I hate off-days after a loss

Some minor observations:

1. The NY Media will likely begin the countdown to doomsday clock on Girardi’s Tenure

2. Brian Bruney better get familiar with the names of the guy’s in Scranton who will replace him…real soon if he can’t throw strikes.

3. I’m more concerned with the holdover failure in RISP moreso than anything else – to get a leadoff double and move the runner to third with a bunt and not get him in? (Jeter, though a nice day overall, was in a hurry seeing only 2 pitches in that AB) – but all in all, this team must improve from their 10th place production in that category (imo) and they didn’t today.

4. Playing against the worst of the AL in April, without Alex, are games the Yankees must win, especially in a division predicted to be as tight as the AL East should be. They may not get all excited about playing Baltimore or KC etc. but they better win those games when they can – these are the same games NY LOST last season against lesser teams.

It’s only one game, so I refuse to buy the panic button many will sell, but there are issues – and the fact is, this was a one-run game with 2 opportunities to tie it (or better) late, so while Sabathia chunked it, it isn’t as though they didn’t have their chances.

And Baltimore can shut up now about the Jeff Maier bit…that Izturis home run was NOT over the fence (if you look again, it likely would have hit the top of the wall, barely) and two fans unquestionably interfered with Damon’s glove (note that the ball hits his glove well before his body hits the wall). So there – we’re even.

Oh and as a reminder – the 1998 team started 0-3. Of course that was with a West Coast trip…but still.

the Manny analogy does not hold. As far as I recall, there was never any serious flirtation
with the Yankees aside from some rare flair ups last season when it seemed that Manny wanted to piss off the Boston media. In fact, Manny grew up a Jays fan due to the large number of Dominican players they had in the 80’s. Teix grew up an O’s fan (despite the love of Mattingly). He also seriously flirted with the Os (and the Nationals) this winter, giving their fans the hope that the home-town boy would take a discount to come home. Alas, that is not the way it usually is in this business. Teixeira all but (retroactively) said he was going to take the highest offer on the table. This had nothing to do with wanting to be a Yankee, nor perhaps should it have.

just kidding

ugly loss…not a great way to start the season…but shold be soon forgotten..
actually, knowing about tex & cc’s traditionally slow starts, i wont get too worried until May

Again, a New York team helped pervert professional sports by spending an absurd sum on a free-agent player.

Sabathia is and was not worth the kind of money he’s been paid.

He’s a choke artist, big time. And now he’s on a big stage.

i mean come on, we face two pitchers Ive never heard of
some Asian dude and then someone else while we got the best Asian pitcher in the league and Burnett

You sound a bit naive when you say:

“Can you fault a guy for wanting to play for the most storied pro team in American history?”

He took the team that was offering the most money. You know it and I know it. The fact that the Yankees have won a lot of championships was PROBABLY a secondary consideration.

“Can you fault a guy for wanting to play for the most storied pro team in American history?”

He wanted the cash. Had the Brewers offered him $180 million he’d have gone there. Baltimore is pissed at Texiera because he used his hometown team as leverage to get a higher salary, then his wife told him to sign with the Yankers.

“And Baltimore can shut up now about the Jeff Maier bit … So there – we’re even.”

Please. Opening day does not equal playoffs.

As an Os fan it was nice to see the Yankers get beat down that way. The Yanks will probably win the war this season, but it is nice to win a few battles along the way.