Distracted by Hair: The 2017 New York Yankees

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

it's far too often true : /

NYY games used to be on fucking Channel 11 for free

Of course that was when Pinella was probably making high 5 figures for managing

Piniella, sorry

who needs tv when john and suzyn can paint you a picture

basically everyone on this team is slugging .500+

@Buster_ESPN
Gary Sanchez clubs his 10th homer, in 130 at-bats, and the Yankees have six players with 10 or more HRs. Boston has none, so far.

Sanchez's HR today is his 30th in 90 career games. Found this piece from three years ago--that'd make him the fourth fastest ever, after Rudy York, McGwire, and Jose Abreu.

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/07/26/jose-abreu-is-third-fastest-in-mlb-history-to-reach-30-career-home-runs/

rudy york: one of the better players i'd never previously heard of. wonder how he avoided military service?

I've known him for a while because of his big 18-HR month (think he held the record till Sosa hit 20). There's a really funny line from some sportswriter in his Wikipedia entry that I won't quote here because the language is a little dated.

That was an impressive blast from Judge today.

yankees 38, orioles 8

seems like judge is good

He's 25, and his minor-league record is fairly ordinary...Still not sure if he's Kevin Maas or not--where is this coming from?

he's grown into his body. he never had this level of game power in the minors

saw judge @ +3300 to win the triple crown rn

Yankee in the outfield. 😉 https://t.co/Jj4GYblsxf pic.twitter.com/2PWp6iKHT3

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 15, 2017

This team is absurdly fun

oh stifle, it's the goddamn Yankees

judge really struggling with breaking balls

those "fun" Stanks have dropped 6 in a row.

Mark Simon of ESPN analyzed how the A's have pitched Judge

http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/132482/unpredictability-helped-athletics-thwart-aaron-judge?ex_cid=espnapi_public

tyler clippard is straight trash

welcome clint frazier

His hair is so brilliantly red, such a bummer about that policy...would be fun to have an east coast Justin Turner

Love the Judge wigs

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD6XXqAW0AANXBP.jpg

judge judgin' again today