OverDrive - Sims on the Yankees' up and down season, Judge's incredible season and the team looking to upgrade

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

Yankees Radio Broadcaster and Host of Hey Now! Dave Sims joined OverDrive to discuss the Blue Jays and Yankees' series, the Yankees' success against the AL East, Aaron Judge's excellence on the field, New York's trade deadline perspective, the view on the Blue Jays, Max Scherzer taking the mound and more.

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Here's Dave Sims joining us here on overdrive ahead of game two of the series tonight. How you doing Dave? No, well boys. How you doing? We're doing pretty well We're just talking about erin boone and you know is general disposition seems to be very positive and positive reinforcements and uh... do you sense that being around boone and do you think that uh... you know by the time you get to game one sixty two of the yankees those positive reinforcements from the manager will

eventually pay off where you can't go around nuking everybody so I mean the game doesn't the game doesn't lend itself to that it's a you know the more I do this the more I talk to people the more you can't help but say hey man this is a very difficult game I heard you boys talking about how you know another sports and football hockey where you can get more physical you know and then you can help turn the tide. That's not that's not how this plays and this is such a difficult game it's a mind game you got it you got to get an adjustment make adjustments all the time sometimes from pitch to pitch and you know sometimes it's tough to you know you're going to have a run of success but it's difficult to sustain over 162.

That's why you don't see anybody going 162. It's a hell of a game. To get through, I admire guys who can play 160 games a year. It's probably been 120 games. That's a lot. It can really take a toll, but when it's good, it's good. What can I say? Dave, in your market, how much do you guys talk about the Yankees' lack of success against

the AL East this season? Well, I tell you what, having done talk radio myself, WFAN, WNBC, we don't obsess on it. It is what it is. And again, I think at this stage of my career, when I look at it, I almost take it like a player. I mean, you lose a game, you mourn for an hour, then go get something to eat and get up and get ready for the next day. They know what's going on.

They see the numbers and they know they have to do better. I think the biggest thing, if you're going lean on top and and people are concerned about the people that have not been very good on the left side of the internet but the biggest biggest thing and then getting pictures to be able to go to get into the six seven-parent that type of stuff those are those are the big issues with dave sims the voice the yankees yankees jays tonight uh... when you look at you know last night the jays gosman later in the game the bullpen, they were challenging Aaron Judge and,

you know, we were having the discussion prior to the game yesterday and it happens every time the Jays play the Yankees. How do you approach them? How conservative are you gonna be? Are you gonna challenge them? And obviously it comes down to circumstance and, you know, context within the game. But, you know, you've been calling him this year, obviously, and he's just having an all-world, like, Hall of Fame season. What's it like calling his games, calling his at-bats, and when you consider, you know, the way the game played out last night and the significance of this series, I'm sure you expect him to bounce back tonight.

Well, he's done that all season. I mean, that's who he is. He's that kind of guy, and calling you know, calling his at bat has been great. I mean, the anticipation is always huge. And the guy is having a legendary kind of season and a legendary kind of career. That's right. Very exciting. No question about it.

But, you know, he's hitting 413 at one point. It might have been the highest, 420. You know, he's down to 350 something. He's down to 350. We're kidding me. So he's got 10 categories. So I mean, you know, he's a pleasure to watch it. He's a focal point. The fulcrum, you know, this ball club, authentically. Dave, all we're talking about in Toronto is the trade deadline. How aggressive do you think Brian Cashman will end up being on the Yankee side of

things? I got one word for you. Very. I think that, you know, you got to shore up third base for sure. I know any any any of Suarez in my days in Seattle, he brings an unbelievably positive attitude. He's had a great great year swinging the bat. 36 home runs on only one Cal, the only one Cal Allen's the only guy ahead of him. The Mariners are dying to get him back. The Yankees would love to have him back. Say what you will, I hear various things about his fielding. I know two years ahead of him in Seattle, I thought he was a good third-traceman.

