October 5, 2022 • 48 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to Aaron Judge making history by hitting home run # 62 against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night. The guys have a little fun in the second hour as they compare several different broadcast moments across Aaron Judge’s historic night. Then, Jason and Mike In bring on one of the best MLB Insider’s there is, Jon Paul Morosi. Jon talks about the environment at the stadium before and after Aaron Judge made history.
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be s. The Braves win the NL East, but days
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in first place in the last two years, though, that's
gotta be a big deal. It's it's a lot, it's
a lot of it's a lot of days in a
lot of that. It's a lot of that, but your shoulder,
like Satchel Page told you. But it's okay because Jacob
de Grand can get an extra day's rest and I
have to pitch in that crazy as game tomorrow thinking
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maybe the Braves will lose again and the Jets beat
the Steelers. So yeah, I'm I'm kind of okay. Friday
is Friday, man, Well, well I'll see you on Friday.
See you on Friday for that first game against the Padres.
Good luck, I'll see you there. Time now to strap
it up and play for real. I like the way
you talk. That's good. That's like a Fox promo right there,
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Let's go. Time to play. Now, Now it's time to play.
Sit around for a while. That's great. You said it,
and now and now we go play and we see
what happens. Now what did just there? Time time to play?
You know, Pinhead doesn't get his due. Is a really
a legend because it's also smartass. Yeah, but he's always
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he's never in the top of a great feel. It's like,
oh yeah, Pinhead, come on. I think that is though.
I think that it's a tough costume to pull off.
It's a lot of work. It's a lot of man
hours to make that for Halloween, which means he never
he never got over it's easy. Hey, what do you
give me for Halloween? I've been working on this pinhead
costume for the last six months. No, you don't do that,
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You just don't. It's a it's a lot of effort,
and you can't really use real pins because it's dangerous
and that really makes the costs. It's very difficult. But
if you can pull it off, then I mean you're alleged.
But if you fall, bad things happen. Yeah. Yeah, oh wow.
I shouldn't have worn this costume because because that's not
you know, going and getting you know, the massages. Right,
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what what am I? What's the word I'm thinking of?
I don't know. Man, when the kid was you know
what I mean? You mean acupuncture? Acupuncture? That's here? You go? Okay, yeah, no, no,
hey man, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Now you're talking about you. You want a w W
E villain that would terrify the hell out of anybody.
Get let down to the rings like, I can't do it.
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I can't do it, Sally, I can't wrestle this guy.
So guess congratulations Braves. Yes, that's great. See you want
to see you win the series and see when the
playoffs at some point, we'll see you on Friday. You
really still talking about playoffs. I did an hour podcast
with a buddy of mine back in Chicago, and the
entire time he kept trying to needle me about the
White Times, Like I'm not I'm not getting my blood
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pressure up. I've known that. I've known this is coming
for a while now. It's been they lost that big
series two weeks ago. It's fine, It's it was over there.
That's look. I'm also an old man. I got other
real world concerns over whether whether Louis Robert or any
of these guys are gonna find their way back down
to the field. I don't care, but obvious slee. The
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big breaking story tonight, Aaron Judge now has the American
League record for home runs. He at home run number
sixty two earlier. Tonight, the Yankees trail the Rangers three
to two. Uh, it looks like for Judge, honestly, the
triple crown is probably out of reach. He has five
points back now of the lead, and barring a day tomorrow,
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where he goes three for three and r Eyes goes
oh for four and maybe he doesn't even play tomorrow.
It looks like he's gonna fall short of the triple crown.
But sixty tapped out tonight, Yeah, sixty two for Judge.
And let me say, here come the People's home run
Champion takes because Aaron Judge will be the People's home
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run Champion. That Barry Bonds is not my champion. Uh,
Mark McGuire is not my champion. The cloud of steroids,
the cloud of pets, Aaron Judge, who I know nothing
about what he's doing or not. Today He's like, I lie,
I like the way you said that, and he's blesses
that because if I see any more of the clean
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this that the other you know, everybody was assuming they
were just all, you know, a little Hasbro action figures
in the late nineties and earth right, right, but you look,
you can't accuse anybody is something you can't just know,
but we don't know about it. And yeah, we called
the other thing and just say, well, there's no chance
in hell any of these guys. And I'm not just
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saying Judge, I'm just saying anybody, Uh, saying that you
know they're all clean because you know, Fernando Tatis Junior
got popped. So that's evidence that nobody's gonna get through
with anything, which I think is a fool hardy and
silly take. But look, Aaron Judge has has always it,
never has had any controversy, nothing, nothing wrong. He's always hit.
He's always unless he's not really six seven, that's the
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only thing. Like if we find out always heightening in
this whole time. I mean, he's pulled the wool over
our eyes for years. I'm I'm really too shorter guys
taped together to make one really big guy. And that's
what we fooled you on this, the entire human voltron. Yes,
let's fantastic. Hey, we just keep putting again you are
some kind of super player. Uh. Look, he's gonna he
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is and will be the people's home run Champion. You
can see it already. He's the real champion. He's clean.
The other guys aren't. He's the champion. He's my home
run champion. He's a Yankee. I watched it. It happened
on my watch. Barry Bonds did it so long ago,
and his hat size was size nine no, Aaron Judge
is my guy. He will be the people's home run champion,
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and barring someone else doing it at some point in
the next few years, that legend, in that opinion is
just going to grow because the debate will keep going.
These are what the guys did to hit home runs,
and here's Aaron Judge doing it, and here he is
doing it clean sixty two home runs. Yeah, he's my
home run champion. And you're gonna see players who are
gonna weigh in and say, yes, he should be the
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whole all time home run champion. You're gonna see all
kinds of fan groups get together petitioning Major League Baseball
recognize Aaron Judge as the real home run champion. I mean,
this is this is the way it goes. We told
you for weeks he's gonna be the people's home run champions,
and now that he hit number sixty two, here it goes.
I think one of the things that flows along with
the Jason and the parallel is the goat conversation in
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the NBA. Right You've got Lebron James getting ready to
pass Kareem Abdul Jabbar on the scoring list and admitted
it talking after their preseason debacle yesterday. Uh, that they
have no relationship. Nice little headline that kind of went
under the radar this morning. Uh yeah, no, uh, we
know each other and that we have no relationship. Okay, cool,
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But the goat conversation is fueled now by by younger
people as now it's lebron and whatever stat categories you want,
stat aggregation, whatever your metric is for what you've defined.
It's also a lot of what you grow up with,
what you have an emotional attachment to, versus YouTube videos
and and stuff that people gleamed off of old video
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tapes from back in the day. Uh, a little grainy's
at him? Is that him back there? Yeah, those kind
of things. So, and the players that are current, that's
their guy. And the better he is looked at in history,
the better they're looked at in history because they were
playing against him. So if he's the greatest, well he
had to do it against us, so we're better as well.
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So that narrative starts to shift. Likewise, baseball players are
going to recognize this because it's a contemporary and it's
a guy by all accounts, nice affable dude, and and
everybody's got nothing a kind word to say. He's a
six seven giant. So you've got that Paul Bunyan thing
going on that he's walking around not with a giant axe,
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but with a giant bat and the big blue Babe
Ox Babe, So he's who you're you're thinking, you're thinking
of Babe the Blue Ox. No, I I got it there,
I I can you know jumbled the I played word
jumble with the title, but I got I got there.
But the the idea just being that the more you
can push that narrative, it makes your era of baseball
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that much better. And if you're a young writer or
a young radio host, this is your guy because it's
happening now, as opposed to well the old guy did this,
and you can excuse away a lot of things. For
Bonds and Maguire and Sosa, it's quick to say, all right,
well they did it during this era. A lot of
those their contemporaries got into the Hall of Fame. You know,
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if if we're gonna look at the era as a
whole and and just walked right in because maybe they
were more likable, but and that's fine, you know, every
everybody picks in. Then the voters do what they're gonna do. Uh.
And you know, I look at it from the folks
that want to do the he's the all time guy,
and he's my guy, and and that's all it is
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and throw these guys out. It's like, are they these
people also recognize all of the vacated titles and then
they transfer those two runner ups in college sports? Is
that how they do things? Because last time looked, all
of those the the records are still there. All those
guys still got contracts for for what they did. Reggie
Bush's Heisman thing. Look, man, you take seven years to
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do an investigation, you lose long after you need to
make sure all the teaser cross the eyes are dotted,
maybe you know, and then we got punish those kids
that were nine years old. You should have known. Hey,
if you're should have known to something was up with
that Reggie Bush guy before you committed to USC. This
is for all you eight year olds that are really
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good at football. Look at what just happened to USC.
It's gonna be a while, but don't worry. What just
when you're making that decision, that's when this is gonna
come down. So good luck. Yeah, so's it's just that
idea Jason of of you know, with the eras you're
you're gonna push the guy that you're seeing because it
makes your experience seemed like the real one. Well, and
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the other part of it is this, the other other
part of Aaron Judge hitting them for sixty two and
seeing just the the uh, just the even over the
course of the weekend, the number of people with the
faux outrage of oh, you're gonna interrupt my college football
Saturday for an Aaron Judge. Yes, I'm sorry, you're gonna
miss two plays to see if you can see baseball
history be made, and a guy at sixty two, I'm sorry,
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it's a big deal. Is your is your day really ruined? Oh?
