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There is a growing sense of concern about what is wrong with our man Masahiro, who was smacked around again last night. He’s been horseshit for too long now. Maybe it’s an extended slump but it has everyone’s attention now, Lord save us.

Drew Poweranz faired better but was just as horseshit, going to 3-2 on virtually every batter, throwing 498 pitches in 5 innings, and generally boring the bejesus out of the masses. Yanks had plenty of chances but did not cash in. Aaron Judge had two big whiffs late after a single, double and crashing defensive play in right.

5-4 was the Final and there was plenty to curse and moan about from where we’re sitting, right gang?

More tonight. The Big Fella. Not Jackie Bradley Jr.’s bud. You know him as C.C.

Never mind the creepers:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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79 comments

1 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:09 pm

Let's try this again

2 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:13 pm

Okay! Old Reliable CC.

3 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:13 pm

Just a harmless single

4 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:26 pm

Harmless double by Rutledge.

5 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:26 pm

Big man looking good

6 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:39 pm

Nice, Didi. Just another harmless single

7 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:43 pm

Didi strikes first!

8 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:46 pm

Oh, I go for a beverage and come back to this!

9 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:55 pm

really not helpful when an ump gifts the sox a k with runners on 2nd and 3rd

10 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 6:56 pm

Dammit

11 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:12 pm

Good job, Gary

12 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:13 pm

Keystone Sawx

13 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:16 pm

Carter!

14 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:16 pm

hello guys. tuneD in for the Carter shot.!

15 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:17 pm

and who stole Hedley's body and gave us a guy who has gone 242?

16 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:18 pm

during CC's latest run, has he gotten especially good run support?

17 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:25 pm

Carter is really all or nothing, was that a real bomb?

18 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:30 pm

[17] no doubter, but frankly it's like the ball found his bat. earlier in the ab he missed a ball by about 2 feet. and i don't mean he was early or late, he just missed it.

19 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:33 pm

Harmless lead off triple, shutoutintact

20 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:48 pm

[20] I'm a little worried about the harmless homers, though.

21 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:51 pm

Ohhhh. That's reviewable, right?

22 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:51 pm

that's the Hedley we've come to know.

23 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:52 pm

Robbing Carter isn't nice

24 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:52 pm

Sawx radio guys are really complimenting CC for his overall career, debating HOF credentials. Maybe he needs a couple more good crafty-lefty years?

25 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:53 pm

I'm watching NESN, not YES. No choice: mlb.tv has blacked out my area...

26 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:54 pm

[24] Interesting. The TV guys (Dave O'Brien and the sub-normal Jerry Remy) have been impressed by Didi.

27 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:55 pm

Well, I am really hoping that asshole is ejected.

Nope.

Yeah, keep smiling, douche bag.

28 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:56 pm

i really don't see how you can do anything but leave this as an out

29 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 7:58 pm

In case you guys haven't heard: yesterday Jerry Remy said the Yankees shouldn't be permitted to bring an interpreter to the mound when a coach talks to Tanaka. Because Tanaka should just "learn the language of baseball."
Like I said, his IQ has never been praised. I honestly don't think he's a bad guy, just a dummy. But anyway, NESN apologized profusely today, so that was funny.

30 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:00 pm

[26] Remy likes that Didi can speak English

31 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:01 pm

[29][30] I can barely understand Remy, maybe he should go for elocution classes.

32 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:03 pm

Oh, okay, so that story has traveled :-)

Also, Mike Schmidt, of course, same issue. Ex-players.

So what is YES saying about why there was no review of the apparent interference play?

33 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:05 pm

I think Remy is just one of those "that's not how we did it in my day" guys rather than a bad guy. Same with Mike Schmidt.

I want the best baseball players in the world, translators aren't even an issue

34 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:07 pm

wait did dice k not use an interpreter?

35 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:07 pm

sloppy sawks

36 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:08 pm

[33] Yeah, that's what it is. Well, and, he's just dumb as a stump.

Also, it's pretty clear now that O'Brien and Remy have absolutely no idea what the interference rule is.

37 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:08 pm

Brett steals a base!

38 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:08 pm

SB when up 5 0?

39 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:09 pm

[36] To be fair, neither do I nor seemingly many of the umps..

40 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:10 pm

[34] He did, for sure. Matsuhiro speaks much better English than Daisuke.
But maybe not on the mound? I don't remember.

41 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:11 pm

[39] I'm pretty sure the umps know the rule!
And you and I probably know the relevant rules of our, you know, jobs.

42 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:13 pm

[41] I certainly know that when drinking from larger beer bottles in a jazz bar, one pours slowly into your companions glass to avoid spill over...oh wait, you mean my 'job' job..

