Game 30, at Home, Gainst the Rays

And again a team gets runs in the first. Pettitte allows 2 home runs in the first inning then a 2 run home run in the third to give the Rays a 4-0 lead. The Yankees get 3 back in the 4 with a Molina double and a Damon double. And with how these last three games have been it can probably be said that they will not score anymore. Why can they only hit in one inning and have to catch up? We'll see what happens.

Matsui ties it up in the fifth with a home run but the Rays get it right back with a two out home run. Then in the seventh, with 2 outs, a Rays single, walk, and another single results to another run. 6-4, I wish the Yankees could score with 2 outs. With Jeter on base Damon hits a home run to tie it up 6-6 in the eighth. Sounds kind of familiar. Now all we need is to get to the tenth, leave a man on third and loss.

Won't even get that far. Rivera allows 2 home runs in the ninth and the Yankees offense falls flat. Another lose at New Yankee Stadium. Were is the hitting? Teixeira, 0-5, Cano, 0-5, Swisher, 0-4. I am certainly embarrassed to see my team, my obsession, play in such a manner. Starters can't get out of the first inning unharmed, Relievers giving up more runs than starters, Closer blowing saves, Hitters not doing anything. Wow, well I cannot defend the Yankees when I debate anymore. Not the way they're playing at home, in the division, in the MLB. Embarrassing. Losing record at home now, Losing record on the road. 13-15 overall. Despicable.

Weekend Series at Fenway..Yay..

I think that it is no mistake that the Yankees play the Red Sox on the weekend. Give the drunks at Fenway plenty of time to get out there and drink and what not. Of course it would be the same at New Yankee Stadium, but that is not the point. Let them go in there and give the drunks something to throw up about, besides the booze. 3 Yankees wins! haha man I wish.

Joba Chamberlain goes for his first W after 2 undecided. He will take on Jon Lester. Their ERAs are pretty close, 5.06 and 5.50, so it'll come down to how the line ups feel, I guess.

Then on Saturday A.J. Burnette goes for his third win after 2 wins and an undecided. He goes up against Josh Beckett. Again the ERAs are a pretty good match up, 3.20 and 3.79. It'll be interesting.

Pettitte will pitch Sunday. We do not know who against though.

When Joba pitches on Friday I just hope the bullpen can let him have it this time. And for Burnett, lets hope the line up can hit early to get him a lead instead of waiting till the seventh.

All in all, it'll be a great weekend. No blow outs with Wang out, I hope. Come on Wang, you're good, I know it, Yankees team knows it. Get it straight.

Game 1 of the series, Friday, 7:10. Game 2, Saturday, 4:10, on Fox. Game 3, Sunday, 8:05, on ESPN. Man will my weekend be busy. LETS GO YANKEES!!

Game 7 at Tampa Bay, the Game

Chien-Ming Wang off to a worse start then his first game. 8 earned runs in just 1 innings with 3 walks. Could have been worse, they could have left him in. Wow so Yankees looking for a new starter I guess. ERA of 28.93. I do not think he will be able to get that down to a reasonable number unless he wins all the rest of his starts with at least 6 innings with less than 2 runs per game until the All Star break. WOW.

Well I guess the bullpen did not do a whole lot better. Albaladejo allowed 3 runs in 3 innings. Ramirez allowed 1 run in 2 innings. Phil Coke allowed 3 unearned in 1 inning.

Overall just a bad game for pitching. I wanted it to end in the second. Hitting, on the other hand, the line up was doing just as good as before. Posada went 2 for 4, Swisher hit a home run, He is a good hitter with 10 RBIs already. Maybe us Yankee fans have our new Captain when Jeter gets to old. Maybe. And I guess he pitched too. huh, in the eighth, it says Nick Swisher pitches. So I guess hes a pitcher too. He had a strike out.

I am saddened with Wangs performance thus far. He can't even get through 3 innings, poor guy. He needs to turn it around and quick. If the Yankees have the best starters, he has got to start living up to it. And he better not get good right before interleague play and then mess up his ankle again. Nono..

3 Days Before Opening Day: Exhibition game against the Cubs

The first game in New Yankee Stadium. The day has arrived. Many of us have been waiting for this day since they announced the decision to build a new one and broke ground in 2007. This is a very historic day, the beginning of a New Era, right across the street from The House that Ruth built. No more visions of the legends who played on the 76 year old field, the men who built the stadium to having the reputation is has today. That era, unfortunately, has passed, and is now across the street from the new Yankees home.

The legend lives on, however, through the stars of today, Jeter, the superstar captain, Rivera, the Closer that ended 4 world series with wins for the Yankees, Cano, the young rising star, Sabathia, Burnett, Wang, Pettitte, and Chamberlian, the starters who all the fans place their faith in to end games before they start with wins for the Yankees. Today is the beginning of the first year in New Yankee Stadium, much presure on all the starters and the bullpen pushing for the first win in the new stadium.

The Yankees have released the projected starting lineup, starting pitchers rotation, and bullpen;

Projected starting lineup

1. SS Derek Jeter

2. LF Johnny Damon

3. 1B Mark Teixeira

4. DH Hideki Matsui

5. C Jorge Posada

6. RF Xavier Nady

7. 2B Robinson Cano

8. 3B Cody Ransom

9. CF Brett Gardner

Projected rotation

1. LHP CC Sabathia

2. RHP Chien-Ming Wang

3. RHP A.J. Burnett

4. LHP Andy Pettitte

5. RHP Joba Chamberlain

Projected bullpen

Closer: RHP Mariano Rivera

Setup: RHP Brian Bruney

Setup: LHP Damaso Marte

Middle: RHP Jonathan Albaladejo

Middle: LHP Phil Coke

Middle: RHP Jose Veras

Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports that even with all the success in spring training, there are still hurtles for the Yankees before things really get started;

"Girardi harbored major concerns coming into the spring, and with good reason. Catcher Jorge Posada is coming off a serious right shoulder surgery, closer Mariano Rivera had a procedure on his pitching arm, Wang missed half of last season with a right foot injury and Hideki Matsui needed surgery on his left knee. All four made it through the spring healthy, but with A-Rod already missing about six weeks, another injury to a major veteran could be a crippling blow."

4 Days Before Opening Day part 3

Jeter unofficially the first Yankee to hit a home run in New Yankee Stadium. That's right. During batting practice today Derek Jeter hit a home run over the left field on just his third pitch. Something tells me some of the Yankees feel right at home in the bigger Cathedral.

On Sportscenter tonight they were talking about Yankees pitching. It was funny because they said that all 5 of the starters could match up against any other starter. That is amazing to hear as a Yankees fan. I do remember last year and the absence of a rotation. This 5 starter rotation is a dream come true. Not only that but when the starters come out the bullpen gets put in and is said to be so much better than anyone thinks. Then Rivera to finish the game up and we all know how good Rivera is.

Sabathia, Burnett, Wang, Pettitte, Chamberlain..A Force to be reckoned with.

ALSO, Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the impaired US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to the Yankees' exhibition game vs. the Cubs on Saturday. Quite an honor to throw the pitch against two of the most popular teams in American history.