Distracted by Hair: The 2017 New York Yankees

He's at the "...goes out there and competes every fifth day"/"minimizes damage" stage

just trying to give the team a chance to win

CC was a total beast that partial year with the Brewers. Only sporadically saw him pitch in his prime, but his stuff used to be lethal on right handed hitters as he could throw hard, down and in movement.

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Jacoby Ellsbury: 28th catchers interference, one shy of tying Pete Rose (29) for all-time record

really questionable send from the third base coach last night

needs updating, but

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a8f50b0de224b5e7846e0bc253d60b88.webp

https://www.quora.com/What-is-every-single-home-run-call-that-Yankee-radio-announcer-John-Sterling-has-come-up-with

spending a long time trying to link 'c'est lui c'est lui' to Lancelot.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-predictable-bias-of-mlb-network/

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 8:20 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i haven't been watching MLBN lately but this is depressing given that the original appeal of the network way back in the day was that it offered so much more parity than ESPN, which was the yankees/red sox channel for so many years

i'm guessing their nightly show is still more even than BBTN/the ten designated minutes of SC, but still, yikes

also i'd like to take this opportunity to state how much i hate THT's font and its gigantic diagonally-smeared punctuation marks

tanaked out

Chapman to DL

tanaka might be bad

tanaka has given up 10 homers and 22 runs in his last 14 innings pitched

that is bad

meanwhile:

Jacoby Ellsbury is the

— River Ave. Blues (@RiverAveBlues) May 20, 2017

Piniella style!

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=19426654

First-Place Yankees Aren’t Faring Nearly as Well at the Ticket Office

Those selling points have yet to turn around attendance at Yankee Stadium, where ticket and suite revenues through last season had fallen by a staggering $166 million since the end of 2009, the year the Yankees christened the new ballpark with their last World Series title.

What I hate about going to a game is just how expensive the food and beer is.

luxury hotel w/ a ballfield per Randy Levine

the price of a team without much personality.

Kind of like your post

i stopped going when they stopped allowing stubhub phone/print urself tix. idk if they ever got rid of that and frankly i don't care

Kind of like your post

― calstars, Thursday, May 25, 2017 2:57 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I allowed my post to have long hair, to be fair.

i still haven't been to the new stadium. i mostly blame the mta for that tho

judge finally batting third

judge is the current AL MVP front runner btw

i don't want to look like a frontrunner

bro i wish i looked like judge

btw i grew up in new york state as a yankees fan

you don't say

hehe

yet somehow also a pats fan and secret dubs fan?

i am not a pats fan!

i don't really like football that much anymore but my team is the eagles

okay, weird, but i guess that's punishment enough

tbh i'd honestly be interested in how that happened

judge is the current AL MVP front runner btw

Trout still the leader in all meaningful categories.

tbh i'd honestly be interested in how that happened

― mookieproof, Friday, June 2, 2017 10:26 PM (one minute ago)

not too complicated -- 90s kid growing up in upstate NY so obviously yankees. parents went to grad school at syracuse, followed melo to the nuggets. dad grew up in lancaster and is an eagles fan, so they were my team

ah, an amish family (j/k)

while i do follow those teams and care about their success, this is the league pass/MLB.TV era now -- i'm just as much a fan of the league as a whole and interesting players and/or teams and follow accordingly. and because players generally don't receive the recognition they deserve unless their teams are winning, sometimes i root for the team too. hence i often root for the clippers even tho as a fan of the game the team pisses me off

this is a much more common sentiment on ILH than ILB i've noticed, y'all are so sensitive and old fashioned! like when i posted that judge comment i wasn't rubbing it in or anything, just pointing it out as a fan of the game

judge is the current AL MVP front runner btw

Trout still the leader in all meaningful categories.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, June 2, 2017 10:27 PM (ten minutes ago)

yeah but realistically with him missing 2 months and the angels being a AA team without him his chances aren't great. judge is the best player on a first place team. obv he's gonna regress tho

a cosmopolitanism that is admirable in these troubled times

it's cool -- just as long as you never divorce joey votto, of course

the amish generally look down on that

you're right, although i think it's good? team sports fandom is about hatred at least as much as it is about support. i mean, i legitimately am interested in the yankees because i hate them (and i don't even have a particularly good reason to)

you're not *that* young but i feel like this is a result of fantasy sports? would you root (hypothetically) against judge if he was facing your fantasy pitcher?

yeah i think the combination of fantasy and easy access to any team's broadcast has led to an increase in what you call sports cosmopolitanism. twitter too -- i can follow any team's beat writer i want to and have a better idea of whats going on in the clubhouse than people could have decades ago. plus i imagine national columnists like zach lowe or jonah keri are just a lot more informed about aspects of the league, story lines that otherwise would not have gotten the same attention. i mean i read fangraphs every day, that site pretty much sums up how i consume baseball and i imagine the same is true of a lot of sports fans these days

people are always surprised that i don't do fantasy, but i don't. believe it or not from how often i post to ilx i do try to limit the distractions in my life, and i always worry fantasy will consume me. i have to study like 5-10 hours a day

<3

duke does suck tho

:p