About ex-players though, it's funny because they often CAN provide great stuff. O'neil I generally don't like but he says really fascinating things about how hitters see the ball, make subtle adjustments, etc.

43 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:13 pm

What up gang. I've got an eye on all these games and things are looking good tonight. Especially The Big Fella. I had my two year old saying Didi Gregoria's earlier. Lol...

44 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:14 pm

ok. yank announcers are homers. but CCC in the all star game? give me a break

45 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:15 pm

Oh, true. Yeah, I'd be sorry not to have Paulie, and of course Cone is pure gold.
But, there are a lot of muttonheads too. Baseball doesn't really select for brains. By which I mean, being dumb doesn't really hurt you as a player.
This is taking me back to when I read Ball Four as a kid! Jim Bouton remarks at one point, "You don't really hear people in the clubhouse saying, that's one intelligent sonofabitch..."

46 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:17 pm

Brettsky!

47 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:17 pm

Love it. Great play.

48 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:17 pm

Cone I like, he's got good insight and has embraced sabermetrics.

Brett scores!

49 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:18 pm

Hey, remember, I mentioned the other day: Brett has the best SABERmetrics for base running of all players over the past decade? That's an excellent example.

50 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:20 pm

[49] Do you know when they started tracking 1st to 3rd stats? Seems fairly new.

51 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:25 pm

When was the last time CC pitched into the eighth?

52 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:25 pm

agree both that players tend not to be very smart with some exceptions (cone) and that they nonetheless can be insightful. o'neill doesn't seem to be particularly dumb in the booth, won't comment about his politics.

53 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:25 pm

[50] Yeah, I don't know. But I do know they can recover it from existing data -- like, they can compute total runs added (or subtracted) by base running for guys who were playing in 1985.

54 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:28 pm

Looks like CC WILL be out on the hill for the 9th.

55 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:30 pm

if you go into retrosheet game logs the play by play shows where baserunners go on every play

56 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:33 pm

Yeah, so they do it that way, you don't need to know where the ball was hit or anything to get the Runs Added by Base Running numbers.

57 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:34 pm

(I am in the middle of Keith Law's book, Smart Baseball, but so far he hasn't said anything about base running stats.)

58 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:34 pm

I can't imagine poring over that much information. Lol...

59 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:37 pm

Yum!
Four rbi for Carter, love it.

60 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:37 pm

Headley and Carter, whodathunkit?

61 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:39 pm

I like it.

62 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:41 pm

[57] How is that? Possible summer reading for me.

63 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:42 pm

[58] They paid a lot of people to code all of the score sheets into a data base. Then they can extract anything instantly, all kinds of stuff. Win Expectancy Added, this base running stuff, everything.

64 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:44 pm

cone definitely reads fangraphs every day

65 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:45 pm

[62] It's pretty good.
Well, I'll admit it: the book is insufficiently nerdy for me. :-)
For me, The Book (Tom Tango's polemic) was just right.
So you decide whether that's good or bad, for you.

66 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:45 pm

39 points for the Dubsin the 1Q in Cleveland..they're going hard for the sweep.

67 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:47 pm

[64] Indeed.
I travel a lot, around the US, and I listen or watch baseball whenever it's in season. I don't think there's any color guy in baseball who's more sophisticated than Cone, nobody who's grasped and digested new concepts better.

68 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:48 pm

Don't fuck up the shutout!

69 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:48 pm

One down

70 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:49 pm

Two down

71 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:49 pm

[65] Not read the Book yet! Did read baseball by numbers from Prospectus.
[67] Cone likes a late night tipple as well..a guy to hang with after ditching Kay and Flaherty at the hotel.

72 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:50 pm

3! nite all

73 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:50 pm

Three down, shutout intact!

74 rbj   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:51 pm

Night all

75 Ara Just Fair   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:51 pm

Thanks, RIYank. That's amazing. Agree on Cone. Great win. Cheers y'all.

76 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:51 pm

Yay! Shutout intact. Or, as thelarmis would say, in tact.

Okay, well [71] for most people the Keith Law book is probably more 'readable', definitely more polemical and less scienc-y feeling. By the Numbers is much closer to the Tango book.

77 RIYank   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:52 pm

Ciao, all. See youse guys tomorrow, Big Pine for the series win.

78 51cq24   ~  Jun 7, 2017 8:52 pm

[71] also maybe the most under appreciated player of the 90s dynasty. other than mendoza, of course

79 thelarmis   ~  Jun 7, 2017 10:49 pm

Inn tacked.

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