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You know what has been missing from the first 11 weeks of the Yankees season? That would be noise, the kind of noise that infiltrates the clubhouse and turns a season into a soap opera.

There is still plenty of time for controversy to intrude on the season — who said, Marcus Stroman? — but through this juncture it’s pretty much been all peace and harmony in the Pinstripe World.

Doesn’t always go that way in the Bronx.

“You want to eliminate distractions as much as you can,” manager Aaron Boone said Saturday before the Red Sox and Yankees both created a cacophony out of the batter’s box in a 10-7 Boston victory at the Stadium. “You know they’re inevitable, sometimes they’re louder, sometimes they’re unseen. You’re always going to have things that pop up, baseball-related or otherwise, over the course of the year.