 congratulations to Aaron on one of the greatest seasons in the history of our sport. I'm grateful that I got to witness it firsthand and share in his magical year especially given how much respect I have for him as a player and as a person. I hope he can reflect on his extraordinary individual accomplishments and the impact he had on his teammates every single day and use them as fuel for continued excellence in the years to come and in listening to him talk about what a great guy judges one thing we know about judge he doesn't like to talk about himself right post game it's always about the team the spotlight tonight is on Aaron judge and we'll see how he handles that yeah I you know when judge hit his 60th home run at Yankee Stadium he wouldn't even come out for an interview because he didn't feel that he was the star of the game that's that's what he's about it's why the rest of his teammates love him it was never about him it was never about putting the spotlight on him and I remember on the radio show I asked Aaron Boone this year about his teachers pet and he kind of sheepishly said it's Aaron judge he said if you're a manager Aaron judge is exactly what you want in your club us he does everything right he approaches the game the right way the way you you preach you want your player to approach it so the one thing that gets me though and I wonder if John feels like this when we saw so many of his games we're sitting here talking about it so cavalierly it's 60 it just doesn't happen it doesn't happen and we saw it happen it wasn't the closest within him I think Kyle Schwerber was like 17 back 20 back something like that that kind of underscores how remarkable 62 is yeah and when I when I read Aaron Boone's quote with you you know the one thing that jumped out to me again is how Aaron mentioned the impact that Aaron judge had on his teammates right and his teammates are gonna know him on a personal level so they're gonna be happy for Aaron judge the person they witnessed the home runs like we did Michael and they probably were taking it for granted just like we did up in the booth or here in the studio because it just came to be common place where you expected good at bat after good at bat night after night probably a home run mixed in there somewhere and you hate to say that you could take a year for granted the way he did it but I can't think of any point during the year where he had a prolonged slump where he was the guy who went away for a little bit he was there from day one yeah he was amazing he was consistent he hit for average even stole bases yeah probably could have stolen even more next year maybe he does with the the shorter distance between first and second yeah I think he's pretty good yeah and Aaron Boone had that quote too and I was thinking about Terry Francona who talks about Jose Ramirez his great player and says when he goes about his business the way he does it makes my job easier right because he's always hustling if you think about Aaron Boone and you have Aaron judge and he posts every day he plays every day and he plays hard every day all the players have to follow that lead so if you're Aaron Boone as a manager you say okay look at my best player the superstar of the American League MVP if he goes about it this way you're all expected to follow suit that's something that Phil Jackson said when he when he coached the Bulls Michael Jordan practiced harder than anybody so how could you not practice hard if Michael Jordan didn't Joe Torrey said it about Derek Jeter Derek Jeter's gonna run hard to first base four times a game how could you not do it when your best player the one with the spotlight on him the most actually gives you the most everybody has to follow suit