It may not have been Mike Schmidt or something like that in terms of glove work, that type of stuff. But I tell you what, he's gonna catch most balls, he's got to get to him he can start a double play and he can freaking hit and i have a guy like that in your lineup you know is very attractive to a whole bunch of teams and it's a good dude too. Dave sims voice of the yankees so you know you've obviously called a number of games against the jays this year and the jays have now beaten the yankees five times in the last two weeks um it's caught a lot of us by surprise Jays this year and the Jays have now beaten the Yankees five times in the last two weeks

It's caught a lot of us off by surprise considering the way they played last year their win total last year But seeing the Jays up close and personal how serious do you believe they are in terms of World Series contention? You know we've got sixty something games to go I mean I know that the world is for talk radio I started projecting and guess what happened to prediction. They had a really nice ball club. They do all the little things I really admire the way they play they hustle all the time and run the bases They'll get a bunt down there move a guy over when they have to they do all those little things You got George Springer having a good year, Bichette bounce back and glad he hadn't even really got going yet So a lot of you know, I'm very impressed.

He's done a very good job. Things have worked out. The kids they brought up from Buffalo have fit right in. They got a good leadership group there with, you know, with George and Bo and Gladdy up top. Basset and pitching department and Max. I mean, it's a good ball club and it's, you know, pesky, plucky, whatever you want to call it, they

win and they're on a heater right now and they're a considerable opponent to say the least. Well and you mentioned Scherzer and he's going tonight and he's had the elbow and finger issues this year and he hasn't pitched a lot but he's still Max Scherzer and he's got this aura to him and this feels like just a massive night for him considering his history and who he is and also who he's going up against. Young kid named Cam Schlitler. We're not that familiar with him.

Say it slowly. I just believe me at four o'clock, Dave, you know, I said and I said it as slowly as you could. I said, I'm going to mistake this by seven p.m.. How do you handle that? You got to call his call is game tonight but how slow can you say his name i think you're too from camp yeah that's gotta be your play tonight but that's a pretty big discrepancy in terms of resumes right sure sir and cam this evening

the beauty of baseball i mean that's a sure a lot first round first ballot hall of famer i'd like to strangle a lot first round first ballot hall of favor uh... you know i'm not to strangle a person that doesn't vote for me the first right right at first ballot i mean that is his credentials are outstanding with number two i can actually strike out the fact that we can't call time and when about their strikeout i mean uh... and he's just the over competitor i love this fireball it

but what's more of the years answer cam and he's just the uber competitor. I love his fire, I've always enjoyed watching him over the years. As for Cam, big kid, got a lot of ability, good fastball, the composure, you're gonna see a guy who's not freaked out by the situation that he's in tonight, particularly with the crowd that's gonna be 42, 43,000 people, a lot on the line, and he's made a win at beating these guys

in the last five tries, so I think he's up to the line. He's made a win at Beacon. He's got the last five tries. So I think he's up to the challenge. The manager and the team is, yeah, this isn't a rara speech, but he's got the good. He's a real deal. So get an opportunity. He's proven himself in the mile leagues and let's rock and roll. Yeah, it's going to be a fun one tonight, man. You mentioned that the park will be packed. A lot of Yankee fans. There were some Yankee fans there last night. Always. We had a whole of that went over the weekend yeah they travel well man they really in the things like a defense who are from toronto that live here that have just always been yankee fans those are the

most disappointing ones i gotta be honest but uh... it'll be a few drop into the generation of paper and they don't guiding right over the way i think that the yankee fan but really admire you know, at now We say we're 28 now at that ball board, but yeah I you have multiple tours here as you know Here's the ballpark and I ran past a couple and they said hello and they said they're from Idaho so

It is what it is they travel and they'll be traveling tonight. It'll be a fun match fun game this evening Have a great call Dave. Appreciate you doing this Yeah, you bet man. Take care. Be good. There's Dave Sims radio voice of the Yankees the biggest songs in the world You've heard them countless times now learn the details of how they came to be Learn the details of how they came to be. ["Happiness"] Join Ruby Carr for Encore, the stories behind the songs you love. New interviews and newly unearthed archive footage make for a fascinating weekly deep dive.

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