Welcome to another episode of PSP. I am your host, Mr. Ne Wallace. Bruce, you believe it? We are one month into the baseball season and before you know it, the playoffs will be around the corner. It'll be the full classic until then, we've got good weather. We've got spring. We've got summer on the horizon, and we've got an a least dog fight going on 'cause we got the Yankees, the Red Sox. The Orioles and the Blue Jays all battling it out for the division league.
Like no one wants to leave right now. And there's that team called Tampa Bay, who's currently playing a minor league baseball park. Went into that, doubt, because they have a special guest. She is the founder of Babes Babes Media, a unique media company that goes around all the major League baseball franchises. It's Jona, Pellinger, Jona. How you doing?
I am so good. How are you Doing?
Jonah. Why don't you
Good.
us a little bit about how Babes Babes Media came about.
Yeah, definitely. So I have been a lifelong baseball fan, particularly a Yankee fan. I was born into a diehard family. So I didn't have a choice on my team, but I am so happy about that. It paid off over the years, so I was growing up in the nineties when the nineties dynasty was going on and. Just, I've always been so attached to the game of baseball and. In 2021, I was living in Denver at the time and the MLB All Star Week got moved there last minute.
And the Denver Sports Commission and the Rockies were reaching out to fans in the area looking for volunteers. So I went and I signed myself up immediately. Which was such a life changing experience. It was so cool. I got to work the MLB draft that year. And so walking away from that experience, I was like, what am I doing with my life? I love baseball. This is where I shine. You know, this is where I'm confident in myself and in what I'm doing. And so like, why am I not working in baseball?
So I kind of just walked away, you know, it was kind of a critical time in life anyway, right? 'cause it was right in the midst of C and I think like a lot of us were doing a lot of self-reflection at the time. And so I walked away from that and I was like, I am going to work in baseball. I don't know what that looks like yet, but I am gonna carve it out, carve a path. And so I got, at the time I was really started to be active live tweeting during Yankee games on Twitter.
And I kind of just grew a following really quickly there. And then someone reached out to me wanting me to start writing for them. So that's who I write for now on New Jersey. And I took on that opportunity. And then from there, you know, just. Just a lot of the hate that I got on Twitter there for the first couple of years maybe, that I was really actively tweeting during games. There would be a lot of like, you know, go back to the kitchen and just like, you know, female hate kind of posts.
And so I was like, I need to create a platform where women can come together, talk baseball. We don't have to put up with that, you know, and so. I was searching around to see if there were any other podcasts out there doing that, who were like solely run by women and I couldn't really find anything. I. Not that there aren't women, female podcasters talking baseball, but I couldn't find one that was like solely women and where like the whole goal of it was to promote like women in baseball.
So I started that platform and that has grown. And I've been at it for about two years now.
Baseball should be a safe space to, can all talk about the game. It's a beautiful thing when the game's on and we can just talk passionately about it. There's no need to get personal. You've been doing this for a couple of years now. The game's been changing in that time, but what have you seen your capacity as a writer and also as the founder of your media company?
Yeah, I mean, I guess like just from the women in baseball angle, like just since I started, I've seen tons of pages pop up and tons of like fans female fans getting more and more immersed in the game and in the sports. Like from that women in sports and women in baseball perspective, that has been. Really cool because I feel like it's just like the norm now. We don't have to like do this whole, like women in sports, women in baseball.
I mean, we don't have to do that on the daily, like fighting for ourselves. I've seen a lot, it's just the norm now is what I'm trying to say, I guess. So from that perspective, that's been a cool growth from the game obviously. The game changes every day. And that's what I love about baseball so much. Like one day, you know, one week, the Blue Jays are in the lead. The, the next week the Yankees are in the lead and the Blue Jays are in what, fourth place.
So it's like, it, it just, I love that that baseball is just always fast paced, changing. You don't know what's gonna come. Yeah. I don't, I don't know in terms of the game, like specifically. I mean, we've had a couple weird rule changes, right? That have happened in the last couple years. The pitching clock being implemented was a big one.