They cut it on Aeron Judge. Throw the TV away, mom,
I'm not watching this anymore. Uh did you see the
cut that went today? Speaking of Reggie Bush, it was
the Vince Young playing and he's and it cuts away
on aug Oh no really, if you look that up
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folks on on your inner webs, it is one of
the funniest things. Like now, this has gotten ridiculous. With
my classics, I think my favorite one was the one
where they interrupted Aaron Judge's sixty first home run to
play you know, to buy it was, Hey, we're playing,
we're interrupting set first home run to play this live
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at Battery Cood at sixty two. Look, the one thing
we have learned at out of all of this is
that through everything, through everything in in sports, in steroids,
in in home run records, we all still love home runs.
We love the show. Yes, we always will. We're never
gonna not love home runs. You could have guys that
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that have been proven guilty of taken all kinds of stories,
hit a hundred and fifty home runs a year. We're
always gonna love home runs. It's always going to happen.
It's always been the biggest fascination. It's the biggest play
in sports. When a guy hits one deep and you
stand up and you look and it's going out of
the park, it doesn't nothing else in sports can can
lay claim to it. Because you have big moments, and
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you have big moments and NFL games, you have last
minute field goals, you have last minute touchdowns, you have
last minute threes in the NBA. But over the course
of a game, when someone hits one deep and everybody
stands up and you look a little closer your television.
No other sport has that. We love home runs. The
world will always belong to home runs. And and this
arrant Judge run proves it even more. No matter what happens,
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you can't kill home runs. We love home runs. Well,
it goes back to that era. Jason how stupefied all
the writers and and pundits were the broadcasters by by
what they were witnessing that It wasn't until later that
it was fashionable to start wagging their fingers and asking
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The way tire buying should be. It's sixty two home
runs for Aaron Judge, he hits the big one tonight
against the Rangers, and also the Braves take first place
in the NL East. But let's just focus on what
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we've seen with history in Major League Baseball. And Aaron
Judge talk about that beatball that got served up, well, well,
you know, you know, here's the thing, half the down
the middle there meat. Half the people go, oh, he's
not good, dude, good pitchers. The other half go, they're
gonna groove it to him and give it to him.
What make up your mind? Make it remind what you want.
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Either either they're gonna pitch away from when you're mad
he doesn't get strikes it, or oh, we're throwing it
right down in the middle from to pick a lane.
Pick one of those. You can't, dude, made a mistake.
I can't have both. Remember a lot of his at
bats where everybody was mad that he walked, were actually
like seven or eight pitching bats. So it's not like
they just waved four fingers at him and said, blank
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you all right, Aaron's four feet outside the zone. Swing
at that jerk. No, they didn't do that. They battled
and if you really want to swing, do you really
want to swing? Here? In the end, they said do
you want to nibble on the outer and part of
the play it. You want to work a little lower, fine,
go on, golf it out of here. Uh? And he
walked and people were mad about it. So I go
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back and watch all the bats. So there's a lot
of pitches and a lot of foul balls and a
lot of stuff going on. It wasn't just a get
those fours up. Come on, get those fours up. No
mocking him as he walks down to first base. I
didn't do that. I'm just gonna lob this in and
see if you really want to swing at it. Okay,
here you go, throwing it underhead at you. Now look,
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Aaron Judge sixty two. It's a really big deal. And
now let's play a little game called who called it best? Okay?
Now right, we have all kinds of versions of number
sixty two from Aaron Judge. Some ross call it yet
I don't know, my god, it's Aaron Judge home run
number sixty two. Oh my good get this guy flying
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off the top of the cage had kind of guess
the undertaker, No, you know who? I really wish I
could have heard uh call tonight may make the call?
Would be Hawk and Whimpy, because Hawk and Whimpy White
Sox would have called it. Aaron is up. That's deep.
It's home run by Judge sixty two. It's a lot.
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Here comes Stanton fans having a good year too. He's
got he's got forty one home runs. He's out. Yankees
really right on him a lot in the postseason. Where's
Judge round and third? Everybody's coming out of the dugoutre.
You know, Hawk, sometimes when the picture gets behind in
account as a hitter, I used to dig. I mean
you were a big home run hitter, Hawk, what would
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you do if you were looking at something like this?
Remember Kenn Harrelson actually had a couple of pretty big
power years as a hitter, uh many many years ago.
There there you go, kids, uh. For all the millennials
out there that might know of Hawk only as a
well in battled GM puppet GM uh and later the
longtime broadcaster and Hall of Famer for the White Six,
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he was once upon a time a power hitter in
those lineups alongside Karl Yastremski. Hey, you have just blown
off entirely at sixty two. Big party going on right now.
There's there's h Roger Marris's kid and uh Aaron Judge's mom,
and uh, you can have a pitch of change right here.
You remember the only two games left here for Tony
Russa and that's it not coming back? And how do
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you leave that ball over the plate? You gotta be
kidding me. I'll be back after this. Uh keep you
keep bright, be back. Yeah, Hawk could have gotten a
salty situation. That could have been fun. Let's take a
look at the out of town scoreboard. Uh see the
after uh picture to combine. No, here it is the
out of town scoreboard night there's Aaron Judge still still.
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You know those Mats were playing really good baseball for
five months. Hawk ceremony down. That's gonna win a doubleheader
tonight and that's gotta feel good for them going in
the playoffs. That's uh yeah, they're giving them some kind
of stuff. I think they gave them keys to a
car or something. Home plate. Yeah, that's it's gone. But uh,
you know right now with Seattle, they're back in the
playoffs first time in twenty years. That's a good story.
You know, Tom, you played in Seattle for a long time.
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What was it like baseball history and seen. Uh so,
let's let's play who called it best first. Well, we
gotta start with John Sterling. Let's start with John Sterling.
Let's see if we get something special from him or
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if it's another another Judge and blast all Rose. Let's
see how John Sterling called it for the Yankee Radio network.
One one there goes deep, loved in is high, That
is fars come number sixty two to set the new
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American League records. Aaron Judge hits a sixties second. All
the Yankees out of the dugout to greet him. Yeah,
I could have used a little bit more on that, John,
Now they're bagging each other. I could have used a
little bit more on that. And now here's what's going
I mean, you have all the time in the world
to think of how you're gonna call sixty two for Aaron. John.
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You've certainly had, you know, a couple of weeks to
just get those next two calls out. Yeah, you've had,
You've had months of how am I gonna say? No,
I'm just gonna go out, you know, I'm just gonna
announce it like it's another home run. Just I'm gonna
do it like that. I mean, you got you gotta
have something special. It's sixty bleep in two. Um, okay,
so that's not gonna win. I could already say I'm
like Simon Cowell right now. No, that's not gonna win.
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Don't like it? All right, Uh, let's have Michael K.
Yes Network, let's hear his call at number sixty two
d after the one hit in Game one to history,
Peace done it. He has done it sixty two. Judge
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is the American League single season hold one later? The
L King case closed. All right, that's better. That's it.
A L King case closed. Okay, I like it, Judge was. Yeah,
but when he hit the ball there was it was
a no doubter. Yeah, but I mean like it went today.
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I know the guy in the front row caught it,
but it was like it was that was hammered. Yeah.
I kind of feel like, Uh. At one point at
like after the ball went over the fence, he started
reading from a prepared script, play it one more time.
Let's hear one more time at play Michael K. One
more time, Judge hitting three ten after the one hit
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in game one ball play to history. He's done it.
He has done it. Sixty two. Judge is the American
League single season at home run leader. The King case closed. Yeah,
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I kind of feel like, okay, now I'm going to
my script. Okay, yeah, home mon, it's out of here
and pick it up right here. Takes the crown from
the Burger King. All right, so I'll give that to
Michael ka Over in a decision absolutely, all right. Now,
let's hear the Texas Maybe the Rangers surprised us, right,
Let's hear the Rangers radio side of the home run
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call one and one Aaron Judge, here's the pitch and
there's a swing, and there's a high flam board and
Dad left field, Bubba tumps him back. He's at the war.
That goal is history. He Judge has broken the American
League home run record. The Yankings are pouring out of
the duck out to Green him at home plays. That
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that that that's that's the opposing uh you know that
it's the call you would expect to get from the
opposing team. That's a pretty good call though. Yeah, it's
not bad. It's it's it's the same thing as John Sterling.
It's the same exactly, but it's from the from the
road team. So it gets to call for Sterling, so
that guy would be second on the metal stand. Right, Yeah,
I'm not a little disappointed so far. I gotta say
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there's not a lot of juice going on here. No,
I I really all right? So now the last one
we have to play for you. We have Russian judges. No, no,
we have the Spanish here of average. How do I
know already this is gonna be the best one? How
already I know, without without, even without been playing, I
know it's gonna be the best. I mean, history would
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tell us that, Kevin Harland, this would be the best
historia would be. I think that's how it would be
in spani historia and plot is ball Okay, so there's that.
