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This is the Michael K. Show Podcast.

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This is Yankees Manager Aaron Boone, and the Michael K. Show starts now on 98.7 ESPN, New York.

Have a great show, boys.

Thank you, Aaron. Good afternoon, everybody.

This is indeed the Michael K. Show.

It's Friday. It's July 28th. It's 2023.

The Major League Baseball Trade deadline is 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

But we start off with a quick pinstrek report brought to my jack pocket,

and the report tells you that Aaron Judge has in fact been activated by the end of the show.

Wow.

They don't activate him unless they're going to play him, because why would you activate

him if they got to sit on the bench?

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