And it was, I don't know about you, but it was so funny to see like in the first couple of weeks last year when that was implemented where people were like, oh, I, I hate this so much. I hate, you know, and then. Like, after a while, I feel like people kind of started to go to the other side, like, okay, I can get on board with this. I think that the true baseball fans though, like kind of hate it still because we want more baseball, right?
Like, I, liked sitting and watching baseball for three and a half, three hours and 45 minutes, you know? So the fact that the games go by so fast, like. I can't even get up and go, you know, run to the kitchen and come back and I've already missed a whole inning or a split at least. So, yeah, I mean, the game that has changed a lot. I.
Yeah, I, I get what you're saying there. It's definitely lot faster when you go to the, the ballpark you're in for the 7 0 7 start, and you're, you're roughing out around 9 30, 9 45. The days of going home at 10 30, 11 or, or almost over. I don't, Mind the pitch clock to be honest. One rule that I need to see gone yesterday is the, base person. Yeah, extra base runner and
Yes.
I get why it was brought in at the time, but that was also the same time when we had seven inning doubleheaders and seven inning doubleheaders are gone. We need to get rid of the Manfred man, as I like to call it, just as
Yeah.
get rid of it, let extra innings, b as the way they were intended. Competitive baseball. Yeah. Let's, let's just be done with that. Yeah,
Yeah, I agree. I I've been doing these fan features on Babes, babes Media on my Instagram page, and so if fans want to be featured I have like a bunch of questions I ask them and, and then I post it. And so, you know, other fans can follow them and, so forth. But one of the questions I asked is, what is the worst rule in baseball? And I think everyone, but like one person has said the ghost runner and extras.
Yeah. It does need to to be around, I think before Rob Manfred goes as commissioner needs to roll that one back.
We as Yankee fans can confirm, it often does not go our way with the extras, the race runner and extras. Yeah.
It's a, it's a wild time be a Yankee fan and seeing what goes on, particularly when you get to the, to the back end of the bull fan. You never know what's gonna happen. Tell us about that, because the Yankees did make a big trade in the off season. They traded away Nester Cortez a starter. They brought in Devon Williams, who was the closest from the Milwaukee Brewers. He was tabbed as the, the high leverage closer. They seem to prefer him over Luke Weaver initially. has been your
Yeah.
how that is going down, especially now that Devin Williams has seemingly been removed as the closer for the Yankees?
Yeah. You know, I will say when he did his introductory press conference, I, it didn't sit well with me because his tone, and I guess like the more interviews I've seen him do, he is kind of like, he's not very animated. He's not very, his voice is very monotone, so he doesn't show like a lot of emotion, so. It might just be a little bit of that, but he did not seem excited at all to be traded to the Yankees.
And he even made a comment in his introductory presser it was like, well, I thought I was going to the Dodgers or whatever. And so, that didn't sit super well with me 'cause I was like, anyone who is going to go put on the pen stripes? In my experience anyway, like that's like. How, you know you've made it right, like that's the biggest stage in baseball to put on the pin strips and be a Yankee. So to not be showing any emotion or like excitement around that was kind of weird to me.
So I kind of had that, that in the back of my mind. And then, yeah, like obviously his first couple outings, I'm like, okay, like this is probably normal. I mean, he is really young. This is only his second team and so like. I wasn't gonna say a whole lot in the first few outings. But I mean, as time went on, it was very obvious, very quickly that Luke Weaver is our guy. And I am, I am proud of the Yankees for pulling the plug as quickly as they have.
'Cause they, you know, probably wouldn't have in the past. But I mean, I think having Luke Weaver. And knowing that they have him and like seeing what he's done, probably made their decision a lot easier than, you know, it has been in the past. But yeah, like to speak to Luke Weaver, he hasn't given up a run since last October during the A LCS game three of the A-A-L-C-S, and he's only given up five hits in that span. So he's faced 75 batters, zero ERA. Five hits since the last October.
