TB
Yandy Diaz (R) 1B
Tommy Pham (R) LF
Austin Meadows (L) DH
Avisail Garcia (R) RF
Willy Adames (R) SS
Daniel Robertson (R) 3B
Travis d'Arnaud (R) C
Brandon Lowe (L) 2B
Guillermo Heredia (R) CF
NYY
DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
Aaron Hicks (S) CF
Luke Voit (R) 1B
Gary Sanchez (R) C
Kendrys Morales (S) DH
Gleyber Torres (R) SS
Clint Frazier (R) RF
Brett Gardner (L) LF
Gio Urshela (R) 3B
Stanek (opener) vs. Sabathia
75 degrees and partly cloudy with a 19% chance of precip at first pitch. But they should be good to go.
I assume Gleyber's shot was at least close to out?
Really enjoying this season.
Really enjoying this season.
And the MLB ads are great. Really great. Go baseball!
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Gio is charmed.
Really enjoying this season.
And the MLB ads are great. Really great. Go baseball!
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I assume Gleyber's shot was at least close to out?
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I had to run to the store and had the game on in the truck and heard the same thing. Not the first time he's fucked up a call like that and won't be the last but to call a walk off homer that turns out to be a double is about as bad as it gets for any announcer.
He's horrible at describing the action on the field and a real tough listen as far as that goes. He's all schtick, and might be good on TV, but sucks as a radio announcer.
He's horrible at describing the action on the field and a real tough listen as far as that goes. He's all schtick, and might be good on TV, but sucks as a radio announcer.
yeah, I was a radio fan in the car tonight as well, and it's hard to take. I know he and Suzyn both have their shticks but for actual fans trying to follow the game they're a disaster. We're getting robot umps, I think I would actually prefer robot announcers who just call the game to Jon and Suzyn.
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He's horrible at describing the action on the field and a real tough listen as far as that goes. He's all schtick, and might be good on TV, but sucks as a radio announcer.
yeah, I was a radio fan in the car tonight as well, and it's hard to take. I know he and Suzyn both have their shticks but for actual fans trying to follow the game they're a disaster. We're getting robot umps, I think I would actually prefer robot announcers who just call the game to Jon and Suzyn.
Jon calls the game like we're watching it and either forgets or just doesn't care that we depend on him to be our eyes.
My favorite is when he messes up then says "we don't have a monitor here in the booth" and I'm like yeah no shit, I don't have one here at the beach, or on my deck either asshole!
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He's horrible at describing the action on the field and a real tough listen as far as that goes. He's all schtick, and might be good on TV, but sucks as a radio announcer.
yeah, I was a radio fan in the car tonight as well, and it's hard to take. I know he and Suzyn both have their shticks but for actual fans trying to follow the game they're a disaster. We're getting robot umps, I think I would actually prefer robot announcers who just call the game to Jon and Suzyn.
Jon calls the game like we're watching it and either forgets or just doesn't care that we depend on him to be our eyes.
My favorite is when he messes up then says "we don't have a monitor here in the booth" and I'm like yeah no shit, I don't have one here at the beach, or on my deck either asshole!
I just watched the replay of Gleyber's hit on MLB TV expecting it have hit near the top of the wall...it didn't even hit the wall! It hit the warning track near the bottom of the wall, bounced off the wall right to Pham. Not even close to a home run. What an absolute brutal call.
DJ 2B
Hicks CF
Voit 1B
Gary DH
Gleyber SS
Frazier RF
Gio 3B
Romine C
Maybin LF
Gardy and Kendrys are subs along with Their.
Warning track, base of the wall, not even close. Even after he tried to correct his goof, he tried to say that it hit between the scoreboard and the State Farm sign. What an ass clown
Warning track, base of the wall, not even close. Even after he tried to correct his goof, he tried to say that it hit between the scoreboard and the State Farm sign. What an ass clown
Haha, I'm not surprised in the least it wasn't close. I probably listen to about a third of the games on radio and maybe more. I hear him blow calls all the time or just not mention things like a runner moving up a base or how many outs there are.
He never fails to manage from the booth though and if anyone thinks guys posting here about moves Boone makes are bad, they need to listen to some Yankee games and hear Sterling give his opinions as facts about what should be done or what wasn't done.
I could go on and on about his shortcomings but it's futile. The Yanks evidently love him and I don't expect him to be forced out of the booth until they cart him out in a box. It sucks, such a storied franchise deserves the best announcer there is but goes for the schtick master instead.
No quit. Ultimate resilience in a scenario where about 90% of the other teams in the league would have folded or been unable to keep "thriving rather than just surviving," as Kay usually puts it.
I love this team.
1st place.
You should really be banned from ever watching a Yankees game again.
He’s been looking really good lately.
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kahnle for 8 pitches and then has green throw the whole 8th inning with a rested britton in the bullpen. They weren't going to win the game anyway because this team can't score any runs but that is just terrible managing
You should really be banned from ever watching a Yankees game again.
LOL. Thankfully this Yankee team has a bigger pair than a lot of fans do.
