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Cass

6:58

I wish the old MASN ad featuring Nick Johnson were still online. It was all kinds of amazing. They tried to make his elite patience and pitch recognition see, exciting and so showed pitches come to him with the voice in his head saying, "Too low" or "too high" and the finally "Oh yeah" before he hit a double or homer or something. Wish it ended in a walk, but yeah, Nick Johnson was an amazing OPS machine when healthy, which was rarely. This ad is like 10 years old...

Travis Sawchik

6:58

Is this a real thing?

Someone find it

bosoxforlife

6:58

I just took off my Red Sox hat and put my Yard Goats hat on. Blue and green are Hartford colors. We will never forget the Whalers.

Jeff Sullivan

6:58

That ad sounds fantastic!

Travis Sawchik

6:58

Love the Whalers logo

Jeff Sullivan

6:59

The Yard Goats ballpark sells Whalers apparel. That's pretty unusual, I'd think

Travis Sawchik

6:59

Let's get Hardford an expansion team

Jeff Sullivan

6:59

Oh by the way everyone it's the fourth inning

Slider

6:59

Two more reasons it's dumb to start Bauer in game 2: if kluber pitches game 5, there's little chance he can pitch 3 games in the ALCS. And similar to Britton next year, they could lose the ALDS in four games only pitching kluber once, whatcha think?

Travis Sawchik

6:59

I'd start Kluber in Game 1

AdamZ

7:00

You can buy Whalers gear at Bradley airport.

Jeff Sullivan

7:00

They know where the money is

The Whalers became more popular after they ceased to exist

Post Malone

7:00

There was a FanGraphs meetup IN FANGRAPHS? How does that work?

Travis Sawchik

7:00

Did I type that? Shoot. It's only the fourth inning and I'm losing it

FanGraphs meetup in Boston

Jeff Sullivan

7:01

Oh, Travis, it's going to be a long month.

George

7:01

For me it's not even about not starting Kluber, what happened with Carrasco? If you want to make the argument that Kluber goes on games 2 and 5 I could see it, but Carrasco is way better than Bauer so the decision not to choose the former is shocking.

Jeff Sullivan

7:02

Heck of a stretch by Bird to potentially complete the double play there

Travis Sawchik

7:02

If they went Carrasco in Game 1, they might have been able to bring him back for a stint in Game 4

Matt

7:02

Very Mark Teixeira-esque stretch by Bird there.

Erik

7:02

In case anyone wants to track it, the longest 9-inning game lasted 4 hours and 45 minutes. Through 3 innings, we were on pace for something like 5.5 hours or more.

Show Hey O'Tawny

7:02

Never seen a Bird do the splits before

Todd

7:03

Remember when bird was the best thing about the Yankees young core? God their rebuild has gone well

Section329

7:03

Jeff great to see you at Pitch Talk Seattle and the Women in Baseball event at Safeco

Travis Sawchik

7:03

You mean, March?

Jeff Sullivan

7:03

Thank you for attending. We'll do another Women in Baseball event next summer and it will be even better somehow

Bryan

7:03

Minnesota not challenging because the game is taking forever

David Wiers

7:03

The Nick Johnson video in question: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v809553w2DXg4p7

Jeff Sullivan

7:04

That commercial is really terrible and quite extraordinary

Michael

7:04

Buxton was taken out of the game??? :0

Jeff Sullivan

7:05

Uhhhhhh

Zack Granite is now playing center

Travis Sawchik

7:05

That commercial was incredible

What happened to Buxton?

Jeff Sullivan

7:05

Buxton apparently hurt making his sensational catch. That is some godawful news

Travis Sawchik

7:05

Ugh

Post Malone

7:06

March 2016 bird was considered the Yankees best hitting prospect. Then Gary Sanchez happened, they made some great trades, Severino found his stride and now they will dominate for the best 10 years

Travis Sawchik

7:06

He hit the wall rather squarely

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