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Look at that sky. With any luck we will be treated to a real London rain storm and that MIGHT be the coup d' grace.

Oh NO....I INSIST THEY GO NEXT YEAR. MLB is insistent that it will make a fool of itself.....I am not only not going to stand in their way now that we have been sucked into their continuing madness. I insist EVERYBODY get a shot at being a part of this further embarrassment.

So Cubs and Cardinals apparently going over to London next year. What Manfred....you don't think this thing deserves a mercy killing? Oh I see....its your idea.....Never mind.

I think they thought that "other OFer" was Pearce errrrr......Holt.......errrrr.....Brian Johnson????? Much has gone wrong this year for a team with this much talent but no depth.

What would you expect them to say? Part in bold....admission that no two mounds are alike and the only likely truthful statement from them. You could literally see Tanaka coming up short on the landing area as there would appear to not be enough slope or at least not as much as these guys are used to seeing. Why do you think everything was up and flat? Pitches were just rolling up to the plate. 17-13 score and its just lousy pitching????? This is the MLB spec: The pitcher's plate must be a 24-inch by 6-inch slab of whitened rubber that is 10 inches above the level of home plate and 60 feet, 6 inches away from the back point of home plate. It is placed 18 inches behind the center of the mound -- which is erected within an 18-foot diameter circle -- and surrounded by a level area that is 5 feet by 34 inches. The slope of the pitcher's mound begins 6 inches in front of the pitcher's plate and must gradually decrease by 1 inch every foot for 6 feet in the direction of home plate. It would appear that somebody missed on the slope with Tanaka IMO showing the most discomfort with the landing area.... Porcello next. Wright seemed to have the least trouble with the slope. But he does not really extend that much toward home plate...less so with that gimpy knee. I really did not pay that much attention after that. The entire game was a cluster. 17-13.....PLEASE. If I knew a football game was going to break out I would not have bothered. Notice the specs above are very precise though I have NEVER stepped on two different mounds and found them exactly the same. It takes very little change in slope to f*** with the pitcher's landing foot. He is really only "landing" on a very small area. The tires on your car are relatively wide....the actual contact patch with the pavement.....not so much. Mounds are built with a plateau and a flat area beyond the slope and generally they are built one inch at a time from the peak and plateau to the flat area. Its easy to screw up with patience and attention to detail and the clay itself the only real tools one has. Where did they get the clay.....Anybody know? They got that s*** surface from someplace in France....why....how the f*** would I know!

1. DJ LeMahieu ® 1B 2. Aaron Judge ® RF 3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 4. Gary Sanchez ® C 5. Edwin Encarnacion ® DH 6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS 7. Gleyber Torres ® 2B 8. Gio Urshela ® 3B 9. Brett Gardner (L) LF 1. Mookie Betts ® RF 2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 3. Xander Bogaerts ® SS 4. J.D. Martinez ® DH 5. Michael Chavis ® 1B 6. Christian Vazquez ® C 7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF 8. Eduardo Nunez ® 2B 9. Sam Travis ® LF f***tard Beni sitting....finally....Cora discovers the only way to protect Beni in the batting order....DON"T PUT HIM IN THE LINEUP.

A 17-13 final score....what a joke. Two touchdowns and a field goal v two touchdowns and a missed extra point. As embarrassed as I have been for MLB these past few years, this is a new low.

You have to see it to catch it ....or have we just abandoned catching the baseball as part of baseball. ******** series...******** Manfred-ball.

These are not baseball games. This is a whacked out version of Manfred-ball. - field surface sucked - lighting sucked - mound sucked - pitching sucked (ours worse than theirs) - manipulation of the schedules so they could get 3 days off out of 5 to make this ghoulish trip sucked - and of course the rocket ship baseball makes the trip across the pond and it of course....sucks THIS IS NOT BASEBALL. This is Manfred-ball. Probably had Manfred elves out there rebuilding that mound under cover of darkness last night.

All I can say for this game is that it has an early enough start time not to upset my stomach from dinner. In fact, I might avoid breakfast. Why just set myself up for a stomach disorder.

This was not a baseball game. It was a travesty: - field surface sucked - lighting sucked - mound sucked - pitching sucked (ours worse than theirs) THIS WAS NOT BASEBALL. This was some whacked out version of Manfred-ball.

And then there is THAT. They all suck....every one of them. S....U.....C......K!!!!

I am seriously considering tuning to an old movie on TCM. Does anybody realize what you have to do to get me to consider pulling away from a Red Sox game. Well here it is: - go to London in the middle of the f***ing season to play the f***ing yankees in two regular season games - put it on Fox so I have to endure their horse crap video even while muting their idiotic audio Fatbathia sitting his fat ass in the dugout???? - enduring this s***ing field and this s***ing mound....17-6 IS NOT a good baseball game. 12 runs in the 1st inning is not a good baseball game. Its a crap baseball game - finally having my face rubbed in it by the f***ing Yankmeees That is about what it takes.

lol.....

I know I am a bit of a prick about the way MLB has sold its soul. I guess I am just old as dirt and its easier for us old baseball fans to see what they have done to this game. Honestly I don'e even know what MLB is trying to do any longer. If its to sustain itself over the longest time at a peak revenue stream, they are surely going about it the wrong way because I have never seen so much activity from a league perspective that is entirely at cross purposes.

Well to be honest, I am not sure there is a way to be a dynasty in MLB any longer. Those days are gone IMO. Does not make this hot mess any easier to take.

The radio crew just said "this can't continue much longer". Seriously....they just said it.

Unfortunately for Alex, they never forgot the message he sent them in ST. That one appears to have stuck.

Oh my God....has Cora decided this is yet another "message game" for his team.

If they paid for popups, Beni would never have to work again a day in his life.

Watch Beni will crank one now. Even a blind pig finds a turnip now and again.

I don't see how anybody could expect close to 40 pitches out of Shwaren. Hardly matters. There was no chance of catching the Yankees before this game and none after it. Have to win enough to get to the WC.

Shawaryn throwing pretty decent though two on.

Not sure Wright was in any kind of shape to go further since they are not trying to push that bum knee of his. Doubt his conditioning is worth crap. He was clearly struggling to get out of that inning.

Oh God....not sure i want to see this.