So it's like, if that doesn't speak for itself, like that's our guy, and I don't really understand why. I think a lot of people are in this position too, like, why did we need to get Devin Williams? Why, why did we do that? So I, I feel like maybe that was the only way we could offload Nestor. I don't know.
That's a good point. We'll talk about Nest in a moment, but staying on Devin Williams, 'cause starting to get some, vibes of Sonny Gray, Joey Gallo, guys who have been high performers at other teams, when they come to the Bronx, they seem to struggle. Perhaps. Is that A thing for players that come into New York? That, that the lights might be a little bit bright?
Oh, definitely. I mean, even look at Clay Holmes and like the year he's having over there with the Mets as a starter you know, he got a lot of hate and a lot of booze and, perhaps it was just that the lights are too bright and, and the Bronx, I don't know. I can definitely see that being the case with Williams. But he had a good outing last night when they moved, when they brought him in, in the eighth. And so, maybe it's just too much pressure as the closer.
I mean, look, if I am going to come into a team and I am, you know, young have only played with one team and I'm coming in and taking the job of the guy who just closed for the Yankees in the World Series, didn't give up a run, by the way, in the World Series. I mean, that's really high pressure. So maybe just taking a backseat to Weaver is what he needs.
Maybe now, as he said, has brought in as part of the trade that sent Ne Nest Cortez away to Milwaukee, Cortez. I guess his final act for the Yankees will be infamous. It wasn't. I. Maybe it was his choice. Maybe it was Aaron Boone's choice, but he did come in in Game one of the World Series to attempt to close out the game, and it ended up being a highlight reel for the wrong reasons. As Freddie Freeman cracked a home run that won on the game. What was your take on, that decision?
Would you have liked to have seen someone else come in to pitch that ninth meaning?
Yeah, so I guess. At the time I was really confused as to why we had Marcus Stroman on on the roster. Because we had had Cody Petite start three games and win three games for us during the regular season, and he's a lefty. And so I was like, why do we even have Marcus Stroman on the roster? And then like, Nestor, I feel in hindsight wasn't. Fully healed. But they rushed him back because we needed him.
But like, I guess I didn't really understand why they left Cody Petit off the roster when they had like two potential spots there that they could have, had him replace in Nestor or I felt like he could have been a good relief piece for us, especially if we needed somebody for multiple innings. So that was always in the back of my mind, like, why did that guy not make the roster? And then, you know, he ended up being traded.
Yeah, he
I don't know if he was traded. Traded to the Cubs, right in the Bellinger deal. And then he's been DFA since, and the Orioles picked him up, but immediately and I don't blame them. I was hoping we would snatch him up and I'm, not really sure why we didn't. Because I felt like he was excellent last year in the starts that we had him in. So I guess that was like always in the back of my mind, like, why didn't we have him? Because I didn't feel like Nestor was fully healed.
And I think again, we rushed him back. We needed him. And obviously he's hurt again already, so I still just feel like all this time he hasn't really fully been healed, which like, I'll say there are guys like Garrett Cole and, that guy knows his body so well that like so many times he would get looked at by doctors because he's like, something's off. He didn't mess around with it. But I feel like there's a lot of guys that try to just like fight through it and it always comes back to bite them.
Nester's one of those guys, like, I just think he. You know, he won't speak up when something's off and, tries to fight through it. And, but it always comes up, in an aisle visit. And that's, what's going on right now with him, with the brewers. So, yeah, a questionable call for sure. And then again, they brought him in. What game was that? Game five. Was that game four or game five? That he came back out and actually did have a good outing that time around. But
yeah,
I questionable call for sure.
It was not a, not a great time and not a, not a way. You want him to be remembered in the postseason. 'cause he had a pretty good Yankees career up to that point. He was known for his. Little thing that he did on the mound, but kind of puts the,
Yeah.
he
His little kick antics.
Exactly. So for him to go out like that, it was pretty sad to see. But what can you do?
it was, yeah.
