Newsday: Yankees’ Duncan not too thrilled with himself

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Acting manager Rob Thomson liked how the young first baseman “battled,” but Shelley Duncan boiled down his first start of the season to another word.

“Poop,” Duncan said as he fiddled with the tab of a soda can in front of his clubhouse stall after yesterday’s 6-3 loss to the Rays.

...“I feel like I have some work to do,” Duncan said. “I felt like poop a little bit. Hopefully, I can put the work in the cage and next time around I can be sharp.”

As for his choice of words, Duncan said, “It just means you feel you can do a lot better, you feel you can feel a lot better. You don’t feel like your swing at everything was 100 percent. That was me [yesterday]. Poop.”

That scatological word could have been used to describe Duncan’s miscue in the field, which upset him even more than his shortcomings at the plate. His third-inning error helped Tampa Bay take the lead for good at 2-1.