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Yankees baseball thoughts minus the hysteria and stupidity. Occasional personal finance/investing commentary.
Minnetonka, MN
Joined August 2020
I want to throw up. No city connect jersey. No facial hair policy. All this gatekeeping about the Yankees traditions and the second someone writes a big check they do this? . This is pathetic on so many levels.
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Anyone who watched Trevor Bauer today knows he didn’t look great at all. But also - It didn’t matter if he looked like Pedro Martinez or Kei Igawa. He’s never pitching in MLB again. His MLB career is over. There is no amount of whining on this app you can do to change that. So.
Three scoreless innings for Trevor Bauer vs the Yankees - while sitting at 96-98. He should be signed by tomorrow morning.
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For the first time ever, there’s a small part of me that wants the Yankees to implode down the stretch this season. Make it so bad that they have to make changes. Feels like the worst thing that can happen is they squeak into the playoffs and give the front office an excuse to.
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The Yankees won 94 games, won their division and won the American League Pennant. If you want Yankees fans to stop living in the past, then that’s fine. But then you can’t also hold the Yankees and their fans to the same standard that they were held to in the past either. To.
Chris Rose says Yankees fans need to stop living in the past. “It is not the same as it used to be.”
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If Juan Soto is actually on the market, Brian Cashman should hand AJ Preller a blank piece of paper and tell him to write down any four players not named Anthony Volpe and then do the deal. It really should be that simple.
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I think we were all operating under the assumptions that if the Yankees were even close, Soto would come back. They were very close and he left. After having the best year of his career in pinstripes, hitting in front of Aaron Judge, he left for what?. I think that’s the part.
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I send this out every Apple TV game because I detest the broadcast so much. If you would rather just listen to John and Suzyn call the game synced up to the TV feed, here you go. I will be doing this.
FYI, on the Apple TV+ MLB broadcasts, you can switch the audio to either team’s radio feed. Open up the audio menu by selecting this icon.
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There is no backup plan to Juan Soto. Either resign him or sell the franchise to someone capable of owning the New York Yankees. There is no in between.
Yanks have 1B open now and could play for Pete Alonso. He’s believed to be a prime backup plan to Plan A Juan Soto. Could also go for Walker, Goldschmidt, etc.
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In 2022, Anthony Rizzo gave me the best memory I’ve ever had at a baseball stadium. It was toward the end of the game and my daughter was with me. She kept seeing foul balls go all over the place and she turns to me and says “Dad, I really, really want a ball.”. I don’t like to
Rosenthal: Anthony Rizzo could miss 4-6 weeks with fractured arm.
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Taylor and Travis are in a suite on the first base line near the foul pole. In case anyone was wondering
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I think Gleyber Torres needs to be the Yankees plan A, B and C at 2B next season. We will regret trying to promote a prospect or sign a low cost FA to fill that void. Torres’s offensive production in front of Judge and Soto down the stretch was pivotal. And he shows up in.
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@Alexjones92192 Part of it is that public scrutinization of domestic abuse cases has been increased significantly in recent years. The other part of that MLB probably has information we don’t. The final part is nobody liked the guy to begin with and it’s a pretty good reason not to sign him.
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If you boo Aaron Judge in April when the Yankees are 14-6, you are the absolute worst of the worst Yankees fans. That’s absolutely trash behavior.
It's a golden sombrero for Aaron Judge. A smattering of boos as he walks off the field.
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@RicoJenkins3rd @barstoolsports I came here specifically to get YOUR take on vaccines. Thanks for weighing in!.
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After today’s loss, the Yankees will be 8-2 in their last 10 games. They will be in first place in the AL East and on pace for over 100 wins. But yes, we lost two games to the Dodgers in June without Juan Soto so it’s definitely time to panic. Sound the alarm, cancel the season.
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Montas: $7.5M.Trivino: $4.1M.Donaldson: $21M.Hicks: $10M.IKF: $6M. $48.6M that the Yankees will get little or nothing from this season. I haven’t criticized Cashman much. But that’s more $$$ than Judge makes. Hard to win when you misallocate your resources that dramatically.
