The New York Yankees sold at the trade deadline, picked up a bunch of prospects, and are getting better for the future. After selling off the best relievers in baseball and an overused outfielder, and forcing a couple old timers into retirement, have the Yankees finally turned a corner and returned to what build their last dynasty? Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen discuss if it will be Gary Sanchez and the Yankees making runs at the World Series before we know it.
Before that, they chat about Tim Tebow getting an offer from an independent league team and Russians with baseball bats. Afterwards, they wonder why the Los Angeles Dodgers traded away Clayton Kershaw’s long time personal catcher and best friend, A.J. Ellis.
Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 22: Gary Sanchez and the Yankees Being Good Again
Music in this episode:
Intro/Outro: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” sung by Edward Meeker and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” by The Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club
Break 1: “What’s It Like To Be Old” by Cock Sparrer and TBS’s call of Alex Rodriguez striking out to end the 2011 ALDS against the Tigers.
Break 2: “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” by Against Me and Miguel Cabrera hitting a single off an intentional walk.
Hosted by Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen, Crowding the Plate is a weekly baseball podcast here on Last Word on Sports. It aims to cover the fun, yet analytical, side of baseball once a week.
Joe Hojnacki writes about soccer for Last Word on Sports and is also co-host of the Crowding the Plate Podcast. An avid Red Sox fan, Joe idolizes Bryce Harper and feels that his fun showmanship is the way to save baseball from becoming overrun by old folks, and from dying out.
Greg Hessen is the resident Tigers fan on Crowding the Plate. As somewhat more of a traditionalist, Greg longs for the days of pitchers hitting in the American League and a landscape that doesn’t include things like bat flips and PEDs tarnishing the greatest of all games.
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