What I said last year, very similar to what you said, just in a different light, was I said,

Juan Soto gives you judge protection, your judge proof.

And I didn't mean it because he was batting next to him.

I meant it in case Judge got hurt.

Right.

Because Aaron Judge, and this is why I would take Soto over Judge, I can't rely on Aaron Judge to play 160 games.

Now, he did it last year.

Kudos to him.

That has not been something he does every year.

And I shudder to think about this lineup without Aaron Judge.

I use the word shudder like I'm a 70-year-old man, but I do.

I shudder to think about this lineup if Aaron Judge misses any extended period of time. I have been thinking about this a lot with the judge injuries, the Stanton injuries,

because that was my bold claim that all these teams will miss the playoffs in this town.

I wonder if with Soto off the team now and the idea of like show one Soto what it's like to be Yankee,

all of what we did last year is gone.

Do you think the Yankees go back to more conventional sitting

judge once a week than, you know, the kind of like the old method to keep them healthy now?

Yeah, well, last year did feel like it was a, you must get to the World Series. Right.

We are, foot is down to the medal all season long. It's what it felt like. And maybe that's why Judge crapped out at the end.

We'll never know, right?

Certainly possible.

It's in his head, but we don't know that.

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