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The Mets are going to have a $340M payroll and it’s easy to make the case that they didn’t even get better this offseason. Verlander replaces DeGrom, Senga replaces Bassit. DRob replaces Lugo. Nimmo and Diaz return. It’s one of the worst off seasons I’ve ever seen.
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If the Yankees have a $700M+ offer on the table to Juan Soto and Soto goes anywhere else, he’s making a mistake.
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It’s pretty nice watching an offense where Aaron Judge can do basically nothing and the Yankees can still have a 7 run lead.
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I can’t wrap my mind around the fact the Giancarlo Stanton trains all offseason like a professional athlete, goes through a full Spring Training and can somehow pull his hamstring running at 75 percent speed for home plate to 2B. And it’s every year. Don’t get it.
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@bomberbeat2 @BrendanKutyNJ I’m cool with people having different opinions. But when your opinions are misinformed, not based in reality and potentially harmful, that’s when I have a problem.
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@CameronMaybin I think you’re severely detached from baseball if for one second you think Luis Gil would be in a deal for Cody Bellinger. It’s just so far away from reality that I don’t even know how you’d come up with that.
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Brandon Hyde is such a transparent loser. His team is playing badly. They were lifeless today against a struggling Yankees team. It’s pouring rain in the last inning of an important divisional game. As unfortunate as it was, everyone knows that there was no intent to hit.
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Delete your account you absolute bozo.
@stanton2024mvp I love Ben Rice but he’s had like 35 MLB plays appearances so maybe let’s cool the jets on anointing him the leadoff hitter until we get a larg enough sample.
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Red Sox fans chanting “Yankees Suck” while losing by four runs at home to a team 17 games under .500 is actually pathetic. Rent free.
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Gotta start teaching them the important things early.
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With all due respect, this article sucks. A lot. Alex Verdugo has the 5th worst wRC+ of all qualified hitters this season. He has -1 DRS. He has the 11st worst fWAR in MLB of all qualified hitters. He’s been one of the least valuable players in baseball by any metric. If we’re.
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Why pay $60M for Blake Snell when you can just have Cody Poteet instead?.
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I’m not going to blame Sean Casey for any of this. But if you thought Sean Casey was going to fix anything in the first place, then I don’t know what to tell you.
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@astros 7-0 last seven games in Houston. Swept you out of your own ballpark to start the season. Your stadium is officially called Yankee Stadium South until you do something about it.
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Passing on Harper, Machado and Seager all at $300Mish to then have to throw $760M at Juan Soto and lose him to the Mets anyway is a terrible miscalculation. The Yankees thought they could pick and choose which stars they signed. I thought they could do that too. But the last two.
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Something of note in the Juan Soto deal:. The Yankees acquired Michael King from the Marlins for Caleb Smith and Garrett Cooper. They developed him into a pitcher who just headlined a deal for the modern day Ted Williams. As much as I was against putting King in this deal,.
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Giancarlo Stanton is not to be slandered by Yankees fans ever again. It’s over. Done.
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The Yankees had a 6-5 lead in the 10th and decided to pitch a guy who they picked up off waivers yesterday for two innings. I get sometimes you have to punt games. Cant burn arms for no reason. But punting with a lead in extra innings? I really don’t understand what just.
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Everyone is ripping on Aaron Boone for this and I get it. But watch this video closely. He is stressed about what’s happening. He’s having trouble even getting the words out. We’ve all been there in our lives. Have some empathy, but don’t let it distract you from the fact that.
Aaron Boone says the Yankees have “probably” made less base running mistakes than most of the league. He says their mistakes just stand out more because they’re in a lot of close and low-scoring games
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I think Aaron Boone deserves a tremendous amount of credit for having the Yankees 10 games over .500 at this point of the season. Through all the injuries. Basically starting a glorified AAA team at times. Three starters on the IL to start the season. He’s done a great job.
