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Action! An emergency starting nine, Carl here, Jake here, massive news, Aaron Judge,

the 80s 30, uh, 360 million, 40 million year, your thoughts make me.

Uh, the largest contract for a, for a position player or, uh, in general, an MLB history.

Um, it doesn't really surprise me at all, especially coming off the season, uh, that he had.

What was surprising to me, and I think to a lot of people around baseball, especially the Yankees,

is when Aaron Judge showed up to, uh, the Winter meetings, unannounced.

And that had to raise, raise an alarm for the team. Um, I thought he might be showing up to

meet with some other teams or finalize a contract with somebody else. Sure enough,

ends up signing a massive contract with the Yankees. Um, so a big day for the Yankees organization.

We saw that, you know, Brian Cashman resigned. I know a lot of people were upset about that.

I saw some bar still guys kind of pissed, but I'm sure the little, they're a little bit happier now

that they see Judge sign the nine-year deal. So he'll probably, he'll be a Yankee for, for the

remainder of his, his career. It seems like, um, that's, that's what I wanted to see. I'm glad he's

staying in New York. I want to see him win a ring as a Yankee. Uh, so big day, big day for the

organization. They're just super juicy timing on the story too. I mean, Brian Cashman signing the

extension, the four-year extension Yankee fans don't give a fuck. All they want is Aaron Judge

back in that uniform. They want to move forward from the success they had last year. They get their

guy $40 million. The payroll is explosive. I don't know what they're going to do with the luxury

tech. So there's a lot of stuff that's going to come out of this down the road. Based on how much

teams are spending now, we knew teams would be spending a lot coming out of a new collective

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