Welcome to the Fantasy Throw Down Podcast, bringing you the latest from the world of sports,

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Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game.

Here's your host, Duane Calendar.

Hello and welcome to the show everyone.

Got a lot to cover and let's just start off at the top with Aaron Judge returning to the Yankees because I know some of you have been reaching out to me saying Dwayne you got it wrong

judge came back to the Yankees and I gotta be honest with you some of y'all need to be

able to read between the lines I said the Yankees were not willing to pay over 300 million to keep judge

because they had made their determination that they could survive without

Aaron Judge. They came back and realized, oh, this is actually going to go way

worse than we thought because their arrogance of assuming that the fan base wouldn't revolt at the side of losing

judge and the amount of revenue sales that they were going to lose that they could

actually sustain it. They couldn't. That's what this came down to. So now, and I gotta be honest with you, we'll go into the reasons why, it just further proves how dysfunctional the Yankees truly are and that things aren't going to improve

any time soon. Because if you had a job where your overall manager screwed up to the extent that the company lost over a hundred

million dollars and that manager was coming up for review. You would actually say, hey, this guy's on the hot seat. He might actually lose his job.

No, no, no. That's not how the Yankees operate.

Aaron Judge basically could have been locked down last year with the Yankees

with a $250 million deal.

Could have been locked down for a $250 million deal,

and the Yankees instead offered them $210.

That's what this comes down to. The Yankees lowball judge, he literally

would assign for that 250 deal based off the annual average value of the contract without

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