West Haven

Let's go

out to Tony in West Haven.

What's going on, Tony?

Good morning, Boomer and Jay.

I really don't.

I just think that the Yankees probably are exhausted by all of it.

Let's take a listen to Aaron Judge after the game on Anthony Volpe, the soundbite that Tony in West Haven was alluding to.

If we were going to go and win a World Series, we needed Anthony Volpe on the team.

I do remember at one point taking him...

I live in, on the New Haven Harbor, and he was from West Haven on the other side of the harbor.

I remember driving him over to the other side of the harbor and leaving him there and coming home, and then a mutual friend of ours texted me and said, "He's headed back to your house." And I packed up and left and went an hour away to stay with a friend for two days, because I knew that if he came back to my house I would be letting him in.

And it was so painful.

So I was always thinking about working with kids.

Um, what really made it happen for me was when I was a resident, I did my third year outpatient at the local VA, West Haven VA at Connecticut Yale, and I had a peripheral involvement in a study that was trying to evaluate what was the predictors of PTSD in combat vets, and the answer was child abuse.

So I've always thought about working with kids as preventative, that if we can get them to be back on a regular developmental trajectory, they're gonna do better as adults than adolescents.

And so to me, that's what we need to do and what we should be doing.

We're going to forget about talking about what a first base coach has to do, calling the pitchers' moves and helping the runners in positioning, things like that.

And if people realize you have a job to do, if they were to go back a little bit with you, Stump, and you've been in the Yankees organization for about ten years now, and you've filled roles as a manager and a coach throughout the minor league system, places like West Haven and Columbus and Nashville, You've had some players that have reached the major leagues.

I'm going to talk about some of those.

You were mentioning Pat Tabler with the Cleveland Indians originally came up in the Yankees organization.

What did he look like then? I go back to

79 with Pat Tabler.

I was managing at West Haven, and we needed a second baseman badly.

We just couldn't turn the double play, and we had a chance to win the league.

Go on.

Chad from West Haven, Connecticut.

"Jimmy, what match brought you to pro wrestling?"

The match that fully, fully brought me to pro wrestling was when Larry turned on Bruno.

Also tomorrow, a couple of future Yankee pitchers, George Medich and Rick Earl, Earl from down here in Jersey, will throw batting practice.

Rich has won six ball games and lost three up in West Haven.

White fouls the next pitch off, and it's still three and two.

Tell you, that Earl's gonna be some kind of pitcher.

He's a big fella, has a good fastball.

And his ERA at West Haven's under three.

The other fella, Medich, he's a medical student.

He's won three ball games and lost none, and he hasn't given up a run yet, an earned run.