I know that, and um what else starting from Spanish? Uh, Aaron,
I don't know how to say that. I don't know
what judges in Spanish home run, but I think it's
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since his name is judge, you're just gonna call him
judge judge. I don't think they're gonna call him quiz. Okay,
it's not the magistrate, although the magistrate would be a
hell of a nickname the magistrates. That sounds like some
of that magistrate like for a European star and something. Okay,
well we'll find a guy to plant that on and
when we watch some e p L. Alright, so get
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ready for the World Cup. We're gonna he had two months, baby,
let's go. We're getting right. Day after Thanksgiving, Ohio State
Michigan and day one of the World Cup. Here we go.
Here is the Spanish language version of Aaron Judges Home Run,
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where HI get that wrong? Aaron Judge and Cool A
couple of Scando Aaron Judge, halass On, Baby Bruss, Roger Barris,
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he Lorie de Yankees Aaron Judge. Yeah, that's the best one.
I think, no debate. He got three sentences out of
his mouth like you Yankees broadcasters that I've been waiting
for this all season. You've got nothing. I think I
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recognized him saying different versions of the word money, like
three different times in that I really do. I thought
I got it. I thought I caught like three. I
thought I heard him say de naro. I thought I
heard him say a couple of times. I'm like, is
he talking about? I mean, what what is that? Call? Like?
I want a translation of it? Will work on that?
All right, let's play it again, try to recognize some
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of the words. Go ahead, a t sorry there, Uh swing,
I recognize swing, he said, swing. I recognize that. Look
at you. I heard swing. I heard swing. All right,
pick it up? Put a scared right there where hien
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you go? Lea song? Get the demos rain that hold wrong.
Aaron Judge and west Polid a couple of scared though,
Aaron Judge, they have glass of baby Bruce glass. Roger Barris,
he re deo those Yankees. Yes, Aaron Judge day home
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run de Yankees talking about a Trasi passed ruth, he
passed maris. Yeah, you know, it's all good. And a
couple of money. I heard like dollar. But if he
said like dolor de cabase, I means headache, So I
don't know if he got a headache reference in like
I I don't know. My Spanish is rusty. I just
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started working on my battle again because I got my
lifetime subscription and the hope is at some point next
year maybe to do a little bit of traveling, a
little bit of wandering, um, you know, walk the earth
kind of thing, and Spanish could help me a little bit.
Well yeah, I mean, look, that's the thing is that
my mom always said to me, and this is where
you know I I I wanted to say this tours
she was said to me, I wanted to take French
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in school because all my friends were taking Why nobody
was taking Spanish, right, all my friends were taking French.
They were I'm like, well, but I didn't know. I'm thirteen.
I wanted to go in the class wherever all the
hot girls were. They're all taking French. I don't want,
but she says, take Spanish. I said, why should because
it will serve you better in life than learning French.
And I said why, She goes, well, because you could
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be a translator. I said, why couldn't I be a translator? Well,
she also said, you're you're more likely in the United
States to me a lot of Latino women that you
can then converge with rather than French speaking people across
the US. See if she told me that, hey, You're
gonna talk to way more hot girls who speak Spanish,
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Oh mom, mom, she shot it straight right there. Oh yeah, yeah,
give me Spanish. And I got really lucky because my
first year of Spanish, I sat right behind all this girl.
She was so gorgeous and and I was like, oh
my god, she's so hot. Did you give her a hat? No? No, no, no.
This before I really had game, right, I didn't really
have the confidence. But like she liked me because you know,
I was a funny guy. You know, I was funny guy.
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And I'm like, yeah, okay, and she was, Oh my god.
I loved her, love Madeline. What was her last name?
Her name was Madeline. I can't think of her last name. Uh.
And I loved her, love to love her. And I
did well in Spanish. I was really good. And and
now I'm like, okay, I can I could barely remember,
just like some words like that, I can't. I can't.
The long road begins with that first step, buddy. The
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only thing, the best thing I do and the most
fun thing I do in Spanish is like when I
if uh, Because you know, coaching soccer, I coach I
coach a lot of Latino girls. That that I have
for the last few years is that if if there's ah, yes,
so I said, I coach a lot of Latino girls.
If there's a if, there's a if, Like the game
is a little tense and I want to break the tension.
I'll yell to one of the girls that speak Spanish,
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and I will say I'll say, I say yummy, la
biblioteca frio, mui frio. And then she's like, everybody's looking
at me. Go, did you just say the libraries? We
should make that a play. Yeah, it's like the annexation
of Puerto Rico. Yeah, it's like they all think I'm
giving her. You know, some people think I'm giving her
some kind of direction and Spanish coaches bilingual. That's great.
I mean, I'm just saying some nonsense stuff. Vaco smu,
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guappomue guappo, what means the couch handsome, right, And so
she starts laughing, the parents start laughing, and it breaks
tension a little bit. So I like to do that.
That's the one thing, like I remember certain words and phrases,
but that's it. Really. Just make sure to verify your
translations with people. Also, you start screaming things that that
young teenage girls and you're getting the verbiage wrong. You're
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in trouble. Oh no, no, no, no no. I make
sure that that's the word. That's the I know, I remember.
Everybody's okay with this phraseology right now? Okay, Mr Jason's
got the Spanish down right right right, Okay, let's go
just listen how we go? I always and I make
sure I enunciate and I say that way and everything
everything I got, it's all got to be legit, gotta
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be legit. So we're gonna give it to the Spanish
sho call. Yeah, that wins. Like, I feel like both
the Yankees calls were really disappointing, Like my expectations were
so much higher since they've had They've ridden the emotional
roller coaster the entire season. Not to say that the
Spanish language broadcaster has not, but it's it's the kind
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of thing, these legends in the booth that we know
that our household names and sports talk radio fair to
come up with those calls a little week. I guess
I'm a little bit a little bit disappointed. Yeah, I really,
I mean, I mean, unless unle us, they're all you know,
I called all these home runs all year, what could
I possibly say? I'm done? Right, Like, I'm just I
like drop for a big game, for a big game.
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I really don't care anymore. Yees see, it's in a yes,
I know. Yeah, it's a final, here's a home run.
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What's happening JP. I'm doing great, gentlemen. I'm here in Arlington, Texas.
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I was able to see some extraordinary baseball history this evening.
Uh and I cannot wait to share some stories with you.
How close were you catching the ball? Were you next
to that billionaire that caught the ball in the left
field stands? So I was not close to him. Actually,
here's kind of a funny story. I was. You know,
normally I would watch the game from the press box
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if I'm not on the broadcast, until I was up
in the writing press box for a while, and then
tonight I said, you know what, I'm just gonna watch
that first at bat from the stands. And so I
sat next to an outstanding Arlington police officer named Kathy,
and we were just sitting there watching the uh the
the at bat, and and she had said, you know what,
it looks kind of a little more comfortable than he
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was maybe earlier today and last night, and sure enough,
third pitch of the night home run history. So it's
kind of cool to to watch it as a fan,
because that's why we do what we do, is we're
we're fans of the game, and Aaron is just an
incredibly classy ambassador everything he means to the sport, and
tonight was just one more shining example of that. The
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police officer, Kathy, did you say, don't you know who
I am? Uh? In case the ball came up there
that you could get you out of there safely? You no, no, no,
we we were. I would say that we were. We
were about two levels up behind home plate. That would
have been quite a that would have been quite a
shift in the rules of baseball for me to catch
a home run or the laws of physics one or
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the other. But uh, he hits it really far. It
hits off the foul pole and bounces all the way
back to you. Now there you go. That that would
require some some quantum physics that I am not qualified
to be able to do render. But what I will
say is this, and I know obviously there's a lot
of conversation about the baseball and I understand that, but
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it was interesting. I actually asked Aaron about it after
we had an interview on MLB Network, and you basically said, listen,
you know, hey, it'd be great to have for our family.
I understand that, but but it's also a souvenir for
the fans, and they come down and obviously, once once
the ballbos into the crowd, of the souvenir for for
the fans or collectors at him, whatever it might be.
But that's part of the game as well. So um
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parapraising me a little bit. But I just think he
really did an excellent job of of answering that question,
as he did handling all the pitches that produced the
sixty two home runs this season. All right, so let
me ask you this, because this was how we opened
the show. We talked about Aaron Judge. Now sixty two
home runs. If I said to you that Aaron Judge
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is gonna be the people's home run champion, and who
a lot of fans are gonna recognize has the real
home run champion. They're gonna ignore Barry Bond's gonna ignore McGuire, Sosa,
all the guys, all the guys tainted with P. E.
D S. Do you agree with that statement or not?
I do. Uh, That's how I look at him. For me,
he's the authentic single season home run champion. I would
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describe him that way. I think a lot of people
are on the game believe that as well. Um, listen
to the record books say what they say, and then
there's the historical context and how we want to to
view this achievement and what it means to the game
and what he means to the sport and to the Yankees.
So for me, I I see I see a complicated
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and nuanced conversation when it comes to what the record
book says versus what the the people around the game regard.
I would just say that that this was not just
saying he now has the American League record. This is
we are talking about in our midst the greatest homewarn
hitter in a single season the game has ever seen, period.
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And that's how that that's how I look at it
from an authentic standpoint. Um, obviously I recognize what Bonds did.