Amen to that AB by Torres. Brilliant. And pretty sure not 2 weeks or so ago one of our resident twits declared him an overrated part time player or something like that.
Tanaka-Snell round 2 today should be a good one, let’s go boys!
Try listening to Sterling for a third to half of all Yankee games for a season and get back to us.
Scooter was completely different. He rotated between TV and Radio, and wasn't responsible for calling every pitch of every game. Plus he was beloved for more than just his "Holy Cows" he was a Yankee legend on the field. He also made far far less mistakes than Sterling IMO, and if you had to listen to Sterling as much as some of us do, you'd realize that.
I have no idea when the magic wears off but this Urshela guy is something else.
I have no idea when the magic wears off but this Urshela guy is something else.
Honestly though, do you listen to a lot of the games on radio? His mistakes are one thing, and last nights was a biggie but it's more the normal happenings of the game where he's bad.
He's one of the worst at actually describing the action. The Yanks could be in a defensive jam and he'll say something like "popped up" then go on to finish whatever point he was making before the pitch, al the while listeners thinking the "pop out" to be an easy out, only to have him finish his point and then tell us the ball landed foul about twenty rows back behind the dugout.
Honestly, that's just one of his typical calls. As someone who grew up with a transistor radio practically attached to me, and visualizing baseball,hockey, basketball games being described to me by greats like Messer,, and Marv Albert, it's hard to enjoy a Sterling called game because it's near impossible to visualize the game or count on him to accurately describe what's happening.
It's easy to say waiting on him to make big mistakes is entertaining but when he makes a call like last night with Gleyber, and we're going hell yeah Torres, great AB and walk off win for the Yanks, to find out it's only a double and they didn't even tie the game it isn't entertaining at all. Maybe after the fact and once they won we can laugh at him for it, but in the moment it's deflating and a cardinal sin for a radio announcer.
in Green in a tie game in the 8th. They sent him down to the minors to get straightened out, one appearance in a 7-1 game doesn't change that. Britton wasn't available.
You have Ottavino finish the 7th, and bring Kahnle on in the 8th.
The Gio magic continues, enjoy the ride.
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if anything the potential for him getting it wrong increases the entertainment factor. I can’t imagine being upset at him for it.
I have no idea when the magic wears off but this Urshela guy is something else.
Honestly though, do you listen to a lot of the games on radio? His mistakes are one thing, and last nights was a biggie but it's more the normal happenings of the game where he's bad.
He's one of the worst at actually describing the action. The Yanks could be in a defensive jam and he'll say something like "popped up" then go on to finish whatever point he was making before the pitch, al the while listeners thinking the "pop out" to be an easy out, only to have him finish his point and then tell us the ball landed foul about twenty rows back behind the dugout.
Honestly, that's just one of his typical calls. As someone who grew up with a transistor radio practically attached to me, and visualizing baseball,hockey, basketball games being described to me by greats like Messer,, and Marv Albert, it's hard to enjoy a Sterling called game because it's near impossible to visualize the game or count on him to accurately describe what's happening.
It's easy to say waiting on him to make big mistakes is entertaining but when he makes a call like last night with Gleyber, and we're going hell yeah Torres, great AB and walk off win for the Yanks, to find out it's only a double and they didn't even tie the game it isn't entertaining at all. Maybe after the fact and once they won we can laugh at him for it, but in the moment it's deflating and a cardinal sin for a radio announcer.
If your name is not Vin Scully, don't have octogenarians
as announcers, that's how I look at it.
I don't have to listen to Sterling myself.
When you think there Yanks hit a walk off two run home run only to still find them down by one run, it's not a fun experience. It's not like the ball was even close to gone either.
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if anything the potential for him getting it wrong increases the entertainment factor. I can’t imagine being upset at him for it.
I have no idea when the magic wears off but this Urshela guy is something else.
Honestly though, do you listen to a lot of the games on radio? His mistakes are one thing, and last nights was a biggie but it's more the normal happenings of the game where he's bad.
He's one of the worst at actually describing the action. The Yanks could be in a defensive jam and he'll say something like "popped up" then go on to finish whatever point he was making before the pitch, al the while listeners thinking the "pop out" to be an easy out, only to have him finish his point and then tell us the ball landed foul about twenty rows back behind the dugout.
Honestly, that's just one of his typical calls. As someone who grew up with a transistor radio practically attached to me, and visualizing baseball,hockey, basketball games being described to me by greats like Messer,, and Marv Albert, it's hard to enjoy a Sterling called game because it's near impossible to visualize the game or count on him to accurately describe what's happening.
It's easy to say waiting on him to make big mistakes is entertaining but when he makes a call like last night with Gleyber, and we're going hell yeah Torres, great AB and walk off win for the Yanks, to find out it's only a double and they didn't even tie the game it isn't entertaining at all. Maybe after the fact and once they won we can laugh at him for it, but in the moment it's deflating and a cardinal sin for a radio announcer.
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If your name is not Vin Scully, don't have octogenarians
as announcers, that's how I look at it.
I don't have to listen to Sterling myself.
I think Suzyn Waldman has actually been staying silent more often than before, bc she can’t get herself to correct him