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00:00There's a lot of ways to boil down this series.

00:02For me, at some point, Aaron Judge has to cash in a regular season in the postseason.

00:09I think there's a pretty good chance he's going to win a third AL MVP.

00:14If it needed to be galvanized, he's going to the Hall of Fame.

00:18He's one of the greatest impact regular season hitters ever.

00:22The numbers are just bad in the postseason overall.

00:25They're terrible with runners in scoring position.

00:27They're helpless with two strikes.

00:30The Yankees do not beat good teams in the playoffs outside of the AL Central because they don't get enough from Judge in general.

00:40To me, this is a mandate on the Aarons.

00:43Does Boone manage a team tough enough to do this, and does Judge carry them across a finish line?

00:49Yeah, I think they do.

00:50I think this is their time, and we've been back and forth on the Yankees.

00:55That's reasonable considering they had that usual slump in the summer.

00:58But they have been outstanding lately.

01:01I feel like they're in great position.

01:04They've won their last eight games.

01:07You know, Boston's got more injuries or newer injuries.

01:10Certainly Roman Anthony being out.

01:12Now they've lost Giolito.

01:13So what are they going to do for game three?

01:15So it feels like the Yankees should win this series.

01:18Being at home, a little bit of a plus as well.

01:20I do have faith in Judge.

01:22I don't want to say it's a small sample size.

01:24They're in the playoffs basically every year.

01:26It is stunning.

01:27I do think the other teams do prepare, do try to avoid, do a better job of that in the postseason.

01:34We've seen this before with other stars.

01:36Obviously, Ted Williams, not as many games, very few games actually in the postseason.

01:40The postseason didn't have great stats for the one postseason he was in.

01:45We saw it with Barry Bonds.

01:46We saw it with A-Rod for a long time up until the end in 2009 when he was fantastic.

01:52I do think Judge will have a big postseason eventually.

01:56This might be it.

01:56But they have a great cast around them at this point in terms of the home runs.

02:01They hit 30-plus more home runs than anybody else.

02:04Rice is now a star.

02:05Grisham a throw-in in the Soto deal, was a star this year.

02:10Bellinger was an outstanding signing, not just for the defense and the versatility.

02:15He also hit home runs.

02:17Basically, everybody can hit home runs.

02:18I mean, and they don't have big issues at this moment.

02:22We've stopped talking about their fundamentals and their defense and Anthony Volpe for a few weeks now.

02:28Everything feels like it's falling right for the Yankees after it started off bad with Cole

02:33and then Schmidt being out in the slumps.

02:35Right now, they're on a high.

02:37To me, they're the American League favorite.

02:40I'm not going to be surprised if Seattle or somebody else wins it, but we've got to feel good about the Yankees right now.

02:46Yeah, I think the Yankees did a Yankee thing, which is they know, as opposed to the Mets,

02:51they kind of know how to get in, right?

02:53They know how to get to—they won as many games this year as they won last year,

02:56as opposed to losing series to the Marlins and Nationals when bad teams were put in front of them at the end.

03:02The Yankees won them all.

03:03They go into the postseason with an eight-game winning streak,

03:06which gives them home field in this series against the Red Sox.

03:11I think they're still a little loose on the bases.

03:14They could get a little over-adventurous.

03:16And against Alex Cora and Carlos Norvayas, I think that could be dangerous.

03:21And I think Garrett Crochet is the counterpunch here.

03:24You know, they've faced Crochet four times this year.

03:27The Red Sox are 4-0 in those games, and Crochet is generally pitched well.

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