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Aaron Judge Is The Unanimous MVP · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Football Friday on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.
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  Speaker 1: two teams this weekend. We'll see if that happens. But
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  Speaker 1: we got to talk about one. Aaron Judge. So the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees have had a storied, storied history. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this because it's it is The Craig Way Show,
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  Speaker 1: and it wouldn't feel right if I didn't give Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge and Sho Heo Tani the love that they deserve.
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  Speaker 1: Because Shoeotani is on the team that just won the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, it's also happens to be the team that
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  Speaker 1: Craig Way roots for. I don't know how he has
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  Speaker 1: time to watch as many baseball games as he does,
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  Speaker 1: but he calls Texas Longhorn baseball as well as just
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  Speaker 1: everything else that he does. But he finds time to
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  Speaker 1: have a favorite baseball team as well. My favorite team
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  Speaker 1: is the New York Yankees. So when I saw the
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge and Showhy both win the MVP, I wasn't surprised,
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  Speaker 1: but I was. I felt like we were kindred spirits.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling Ronald earlier when Craig was on the
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  Speaker 1: show in the last segment. If you missed it, you
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  Speaker 1: can go back and listen to the podcast version of it.
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  Speaker 1: Craig cames on the show. He's always great. I love
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Craig way any chance I get to
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  Speaker 1: fill in for him, I am over the moon. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a generational divide between Craig and Mark Henry and
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  Speaker 1: Mike Carge and myself. We agree on a ton between
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  Speaker 1: the four of us, but I feel like there's sometimes
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  Speaker 1: where we're almost lined up exactly and then there's a
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  Speaker 1: zag or a zig and I just happened to be
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  Speaker 1: the zim and all that we were so close on
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  Speaker 1: agreeing on the college football playoffs. We're so close. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so Shoho Tani. He's the UNIANIYMSS MVP. After winning the
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  Speaker 1: sweepstakes to get him, the LA Dodgers got one of
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  Speaker 1: the best seasons in the history of baseball, a fifty
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  Speaker 1: four home run season with fifty nine stolen bases, something
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  Speaker 1: has never been done before. Otani becomes the twelfth player
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  Speaker 1: to win three MVPs, and the second to do it
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  Speaker 1: with in seven seasons. He joins one stan Usual. He
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  Speaker 1: also joins one other player to win an MVP in
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  Speaker 1: the National League and the American League. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest hitters of all time. Frank Robinson. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought that the Aaron Judge winning of the MVP really
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  Speaker 1: solidified him in a very special class. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. After winning his MVP award yesterday, he did
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  Speaker 1: an interview with Sports Center at six. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: it the cut here, Khalil, It's number twelve?
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  Speaker 2: An incredible honor. You know, I definitely wouldn't wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: here without my family, my wife. You know, God forgive
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  Speaker 2: me this opportunity. My teammates throughout the whole season, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pushing me, motivating me, being there. For me, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a lot of emotions and just pretty excited.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you sort of compare your production compared
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two?
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  Speaker 2: For me, the game is all about scoring runs. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you drive more runs and you give up, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: win a lot of ball games. So, you know, for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's always about RBI's, you know, that's how you win
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  Speaker 2: ball games. And you know, getting a chance to hit
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  Speaker 2: behind Juan Soto, you know, Glaber tours there at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year, those guys around base constantly.
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  Speaker 1: I like that he kind of slipped in there. The
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  Speaker 1: Juant Sodo part of it because the Yankees are still
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  Speaker 1: very much trying to bring Sodo back. It's between them,
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  Speaker 1: the Mets and the Dodgers at this point. I would
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  Speaker 1: think that that shout out maybe helps Aaron Judge, maybe
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  Speaker 1: Tex Soda on the side. Hey, you see that shouty
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  Speaker 1: on my MVP speech. Judge led the majors and home
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  Speaker 1: runs with fifty eight, RBIs with one forty four, and
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  Speaker 1: on base percentage with one one five nine, which is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely incredible, and his wins over replacement eleven point two
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  Speaker 1: was outstanding. He joins only Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds
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  Speaker 1: to have fifty home runs and adjusted ops two hundred
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  Speaker 1: to more. All that cool nerves stuff is fine. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what you care about. He's only the seventh Yankee to
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  Speaker 1: win multiple MVPs. We did this earlier in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Marris.
