Tanaka will be on the mound as the Yanks sart playing Toronto in about an hour. Though I have higher hopes about the Yankee milb teams and the draft right now, Opening Day has held a lot of great memories - like Andy Pettitte pitching in the snow and Jimmy Wynne hitting a game winning homer during his brief cup of coffee with the team. Also, you can't always believe what you see on opening day - guys will play over their heads like Charles Hudson, or under them, like Mark Texiera does every year. The pomp and ceremony are fun and no one handles that like the Yanks, so enjoy yourselves. The real fun starts Thursday when SWB, Trenton, Tampa and Charleston start. Go Yankees!
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I don't think I've ever been less excited about Opening Day since I started following the team closely. Hope the kids produce and start getting shots at the big league level.
There will be a lot of promotions this year, probably at all levels.
That was a brilliant top of the first for Tanaka.
Vaunted D with it's first flub.
Meltdown by Tanaka in the stretch and the D in the third.
5 runs in so far.
Top down suck
The only way out is to build the most expensive bench in MLB history because almost a if these position players are horrible and are boring as hell to watch.
It's only the first game. Things will get better
They will if the kids come up.
They might if the kids are indeed ready.
Three hits and one run for this offense is excellent production, you bunch of whiners. You should all be grateful they were nice enough to score at all for you lousy fans. :-)
Who needs offense anyway when you have pitch... er, defen... um...
I don't know who asked but Ty Hensley isn't in Charleston because he had Tommy John surgery on Monday.
Great monday!
We know the veterans are past ready on the road to oblivion, so there's that.
You mean you don't enjoy watching a no-hit SS play 2B, Lawyer?
Billy,
That stinks about Hensley, as I had high hopes for him. Still crossing my fingers that Heathcott can somehow find a way to stay healthy.
Terrible news about Hensley. He's a great kid and I can't believe the bad luck he's had.
Mike I could almost live with the shortstop if he was just one piece of rebuilding plan, instead of the only piece at this point
How awful about Hensley. I hope he makes it back. Poor kid.
There is the possibility that the Yankees want him to get TJ but he doesn't want it. Harvey didn't; the Mets pressured him into it.
Again, it would be a baseball travesty if one of the best pitchers to enter MLB in years turns into a crafty righty long-term.
So if this turns out to be what he is, they need to do what is necessary to get the surgery.
Just don't sub in Hamels.
This team needs to smell the now rancid coffee and stop pretending they can win every year.
That will only lead to an even bigger joke of s franchise.
The kids they have offer hope. If they take that away, there will be nothing left worth caring about.
May 15th is the day I would blow this shit up if the walking dead don't show signs of life. At that point, the reality of this mess should inform them that it's kids or sucking forever.
I will be a little more lenient and say June 1. But we all know this team's decision makers won't ever admit defeat, even when it's obvious to everyone.
They could have no choice otherwise they will be even more risible than they are now.
My biggest worry is that management is more concerned with what advertisers and sponsors think than with putting a WS contender in the field. The argument they make is "we can pass the red-face test and claim that we have a contender", which satisfies the sponsors so long as they think their revenue is well spent. So we stay in a vicious cycle of signing yesterday's all-star team to big bucks and being bogged down.
My hope is that this year the Mets become the team with the sizzle beyond debate and people wake up and see that they have built a core the right way. Then maybe we can do the same. I just hope Cashman sees it this way and is trying to rebuild a core under the cover of the current mess.
He should have been doing that since 2010, if not 2006.
Unless the old/declining players reboot their careers, no one is buying this mess.
And if the experts think this version of Tanaka doesn't need surgery, unless this first start was an outlier and that's possible, they need to do something else for a living.
He's not a weekend warrior. He's a world class athlete who needs to be physically able to perform like one.
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