Tiki Barber

Was this an intentionality in how they marketed and built the brand of the Yankees?

Yeah, my follow-up when Evan brought that up last week, Mike, was why didn't Willie become a manager?

Yeah, let's fast forward a little bit, Mike.

How far did the apple fall from the tree with Hal?

Because that's what everybody references now.

Well, George wouldn't have done this, and Hal gets away with X, Y, and Z. How different are they?

Yeah.

I also think it's unfair, Mike, when people say, well, Howell doesn't do what George would do.

The situation with the players and their agents in particular is so different than it ever was with George Steinbrenner.

It's almost like the agent has control over what's going to happen.

And you can't put it all on the owner to say, all right, I'm a private equity fund.

I can spend a billion dollars in offseason.

So it's almost unfair the pressure that gets put on Howell sometimes.

We all know this, Mike.

Kids are different.

They evolved from the 70s to the 80s and 90s.

Now the 2000 kid was born in the aughts.

It's not the same situation, but it's also not the same situation with the sport itself.

In Georgia's day, baseball was king.

Now football has become king.