What can you do?
But back to the Devin Williams thing, before we move on to another topic, I've, I figured out before this I was like, I wanna know what our bullpen ERA is without Devin Williams. And it's a 2.32 and that even includes Yarborough, who doesn't have like the greatest, I think he might have a nine ERA or something. So I mean, that speaks volumes of the ERA or of the, the bullpen without Devin, what Devin Williams has done so far?
Yeah, and that's a good point you raised. 'cause the bullpen outside of Williams has, has been reasonable. I. The,
Absolutely.
has had its obvious issues. Garrett Cole has gone down, his production has been replaced by Max Fried, who's, you know, he's gone from being free agent acquisition to the new a to the team. They've, they've now got Clark Schmidt coming back from injury. Lewis Hill be in the, in the frame around June, but
Yeah.
aside from that, it is a little bit up and down. Marcus Truman, who was. Very much on the trading block throughout the winter has suddenly become, a potential. He was a starter to begin the season. I don't know what his status is gonna be going forward, but there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to the Yankees rotation. Would you agree?
Oh yeah. It seems like one week Warren's on Carra goes off, or vice versa. But we are lucky to have, so, lucky to have Max Freed. And Carlos Radon has been good. He is, he's got the fifth most strikeouts in the league, so, seeing more production from him from that standpoint. And I feel like he shined last year too. Like before Garrett Cole returned, I feel like Rodan really stepped into being like the leader and the, the ace at the time.
So, yeah, I, I think those two were getting a lot of great production out of them. I mean, max Free has been exactly as advertised.
Yeah. a really good acquisition. Do you feel like the front office did enough with the free agent? Moves and trays that were completed in the wintertime. No,
No, I don't, but I also don't know if they, I. I feel like maybe they would've acquired another starter if they could have dished Marcus Stroman off, but we, no one would take him and his contract. And I'm not sure why they're not willing to go over the tax threshold like more because look at, look at the Mets and the Dodgers, and we, it's not like we don't have that money. So I'm really not sure why they didn't acquire another starter.
But yeah, I, I also, the third base position too, like there's a lot of, question marks there, but personally
I.
I wasn't that upset that we didn't acquire a third baseman because I am pretty confident in Oswaldo Cabrera, and I've been a big fan of his for a long time, so I did not see that as being a, as big of an issue as several other people, most other fans did. And I mean, he is hitting, he, does have an above average OPS right now, so above league average. I mean and so I don't know,
Yeah, it's
so far I'm, I'm pretty happy with it.
yeah. Paul Goldman has been a pleasant surprise at first base. I know there are a lot
Totally.
about him coming in, but he, I think he's done quite well. He's lifted He's definitely replaced Anthony Rizzo's production offensively and defensively.
Yes.
I don't wanna sound like an old man in a cardigan, but I'm gonna do this. You know where I'm going with this. George s Brenner would not have allowed the Yankees to stand of the tax. I mean, he probably would've showed out 800 million for one soda. Then again, he probably would've made sure that Jorge or Tony was a Yankee as well. He would not have let them to other places. Did the Yankees miss, out on one sort on your opinion? I mean, a lot of Yankee fans are treating it like a breakup.
When you went to the Nets there's a four or five stages of grief, that went on there, but who won that breakup, if you don't mind?
Oh, we hands down won the breakup. And I am not just saying that because he's not producing a whole lot right now. I said that before the season even started. I went through the five stages of grief that you mentioned. I was. Sad instantly, but then I was like pissed off because I was like, how dare you come in here, ride judges' coattails, and then leave. And then like, I think what ticked me off the most were the comments that I was hearing he was making about like the Yankees.
And they didn't do this and they didn't do that. And just like the demands I was hearing that he was making like the sweet thing and. I mean, come on. Like, how is it not big enough for you that you're playing for the fricking New York Yankees? It just left a really bad taste in my mouth, but like, reality started to set in and I was like, I mean, it was the next day that the Yankees, I think it was within eight days, the Yankees had, signed, freed traded for Williams.
