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All right, guys, excited to have a guest on today.

Chris Kirshner from The Athletic. You can follow guest on today. Chris Kirshner from The Athletic.

You can follow him on Twitter at Chris Kirshner.

I'm going to talk all things Aaron Judge, Yankees offseason, roster construction,

the crazy amount of money that's being spent in baseball right now.

Chris, man, welcome to the show.

Appreciate you coming on.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate it. Yeah. So, obviously, big show. Appreciate you coming on. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Yeah. So obviously, big topic. Aaron Judge is back. He's back. He's, he hasn't been in captain yet,

but I think that's going to be coming up at some point in the near future. Whether the near future

is weeks, months, or year, who knows. But it seems like he's slotted to be the guy because now, you know, he's got the contract that takes him to be a Yankee forever. He's the guy, which is, which is great. That's, I think, what the fan base wanted is what the, it's what the team needed to do. It's, they had to close this deal. You wrote a really, really compelling, I think a really

interesting article called Inside the Yankees' stressful day that led to Aaron Judge's return.

So I'd like to start there, actually, and kind of have you just talk a little bit about that

because the things that you covered inside this article I thought were really

intriguing but um off the top what's one of the things coming from that that you were surprised to

hear i guess based on on how the day went down well um when john hayman tweeted arson judge as going to

the giants um the yankees were very confused.

They believed that they were still in the race.

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