I couldn't feel prouder!
As I watched Freddy stink up the place, then Phelps, I still had a gut feeling that somehow, despite a 9-0 deficit, we would come back. It was just one of those feelings that you have when a couple of things are there that can make it happen. It's like explosive ingredients. You put them together and bang!

One of the ingredients was who we were playing. The other, well they still have a festivity weekend despite the huge embarrassing loss yesterday, where we hit 5 homers and spoiled their party. That was history in the making! Today, we also had another huge ingredient, that being two red hot hitters in Swisher and Teixeira. Even Martin has joined in lately. Anytime you have an explosive lineup like the one we have, a comeback is always a possibility. Another ingredient is the demoralization of this Boston Red Sox team, starting off on the wrong foot, with a 4-9 record to start the season, now 4-10 and last in the toughest division in all of baseball. We also have another main ingredient, Bobby Valentine. Did anybody hear the boos today? He did!

It had nothing but an interlocked "N.Y" on the heart side of the jersey, no "New York" written on it, nothing, not even a number on the back, yet how beautiful it looked! Maybe it was that the interlocked letters being bigger than today's, showed more, and believe me, nothing is more attractive in any sport than that of the Yankee Logo. It was like a neon sign, flashing every so often, a beautiful site to behold.

They had all kinds of Sox legends there at Fenway Park to honor what is 100 years of one of the most ugliest parks in ML Baseball. True, it has some history, which any 100 year old anything would, but most of them, bad ones. They keep showing the famous clip of Fisk doing his home run dance when they played the Reds in the '75 WS, showing it as if it was the deciding homer, the one that won them the WS. What most forget watching it is that the next day they lost the WS right there, at Fenway Park.

Yes, today was a grand day for them. It was fitting that we be there, for whenever Red Sox History is written, talked about, discussed, the New York Yankees have to be mentioned, because we have done great things in writing that history. Today was no different! Here they were, all eyes on them, fans with Birthday hats with candles on, their retired greats parading on the field, indeed a celebration which they hoped would always be remembered. Well we made sure they remember it alright. We hit 5 bombs today, we put the fireworks, we lit up their candles. Again, we went there and spoiled their party. I am sure that most, if not all of the fans, ex-Sox players, went home feeling as if the thunder of the celebration had been taken from them. Even Martin, who had not hit anything since the season started, got into it with his first homer. Chavez, hit two, and A-rod, who is always there for the dramatic, hit another. Swisher, well he's having himself a nice 2012 so far.

Jorge 20sada will honor us when he inaugurates the 2012 Yankee Stadium Season. He will do so by throwing the first pitch to Mariano and Jeter, two Yankee greats who themselves will one day be asked to also throw out a "first" pitch at Yankee Stadium. He will also feel honored in doing so.

Although he never officially said goodbye towards the end of last season and his final game was away from the Stadium, tomorrow he will be given the ball and ask that he throw it towards the same plate that was his for almost 20 years and which he defended as tough as anybody ever defended that difficult position. Ironically, he will be not be throwing it to the man who took his job, but that's life and Jorge knows this, for he took it from who was his manager and still is for the Yankees, Joe Girardi.

What a start of season for our Captain! At this time last year and throughout most of the first half of the season, we were wondering if he had gotten old all of a sudden. He was hitting a shade of what he has accustomed us and it wasn't until he got his 3,000th hit that he began to look like himself again. He finished the season quite strong, threatening to hit .300 with about 2 weeks to go. He did finish with a very respectable .292 Batting Average, not bad for a guy who was hitting in the .250's.

to us, especially with us having dropped the first three games of the season. They will come out and play us tough, more like vultures instead of Orioles. They sense 9 cadavers out there, all bloodied, torn into pieces by three lightning bolts over at Tampa.

Showalter does not like the Yankees. Anybody that has something negative to say about Jeter, cannot be a Yankee lover, and we have to remember that Buck was fired a few years ago as Yankee Manager after spending his professional baseball career in the Yankees Organization. You can say that in this moment in time, he hates the Yankees. To face them tonight with three loses in a row for the Yankees and three wins for them in three games, must look like a banquet for Buck!

hat loss yesterday means a few things. One, we will not finish the season 162-0. The Rays took care of that yesterday by first jumping on a 4-0 lead, then after falling behind, coming right at us via Mariano Rivera, of all pitchers.
Mariano looked like his number on his back, and although he did K the batter previous to Pena, you sensed that he would never escape the hole that he made for himself.

Maddon out managed Girardi again! Girardi's first mistake of the season was to walk the man to load the bases and thus face Pena. Last I remember, Pena was struck on the wrist a couple of seasons ago and it was by CC, ending his season then. So, it was like "pay day!" Walking the man to face Pena so early in the season? I think that's over managing, or lack of confidence in your Ace. Never should have happened!

Like the song by War, yes Cisco Kid was, or rather is, a friend of ours, for although he is no Bench, for there's only been one like him, he gave us his best during the time he was with us. Sure, it doesn't mean that we may not see him again and we all know that somehow we will see him again, but in all truth with all of the catchers we have right now, it will be difficult for him to come back and be our backup catcher.

Cervelli has always been a tough dude, and no one played the game harder than he has since he made our Yankee roster a few years back. He has gone out with a few head concussions, and with each one the fear that that will be it, that he will have to retire. Cisco keeps coming back and just when everyone, including himself, expected him to go up North, he is cut down like a guy trying to steal a base. Apparently, Cashman has a stronger arm than does Cisco.

So right now the Montero for Pineda trade seems to be a bad one for the Yankees. Pineda first reports to camp looking like a baby whale, then he struggles with his fastball, or lack of it, and now he has to go on the DL with shoulder tendonitis. This is not what anyone in Yankee Universe expected, and thus it makes the Jesus Montero trade look like we missed on this one.

As for Ibanez, well everyone was already crucifying him for not hitting during ST, looking more at his age as the reason for his lack of hitting. Many were the ones insinuating that he would not make the trip up North with the team, that it was a mistake signing him as our LH DH, bypassing the likes of the Damons, Abreus, Matsuis. All of a sudden he has started crushing the ball, and if not for a homer that was robbed by a nice catch the other day, he would have had 5 homers in ST. No other Yankee has come close to that many.