Here's the lineup for the Yankees' Grapefruit League opener against the Phillies:
Yankees
Brett Gardner CF
Derek Jeter SS
Bobby Abreu RF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Shelley Duncan 1B
Morgan Ensberg DH
Jose Molina C
Greg Porter LF
Chris Woodward 2B
Chien-Ming Wang P
Phillies
Jimmy Rollins SS
Shane Victorino CF
Chase Utley 2B
Ryan Howard 1B
Pat Burrell DH
Geoff Jenkins RF
Greg Dobbs 3B
Chris Snelling LF
Carlos Ruiz C
Adam Eaton P
Here are a couple stories from today's paper. Here's Hank Steinbrenner with a comment about Red Sox Nation:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spyside0301,0,3989936.story
And here's a story about the Yankees' three young starters who pitched yesterday -- Joba Chamberlain, Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spyanks0301,0,4186552.story
Comments (5)
Good luck today to the New York Yankees...
Hankee, go home!
M from J, you're back!!! Great to see you in the 'blog lineup' again.
Had difficulty finding the blog this morning, you guys know I'm often an early morning poster -- all I could find was general chaos, I finally e-mailed Kat, and hurray for our Kat, she e-mailed me right back. It lessened my frustration to know she was already on the case and letting the geeks hear about it! I very much hope they know at Newsday that Kat O'Brien is not one to lose in the staff cuts!
Hey, made me realize that I'd miss you guys if this place got lost in the shuffle.
Hope those who get to see the guys in person will keep the reports coming, it's great to get personal impressions of how they seem. Yeah, it's early, but for those of us who follow ST, it's always early when we start noticing, and every year is not the same.
By the way, Olney on one of those ESPN video clips picks the Yankees as the AL team most likely to be a pleasant surprise this year -- thinks they're looking good and may play the whole season as well as they played the second half last season.
Not to gloat, but did I tell you or did I tell you -- no reason to expect less this year from a team largely unchanged from the group that did so well in the second half last year.
I'm grinning.
Diane
Ear to Ear.
Other than Kei Igawa's grandslam I've heard nothing but great news coming out of camp.
In fact I'm tempted to raise my level of cautious optimism to orange from it's October thru January level of yellow hah.
PS. They can't get rid of this blog. Anthony would have nowhere to spew his wildly inappropriate nonsense and I'd have to start actually doing "work" while I'm at work.
No chance. I'm all over it ;-)
Good to know that, Gilooley.