I saw that it happened. It's there, But I think
that there's it's interesting and this may be splitting hairs
a little bit. But I understand there's a distinction between
what the record is officially and who the king is
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in reality, and that's and judges the ladder judge is
the one that the people attach themselves too. And uh,
is there a nuance there, of course, But I think
we can handle handle nuance and talk about it and
how we view things. And for me, that's that's how
I look at it. Yeah, it's me, it's yeah, this
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this this could be a four hour debate show on
this entire topic. HMP. So I'll move move away from
it and just into the context of you know, this
has a relief going into the playoffs for the Yankees
to just get this done and be able to focus
on the task at hand going forward. It is about
about twenty minutes ago I was speaking with Garret Cole
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and he basically said that to me, Um that you
think about the Yankees and what that uniform represents, there's
not a whole lot of stress free days that exists
when you remember the New York he's because of the
expectations and for the right people, it's great because you're
in the spotlight. Every game matters, every inning matters. Every
pitch matters, and you never play a meaningless game when
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you're with that franchise. And that's great, but it also
can wear on you. And I think even in small ways,
it was maybe wearing on Aaron a little bit the
last couple of weeks at different times in his career
as a Yankee. It's weighed on Garrit Cole without questions.
And and yet this is why they say when you win,
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there's no better place to win, because because the fans
will belove, are are in that just that that support
for you, the way that Paul O'Neil is revered and
Grocious and Tino and even all those guys who are
not Jeter or Mo or Pettis, And I think that
what Garrett was basically saying with it tomorrow they can
actually relax a little bit. And oh, by the way,
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he just surpassed run Guindrey's single season strikeout record for
the franchise, which is a pretty big deal too. So
I think tomorrow is a well deserved mental day off
and they can take the weekend and stay sharp, perhaps
to workouts and get ready because game one of the
Division Series of a week from tonight against the team
that will have just won an emotional weekend series, whether
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it's Cleveland or Tampa, they've got they've got a tough
assignment coming up next week. Yeah, I mean that's all
finding good But I mean Ron Guidry still has the
Louisiana Lightning nickname, which is better than the grit anything
Garrit Cole has, right, and and Ron Goodrey still has
the record for Louisiana born Yankees pictures. See there you go. Now,
here's the one question JP did, just to get away
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from the home run for a second. He is four
points back of potentially winning the Triple Crown. And that's
a you know, I know that, hey, let's get a
day off. But but okay, you can you get some
time off, that's fine. But man, you're four points back.
You go to for four tomorrow or Rise plays goes
one for four, you're talking about winning the Triple Crown.
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I mean, it is is it's Is it set and
stone that he's not Do you think he's not gonna
play tomorrow? That's a great question. Aaron Boone indicated as
much that he's expected to get the day off tomorrow.
Could that change between now and then? Perhaps, But here's
what I'll say. And this actually is a nice echo
to something that the three of us talked about a
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month ago with Pools and and what kind of trend
he was on and where he was going to get
in the home run chase. I think Aaron and Albert,
while in different stages of their career, view their individual
contributions within the team concept in a in a similar
way in that Aaron wanted whatever he was doing to
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to be something that that exalted the team and fit
within their constructor trying to win a baseball game, whereas
and I think Albert had the same approach. He wasn't
going to come back if he if he had stopped
at six, he wasn't gonna come back next year to
get one home run in the right off onto the
sunset and haven't be all about him. I think tomorrow,
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if if Aaron Boone says, Aaron, you've played every single
game for the last fifty plus games as your manager,
I want you to take a break. What why risk
you know, taking a taking a fastball off your knuckles
when you don't have to, Um, you've done enough. And
I think that's if that's the conversation, If that's the decision.
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Then I think Aaron would accept that because it's Yeah,
I really believe that baseball, in its own way, rewards
you when you're achieving something within the team construct. And
what Judge did tonight was within that. What Albert did
with the Cardinals in terms of hitting seven hunter plus
home runs that honored that covenant. I think when you
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kind of venture outside of it, it gets a little perilous.
And I think that's why Judge is so great. It
would be it would be sort of off brand for
him to be in the lineup for a purely personal reason.
This is what I'm saying, And so I don't think
I'm sure he'd play if Aaron put him in there,
if Aaron Boone put him in the lineup, But he's
not going to demand it because that would just not
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be within his character. I think you go selfish, get
me in, put a coach. I'm in. I want history
because I want to be able to go to the
club going, hey, I got at the negotiating team. I know,
I know, but but but the point is, like we
all know that he could do it, We've all seen it,
and I think that's the important thing. And by the
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way proof positive of the number of of uh New
York fans who were here tonight. They show Dak Prescott
on the on the JumboTron. Of course, as I'm looking
at Dak's home stadium, as we have this conversation across
the parking lot, their AT and T Stadium, and uh,
they show him on the scoreboard. Certainly a you know,
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a nice ovation. He's the quarterback of the Cowboys, one
of the great similar you think about Aaron Judge bat
leadoff in in the the New York Kankees, the quarterback
of the Cowboys, kind of similar. So nice ovation. But
there's maybe about fifteen percent of the fans who were
booing them because they're Giants fans, or maybe they're Jets
fans like Jason's. I'm not sure about that, but one
of the one of the two I thought that, I
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thought you'd appreciate that. Jason. All right, well, let me
let me since we've danced around it enough, JP, I'm
cutting Smith off because we've got to get to the Mets. Right.
You have the big weekend weekend series, it all goes
to hell. Uh, now they gotta play in the wild Card.
While they played good baseball. They played terribly against bad teams,
you know, when you can't suck, and so now they're
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they're a wild card team. Does Jason have to rely
solely on early positive signs from the Jets and Syracuse
to get through the rest of the fall? All right, Jason, here,
I'll speak directly to you, my friend. I think the
answer to mike question is yes, I don't. I don't
see the mess. I don't think the mess back this.
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I'm sorry. I'm a realist and been friends for a
long time. I tell you the truth. I am worried
and and even the grand had that weird start against
Open lately, I don't know. Something about this team has
me worried. And also not having Marte as a problem,
and and at last check he could not grip a
baseball batch, and that is a really worrisome situation. Well,
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I wish, I wish, I wish I had a better
I had a better line for you, you know, I
I wish I had better things to say about Mike
Carmen's White Sox. But listen, we've got three history and
baseball tonight, guys, this is pretty cool. JP will do
hours of therapy in the off season A very good friends.
All right, let me let me end with this for
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you JP. Okay, So this season is gone and it
really doesn't seem like Aaron Judge is going to return
to the Yankees, right He turned down money. That was
sort of a low ball offer. The Yankees have said
he's got to decide if he wants to stay. So
if he goes, if he leaves, I say, there's only
three destinations for him. Either he stays in New York
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with them and goes to the Mets, he goes to
the Dodgers, or he goes to the Giants, goes back
through the Giants. Hey, the big allure for him back
in San Francisco in the Bay Area Mets, Dodgers, Giants.
So it's the only three possible outcomes for him if
he leaves the Yankees. That's that's fair. But I also
I would be really surprised if it was the Mets.
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I just I would I I they've already spent a
ton of money. I realized Steve Going never stopped them before.
But when you do this and you you now have
the American League record, you're the home run king in
the minds of many, and that is a legacy that
is yours for all time. The only thing that sort
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of complicates it is if is if you leave as
a free agent, you know he was still be the
history would still be here, it would still be special,
but it would make the whole way in wish the
next decades of his career unfold, just get a little
more complicated. And so, um, I am someone who believes
you know, to your point, Yeah, the Yankees have lost
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free agents before. I get it. However, they've never had
somebody hit fixed to them runs before and have to
figure that that out. So I just think he's he's
in such a separate category that whatever the negotiations were
in March, you start a new I mean, it's it's
a new chapter, a new day, and whatever statements were
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made during the season, I think I have to give
way to the reality that frankly, the Yankees are better
with Judge, and Judges probably also better with the Yankees.
He's on Twitter at John Morrossie, that is, at John Rossi,
MLB Network, Fox Sports Radio and Michigan Wolverine's Insider. Uh
check them out. JP has always even when you bring
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me bad news for the Mets, it's all good. We
will talk to you next week, my friend. Hey, I
met Sweep the Padres. We'll talk next week. I will,
and you can play this back. But our our friendship
is based on trust and honestly, and my friends, I'm
always honest with you, guys. I love our conversations and
I cannot wait. We'll have full Mets breakdown, win or
lose Jason one week from tonight. Oh hey, and I
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want to say congratulations because for the last seven years
you predicted the Mariners. What the playoffs? Congratulations, you got
it right. Warners are in the dance. I kept telling
you guys every year and I said, I'm gonna keep
picking them until they get in. But now I guess
I gotta pick the Angels of the Tigers, and they
have the longest rout. I'm not too sure about that
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for next year. I'll get back on that. I remember
at the beginning of the year when you said I
picked them every year, I can't pick them this year.
I said, no, you can't do that, because if you don't,
this is the year they're gonna make the playoffs. You
gotta pack them again. And you picked them again. I know.
I love it and deservedly and they're gonna be a
fun team to watch. Amen. I love the guys. Thanks
so much. You're the best body say have fun there,
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he goes j P from Aaron Judge home run number
sixty two. Awesome stuff as always with John Paul Morossy.