And I can't remember what other we resigned Jonathan Laga.
Belling.
yeah, it might have been the Bellinger deal because Paul Goldschmidt was obviously a little later, so, so I think, yeah, it might've been like those four things that they did. In an eight day span and I was like, alright, we're gonna be all right. Like, they're making moves. Yeah, I mean, obviously we have production all the way up and down the lineup right now. Like I, like I mentioned, with waldo's above league average OPS, but we have eight players with an above league average OPS right now.
So I would say that they did all right. And not having all that money going to him all like 15 years, that's such a long time. And they've made that mistake in the past and I like it hasn't played out very well. So, I mean, we already have Stanton locked down. We've got DJ a couple more years. We've obviously got judge down for a long time. We've got Max freed on an eight year deal like Rodan.
I mean, we're gonna be tied up in contracts for a long time, and I think they, made it outta that one safely.
Yeah, that deal for judge is looking like a bargain right now. 300 million
Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, even like judge, but even like Bobby Whitt Jr. I mean, I think his contract is only like 200 something. It's just crazy to me.
Mm. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out across the way in Queens with the medicine. Yeah, how many championships does it bring in? Does it bring any championships? And it interesting to see. One question I do wanna ask is someone who's for the Yankees, as long as you have, have they lost their touch? Have they lost their aura in that regard? Now that the, the Dodgers and Mets and also to a less extent the Phillies.
When you think about Bryce Hoffman, a couple other players the Yankees lost their aura when it comes to free agent signings.
I mean maybe a little bit like I. I think there are a lot of us old school Yankee fans that still think like this is the biggest stage on baseball. Like, why would you not wanna play for the Yankees? You know? But a lot of these guys now coming into the league probably grew up as Yankee haters. 'cause they were probably raised by nineties Yankees, dad, you know, dads that grew up in the like eighties, maybe early nineties, I don't know. But like.
There's gonna be guys coming into the league that were raised in the generation where everyone hated the Yankees. And so, I don't know, like it is surprising to me though, how many guys are still on our team that are like, oh yeah, I grew up a Yankee fan. Or even like when we play other teams, it's fascinating to me when like, you know, O'Neill Cruz for example. H his dad was a big Paul O'Neal fan, so he's named O'Neill after Paul O'Neill. And it's like, it's, that's just so crazy to me.
There was somebody the other day we were playing, that again, Paul O'Neal, it was somebody on the Blue Jays and again, grew up like a giant Paul O'Neal fan. And so like they arranged for him to meet Paul O'Neal before the game or something with the Yes Network. So. It is fascinating to me how many kids in the league are still in the league who did grow up, like maybe liking a player or a team.
But, I do think as like the league gets younger and younger, we're gonna start seeing players coming into the league who were probably raised by Yankee haters because it, you know, in the nineties, like if you weren't a Yankee fan, you're a Yankee hater.
Yep. hear that. it is, yeah. It was, just a thing., They were so good that,, they had many haters. Now I.
So, I mean, to your aura question, like there's probably gonna be always Yankee haters because of that. And so like it's gonna get passed on. And so I think we do still hold some aura in that regard for sure.
Sure. Yeah. Those pin strikes are powerful. You can't, can't
Yeah.
Now, you touched on the recent series of the Blue Jays played over the weekend. The the Yankees 1, 2, 1. They're able to sweep on a double header, which is something you don't normally see. Typically, when two games are played on the same day, one team wins one, and then they, they might drop the the other, but Yankees. Batch showed up and they swept the blue Jays on the day they did lose on the Friday night.
That was Devon Williams' last appearance as the close of the Yankees, and he effectively blew the game. Let's be honest. What did you see
Yeah,
though? Did, what were your observations from that series against the Blue Jays?
I mean everything was pretty on. It seems like when we're at home the bats erupt, right? Like at least this season. But I don't know that ha. That has been true in past seasons, but this year it seems like every time we're home, like the often just erupts. So it was crazy, right? Because game one of the sweep on Sunday. So technically game two of the series, but they just like completely blew it open with 11 runs.
