Mike Francesa says the Yanks are turning into a disaster and that Saquon Barkley is making a mistake. Mike also answers your emails on Aaron Boone, Mike and the Mad Dog, and more.
00:00 Yankees need bats
08:40 Mets win / Saquon Barkley
14:35 Mike responds to your emails on Aaron Boone, Mike and the Mad Dog, and more
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After the loss to the Astros in the ALCS, everybody was pointing the finger at each other for blame. The real losers were the Yankees fans. Mike Francesa defends Yankee fans who are looking for a winner. From October 27, 2022.
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This guy knows squat
Money spent on aged and oft injured athletes does not equate with wins. The Yankees are an offensively challenged team when Judge is healthy and hitting in the line-up, when Judge is injured and not in the line-up, the Yankees are unwatchable. DJ's performance over the past 3 years has been disappointing and perhaps indicative of a pattern suggesting there many be no return to past excellence. Volpe has too many flaws in his swing, too many holes, Stanton is a threat at the plate, but he is a very flawed hitter who can be easily exploited by top 25 percentile pitchers. Yes he can crush a pitch left over his hitting zone, but I have regularly observed him miss a pitch by 2-3 feet. I also suspect Stanton and his Hamstring is not fully healed.
Injuries have adversely affected the Yankee season, but every team suffers injuries during the course of a lengthy season. it is how teams deal with those injuries and the depth the roster has to replace the injured starters that allows teams to survive or at least tread water while star plays are on IL. The yankee roster in my humble opinion was poorly constructed. Show me a championship caliber team entering a season without a left fielder and bonafide closer, without a lead-off hitter with an OBP below .350-.375. The shelf-life for NFL running backs is short, with diminishing production after 5-6 years in many instances. In many instance RB's decline after 2-3 bruising seasons. I said it at the time of the draft and at the risk of redundancy, will repeat, drafting a RB, even a very gifted RB, with the 2nd over-all draft pick, when the Giants were so needy at many positions, offensive line and QB included, made zero sense to me. I surmised that Barkley, s slashing type RB, not a power back, would struggle with the Giants and their very poor offensive line, and by the time the Giants were once again relevant and had a realistic chance of winning a championship, Barkley's career would be winding down or over. I agree with Mike, in todays offense and pass dominated NFL, the running back position has become somewhat devalued. Obviously any team would like having a top their running back, because it adds another dimension to their offense to present to defenses, but teams have adapted play and RB's do not get the carries that they used to in the 1960's-1990's. Why would you tie up some much of your salary cap on a RB and why use a high draft choice on him, when very productive RB's can be found in the 3-5 rounds of the draft.
here is what Saquon Barkley should do. take the money and make this type of statement. I love football, I love the fans, I The love the Giants so I am taking this money even though I know I may be worth more but love my teammates too. so he becomes this respected sympathetic player. now gets his agent to get him as many endorsement commercials ads everything he can get. go out and have a great season and get a new contract.
Francesa is a losaaaaah
He will. He just wants to miss all of training camp. He will sign the franchise tag contract right after the Giants last pre-season game.
Hey Mike, as a long time Giant Fan of 6 Decades, I say, Let Him Go! He had some real good games but in the short time with the Giants, He missed quite a bit of playing time and IMO He will Never Lead this team to a SB! Come on Man, this Guy really is NOT Worth the Money He Wants! Bye Bye Barkley, We Will Not Miss You!
He has no chOice but to take the money, plus now he’s said for himself that he could sit out to spite the Giants players and organization, now because he said that, if he does sit out no matter why he’s sitting out, it looks like he’s giving the Giants the middle finger. Teams are seeing this behavior. Now teams are even leSs likely to pay him because he doesn’t look like a team player aNd he’s a year closer to 30. Not like he was going to get a big contract anyway. No such thing for RBs in the NFL.
Any leverage Saquon has is almost wholly imagined.
Saquon wants a multi-year contract with guaranteed money and certainly does not want to be 'tagged' in 2024. So to accomplish this Saquon should sit out the first 9 games (which he can under legal rules do) and execute the Franchise Contract on the last day allowed to play starting against the Washington Commanders. The lack of money is worth the safety of not getting injured while seeking a long term solution (assuming he hasn't been traded by then). At season's end, what NFL team would tag a 'part-time' player. Barclay will have his wish and enter free agency.