Just this giddiness as you know, just a lover of
the game. And I don't know. We could argue about
the home run thing, which I would, but that's a
whole other the presumptions and whatever that everybody has. But
you know what, we're living in the now and we're
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in first place in the last two years, though, that's
gotta be a big deal. It's it's a lot, it's
a lot of it's a lot of days in a
lot of that. It's a lot of that, but your shoulder,
like Satchel Page told you. But it's okay because Jacob
de Grand can get an extra day's rest and I
have to pitch in that crazy as game tomorrow thinking
(01:25):
maybe the Braves will lose again and the Jets beat
the Steelers. So yeah, I'm I'm kind of okay. Friday
is Friday, man, Well, well I'll see you on Friday.
See you on Friday for that first game against the Padres.
Good luck, I'll see you there. Time now to strap
it up and play for real. I like the way
you talk. That's good. That's like a Fox promo right there,
(01:48):
Let's go. Time to play. Now, Now it's time to play.
Sit around for a while. That's great. You said it,
and now and now we go play and we see
what happens. Now what did just there? Time time to play?
You know, Pinhead doesn't get his due. Is a really
a legend because it's also smartass. Yeah, but he's always
(02:09):
he's never in the top of a great feel. It's like,
oh yeah, Pinhead, come on. I think that is though.
I think that it's a tough costume to pull off.
It's a lot of work. It's a lot of man
hours to make that for Halloween, which means he never
he never got over it's easy. Hey, what do you
give me for Halloween? I've been working on this pinhead
costume for the last six months. No, you don't do that,
(02:32):
You just don't. It's a it's a lot of effort,
and you can't really use real pins because it's dangerous
and that really makes the costs. It's very difficult. But
if you can pull it off, then I mean you're alleged.
But if you fall, bad things happen. Yeah. Yeah, oh wow.
I shouldn't have worn this costume because because that's not
you know, going and getting you know, the massages. Right,
(02:55):
what what am I? What's the word I'm thinking of?
I don't know. Man, when the kid was you know
what I mean? You mean acupuncture? Acupuncture? That's here? You go? Okay, yeah, no, no,
hey man, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Now you're talking about you. You want a w W
E villain that would terrify the hell out of anybody.
Get let down to the rings like, I can't do it.
(03:16):
I can't do it, Sally, I can't wrestle this guy.
So guess congratulations Braves. Yes, that's great. See you want
to see you win the series and see when the
playoffs at some point, we'll see you on Friday. You
really still talking about playoffs. I did an hour podcast
with a buddy of mine back in Chicago, and the
entire time he kept trying to needle me about the
White Times, Like I'm not I'm not getting my blood
(03:37):
pressure up. I've known that. I've known this is coming
for a while now. It's been they lost that big
series two weeks ago. It's fine, It's it was over there.
That's look. I'm also an old man. I got other
real world concerns over whether whether Louis Robert or any
of these guys are gonna find their way back down
to the field. I don't care, but obvious slee. The
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big breaking story tonight, Aaron Judge now has the American
League record for home runs. He at home run number
sixty two earlier. Tonight, the Yankees trail the Rangers three
to two. Uh, it looks like for Judge, honestly, the
triple crown is probably out of reach. He has five
points back now of the lead, and barring a day tomorrow,
(04:23):
where he goes three for three and r Eyes goes
oh for four and maybe he doesn't even play tomorrow.
It looks like he's gonna fall short of the triple crown.
But sixty tapped out tonight, Yeah, sixty two for Judge.
And let me say, here come the People's home run
Champion takes because Aaron Judge will be the People's home
(04:44):
run Champion. That Barry Bonds is not my champion. Uh,
Mark McGuire is not my champion. The cloud of steroids,
the cloud of pets, Aaron Judge, who I know nothing
about what he's doing or not. Today He's like, I lie,
I like the way you said that, and he's blesses
that because if I see any more of the clean
(05:05):
this that the other you know, everybody was assuming they
were just all, you know, a little Hasbro action figures
in the late nineties and earth right, right, but you look,
you can't accuse anybody is something you can't just know,
but we don't know about it. And yeah, we called
the other thing and just say, well, there's no chance
in hell any of these guys. And I'm not just
(05:26):
saying Judge, I'm just saying anybody, Uh, saying that you
know they're all clean because you know, Fernando Tatis Junior
got popped. So that's evidence that nobody's gonna get through
with anything, which I think is a fool hardy and
silly take. But look, Aaron Judge has has always it,
never has had any controversy, nothing, nothing wrong. He's always hit.
He's always unless he's not really six seven, that's the
(05:48):
only thing. Like if we find out always heightening in
this whole time. I mean, he's pulled the wool over
our eyes for years. I'm I'm really too shorter guys
taped together to make one really big guy. And that's
what we fooled you on this, the entire human voltron. Yes,
let's fantastic. Hey, we just keep putting again you are
some kind of super player. Uh. Look, he's gonna he
(06:10):
is and will be the people's home run Champion. You
can see it already. He's the real champion. He's clean.
The other guys aren't. He's the champion. He's my home
run champion. He's a Yankee. I watched it. It happened
on my watch. Barry Bonds did it so long ago,
and his hat size was size nine no, Aaron Judge
is my guy. He will be the people's home run champion,
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and barring someone else doing it at some point in
the next few years, that legend, in that opinion is
just going to grow because the debate will keep going.
These are what the guys did to hit home runs,
and here's Aaron Judge doing it, and here he is
doing it clean sixty two home runs. Yeah, he's my
home run champion. And you're gonna see players who are
gonna weigh in and say, yes, he should be the
(06:51):
whole all time home run champion. You're gonna see all
kinds of fan groups get together petitioning Major League Baseball
recognize Aaron Judge as the real home run champion. I mean,
this is this is the way it goes. We told
you for weeks he's gonna be the people's home run champions,
and now that he hit number sixty two, here it goes.
I think one of the things that flows along with
the Jason and the parallel is the goat conversation in
(07:15):
the NBA. Right You've got Lebron James getting ready to
pass Kareem Abdul Jabbar on the scoring list and admitted
it talking after their preseason debacle yesterday. Uh, that they
have no relationship. Nice little headline that kind of went
under the radar this morning. Uh yeah, no, uh, we
know each other and that we have no relationship. Okay, cool,
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But the goat conversation is fueled now by by younger
people as now it's lebron and whatever stat categories you want,
stat aggregation, whatever your metric is for what you've defined.
It's also a lot of what you grow up with,
what you have an emotional attachment to, versus YouTube videos
and and stuff that people gleamed off of old video
(08:00):
tapes from back in the day. Uh, a little grainy's
at him? Is that him back there? Yeah, those kind
of things. So, and the players that are current, that's
their guy. And the better he is looked at in history,
the better they're looked at in history because they were
playing against him. So if he's the greatest, well he
had to do it against us, so we're better as well.
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So that narrative starts to shift. Likewise, baseball players are
going to recognize this because it's a contemporary and it's
a guy by all accounts, nice affable dude, and and
everybody's got nothing a kind word to say. He's a
six seven giant. So you've got that Paul Bunyan thing
going on that he's walking around not with a giant axe,
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but with a giant bat and the big blue Babe
Ox Babe, So he's who you're you're thinking, you're thinking
of Babe the Blue Ox. No, I I got it there,
I I can you know jumbled the I played word
jumble with the title, but I got I got there.
But the the idea just being that the more you
can push that narrative, it makes your era of baseball
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that much better. And if you're a young writer or
a young radio host, this is your guy because it's
happening now, as opposed to well the old guy did this,
and you can excuse away a lot of things. For
Bonds and Maguire and Sosa, it's quick to say, all right,
well they did it during this era. A lot of
those their contemporaries got into the Hall of Fame. You know,
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if if we're gonna look at the era as a
whole and and just walked right in because maybe they
were more likable, but and that's fine, you know, every
everybody picks in. Then the voters do what they're gonna do. Uh.
And you know, I look at it from the folks
that want to do the he's the all time guy,
and he's my guy, and and that's all it is
(09:48):
and throw these guys out. It's like, are they these
people also recognize all of the vacated titles and then
they transfer those two runner ups in college sports? Is
that how they do things? Because last time looked, all
of those the the records are still there. All those
guys still got contracts for for what they did. Reggie
Bush's Heisman thing. Look, man, you take seven years to
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do an investigation, you lose long after you need to
make sure all the teaser cross the eyes are dotted,
maybe you know, and then we got punish those kids
that were nine years old. You should have known. Hey,
if you're should have known to something was up with
that Reggie Bush guy before you committed to USC. This
is for all you eight year olds that are really
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good at football. Look at what just happened to USC.
It's gonna be a while, but don't worry. What just
when you're making that decision, that's when this is gonna
come down. So good luck. Yeah, so's it's just that
idea Jason of of you know, with the eras you're
you're gonna push the guy that you're seeing because it
makes your experience seemed like the real one. Well, and
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the other part of it is this, the other other
part of Aaron Judge hitting them for sixty two and
seeing just the the uh, just the even over the
course of the weekend, the number of people with the
faux outrage of oh, you're gonna interrupt my college football
Saturday for an Aaron Judge. Yes, I'm sorry, you're gonna
miss two plays to see if you can see baseball
history be made, and a guy at sixty two, I'm sorry,
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it's a big deal. Is your is your day really ruined? Oh?
