The Sports Legacy Dilemma: Aaron Judge's Postseason Performance

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00:00So do you think that, um, all right, so, so judge has these monster seasons, 62, 58, 144

00:10RBIs.

00:11Do you feel that we, we said earlier in the show that he will not be remembered for any

00:17of that.

00:18Frankly, he's going to be remembered for being a post-season flop.

00:21He has been since he has been in over 50 games in, in playoffs over his short career.

00:30And now I mean, he's hitting, Oh 91, Austin Wells is hitting a hundred.

00:36I mean, honestly, I have never seen a superstar this bad in any sport ever in a big game,

00:45in a big moment, in a big light, in a big spotlight, like the world series, this guy

00:49made the world series and he is the most anemic at bat.

00:54He misses by two feet and he swings at everything.

00:58He's out within 45 seconds.

01:02Well that's the modern game, Scott.

01:04And that's part of baseball's problem now is that they have taught batters that that

01:10hitting the ball out of the park is the primary goal and making contact and getting on base

01:16and all that stuff and moving the runners and all that stuff means less than if you

01:21hit the ball, it's got to go out of the park.

01:23And that's why you can have a circumstance where somebody could be, you know, a 50 home

01:28run guy and a 144 RBI guy or whatever.

01:33And he only hits 230.

01:34I mean, that, that happens or some approximation to that happens in major league baseball every

01:39year now, because that's what they've been taught.

01:42And so that's how you wind up to some extent.

01:44That's how you wind up with a guy hitting 090 in postseason baseball.

01:49I agree with you that that will be a part of his memory.

01:53However, he does get the chance, I don't think this year, but he gets the chance next year

01:58and he still has several years after that where he'll be considered to be in his prime

02:02where he can change the narrative, but he has to change it.

02:06If it stays like this, this will haunt his legacy without a doubt.

02:12If there hadn't been the 2006 season for Peyton Manning with the Colts, then that's

02:20what they would remember in Indy is that he was as great a regular season quarterback

02:24as anyone's ever been.

02:26But then the postseason came along and he didn't get it done.

02:28If it hadn't been for them getting that Superbowl, that's what people would think about.

02:33But he got that one and then he kind of got the one, you got to give him some credit for

02:37the one in Denver several years later.

02:40And as a result of that, that's not what people think about when they think about Peyton

02:44Manning.

02:45But it came very close.

02:46And that's why I have to say about Judge that he's not going to change it this year, almost

02:51certainly, but he'll have to change it himself in the next couple of years.

02:57This year.

02:58What are you, a comedian?

02:59Like, hey, hey, we have we saw that we saw the Red Sox come from four down.

03:04We did.

03:05We did.

03:06We saw it happen.

03:07It did happen.

03:08Stop!

03:09You already know that's not happening.

03:10It's not going to happen, but I have to allow for the possibility.

03:13That's not happening.

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