He came to drop bombs

It appears Curtis Granderson is settling in with the Yankees in year two.

Is there a better guy to have on your team? Not only is the guy multi-talented, he's the best kind of ambassador for the Yankees and MLB.

But, apparently Bud Selig has beaten me to the punch to sing Grandie's praises.

Oh well. Here's to you, Curtis.

Mesmerizing

Freddy Garcia is South America's answer to Carl Pavano. The guy looks annoyed and uncomfortable, and certainly in no rush to throw his baffling array and pitches that never topped 82 mph.

In a downpour, the guy shuffled around, tossed a pitch, got an out and did it again.

And then Rafael Soriano wanted to make it interesting.

Anyway, credit to the 12-year-old Texas sent to the mound. The guy was a victim of one fluky home run and manufactured score. Whatever Nolan Ryan is doing down there is working.

Wanted: the real Phil Hughes

God thing Colon absorbed so much of Phil Hughes' puke-worthy performance last night. At least the bullpen isn't completely taxed. Nova will get some help if he needs it.

And no Josh Hamilton, who's probably sending flowers and candy to Kobe Bryant for upstaging his idiot statement with an exponentially worse statement.

Bryant wins the 2011 Back Pedal Award and it's only April. Nice job Mamba.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Yankees win ... exclamation points

It ... came ... from ... behind ... maybe

I'm way to excited about an Alex Rodriguez sacrifice fly.

It says Oooooooooooo

Same old O's. Don't care about Schowalter knowing how many times a player forgot how many outs there were. Lack of talent is lack of talent.

Rain rain go away

The Yankees are on the field and about to, apparently, play. I find this confusing, a bit frightening. I'm suspicious about how long it will last.

Comedy of crap

John Lackey got a win with that ungodly performance.

And Phil Hughes can't crack 90. In April. Ugh.

Duel of the ugly

Listened to about 10 minutes of today's game driving in. Considering causing pile-up to make the pain stop. Then Youkilis got into a rundown. Eastern Connecticut thanks you, you hairy red-ass.

Four games in a feeling fine

The experiment continues, despite the chagrin on Mrs. Luckiest Blog on the Face of the Earth, who, like so, so many people, doesn't read this blog.

I'm getting my Yankees news from ScoreCenter updates and second-day stories. It's refreshing, not having to look at Joe Girardi, just seeing in him calculating the worst time to pull a pitcher.

Instead, I read about my team, winning losing, answering completely stale, stupid or pointless questions with by-the-book answers.

And with the Red Sox clearly on pace for a 0-162 season, things are truly looking grand. In April.

Texas heat

Bummer for the Sox today. I had no idea Darren Oliver was STILL in the league. But David Ortiz proved he could a BP fastball. Nice job Dave.

Great way to start the season, seeing Bard blow up while Pappelbon watches, thinking about where he'll be in June.

And we're off

Yankees win and I didn't spending 4 hours finding out how. I have an iPhone app for that. Oh, Tex hit a home run says the little chimey update. Thanks chimey update.

Joba gets the win, Mo gets the save and former Yank Phil Coke takes the loss.

Say this about technology: As much information as we're exposed to now, at least there are ways to compress it into usable, chunks.

Worst blogger ever

All right. It's go time.

I'm excited about Opening Day because I don't have cable/satellite and won't be watching any games this season. I'm going to find new and exciting ways to hate Joe Girardi and want to strangle him.

The silence is broken

Say it ain't so Andy. Say it ain't so.

Even if it is your decision to retire, I blame your wife.

Armageddon avoided

So, it's looks as if the Yankees and Derek Jeter will kiss and make up, exchanging a giant pile of money in the process.

The timeless and time-honored "sources" are saying Jeter will three years and $51 million with an option, his, for a fourth.

$17 million per year, a slight pay cut, but certainly not chump change.

Odds are Jeter will bounce back this season. He has a lot to play for and getting bounced from the playoffs did give him some extra off-season time to get healthy.

That said, the Jeter dollars have been on the Yankees books for a decade, so it's not as if anything much changes.

And we get to keep our vaunted and valued leader. Life without DJ and Mo and those guys will be back enough. Life without them, even in the latter stages of their illustrious careers would have been downright unpalatable.

So, cheers to the Yanks for ponying up those dollars. And no, brace for a ticket price hike. Or some other ridiculous money-making scheme that will chew up the infield/outfield and pee just a little bit on the Yankees status as the highest wage earner in MLB.

Honestly: The Pinstripe Bowl?

Oh Derek ...

This will not end well.

The Yanks shot themselves in the face with the Posada contract, now DJ wants in on the action, and he probably deserves it.

That said, I wish he would have gone the Paulie O route and done year-to-year contracts based on his health and production.

But that's a perfect world and the Yankees vast fortune can't make it such.

The Yankees will cave to Jeter's four-year demand, but God help him if he goes all Willie Mays on us.

Derek, buddy, we will turn on you. We will hurl invective at you. We will question your hustle, your health, your legacy. We shout unpleasant things at you, and when we leave the Stadium, or turn off the TV or radio, we will feel guilty and lament doing so, knowing you don't deserve any of it, but also knowing we have no other choice but to do so.

So, take your year and your money, as the Yankees will surely give it to you, as much for us and for the organization, but don't say we didn't warn you.

Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee

We're talking effing Lee.

Or, the Yankees are, anyway. Because it's all about pitching. And they know this.

They also know Jorge ain't a catcher no more. He's a DH. He was a DH last year. The quicker he comes to grips with this, the quicker he can get on with his career, extended by five to eight seasons.

He's the ideal DH for the Yankees, or any team really, but only the Yankees will pay the freight for him. Such is their curse.

Anyway, the pinstripers need more, reliable pitching, and a rotation of Sabathia, Lee, Pettitte, Burnett (the good version) and Phil Hughes is really more a video rotation. But, whatever. The Giants won the title with pitching, mostly home grown. The Yankees got bounced because they couldn't hit, couldn't pitch and got dinged up at the worst possible time.

The Yanks will dump some dead weight, and reload for next season with more golden bullets.

Also, Derek Jeter deserved the Golden Glove, so you haters can shut your faces. Six errors. Six. You're graded by the plays you make. He makes them.

Just a bit outside

Three great storylines so far in the ALDS:

Curtis Granderson is smacking bee bees everywhere because of one tiny adjustment. I assume Kevin Long told him to keep that top hand on the bat through the strikezone, that's the obvious change in Granderson's stroke. That and he's hitting everything on the barrel. Pretty sure being a hitting is more than "Curtis, hit the ball better."

Andy Pettitte came off the DL and had a great start. In his next two, he looked uncomfortable in his own skin. Last night, he looked like postseason Andy Pettitte. There's something tremendously comforting about him on the mound. He's not blowing guys away, he's locating pitches and setting batters up. You never expect a complete meltdown.

Lance Berkman had two hits and 2 RBIs last night. He drove in the game winning run after taking what some people, including the Twins manager, thought was a strike. Fine, that pitch may have been a strike, but no one's talking about the two pitches Berkman took for strikes one and two, which were clearly outside. Plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt's zone was 8 inches off the plate for lefties and and there was no outside edge righties.

So shut up whiners. The Yanks look as if they flipped the proverbial switch after being so terribly and completely awful in September.

Can't wait for Saturday.

Oh Yankees, was that heart I detected? Way to be Grandie ...

Fine Roy Halladay. We get it. You're good.