They cut it on Aeron Judge. Throw the TV away, mom,
I'm not watching this anymore. Uh did you see the
cut that went today? Speaking of Reggie Bush, it was
the Vince Young playing and he's and it cuts away
on aug Oh no really, if you look that up
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folks on on your inner webs, it is one of
the funniest things. Like now, this has gotten ridiculous. With
my classics, I think my favorite one was the one
where they interrupted Aaron Judge's sixty first home run to
play you know, to buy it was, Hey, we're playing,
we're interrupting set first home run to play this live
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at Battery Cood at sixty two. Look, the one thing
we have learned at out of all of this is
that through everything, through everything in in sports, in steroids,
in in home run records, we all still love home runs.
We love the show. Yes, we always will. We're never
gonna not love home runs. You could have guys that
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that have been proven guilty of taken all kinds of stories,
hit a hundred and fifty home runs a year. We're
always gonna love home runs. It's always going to happen.
It's always been the biggest fascination. It's the biggest play
in sports. When a guy hits one deep and you
stand up and you look and it's going out of
the park, it doesn't nothing else in sports can can
lay claim to it. Because you have big moments, and
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you have big moments and NFL games, you have last
minute field goals, you have last minute touchdowns, you have
last minute threes in the NBA. But over the course
of a game, when someone hits one deep and everybody
stands up and you look a little closer your television.
No other sport has that. We love home runs. The
world will always belong to home runs. And and this
arrant Judge run proves it even more. No matter what happens,
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you can't kill home runs. We love home runs. Well,
it goes back to that era. Jason how stupefied all
the writers and and pundits were the broadcasters by by
what they were witnessing that It wasn't until later that
it was fashionable to start wagging their fingers and asking
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The way tire buying should be. It's sixty two home
runs for Aaron Judge, he hits the big one tonight
against the Rangers, and also the Braves take first place
in the NL East. But let's just focus on what
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we've seen with history in Major League Baseball. And Aaron
Judge talk about that beatball that got served up, well, well,
you know, you know, here's the thing, half the down
the middle there meat. Half the people go, oh, he's
not good, dude, good pitchers. The other half go, they're
gonna groove it to him and give it to him.
What make up your mind? Make it remind what you want.
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Either either they're gonna pitch away from when you're mad
he doesn't get strikes it, or oh, we're throwing it
right down in the middle from to pick a lane.
Pick one of those. You can't, dude, made a mistake.
I can't have both. Remember a lot of his at
bats where everybody was mad that he walked, were actually
like seven or eight pitching bats. So it's not like
they just waved four fingers at him and said, blank
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you all right, Aaron's four feet outside the zone. Swing
at that jerk. No, they didn't do that. They battled
and if you really want to swing, do you really
want to swing? Here? In the end, they said do
you want to nibble on the outer and part of
the play it. You want to work a little lower, fine,
go on, golf it out of here. Uh? And he
walked and people were mad about it. So I go
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back and watch all the bats. So there's a lot
of pitches and a lot of foul balls and a
lot of stuff going on. It wasn't just a get
those fours up. Come on, get those fours up. No
mocking him as he walks down to first base. I
didn't do that. I'm just gonna lob this in and
see if you really want to swing at it. Okay,
here you go, throwing it underhead at you. Now look,
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Aaron Judge sixty two. It's a really big deal. And
now let's play a little game called who called it best? Okay?
Now right, we have all kinds of versions of number
sixty two from Aaron Judge. Some ross call it yet
I don't know, my god, it's Aaron Judge home run
number sixty two. Oh my good get this guy flying
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off the top of the cage had kind of guess
the undertaker, No, you know who? I really wish I
could have heard uh call tonight may make the call?
Would be Hawk and Whimpy, because Hawk and Whimpy White
Sox would have called it. Aaron is up. That's deep.
It's home run by Judge sixty two. It's a lot.
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Here comes Stanton fans having a good year too. He's
got he's got forty one home runs. He's out. Yankees
really right on him a lot in the postseason. Where's
Judge round and third? Everybody's coming out of the dugoutre.
You know, Hawk, sometimes when the picture gets behind in
account as a hitter, I used to dig. I mean
you were a big home run hitter, Hawk, what would
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you do if you were looking at something like this?
Remember Kenn Harrelson actually had a couple of pretty big
power years as a hitter, uh many many years ago.
There there you go, kids, uh. For all the millennials
out there that might know of Hawk only as a
well in battled GM puppet GM uh and later the
longtime broadcaster and Hall of Famer for the White Six,
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he was once upon a time a power hitter in
those lineups alongside Karl Yastremski. Hey, you have just blown
off entirely at sixty two. Big party going on right now.
There's there's h Roger Marris's kid and uh Aaron Judge's mom,
and uh, you can have a pitch of change right here.
You remember the only two games left here for Tony
Russa and that's it not coming back? And how do
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you leave that ball over the plate? You gotta be
kidding me. I'll be back after this. Uh keep you
keep bright, be back. Yeah, Hawk could have gotten a
salty situation. That could have been fun. Let's take a
look at the out of town scoreboard. Uh see the
after uh picture to combine. No, here it is the
out of town scoreboard night there's Aaron Judge still still.
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You know those Mats were playing really good baseball for
five months. Hawk ceremony down. That's gonna win a doubleheader
tonight and that's gotta feel good for them going in
the playoffs. That's uh yeah, they're giving them some kind
of stuff. I think they gave them keys to a
car or something. Home plate. Yeah, that's it's gone. But uh,
you know right now with Seattle, they're back in the
playoffs first time in twenty years. That's a good story.
You know, Tom, you played in Seattle for a long time.
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What was it like baseball history and seen. Uh so,
let's let's play who called it best first. Well, we
gotta start with John Sterling. Let's start with John Sterling.
Let's see if we get something special from him or
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if it's another another Judge and blast all Rose. Let's
see how John Sterling called it for the Yankee Radio network.
One one there goes deep, loved in is high, That
is fars come number sixty two to set the new
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American League records. Aaron Judge hits a sixties second. All
the Yankees out of the dugout to greet him. Yeah,
I could have used a little bit more on that, John,
Now they're bagging each other. I could have used a
little bit more on that. And now here's what's going
I mean, you have all the time in the world
to think of how you're gonna call sixty two for Aaron. John.
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You've certainly had, you know, a couple of weeks to
just get those next two calls out. Yeah, you've had,
You've had months of how am I gonna say? No,
I'm just gonna go out, you know, I'm just gonna
announce it like it's another home run. Just I'm gonna
do it like that. I mean, you got you gotta
have something special. It's sixty bleep in two. Um, okay,
so that's not gonna win. I could already say I'm
like Simon Cowell right now. No, that's not gonna win.
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Don't like it? All right, Uh, let's have Michael K.
Yes Network, let's hear his call at number sixty two
d after the one hit in Game one to history,
Peace done it. He has done it sixty two. Judge
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is the American League single season hold one later? The
L King case closed. All right, that's better. That's it.
A L King case closed. Okay, I like it, Judge was. Yeah,
but when he hit the ball there was it was
a no doubter. Yeah, but I mean like it went today.
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I know the guy in the front row caught it,
but it was like it was that was hammered. Yeah.
I kind of feel like, Uh. At one point at
like after the ball went over the fence, he started
reading from a prepared script, play it one more time.
Let's hear one more time at play Michael K. One
more time, Judge hitting three ten after the one hit
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in game one ball play to history. He's done it.
He has done it. Sixty two. Judge is the American
League single season at home run leader. The King case closed. Yeah,
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I kind of feel like, okay, now I'm going to
my script. Okay, yeah, home mon, it's out of here
and pick it up right here. Takes the crown from
the Burger King. All right, so I'll give that to
Michael ka Over in a decision absolutely, all right. Now,
let's hear the Texas Maybe the Rangers surprised us, right,
Let's hear the Rangers radio side of the home run
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call one and one Aaron Judge, here's the pitch and
there's a swing, and there's a high flam board and
Dad left field, Bubba tumps him back. He's at the war.
That goal is history. He Judge has broken the American
League home run record. The Yankings are pouring out of
the duck out to Green him at home plays. That
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that that that's that's the opposing uh you know that
it's the call you would expect to get from the
opposing team. That's a pretty good call though. Yeah, it's
not bad. It's it's it's the same thing as John Sterling.
It's the same exactly, but it's from the from the
road team. So it gets to call for Sterling, so
that guy would be second on the metal stand. Right, Yeah,
I'm not a little disappointed so far. I gotta say
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there's not a lot of juice going on here. No,
I I really all right? So now the last one
we have to play for you. We have Russian judges. No, no,
we have the Spanish here of average. How do I
know already this is gonna be the best one? How
already I know, without without, even without been playing, I
know it's gonna be the best. I mean, history would
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tell us that, Kevin Harland, this would be the best
historia would be. I think that's how it would be
in spani historia and plot is ball Okay, so there's that.
I know that, and um what else starting from Spanish? Uh, Aaron,
I don't know how to say that. I don't know
what judges in Spanish home run, but I think it's
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since his name is judge, you're just gonna call him
judge judge. I don't think they're gonna call him quiz. Okay,
it's not the magistrate, although the magistrate would be a
hell of a nickname the magistrates. That sounds like some
of that magistrate like for a European star and something. Okay,
well we'll find a guy to plant that on and
when we watch some e p L. Alright, so get
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ready for the World Cup. We're gonna he had two months, baby,
let's go. We're getting right. Day after Thanksgiving, Ohio State
Michigan and day one of the World Cup. Here we go.
