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And I followed my dream and was fortunate enough to achieve it.

I first became the Yankees beat writer for the Bergen Record in New Jersey in 1998.

It was a good year for the Yankees and their fans and wound up covering Major League Baseball full time for about 25 years, going from the Bergen Record in Jersey to Newsdown Long Island to the New York Post.

All right.

This is an important question.

That's 100% right.

The mistakes I made over the years, some of which were caught and some of which were not, I think I remember every major mistake I ever made.

You know, I remember, thankfully, my editors at the Bergen record were going back to the 86 Mets.

You know, since Big Mac and I can't figure out our little disagreement here, I figured let me bring in a guy that covers the Yankees and also was the first guy in America to have the story yesterday that Aaron Boone was coming back for his 10th season as manager of the New York Yankees.

Pete Caldera with the Bergen Record joins us for a quick second here today.

Pete, it's Craig and Big Mac.

Good afternoon.

And then the last time, it was right after the 24 World Series where they triggered his option for 25, but we waited until I think spring training until he got the extension.

I mean, I don't think anybody would be surprised if there's no extension now, and this is the kind of do-or-die year.

Pete, before I let you go, and I'll turn to Pete Caldera, Bergen Record.

You said today a network baseball writer covers the Yankees.

You know, since Big Mac and I can't figure out our little disagreement here, I figured let me bring in a guy that covers the Yankees and also was the first guy in America to have the story yesterday that Aaron Boone was coming back for his 10th season as manager of the New York Yankees.

Pete Caldera with the Bergen Record joins us for a quick second here today.

Pete, it's Craig and Big Mac.

Good afternoon.

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of do-or-die year.

Pete, before I let you go, and I'll turn to Pete Caldera, Bergen Record.

You said today a network baseball writer covers the Yankees.

It's what we know the Yankees are comfortable with.

Beyond, we'll get into a little bit of the Tampa Bay Rays and that series and kind of your reaction to that, but I thought it would be good, of course, off the heels of last night's news, according to, I think, Pete Caldera of the USA Today Network and the Bergen Record first broke it, and then Jack Curry and all the rest of the Yankees beat guys, followed with the news of Boone.

I do think...

It is noteworthy that they didn't announce it with another extension because it does, and I'll hand it over to you, but I think it does kind of tell us that this is the last hurrah they're giving him, even entering in a potential lockout season.

Star-Ledger, gone.

Bergen Record, they're both just shells.

And there's no real people commenting on news that matters.

And podcasts have become... really trusted voices in a world where local news is just not covered.