Boomer and Carton have gleefully and, with the help of their producer, Al Dukes, lyrically played with “Tanaka Tuesday,” signing a Rolling Stones mutation whenever Masahiro Tanaka takes the mound on the second workday of the week.
But if Tuesday had a voice, it would likely beg for a trade with Wednesday. Indeed, no day of the week has suited the understated starter, whose efforts this year have been as muted professionally as he is personally.
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The New York Post recently asserted that there’s nothing the Yankees can do about their struggling ace, at least as long as he’s healthy, which the club insists he is.