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In the 2022 ALCS, Alex Bregman hit a back breaking 3-run home run off Severino that had a 91.8 mph exit velocity and a .040 xBA. Altuve hit a HR today that had a .060 xBA. The Astros have been on the good side of lucky for so long that for them to complain about it today is
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@mcpatriot1776 You can act tough and call me all the names you want,. Trevor Bauer is never pitching for an MLB team ever again. Nothing you can do about it.
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Gerrit Cole was a legit contender for the AL Cy Young last season. He’s on his second start of the season. A really good player has clipped him twice. It’s not the end of the world. He will be fine.
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If the Yankees don’t sign Juan Soto, the rest of MLB fanbases will clown us for losing a star FA, likely to a rival. If the Yankees do beat out their rivals to sign Soto, those same fans will try to make fun of the contract the Yankees had to give him. I’d sign up for that.
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The Yankees are 51-26 and in first place in the AL East. If you can’t be happy with that in June, then you’ll never be happy. If you expected the season to be a straight line of positive momentum, you should know better. If you thought this team would have no weaknesses and the.
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Heading to the game by myself tonight. Wife said she’d watch the kids. I honestly can’t think of anything more peaceful than sitting in a baseball stadium on a beautiful night, cracking open a beer and not having to be responsible for or talk to another person.
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Can people stop saying this? It’s stupid. Next season:.Volpe will be 24. Chisholm will be 27. Dominguez will be 22. Wells will be 26. If they resign Soto, he turns 27. That’s not even accounting for what the Yankees do at 1B or 2B. Could easily see a scenario where 2/3 of the.
@rational_yankee The Yankees are getting old. Cole not the same got two three years of judge being at his best. Due for an injury. I will take Mets future.
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Only Yankees fans could see their team put together a roster with the highest projected total fWAR in MLB and the second highest projected win total in the AL (per FanGraphs) and act like the sky is falling in Yankees-land. Most of the pessimism is completely unwarranted.
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I actually think this is the wrong approach. The Yankees need to be smart right now. Don’t do anything reactionary. Don’t sign bad contracts to appease a frustrated fanbase. The one thing we do know is they have money to spend. But it needs to be done in a thoughtful,.
@rational_yankee Hal better spend $500 mil to fill out the roster.
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Hard to watch this the same way anymore. Still a special moment though.
Whats something that you wish you could watch for the first time again?.
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Not sure I’ve ever seen an entire fanbase make themselves look like bigger losers than Red Sox fans during Juan Soto’s free agency. It’s completely embarrassing.
BREAKING NEWS - The Boston Redsox have signed free agent outfielder Juan Soto. The terms of the deal are still unknown but I’m hearing it’s 12 years with no deferred money. Expect an official announcement to come within the next few days:
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If you’re smart enough to have a job that gives you the ability to spend thousands of dollars to go to a baseball game, then you’re also probably smart enough not to boo our homegrown superstar and soon to be two-time MVP. It won’t be your Wednesday in May against Oakland crowd.
Aaron Judge should be booed out of the stadium on Game 3.
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@DickJohnson992 I want players to be able to be themselves. I want to see their personalities integrated with their on field performance. It’s 2023. Nobody wants to watch a buttoned up, old school operation. But if you’re going to advertise yourself as one, a jersey patch shouldn’t happen.
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Seeing this place almost gives me PTSD. Last time I was here, Adam Ottavino hung a slider to George Springer and started the decline of this era of Yankees baseball. I had no idea at the time, but that was the moment everything started going downhill.
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@unusual_whales $49k for a barista is a lot higher than I thought it would be? For a job that does not require a college degree I don’t think that’s too bad.
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Bad News: Losing a series in Boston always sucks. Especially this Boston team. Nothing they do impresses me other than they’ve done a good job capitalizing on the mistakes the Yankees have made. Good News: If you had told me the first time all year the Yankees would look like.
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Volpe is completely lost. There are a lot of things about this team that are hard to watch right now. But our former top 10 prospect floundering with a completely flawed approach is definitely one of them.
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You can be upset at what you’re watching. I think we all are. I personally just think when there’s a few injuries, a few guys stop playing out of their minds and a tough part of the schedule, stuff like this happens. You can have a different opinion than that if you’d like.
