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I imagine the talk was at least partly to try and tamper down the evitable call for them to make a deadline deal for 3B. Selling Torres as the guy Headley's keeping the seat warm for might help temper calls to move him or other prospects for a temporary replacement. Over hyping his arrival date could just be a PR game. Or they could be prospect drunk with the success they've had.
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2017 04:49 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 13:46 |
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They're hoping to have him back for Spring Training.
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 00:52 |
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I forgot who dropped the ultimate bunt but Jose Altuve just pulled off a sac bunt for a hit, stolen base, sac bunt to 3rd, suicide squeeze to beat me in walkoff fashion the other day in the Show. So I currently hate bunts and Jose Altuve.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 23:39 |
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MrMojok posted:My main joy in watching baseball for about 25 years, was watching pitchers. I know they have always been a whiny mass of phobias who live in mortal terror of the serious arm damage they're all going to inevitably get. I know it has always been the case that a lot of them are poo poo-stupid. These are things I just accepted about them. As a fellow lifelong baseball fan and lover of pitching, who has spent his entire life listening to retired pitchers talk and watching current pitchers act I'm pretty sure its always been the case that pitchers are hypocritical self righteous assholes who think you should never watch a 450 ft home run to see if it leaves the stadium but think its totally ok to but a 95 MPH fastball under a batter's chin if he offends you. But they probably got more sensitive when ESPN started putting the home runs in Top 10 highlight reels and absolutely intolerable when people started to just get phone updates of video of pitchers getting owned that they can watch over and over again.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 00:06 |
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I love the once a month or so I get some news update about Tebow's "natural ability" because he hit a home run or something and then I look and see he still sorta sucks in Single A ball. Its going to be hilarious to see him in Queens in September.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 00:08 |
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Inspector_666 posted:Aaron Judge is my Large Adult Son, but Ronald Torreyes is my Small Adult Son. I can think of no more fitting end to Chris Carter's Yankee career than him coming up in the bottom of the 10th with a runner on 3rd and 1 out, the announcers spending his entire AB talking about if he gets 2 strikes on him he's going to strike out swinging, him striking out swinging on a 1-2 count, the crowd booing him mercilessly, and then little Ronald Torreyes getting a walkoff hit 3 pitches later. The human side of me feels bad for the guy but the baseball fan in me was so ready for this after that AB.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 06:18 |
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Oh, I think the 3 man bench is stupid and tonight was a good example of why with Girardi not being able to pinch run for Sanchez in the 10th and your backup C is suddenly also your backup 3B (and sorta/kinda your backup 1B, 2B, and SS). But trading Austin for Carter doesn't really change that one way or another. If anything Austin's more versatile than Carter since he's played some OF and 3B. Which come to think of it, could be a problem if Girardi decides he has a backup 3B now. But the Yankees should probably consider carrying an actual bench. And no, DFAing Carter isn't necessarily the best roster move but I was ready for it after that AB. And he probably had turned the Yankee Stadium crowd against him tonight for the forseeable future. But really, they should carry a bench.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2017 06:35 |
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I watch games on the Fox Sports app and for me its some Jason Kipnis "dirty" ad for the MLB app. Its slowly driving my insane. There's a Jose Altuve 5-hour energy commercial that's quickly joining it. I'm starting to recite the dialogue randomly as I try to fall asleep.
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 21:48 |
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PS3 16, too. I too am cheap and you can get lost of cheap used games playing old gen. Music off. Commentary up just high enough to hear the praise when I'm doing well. Music playing on the side. Sometimes an actual baseball game on the computer or radio.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 06:17 |
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The commentary can get a little annoying when it's just the same stuff over and over. Or when they're going through a long routine that you have to wait to end if you want to hear something else (or try and race it). But I enjoy it for my immersion. Sucks me in a little more.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 07:09 |
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He wore the ring of one team while repping another. That poo poo should get your primaried.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 02:09 |
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bump_fn posted:Can you blame him for not having to stay and watch the white sox You joke but the ejection was him basically just saying 1 word to the ump and he was gone. So Renteria really, really wanted to go home early.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 03:47 |
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I haven't understood the Yankee roster and lineups for weeks now and I've kind of given up trying. I don't think Yankee fans hate Gardner but they definitely under appreciate him. He was never really hyped up as a prospect and was billed as one of a long line of OF fillins and he just kind of settled into a role as a starter. Yankee fans seemed like they spent a long time waiting for the bottom to fall out and when it never did they just got used to him and didn't think anything of it. Its weird. He's a bit of a fan favorite but in the way fans pull for the 4th OFer or utility guy. And its Yankee fans who grew up under Steinbrennar so they want a superstar at every position.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 22:59 |
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Jesus. In the first inning Fowler falls into the stands chasing a foul ball and has to be carted off the field with a knee injury. I'm heartbroken for the kid and hope its nothing serious... but also what the hell Yankee roster?
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 04:21 |
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How bad is that as a long term injury? Because getting called up and hurting yourself on your first defensive play before you get an AB is loving heartbreaking and I pray to God its not the end of his story.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 05:11 |
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Well I can't imagine its good for an OFer. drat. Just drat. That poo poo's hosed up.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 05:20 |
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:It's not like Joe Theisman bad, they don't like zoom in on his demolished knee, but from everyone's faces you can tell it's really bad. Well those reactions had something to do with the whole "first day in the majors" aspect of it.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 05:52 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 13:46 |
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Girardi seems to be going with the "get your best bats the most ABs" theory of lineup crafting, hence Judge at 2nd. And Didi's hot. And the like half the lineup are rookies or bench players. I'm not sure the Yankees have had the same lineup in back to back games in weeks.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2017 06:42 |