Here is the Spanish language version of Aaron Judges Home Run,
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where HI get that wrong? Aaron Judge and Cool A
couple of Scando Aaron Judge, halass On, Baby Bruss, Roger Barris,
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he Lorie de Yankees Aaron Judge. Yeah, that's the best one.
I think, no debate. He got three sentences out of
his mouth like you Yankees broadcasters that I've been waiting
for this all season. You've got nothing. I think I
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recognized him saying different versions of the word money, like
three different times in that I really do. I thought
I got it. I thought I caught like three. I
thought I heard him say de naro. I thought I
heard him say a couple of times. I'm like, is
he talking about? I mean, what what is that? Call? Like?
I want a translation of it? Will work on that?
All right, let's play it again, try to recognize some
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of the words. Go ahead, a t sorry there, Uh swing,
I recognize swing, he said, swing. I recognize that. Look
at you. I heard swing. I heard swing. All right,
pick it up? Put a scared right there where hien
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you go? Lea song? Get the demos rain that hold wrong.
Aaron Judge and west Polid a couple of scared though,
Aaron Judge, they have glass of baby Bruce glass. Roger Barris,
he re deo those Yankees. Yes, Aaron Judge day home
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run de Yankees talking about a Trasi passed ruth, he
passed maris. Yeah, you know, it's all good. And a
couple of money. I heard like dollar. But if he
said like dolor de cabase, I means headache, So I
don't know if he got a headache reference in like
I I don't know. My Spanish is rusty. I just
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started working on my battle again because I got my
lifetime subscription and the hope is at some point next
year maybe to do a little bit of traveling, a
little bit of wandering, um, you know, walk the earth
kind of thing, and Spanish could help me a little bit.
Well yeah, I mean, look, that's the thing is that
my mom always said to me, and this is where
you know I I I wanted to say this tours
she was said to me, I wanted to take French
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in school because all my friends were taking Why nobody
was taking Spanish, right, all my friends were taking French.
They were I'm like, well, but I didn't know. I'm thirteen.
I wanted to go in the class wherever all the
hot girls were. They're all taking French. I don't want,
but she says, take Spanish. I said, why should because
it will serve you better in life than learning French.
And I said why, She goes, well, because you could
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be a translator. I said, why couldn't I be a translator? Well,
she also said, you're you're more likely in the United
States to me a lot of Latino women that you
can then converge with rather than French speaking people across
the US. See if she told me that, hey, You're
gonna talk to way more hot girls who speak Spanish,
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Oh mom, mom, she shot it straight right there. Oh yeah, yeah,
give me Spanish. And I got really lucky because my
first year of Spanish, I sat right behind all this girl.
She was so gorgeous and and I was like, oh
my god, she's so hot. Did you give her a hat? No? No, no, no.
This before I really had game, right, I didn't really
have the confidence. But like she liked me because you know,
I was a funny guy. You know, I was funny guy.
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And I'm like, yeah, okay, and she was, Oh my god.
I loved her, love Madeline. What was her last name?
Her name was Madeline. I can't think of her last name. Uh.
And I loved her, love to love her. And I
did well in Spanish. I was really good. And and
now I'm like, okay, I can I could barely remember,
just like some words like that, I can't. I can't.
The long road begins with that first step, buddy. The
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only thing, the best thing I do and the most
fun thing I do in Spanish is like when I
if uh, Because you know, coaching soccer, I coach I
coach a lot of Latino girls. That that I have
for the last few years is that if if there's ah, yes,
so I said, I coach a lot of Latino girls.
If there's a if, there's a if, Like the game
is a little tense and I want to break the tension.
I'll yell to one of the girls that speak Spanish,
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and I will say I'll say, I say yummy, la
biblioteca frio, mui frio. And then she's like, everybody's looking
at me. Go, did you just say the libraries? We
should make that a play. Yeah, it's like the annexation
of Puerto Rico. Yeah, it's like they all think I'm
giving her. You know, some people think I'm giving her
some kind of direction and Spanish coaches bilingual. That's great.
I mean, I'm just saying some nonsense stuff. Vaco smu,
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guappomue guappo, what means the couch handsome, right, And so
she starts laughing, the parents start laughing, and it breaks
tension a little bit. So I like to do that.
That's the one thing, like I remember certain words and phrases,
but that's it. Really. Just make sure to verify your
translations with people. Also, you start screaming things that that
young teenage girls and you're getting the verbiage wrong. You're
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in trouble. Oh no, no, no, no no. I make
sure that that's the word. That's the I know, I remember.
Everybody's okay with this phraseology right now? Okay, Mr Jason's
got the Spanish down right right right, Okay, let's go
just listen how we go? I always and I make
sure I enunciate and I say that way and everything
everything I got, it's all got to be legit, gotta
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be legit. So we're gonna give it to the Spanish
sho call. Yeah, that wins. Like, I feel like both
the Yankees calls were really disappointing, Like my expectations were
so much higher since they've had They've ridden the emotional
roller coaster the entire season. Not to say that the
Spanish language broadcaster has not, but it's it's the kind
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of thing, these legends in the booth that we know
that our household names and sports talk radio fair to
come up with those calls a little week. I guess
I'm a little bit a little bit disappointed. Yeah, I really,
I mean, I mean, unless unle us, they're all you know,
I called all these home runs all year, what could
I possibly say? I'm done? Right, Like, I'm just I
like drop for a big game, for a big game.
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I've come out flat from my play by play call.
I really don't care anymore. Yees see, it's in a yes,
I know. Yeah, it's a final, here's a home run.
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What's happening JP. I'm doing great, gentlemen. I'm here in Arlington, Texas.
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I was able to see some extraordinary baseball history this evening.
Uh and I cannot wait to share some stories with you.
How close were you catching the ball? Were you next
to that billionaire that caught the ball in the left
field stands? So I was not close to him. Actually,
here's kind of a funny story. I was. You know,
normally I would watch the game from the press box
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if I'm not on the broadcast, until I was up
in the writing press box for a while, and then
tonight I said, you know what, I'm just gonna watch
that first at bat from the stands. And so I
sat next to an outstanding Arlington police officer named Kathy,
and we were just sitting there watching the uh the
the at bat, and and she had said, you know what,
it looks kind of a little more comfortable than he
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was maybe earlier today and last night, and sure enough,
third pitch of the night home run history. So it's
kind of cool to to watch it as a fan,
because that's why we do what we do, is we're
we're fans of the game, and Aaron is just an
incredibly classy ambassador everything he means to the sport, and
tonight was just one more shining example of that. The
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police officer, Kathy, did you say, don't you know who
I am? Uh? In case the ball came up there
that you could get you out of there safely? You no, no, no,
we we were. I would say that we were. We
were about two levels up behind home plate. That would
have been quite a that would have been quite a
shift in the rules of baseball for me to catch
a home run or the laws of physics one or
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the other. But uh, he hits it really far. It
hits off the foul pole and bounces all the way
back to you. Now there you go. That that would
require some some quantum physics that I am not qualified
to be able to do render. But what I will
say is this, and I know obviously there's a lot
of conversation about the baseball and I understand that, but
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it was interesting. I actually asked Aaron about it after
we had an interview on MLB Network, and you basically said, listen,
you know, hey, it'd be great to have for our family.
I understand that, but but it's also a souvenir for
the fans, and they come down and obviously, once once
the ballbos into the crowd, of the souvenir for for
the fans or collectors at him, whatever it might be.
But that's part of the game as well. So um
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parapraising me a little bit. But I just think he
really did an excellent job of of answering that question,
as he did handling all the pitches that produced the
sixty two home runs this season. All right, so let
me ask you this, because this was how we opened
the show. We talked about Aaron Judge. Now sixty two
home runs. If I said to you that Aaron Judge
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is gonna be the people's home run champion, and who
a lot of fans are gonna recognize has the real
home run champion. They're gonna ignore Barry Bond's gonna ignore McGuire, Sosa,
all the guys, all the guys tainted with P. E.
D S. Do you agree with that statement or not?
I do. Uh, That's how I look at him. For me,
he's the authentic single season home run champion. I would
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describe him that way. I think a lot of people
are on the game believe that as well. Um, listen
to the record books say what they say, and then
there's the historical context and how we want to to
view this achievement and what it means to the game
and what he means to the sport and to the Yankees.
So for me, I I see I see a complicated
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and nuanced conversation when it comes to what the record
book says versus what the the people around the game regard.
I would just say that that this was not just
saying he now has the American League record. This is
we are talking about in our midst the greatest homewarn
hitter in a single season the game has ever seen, period.
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And that's how that that's how I look at it
from an authentic standpoint. Um, obviously I recognize what Bonds did.
