Hour 2: Life without Judge

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**Michael Kay** (0:41)
Welcome back to the show, everybody. What a quick first hour. I promise you, every day, it's the fastest two hours in sports talk. And if you're watching on the Espn New York YouTube channel, it is brought to you by our good friends at the Parisman Firm. That's P-E-R-E-C-M-A-N, the Parisman Firm. Thank you to them for making the visual possible. And if you're not watching, then obviously, what you're doing is you're listening on the Espn New York app or on 880 Espn. All right, so Brian Cashman, the guy that one of the people on social media says I'm terrified of, terrified of him, really, of Brian. I respect him, I listen to him when he has a problem with what I say and he listens to me when I have a problem with the problem that he has. Terrified? I think I was terrified of one guy in my life. That was my dad. And not that he was a terrifying person, but I respected what he had to say and his word was gospel. But a man being terrified of another man, laughable. But again, these are the things that you have to accept when you become a quasi-public figure, where people could take their pot shots. So whatever the case may be, you're always welcome to call and debate it with me. Anyway, so they talked about injuries.
And first he talked about Stanton. I said that Stanton didn't re-injure his calf.
He suffered another injury to that same calf. So, the other injury that he suffered, which was so minor at the time that they didn't even put him on the IL right away, thinking that he'd be back before putting him on the IL.
He was rehabbing from that, jogging lightly, and then had another injury. Now he's jogging lightly again. We have no idea when he's going to be back. So it's probably best not to put that much hope into him being back by the end of this month. Maybe it happens. But he's had setbacks before and his body, although he's built like a statue of Aphrodite in Greece, it just keeps betraying him. It's not because he doesn't work out, he's in unbelievable shape. But his lower body does not cooperate. For whatever reason. So you can't count on him. Now he also said something, Casman, about Judge. He said that they're going to reimage Judge during the All-Star break. Okay, fair enough. Now he's been out six weeks already.
And he said, we do not expect the image to be completely clear.
We expect and hope that there's improvement, which will allow him to begin to do upper body work.
That's all they want, because he's been unable to do any upper body work at all. Everything has been legs, and he can't even run, because if you run, you could jostle the rib to the point that it could re-injure. Now, Boone has said that there's not pain, the pain is subsided, so that shows that there's some healing. So if they go in and do an image, and it's not all healed, then it's not all good to go. They're trying to take baby steps, because they don't want to get him back too soon where he could re-injure it. So that tells you the fragile nature of getting Judge back. So in my opinion, and this is totally my opinion, this is not the propaganda minister. I think you got to be talking August, mid-August at the earliest. Because the All-Star break starts after Sunday's games. So if he gets image, let's say on Tuesday or Wednesday, I don't know if he's going to the All-Star game because he voted to start or I'm sure he would love to go, and they could do the imaging in Philly.
Then we find out on Friday, well, there's some healing so he could do some upper body work. But there's a swing and a bat. So then when you're talking about, well, what's today? The 10th? You're talking about the 17th, right? That would be that Friday. Some upper body work unless the baseball got smile on the Yankees and it's completely healed. So if you start doing some upper body work, you're probably at the point then of at least six weeks of getting ready. It's like the beginning of spring training.