 I hope you're having a great day and we're having a great day is getting even better because of this announcement that I'm about to make and Don and Peter join me in welcoming the Yankee manager Aaron Boone he will be a regular part of the show he will appear with us every week during the regular season and as far as the Yankees go in the postseason as well so he is a member of the TMKS family and we are thrilled about that Aaron I hope that you're thrilled as well. I am I'm I'm really excited to be on with you you know and prove to Peter that I'm not in my 50s yet and you know and hopefully we're having a good time because we're having a great season but but I am looking forward to being on with all three of you guys all season long. So that stuck in your craw clearly I told Peter that it bothered you and who came in under Aaron. Yes you did. I really appreciate that. Yeah you know I've been you know working the facial creams and everything you know trying to you know get the right amount of sun but not too much down here but no anyway. Michael how are you feeling. I feel a lot better. Thank you. Kind of turn the corner yesterday. Oh good. Yeah. And Don you're you're good to go right. Yes all all raring to go getting ready for a baseball season. It should be a lot of fun Aaron really looking forward to you know obviously with the Grom stuff aside to be able to get both of these teams with the expectations as high as they are just going to be a lot of fun and to get to talk about your team once a week is going to be terrific. Yeah I'm excited about it. You know obviously I go way back with with Michael now and I've known you guys for a while and respect what you guys do and yeah looking forward to talking baseball with you guys each and every week. Yeah it'll be Thursday at 4 p.m. every single Thursday and obviously there's a game like we hope there will be this Thursday opening day it'll be after the game and what are you hearing Aaron is the rain going to be bad. Might have moved to Friday. Yeah I think there's that possibility. You know I haven't looked at the weather report since well before the game today but but I know Thursday is looking a little bit dicey so you know hopefully they can make a call on that one way or the other in the next day or two. And as much as you want to get that game going on Thursday just as a manager forget all the pomp and circumstance of opening day. Would you rather it be Friday with no worries then maybe having to get a starter up and down and maybe have to mess things up if you've got a bunch of delays. Oh no question no question I'd rather have it be Friday I mean you know if if Thursday looks like it's in play though I mean I think it's beneficial to have that into an off day. And then obviously we played nine in a row after that so that's perfect world but but if there's going to be a significant question about the weather. Yeah I think it would be better to put it till Friday. How tough are these cuts Aaron you can you can open up with a 28 man roster obviously until May. Are you having trouble with some of these cuts. We're having a lot of good debate robust debate. You know we got after pretty good this morning and kind of letting everyone weigh in and give give some strong opinions or pound the table for this guy or that guy. You know what the good thing is you know especially from from now the as we decide the final pitching side of things you know talking about 15 or potentially 16 pitchers. You know the fact that we're talking about guys and we sent down a few guys today from from the pitching side of things that I do feel like we have good decisions for the back end of the roster. And that's and it's going to play an important role in the first month we play 24 out of 26 after that off day with with starting pitchers not totally built up yet. It's going to be critical that you know we you're going to use the 14th and 15th pitcher on your staff in probably significant situations early in the season. So I feel like the fact that we have some tough decisions. You know we sent out Luis Heal and David Garcia and Manny Banuelos today all guys that we feel like potentially will contribute at maybe early in the season but certainly have the ability to get quality hitters out. Another thing we've discussed a lot. Aaron was just how do you do it with DJ. I mean he's been such a major part of what you do. Is there a certain amount of a batch you think you can get him. Do you think he can play a significant role on your team if there are no injuries. Is there going to be a consistent place for him or is he just going to be that role player until something happens. Yeah I think he's going to end up probably playing just about every day. You know whether somebody goes down or not. I think in a perfect world everyone's healthy and I still think it works out. And you know when I brought you know I brought all these guys in and talked to him about you know potentially an uncomfortable situation on opening day or day two or whatever where we're a guy that I think if they're healthy is going to get over 500 bats may be sitting. And I referenced DJ in that meeting you know in 2019 when we brought him in and I had the conversation with him directly as saying look I think you're going to play pretty much every day but you might not play on opening day. He didn't he got 655 played appearances finished fourth in the MVP and you know I think that worked out pretty well. I'm not that worried about it you know it'll make for an uncomfortable tough conversation there. The first day when you got to sit a significant guy but I think we're all on the same page about what our focus is and that's to go out and be a championship club. And we know we got to all support each other and pour into one another and lean on each other and you know there's going to be days when a guy is upset and that's OK. Now a really nice story today at least we thought it was JP Sears told Meredith Aaron told me I made the team and his family was crying and he was crying. And then when you met the media afterward you saw well not so fast nothing's been decided. So what is the story there. Did they cry too soon. Well I look I very much believe JP is going to be on the team. I just there's nothing official to announce you know because and I told him this too as well as you know the next 2448 hours there's always things that can happen that can change some things. So I wasn't quite ready to go all the way there but I wanted to give him that courtesy because we leave tomorrow and I told him he'll be traveling north for him but I can't go all out and say you're on the team yet but it's certainly looking like that. Aaron is there one facet of this club that in your eyes is an X factor that maybe you're concerned about but you know if it goes well will make all the difference to this season being successful. I think getting off to a reasonable start with our starting pitching like you know I feel like we're in a good place with our pitching. I feel like guys are doing well and ready to go. I feel like we have a tremendous bullpen but but there's still that coming out of the gate and and we're building guys up still. So you're going to have to fill these innings at times pretty creatively. So just you know making sure we do that with obviously the urgency that you know we got to win games obviously we want to get off to a good start. But we also got to you know keep these guys built properly and healthy and to give us our best chance to win. So a little bit of that that's kind of when I when we're getting ready to break. I feel like we've had a good camp. I feel like guys did a great job during during the lockout where we didn't have any contact with them. They came in a really good physical condition pretty much across the board and I'm pleased with like our position players. I feel like I've gotten built up well they've played a lot. They've seen a lot of live pitching. You know our pitchers I feel like are in a good spot but it's still like here we go and we're right into the throws of things. So that always gives you a little bit of apprehension. But I do like our club. I think we got a really good chance of of having a special season. I like what I'm seeing like behind the scenes of this team kind of coming together with with a kind of an urgency and an intensity that hopefully serves us well. But you know at the end of the day we're we're early April right now and and we got to go prove it. Now on the day that we I mean final thing because I know you have to get back downstairs you guys are trying to put together this roster. So we announced that you're going to be with us every Thursday for partnership. We love it. So I think it's it's only apropos that that you actually break news right now. So has judge signed the extension. I don't know anything about that. Does he does he seem happy. Judge he always seems happy. You know he's got well he's got a little edge to him but he's always he's always happy and anytime you throw one off the right center field fence and then go deep in your last at bat before you're calling it a day. He's in a good place and right in the middle of some really good things that are happening behind the scenes. So good stuff. Aaron we look forward to every Thursday at four o'clock and ever see I'll see you every day. But thank you. Thank you. This is fun and we're thrilled that you decided to join up with us. I appreciate it guys. I'm looking forward to it. I really am. You got it. Thanks. That is Aaron Boone the manager of the New York Yankees. Every Thursday at four there's another place you could hear the only place you could hear him and Peter. He didn't forget. I'm telling you when you insult people like that they don't forget. It was not an insult. It wasn't it was over 50. It was accidentally something that he took as an insult. See that's just gobbledygook is what you're throwing now.