Since it looks like the weather will hold up (also checked weather.com) I am going to get out of this office and head home for the game. Go Yanks!

Thanks for reminding me about the Yankees fight song. You are probably too young to know this but WPIX used to play that at the beginning of every game. Very cool.

The only thing that’ll harder than waiting until game time will be waiting out the various rain delays.

Honestly, Opening Day should be a national holiday. I’d love to see an analysis on worker productivity in baseball cities.

I am home from work, sick as a dog. I definitely would not have done well today if we ended up going. I always take the afternoon off on Opening Day to go home and watch the game. My office is well aware of that. Being in RI I am the only Yankee fan in my office, one of the very few where I work. Well today I didn’t even bother going in, that’s how sick I feel.

My personality is such that I do not worry about basically anything, ever. I am the original eternal optimist. I laughed when people were talking about the fact that the Yanks weren’t the universal pick of the “experts”. Who gives a rat’s patootie? The “experts” have picked the Yanks just about every year and where did it get them? I’ll tell you our secret weapon who got it on the nose, and that’s Buster Olney. The guy has always had a real pulse on the Yanks, for good or bad. We used to interact with him a lot when he worked for the NY Times as the Yanks sportswriter and we posted on the Yankees Forum there. In those days he’d actually come on and do question and answer sessions with us maybe once a month or so. Real nice guy. Well when he wrote his book The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, I wrote him off. I knew he was wrong and I felt like he was being a traitor. There was no way the Yankee Dynasty had ended and I knew Buster got it all wrong.

Buster had it right, I had it wrong, and when Buster says the Yanks are taking the East, it goes from his lips right to God’s ears.

So anyway, I know we’ve got the east wrapped. (Actually I knew that even before I saw the experts’ picks.) You’ll never see me break a sweat no matter what’s happening with the Yanks because I always know that in the end they will get the job done. What other team could be 9.5 games out of first and still take the damned division???!

JOE GIRARDI - THE STRAW THAT STIRS THE DRINK!

In case anyone is tempted to suggest that I am “worried” about Wang, that is totally incorrect. I am not thrilled with him but one pitcher does not a team make. When it comes to the Yankees, I wouldn’t know how to worry. The worry gene was not passed on to me!

I spent all of my youth years and college years (Vassar) in Poughkeepsie. I moved away in 1987 but usually get back once a year or so.

Are you from that area?

- KMT

Can’t do anything about the rain. Hope they get some innings in! I’m at work (mid town) just finishing up some stupid stuff, then I jump on the D and thank the Yankee gods I’ve got a loge seat….

the voice of bob sheppard which i’ll miss today

the roll call.

seeing freddy sez with his sign and spoon