Can the season just start already

It has come to my attention that I’ve been tough on the Yanks since this whole experiment started.  I don’t do it to be the cynical fan who relishes the fact that his predictions / crazy rantings came true and his team should hire him ’cause obviously he’s a baseball genius.   I love this team and for six months [and luckily for the last 12 years seven months] I have very set routine:

Get up and go to work

While not doing work, skim the interweb searching for any bit of info about the next game

Walk from cube to cube dissecting what happened last night and how it will affect tonight

Leave work

Listen to sports radio on my obscenely long drive home and only pay attention when the they talk baseball

Fight the urge to run the douche bag with the Massachusetts plates off the road on the chance he roots against the Yanks.  Immediately cut him off he has any type of RedSox paraphenelia on his car.

Get home and turn on the batting practice show that serves absolutely no informational purpose at all and let the warm feeling of Yankeedom wash over me.  *Note – if its a Thurs or Fri game I need to stop and pick up fresh beers for the game, usually Heineken Lite [gotta keep that girlish figure]

Watch 3 hours of the best damn team there every will be.

………end daily rundown……… 

With the tease that is pichers and catchers there is way too much time for nit-picking, which is why I have skewed towards looking on the darker side of events as of late.  It leaves us with too much time to think about the horrible exit last year and the minimal moves that were made in the offseason.   If the Yanks ended the year on a more positive note I think I wouldn’t have spent the offseason seething about our aging big money guys who are way past productive, re: Giambi and Mosse, and the fact that there are 5 guys [Giambi again, Duncan, Betemit, Ensberg, Lane] competing for the 1B job and none of them are FIRSTBASEMEN.  Its still six weeks till the first game and maybe both of these problems can shake themselves out.  Giambi or Moose could come into camp in great shape and we all know what happens when guys are in their walk year so maybe these guys have something left to play for.  One of the other 4 guys for the 1B job could come into camp and slip right in. 

 There are 60+ players invited to camp, many of whom will be across the street with the career minor league guys before the middle of March, but if Rookie of the Year has taught us anything its that we may just have a Henry Rowangartner somewhere in our midst ready to deliver the high stinky Limburgher when we need it most.