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Tonight, Aaron Boone heads to Tampa to begin spring training with the Yankees

this ninth season as manager of the Yankees as they look to snare

their 28th world championship and he is nice enough to join us now.

I'm sure he's all packed and ready to go to the airport.

Aaron, how you doing, man?

Hi, Michael.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

How do you feel about this team?

Nice, easy question to start off.

I feel really good.

We're excited.

You know, obviously we've got a lot of people that, you know, I felt so very good about

at the end of the last season, you know, so I've kind of said out loud a lot that, you know,

it was one of my most difficult seasons to get over.

The end was tough because I do feel like we were kind of peaking at the right time.

We were healthy at the right time.

I felt like we had a team that could go get it done and to get bounced. Blue Jays, who were kind of our kryptonite last year, was difficult. But I feel good that we have a chance to get back to there and hopefully flip the script on it.

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