So it was shocking that they came back and were able to win the second one after they had done all that offensive production in the first game. But the pitching was just like the stabilizer of it all. We had Max freed just allowing one run across six innings. And even Clark Schmidt, I mean, it was a little rocky, right? But. He only allowed one run run over his five innings. And then that's when we had Luke Weaver closing that one out, and that was obviously the closer game.
So it worked out pretty well. It was really cool to see JC Escarra get his first MLB home run and, you know, especially like his, his backstory is so cool being an Uber driver two years ago and working his way up the rinks. So. Really cool. Trent Grisham, I mean, he, he led the game off on the right note, the game two of that day with a, a home run in the first inning. So, yeah, I mean, he's been on fire too.
And, and that's like the point I was trying to make earlier, that the production isn't just coming from, you know, the two and three hole, like it was in years past, like. It's up and down the lineup. And like having Paul Goldschmidt on this team is such an understated, like, powerful, you know, perk to the team. And I think like his production is so quiet because he's not your home run hitter.
You know, but he just comes through with such clutch, like getting on base, like working account singles, doubles. And yeah, I mean the production that we're seeing from him, like,
I.
I think it just goes like so under the rug because, because again, he's not the one hitting your home runs and, and even hitting like a whole lot of doubles with man, he's like, so clutch.
Yeah, and it'll be interesting to see what happens down the stretch as the Yankees go for divisional and tenant run. Now, one, one player who will be crucial for that is the captain. Judge,
definitely.
of League Baseball to give the Yankees the day off on his birthday on Saturday. the rain. sure he did.
Yeah.
mind having the day off for that. He is hitting 4 0 5. That's his average as of April 29, going into a game against Baltimore. He's hitting above 400. He hits above 360 the road. Yeah,
Yeah.
is this the Iron
Yeah.
tour? When we consider that his final act or his final moment that we remember of 2024 was him dropping a fairly regulation fly out in outfield, and that kind of fueled the Dodgers Combat to Win Game five and and the World Series. In that moment, the Yankees were up, they were hitting runs, and it seems like we were talking about them going back to LA for game six and potentially turning around the series. Aaron Judge maybe takes us off the ball for a split second.
The ball drops to the ground, doesn't make the out. Garrett Cole ends up loading the bases., Derek Cole misses out on a routine play at first face with Anthony Rizzo. That fifth inning espouse outta control. It becomes a social media. Nightmare. It's memes from left right center. Aaron just has to sit on this for four or five months. feel like this is fueling his season right now?
Quite possibly, I don't know what goes on internally with him, but you know, in the way that he deals with the media, it's just like I, that's who. I would wanna model myself after if I were a young player because like the way that he just deals with the media and he just takes it head on and he doesn't, he doesn't sugar coat or anything, but he also doesn't like, he doesn't let that stuff get to him. He's just like so confident in who he is and in his abilities.
Like I don't even know if that stuff even bothers him as much as like. It would your average person? I mean he, he's a dad now too, so he is got that dad strength going on. Yeah, certainly I think he knows he didn't perform in the, in the entire postseason like he would've liked to. And he's gotten a lot of hate over the years for that. So I think he has like tried to really work on the things that. I have prevented him from producing the postseason.
You know, his strikeout rate is down way, way down from what it was even a couple years ago. So he's really worked on his chase rate and you know, he doesn't chase those like low in a way anymore like he used to. He works a lot more walks, which he did last year. And you know, a couple years ago he reached out to Paul Goldschmidt to. For advice on his two strike approach. So I, I think he's just made so many tweaks in the last, like, couple years just perfecting his game.
And it is just, it's so cool. And like he's not trying to hit for power as much anymore. Like he'll take the singles and doubles and just like putting the ball into play. And he's just, he's become a master at that, right? So obviously his numbers speak for themselves. I read something this morning that said, and he could go hitless in his next 78 at bats and still be hitting above the league average two 40.
