Distracted by Hair: The 2017 New York Yankees

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Because we need a place to discuss Randy Levine's sideburns and other tales of Yankee power.

@jay_jaffe
Yankee Stadium attendance down 23% since 2010. It's important to keep the product as bland as possible. Don't let players show personality

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/03/21/greg-birds-cat-is-related-to-mr-bigglesworth-from-austin-powers

Aaron Judge is your enormous RF, Luis Severino your mortal 4th starter

feel like this is gonna be a fun team

last i heard, pete kozma was likely to make the team

any Yankees injured throughout the season should be mandated to cat sit for greg birds cat

tanaka struggling a bit

yep

baseball back tho

I'd figure that shortstop still wearing #74 after spring training means he does not figure in the Yankees long term plans.

well it's not like they have tons of numbers left.

Sanchez w/ 0-for-5 to 'reset' expectations

@Deadspin
Yankees prospect Clint Frazier reportedly asked if he could wear Mickey Mantle's number

pretty much any single digit number is off limits to yanquis

you can tell the red sox think sandy leon is destined for greatness, giving him 3

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C82nVLDVoAEkGP5.jpg:small

can't pitch if the boys aren't sorted

@yestoresearch
Fun fact: Brett Gardner is the Yankees active home run leader with 63. Ellsbury is 2nd with 33.

Judge is a mountain of a man. He hit one so hard off the wall in the corner today the karem took probably 15-20 feet right back to the O's left fielder and had to hold for a single.

Pineda in Dr Jekyll form today

sanchez out for a month with grade 1 biceps strain

Feel compelled to bookmark dis thread despite not following the nyy since Brosius days

I did go to every opening day from 1983-1987 doe so there's that. I kind of enjoy it when they stink

So this season should be right up my alley

i don't think they're going to stink. and if they do, it will at least be in a they're-young-and-interesting way

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9GG-piUMAAi4Cc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/N9CIUIg.gif

baby blue? I'll never understand these color changes. Just play the game

those are for the children in the bar

lol
My reputation precedes me : )

just occurred to me that c.c. is the only guy on the yankees with any kind of connection with "the dynasty" (apart from girardi)? i mean.. if pitching alongside andy pettite during jeter's declining days at short counts. i dunno why i thought that, just kinda weird. i guess i always thought there would be SOMEBODY there. i'll feel the same when pedroia leaves the sox i guess.

Yeah I guess Girardi ... but it's time to put all that behind them

Like when Oscar Gamble left

brett gardner still lives

i'm not sure i'd put him in quite the same group, but he *was* their second-best player (7.3 bWAR!) in 2010. he's had a nice career

"Chase Headley leads the team in average, Brett Gardner leads in steals, CC Sabathia leads in ERA and Michael Pineda leads in strikeouts. Love these young Yankees!"

- Ben Carsley, BP

i kind of love this yankees team

why is that

they're young and fun!

how can you not love judge

judge's home runs yesterday looked like they were going to be singles, they were soooo low. he broke the stat cast record for exit velo at like 112 point something

119.4!

http://m.mlb.com/video/v1332141383/balnyy-judge-lines-a-tworun-homer-to-center-field

Austin powers one! . . . Romine, so fine.

i'm all in for judge

Retire his number now

the yanks can't be stopped!

It's like 1995 all over again

Didi is back, Gary is coming back in the next couple weeks. This feels real.

judge will hit a wall soon but i think they'll be in the conversation late this summer for sure

I dreamed I brought my kids to every weekend home game

judge is 6th in the bigs in fWAR

i used to listen to Sterling's call-in show when i was 11. He would occasionally invite callers to come to the station and fight him. "BE A MAN!"

i can only imagine how many people the security guards at WMCA had to turn away

Caleb Smith gives up 2nd pitch homer, then 2 Ks, a walk and pop up

4 Ks in 2 innings now, not bad

hadn't noticed all these jers #, feels like spring training or the jets oline (64, 74, 77, 99)

Sanchez with the PERFECT throw to second

Happy 500th GS (and G!), CC Sabathia.

