“He reached out and basically just wanted to talk about he was thankful for the job the coaches here did and I was a part of. Obviously, he’s really happy with his team, but we helped raise some of those kids and he just told me I did a good job. I thought it was really big of him to make that call and I was not expecting it,” Girardi said. “I had a message from him and I was thinking, ‘I wonder what this is about.’ And I know Aaron a little bit but our paths never really crossed in the game except maybe playing against him a little bit. I played more against Bret (Boone) than him, but it was really nice.”