That's, that says a lot. Now, you,
Yeah.
on the post-season narrative. I, I actually pushed back on that. I, I'm aware of it. I've heard it, and I know that some folks have done this with Clayton SRO as well, but I actually don't think judges post-season record is, is that bad? Yes. season wasn't great. He's hitting what, 180
Sorry.
20 22, 1 39. I get that. But if we take out the 2020 season, which is played in the bubble, so we're not counting that he's been hitting Okay. In the postseason. I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be. People make it sound like he's the ice man and Iceman come with when October comes around. I think he's, he's gonna make some tweaks, but I don't think it's as awful as people make it out to be. Yeah.
Yeah, I. I, I definitely don't either. And I also, like, I don't see Shhe Tani getting that hate for his postseason stats, which are actually worse. So that, yeah, that really stood out to me last year. Like,
Yeah.
all right, it really isn't as bad as like people make it out to be
He had three home runs in the postseason,
Yeah, I mean certainly that's still quite a bit of production from him. So yeah, I think you know, if we can get Stan back healthy and, and good me and it's gonna be quite a ride.
oh, yeah. Yeah. It might almost be a blessing in disguise. Similar to. Garrett Cole was delayed start to 2024
Right. I mean like for sure I was thinking that with Luis Heal too, because it's like he throws that the ball so hard. Right. And he's already had his Tommy John a couple years ago and it's a long season and we, what we really need him for is in the end. So I was thinking with him. In particular just 'cause he has struggled with injury in the past. But I mean, Stanton too with his age.
I think I said that on another podcast, that if we can get them back healthy by like July, then that's good luck league. You know? 'cause that's when other guys are gonna be tiring out and we're gonna need 'em. So I think it is gonna be a blessing in disguise.
Absolutely. I think when the Yankees are doing well, people can hate watch all they want, but it's good for baseball. It's good when the Yankees are doing well and going into the proceeds, whether you hate them or love them. So there's that.
Yeah.
And when watching the Yankees, you can often watch them on the Yes network. And one thing that play by play call up Michael Caman doing lately is he eating a lot of chicken tenders. I dunno if you've seen that, but
Yeah.
York is a food city. We know this. I've gotta ask, when you're at the ballpark in the Bronx Yankee Stadium, what are your go-tos in terms of things to eat at Yankee Stadium?
I, am the lamest person on the planet. Or maybe I'm just like a, such a traditionalist when it comes to my ballpark experience, but I'm just a hotdog girl. Like I really don't need much else. Sometimes I'll buy a bag of peanuts or whatever, but like I. Yeah, I'm, I'm just a hot dog with ketchup and mustard kind of gal. But if you are looking for, you know, specifics at Yankee Stadium, the Tierra Mizzou helmet dessert thing has been really popular this year.
It's a new item on the menu and then obviously you gotta try a judge a burger if you're there. Right. Which I've heard, I've not tried it, but, you know, have heard. Great things, and obviously the iconic chicken bucket that I think is the best you can get probably at any park. So
Okay. Okay. Some food for thought there. Literal food for thought. I like it. I'll put those on the list when I'm heading out that way. Jonna. In the meantime, where can we find your work on social media?
So you can follow my baseball media page, like where I cover the entire league. So I write for the Yankees, I write for the Phillies. So I have my articles up there and I also just do a lot of content creation that covers the, the whole league. So that's Babes Babes Media on Instagram and then on Twitter, you can follow my personal. Twitter account and I am at nineties Yanks kid, so that tells you everything you need to know about me. I'm a nineties yanks kid.
it. The nineties were a great time. It was a different time. It seemed like a simpler time, especially, if you're a Yankee fan, it was definitely a simpler time. So definitely gonna be following those accounts. John, I, we really appreciate your time and it's been a great chat. Gonna see how the Yankees go for the rest of the season and beyond. But in the
Yes, definitely.
I've been your host, Neal Spruce, and this is another episode of PSP.