Show some fuckin' re52ect, Nick Turturro.

brad ausmus just intentionally walked the potential game-winning run, who then stole second base

Andrew Marchand, espn:

Aaron Judge is not in the starting lineup tonight. It is likely just a day off, but no official word yet. Judge has struggled immensely in the second half. He is hitting .164 with 4 HRs and 9 RBIs since the All-Star break. He has struck out 29 times in 67 at-bats.

the whole gary sanchez thing is incredibly stupid

we need his bat, and it's twice as valuable when it's coming from the catcher position. he was an excellent backstop last year and if the yankees can't score runs, then a passed ball or two won't mean shit.

attitude!

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20266641/gary-sanchez-new-york-yankees-lineup-challenged-improve-defense

romine let a passed ball by on a lazy backhand attempt in yesterday's game, lol

just play the best players, joe

how Judge has been tamed

http://www.espn.com/blog/new-york/yankees/post/_/id/96917/inside-the-struggle-how-mlb-has-caught-up-to-aaron-judge

pretty awesome yanks/sox game

disagree

Nunez channeling Sandoval. pic.twitter.com/dmyL1LY2fX

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) August 14, 2017

#RedSox 2 @ #Yankees 2 [T9-1o]
Rafael Devers homers (4): fly ball to CF (solo)

[ 106mph • 423ft • 24°🚀 ]
Viz: pic.twitter.com/P4rgNHbg5L

— Home Run Tracker (@DingerTracker) August 14, 2017

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haha

managed to break the record in his final at bat!

aroldis has been trash this year. after last year's playoff performance i was thinking the yanks signed him at precisely the wrong time (and the cubs got vv lucky that he didn't torpedo their season.)

had the cubs lost game 7, the aroldis deal would look pretty bad. flags fly forever tho

After today’s start, here is Jaime Garcia’s line with #Yankees through four starts:

19.2 IP, 13 ER, 22 H, 15 K, 13 BB (5.95 ERA)

— Max Wildstein (@MaxWildstein) August 24, 2017

Fuck Detroit

yay Miggy

knock Romine's head the fuck off next time

LOL chase Headley's jersey says HEAD

HEAD with the SB

CC masterful 2night

32-39 since June 12

now in play for the 7-way WC tie

http://deadspin.com/well-here-are-the-yankees-and-red-sox-bickering-over-t-1798688517

so dumb. i love that it's framed as some kind of challenge to nunez's masculinity that he bunted instead of swinging away, because there's nothing more masculine than expecting someone else to take it easy on you when you're playing hurt

Sounds like CC needs a drink

Aaron Judge, the new Roy Smalley

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2017/9/7/16266540/new-york-yankees-aaron-judge-second-half-slump

Sir Didi passes The Captain! That’s HR No. 25 – most EVER by a Yankees shortstop! pic.twitter.com/d79SonNIHh

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) September 20, 2017

i heard the ball is juiced

👎 pic.twitter.com/iGsaGr4IpJ

— Aaron Judge (@TheJudge44) September 20, 2017

suck it h8rs the yankees are fun and cool now

minus chapman

fun and cool child killers

classy org

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/9/22/16349486/the-yankees-are-still-holdouts-on-extended-netting-which-is-dumb-obviously

At least they finally have a good all-around shortstop.

I'm sure I'll never be able to afford actually sitting somewhere this would be a concern

Nice start by CC today. Verlander is obviously back on HOF track, and Sabathia may be too (still the shakier of the two). Plus he said this:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-cc-sabathia-don-trump-article-1.3516047

starlin castro's fake press conference is the greatest goddamned thing i've ever seen in my life. pic.twitter.com/n0sxZTDxjL

— lake titicaca (@SandyLuria) September 28, 2017

innovating on http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2017/08/29/251304854/null

They're really lowering the bar on the player t shirts you can buy. Just saw a Betances one.

yeah a guy should have to make *five* straight all-star games before you can buy his shersey

mookie the yankees apologist, love it

;)

ikr? i feel soiled

I remember seeing Brosius tees back in the day and doing double takes

https://img1.etsystatic.com/214/0/10755756/il_570xN.1268430147_f0f1.jpg