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  Speaker 1: Only two of those guys are not Hall of famers.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Rod because of the Royds. It's Roger Marris
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  Speaker 1: because for whatever reason, people aren't giving him the credit
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  Speaker 1: that he deserves. Before Judge Mantle, his nineteen fifty six
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  Speaker 1: season was the only one in Yankee history to yield
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  Speaker 1: a unanimous MVP vote. He also joins Luke Errig and
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  Speaker 1: Thurman Munson as the only two Yankee captains to win
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  Speaker 1: the MVP while being the captain of said Yankees. By far,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing missing from his resume is that elusive
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  Speaker 1: World Series ring. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: we were arguing this morning about it. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, all those guys have their numbers retired
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  Speaker 1: in some way or another. When you talk about bearra
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  Speaker 1: and when we talk about Mantle and you talk about DiMaggio,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys are cemented in pinstripe in Yankee lore.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the guys we talk about the pride of
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees. Aaron Judge is this close, this close to
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  Speaker 1: joining that group. In fact, if you take away the
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  Speaker 1: entire season, if you stripped it down, this is the
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  Speaker 1: when he needed after the World Series that he had
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  Speaker 1: because that World Series performance was a stinker for the Ages.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that fifth Inning era error. I know, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it after the World Series, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Craig was like, well, you know, it's just not one play.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that I can get behind that. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just one play. But Yankees fans don't get behind that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can't because I'm a rational individual and enough time
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  Speaker 1: has passed in the moment I was like that cost
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  Speaker 1: us the World Series and winning the MVP is great,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a win that he deserves because he had
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  Speaker 1: the type of season that he had. But don't get
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  Speaker 1: it fooled. This only adds pressure to Aaron Judge in
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  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees because now he is the most
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  Speaker 1: accomplished Yankee without a World Series ring. Now he joins
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  Speaker 1: a group of guys who are the group you never
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  Speaker 1: want to be in with. He joins the Charles Barclays
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  Speaker 1: and the Karl Malones and the Barry Bonds of the
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  Speaker 1: world who don't have that championship ring, who don't have
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  Speaker 1: that elusive World Series title. And it's weird because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: baseball never really was the sport that we looked at
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  Speaker 1: when we compared home run numbers and RBIs and all
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  Speaker 1: the other statistical numbers. We didn't really care that much
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  Speaker 1: about the rings until very recently. But you have to
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  Speaker 1: go with what you're being judged on, and winning the
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  Speaker 1: World Series is the end all be all. Currently and
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  Speaker 1: if Aaron, the Yankees are still gonna be very good.
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  Speaker 1: You hope that they bring Sodo back if you're a
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fan, But they're a very good team. Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: needs to be so great that he makes them a
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  Speaker 1: great team, and the unanimous MVP, you kind of expect
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  Speaker 1: him to do that, showing Otani completely the other story.
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  Speaker 1: His team wins the World Series, he doesn't even pitch
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  Speaker 1: this year, and he wins the MVP unanimously. He is
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  Speaker 1: at the precipice of being the greatest player of all time.
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  Speaker 1: He is the only Japanese American player to win an MVP.
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  Speaker 1: He becomes the first DH in both leagues to win
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  Speaker 1: to win value over Replacement and joins Tai Kava is
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  Speaker 1: the only player to finish within the top two in
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  Speaker 1: the majors in both homers and steals. Yeah, Otani is
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  Speaker 1: a special breed. When we come back, we will continue
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