NEW YORK - The emotion was raw, real, palpable, tangible.
As a Yankee Stadium crowd of more than 47,000 roared its approval in seeing New York Yankees starting pitcher CC Sabathia flip underhanded a throw to first for an inning-ending out, the burly left-hander high-stepped, gave a fist pump, and with an angry look on his face, aggressively rattled off some emphatic words.
Were they words first baseman Greg Bird could repeat?
"No," Bird said, grinning.
What Sabathia said in the middle of the Yankees' 8-1 win Friday night over the rival Boston Red Sox wasn't really important.