're going to have losses, but. But a majority of the time it'll work to your advantage, so just stick with it. And he said, but you can't always go with that because, like I've always said, like, analytics can't tell you about a guy, a guy's mental state on a certain day having a bad day. So the analysts go out the window, right? Or I got a toe injury that now affects the way I swing the bat. The analysts are out the window now because that's a variable that you never, never account for. So he says that then in the broadcast of the game on Old Timers Day, not the Old Timers game, but the broadcast that game from the game day against the Astros, Joe Torrey comes to the booth and, boy, Torrey was. You talk about preaching the gospel about the importance of still having a feel for your team and just knowing. I know I shall. David Cohn came in a game, and he is. His numbers were bad, but I just knew he was right for that moment, and it worked like he told the story. And so sometimes you can't go with the numbers. You got to go with, I know my player, and I trust him in this situation. So you're just hearing it more and more. And that. That tells me that it's just the rebellion against, you know, Brian Cashman's death star, which is that room where he keeps his. His numbers, nerd numbers, and all those guys that are crunching on numbers every. Here's the lineup we need today, and here's how you play today, and here's you don't play today, and all that stuff. The rebellion is getting louder and stronger, and at some point, Hal Steinbrenner has to hear it and has to decide, okay, we got to blow this room up, and we got to do it differently. So I'm hoping that that's the case and that's, you know, that's what you have to expect, that if a Season continues to go the way it is, which. Especially when you get to the playoffs, which I think they're going to make the playoffs one way or another. But when you get there and you play the good teams and you get exposed by the good teams the same way you get exposed every year by the good teams, eventually some of these voices have to be heard other than Brian Cashman's.
