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Get the Angel Reese Special at McDonald's. Now, let's break it down. My favorite barbecue sauce, American cheese, crispy bacon, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun, of course. And don't forget the fries and the drinks. Sound good? Ba da ba ba ba. I participate in restaurants for a limited time. This is the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast. That sounds like heaven to me. Listen live weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers. I stand by. I don't care. I know I have the eclectic hectic music tastes. I get it. This does have a old Han Solo at night feel though, right? We used to play all kinds of music. Stuff that people said. I haven't heard that in a long time. That's why we do it. Tears for Fears, songs from the Big Chair, no Skips album. Can't Argue with Me. Such a great song too. And by the way, they hated the song. They didn't think it was going to be popular and it ended up being one of their biggest hits. Yankees, they have more spring training action Tonight they play The Blue Jays 6:30pm of course, on yes. So how about we give you a Yankee starting lineup brought to you by Certapro Painters. See, I wish we had Don here to do it because he could do it in some funny voices. I'm just going to give it to you straight, all right? Catching, you have Austin Wells in right, Aaron Judge in the two hole as usual at center field. Cody Bellinger, your first baseman is Paul Goldschmidt. He will be batting cleanup. The DH Trent Grisham, who get to know him really well because you're going to see a lot of him in left field. How about this? Dom Smith, shortstop. Oswald Peraza, second base. Your bit Vivas, third base. Andrew Velasquez. And your pitcher tonight, everybody's favorite, Marcus Stroman. That's right, the Yankees starting lineup brought to you by Certapro Painters. When choosing a painting professional for your home or business, the choice is simple. Choose happy. Choose Certapro Painters. Now, Anthony, I'll bring you in here because I probably should have asked you ahead of time the latest on the Stanton news. That is not any type of audio, right? That is just simply a report. Yeah. No, what I'm seeing is Brian Hoak tweeted an hour ago, John Carlos Stanton will return to New York City. I had to make sure that I was reading this right. Will return to New York City for a third round of PRP injections in his ailing elbows on Monday. The Yankees said a third round. I don't. Did the second round even take yet? I mean, third round, that's. He's in the LCS now of his prp. He's only one round in the World Series. I mean, you kidding me? A third round of prp? This sounds like the elbow is a serious issue that, like, I've never had PRP elbows, by the way. Yeah, that's right. Both elbows. Is it possible that the first one didn't take? How does this work exactly? Isn't it just supposed to be like refreshing the blood and hoping that it cleans up the elbows in the area? Whatever the issue is, a third round is kind of a concern. Now, Cashman already told us that he's going to be out for an extended period of time and they're hoping that he can't even swing a bat. How does this happen? That. That is my biggest question when it comes to Stin. I know that he is somebody that just deals with a lot of injuries, but usually it's hamstring related, isn't it? Usually it's that kind of stuff involving his legs because they make him run. I just. This is one where he started having pain in the elbow, which I guess in the fall last year, during the playoffs, it was bothering him. And when he took time off in the summer, in the winter when he started to swing again, the inflammation came back. And it must have come back, like with a vengeance because they have to continue to go through treatments on these elbows and not swing a bat. That's a. That's a major concern. So no, Stan. And the PRP efforts certainly continue on the baseball front. We'll continue there. Before we get back to your calls, just because this was a story that Don and I talked about earlier, but in case this is for the later crew, the crowd that maybe came in a little after 4 o'clock and you didn't hear this. A very interesting development in the Juan Soto situation appeared today because he did a interview with a Spanish language media outlet, Abriendo Sports, and he talked about his, you know, decision to sign with the Mets. Some of the things that he talked about, we all under. We all knew there were five teams left in the final cut. He revealed again what we knew. Mets and Yankees, of course, Red Sox, Blue Jays and the Dodgers. And the list is something we all expected. But then he said something that caught everyone's attention in Spanish translated, he said the Mets didn't offer the most money. Some teams offered more, really, because the belief all along everybody was that Soto just was going for the highest bidder. He was taking the most money and it didn't matter. And that's why the Yankees didn't have a chance, because the Yankees stopped. And at $760 million, which is a ton of money, in 16 years, it was 5 million less than the total that the Mets were willing to offer. But the Mets were willing to offer it for one less year. So his annual was higher. So The Mets offered 765, the Yankees offered 760. He took the Met offer, and we all were like, really 5 million bucks. And he went to the Mets, and then they told you about the luxury suite that they gave him for his family. That's a big chunk of change, too, that you have to count into this. And apparently the Yankees were not willing to do something like that, because for them, that's a huge piece of revenue. And if you do that for him, how does Garrett Cole not ask for it? How does Judge not ask for it and every other future free agent, you can't start doing that. So the Yankees didn't get involved in that. So he chose the Mets over the Yankees over money. That's what we thought. But then this is said, and now you're like, hang on a second, who offered more? Because clearly the Yankees didn't. Cashmere made it clear they got to a number. Then Hal pushed it a little further, and that was it. And 7, 60 was that number. The Athletic told us that the Dodgers final offer to Soto was 600. There were other reports that said the Red Sox final offer was around 700. Then Sportsnet in Canada said the Blue Jays offer was under 700 million. So wait a minute. Which one of these teams said, we'll go higher if you say you'll definitely take it? Like, we're not just going to keep up in the ante and be a leverage team. We'll go if you accept the offer. And clearly he wasn't going to accept it. So what was the team that he said no to? Well, he actually said there were teams that offered more. Did the Dodgers say, we'll go to this number just to get you? Because we know they just print money out there. Right? I should stay out here. I'm in la. Right? Like, are they. Did the Dodgers say, we'll go, but we're only going to go there if you take the offer right now? And he said no, maybe the Dodgers. He's thinking, there's just so many stars here, I can get lost in this galaxy where the Mets. That's my team, I'm the face. Did he want that? Did he just like playing in New York? Did the Red Sox offer it and he think they're not, they're not close to winning at the level that I want to win, maybe I don't want to play there, who knows? And then the third one is the Blue Jays. Did the Blue Jays offer to go higher? And he thought Canada, Toronto, the exchange rate, you know, a team that's not really built to win, you know, I don't know if I want to do that. So he said no to them. It couldn't have been the Yankees. So in the end when the Mets say, you know, he chose us because we were the best place for him to play, when they believe that our family friendly atmosphere and all the things we've created under Steve Cohen, that he loved it here that much, that's what it was about. Do we really want to believe that Soto wasn't really about the money but always wanted it to be the Mets? Is that possible?