Gleyber Torres consoles an emotional Carlos Rodón before he heads down to the clubhouse
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I work in financial services and part of my job is sending people their money when they ask for it. If me or my firm sent $4.5M out to an unauthorized party over a series of several different wire transfers, we would be legally liable for that. It’s also excessively unlikely.
The latest from @TishaESPN, who reports that Shohei Ohtani's representatives have contacted law-enforcement authorities to investigate what they have described as a "massive theft" of Ohtani's money.
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The Yankees offense is in the same place it’s been for two seasons. When Judge is on a tear, they can beat anyone. When Judge has an off game or goes through a cold stretch, the offense is mediocre. They’re built to be dependent on 2-3 hitters. Needs to be fixed at the deadline.
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1. Who acquired the players who blocked Peraza? You can’t block a player and then use it as an excuse. 2. Who let Volpe skip AAA? You can’t allow a player to skip an entire MiLB level to be your SS and then use it as an excuse. Brian Cashman needs to go. This is hard to watch.
Brian Cashman has a back-and-forth with a reporter about Anthony Volpe's 2023 offensive season and the Yankees' player development
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Red Sox pitch to Juan Soto:. “Hey Juan I know we basically punted last season and haven’t been competitive since 2021, but if you want to spend your prime years hoping our prospects work out there’s a chance we could be as good as the Yankees! Oh and by the way, do you mind.
I respect the seismic level of arrogant and entitled pre-coping going on here.
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There was never a scenario where Soto’s camp would leak anything other than him being impressed by every team he meets with. Whether he was actually impressed or not, feigning interest in every single team he meets with just increases the demand for his services. And with demand.
The Blue Jays and Red Sox owners both made 'impressive' in-person presentations to Juan Soto, per @JonHeyman
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Is Brandon Hyde saying that Kjerstad got hit in the helmet, his team stayed quiet as a mouse on the bench and then the Yankees coaches started taunting Kjerstad unprovoked as he was on the floor injured?. Because that’s a completely ridiculous claim to make. Hyde embarrassed.
Heston Kjerstad was nailed in the head by a pitch and Brandon Hyde reacted to the situation. Hear from the manager following an intense Game 1.
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@UnhingedPatrick @felipeparantes The kid worked his entire life to make MLB and just hit his first home run. It’s an important moment for him. Believe it or not, some things are bigger than one game in April against the Twins.
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My ideal plan for the Yankees offseason and 2024 regular season: . 1. Let every FA walk. Shed as much payroll as possible. 2. Trade Gleyber Torres for prospects. 3. Sign low cost FAs on short deals to plug holes. 3. Start Peraza and Pereira in the majors on Opening Day. 4. Call.
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These interviews during the game need to stop. Ben Rice just had an entire at bat and it was on a split screen with Alex Cora talking over it. ESPN will do almost anything to avoid having to actually focus the broadcast on the game. They’ll pull out every gimmick they can.
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@Carefree_Jam @MattBatzel Football season doesn’t start until September. You seem pretty lost.
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I don’t understand the Clay Holmes discourse on this app at all. It’s pretty simple. Best thing about baseball is we can quantify who is good and who isn’t. It’s not open for debate most of the time. Clay Holmes is one of the best relievers in baseball and the Yankees are lucky.
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The Yankees won the American League East and clinched the top seed in AL. There is literally nothing more a team can do in the regular season to improve its ability to win the World Series. Win your division and get home field advantage. That’s it. And you’ll still find people.
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@astros 6-0 last six games in Houston. And you still have to play us tomorrow. Yankee Stadium South was rocking tonight!.
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At least for one night during the World Series, we got to have fun. The Yankees showed some fight. Had some fun moments. Gave us at least some good memories during what otherwise has been kind of a disaster of a series. This series is either going back to LA or we’re going.
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Going to be honest. Having Gleyber hit that HR to put the Yankees right back in it, only to put Clayton Andrews in the game is an absolutely puzzling decision to me. I defend Boone when I think he should be defended. But I have nothing for that one. Makes no sense.