Why does he talk like he’s talking to a child lol with the 45 sec pauses too
Mike is one of the few who knows what he is talking about
I tend to agree that Rizzo may be injured, if only because he started so incredibly strong this season and then fell off a cliff. If it was simply age, I would expect it to look more like DJL and Donaldson, who've been bad since at least last season.
Look at Melvin Gordon. Don't he that guy Barkley
THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM'S QUARTERBACK IS PATRICK FREAKING MAHOMES. I don't understand the mentality of these NFL teams. If you don't have Patrick Mahomes, you need a premier running back to be successful. Running back by committee doesn't work long-term. The Bills suffer every year because they go running back by committee and they all suck. You have to have an all-time team or defense, or an all-time QB to survive not having a premium running back, period.
Mike ur right Yankees just want the wildcard get that playoff money@say next year we'll get them
Every podcast, no matter the topics always ends up with: Mickey Mantle is the greatest!
Why would he play hard? If I were Barkley I would show up, cash checks, and do nothing. The Giants are showing that they have no interest in what Barkley contributes. So take their money and walk next January. The Giants will be 6-11 this season. Let them see what they are about to lose.
But thank God Brian Cashman is our GM – Micheal Kay 7:25
Cashman loves this. He gets to say it’s the fault of injuries for another season.
Volpe is not good. They finally commit to a rookie and its the wrong guy.
All those things u say about the fans what they have to go threw and want to win.they dont realize booing is not gonna get better resuts.all there doing is making matters worse.they need to stick by there team threw good times and bad.and to boo judge is just a disgrace the man is human.grow up all those people that are booing
I live to hear the misery come out of yankee fans voices; the complaints, excuses, insults towards other teams are insanely delicious because baseball has always been about spending for championships and is the reason i don’t waste time on it. Honestly, this is too much time already that i’ve spent on it. Eat me yankee fans!
The Pope still has it
Yankees fans are spoiled, and they won’t realize it until the real hard times come.
What a shocker that Mike would defend New York fans.
Like usual, Mike is a real fan who understands Yankees fans. The point about George is key. If he was still alive there would have been major change after these failures against Houston in the playoffs. He would not have accepted being 2nd best to the Astros for 6 years straight. His son is just not built like his father. For all his faults, you knew George cared about winning above all else. Hal is more interested in the balance sheet year to year, even though the value of the team is probably more than $6-$7 billion by now.
Yankee fans are spoiled and have a sense of entitlement. You won 27 world series, let other teams win some
Yes Mike 👍
Now they make you get Prime and Apple to stream games, after you pay cable TV or streaming for YES.
You know what he yankees dont have … Box seats😅
Speaking as a Met fan who has seen 1 WS in my 56 years. I was 2 in 69. The anonymous executive has no balls. He deserves to be walked out the door. It seems like if the Yankees don't win a WS 2 twice every decade it is a blasphemy. Its not the 40's 50's anymore. Ask the Montreal Canadiens or the Boston Celtics. Times change. Live with it
Cashman must go.
WELL CALL ME SPOIL CAUSE I LIVE A FEW BLOCKS FROM YANKEES STADIUM FOR 40 YEARS IVE BEEN GOING TO MY GAMES.THIS YEAR WHEN THEY SIGNED BOONE AGAIN HAVE HICKS,DONALDSON, I DECIDED NO MORE GOING GAMES UNTIL THEY FIRE BOONE.YANKEES SUCK🤮🤭⚾️🧢
THE YANKEES SERVE YEARS OLD CHICKEN CHECK THE BOXES IN THE BACK
Sure, the Yankees haven't won since 2009 but it's not like they've been bad. They're always relevant and always in the mix, even for those few years when they turned over the roster. Sit through a few 77-85 seasons where you're irrelevant and have no hope and get back to me. Those types of seasons take forever to end; the Mets specialized in seasons like that. The players won't have to worry about booing then because that's when the ballpark won't be filled. But they're the Yankees and that hasn't happened since the early 90s.
Mike (as usual) is right!
Cashmen gotta go
Judge is so overrated look how many times he struck out in the playoffs last year. It’s pathetic!!!I would rather a contact hitter with 20 H.R
The Yankees have the worst announcing teams in baseball, on both TV and radio. They treat their fans terribly. They routinely refuse to call rainouts when they know a game isn’t going to happen. They’re rather sell a few hotdogs and drinks for a couple of hours.
Yet they think they’re ‘royalty’.
Yankee fans aren't spoiled….cmon
They're fuckin wak. Tata