Jaime Jaquez Jr.

It's 40 years since 1986.

There's a huge burden on this fandom, and we feel really stymied.

And one of the reasons why I think we're harder on players now is because...

on paper we should have everything we have the wealthiest owner we have a really smart front office in theory of course we have homegrown talent and high profile free agents we have great facilities um we play in a very competitive division but in some cases that should elevate that has elevated the yankees for for decades so

you know, it's depressing.

And so what happens is we tend to overreact emotionally.

I'm not a person who boos players.

That's not really a thing that I do.

I don't really think that that does much for you.

I do get depressed about the state of a certain player.

Like we're watching Edwin Diaz right now on the Dodgers, which is hard to watch.

But I remember watching Edwin Diaz at Dodger Stadium get blown up five years ago and feel about as low about him as a player as I ever have.

feeling like a genuine personal depression because of what a fiasco that trade was that brought him here.

And it turned around.

And he turned out to be a terrific Met, one of the best closers, maybe the best closer in franchise history.

And the same could very well happen for Boba Shett starting tonight.

It's just a bummer so far.

Yeah, I was listening to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show this morning, and they were talking about Diaz's entrance in the live trumpeter.

And they were wondering, was this the first time that Diaz had ever had a live trumpeter?

Which, of course, is not true.