I saw that it happened. It's there, But I think
that there's it's interesting and this may be splitting hairs
a little bit. But I understand there's a distinction between
what the record is officially and who the king is
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in reality, and that's and judges the ladder judge is
the one that the people attach themselves too. And uh,
is there a nuance there, of course, But I think
we can handle handle nuance and talk about it and
how we view things. And for me, that's that's how
I look at it. Yeah, it's me, it's yeah, this
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this this could be a four hour debate show on
this entire topic. HMP. So I'll move move away from
it and just into the context of you know, this
has a relief going into the playoffs for the Yankees
to just get this done and be able to focus
on the task at hand going forward. It is about
about twenty minutes ago I was speaking with Garret Cole
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and he basically said that to me, Um that you
think about the Yankees and what that uniform represents, there's
not a whole lot of stress free days that exists
when you remember the New York he's because of the
expectations and for the right people, it's great because you're
in the spotlight. Every game matters, every inning matters. Every
pitch matters, and you never play a meaningless game when
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you're with that franchise. And that's great, but it also
can wear on you. And I think even in small ways,
it was maybe wearing on Aaron a little bit the
last couple of weeks at different times in his career
as a Yankee. It's weighed on Garrit Cole without questions.
And and yet this is why they say when you win,
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there's no better place to win, because because the fans
will belove, are are in that just that that support
for you, the way that Paul O'Neil is revered and
Grocious and Tino and even all those guys who are
not Jeter or Mo or Pettis, And I think that
what Garrett was basically saying with it tomorrow they can
actually relax a little bit. And oh, by the way,
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he just surpassed run Guindrey's single season strikeout record for
the franchise, which is a pretty big deal too. So
I think tomorrow is a well deserved mental day off
and they can take the weekend and stay sharp, perhaps
to workouts and get ready because game one of the
Division Series of a week from tonight against the team
that will have just won an emotional weekend series, whether
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it's Cleveland or Tampa, they've got they've got a tough
assignment coming up next week. Yeah, I mean that's all
finding good But I mean Ron Guidry still has the
Louisiana Lightning nickname, which is better than the grit anything
Garrit Cole has, right, and and Ron Goodrey still has
the record for Louisiana born Yankees pictures. See there you go. Now,
here's the one question JP did, just to get away
(39:35):
from the home run for a second. He is four
points back of potentially winning the Triple Crown. And that's
a you know, I know that, hey, let's get a
day off. But but okay, you can you get some
time off, that's fine. But man, you're four points back.
You go to for four tomorrow or Rise plays goes
one for four, you're talking about winning the Triple Crown.
(39:58):
I mean, it is is it's Is it set and
stone that he's not Do you think he's not gonna
play tomorrow? That's a great question. Aaron Boone indicated as
much that he's expected to get the day off tomorrow.
Could that change between now and then? Perhaps, But here's
what I'll say. And this actually is a nice echo
to something that the three of us talked about a
(40:19):
month ago with Pools and and what kind of trend
he was on and where he was going to get
in the home run chase. I think Aaron and Albert,
while in different stages of their career, view their individual
contributions within the team concept in a in a similar
way in that Aaron wanted whatever he was doing to
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to be something that that exalted the team and fit
within their constructor trying to win a baseball game, whereas
and I think Albert had the same approach. He wasn't
going to come back if he if he had stopped
at six, he wasn't gonna come back next year to
get one home run in the right off onto the
sunset and haven't be all about him. I think tomorrow,
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if if Aaron Boone says, Aaron, you've played every single
game for the last fifty plus games as your manager,
I want you to take a break. What why risk
you know, taking a taking a fastball off your knuckles
when you don't have to, Um, you've done enough. And
I think that's if that's the conversation, If that's the decision.
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Then I think Aaron would accept that because it's Yeah,
I really believe that baseball, in its own way, rewards
you when you're achieving something within the team construct. And
what Judge did tonight was within that. What Albert did
with the Cardinals in terms of hitting seven hunter plus
home runs that honored that covenant. I think when you
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kind of venture outside of it, it gets a little perilous.
And I think that's why Judge is so great. It
would be it would be sort of off brand for
him to be in the lineup for a purely personal reason.
This is what I'm saying, And so I don't think
I'm sure he'd play if Aaron put him in there,
if Aaron Boone put him in the lineup, But he's
not going to demand it because that would just not
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be within his character. I think you go selfish, get
me in, put a coach. I'm in. I want history
because I want to be able to go to the
club going, hey, I got at the negotiating team. I know,
I know, but but but the point is, like we
all know that he could do it, We've all seen it,
and I think that's the important thing. And by the
(42:31):
way proof positive of the number of of uh New
York fans who were here tonight. They show Dak Prescott
on the on the JumboTron. Of course, as I'm looking
at Dak's home stadium, as we have this conversation across
the parking lot, their AT and T Stadium, and uh,
they show him on the scoreboard. Certainly a you know,
(42:53):
a nice ovation. He's the quarterback of the Cowboys, one
of the great similar you think about Aaron Judge bat
leadoff in in the the New York Kankees, the quarterback
of the Cowboys, kind of similar. So nice ovation. But
there's maybe about fifteen percent of the fans who were
booing them because they're Giants fans, or maybe they're Jets
fans like Jason's. I'm not sure about that, but one
of the one of the two I thought that, I
(43:14):
thought you'd appreciate that. Jason. All right, well, let me
let me since we've danced around it enough, JP, I'm
cutting Smith off because we've got to get to the Mets. Right.
You have the big weekend weekend series, it all goes
to hell. Uh, now they gotta play in the wild Card.
While they played good baseball. They played terribly against bad teams,
you know, when you can't suck, and so now they're
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they're a wild card team. Does Jason have to rely
solely on early positive signs from the Jets and Syracuse
to get through the rest of the fall? All right, Jason, here,
I'll speak directly to you, my friend. I think the
answer to mike question is yes, I don't. I don't
see the mess. I don't think the mess back this.
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I'm sorry. I'm a realist and been friends for a
long time. I tell you the truth. I am worried
and and even the grand had that weird start against
Open lately, I don't know. Something about this team has
me worried. And also not having Marte as a problem,
and and at last check he could not grip a
baseball batch, and that is a really worrisome situation. Well,
(44:25):
I wish, I wish, I wish I had a better
I had a better line for you, you know, I
I wish I had better things to say about Mike
Carmen's White Sox. But listen, we've got three history and
baseball tonight, guys, this is pretty cool. JP will do
hours of therapy in the off season A very good friends.
All right, let me let me end with this for
(44:45):
you JP. Okay, So this season is gone and it
really doesn't seem like Aaron Judge is going to return
to the Yankees, right He turned down money. That was
sort of a low ball offer. The Yankees have said
he's got to decide if he wants to stay. So
if he goes, if he leaves, I say, there's only
three destinations for him. Either he stays in New York
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with them and goes to the Mets, he goes to
the Dodgers, or he goes to the Giants, goes back
through the Giants. Hey, the big allure for him back
in San Francisco in the Bay Area Mets, Dodgers, Giants.
So it's the only three possible outcomes for him if
he leaves the Yankees. That's that's fair. But I also
I would be really surprised if it was the Mets.
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I just I would I I they've already spent a
ton of money. I realized Steve Going never stopped them before.
But when you do this and you you now have
the American League record, you're the home run king in
the minds of many, and that is a legacy that
is yours for all time. The only thing that sort
(45:52):
of complicates it is if is if you leave as
a free agent, you know he was still be the
history would still be here, it would still be special,
but it would make the whole way in wish the
next decades of his career unfold, just get a little
more complicated. And so, um, I am someone who believes
you know, to your point, Yeah, the Yankees have lost
(46:13):
free agents before. I get it. However, they've never had
somebody hit fixed to them runs before and have to
figure that that out. So I just think he's he's
in such a separate category that whatever the negotiations were
in March, you start a new I mean, it's it's
a new chapter, a new day, and whatever statements were
(46:34):
made during the season, I think I have to give
way to the reality that frankly, the Yankees are better
with Judge, and Judges probably also better with the Yankees.
He's on Twitter at John Morrossie, that is, at John Rossi,
MLB Network, Fox Sports Radio and Michigan Wolverine's Insider. Uh
check them out. JP has always even when you bring
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me bad news for the Mets, it's all good. We
will talk to you next week, my friend. Hey, I
met Sweep the Padres. We'll talk next week. I will,
and you can play this back. But our our friendship
is based on trust and honestly, and my friends, I'm
always honest with you, guys. I love our conversations and
I cannot wait. We'll have full Mets breakdown, win or
lose Jason one week from tonight. Oh hey, and I
(47:18):
want to say congratulations because for the last seven years
you predicted the Mariners. What the playoffs? Congratulations, you got
it right. Warners are in the dance. I kept telling
you guys every year and I said, I'm gonna keep
picking them until they get in. But now I guess
I gotta pick the Angels of the Tigers, and they
have the longest rout. I'm not too sure about that
(47:39):
for next year. I'll get back on that. I remember
at the beginning of the year when you said I
picked them every year, I can't pick them this year.
I said, no, you can't do that, because if you don't,
this is the year they're gonna make the playoffs. You
gotta pack them again. And you picked them again. I know.
I love it and deservedly and they're gonna be a
fun team to watch. Amen. I love the guys. Thanks
so much. You're the best body say have fun there,
(48:01):
he goes j P from Aaron Judge home run number
sixty two. Awesome stuff as always with John Paul Morossy.
Just this giddiness as you know, just a lover of
the game. And I don't know. We could argue about
the home run thing, which I would, but that's a
whole other the presumptions and whatever that everybody has. But
you know what, we're living in the now and we're
(48:22):
celebrating greatness tonight.
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