00:00And I said, boy, if they could somehow finish .500, that would be the ultimate victory.
00:04It would be the ultimate survival.
00:06And here we are on a Tuesday night, September 8th, as Aaron Judge gets set to make his return.
00:11And here are the facts.
00:13Without Aaron Judge, great amount of time, 84 games, more than half the season.
00:17The Yankees went 45-39.
00:20Wow.
00:21It wasn't easy.
00:22It wasn't pretty.
00:24The offense took a major hit.
00:26But the results are the results.
00:28And as we sit here upon the return of Aaron Judge, I've got to hand it to them.
00:32They survived, and they did better than I thought they would do in their time without Judge.
