Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This was a story that came out this morning. Randy Miller covers the team at NJ.com. So here's the headline. It's not even March.
I don't look at NJ.com anymore.
Okay, well, I'm going to give you some of the specifics of this story. Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton can't open a bag of chips due to pain, but still eyes full season. So this is still going back to the elbows, the double... Tennis elbow situation. He can't open a bag of chips. Correct, yes.
Chapter 2: Why is Giancarlo Stanton delaying his elbow surgery?
So let's see if I can give you some quotes here. Full off season of rest didn't heal his tennis elbow that have plagued both arms since 2024. Quote, that'll never be the case, Stanton said softly. Not while I'm in this line of work. You have your good days and your bad days, just like your mood and everything. His good days aren't normal. Quote, I can't open a bottle.
I can't open a bag of chips, a bag of anything. That's the way it is.
All right, so now I have tennis elbow myself. I do one as well. I understand the pain involved in it. You're going to tell me they can't figure this out at the pro level?
Well, a sports orthopedic surgeon told NJ.com last March Stanton would be facing only a couple months recovery with surgery, which is essentially cleaning out the tendon, blah, blah, blah. Does Stanton have any regret about not having surgery?
You get the surgery, and you can go back to being in the general population in a few months, but my job is to put some of the most force into a batted ball. And he basically said he can't have the surgery until his playing career is over, in his opinion.
Okay.
It's not going to be fixed in surgery. I don't care what any doctor says because they don't know what's going on.
What I don't understand with this, though, and that premise that he's expecting to play a full season, if after four or five months off hasn't healed it, why all of a sudden is he going to be ready in four or five weeks? I don't know.
He's talking about management and rest and trying to stay off the IL. He's not going to play 162 games, obviously.
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Chapter 3: What challenges is Stanton facing with his tennis elbow?
So kind of interesting to hear him make those comments. He actually sounded normal. Yes. Well, he wasn't doing anything goofy. Yeah, he wasn't doing his goofy stuff. Did you talk about the Alonzo negotiations at all? I just saw the two clips on Howe and the one on Cohen. And you could even hear it chopped up in there. It was condensed down into the clip.
Didn't have a chance to go back and listen to the full clip.
Maybe him doing that on that podcast is trying to soften the stance against his clients. Perhaps. Who knows? Perhaps.
You've got Randall Gritchuk joining the Yankees. Non-roster invite. He'll join them for spring training. Minor league deal. See if he can make the club as a right-handed hitting outfielder who has, in the past at least, had a lot of success hitting lefty pitchers. We talked about the... Matt Waldron story with Padres pitcher.
I'll play the audio from the manager revealing it, which if you can picture before knowing the story and the manager comes out, they ask him about the status of this player who's been absent and obviously not taking part in spring training.
Matt Waldron, maybe noticed he hasn't been here the last couple days, had an infection in his rear end and had to have surgery to drain it and make it better. So he's been in the hospital the last couple days.
Make it better. Wouldn't you? If you were the manager, wouldn't you just say, he had surgery for a hemorrhoidectomy, he will be back as soon as he can, to say it that way? So now I see where these headlines, I thought the headlines were being cute. No, that's what he said. Yeah.
And then they later had to follow up to clarify to get to the bottom of what was a hemorrhoid issue and the surgery and so on and so forth. Poor Matt Waldron. Yeah. I'm sure it's not been a great 24 hours or so for him beyond.
Can you imagine what his social media notifications are?
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Chapter 4: What are Scott Boras' thoughts on Hal Steinbrenner's player pursuit?
A tenth of an inch? Oh, my gosh.
I think someone said basically the size of an atom.
I was telling you yesterday, there are a couple of these. And this is where, to me, I love the technology. This, to me, is where I feel bad for the umpire. That is such a close call that that's almost not fair. But that's what I'm saying. The batters, they know. By the way, what do you think was the percentage of overturned challenges? I saw this number. It actually surprised me so far.
Thus far, I would say the percentage of overturned challenges, simply because you're asking me this, I'm going to say north of 60%.
No, 53%. I actually thought it was going to be more like 70-75. Because remember, we were playing the other day where the Yankees were 6-7. You had the one that were five straight overturned calls in the Red Sox game. So I was surprised that number was as low as it was.
I would think this is also going to force, like I was saying yesterday, the umpires, you know, they're human beings too. So they could have bad innings. They could have a dip here, a dip there. They're going to have to be on their game all the time now. It's going to force them to really, really focus in.
I'd love to go through all the hockey stuff again, but we're running short on time. The Devils did lose to the Sabres last night 2-1, but you had the Jack Hughes gold medal acknowledgement before the game, which was great. We played the audio earlier. Devils-Penguins tonight.
The Rangers return from the Olympic break at home against the Flyers, and you've got the Islanders up north against the Canadians. I want to play you this quickly. Maybe you guys can decipher this after the break in your last segment. So Scouting Combine, Todd Munkin, of course, now the head coach at the Browns. Shador Sanders is still on the roster. So he sits down with CBS Sports.
I'm not sure who exactly. And tells a little bit of an interesting Shador story. This is from Todd Munkin.
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Chapter 5: What happened to Padres pitcher Matt Waldron?
Very good. I knew Pettit, but not Mickey Mantle.
It's going to get a little more difficult now, but given the era, I have faith in you. 49.
Mariano Rivera. Oh, no. He was 42. My bad. I caught that one. You did catch that one. Yeah, you caught yourself. 49. Yes. Figueroa.
Figueroa. Not Figueroa. Ron Guidry. Oh, man.
What's his nickname? Louisiana Lightning.
Thank you. Lastly... Number three? Babe Ruth. Okay. Five? Lou Gehrig. No.
We'll go with mixed results for Al. How's that? Yes. He knew a lot of the more recent guys, not so much the older guys. Which I figured he would. Who do you think Figueroa is, by the way? Who is Figueroa? I don't know. Nelson? Former Met?
There was a Figueroa on the Brewers. Ed Figueroa? Ed Figueroa, the pitcher.
Yes, that's who I was thinking of. So you just threw out a random name.
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Chapter 6: How are the Yankees managing player injuries this season?
Yeah, I don't know the answer.
You know, I don't know what internally all the criteria is.
Understood. I guess the point being.
It's unfortunately the way he passed away. Right. And the emotion that's attached to that, you know. It goes beyond baseball. It goes beyond baseball, yeah. That's all.
All right, Chris, thank you very much. We will see you tomorrow.
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