"Giving me look like you saw a ghost" - When Aaron Judge narrated hilarious story of being mistaken for another athlete while grocery shopping
Yankees captain Aaron Judge was invited as a guest on the podcast Casa de Klub in July. Former MLB pitcher and two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber and former Arizona baseball player Tyler Casagrande host the podcast, which airs weekly on Mondays.
On the show, Judge shared some hilarious stories of being mistaken for another athlete, namely NBA star Aaron Gordon. One, in particular, happened at a grocery store while he was amidst spring training with the Yankees in Tampa, Florida.
Narrating the whole incident, Aaron Judge began by replying to the question of whether he could calmly set his foot out in the streets of New York without getting noticed.
"It's tough. It's the height if I was just a little shorter, I think I can squeeze in there. But it's the height gives it away first becasue they see it and they're like basketball and they do the double take and they're like on no baseball okay okay," said Judge.
He then narrated the incident that occurred inside a grocery store:
"You know here especially in Tampa it is spring training. I am grocery shopping I'm in the produce section, I'm grabbing some fruit doing this stuff, I see this guy across the way like give me the look like you saw a ghost, and I am like trying to ignore it like must be a Yankee fan."
He continued:
"He's probably gonna say I'm just grabbing stuff and all of a sudden I kind of walk by him and he's like "how are you here?" I'm like I gotta get groceries man what are you talking about. I gotta eat, I gotta you know we got stuff to do I got a family to feed. He's like "but I just saw you on TV playing in Orlando, like how are you down her in Tampa?" I'm sitting there an I'm like oh damn he thinks I'm Aaron Gordon haha.."
Aaron Judge praises Juan Soto and is enjoying the positive reception that the duo receives from Yankees fans
Aaron Judge praised his Yankees teammate Juan Soto in a response to the interviewer, who stated that Soto-Judge feels nostalgic for the Jeter-A-Rod era.
"Like you said when you bring a guy like Soto in who's a stud generational talent, you know a gamer, a ballplayer like he just wants to win. And you add that to you know the culture we have and the people we have here and it turns into something special."
This is, in fact, the loudest the Yankee nation has cheered for a pair of Yankees ballplayers since Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. Juan Soto is playing an amazing second fiddle to Aaron Judge's yet another formidable offensive season with the Yankees in 2024.