Yankees East Champs

I know most people were watching football today. I was watching baseball.

The American League Eastern division race ended today and the Yanks are champs. It was coming for a long time but it still feels good to see your team celebrate at home against there arc rivals.

There are three more steps but today was the first leap. Lets get ready for the first round.

Next Stop: Playoffs

The weeks are winding down and the Yanks are getting ready for the post season.

Two good signs: two out of three against the Angels in Anaheim. And on Friday night for the first time in a while Joba looked good as a starter against the Sox .6 innings, 5 hits and 3 runs. Any team will take that.

If Joba was putting on an audition for the post season he passed this one. I'm sure a fan of any team you tries to pull for guys that came out of your farm system and Joba Chamberlain is one of them. I hope he gets a post season start. but I think the Yankees need
one more start from him later in the week to see.

West Coast Not The Best Coast For Yankees

On Friday night it looked like a road win for the Bombers. AJ pitched well and Phil Hughes looked lights out in the 8th. In the bottom of the 9th Mo was throwing BB's and got the first two outs. Then the Yankees caved in.

Mo gave up a double to Mike Sweeny. Then on the first pitch the great Ichiro Suzuki took Rivera deep. It was just another case on how the Yanks do on the west coast.

The team has three in Anaheim this week. It will be big as the team hits the Big A for a three game set. Here is why, if the post season started today, the Yanks will play the Central winner in the first round.

But if the Yanks have to play the Halos in the second round you want the best record so you get the extra home game. As we found out in other series the Yanks don't fair well in postseason games in the Big A.

I know I am just nit picking but as a fan of a team you want to go all the way this
could be a big fork in the road come playoff time.

Derek's the Man

All the headlines read #2 is now #1. And as a Yankee fan I love it.

My daughter and I were watching the game on the TV. She was screaming...my wife told her to shut up but I did not. This was real big and just watching it I think Jeter handed it with grace just like every thing else he does.

2.722 is great. Cant wait for another 278 hits. 3000 will be even better. Lou Gehrig would be proud; all Yankee and most baseball fans are.

What goes up must go down

That is a 1969 song from Blood, Sweat and Tears. It is also the way the Yankees 7 game win streak went.

I can't complain the way the Yanks are playing its all good. But on Friday the Yankees got one hit by Roy Halladay.That comes to mind that good pitching beats good hitting and even with the Yanks with CC going in game one.

If you meet Justin Verlander and he out pitches CC in round one anything can happen. That is the way the Yanks went out the last few years. The playoffs are a whole new game. But the
Yanks are on their way to home field advantage.