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I’m just going to put this out there: I am almost 100 percent certain the Yankees are retaining Juan Soto. It’s should be so incredibly obvious to anyone with any common sense at all. The Yankees would have to intentionally screw this up to not land Soto. All these other.
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Seeing a lot of Gleyber hate on here. Since April 26th, Gleyber Torres has a 102 wRC+. We know he can be better than that, but he’s been an above MLB average hitter for a month. He has +1 OAA on the season, which is in the 71st percentile for all 2B. Torres has been good on.
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@PrimeSC30 @BradyKlopferNBA @Bease11 Experimental vaccine lol…are people really this stupid? Have you been brainwashed to the point of no return?.
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The worst part of being a Yankees fan is that every media personality trying to keep themselves relevant knows that the best way to do that is to just say something dumb about the Yankees. Ben Verlander was given a platform purely because of who his brother is. If his last name.
Juan Soto to the Yankees might not be the play for Soto OR the Yankees. “I didn’t work with him” - @BenVerlander. Full convo:
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Chicago style pizza is the most overrated food I’ve ever had. I’ve given it a several tries from multiple restaurants since moving to the Midwest and it’s absolute garbage every time. The beauty of NY pizza isn’t just how good it is. It’s that you can walk into almost any NY.
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Missing out on Juan Soto and trading for Nolan Arenado is my nightmare off-season.
Yankees reportedly have interest in trading for 3B Nolan Arenado:.
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@ageofdispair I think if the Yokohama Baystars offered him a dollar more, he’d have gone there.
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Added baby girl number 3 to the family yesterday. I love her to death already. My wife is an absolute rockstar. Just walked in the door a few hours ago from the hospital. If we ever get her to sleep, I’ll have to lookup the smallest Aaron Judge jersey money can buy.
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Everyone wants to overreact right now, but Houston bunting and hitting infield singles to beat us in a game in July does not impact our ability to beat them in October. It’s just a weird game that didn’t go our way. Win tonight.
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A lot of people making themselves look stupid on this app today. You’re not going to win every playoff game. Yankees are down one run. They ran into a good pitcher. It’s the ALCS. That’s going to happen. Stop acting like everything is just going to be smooth sailing to a WS.
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Yankees Twitter is soooooo toxic right now. This is legitimately the first time I’ve had zero interest in refreshing my feed because everything I read is just nonsense. I was excited for this offseason and I’m already miserable from it.
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@michaelschwab13 I though cheating is OK though because everyone does it. That’s what Astros fans keep telling me at least.
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Kiermaier with two feet out of the baseline to avoid the tag and he’s called safe. Umpire was standing right in front of the play. What are we doing here?
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As mediocre as Volpe’s been, what did you expect? . He broke into the league at 21 having barely played AAA. The idea was that he’d finish his development at the MLB level. That means there’s going to be ups and downs. If you demote him now, the last 2 months are a waste.
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The Yankees are just laying down. It’s embarrassing. I’m haven’t called for Boone’s job yet. But if this team doesn’t make the playoffs, he can’t come back. He just can’t.
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@The_Cat_Jesus @DanHopp My mom watched “The U” on Netflix and refused to pay for my application fee to Miami 20 years after the fact.
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@ryKeough @Alexjones92192 MLB is far from the only private organization with a lower bar for termination than criminal conviction. Many of us have jobs where we could commit offenses that wouldn't imprison us but would certainly result in loss of employment. If zero owners think Trevor Bauer would be a.
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The Yankees have the second best record in baseball and are in first place in the AL East on August 24th. If you’re booing the manager, you’re a moron. There’s no excuse for that.
Booing Aaron Boone on Old Timer's Day is some loser shit.
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Cole was bad. Judge was 0-4. Volpe threw a double play ball into the outfield. Yankees win Game 1 of the ALDS. This team was resilient tonight. They’ll need to continue to be so to get to where they want to go. Great start.
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@toptenfanduel Firing Boone is treating the symptom and not the disease. Cashman created this. If Boone gets fired and Cashman gets to pick his replacement, we’re just going to have a different version of Aaron Boone with no real improvements.
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